Joe Weedon
@joeweedon
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#Dad1st. #Nats #Illini and #Education. Former #Ward6 Rep on the DC State Board of Education. Comms @ZerotoThree. All opinions are my own.
Ward 6. Washington DC
Joined April 2013
BREAKING: Oklahoma State Superintendent @RyanWalters_ just announced that every single high school in the state will now be required to have a Turning Point USA chapter. Ask yourself: how would the right react if a Democratic superintendent forced every school to host a Black
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Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.
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The media landscape of 2016 is unrecognizable.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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The cycle repeats ... I just found Council testimony on this from 15 years ago while cleaning out old files. How should D.C. schools fix its chronic absenteeism problem?
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Plus: Saving classical music, blue crabs and the D.C. jail
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Why do we need Food Stamps tied to work? Raise the minimum wage and cap corporate wages/benefits so employees are paid enough that they don't need government assistance. https://t.co/bhshufT99R
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The Senate plan would ask states to pay for SNAP costs at a lower rate than the House plan — and exempt some states entirely.
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Kinda obscure, but a big deal for public access to DC records: The Court of Appeals ruled today that Bowser has to disclose agency budget requests. Basically, this is how much money agencies say they need (often quite different from what they get): https://t.co/Uh9T2piFjU
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How much does it cost to feed a child with SNAP benefits? $6 per day. How much does the GOP Budget give away to the rich? $6 million — per billionaire. The American people won’t forget the GOP's betrayal.
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I have a message for Donald Trump: nobody fights harder than a mom. Republican leadership may have denied my ability to vote by proxy but that didn’t stop us from voting against this disastrous budget that strips away health care and food for seniors, veterans, kids and
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Government is about means as well as ends. Donald Trump’s critics are right to be alarmed by the way he is approaching power
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America is fated to wage a titanic struggle over the power of the president
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Today, we unequivocally and unapologetically reaffirm, to the United States of America and to the World, the following undeniable and indisputable facts. We ask all Americans, including all elected officials from all Parties and all levels of Government, to join us by sharing and
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This is not true: the Clinton effort was led by VP Gore who assembled a task force of hundreds of federal workers to spend 6 months looking across gov’t and issue recommendations by September 1993. The recommendations became BIPARTISAN legislation that was passed into law.
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Finally. A small step. After D.C. school’s collapse, council may boost oversight of charters https://t.co/6835eyEXSP
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The D.C. Council is set to consider a measure that would mandate training for officials who run the city’s more than five dozen charter school networks, the latest fallout from the abrupt closure of...
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"He's drunk at a conservative conference, at 1:30am he's screaming about how he has freedom of speech and berating a hotel staffer, then he takes a woman back to his hotel room for, what he says is, consensual sex. At the moment that that's happening, he is in between marriages."
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MS governor said vouchers will “strengthen” education by giving kids “the right to choose the educational environment they desire.” Sounds like 2024, but it was 1964. 20 of the segregation academies that opened then are living off state $$ once again. /1
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ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.
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If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.
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Linda McMahon's only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools, where 90% of students—and 95% of students with disabilities—learn. Students will suffer under Secretary McMahon.
Students deserve better than an extreme and unqualified Secretary of Education. By selecting Linda McMahon, Donald Trump shows that he could not care less about our students’ futures. Instead of strengthening our nation's schools, Donald Trump has picked Betsy DeVos 2.0.
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Matt Gaetz?
President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, tapping a staunch conservative lawmaker to reshape US law enforcement and carry out his agenda on immigration, crime and hot-button social issues https://t.co/40OLVPUsVo
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BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson pledged to Marjorie Taylor Greene that the new Congress will not approve more funding for Ukraine, @MZanona reports.
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