[ZeroHedge] American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten has written Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy, a book she claims will empower us and give us hope. The problem is that every word coming from the union boss’s mouth is nonfactual lefty claptrap.
You don’t need to buy the book to understand what I mean. In an interview with a sycophant at The Progressive, a far-left magazine that covers politics and culture, Weingarten claims that “the undermining of public education is an intentional strategy of the right; they favor school privatization.”
Wrong. The reason most conservatives, and yes, increasing numbers of Democrats, favor parental choice is because the government school/union industrial complex is failing at its mission. On the most recent NAEP, a record-high percentage of high school seniors scored at “below basic” levels in math and reading compared to all previous assessments. So it’s not surprising that, in a recent poll, 63% of Hispanics and 68% of Blacks—typically Democrats—voiced support for a private option.
Weingarten nonsensically avers that people on the right, whom she pointedly refers to as fascists, support book bans and don’t want young people to think for themselves, and she maintains that “unions are at the forefront of expanding economic prosperity and strengthening democracy.”
It’s worth noting that there’s really nothing new here. Over the years, she has made equally fallacious comments. During a brief rant to a newsman in 2018, she bizarrely asserted that unions “actually make communities safer and…the right-wing is threatened by that.” She also said, “(School) privatization and disinvestment are only slightly more polite cousins of segregation.”
In reality, many Americans have come to mistrust teachers’ unions whose leadership is blatantly leftist, even though teachers are mixed politically. In July, National Education Association president Becky Pringle acknowledged that the NEA’s membership is nearly evenly split between Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
You might then assume that teacher union spending would be proportional, but you’d be wrong. Very wrong.
As Open Secrets discloses, in 2024, NEA spent $22,744,023 on politics, with 98.24% going to Democrats and a paltry 1.76% going to Republicans.
The AFT is even more one-sided. In “Total Contributions by Party of Recipient,” Weingarten’s organization in 2024 gave $3,069,063 (99.89%) to Democrats and a scant $3,323 (0.11%) to Republicans.
Most recently, a report by Defending Ed, a parents’ rights group, revealed multiple details about teacher union political spending, stating that left-wing philanthropic giants like the Tides Network, New Venture Fund, Sixteen-Thirty Fund, and Future Forward—the latter being the leading Super PAC supporting Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign after former President Joe Biden dropped out—received nearly $1.5 million combined from teachers’ unions.
The unions also contributed large sums of money to groups that support left-wing candidates for public office, such as the Democratic Governors Association, Democrats’ House Majority, and Senate Majority PACs.
Other recipients of their largesse include major left-wing think tanks like the Center for American Progress, which has received nearly a million dollars since 2022 from both national unions.
The state-level unions are no different. The Colorado Education Association has adopted a resolution opposing capitalism. This NEA affiliate, which represents about 40,000 educators and staff, has issued a statement saying it believes “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor, and resources.”
Additionally, the teachers’ unions are not allies of Jews.
The AFT is raising funds for a Gaza aid organization that has partnered with Hamas-controlled agencies like the Ministry of Social Development, which is led by Hamas leader and U.S.-designated terrorist Ghazi Hamad.
Likewise, in its latest handbook, the NEA states that there were “12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.”
The union never addressed the Nazis’ attempted extermination of the Jewish people. But at the same time, the NEA handbook states it would teach students about the Nakba, which is described as the “forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel.”
On the local level, the United Teachers of Los Angeles is egregiously antisemitic. Their leadership is pro-Palestinian, and the union was sued in 2024 by teachers who don’t want to be represented by them because it backs calls for the destruction of the plaintiff’s religious homeland and “promotes animosity and violence towards people of Jewish descent.”
The teachers’ unions also support racial quotas. The NEA-affiliated California Teachers Association restricts certain elected representative positions within the organization to individuals who identify as “BIPOC,” an acronym for “black, indigenous, people of color.” Those running for the organization’s at-large position “must be BIPOC,” the group’s election manual states.
NEA policy requires that each state “include BIPOC delegates in numbers proportional to the state’s population.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association, another NEA affiliate, similarly disqualifies white people from holding certain elected positions because of their race. The organization’s board of directors reserves a position for an “At-Large Director for Ethnic Minority Membership,” noting that the term refers to those who are “American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic, and Cape Verdean.”
Then there’s the Michigan Education Association, which states that the governing board of its political action council must include “two members who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC).”
In summary, the teachers’ unions are power-hungry. They support wealth redistribution and race-based policies, exhibit anti-Jewish sentiment, and, until the Supreme Court’s Janus decision in 2018, compelled all public school teachers to pay dues.
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Weingarten claims that “the undermining of public education is an intentional strategy of the right; they favor school privatization.”
With people like Weingarten running the show, I think closing all of the public schools is the only viable option. I don't want anybody who calls me a fascist anywhere near children.
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Weingarten nonsensically avers that people on the right, whom she pointedly refers to as fascists, support book bans...
There is no ban. Publishers can publish whatever they want. But parents have a right to expect that their kids will not find pr0n or communist indoctrination in school libraries.
And again with that word fascist. No wonder this country is so badly polarized with Democrats using that kind of language to describe anyone who disagrees with them.
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"Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked." AJP Taylor
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[FoxNews] Secretary of State's praise comes as questions remain about Mexico's cartel connections.
The present administration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Lopez Obrador’s handpicked successor, has labored to present a different image, if not necessarily a different reality, for American consumption. Threatened early by the Trump administration with American military action against its allied cartels, Sheinbaum’s regime did several things that the Mexican state could have done all along, including closing the border and extraditing narcos by the dozen.
All these measures are necessary, from the American perspective — and also tactical at best. What it has never done, as far as we know, is address the strategic problem undergirding all the rest: the longstanding collusion between the regime and its criminal cartels.
That collusion is neither minor nor the mere background noise of Mexican civics. It is rather fundamental to the MORENA regime — the political party of both Lopez Obrador and Sheinbaum — and has been essential to the consolidation of its power. Nearly unnoticed in American policy discourse, that regime has been busily transforming Mexican society into an autocratic left-populist state akin to that which unfolded to disastrous effect in Venezuela.
In this framework, cartel money and guns have been essential in delivering elections, curbing independent public life and enriching key powerholders, by which the coalition holds together. It is an open secret in today’s Mexico that though Sheinbaum herself is likely not corrupt — she is that most fleeting phenomenon in Latin America, the pure ideologue — her regime is stacked with those who are. There are recipients of cartel funds in Mexico’s Senate, Congress, governorships and beyond.
These men and women are the fulcrum, the essential link, between Mexico’s state and its cartels, and until they are dealt with, any arrangement with Mexico — no matter how quiet the border is, and no matter how many narcos are sent north — is temporary. The problem is unsolved so long as the state-cartel alliance remains in effect.
Jihadists in Syria are enslaving Christian and Druze women and children. No one in the media seems to care.
Here, a jihadi regime agent is seen kidnapping a Druze girl, an elderly woman, and a child—while mocking and laughing on the way back to the city.pic.twitter.com/gK1QncVZ0X
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
"As I stated earlier, negotiations with the United States are useless, because the United States has already predetermined the results of the negotiations, which are that we must stop nuclear activities and uranium enrichment.
This is not negotiation, this is dictation and imposition. Based on all this, I believe that we should not negotiate with the United States. Perhaps in 20 or 30 years everything will be different, but now it is useless. It's only in Trump's hands"
(c) Ayatollah Khamenei
A fresh thought.
After the attack by the USA and Israel on Iran in Tehran, they still drew conclusions. When they try to kill the head of state and the main negotiators, perhaps something needs to be changed in the approaches to communication with the USA.
Also, Ayatollah Khamenei said that now Iran does not plan to create nuclear weapons and enrich uranium above 60%, but it can do it if it wishes. We do not plan to create nuclear weapons, but I want to emphasize that we have hundreds of nuclear scientists and thousands of nuclear physics graduates who are willing and ready to take on any task (with) Ayatollah Khamenei.
They are not allowed there, relations with him are actually reduced to a minimum Moreover, in the next week, the parliament of Iran will discuss the issue of Iran's withdrawal from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
What Iran has been afraid of for a long time. Also, a member of the Iranian Parliament reported that Iran, in addition to purchasing Su-35 fighters from Russia, is also buying MiG-29 fighters from Russia.
In addition, Iran will continue to buy new S-400 systems from Russia (one has already been sold and deployed in the Isfahan area).
China is purchasing the HQ-9 air defense system (this is a Chinese clone of the S-300). Also, Iran was interested in purchasing J-10 fighters from China, which performed well in battles with the French Rafales during the short-lived India-Pakistan war.
In general, Iran understands the limitations of its air defense and is making serious efforts to upgrade it quantitatively and qualitatively. Meanwhile, the struggle with the Israeli agents continues in the country.
There are periodic arrests of accomplices. Replay the pre-war failure of counterintelligence.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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