Lois Weiner
@drloisweiner.bsky.social
Career teacher, education prof, teacher union activist. Researcher, writer, in the struggle for social justice, union democracy. Socialist. https://loisweiner.net/ and https://futureschools.substack.com/
Organizing means showing leadership and isn't the same as being a clearing house for events others build. Alas, AFT's March 4 "Day of Fight" doesn't show what we need to fight the Right and Trump we need beyond voting, shown so well by those who are actually doing it: www.aft.org/protect-our-...
March 4 Day of Action to Protect Our Kids, Our Families and Our Communities
Fighting for a Better Life for AllJoin Us on March 4!Visit and share AFT’s Mobilize page to find an event.Find an event near youLife is getting harder—not easier. Instead of helping kids and families ...
www.aft.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Organizing means showing leadership and isn't the same as being a clearing house for events others build. Alas, AFT's March 4 "Day of Fight" doesn't show what we need to fight the Right and Trump we need beyond voting, shown so well by those who are actually doing it: www.aft.org/protect-our-...
Good to hear from another supporter of higher ed unions! AAUP, which has an elected leadership committed to union democracy and organizing, is now affiliated with AFT. What a breath of much needed fresh air!
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Good to hear from another supporter of higher ed unions! AAUP, which has an elected leadership committed to union democracy and organizing, is now affiliated with AFT. What a breath of much needed fresh air!
This is a great clip for us to use when talking to working people about the GOP. "Raise your hand if your food, rent, or mortgage costs are covered, your kids clothed and health protected by the booming stock market?"
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This is a great clip for us to use when talking to working people about the GOP. "Raise your hand if your food, rent, or mortgage costs are covered, your kids clothed and health protected by the booming stock market?"
If we allow the bosses to decide how it's used, they'll exploit any new technology, which includes destroying some jobs and also intensifying work for most others. Their aim is profit, control. We need to be clear what ours is.
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
If we allow the bosses to decide how it's used, they'll exploit any new technology, which includes destroying some jobs and also intensifying work for most others. Their aim is profit, control. We need to be clear what ours is.
Faculty can join here: www.aaup.org/join
Join
Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
www.aaup.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Faculty can join here: www.aaup.org/join
This one, at least in Chapel Hill: unc-ch-aaup.org
UNC Chapel Hill AAUP
UNC Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Professors
unc-ch-aaup.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
This one, at least in Chapel Hill: unc-ch-aaup.org
Reposted by Lois Weiner
Google provided ICE with a wide array of personal data student activist and journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson, including his credit card and bank account numbers.
Google Handed ICE Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
interc.pt
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Google provided ICE with a wide array of personal data student activist and journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson, including his credit card and bank account numbers.
Interesting in-progress study suggests AI use (in tech companies, at least) increases workload, any productivity gains come at workers' expense: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Interesting in-progress study suggests AI use (in tech companies, at least) increases workload, any productivity gains come at workers' expense: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
Reposted by Lois Weiner
They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in , KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call (202) 224-3121 #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/R45R2G16
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call (202) 224-3121 #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/R45R2G16
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM
They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in , KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call (202) 224-3121 #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/R45R2G16
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call (202) 224-3121 #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/R45R2G16
NEA ended ties with the ADL. In July, AFT prez Weingarten declined, on behalf of members but without any vote, to do likewise.
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
NEA ended ties with the ADL. In July, AFT prez Weingarten declined, on behalf of members but without any vote, to do likewise.
You can help stop Israel's propaganda campaign in our schools by signing this excellent letter to educators: "The ADL is Not a Social Justice Partner." I signed, hope you do too: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-o...
Sign-on to Open Letter to Educators: The ADL is Not a Social Justice Partner
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has long marketed itself as an expert advisor to school communities on antisemitism and other forms of bias. However, despite its reputation as a civil rights organiza...
actionnetwork.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 AM
You can help stop Israel's propaganda campaign in our schools by signing this excellent letter to educators: "The ADL is Not a Social Justice Partner." I signed, hope you do too: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-o...
Sometimes cynicism is the correct response. Read the comments!
SEN. LUMMIS: “.. I’ve not been one of the members who has glommed on to this as an issue. .. I’ve sort of intentionally deferred to others to find out about it. But 9-year-old victims … wow.”
@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
February 10, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Sometimes cynicism is the correct response. Read the comments!
Exactly right! Which is why the AFL-CIO's deal with Microsoft on AI contradicts what working people need - and what our unions should be doing: aflcio.org/press/releas...
February 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Exactly right! Which is why the AFL-CIO's deal with Microsoft on AI contradicts what working people need - and what our unions should be doing: aflcio.org/press/releas...
When someone writes "the polls show" and don't provide the details (a link with evidence of the methodology), we should disregard the conclusions.
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
When someone writes "the polls show" and don't provide the details (a link with evidence of the methodology), we should disregard the conclusions.
And we haven't even begun to name the crimes of finance capital done to Puerto Rico with "debt relief"! Can we also mention how the US unions decertified the PR teachers union (FMPR) when it struck against austerity? jacobin.com/2019/10/amer...
Why Is the American Federation of Teachers Giving Away Educators’ Rights in Puerto Rico?
Unions should fight for both their members and the entire working class. Yet in Puerto Rico, the American Federation of Teachers affiliate is doing neither, partnering with the island’s unaccountable ...
jacobin.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:07 PM
And we haven't even begun to name the crimes of finance capital done to Puerto Rico with "debt relief"! Can we also mention how the US unions decertified the PR teachers union (FMPR) when it struck against austerity? jacobin.com/2019/10/amer...
A clown show to distract us from the crimes they're committing.
February 10, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A clown show to distract us from the crimes they're committing.
Wow! If it weren't in the works it would be dystopian. But it is, so it's here, our present not a future imagined. Question is what we do with this info? Emails and phone calls to our representatives are not adequate!
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Wow! If it weren't in the works it would be dystopian. But it is, so it's here, our present not a future imagined. Question is what we do with this info? Emails and phone calls to our representatives are not adequate!
It's worse.The standardized tests every state uses, required for federal funding, with bipartisan support, have always been determined by a global corporate elite. The NAEP is influenced by PISA. Trump now accepts the testing because big money wants it, for profit and control.
February 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
It's worse.The standardized tests every state uses, required for federal funding, with bipartisan support, have always been determined by a global corporate elite. The NAEP is influenced by PISA. Trump now accepts the testing because big money wants it, for profit and control.
Please ignore all stories about diminished academic achievement that rely solely on standardized test scores that are based on criteria established far away from schools, teachers, students, parents.
Last year, Michigan third graders posted the worst reading and writing results in the 11-year history of a state exam. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hopes to turn that performance around with new budget proposal.
Whitmer aims to boost literacy as Michigan students struggle with reading
Last year, Michigan third graders posted the worst reading and writing results in the 11-year history of a state exam. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hopes to turn that performance around with new budget proposal.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Please ignore all stories about diminished academic achievement that rely solely on standardized test scores that are based on criteria established far away from schools, teachers, students, parents.
Can we use indicators other than standardized test scores based on content and criteria for which no parents, students, or teachers were ever allowed to approve, to measure education?
February 10, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Can we use indicators other than standardized test scores based on content and criteria for which no parents, students, or teachers were ever allowed to approve, to measure education?
Piece is here. Comments (closed now) show how the Right has succeeded in demonizing public employee unions: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Piece is here. Comments (closed now) show how the Right has succeeded in demonizing public employee unions: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
ICYMI: Dan Kaufman's NYT mag piece on the rank-and-file movement of federal workers to make their union AFGE fight is noteworthy because of the particulars but perhaps even more so because maybe, finally, it's OK to write as a critical friend of the unions, which the left press mostly shuns.
February 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
ICYMI: Dan Kaufman's NYT mag piece on the rank-and-file movement of federal workers to make their union AFGE fight is noteworthy because of the particulars but perhaps even more so because maybe, finally, it's OK to write as a critical friend of the unions, which the left press mostly shuns.
Educators in SF are on strike demanding conditions that allow all kids and those who work in schools to succeed. That means well-staffed classrooms, supports for teaching to be a career. I signed this letter to show my support. Hope you do too: actionnetwork.org/letters/san-...
San Francisco Families, Educators, and Community Demand Stable Schools NOW!
Educators in San Francisco have been demanding that district leaders address the stability crisis in our district for years. Year after year, our educators, students and families must endure staffing ...
actionnetwork.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Educators in SF are on strike demanding conditions that allow all kids and those who work in schools to succeed. That means well-staffed classrooms, supports for teaching to be a career. I signed this letter to show my support. Hope you do too: actionnetwork.org/letters/san-...
Training AI to distinguish right for wrong requires one understands the difference. Anthropic stole our work. Was that right? If not, what's an employee's responsibility to challenge that decision, name it as theft, insist on "intelligence" that respects more than profit? Just asking!
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Training AI to distinguish right for wrong requires one understands the difference. Anthropic stole our work. Was that right? If not, what's an employee's responsibility to challenge that decision, name it as theft, insist on "intelligence" that respects more than profit? Just asking!
To teach AI to know right from wrong, one has to know the difference. Anthropic stole my work. Was that moral? If not, what's an employee's responsibility to correct the damage? Not the convo this philosopher wants us to have.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
To teach AI to know right from wrong, one has to know the difference. Anthropic stole my work. Was that moral? If not, what's an employee's responsibility to correct the damage? Not the convo this philosopher wants us to have.