NY BATs
@nybats.bsky.social
New York’s chapter of the Badass Teachers Association Association. We support public education and oppose standardized testing + privatization.
Currently 4.4K educators on our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AiaCe9Hod/?mibextid=K35XfP
Currently 4.4K educators on our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AiaCe9Hod/?mibextid=K35XfP
CALLED OUT ON SNOPES: Fahmy’s claim Zohran will “end all misdemeanors” spread like wildfire, but examined by @snopes, they found nothing to indicate this was the case, saying Fahmy’s headline is based on conflation with DSA’s platform.
August 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
CALLED OUT ON SNOPES: Fahmy’s claim Zohran will “end all misdemeanors” spread like wildfire, but examined by @snopes, they found nothing to indicate this was the case, saying Fahmy’s headline is based on conflation with DSA’s platform.
MYTH-BUSTING: The conservative American Enterprise Institute explains why the majority of Jewish New Yorkers support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while bending over backwards to avoid mentioning current events in Gaza.
Democrats, look at Buttigieg, read the room!
portside.org/2025-08-13/d...
Democrats, look at Buttigieg, read the room!
portside.org/2025-08-13/d...
August 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
MYTH-BUSTING: The conservative American Enterprise Institute explains why the majority of Jewish New Yorkers support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while bending over backwards to avoid mentioning current events in Gaza.
Democrats, look at Buttigieg, read the room!
portside.org/2025-08-13/d...
Democrats, look at Buttigieg, read the room!
portside.org/2025-08-13/d...
SOCIAL ENGINEERING: Zuckerberg integrated his children’s school, touted “diverse” population to surrounded neighbor, picking + choosing his custom made population, all while making your kids’ school a test-prep assembly line with Gates, Bloomberg, Koch, Waltons. @badassteachersbats.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
SOCIAL ENGINEERING: Zuckerberg integrated his children’s school, touted “diverse” population to surrounded neighbor, picking + choosing his custom made population, all while making your kids’ school a test-prep assembly line with Gates, Bloomberg, Koch, Waltons. @badassteachersbats.bsky.social
I tried explaining this☝️ to a pro-Israel account on X, but they say Israelis are exempt from white supremacy because Jews aren’t white. I don’t think the cabbies got the memo….
July 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I tried explaining this☝️ to a pro-Israel account on X, but they say Israelis are exempt from white supremacy because Jews aren’t white. I don’t think the cabbies got the memo….
BILLIONAIRES FIRST: In June, Mike Bloomberg gave Cuomo’s SuperPAC $5 million to continue his decade-long attack on public schools. Cuomo + Bloomberg shortchanged schools by billions while drastically increasing funding for charter schools.
These guys have a long record on education + it’s awful!
These guys have a long record on education + it’s awful!
July 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
BILLIONAIRES FIRST: In June, Mike Bloomberg gave Cuomo’s SuperPAC $5 million to continue his decade-long attack on public schools. Cuomo + Bloomberg shortchanged schools by billions while drastically increasing funding for charter schools.
These guys have a long record on education + it’s awful!
These guys have a long record on education + it’s awful!
“Religious Liberty” is also bringing back measles + in NY, funding yeshivas that do not teach English, math, science or history to maintain a tightly-controlled bloc of voters who have not learned English for generations yet voted 100% for Trump:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...
May 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Religious Liberty” is also bringing back measles + in NY, funding yeshivas that do not teach English, math, science or history to maintain a tightly-controlled bloc of voters who have not learned English for generations yet voted 100% for Trump:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...
CONSPIRACY TIME: Either my kids are playing a trick on me or I’m going insane. Where the F$$& are the other ones??
April 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
CONSPIRACY TIME: Either my kids are playing a trick on me or I’m going insane. Where the F$$& are the other ones??
NOT HIDING IT: With tests looming, teachers are told to focus on kids likely to improve test scores rather than those most struggling or high-performers.
Also do you know the digital platforms used for test prep are now being monitored offsite by city officials?
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Also do you know the digital platforms used for test prep are now being monitored offsite by city officials?
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
March 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
NOT HIDING IT: With tests looming, teachers are told to focus on kids likely to improve test scores rather than those most struggling or high-performers.
Also do you know the digital platforms used for test prep are now being monitored offsite by city officials?
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Also do you know the digital platforms used for test prep are now being monitored offsite by city officials?
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
You engage in propaganda when you claim seeking a Palestinian homeland is the same as saying “destroy Israel” - it’s not, but we can all see now that Netanyahu never had any interest in peace negotiations, rather he was propping up Hamas to string you along, causing mass death on both sides.
January 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You engage in propaganda when you claim seeking a Palestinian homeland is the same as saying “destroy Israel” - it’s not, but we can all see now that Netanyahu never had any interest in peace negotiations, rather he was propping up Hamas to string you along, causing mass death on both sides.
The opinion of the guy who directed Britain to give control of the land to the Zionist minority, the majority be damned. That’s unethical.
And Israel still denies rights today.
Israel is mass-killing civilians everyday. This is Israel today:
And Israel still denies rights today.
Israel is mass-killing civilians everyday. This is Israel today:
December 26, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The opinion of the guy who directed Britain to give control of the land to the Zionist minority, the majority be damned. That’s unethical.
And Israel still denies rights today.
Israel is mass-killing civilians everyday. This is Israel today:
And Israel still denies rights today.
Israel is mass-killing civilians everyday. This is Israel today:
The British used military supremacy to take the land. They admitted it in writing in 1922. By the 1940s they armed + trained nascent Israeli forces to use military supremacy to take minority control of the land, possible only due to Western intervention + the textbook definition of imperialism.
December 17, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The British used military supremacy to take the land. They admitted it in writing in 1922. By the 1940s they armed + trained nascent Israeli forces to use military supremacy to take minority control of the land, possible only due to Western intervention + the textbook definition of imperialism.
Hamas is a frankenstein monster funded + supported by Netanyahu + his predecessors, for decades to ensure no moderate Palestinians leaders could broker peace. Then he tried to weaken Israel court system so he would never face accountability for startling corruption. You support that guy?
December 17, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Hamas is a frankenstein monster funded + supported by Netanyahu + his predecessors, for decades to ensure no moderate Palestinians leaders could broker peace. Then he tried to weaken Israel court system so he would never face accountability for startling corruption. You support that guy?
There is a land dispute going back to at least the 1940s. But if that slogan is a call to violence, what about Netanyahu who says the same thing? If you have moral + intellectual consistency his speech should be banned, correct? And it’s not just talk, he has killed 20x more civilians than Hamas.
December 14, 2024 at 1:15 PM
There is a land dispute going back to at least the 1940s. But if that slogan is a call to violence, what about Netanyahu who says the same thing? If you have moral + intellectual consistency his speech should be banned, correct? And it’s not just talk, he has killed 20x more civilians than Hamas.
Not all, if you read the article they counted generic anti-discrimination slogans + anti occupation sentiments that could apply to any situation including the US Revolution of 1776. Jewish Currents has a good point that ADL hurts their own cause by inflating numbers as part of a propaganda operation
December 12, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Not all, if you read the article they counted generic anti-discrimination slogans + anti occupation sentiments that could apply to any situation including the US Revolution of 1776. Jewish Currents has a good point that ADL hurts their own cause by inflating numbers as part of a propaganda operation
ChatGPT is down globally and kids are freaking out.
December 12, 2024 at 2:06 AM
ChatGPT is down globally and kids are freaking out.
Yes but not in school this week. The official AFT position was a common sense call to block funding for IDF operations that harm civilians or violate US or International law. They also said Netanyahu prolongs violence to stall his corruption trials after failing on Oct 7: www.aft.org/resolution/e...
December 6, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Yes but not in school this week. The official AFT position was a common sense call to block funding for IDF operations that harm civilians or violate US or International law. They also said Netanyahu prolongs violence to stall his corruption trials after failing on Oct 7: www.aft.org/resolution/e...
I think your attempt to cancel Hasan for comments he made in his 20s to distract from Israel’s mass killing, starving + displacement of innocent civilians backfired.
Seems the only way you know about this is because Hasan volunteered it. From your link:
Seems the only way you know about this is because Hasan volunteered it. From your link:
December 6, 2024 at 4:11 AM
I think your attempt to cancel Hasan for comments he made in his 20s to distract from Israel’s mass killing, starving + displacement of innocent civilians backfired.
Seems the only way you know about this is because Hasan volunteered it. From your link:
Seems the only way you know about this is because Hasan volunteered it. From your link:
Here are your words, feel free to explain. There are two sides to this, with propagandists and provocateurs all around us.
I’m debating you, so this is not an echo chamber, yet you refuse to say Jews + Palestinians are equal, correct? So how can we have a good faith discussion about moral clarity?
I’m debating you, so this is not an echo chamber, yet you refuse to say Jews + Palestinians are equal, correct? So how can we have a good faith discussion about moral clarity?
December 5, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Here are your words, feel free to explain. There are two sides to this, with propagandists and provocateurs all around us.
I’m debating you, so this is not an echo chamber, yet you refuse to say Jews + Palestinians are equal, correct? So how can we have a good faith discussion about moral clarity?
I’m debating you, so this is not an echo chamber, yet you refuse to say Jews + Palestinians are equal, correct? So how can we have a good faith discussion about moral clarity?
Following this👆$ could explain why “ambitious” lawmakers like Ritchie Torres + Mike Lawler want a campus censorship act that so blatantly violates the 1st Amendment, carves out unequal new protections for one religion + gives unprecedented new powers to the US DOE just as Trump wants to abolish it.
December 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Following this👆$ could explain why “ambitious” lawmakers like Ritchie Torres + Mike Lawler want a campus censorship act that so blatantly violates the 1st Amendment, carves out unequal new protections for one religion + gives unprecedented new powers to the US DOE just as Trump wants to abolish it.
We need one anti-corruption standard for all, but you confused foreign lobbying with domestic campaign spending.
Israel was exposed in leaks, though, concerned their covert propaganda was illegal foreign lobbying. That’s why they need US-based assets like Ritchie www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
Israel was exposed in leaks, though, concerned their covert propaganda was illegal foreign lobbying. That’s why they need US-based assets like Ritchie www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
December 5, 2024 at 9:33 PM
We need one anti-corruption standard for all, but you confused foreign lobbying with domestic campaign spending.
Israel was exposed in leaks, though, concerned their covert propaganda was illegal foreign lobbying. That’s why they need US-based assets like Ritchie www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
Israel was exposed in leaks, though, concerned their covert propaganda was illegal foreign lobbying. That’s why they need US-based assets like Ritchie www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
As public education advocates, we know Torres history well - he didn’t just back charter schools but also took lots of $$$ from their billionaire dark money PACs. He is very ambitious, now eyeing the “Cuomo” lane to the governor’s mansion through Wall St, big Real Estate + even pro-Trump donors.
December 5, 2024 at 8:22 PM
As public education advocates, we know Torres history well - he didn’t just back charter schools but also took lots of $$$ from their billionaire dark money PACs. He is very ambitious, now eyeing the “Cuomo” lane to the governor’s mansion through Wall St, big Real Estate + even pro-Trump donors.
It’s been a mainstream view of a majority of Americans - for decades - that big money has an outsized influence on politics. My question was would you prefer Torres refused pro-Israel PAC money to demonstrate he isn’t just another typical pay-for-play politician?
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
December 5, 2024 at 8:14 PM
It’s been a mainstream view of a majority of Americans - for decades - that big money has an outsized influence on politics. My question was would you prefer Torres refused pro-Israel PAC money to demonstrate he isn’t just another typical pay-for-play politician?
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Is it reasonable to say Ritchie should stop taking millions from the pro-Israel lobby so you and I can both be assured he isn’t doing it for the money? Same question for Wall St and charter school billionaire cash…
December 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Is it reasonable to say Ritchie should stop taking millions from the pro-Israel lobby so you and I can both be assured he isn’t doing it for the money? Same question for Wall St and charter school billionaire cash…
Claiming a “crisis level” increase in acts of antisemitism, The U.S. Senate is now poised to vote on a bill that would ban slogans like “Free Palestine” on American campuses.
But an analysis by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social found the ADL manipulated the statistics: jewishcurrents.org/examining-th...
But an analysis by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social found the ADL manipulated the statistics: jewishcurrents.org/examining-th...
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Claiming a “crisis level” increase in acts of antisemitism, The U.S. Senate is now poised to vote on a bill that would ban slogans like “Free Palestine” on American campuses.
But an analysis by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social found the ADL manipulated the statistics: jewishcurrents.org/examining-th...
But an analysis by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social found the ADL manipulated the statistics: jewishcurrents.org/examining-th...
Tilden was one billionaire donor that threatened to cut funding to Hillary’s campaign if she moderated support for charter schools. A great example how billionaires dictated Dem policy, failing to improve education for 20 years + costing many an election.
www.alternet.org/2017/12/mone...
www.alternet.org/2017/12/mone...
November 26, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Tilden was one billionaire donor that threatened to cut funding to Hillary’s campaign if she moderated support for charter schools. A great example how billionaires dictated Dem policy, failing to improve education for 20 years + costing many an election.
www.alternet.org/2017/12/mone...
www.alternet.org/2017/12/mone...