Scott Olsen
@olsenscott.bsky.social
Husband, cyclist, president of an independent labor association ✊
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BREAKING: AFT affiliates are suing the Trump-Vance administration for unlawfully withholding $5B in education funding.
Without these funds, schools face cuts to programs, staffing & services. This is a direct attack on public education.
Without these funds, schools face cuts to programs, staffing & services. This is a direct attack on public education.
AFT’s Weingarten Reacts to Lawsuit Against Trump Administration for Blocking Billions in Education Funding
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after a coalition of school districts, parents, AFT affiliates and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit against the Trump-Va...
www.aft.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
BREAKING: AFT affiliates are suing the Trump-Vance administration for unlawfully withholding $5B in education funding.
Without these funds, schools face cuts to programs, staffing & services. This is a direct attack on public education.
Without these funds, schools face cuts to programs, staffing & services. This is a direct attack on public education.
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To be sure, both parties have supported ICE in the past.
But Trump has given ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.
This isn’t business as usual. This is a fast track to full-blown dictatorship.
But Trump has given ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.
This isn’t business as usual. This is a fast track to full-blown dictatorship.
July 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To be sure, both parties have supported ICE in the past.
But Trump has given ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.
This isn’t business as usual. This is a fast track to full-blown dictatorship.
But Trump has given ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.
This isn’t business as usual. This is a fast track to full-blown dictatorship.
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All of these cuts to healthcare, public education, and nutrition programs give billionaires yet another tax break. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
What's in the Senate Version of Trump's Big Policy Bill?
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
All of these cuts to healthcare, public education, and nutrition programs give billionaires yet another tax break. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my amendment to ensure Veterans, foster kids and the homeless aren’t denied SNAP benefits.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
July 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my amendment to ensure Veterans, foster kids and the homeless aren’t denied SNAP benefits.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
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A better world is possible.
We do not have to accept a country where people die due to a lack of healthcare or go to bed hungry. We also don’t have to accept that our country is funding a genocide.
We do not have to accept a country where people die due to a lack of healthcare or go to bed hungry. We also don’t have to accept that our country is funding a genocide.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A better world is possible.
We do not have to accept a country where people die due to a lack of healthcare or go to bed hungry. We also don’t have to accept that our country is funding a genocide.
We do not have to accept a country where people die due to a lack of healthcare or go to bed hungry. We also don’t have to accept that our country is funding a genocide.
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The most effective organizing you can do is to talk to your coworkers about joining a union. Do it tomorrow.
June 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The most effective organizing you can do is to talk to your coworkers about joining a union. Do it tomorrow.
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“You have a situation where people who buy millions of dollars worth of his meme coin have a chance to talk to him and pitch him on policy that regular Americans don’t have. That is corrupt.”
Trump Thinks It Was 'Stupid' Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He's Making Up for It
Trump seeks crypto profits, foreign luxury gifts as president, making corruption the new normal.
www.rollingstone.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“You have a situation where people who buy millions of dollars worth of his meme coin have a chance to talk to him and pitch him on policy that regular Americans don’t have. That is corrupt.”
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Something needs to be clarified: BOYCOTTS DO NOT HAVE END DATES.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
May 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Something needs to be clarified: BOYCOTTS DO NOT HAVE END DATES.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit.
There must be a demand and a consequence.
We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.
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Empathy is a strength, not a weakness.
May 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Empathy is a strength, not a weakness.
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You shouldn’t need a GoFundMe to survive cancer. You shouldn’t work 40+ hours and still be poor. You shouldn’t die waiting for healthcare in the richest country on Earth. This ain’t radical. It’s righteous.
It’s time to fight for what we deserve: single-payer healthcare.
It’s time to fight for what we deserve: single-payer healthcare.
May 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You shouldn’t need a GoFundMe to survive cancer. You shouldn’t work 40+ hours and still be poor. You shouldn’t die waiting for healthcare in the richest country on Earth. This ain’t radical. It’s righteous.
It’s time to fight for what we deserve: single-payer healthcare.
It’s time to fight for what we deserve: single-payer healthcare.
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Trump is escalating his war against American higher education and against the rest of the world. We will be the worse for this.
Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates
Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates
Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
robertreich.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trump is escalating his war against American higher education and against the rest of the world. We will be the worse for this.
Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates
Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates
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"Each time the populace shifts to accept a new norm, a new level of cruelty, a new outrage, the White House is further emboldened and the rules are reset. The deportations and renditions of innocent people without due process begins with migrants, but it will not end there."
May 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Each time the populace shifts to accept a new norm, a new level of cruelty, a new outrage, the White House is further emboldened and the rules are reset. The deportations and renditions of innocent people without due process begins with migrants, but it will not end there."
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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There is a reason why working families are falling further and further behind.
The cost of housing, health care and other basic necessities are rising much faster than wages.
Learn about an excellent study from the Ludwig Institute.
The cost of housing, health care and other basic necessities are rising much faster than wages.
Learn about an excellent study from the Ludwig Institute.
Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
www.cbsnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There is a reason why working families are falling further and further behind.
The cost of housing, health care and other basic necessities are rising much faster than wages.
Learn about an excellent study from the Ludwig Institute.
The cost of housing, health care and other basic necessities are rising much faster than wages.
Learn about an excellent study from the Ludwig Institute.
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This is devastating—made even worse by the fact that it’s being driven by the President’s actions. Federal workers are sharing their struggles with panic attacks, depression, and even suicidal thoughts. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
www.washingtonpost.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is devastating—made even worse by the fact that it’s being driven by the President’s actions. Federal workers are sharing their struggles with panic attacks, depression, and even suicidal thoughts. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Humanity must be central to any movement for liberation.
May 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Humanity must be central to any movement for liberation.
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If America's wealth was evenly distributed, each person would have $471,465. Each couple would have almost a million dollars.
May 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If America's wealth was evenly distributed, each person would have $471,465. Each couple would have almost a million dollars.
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The Supreme Court has only now begun to rein him in, but it may be too little too late.
May 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Supreme Court has only now begun to rein him in, but it may be too little too late.
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66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Leave Food Destined for Desperate Millions Rotting in Storage | Common Dreams
Millions of lives hang in the balance as $98 million worth of food aid sits unused in warehouses, set to expire. Childre
www.commondreams.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
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Elon Musk’s DOGE is still wreaking havoc across the federal government.
Thousands of federal workers have been fired, rehired, and fired again in just five months – throwing their lives into chaos and disrupting crucial services millions of Americans rely on.
How efficient.
Thousands of federal workers have been fired, rehired, and fired again in just five months – throwing their lives into chaos and disrupting crucial services millions of Americans rely on.
How efficient.
May 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Elon Musk’s DOGE is still wreaking havoc across the federal government.
Thousands of federal workers have been fired, rehired, and fired again in just five months – throwing their lives into chaos and disrupting crucial services millions of Americans rely on.
How efficient.
Thousands of federal workers have been fired, rehired, and fired again in just five months – throwing their lives into chaos and disrupting crucial services millions of Americans rely on.
How efficient.
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JUNE 14: We say NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. While Trump parades tanks through D.C., we’re taking action in over 100 cities to defend democracy and reject authoritarianism. Join a “No Kings” event near you: www.nokings.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
JUNE 14: We say NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. While Trump parades tanks through D.C., we’re taking action in over 100 cities to defend democracy and reject authoritarianism. Join a “No Kings” event near you: www.nokings.org
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Donald Trump forced the military to spend at least $21 million on migrant deportation flights. It’s another wasteful political stunt.
Pentagon spent at least $21 million on flights to Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 migrants
Democrats condemned the Guantanamo effort as a wasteful “political stunt” by President Donald Trump and his allies.
www.nbcnews.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Donald Trump forced the military to spend at least $21 million on migrant deportation flights. It’s another wasteful political stunt.
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You deserve to make more money.
You deserve lower costs.
You deserve healthcare.
We must not stop fighting for better just because those in power are actively trying to make things worse for working class people.
In fact, it’s our time to dream even bigger & fight even harder.
You deserve lower costs.
You deserve healthcare.
We must not stop fighting for better just because those in power are actively trying to make things worse for working class people.
In fact, it’s our time to dream even bigger & fight even harder.
May 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
You deserve to make more money.
You deserve lower costs.
You deserve healthcare.
We must not stop fighting for better just because those in power are actively trying to make things worse for working class people.
In fact, it’s our time to dream even bigger & fight even harder.
You deserve lower costs.
You deserve healthcare.
We must not stop fighting for better just because those in power are actively trying to make things worse for working class people.
In fact, it’s our time to dream even bigger & fight even harder.
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next time I have some breathing room in my budget, this hot lil number is coming home with me
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
next time I have some breathing room in my budget, this hot lil number is coming home with me