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Mom | common sense moderate | Queens Parents United | PLACE NYC | Asian Wave Alliance | Opinions are my own, RT's ≠ endorsements

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11 months
A weight has been lifted.
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2 years
When I told my 10 yr old that restaurants will no longer be asking about her vaccination status, she broke down in tears. This was worth the fight.
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@nytimes The @nytimes ' silence when schools were closed makes them complicit in this mental health disaster for an entire generation of children.
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@ChristinaPushaw @JAMAPediatrics It’s not as if some women lost their livelihoods over this… oh wait 🤔
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@aaronsibarium So, the sad message from @Harvard Board members is that they are ok with antisemitism and had to think long and hard about whether or not plagiarism is actually reprehensible.
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@NYTHealth Read the room. You’ve lost the public’s trust.
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7 months
@StopAntisemites @TheArmedLiberal That’s called NY strong 💪 🙌
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7 months
@nyscanner I watched this so many times. These are my kind of NYers!
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2 years
Why are toddlers still masked @NYCMayor ?
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2 years
@ACLU So, you're arguing to continue discriminatory practices against Asians at taxpayer subsidized universities? Got it.
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In Troy, Michigan where 39% of students are Asian w/immigrant parents, the progressives are working hard to radicalize an entire bloc of parent voters against @TheDemocrats by eliminating Honors Math.
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2 years
I’m at a dance competition in NJ. There are probably three thousand people here. I see only 5 people wearing a mask. That’s it. Twitter covidians need a reality check.
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@CGasparino @Columbia Why wouldn’t businesses want to hire students who have “primal screaming, snack delegating, tent building, window smashing, spray-painting” skills on their resumes? Everyone knows these are valuable assets for building a business, amirite?
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11 months
@13WHAM Karma is a bitch.
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2 years
The new NYC Health Commissioner is NOT lifting the toddler masking mandate at this time - says they are looking at "benchmarks" but NOT offering any concrete milestones. This is unacceptable @NYCMayor !!! #UnmaskOurToddlers
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2 years
@nytimes Women have been reporting this for months, but instead public health policies ignored their concerns and wouldn’t permit exemptions from mandates while women were silenced, bullied, or forced to lose their jobs as the “progressive” @nytimes sat idly by in silence.
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2 years
If only @GovKathyHochul would look at the data. "Kids’ chances of surviving Covid...have been 99.999 percent nationally, 99.999 percent in states with school mask mandates, and 99.999 percent in states without school mask mandates."
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Children lost 2 years of normalcy for the @CDCgov to finally arrive at the same conclusions many of us have been screaming from the rooftops for months. If anything, I'm even more infuriated this didn't happen sooner.
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I'm in disbelief about upcoming NYC high school graduations. B/c @NYCMayor @Fabien_Levy @DOEChancellor doesn't allow the unvaccinated to attend, those students can't walk with their fellow graduates in this once-in-a-lifetime milestone. But it's great that @KyrieIrving can play
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8 months
@NBCNews Let them learn the hard way.
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2 months
@GovKathyHochul He was killed by a recidivist who was released 21 times. This is on you.
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2 years
@sheeraf No other country approved mRNA vaccines for children under 6 and many don't administer it to those under 12. I guess everyone else is far right except @nytimes reporters?
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@RepBowman Playing the race card so you can continue your legacy of antisemitism isn’t going to win you the election.
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2 years
The Democrats are never going to drop this. The only way to stop the threats are to vote for @leezeldin .
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2 years
@UTLAUncensored @LASchools @lausdHRDE @LAUSDSup Wut? Are they actually promoting obesity and unhealthy choices?
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@BillAckman @Harvard This is fantastic @BillAckman . Much of you describe is what Asian American public school parents (mostly low income immigrants) in NYC, Fairfax, SF, and Boston also realized when we saw admissions for merit-based programs and schools being dismantled under the guise of DEI for
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2 years
People who are vaccinated also hate the mandates and vaccine passports. @GovKathyHochul @NYCMayor
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@JonathanTurley It’s on brand for them. Until they have their own Bud Light moment, nothing will change.
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2 years
I see parents, angry parents @NYCMayor . #UnmaskOurToddlers
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@StopAntisemites @nyuniversity @NYUCampusSafety Omg. I will never send my child to that school. It’s a cesspool of bigotry.
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2 years
Temperature checks, plexiglass, 6-ft distancing warning signs are still a common feature at many stores, restaurants, buildings, etc in NYC even though these mitigations never worked. The damage the CDC has created won't be reversed for a looong time.
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In 2023 (yes, you read that correctly), @NYTransitMuseum is subjecting autistic children on the spectrum to mandated masking during their 10 wk after school program for the mere cost of $350. Just plain inhumane.
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2 years
@rweingarten Every time you tweet about covid, somewhere some family is unenrolling from public schools.
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@GovKathyHochul Who are you kidding? You go maskless everywhere.
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3 years
Quarantining 30 kids over what could be a false positive means that up to 60 parents might not be able to work for 10 days. Why are we resorting to such punitive measures @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor ?
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It's astonishing how the Democrats have become the biggest crime deniers. As if it's totally normal for stores to lock up toothpaste 😳
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3 years
CACAGNY, the oldest Asian American advocacy group in the country has just denounced CRT (Critical Race Theory) for what it really is - hateful fraud.
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@KathyHochul @KamalaHarris @HillaryClinton Wow - 3 women who said nothing about reopening schools to support working moms during covid lockdowns. No worries, I still remember and will vote accordingly for @leezeldin
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1 month
Oh look. Open barbecuing in the streets without a permit/vendor license has arrived in Forest Hills.
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2 years
Just got an email from our child's dance school saying no more masks, and they will not require proof of vaccination. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted - one that never should have been there to begin with.
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2 years
This is a first for me - Twitter won't let me repeat a point made by a NYT article w/o a warning. Chilling.
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2 years
@anya1anya I understood your point. My point is the mandates have already backfired and children, particularly Black children, will not be provided an equivalent education as vaccinated children. This, for a vaccine that virtually ineffective at stopping transmission and risk is minimal.
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A teacher on a school board meeting was shaming parents for expressing support for Gifted & Talented because they're not thinking about "the greater good of the general community." Wth! Why must children shoulder the burdens of society's failings?
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Can’t wait for this day to come. “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race”
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“There a group of parents and they’re coming after you” We’ve had enough.
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3 months
All this squatter had to do to was *claim* he lives there because it's illegal in NY to turn off utilities, change locks & remove belongings of someone “who claims to be a tenant.” It will take avg of 20 mos for the landlord to evict this guy who is basically stealing her house.
@ABC7NY
Eyewitness News
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Squatter standoff captured on camera in Queens | 7 On Your Side Investigates
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@nypost Good grief. This is the same demographic who probably have never heard of the Pledge of Allegiance either.
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@realchrisrufo Middle schoolers I know have been held to a higher bar for plagiarism than Gay’s dissertation - let that sink in.
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@TPostMillennial Asking them to drink from the water fountain inside the building they’re trespassing on is inhumane - they have a right to chilled bottled Saratoga Spring Water dammit!
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A friend in a co-op where one resident masks their dog asked other neighbors what they thought. Responses were "I could never do that to my dog" "it's not fair to him" "he would never understand". But it's ok to do this to 2yr olds? Are we really this out of touch with humanity?
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@magsnichols Omggg. I will remember this at the ballot box for the next 10 years.
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2 years
@nytimes Really @nytimes , many people were "caught off guard"?? Maybe had your uninquisitive education reporters actually spoken with parents that wanted to keep schools open instead of gaslighting them & spotlighting @rweingarten during the last 2 years we would have been ahead of this.
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@visegrad24 Who wants to tell them?
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@GovKathyHochul who masked 2yr olds seen here with @rweingarten head of the teachers union who kept schools closed and colluded with the @CDCgov to keep children masked for almost 2 yrs. NY parents, do your thing and vote her out!! #NeverHochul #VoteJune28 #VoteTomSuozzi
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@Jenniferhochsc2 Dunking on those who attend the same program you teach at isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is. It seems petty, condescending, and vindictive. You should just delete this now.
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If you're wondering why people in the outer boros are starting to flip out over Eric Adams' City of Yes, here's a a good illustration. The proposal is to virtually eliminate all zoning throughout the city, allowing for monstrosities such as this in 1-2 family neighborhoods:
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I love reading the comments on @nytimes education articles because there's always somone who can do a better job than me explaining what's wrong with NYC public schools.
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Not sure why Kathy is being ratio'd - even though she lives in LA, she just wants toddlers in NYC daycares to mask up so she can feel safe in the off-chance she randomly decides to hang out inside PreK centers when she's here. Makes perfect sense, no? #IStandWithDaniela
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Kathy Griffin
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@daniela127 Ok, hear me out. I see that you follow me, Daniela. So, I had 1/2 my lung removed because I had cancer and now I’m super high risk. What if people like me need your kids to wear masks (in addition to us wearing ours) because there are so many high risk people? Cmon. Whatdya say?
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Indefensible tweets are easy to spot; the tell is when comments are turned off 👇
@rweingarten
Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣
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I’ve seen a lot of blame placed on the shoulders of educators & school support staff as #omicron spikes to unprecedented levels & schools grapple with staying in person. I want to take a step back & just attest to the herculean work educators have done
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@nypmetro Expect to see plenty more failures like this when @MTA gets their hands on $1,000,000,000 from Congestion Pricing.
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@JonCampbellNY Wait, so parents who wanted in person school are not MAGA, white supremacists, wine moms, etc. after all?
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Hi @NYCHealthCommr - Heard you were working on updated covid quarantine guidance for PreK. Fixed it for you.
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I just saw this... ------------------- ‼️OCTOBER 19 & 20‼️ The CDC will vote on 10/19 to add the Covid vaccine to the children’s schedule of vaccines. 1/
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I attended a breakfast this morning hosted by my local school board. Even in deep blue NYC, everyone in the room stood during the national anthem and placed their right hand over their chest…except the 3 far left progressives members of the board who were wearing masks. 🤨
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@BillAckman @MIT @Penn From what I’ve seen, the DEI mob is just getting started. You should expect to be labeled: ✅ “Colonizer” ✅ “Oppressor” ✅ “Far right” ✅ “MAGA” ✅ “Trans/Homophobic” And if you run for office, expect it 10x more. The DEI mob isn’t letting go of billions $$$ w/o a dirty fight.
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@NYCMayor @DOEChancellor Today, my child had her 1st in person school performance in over 2 yrs. It was wonderful to see, but unfortunately unvaxxed parents were left out because they can't enter the building. Please end this arbitrary rule, it's harming our sense of community.
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For deep blue NYC, this is huge:
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I was scoffed at when I mentioned the possibility of an uptick in TB because migrants weren’t being screened. “The city has confirmed about 500 cases of active tuberculosis so far this year, an increase of roughly 20 percent from the same time last year,”
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NYC health dept employees "who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly." TB outbreak is worrying but so is the fact that our health officials are muzzled about it.
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How many of these teachers are bringing their ideologies into the classroom? 🤔
@sfmcguire79
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Faculty at the CUNY encampment chanting “to get to our students, you have to get through us.”
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Out of the blue, my child said she couldn't remember what school was like without masks. This made me incredibly sad 😢. We owe our kids more, give them back their childhood . @GovKathyHochul @NYCMayor #MaskLikeAKid #UNMASKOURCHILDREN
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This is not acceptable @NYCMayor . Vaccine mandates for children who are at less risk of getting covid than a triple vaxxed 70 yr old is NOT based on evidence.
@RNCResearch
RNC Research
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Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’s ready to mandate COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. “We’re going to do that.”
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@NBCNews I live in deep blue NYC and 99% of people I know agrees with the 70%.
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This isn’t “vintage” NYC; it’s a local Target in a purple suburb. Nothing is locked up - not even OTC drugs and shampoo. Anti-crime laws matter.
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What’s wrong @NYCMayor , are angry parents of masked toddlers cramping your swagger? Were you actually expecting otherwise? #UnmaskNYCToddlers #FireAshwinNow
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@DeAngelisCorey Time to dissolve this monopoly.
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@MrAndyNgo With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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@OldBull58322044 @KimIversenShow @JScrapwell @GadSaad San Francisco is a perfect and current example.
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@JuliaCarmel__ You do realize with tinted windows you can’t tell the race of the driver - so what exactly was the indignity? Having a car registered in another state (to evade high NY insurance rates?) is also sus.
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@AmerAcadPeds Parents don’t need a study to confirm if their child is developing abnormally. Why would you even suggest such garbage?
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These students aren’t kids anymore. They’re old enough to be drafted into the military and vote. They should get to enjoy the same consequences that other adults who don’t have the privilege of attending college do.
@nypost
New York Post
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College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them
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@JenniferSey @CDCgov People couldn't be with their loved ones at their death beds over this. Children were left to quarantine by themselves.
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@iandprior @kerpen This seems extreme, right up there with calling parents who wanted schools reopened as "domestic terrorists". I don't let my child have an iPhone, would they call that criminal too? As a parent, don't we have the right to determine when & what is appropriate for our child?
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@nytimes So rather than ask where the $1,000,000,000 in THRIVE $$$ went, the @nytimes instead focused on Bill & Chirlane’s marital status?
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@bern_hogan Predict this will be as effective as "no loitering" signs in the subway.
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I must have missed something - when did covid mutate to the point where it can discern between someone who works for the private sector vs NYC government? Not just any city government, but specifically NYC?
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I was going to take the subway into Manhattan for a meeting today…but I think I’ll drive instead. Starting next month, this option will cost $15 as a #CongestionPricing tax. We should all thank @nydems for giving everyone only bad options in the name of “equity”
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Unfortunately, I was there when it happened. @ABC7NY
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Good grief - when did DEI is become a life skill?
@nypost
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Two-thirds of US colleges, universities require DEI classes to graduate: report
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Free covid testing and N95's for all will not get us to Zero Covid and will only prolong this fantasy.
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On March 2, Hochul is lifting the masking mandate for schools!! All 👀 on @NYCMayor .
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@MarkLevineNYC In a city where Dems outnumber Reps more than 2 to 1, I find the tinge of desperation fascinating. Perhaps if you had actually done something about masked toddlers & not trolled parents with extremist school board appointments like Kaliris and Lupe, it wouldn't be this close.
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If the goal was to make @TheDemocrats look like the party of elite privileged angry white people shouting down some minority parents who wanted to walk about public education, then mission accomplished.
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@MarkLevineNYC
Mark D. Levine
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Tonight Moms For Liberty tried to establish a beachhead in Manhattan with a (poorly attended) town hall on the Upper East Side. We mounted a huge protest outside to call out their hypocrisy and their hatred. Democracy won this round.
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This is the @leezeldin rally tonight with @GovRonDeSantis . The event was announced yesterday. Hochul doesn't attract crowds like this, especially on short notice. It's only the first day of early voting. #VoteLeeZeldin
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A few highly concerning things to note in this statement from NYS DOH: 1) Recommendation to wear a respirator (!) in school settings for a full 10 days if exposed to covid as a close contact. It is ludicrous to expect children (or anyone!) to wear a respirator. 1b
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Who doesn't love being sterotyped by the far left? SCOTUS struck down affirmative action so apparently I'm now a Asian "conservative white supremacist". Btw, this won't change anyone's POV on race-based admissions, but it will get more Asians beat up.
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@rweingarten Schools safely reopened LAST YEAR with less $$$. You're talking yourself into irrelevance (which most of us already know).
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For NY parents & educators who care about education, this means vote for @leezeldin . If you haven’t voted yet, please vote on Tuesday.
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@rweingarten
Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣
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Governor @KathyHochul is a problem solver. Take public education. In NY, public education had been under funded for too long. She & @AndreaSCousins & @CarlHeastie righted the ship #AFTvotes
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@two__evils They’re not helping their cause, just sayin.
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@BostonGlobe Handicapping low income students who are able to do advanced coursework by taking it away isn’t helping them.
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@DrIbram Just stop. The damage and discrimination from your writings supporting Critical Race Theory which has reduced Asians to "White Adjacent" is wholly unacceptable. You of all people don't get to own anyone else's struggles when you actively supported the divide.
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