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"Maybe spend a minute in one of the classrooms with my members and their students and you will get a real lesson in the promise and potential of America," said AFT president Randi Weingarten.

"The move to privatize Medicare," said one expert, has "been very profitable, in part because insurers are good at making their patients seem sicker."

An Amazon Labor Union lawyer called the punishment of Staten Island employees "a violation of workers' rights to join in a collective action about the terms and conditions of their employment."

"None of this demonstrating in the snow shit," one commenter wrote in a MAGA forum. "Summertime was made for killing fields."

This announcement is a step in the right direction, said one advocate, but "we won't settle" until the postal fleet is made up of "100% union-built electric vehicles."

"Access to abortion has reached crisis level—and it demands a response from Congress and the Biden administration that meets this moment," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."

"If all these plans materialize, they will either end up as massive stranded assets or they'll lock the world into irreversible warming."

Honduran President Xiomara Castro is also skipping this week's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.

"The members of Congress who signed this letter are making it clear that we must hold the Israeli government accountable for its blatant violations of Palestinians' rights."