If there’s one thing that should bring us all together, it should be that American kids – no matter their zip code – get a world-class public education. By dismantling the Department of Education, Donald Trump is taking square aim at that goal. - ThreadSky

markwarner.bsky.social • 12 days ago

If there’s one thing that should bring us all together, it should be that American kids – no matter their zip code – get a world-class public education.

By dismantling the Department of Education, Donald Trump is taking square aim at that goal.

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jamesmpope.bsky.social•11 days ago

The question is what are YOU going to do that. Besides state the obvious.

brendanamartin.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is a sad, wan post. We can barely tell that you’re objecting to him dismantling it, and you don’t state that it’s all illegal.
And how about the abduction of a Georgetown scholar on an Arlington street yesterday?
Retire next year and take a nice long nap on your pile of money.

old-traveller.bsky.social•11 days ago

And the Chinese laughed and laughed and laughed...

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•11 days ago

pixelhacker.bsky.social•11 days ago

@markwarner.bsky.social We need more than statements, we need leadership and actionable steps. What are you doing to protect public education, and how can we support those efforts? Give us direction, and we’ll be there.

pixelhacker.bsky.social•10 days ago

We must strike as a nation. Democracy depends on it. When we refuse to work, oligarchs can’t make money. Once enough sign, we strike.

📝 SIGN: https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
🔁 REPOST

#SaveDemocracy #GeneralStrikeUS #Strike #StopTrump #Project2025 #SaveDemocracy #ProtectDemocracy #NoKings #oligarchy

pumpkin2025.bsky.social•11 days ago

Here’s what even more disturbing to this: he had CHILDREN sitting in school room desks behind him. Yes, he used KIDS as a political stunt when he signed that executive order!

neptuniandemocracy.bsky.social•9 days ago

Subpoena Musk
Hit him hard with criminal evidence
And then arrest him

neptuniandemocracy.bsky.social•11 days ago

Absolutely 💯 So bring a fighter to lead Senate democrats
Bernie is that leader

wonderingby.bsky.social•12 days ago

At some point you need to come to the realization that Washington stopped caring about average Americans a long time ago. They only care about our vote and after that we are nothing to them.

itsbirdiebitch.bsky.social•12 days ago

No Dept of Ed equals furtherance of School choice and economic segregation, just another grift. Rich people set up charter schools, then divert taxes we pay to management fees, book fees, clothing fees. Upper income people get back their state taxes to pay for their kids private schooling.

itsbirdiebitch.bsky.social•12 days ago

The poor/ disabled/ and rural kids, or kids of parents who can’t provide transportation, will all be left to struggling underfunded public schools with little oversight. This is meant to create workers, people who will not understand their value, their rights or question motives..

lallberry.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wow - you sound concerned. If only you would FRIGGIN’ DO SOMETHING!!!!

usedculture.bsky.social•12 days ago

We know this but what are you and your fellow congresspeople DOING about it? I am honestly so confused why we are hearing a lot of talk but not seeing any action.

arlingwoman.bsky.social•12 days ago

The problem is we don't have a first class public education system anymore. So many people I know found out their kids couldn't read during the pandemic. A good number of them started home schooling--and not an evangelical afraid of secularism among them. Save DoE but then do more.

wabbitneeds.bsky.social•9 days ago

We are aware...

daneh206.bsky.social•12 days ago

Agreed! As an elected official what are you doing about it.

daneh206.bsky.social•11 days ago

I realize that you don’t answer questions here. You likely don’t even read them. Just PR, Eh?

bethbishopkimbriel.bsky.social•11 days ago

I prefer to take the high road when others behave badly. Unfortunately, the high road has been blown up by the Republican Party. Democrats have no choice now but to find another route. #resist

kaeliae.bsky.social•11 days ago

When is your next town hall?

mehl71.bsky.social•12 days ago

What are you doing to stop him? Talk is cheap

muirwithin.bsky.social•11 days ago

And yet, @schumer.senate.gov and @fetterman.senate.gov voted for this

arcticwolverine.bsky.social•12 days ago

And what are the @democrats.senate.gov going to do about it, since @schumer.senate.gov gave away your ability to try and stop this chaos?

halojones2000.bsky.social•11 days ago

Step 1. Get Chuck Schumer to step down
Step 2: Democrat leadership draw up a plan, any plan for action. Please just anything!
Step 3: Do plan

Note, getting your aide to post banal hand-wringy statements on social media should not be part of the plan.

birdandmax.bsky.social•11 days ago

There's never been a time when every American got a world-class education. Let's start there. Let's move on to, that EO is illegal, yet none of you will call that out.

pjw71.bsky.social•11 days ago

DID YOUR STAFF WRITE THIS POST FOR YOU???

MORE TALKING POINTS???
REMOVE SCHUMER!!!
DEPORT ELON!!!

DO YOUR JOB!!!

sorrydave.bsky.social•11 days ago

A reminder that every single Democratic Senator is absolutely worthless. At this point, you are all complicit. You are all cowards.

frodiscaper.bsky.social•12 days ago

Question: Doesn't the DOE pay teachers who teach at overseas military bases?

ifnotmewho.bsky.social•12 days ago

Excellent question. These are the DoDEA schools that might actually fall under the DOD.

ifnotmewho.bsky.social•12 days ago

But not 100% sure

frodiscaper.bsky.social•12 days ago

A friend's parents are DOE educators but teach on a military base. I wonder if it's a contract thing. Either way, the children of our military lose.

cecilyparker.bsky.social•12 days ago

AND?!?!?? Just what and some of your idiot colleagues plan to do about it? Roll over like usual? Sit ins? Coordinated outfits? More grandstanding? Just stand up and do something! Make some noise! Stop this fool from ruining what’s left of our country and what took 249 years to build!

mikeraphone.bsky.social•12 days ago

"a world class public education" ??????? Not in this country. Not in the last 50 years.

captmaga749.bsky.social•10 days ago

Democrats now have a 27% approval rating and their new strategy is domestic terrorism.

In case you’re wondering why their anti-American party is circling the drain.

kenbrooke.bsky.social•12 days ago

@markwarner.bsky.social I'm not donating to any Democrats until Chuck Schumer steps down as minority leader.

brendanamartin.bsky.social•12 days ago

Consider donating to or volunteering for Spanberger. I’m with you on Democrats in Congress, though.

donnat.bsky.social•11 days ago

Please. We will need strong leaders at the state level who represent what we want and need to get through this debacle.

kenbrooke.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Current Congressional Democrats"

stoic-oppo.bsky.social•11 days ago

SO THEN DO SOMETHING AND STOP WAFFLING TO US ABOUT IT.

annerosenva.bsky.social•11 days ago

Sure, we all seem to agree. Now what?

jessbheart.bsky.social•12 days ago

You should visit a public school sir.. I love the department of education, i'm a parent with kids that have IEPs.. but our schools are abysmal and need vast improvements.. most americans can barely read or do basic math.

jeffholcomb.bsky.social•11 days ago

Zip code, economic circumstances, and special education needs. All kids.

aroeser.bsky.social•12 days ago

You are preaching to the choir here. We are already together on this. We are calling reps, sending postcards, going to TownHalls and protesting. But we don’t have the platform that you do. We need you get outraged and do something that gets some attention

violetmountain.bsky.social•11 days ago

saraphudson.bsky.social•12 days ago

Please, Senator, tell us what you are going to DO about this. The time for hand wringing is over.

crazy006.bsky.social•10 days ago

Please have the vote machines checked before the midterms!

brianwheeler9.bsky.social•12 days ago

They don't care, Mark. It's not about bringing the country together anymore.

faithpeacelove.bsky.social•11 days ago

Looking at the detainees, heart breaking. Just like the Nazis marched the Jews into a concentration camp. I have seen pic of their heads being shaved stripped like pajamas put on them. If you have any faith and believe in God it should break your that our country is allowed to do such a thing.

riversbsky.bsky.social•11 days ago

Dear Senator Warner, thank you for sharing your thoughts on US education. Thoughts alone will not stop Donald Trump. You need to fight this like your job depended on it because it does. The president already has half the congress supporting him and he will eliminate your job next.

ifnotmewho.bsky.social•12 days ago

I agree. Thank you for highlighting this. What are you doing to fight this?

Please work with your colleagues to ask @schumer.senate.gov to step down and vote in a new minority leader to replace him that will fight for us, unlike what happened last week and voting for the CR.

birdswillfly.bsky.social•12 days ago

Goal is indoctrination🚨🚨

I know,
what I am talking about.
My grandparents lived under Adolf Hitler and went to school.
Even a songbook is left from that time with cult songs on the "Führer" Adolf Hitler...

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

callyourreps.us•12 days ago

If you would like to contact this rep:

Local Office #: (352) 241-9220

DC Office #: (202) 224-2023

Office Website: https://www.warner.senate.gov

Please only contact if this is your rep. If you wish to speak to another rep about this issue, find them here: https://reps.fyi

usedculture.bsky.social•12 days ago

The local number is for David Webster. Not Mark Warner.

callyourreps.us•11 days ago

We will double check our tables and update, thanks for the heads-up!

anna-artist.bsky.social•12 days ago

Please keep putting this type info out there - especially where the right can see it!

blacksoxs.bsky.social•11 days ago

100%..States are going to either have to raise their taxes to pay for all the programs or decide what programs to cut…and that is the concern ..we all know what programs are going to go!!!

ejgmu.bsky.social•11 days ago

What Dem Senator is going to lead a Senate shutdown of regular order until rationality and rule of law are brought back?

naptimewarrior.bsky.social•11 days ago

Could you meet with parents in some rural districts to explain to them how they and their kids are going to be affected by this?

jlynj2529.bsky.social•12 days ago

Uneducated individuals tend to be easier to con, right?

priscillalish.bsky.social•11 days ago

So what is being done about it?

mxhrad.bsky.social•12 days ago

Until Schumer is no longer leader, no post by a Democratic senator complaining about Trump’s policies means anything. If your leader is a coward and you don’t kick him out, you’re a coward.

jasonegenberg.bsky.social•12 days ago

This isn’t just another constitutional crisis—it’s the tipping point. If Trump wins this fight, the balance of power in America could be shattered forever. This article I wrote breaks down the battle for the Department of Education that could change everything.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/the-one-trump-move-that-could-end?r=3nm35j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

kmcelroy24.bsky.social•11 days ago

If there’s one thing that should bring us together, it should be that American kids - actually no all kids in general - are protected from Republican child sex offenders

wearlotion.bsky.social•12 days ago

Democracies fall not from the voters but from the people in power.

meandyou22.bsky.social•12 days ago

Retire, leave, go away. We want a new Democratic Party who believes and supports hard working Americans. You all work for corporations and lobbyists, we are done. Get rid of citizens united, reign in propaganda and the lies from the media and start holding members accountable who lie too.

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