With Bowser AND Bonds declining to run again am I... actually looking forward to an election cycle again?! Who would've thought.

For DC, this combined with federal workers who are furloughed now needing to access the local food banks, will be devastating

absolutely heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Latinas earn only 51 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men. This wage gap isn't just unfair, it's an injustice, and Latinas deserve equal pay for equal work. #LatinaEqualPayDay

❗️Monthly Donation Request❗️ We’re hoping to add another friend to our monthly cash distro, where once a month we send $150 no-questions-asked cash to unhoused & recently housed neighbors! We could use a few more recurring donations to help get us there! Sign up here!: givebutter.com/remorahouse

To Chicago comrades & anyone else facing possible federal occupation: The National Guard is standing around for photo ops. DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, are working with local police to terrorize & kidnap our neighbors. Organize accordingly.

Moving our people from a place of fear, anxiety and panic to organized collective action is another kind of success. That’s why I’m so focused on political ed right now. People need tools. They need strategies for mobilization and help asking the right questions.

screenprint of an image by John Fleissner for LAUSD students leading walkouts against ICE raids 💙✊

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

Mayor Muriel Bowser has praised the surge and reserved her criticisms for ICE wearing masks. But tonight at a local school it was MPD who pulled up their gaiter, put on gloves, and approached me masked.

Morning walk on the Anacostia watching a LOT of what appear to be National Guard being bussed in to pick up trash. I guess I prefer this over the military checkpoint harassment zones. But this is ridiculous. All in the name of a creeping fascist occupation. #FreeDC

So what we are not going to do is blame DC's young people for Trump's fascism. Fascists always blame the victim for their actions. Always. It can be a real event. It can be fake. It doesn't matter. Fascists will do what they want and justify it however they want. THAT IS FASCISM.

Made a thing. Was walking with a friend, who stopped in her tracks to squash a spotted lanternfly like a cigarette, and it knocked something loose in my brain.

Wow this mini week has been a true whirlwind. Three days in and we’ve already started directly attacking major systemic issues that have gone unadressed for too long. This work will not be easy, but I know we have the team and membership to do it and I am honored to havee this opportunity to lead. ✊

Wow this first day of my Presidency in the Washington Teachers' Union really got away from me! Busy busy. Here I am heading out with the only decoration I brought in to start. I’m still me despite it all. 😂

My classroom at H.D. Woodson has been cleared out. Keys are turned in. I have been in the new building since it opened (as well as the original Tower of Power and interim building). I have been in 5 different classrooms. It has been real. Can’t wait to visit in my new role. ✊

Care about teachers, students, and our community? Sign this letter! Child-free folks and non-teachers can sign too!

I'm testifying in front of the DC SBOE and want to say we have 1000 supporters - we are less than 30 sign ons away! Sign sign sign!

Getting to lead with Laura will be, is and has been an amazing experience. And while we have you here, sign our letter in support of international teachers in our public schools. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm testifying later today in front of the DC State Board of Education. This will be fun :)

So proud of my friend Laura and excited to see the powerful union she's going to build with her siblings. ✊ She cares so deeply about teachers, students and the future of DC schools.

Proud to say that I am the President Elect of the Washington Teachers Union AFT Local#6 alongside my entire Educators Taking Action slate. I am proud of the campaign we ran and the work we are gearing up to do. ✊

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

So proud of H.D. Woodson #ClassOf2025 I couldn’t have asked for a more curious, caring and informed group of students. Honestly I expect great things from them. (Also I taught 4 siblings of past alumni, which was awesome.)

On Friday at the DCPS Budget Hearing our International Educators made a strong showing asking the Council to put $200-300k in the budget to restart the DCPS Green Card Program, which they unilaterally ended back in October 2024 without any communication. Sign and share: forms.gle/d3EGf7wzVakC...

Ding dong THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!!! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. And we WILL hunt down any more of your influence and root it out, don't you worry. This isn't over.

Register to testify on the DCPS Budget - Especially if you support our International Educators here on an H1B. We are testifying in support of creating a line item for $200-300k that is legally required to be spent on restarting the Green Card program. lims.dccouncil.gov/Hearings/hea...

A few pictures from an amazing HD Woodson prom last night. Rarely has a class so truly lived up to the hype. They were beyond curious, well read, opinionated and very personable. I had such an easy time with them and that is a testament to everyone who taught them prior. More pics are on my Facebook

If you’ve watched these masked fucking ghouls terrorizing our neighbors and this is your response you can fuck right off.

I am mortified on behalf of the entire city by our Mayor's recent actions. She's sold her soul for football and business donations.

I hope that every single DC Council Member says: NO HATE, NO FEAR, IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME HERE!

If you support the full implementation of I-83 (beginning with the June 2026 primary), then please sign up to testify at the *9am, Friday, June 6* FY26 budget hearing for the DC Board of Elections! We need $ in FY26 for this to happen! lims.dccouncil.gov/Hearings/reg... @allvotescountdc.bsky.social

What I just witnessed from the W3 Member of the DCSBOE is BEYOND disrespectful. Not only did he openly say that he did not listen to an ENTIRE PANEL on students facing homelessness, he then proceeded to ask questions about HIS ISSUE instead of addressing HOMELESS STUDENTS.

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰

Really appreciate @motherjones.com getting this story i did for hell world in front of more people! Thank you! @lukeoneil47.bsky.social We’re gunna need as many eyes as possible on Worcester rn... police unions are playing victim and the rhetoric is getting feral

DC restaurants are on alert but ICE is also targeting schools. There is currently ICE presence at the Mondo Verde school on P Street -- parents are forming a human chain and plan to do so for the rest of the week. If you're in DC and able to, they would like help

All my AP US Government student have been fed, they are seated, I gave them a wee pep talk and now I have to be away from them for 3 hours while they take this test. GOOD LUCK!!!!! GO WARRIORS!

Here comes my *favorite* time of the year: Teacher Appreciation Week! This is when I get to hit so many in power w/a catch-22: - Option 1: They post something about appreciating teachers and I get to call them a hypocrite. - Option 2: They don't post and I get to point out they don't like us.

Guess investing in baristas IS important... if only SOMEONE had ideas that could, say, be put into a union contract......... oh wait

We’ll be back! @mayorbowser.bsky.social and the DC Council - you had better not cut back on the wages for ANY WORKER. Solidarity Forever. ✊ #MayDay2025

THIS is exactly what groups like DFER push in DC - they want to be treated like private schools with all but tax payer $ so that they don't have to be held accountable for ANYTHING. NOW they are trying to distance themselves from the inevitable fallout and funding of private religious schools.

So it sounds like the person who called me "The living embodiment of what is wrong in education advocacy" is being forced to eat their words, because I was right. While I don't want to be so petty as to find it delicious. I most certainly do. DOWN WITH DEMOCRATS FOR EDUCATION REFORM AND THEIR ALLIES

My students are so chill. The fire went off (an announcement told us to ignore and they just kept working while the hallway is full of kids running out of class and getting pushed back in. I'm so proud of them / worried about all of our instincts to ignore alarms lol

I don't care about 'who's next?' as much as I care about trans people *right now* and if more people cared about trans people *right now* they wouldn't have to worry about 'who's next?'

The How To Train Your Dragon movie score is one of the best that there is. This darn music brings me to TEARS in so many ways. Every time. I can't WAIT to get to see it in theaters again.

Hey all this is a letter that the International Educators wrote and would like shared and sent as they meet with DC Council Members this week: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

DCPS is being heartless to teachers THEY recruited to staff necessary programs and fill key vacancies in ALL our schools. It is unethical to drop the green card component without any warning. We can afford to do right by ALL our teachers. Restart NOW! t.co/ytWvdcZkWt

Students working independently. Music comes up on my playlist: You can go your owwwwwwwwwwn wayyyyyyyy acoustic/instrumentally chill vibes. I’m now desperately trying not to laugh. Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to play acoustic 80s music to switch it up for my own amusement.