My first hike in the snow ❄️

I saw Hairspray (2007) in a theater for the first time tonight at The Senator Its deeply nostalgic for me. I was 11 when it came out and its the first time I remember seeing a fat girl as the lead in a movie. She even gets the boy at the end A rewatch i definitely needed

Please go watch this Miles Caton is 20 YEARS OLD youtu.be/wGjcEwAWZtw?...

Directed some organized chaos at the @tabco.org / ESPBC legislative breakfast yesterday We did a jigsaw activity with 150 educators and elected officials 😅 Used my elementary colleagues' toolkit including 1. "Clap 1 if you can hear me 2. "You should be in your seat in 5 4 3 2 1"

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

My first for @dropsitenews.com: after a grueling three-year strike, workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette returned to work in victory. This week, the 240-year-old paper’s wealthy owners decided to shut it down. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh's largest and oldest newspaper, is being shut down by its owners. This announcement comes shortly after the journalists at the paper won a historic 3-year strike.

Translation is an art in and of itself. I translated 3.5 pages of a bullying policy for class with a partner and it was so hard. It wasnt even literature! Machine translation simply cannot replicate what people do and I fear we're going to lose this art because of AI

This whole thread... but particularly the examples in Latin America

What's a movie you think everyone should see before they turn 30?

My first activity of 2026 was destroying a "F*ck ICE" and a "Ch*nga la migra" piñata Here's to less state sponsored kidnapping and more solidarity in 2026

Here are my favorite books that I read in 2025 in the order that I read them: 1. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson 2. Guía para lesbianas en un colegio católico by Sonora Reyes 3. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty 4. Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

Prepare to be sick of me! 88 days until baseball is back

New profile pic (taken by a fancy professional union photographer for this month's MSEA magazine)

My very intense salsa instructor gave me a compliment today and I could not stop smiling

I *love* it when admin make a short term decision that will benefit them that will then screw over every other educator in the long run

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Some fun updates 1. I turned in my research paper - officially finished my post bacc in professional Spanish 2. I applied to a 3 week study abroad program in Cuenca, Ecuador 3. I watched Die Hard for the first time ever

Just spent wayyyy too much money on Orioles Opening Day tickets 105 days until baseball season 🫣

I got my results for component 1 and component 3 of national board. Crushed the culture question of component 1 and got an overall good score. Did not do well on component 3... back to the drawing board

I finished my last grad class of this post bacc today! (Still have 2 assignments to turn in but i got 3 hours of my weeknights back!)

Tweaked my knee last week and now I cant find a comfortable position... aging is so fun!

This tour was so fun last year! Highly recommend ❤️

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

Go to this ⬇️ and then come on my tour & get a whistle!

Did you know that dates still stand you up in the year 2025?? How rude!

Pros and cons of Tuesday night salsa class Pro - I moved my body and forgot about the state of the world for a while Con - it ended at 10pm and now I'm wired but still need to get up at 6am

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Found this picture 5 years ago while we were looking through photos for my dad's funeral. I could use some of 6 year old me's joy right about now

I can't believe I used to exist without a heated blanket

Sometimes enough students say enough mildly ungrateful things in one day that it makes you want to be a shitty teacher out of spite

I cried about at least 4 different things in one conversation today. I felt a bit embarassed in the moment but better afterwards. Crying is a normal thing to do

I have so much work to do for this research paper and 0 motivation 🫠

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

The winter months are heavy with loss for me so I think I'll be making my grief more of a priority in this space. It's been more than 14 years since my surrogate father died of lung cancer. Heres 2 of the only photos I have with him I wonder about what he would think of adult me

Hate that my work life was actively falling apart when we had reason to hope for a few days I find hope in young people and in organizing. If you dont have a connection to one or both yet, I suggest finding one. 1 decent election night does not fix this bullshit

Its not fun when you ask for support at work and the request is denied or ignored I should be having a great week because of Tuesdays rebuke of this administration. I cried on my way home instead

Baltimore County paid $2.4 million for an AI weapons detection system with no oversight Response to a false alarm terrorized a Black student who did nothing wrong Thanks for the great op-ed @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

Went to Indivisible Baltimore County's rally against County Exec Kathy Klausmeier's MOU with the ICE/DHS There were many good speakers, but as a former Catholic, this struck me "It is faithless and cowardly not to be political" - Rev. John S. Ballenger from Woodbrook Baptist Church

Salvador Allende said "No hay revolución sin canciones" [There is not a revolution without songs] youtu.be/JRFOivFuBic?...

Most Americans are uneducated about Latin America (by design) and I have some movie recommendations about Latin American authoritarian governments Argentina 1. Argentina, 1985 (2022) 2. The Official Story (1985) 3. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (1985) 4. Night of the Pencils (1986)

I wanted Vladdy to get a ring 🫠 And the Dodgers owner is absolute trash

I walked to the library and picked up 3 physical dvds 💪🏻

Got my monthly dose of making other people uncomfortable by telling them my dad is dead 🙃

Put on my union hat this evening and met with a candidate who would like our gr committee to consider making an endorsement in their race I would like to spend the rest of the evening thinking and strategizing around things I learned BUT I have a paper to write 🫠

Argentina's version of Trump won a midterm election yesterday Trump just promised the country $40 billion if he won Coincidence?

Novavax vaccines are available at CVS! (in the Baltimore area at least) I got my flu shot too and got a $10 off of $20 purchase coupon (and rewarded myself with silly snacks)

Join me at the Avelo protest tomorrow in Annapolis! They're the only passenger airline that flies deportation flights. Governor Moore should kick them out of BWI (and weve got 12,000+ petition signatures to motivate him)

"Anybody that comes after children has to come through you [educators]. Anybody that comes after you [educators] has to come through me first" - Gov Wes Moore at the Maryland State Education Association's Representative Assembly