My big dog loves her little twigs and sticks.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Congratulations! I know I’m just a random stranger but I followed you on Twitter for years and when I left you were one of the few accounts I missed. I share things I learn from you with my colleagues and friends so much that they think we are real life friends.

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

Me dressed as Rainbow Brite on a patio pointing to room where the prom is taking place

Text exchange between me and my daughter. It says Are we in the same building? No way? Yes!!! Where are you? Are you outside? I’m coming to find you. How did we not realize we were in the same place? I am inside I have no idea OMG.

When I got dropped off at the venue and saw there was also a prom taking place there I thought thank goodness it’s not my daughter’s prom…. but it was. 3/3

Me with a blonde wig, large purple bow on my head and glitter on my cheeks

Me smiling in my wig and costume

Me posing in my rainbow Brite costume

Me in my Rainbow Brite costume showing off my gloves

My union throws an annual end of the year/retirement party. This years theme was the 80s. I clearly take themes very seriously. 2/3

My daughter in her red prom dress looking elegant

A cartoon of Rainbow Brite riding her horse with her friend Twink

Imagine you are at your senior prom and your mom walks in dressed as Rainbow Brite. Well that happened. Thankfully my daughter wasn’t mortified and found humor in the situation. 1/3

A picture of me in an American flag shirt holding a clear umbrella that is decorated in red white and blue and protest signs that say: Due process 4 all, Asylum is a human right and Tu Lucha es mi lucha.

Not bad for my first attempt at a protest umbrella. Sides not pictured say Bring Back empathy, Families belong together, close the camps, no money 4 ICE, no human is illegal.

I cried, so now y’all can too. Mr. Riddick graduated at 80 years old! It’s never too late, and this is important as I constantly doubt myself. 💙💙💙 congratulations to you sir!!!

Rainbow colors were fading. Roots were getting long. So I decided to cover all the blonde and grow out my recession roots with some fun spring colors.

Children looking out the classroom window using binoculars

Children outdoors using binoculars to look for signs of spring

ELL update: We are looking for signs of spring.

A paper butterfly with black velvet lines colored with rainbow marker. This one looks like it has eyes on its wings

A paper butterfly with black velvet lines colored with markers and gel pens. This one has flower patterns on the wings

Art club update: Getting ready for spring with velvet art butterflies

Awww!!! Hi Sergio!! He is so handsome. Sending virtual wrinkle rubs!

Painting in progress. Adding extra sparkle for these dark days.

Aw is Bruno a Newfoundland? My Newfies used to refuse to come inside when it would snow and just roll in it for hours.

A silver pair of earrings and a necklace with pendant containing pieces of a gold white and pink painting. This set has more gold going across the top of the pendant and a white and pink lines across the bottom

A silver pair of earrings and a necklace with pendant containing pieces of a gold white and pink painting. This set has more pink and white with gold stripes and some pink dots

I recycle my paintings that I don’t like. I take the little parts I do like and I turn them into jewelry. I made these pretty sets as gifts for my coworkers. Both come from different pieces of the same painting.

Classroom door covered in black paper. There is a painted cartoon Saint Bernard dog with reindeer antlers that have ornaments dangling from them. The dog is next to a pile of presents and on the other side is a table with a “Nice” list that has the names of the teachers who share the room and Darby (the dog’s name). The top of the door says North Pole Reindeer Flight Academy

Painted our classroom door this year.

📌 for reading at 2am

Six squares, each with a different colorful turkey made with crayons and watercolors and Google eyes

My K-2 Art Club made watercolor crayon resist turkeys

A large brown paper bag that has been cut to create a turkey costume with construction paper eyes, beak, wattle and colorful feathers glued to the wings.

My colleague made the cutest paper bag turkey costumes with her class! Now my wheels are spinning thinking about all of the paper bag costume possibilities!

A very happy Saint Bernard dog with mouth wide open and a long tongue hanging out looking like it is about to swallow the arm of the person petting her

Darby Monster!!!

Saint Bernard dog leaning into the hand with mouth open

Darby: Oh no it’s happening again

Saint Bernard dog with mouth closed and wide eyes leaning into a hand begging to be pet

Darby: Good morning. Please pet me.

Students holding up character masks covering their faces. Yellow duck,, blue horse, black sheep, white dog, red bird, goldfish, purple cat, brown bear, green frog

The students loved singing the song and performing the story using the character masks.

Colorful animal masks of the characters from Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear

We’ve been learning our colors in English using Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear. I used craft foam sheets and dowel rods to create masks #Edusky #ELsky

🟡 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS

One very important addition: Trump 1.0 deprioritized enforcement to the point that ICE pretty much had to pick up anyone in the same household as a target who couldn't prove their status. It's worth knowing these things about the people you live with.

Child’s hands scribbling a large messy circle revealing rainbow colors and removing almost all of the black

And there is always one that goes for the chaos method

Two scratch art pictures made by a student. One with hearts and lines and the other with circles and hearts.

Scratch art picture with waves at the bottom and five sharks of various sizes swimming under a sun with rays

Scratch art with straight and squiggly lines

As you can see we had a lot of lines, circles, hearts and even some sharks

Black scratch art paper with various patterns of lines, swirls and shapes scratched to reveal rainbow colors underneath

Wednesday is Creative Arts club after school with kindergarten! This week we worked on our fine motor skills drawing lines and shapes using scratch art. Here are my sample zentangles I made to give them ideas. Making these are so relaxing.

1/ HOW TO TRIAGE AN IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY
As someone who has been defending non-citizens in deportation proceedings since 2006, I am here to tell you that we know exactly who Trump's top targets will be, & how we can try to protect them NOW.

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