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Loreto Paz Ansaldo
@lpansaldo.bsky.social
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📚 Spanish and math teacher
💝 Language Justice builder
👥 Arts doer and advocate
🧠 Neurodivergent (OCD & ADHD)
🦫 MIT ‘00
🇨🇱 Important context: I spent my childhood in the Pinochet military dictatorship
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As I finished checking in at #ATA66, I almost bumped into the person behind me. I started saying “I’m sorry,” looked up, & noticed who it was: Ester, one of my favorite people, kind and fierce, who’s taught me so much. We haven’t talked in months, but we’ve thought about each other constantly.
October 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I’m at #ATA66 this Friday and Saturday, excited to catch up with cool T&Is, nerd out at the sessions, and meet colleagues from everywhere at the top of their game.
Text reads: ATA 66 Boston 66th Annual Conference October 22-25, 2025 Boston, Massachusetts Blue background is image of Boston map. Drawing of a yellow tall ship with 66 as the sails.
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS 1. You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. 2. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police. 3. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. 4. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. 5. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. 6.lf you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you'll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney - no matter your citizenship or immigration status.
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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What a day of love and community!!

I’m at the regional NAETISL conference for Educational Interpreters and Translators in Charlestown, a neighborhood of northern Boston, and I rode the T for the #NoKings rally at the Boston Common.

Nothing but love ❤️❤️❤️
NAETISL National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages We the People ❤️❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️ No Monarchs except Butterflies 🦋🦋🦋
October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Republicans have shut down the government to take healthcare away from millions of Americans and give Trump a blank check for his illegal power grab.

Contact your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
Death Spiral: Republicans' Medicaid cuts threaten the health care of all Americans-even people on private insurance. 1. Medicaid cuts cause millions to lose health care 2. People without coverage can't pay for the care they need 3. Rural hospitals lose significant revenue 4. Health care workers are laid off, rural hospitals close 5. Entire communities lose health care services
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Power Belongs to the People Join the Movement No Kings Saturday, October 18
September 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Tonight’s keynote at the #MTASummer Human and Civil Rights Awards is Dr. Cornel West @cornelwest.bsky.social
Picture of Dr. Cornel West by Gage Skidmore. Text reads: Human & Civil Rights Awards. Sunday, July 27. 7:30-9 PM. Student Union Ballroom. Cornel West: A renowned American philosopher, activist, and public intellectual, Cornel West captures the fierce urgency of this moment of rising neofascism, war, deepening inequality and the need for a multiracial, labor-driven, pro-democracy movement. With his signature blend of righteous anger and deep love, he calls on us not to despair, but to organize, mobilize, and reimagine a better world.
July 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social now speaking at #MTASummer.
Headshot picture of Taylor. Text reads: Opening plenary. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Sunday, July 27. 5:15-6:30 PM. Campus Center Auditorium. “Drawing on history and grounded in the lived experiences of the working class and the Black freedom tradition, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor illuminates how this moment — however bleak — is also one of profound possibility. The plenary also will feature member-leaders sharing stories of how members are taking on the challenges of this moment.”
July 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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For the next four days, I’m at the @massteacher.bsky.social Summer Conference at UMass Amherst. Theme “Now More Than Ever” 👩🏻‍🏫💪🏼 Keynotes and sessions are 🔥 #MTASummer www.massteacher.org/events-and-c...
Picture of people seated in an audience clapping. Text reads: MTA A Diverse Union of Education Workers. 2025 Summer Conference. Now More Than Ever. July 27-30. UMass Amherst.
July 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#NoKings @ Northampton, Mass.
Sign spotted: Silence = Death
Cardboard sign reads: Silence equals death. With trans and Palestinian flags attached. Behind, another sign peaks through that reads: Free Palestine.
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#NoKings @ Northampton, Mass.
Sign spotted: My king is Elmo
Sign in the shape and color of Elmo’s face. It reads: My king is Elmo.
June 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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#NoKings @ Northampton, Mass.
Sign spotted: I like my ICE crushed.
June 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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#NoKings @ Northampton, Mass.
Sign spotted: Humpty Trumpty will have a great fall!!
June 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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#NoKings @ Northampton, Mass
My sign: “What would you have done in 1930s Germany?” Now is when you find out.
June 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Central Square, Cambridge, Mass.
May 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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🦫 🎓 At my MIT 25th year reunion. Hank Green is the speaker! Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/Lpq-fc-...
May 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM