Christie Nold

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

What a time to be a social studies teacher, a memoir

We recently started Ted Lasso… it’s soooo good 😭🥰

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

posted today by @sjcerv.bsky.social

Are we great yet?

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

Roughly 150,000 US citizens live and work in the Arabian Gulf States.

We are treated well by the local governments and are free to worship as we please.

The actions of the US government today are making us all less safe.

here's a little story. Janet Mills won a big settlement against drug companies as part of the opioid crisis and used it to buy Narcan, enough for every fire station and police department in the state. Republican Paul LePage said Narcan just encouraged drug use and people should die,

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Mural depicting Bad Bunny and Elian Escobar by Puerto Rican artist Joabel Ortiz

San Juan 🇵🇷

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Opinion | The Iranian Regime Has Committed a Massacre (Gift Article) We surveyed medical workers across 14 cities and 11 provinces in Iran about their experiences treating wounded protesters.

Absolutely striking piece & critical read (gift link):

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Moms for Liberty ceremony

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community.

He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

The problem is many of us don't see a lack of racism as an access need for Black people.

She should be… “more kind” about (checks thread)… use of the N-word?

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Was just talking about this with our librarian today!

(Side note: miss you, friend!)

Living in a country where people can simultaneously celebrate Lunar New Year, observe Ramadan and Lent, and party at Mardi Gras on the same day is cool, good, and worth fighting for. Pluralistic democracy is one of humanity’s greatest inventions!

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.

A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum in New York City had long been a mystery. It was recently linked to the Underground Railroad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas

This is really interesting———Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Copy of the book PFKNR how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance by Vanessa Diaz and Petra R Riviera Rideau

It came! Thank you for the recommendation @chanda.blacksky.app!

Reading in the sunshine while sweet W naps 💛

We use this piece in our 9th grade curriculum when talking about the Fugitive Slave Act.

Students always respond so thoughtfully!

Sharing stories of collective resistance feels SO necessary in this time 💛

A group of people gathered with signs that say to Wright in Dunn Schneider for the select board three year term

With town meeting day right around the corner, I hope my VT friends remember the importance of local elections (and of passing public school budgets!)