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Christie Nold
@christienold.bsky.social
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Public high school social studies teacher in the Green Mountain State. (She/her)
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They are growing…
Black swallowtail caterpillar eating dill in a large container
September 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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After nearly two years of eggless baking, it’s humbling to remember I still have a lot to learn 😂
Two “cakes” cooling on a baking rack… holes, sunken, clearly not well made.
August 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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It arrived! @ladyofsardines.bsky.social - it is beautiful, stunning, haunting… all the things 🙏🏻💛
An image of the cover of Ursula’s zine: Why I am saying no to “AI” and saying yes to you. Two boxes: you & AI. The box that says you has a green check, the box that says AI has a red x. Next to the zine cover is a postcard that says Losers Attack our Libraries. Fight for Librarians!
August 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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A bit of “intellectual” prep with side of donut 🥰
An indigenous peoples history of the United States for young people and Zinn: a young people‘s history of the United States, sitting on a table next to a blueberry doughnut inside a café, surrounded by plants
July 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I am not a tomato person* but Stephen is. Apparently Japanese Milk Bread is excellent for tomato sandwiches 🤷🏼‍♀️ made some.

*yes, I’ve tried them fresh, local, many varieties, attempt each summer… I’d rather not have the aversion, but I do!
Japanese milk bread cooling on a rack. Can see detailing where the bread was rolled as it proofed.
July 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Hazy skies = particulate matter 💔
Young child in a bathing suit next to her dad, sitting on a rock in a river/swimming hole area. Surrounded by trees with hazy sunny skies above.
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Berry picking with sweet W. Feeling my feet on the ground as we move through these times 💛
Black raspberry bushes to the right, green grass below, red-headed toddler picking berries in the middle.
July 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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A week of bluegrass in a field. Now, back to reality 💛
Musicians playing under an easy-up out in an open field at night
July 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Just… really into this headline.

(may we all continue to find ways to live our best lives & capture moments of joy - fueling the fire & fighting on).
An image with two bears near a white box. Headline reads: 2 bears escape wildlife park enclosure, devour a 7-day supply of honey, then fall asleep.
June 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Stephen & I have spent the last five years camping during the summer solstice.

The last two with sweet W.

After coming “back to reality” I’d very much rather retreat to our tent 💔

I’m so sorry, world.
Toddler with a pink flowered bathing suit, orange sun hat, and tiny tiva’s looking out over the lake with rocks stacked & balancing in the water.
June 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Our heart 💛 No Kings!
Little W helping create a “No Kings” sign
June 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The @zinnedproject.bsky.social somehow knows exactly what to send at the most pivotal moments.

Feeling SO thankful for the gift of this text & all of the remarkable work @zinnedproject.bsky.social continues to do 🙏🏻💛
Cover of the book erasing history, how fascists rewrite the past to control the future by Jason Stanley
May 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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We had a visitor around dinner time. Sweet W was fascinated!

“Bear! Again! Bear! Again!”
Windowsill in the foreground with a black bear in the backyard checking out the lid to the septic system Black bear, walking on the septic and exploring Black bear stretch, stretching on top of the hill with mountains in the background and Forest in the foreground
April 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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NINE STATES are now refusing to sign the public ed order from the federal government.

I’m so so SO done with the ridiculous narrative that Vermont is giving nothing away by signing.

THIS IS WHY we asked for someone with experience & integrity to lead the department 💔
Image of a map with states marked in three different colors: red those who won’t sign (WA, OR, CO, MN, WI, IL, PA, NY, MA), light blue still reviewing & dark blue will sign (including VT).
April 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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The treatment of Rümeysa Öztürk while in Vermont demonstrates (yet again) that the myth of Vermont exceptionalism is truly that… a myth.

www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
Outlines her treatment in Vermont including being denied access to a layer, denied a full meal, denied medicine, bench for a bed
April 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I’m not so sure… latest statement from Saunders seems less clear than NY (unless she’s pushed out yet another one?)
Statement from Saunders explaining individual districts will not be asked to provide certification, but instead VT will send one letter.
April 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The world is on fire AND sweet W started seeds for our sweet pollinators to enjoy. So, yeah. Both/and.
Small child looking over a red bucket of soil on top of a blanket with seed starting containers near by.
April 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Meanwhile: getting ready for total post-nap chaos
Image of a blanket on the ground with seed packets, soil in a bucket, and peat starter cups. Three children’s books visible: Joy Takes Root, The Carrot Seed, and Up in the Garden & Down in the Dirt
April 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Just received this photo (I’m not on FB, was shared by a friend):
Full text of the letter received by Zoie Saunders with her response indicating that schools must respond to her in time to meet the federal requirements
April 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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National History Day was recently notified that our grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities were cancelled. This means a loss of more than 336,000 over this year and next.
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Still thinking about the students at yesterday’s round table. Their ability to hold multiple truths, speak to complexity, and yet be unwavering in their commitment to shared humanity - beautiful.

Those who know @sanders.senate.gov know that he is who he is… it was an earnest discussion.
Image inside the VT statehouse that includes Bernie Sanders speaking to a roundtable of students from across Vermont.
March 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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It appears they are awake… 🐻
Using my hand to size a large track in the snow. Three tracks making a walking gait. Details in the track are difficult to see as the photo was taken at night while there is rain on top of snow.
March 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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An afternoon with @sanders.senate.gov and a group of incredible high school students!
Text reads “2025 Stare if the Union Essay Contest Winning Essays. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders” in the chambers at the VT State House
March 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Getting ready to teach the Louisiana Purchase & this 2017 resource from C-SPAN just hits differently today…

www.c-span.org/classroom/do...
Text reads: Modern Day Purchase- If the United States were to buy a large amount of foreign land like in the Louisiana Purchase today, what would it be and why?
March 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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While national teacher morale went up last year, Vermont went down.

We are so close to the bottom. I’m so worried about education in our brave little state 💔

www.edweek.org/state-of-tea....
Image shows a teacher morale index with orange dots and abbreviations to indicate where each state is located. Vermont is very close to the bottom and if you hover over it, you learn that teacher morale went down by six points at a time when national morale was up by an average of 18.
March 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM