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Aram Sarkisian
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Historian of U.S. working-class immigrant religion. Book on Russian Orthodox Christians in 19/20c. U.S. from NYU Press in 2025. He/Him. 🏆 Go Blue.
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Yeah, that’s the Denver airport
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥

Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
[Pastes in both seasons of Detroiters, which is a documentary]
Please share YouTube links to the most regionally specific representations of where and when you grew up. Like… local sandwich shop commercials. Footage of amateur theater productions. Hyper regional news stories. I wanna see it all.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
George Carlin, our lovable Mr. Conductor.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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A reminder that we’ve never heard the Monster Mash. Only a song about the Monster Mash.
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Downstate folks upset about the share of funding that’d go to NE Illinois in the latest iteration of the transit bill, consider this: about 845,000 people rode CTA on an average day in 2024. That’s more than the population of every county in the state except Cook and DuPage.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The best taster was this guy, an academic whose comments were either a) ”With this dish, you have made food, which I have eaten,” or b) “I have tasted the essence of the ancients and you have revealed a narrative continuity worthy of praise, this is very good.”
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I do believe it’s Michigan hockey season.
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Anyway, support quality senior citizen musicians
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Jury Garcia Band
Ruin a band with law

FOIA Fighters
September 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Dan Campbell is a bad bad bad bad man
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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How your email finds me
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Longshot, I know, but if anyone in Chicago has leads on a good job for a seasoned higher education professional with experience in non-profit administration, I could really use the connection. Also definitely open to remote work.
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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And not to be dramatic, but it’s never a bad thing to have a non-abstract sense of the murderous lengths American corporate and governmental power structures will go to in order protect themselves. None of this is ancient history.
September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Billy Sherrone
🤝
Making inexplicably
dumb coaching decisions
September 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I think I’d be fine if Michigan came out for the second and kneeled it out until the final whistle. Would certainly fit their level of interest in winning this game.
September 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The Wrong Child, or maybe Sitting Still?
Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?
September 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Once again calling for the MLBPA to designate this day as Curt Flood Day. And a shout-out to all unions, including my local CUPE. Workers unite.
September 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM