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Barbara Bogosian @barbarab4.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 18

Trump has difficultly pronouncing "Azerbaijan" while taking credit for ending a war between "Azerbaijan and Albania" (he meant Armenia)

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 28

The thing to understand about Chicago is that the people who live here love this fucking city, and we will defend it. Always.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · Aug 27

Now THIS is more like it!

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

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Nope @smileydevil.bsky.social · Aug 5

I wish I knew
IG: @domodraper

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hello! It is the thing everyone who has followed this closely expected

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Aug 12

"The peace deal has not yet been signed by the two rivals ... On Monday, Baku said 'further actions' were required to sign the peace agreement, including amendments to Armenia's constitution."

I'd been waiting to see how they resolved the really thorny sticking points, and it seems they ... didn't.

Azerbaijan, Armenia publish text of US-brokered peace deal

Armenia and Azerbaijan published the text of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Monday, pledging to respect each other's territorial integrity and formally put an end to nearly four decades of conflict.

www.reuters.com

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cafenitz.bsky.social @cafenitz.bsky.social · Aug 11

Benedetta Ristori, abandoned Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope, Orgov, Armenia, built between 1975 and 1985; active between 1986 and 1990.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Aug 8

In the northern Illinois village of Roscoe, Thomas F. Agran was commissioned in 2022 to create a mural honoring the area. He painted a detailed, evocative image of the Pecatonica River watershed.

Now, just three years in, village trustees have voted paint it over because some of them don't like it.

A photo of the side of a brick commercial building painted with an aerial view of a winding river and its many tributaries working its way through farmland, small towns, and industry. At the top of the mural, the landscape fades to a warmly lit sky.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · Aug 6

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin — 200 years ago today

Leaders of all of Wisconsin’s tribes and American territorial governors sign a treaty that paves the way for the US government to — under threat of military force — dispossess almost all tribes of their land within a generation

Painting of a gathering of US officials and tribal leaders with a large American flag raised in the center of the gathering

Painting of a Native American Chief with caption reading “named “KED-O-KUCK” OR THIS WATCHING TOX The present Chief of the Sauk tribe and Successor to Black Hawk.”

Painting of a group of Native American leaders with caption reading “THE PIPE DANCE
and of the Chippeway tribe. THE TOMAHAWK DAYUE”

Painting of a Native American leader with caption reading “Lahmin X Baral Lith o
KAA-NUN-DER-WAAGUINSD-ZDD
or the BERRY PICKER A famous Chippewa Chief Paintedal the Iresty of Pravia du Chun 1825 hyJ O Lewi.”

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · Jul 26

Cities aren’t loud
CARS ARE LOUD

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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · Jul 17

"Sorting the roots of Armenian food must take into account the aftermath of the genocidal killing of more than 1 million Armenians starting in 1915, and the nearly 70 years under the Soviet regime that closely followed and ended in 1991."

Review: Hot cheese breads and meat pies are only the start at L.A.'s best new Armenian restaurant

In Burbank, family-run Tun Lahmajo delves into Armenian homestyle dishes, including flatbreads, cold salads, roasted meats, a range of soups and herbed stews.

www.latimes.com

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Barbara Bogosian @barbarab4.bsky.social · Jul 15

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

www.nytimes.com

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The Southwest Collective @swcollectivechi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you to everyone who has planted a tree via 311. It’s so important to get new baby trees rooted in our community to cool our streets and offset air pollution brought on by the heavy truck traffic we have.

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Barbara Bogosian @barbarab4.bsky.social · Jul 11

Back of tee shirt reading Lee Elia’s 15%

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Barbara Bogosian @barbarab4.bsky.social · Jul 9

Spotted yesterday in Chicago

Sticker on light pole in Chicago with words: MAKE PRIDE A RIOT AGAIN with photo of Stonewall rioter Marsha Johnson

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Anna Maria Sibylla Merian @annamerian.bsky.social · Jul 8

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLVIII https://www.wikiart.org/en/maria-sibylla-merian/from-metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium-plate-xlviii-1705

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Jun 29

Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. It’s a denial that enables genocides like that in Gaza to take place today.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/deny...

#Palestine #Israel

Denying the genocides of the past enables those who carry out the genocides of today

Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. It’s a denial that enables...

mondoweiss.net

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · Jul 2

Digitization & cataloging is complete for a subset of nearly 400 manuscripts at the Convent of Our Lady of Bzummār in Lebanon.

A significant portion of the collection includes rare volumes of homilies and biblical commentaries by renowned #Armenian vardapets. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Miniature of King David and decorative headpiece in an Armenian Saghmosaran (psalter) dating to 1651. (BzBz 00015)

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is a concentration camp

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Jul 1

Alligator Alcatraz from within

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Barbara Bogosian @barbarab4.bsky.social · Jun 28

My nephew spotted this in Massachusetts.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Monument to the Armenian Genocide in Alfortville,where there is a large and long established Armenian community.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 20

Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Jun 16

Naming Rahm Emanuel as an example of successful city policy re education stems wholly from his willingness to fight unions and close schools.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Jun 16

Reactionary liberalism might be more vacuous and delusional than MAGA

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Bill de Blasio, whose eight-year tenure as New York’s mayor began in 2014, came from this wing of the Democratic Party. And he had some successes, including his expansion of preschool and his curtailment of widespread stop-and-frisk policing. Overall, though, [Highlighting begins] he bears significant responsibility for the city’s problems. [Highlighting ends] He did not take disorder seriously enough, and he set back the city’s K-12 school system. His main legacy is to have contributed to the city’s recent decline.

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At his best, Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor from 2002 to 2013, used this approach. Houston’s two mayors from 2010 through 2023, Annise Parker and Sylvester Turner, used it to reduce homelessness sharply. In Chicago, [Highlighting begins] Rahm Emanuel [Highlighting ends] oversaw educational progress in the 2010s that was the mirror image of New York’s regression. The current first-term mayors of Denver, Mike Johnston, and San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, have adopted similar pragmatism. It is possible to govern both liberally and successfully.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 14

this is sending me.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Jun 14

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Jun 14

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Get up, get down! Chicago is an immigrant town!”

A masked person holds a skateboard over their head. The words “solidarity forever” are written on the skateboard.

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