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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 15h

The Southern Rock Opera Seminar

“Athens, GA: Inside Out” was a sensation in its time.

Here’s information from UGA about the current project to preserve and remaster it.

give.uga.edu/funders/insi...

Restore and Relive an Athens Treasure

Celebrate 40 years of Athens, GA: Inside/Out — give today to help preserve the original film for future generations.

give.uga.edu

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 15h

Nibbling candy corn with swigs of Diet Coke is how I achieve communion with Miss Piggy.

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 16h

America at 250: A History

Lecture 7: “What Kind of Nation? Democracy, Hamilton, Jefferson, and More” with Professor Joanne Freeman

The relevance of revisiting The Whiskey Rebellion will shock you

RIYL “Hamilton”

youtu.be/jMJLuErzYtg

DeVane Lecture, Class 7 – What Kind of Nation? Democracy, Hamilton, Jefferson, and More

YouTube video by YaleCourses

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 2d

See also

“Weekend Update: Dobby The House Elf on JK Rowling”

youtu.be/y2JJ2bjnUcI

Weekend Update: Dobby The House Elf on J.K. Rowling - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 3d

Title float

The Gender Amnesty Be-in Evidence, Literature, and Media Revue

for Chattanooga Fall Pride 2025

Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies
at College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club

Fall 2025

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 3d

VBS Inherit The Wind Sunday School for 5 October 2025

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Chattanooga Fall Pride 2025

The Wrestling

Your Favorite President humiliating War Sec Hegseth!

What was missing from Jost’s satirical reenactment was the homosocial Jesus angle.

youtu.be/vZb1WO1_lGI

Pete Hegseth Cold Open - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 4d

Gender Amnesty Love-in presents

Gender Unicorn Be-in

for Chattanooga Fall Pride

Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies
Fall 2025

Participants are responsible for embellishment and conduct of their personal gender unicorn flotation devices. Mind the horn.

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 5d

III
Ryrie, Alec. (2025 Sept 30). “Hitler, Jesus, and How to Win a Culture War.”Gresham College, London, UK. www.youtube.com/live/XPyP6Ax...

LAGNIAPPE

“Joyocaust,” Transparent Musicale Finale original cast [Music video]

youtu.be/S3ALx-g2PUg

MIDNITE

Lenny (1974)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0071...

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 5d

Cinémathèque

3-9 October 2025

Operation Disaster is Our Muse

NOW SHOWING

I
Marathon Man (1976)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...

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Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024)

Currently streaming in full via the PBS YouTube channel

youtu.be/ZkwyZ73_-3k

See also to.pbs.org/42JtSqU

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 5d

America at 250: A History

Lecture 5

“Framing A Nation: The Constitution”

youtu.be/bRZqFKFyvDU

Lecture 6

“Republican Precedents and Presidents: Placements of Power”

youtu.be/zufr9Cfw1KE

DeVane Lecture, Class 5 - Framing a Nation: The Constitution

YouTube video by YaleCourses

youtu.be

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 5d

Katrina Warriors Reunion

3 October

By this time 20 years ago, the flooding from Hurricane Rita was mostly pumped out.

Debris recovery was getting going.

Lost refrigerators, tombstone graffiti expressions of loss, appeared across the city.

Anderson Cooper found himself badly shaken.

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 5d

Poptart Show

3 October 2025

Bruiser pride. Here’s to the girls of 1981-1985.

Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee

Go Blue

open.spotify.com/playlist/6dI...

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 7d

Scandal (Season XIV)

VBS Inherit The Wind

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

variety.com

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 7d

Operation Disaster is Our Muse

VBS Inherit The Wind

“Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War”

30 September 2025 at Gresham College, London UK

See also

Ryrie, Alec. (2025). The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-age...

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www.youtube.com/live/XPyP6Ax...

The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It | Reaktion Books

We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. In this book historian Alec Ryrie explores why society remains captivated by th...

reaktionbooks.co.uk

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 7d

Women’s Studies

Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

Paulina Borsook reporting

on the road to
Succession (Season VI)

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 7d

United States Sestercentennial

America at 250: A History

The faculty-led small group podcast

youtu.be/57eeAzFr_Eo

America at 250 Podcast Episode 2 - The Federalists, Early Republic, and the Real Hamilton

YouTube video by YaleCourses

youtu.be

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 9d

The Southern Rock Opera Seminar

Led Zeppelin 1977 — The Day It All Fell Apart (New Orleans Superdome)

Notable in its interpretation of the Dome as fresh meat for greedhead arena rock promoters of its era, as well as its introduction as a venue featuring local artists

youtu.be/JL5aKaMUiX8?...

Led Zeppelin 1977 – The Day It All Fell Apart (New Orleans Superdome)

YouTube video by JCM - Led Zeppelin Stories and more

youtu.be

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 9d

American Sestercentennial

Succession (Season VI)

Girding for The Battle of Graceland

Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 9d

The National Guard in Memphis: As troops deploy to Memphis for the first time in almost 50 years, @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports on protests in Memphis and Nashville and on preparations residents are making to ensure the protection of their civil rights.

As feds descend on Memphis, local advocates prepare to respond • Tennessee Lookout

Members "Free the 901," a group organized to push back on federal and state deployment of the National Guard to Memphis, protested Saturday.

tennesseelookout.com

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 10d

Now Showing

I
Hot Shots 1 & Deux (1991, 1993)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0102...
&
www.imdb.com/title/tt0107...

II
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0099...

III
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
www.imdb.com/title/tt7131...

Midnite

Wanda Nevada (1979)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0080...

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 10d

Cinémathèque

28-30 September 2025

College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club

This program is rated R

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 10d

Poptart Show

Friday 26 September 2025

American Sestercentennial

for Joint Study Group America at 250: A History | The Fall 2025 DeVane Lectures at Yale University | Lectures playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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open.spotify.com/playlist/15z...

Poptart Show | Fri 26 September 2025

open.spotify.com

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 10d

American Sestercentennial

Succession (Season VI)

The Wrestling vs The Rule of Law

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey

www.nytimes.com

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 11d

Succession (Season VI)

VBS Inherit The Wind

Jello Biafra on The Charlie Kirk Show

youtu.be/P0ijX-3grx8

Jello Biafra: Charlie Kirk & The Damage Done (WWJD? Part 122 & Renegade Roundtable s3ep4)

YouTube video by Alternative Tentacles

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Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 11d

Succession (Season VI)

VBS Inherit The Wind

@thebulwark.com Charlie Kirk Memorial Focus Group Podcast

Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 11d

This week’s Focus Group Podcast: @willsommer.bsky.social and I discuss Charlie Kirk’s legacy and the future of media on the right — and hear from Gen Z conservatives on all of it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Right's 'Turning Point'? (with Will Sommer)

Podcast Episode · The Focus Group Podcast · 09/27/2025 · 50m

podcasts.apple.com

Crystal Kile @crystalkile.bsky.social · 13d

American Sestercentennial

Joint America at 250 study group

Secure your weapons

Public mental health campaign from the US Department of Defense [deceased] and the Department US Vetetan Affairs (2025)

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youtu.be/r3qIgK9T25M

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youtu.be/3Q96UVZYNZk

:15
youtu.be/AoLeShWg2yU

Keep It Secure – Face Your Dragon (:60)

YouTube video by U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs

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