Crystal Kile
banner
crystalkile.bsky.social
Crystal Kile
@crystalkile.bsky.social
Founder & Librarian | College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club | Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America

See also @alieninformationtheorybookclub Instagram & Substack
America at 250: The Battle for Chattanooga at 162

Final skirmishes and mopping-up operations around Chattanooga and Cleveland, TN occurred during the first modern American Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is a Civil War Holiday.

From 2016 in The Chattanoogan

www.chattanoogan.com/2016/11/22/3...
First Thanksgiving in Chattanooga (Civil War)
www.chattanoogan.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I topped the hill down into Frog Level last Saturday morning early and encountered what had to have been at least 25 wild turkeys hanging out on the road before me. I scattered them gently with the nose of my vehicle, and by gobbling at them. I then proceeded to Food City without incident.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thanksgiving Parade 2025

Theme and title float

Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down

Boynton, Sandra. (1986). Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down. Rev. ed. of: The Compleat Turkey, c 1980. New York: Workman Publishing Company.

See also “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum,” cornbread dressing
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
America at 250: The Battle for Chattanooga at 162

While field tripping at Bragg Reservation (Chickamauga-Chattanooga NPS), Joint Study Group America at 250 re-enacts the Union infantry rout of Confederate HQ, an event of the afternoon of 25 November 1863.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
America at 250: News of The Terminal Cancer Diagnosis of Tatiana Schlossberg Moran upon the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of her grandfather, JFK, 35th POTUS, as her cousin RFK Jr runs roughshod over American medicine & research as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
America at 250: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
America at 250: #Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1863

22-25 November 2025 is the 162nd anniversary of The Battle for Chattanooga

“The Battle for Chattanooga in 4 Minutes”

via The American Battlefield Trust YouTube channel

youtu.be/YpeqJictmNQ
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
America at 250

Succession (Season VI)
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”

TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”

ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
America at 250

America Held Hostage Day 306

I just walked back in from resupplying the bird feeder to Heather Cox Richardson briefing us on why invoking the 25th Amendment is not the way now because stacked cabinet.

Pro-democracy action item: Pressure Congress.

From 11/20

youtu.be/Y-zshC7jkA0
This Week in Politics | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

Succession (Season VI)

See also “Boar on the Floor”
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
America at 250: A History

Class 19: Money, Power, and Progressivism

Beverly Gage is John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, Yale University

youtu.be/aPo25QyOhMI
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
America at 250: A History

Accelerating through the 20th Century

The modern immigrant memoir is a great American genre
Here on Yung's birthday, I wanted to share perhaps my favorite story from his amazing life, as he depicts it in his autobiography My Life in China & America (1909):

www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5...
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

V is for “vulnerability”
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
America at 250: Women’s Studies

The Cowgirl
First, let's back up.

Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
America at 250

Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

GA-14
Seriously, it must be nice to have someone you care for stick up for you when you stand up to Trump
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cinémathèque

14-21 November 2025

“Nobody’s Girl”

This program is rated R for sex, sexuality, and gender studies appropriate for mature adolescents
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

Succession (Season VI)
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Poptart Show

Friday 14 November 2025

Biodegradable glitter preferred

open.spotify.com/playlist/3kT...
Poptart Show | Friday 14 November 2025
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
America at 250: A History

Professor Beverly Gage has the stick.

She opened with a Schoolhouse Rock riff

youtu.be/IQ28jC6zG9k
Schoolhouse Rock - The Great American Melting Pot
YouTube video by AreaEightyNine
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Katrina Warriors Reunion

How it’s going in Jamaica
"We are sleeping in fear."

Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa wrecked western Jamaica, officials are grappling with the challenge of trying to find housing for thousands of families.
Hurricane Melissa Leaves Behind a Staggering Homelessness Toll in Jamaica
Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa wrecked western Jamaica, officials are beginning to grapple with the challenge of trying to find housing for thousands of families.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
America at 250: A History

Professor David Blight hands it off to Professor Beverly Gage

Class 17: “A Violent Reunion: The Lost Cause, New South and the Origins of Jim Crow”

youtu.be/-gZNn4qesIU

Lagniappe

Neil Diamond (1980), “America” [official music video]
youtu.be/hc-v8CFJzu4
The DeVane Lectures, America at 250: A History. Class 17 “A Violent Reunion”
YouTube video by YaleCourses
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Women’s Studies

Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

Succession (Season VI)

and

Scandal (Season XIV)

Very special crossover episodes

America at 250: The Ghosts of Jeffrey Epstein

“Justice for Jennas”

“Last exit, Miss Maxwell”
Is this bad? I mean, offhand, I'd say it kind of seems bad.

{gift link}

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Chapel

Veterans Day 2025

College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sex, Sexuality, and The Gender Troubles Studies

Let us gather around this week’s episode of Informed Dissent

for

“Descent Into Denial”

via Substack
open.substack.com/pub/informed...

via YouTube
youtu.be/J4lakD1N15M
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
America At 250: A History

Reconstruction

Is it over?

with Professor David Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University

Class 14
youtu.be/k3ejQ28hGFI

Catch up to Class 16

Art: “Reunite America” by Michael Braley, Braley Design, c 2024-25
www.commarts.com/project/3813...
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM