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Andrew Kranzman

@askranzman.bsky.social

Educator, voracious reader, lover of fine teas. Student of Khmer. ខ្ញុំចូលចិត្តរៀនភាសាខ្មែរ និងវប្បធម៌។

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Maybe health savings account? That seems to be the conservative default position for several years.

08.11.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Will you attend through Zoom, bong? I'm looking forward to this event.

01.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tragic and disgusting, moreso because it looks to have been published by Vance.

19.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reminds me of the old adage from the Insane Clown Posse: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

16.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of Khmer numerals 1-10.

Picture of Khmer numerals 1-10.

Slowly learning everyday.

17.09.2025 01:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙏🏻

27.08.2025 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"In one of my good moments, I turned it down." ?? Is he admitting awareness of what happened on the "island" while friends with Epstein?

28.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice try redirecting the conversation from Epstein, buddies. I'm not sure it's going to stick.

20.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meeting With Pol Pot Explores How Ideology Can Curdle Into Evil As a boy in the 1970s, director Rithy Panh lost his family to the Cambodian genocide. In ‘Meeting With Pol Pot,’ he follows three western journalists attempting to interview the leader of the Khmer Rouge at the height of his murderous reign.

As a boy in the 1970s, director Rithy Panh lost his family to the Cambodian genocide. In ‘Meeting With Pol Pot,’ he follows three western journalists attempting to interview the leader of the Khmer Rouge at the height of his murderous reign.

13.06.2025 13:10 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

It's performative. She's planting a lie in hopes it becomes "truth." Propaganda 101.

21.05.2025 03:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bowl of rice porridge with cilantro, green onions, fermented soybeans, and chili paste.

Bowl of rice porridge with cilantro, green onions, fermented soybeans, and chili paste.

Ba'baw for breakfast (rice porridge or បបរ). Served with lime, cilantro, green onions, fermented soybeans, chili paste, and chicken.

12.05.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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​Please explain before you die​ ​Please explain before you die​

25 years ago this week, a former Phnom Penh Post reporter posted an open letter to the surviving leadership of the Khmer Rouge.
phnompenhpost.com/national/ple...

19.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a white robe and hat is standing in a room in a restaurant . Alt: Da pope cooly slides into the restaurant and is met with fanfare.
17.04.2025 03:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Will da pope make an appearance?

17.04.2025 03:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

សួស្តីឆ្នាំថ្មី។ Happy New Year to all my Thai, Khmer, and Laotian brothers and sisters. May this be a year filled with blessings, love, and positive change.

14.04.2025 01:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bonn Phum Festival Breathes New Life into Endangered Lkhon Khol Tradition Wat Svay Andet hosted the Bon Phoum festival, a pre-Khmer New Year celebration centered on a performance of the nearly extinct Angkor-era theatre, Lkhon Khol. Young performers, taught by Khmer Rouge survivors, presented the art form to an enthusiastic audience, raising hopes for its continued pre...

Wat Svay Andet hosted the Bon Phoum festival, a pre-Khmer New Year celebration centered on a performance of the nearly extinct Angkor-era theatre, Lkhon Khol. Young performers, taught by Khmer Rouge survivors, presented the art form to an enthusiastic audience, raising hopes for its continued pre...

12.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Bring Evelyn’s Dada Home!, organized by Roberta Davis Dear Family, Friends, and Kind-Hearted Strangers, With heavy hearts, we are reaching out t… Roberta Davis needs your support for Bring Evelyn’s Dada Home!

Help bring Khanhi’s husband home from detention. Every donation makes a real difference for their little girl, Evelyn, and the entire family during this difficult time. If you can, please click the link below to donate or share this message with others. Thank you!
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04.04.2025 02:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of salad with Thai basil, mint, neem, fish mint, Thai pepper, pork belly, and glass noodles.

Picture of salad with Thai basil, mint, neem, fish mint, Thai pepper, pork belly, and glass noodles.

Nhom sadao salad for dinner (neem with herbs and pork). Very bitter, but chhnang nas.

31.03.2025 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it's បាញ់ឆែវ in Khmer.

23.03.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Banh xeo for lunch (rice flour crepe with pork, shrimp, and herbs). I like it with Thai basil, mint, and culantro (sawtooth coriander).

23.03.2025 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reading Khmer literature in translation from the insightful anthology, Out of the Shadows of Angkor (U of Hawaii P, 2022).

The last stanza is powerful.

20.03.2025 02:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of "A Small Request," a poem by Khun Srun, a Khmer poet from the last part of the twentieth century.

Photo of "A Small Request," a poem by Khun Srun, a Khmer poet from the last part of the twentieth century.

Second part of "A Small Request," a poem by Khun Srun, a Khmer poet from the last part of the twentieth century.

Second part of "A Small Request," a poem by Khun Srun, a Khmer poet from the last part of the twentieth century.

20.03.2025 02:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Loved it at 13, and still love it at 47.

17.03.2025 22:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Different Seasons. One of his best works (three of the four novellas are adapted): "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," "The Body," and "The Apt Pupil." @stephenking.bsky.social

17.03.2025 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Chris Beckett's Dark Eden (the trilogy or just this title). Tolkien's The Hobbit.

04.03.2025 20:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9r...

01.02.2025 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First time making mee katang (ឆាមីកាតាំង) or wide rice noodles in gravy with veggies and eggs.

01.02.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

/The Concept of the Political/ and /Political Theology/ are two of his most famous works. The first is easier to follow than the latter in my opinion. I read both in my doctoral coursework years ago.

01.02.2025 02:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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