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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 2d

Ooh, I almost missed this anniversary... Learn more about the ill-advised Massachusetts invasion of Quebec in this classic podcast: www.hubhistory.com/episodes/no-...

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 3d

Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, for I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 3d

I've got some uncles who didn't have bone spurs who would take issue with the idea that we just took it easy and stopped fighting to win.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 3d

I spatchcocked a chicken and roasted it with a rough approximation of Lydia Maria Child's Medford cracker stuffing. Everything came out better than expected!

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 3d

250 years ago today, a letter from George Washington revealed a devastating secret: there was a British spy at the highest level of patriot leadership. Listen now to learn how the treachery of Boston physician Benjamin Church was uncovered.

www.hubhistory.com/episodes/ame...

America’s First Traitor (episode 337) - HUB History: Boston history podcast

250 years ago today, a letter from George Washington revealed a devastating secret: there was a British spy at the highest level of patriot leadership. The traitor was none other than Dr. Benjamin Ch...

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 3d

If everybody's doing it...

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3d

Oct. 5, 1775: The Continental Congress sends Washington intelligence of two British ships heading for Quebec with military stores and directs him to outfit Massachusetts warships to intercept them. The instructions for the general contain the first mention of American "marines." 1/2

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J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social · 4d

This is all Isaac Smith, Jr.’s fault.

250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 5d

Oct. 4, 1775: The Massachusetts House of Representatives orders the overseers of Harvard College "to inquire into the principles" of its staff and "dismiss those who, by their past or present conduct, appear to be unfriendly to the liberties and privileges of the Colonies."

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4d

I'm not sure about that one. I always get a free copy from my YMCA.

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4d

Even if you don't usually read print media, find yourself a copy of the @baystatebanner.bsky.social 60th anniversary retrospective issue!

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 5d

Liz Covart hosts one of the first and most popular academic history podcasts (Ben Franklin's World) and presented at the first History Camp. You can bet I'll tune in for this talk on early attempts to unify the American colonies, long before 1776.

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-...

The First Drafts of the United States: Early Experiments in American Union

Join us on Zoom for a conversation about the forgotten stories of America's "rough drafts": a series of failed experiments with unity.

www.eventbrite.com

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 6d

It breaks my heart when I think about how long John and Abigail had to be separated in the cause of American liberty.

(Yes, I'm watching HBO's John Adams again.)

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 6d

They kicked down 150 doors in the middle of the night, handcuffed hundreds of residents (many children, some naked) in the street, and trashed every apartment. Some residents say their valuables and identiy documents were stolen while they were in custody, likely by ICE.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 8d

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve been giving walking tours in Boston for 19 years (and hanging around near Faneuil Hall, the Blackstone Block, and Haymarket for a lot longer than that). And yesterday was the 1st time I noticed this 100-year-old plaque at 16 North St. about the unsung hero of 1775, William Dawes. #midnightride

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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 6d

The Parker House in #Boston opened 170 years ago this month, Monday, October 8, 1855. Here are a few rare items of Parker House memorabilia in our collection. We share these during our private tours. They include the oldest surviving piece of correspondence from the hotel dated December 30, 1855.

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 6d

Um, anybody bother reading Article I?

It's absolutely maddening to live in a world where the party of "We the people" forearm tattoos doesn't give a flying fuck about the US Constitution.

CivicTracker @civictracker.us · 6d

Trump meets with Russ Vought to discuss potential cuts to "Democrat Agencies," describing them as a "political SCAM," and considers if cuts will be temporary or permanent.

Donald J. Trump via Truth Social: I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 6d

Jessica Mitford was just featured on the @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social podcast. eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/the...

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 6d

So during a government shutdown, ICE has the resources to break down every door in an apartment building and handcuff naked US citizen children and drag them screaming away from their mothers into the street at 3am, but nobody can visit the USS Constitution because the US Navy isn't getting paid?

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 6d

"What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?"

wake up babe @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

It is of course helpful to remember that in the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. Antifa might not be organized, but the Department of Homeland Security sure is. George Soros might not be paying professional protesters, but right-wing media personalities are bankrolled by Trumpist billionaires. In the case of Ben Shapiro, that’s billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks; for Rumble, thank Peter Thiel. This is to say nothing of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, or Elon Musk’s X, or the Daily Caller itself, which is funded by Charles Koch.

Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum:

This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society.

What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse.

What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?

a verge feature story with the headline / subheadline of "Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America /
Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started."

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 7d

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 6d

Add the concept of impartial justice to the long list of American values shredded by this anti-american regime. Somebody send a sculptor out to start chiseling the blindfold off of Lady Justice at every American courthouse.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tur...

More turmoil at Virginia US attorney's office following Comey indictment: 2 top prosecutors fired, sources say

Two top attorneys in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired from their jobs in recent days, sources told ABC.

abcnews.go.com

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 7d

More on Fannie Farmer and her famous cookbook in this classic podcast. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/fan...

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 7d

I'm not a military guy, but we should ask some Ukrainian NCOs if it matters how many pushups your generals can do when an FPV drone flies directly into your bunker and blows you up while you're sleeping.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 7d

Most of the sites along the Freedom Trail are partners of the National Park Service and will continue to remain open during the shutdown. The Museum of African American History should also remain open. Why not give them a visit?

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The Paul Revere House @paulreverehouse.bsky.social · 7d

Please note, as an independent, private nonprofit, the Paul Revere House is and will remain open during the Federal government shutdown. Most of our fellow @TheFreedomTrail sites and partners are also open as usual.

#WalksOnWednesday

A gray clapboarded 17th century two story house with a an ell viewed across a brick courtyard filled with a pear tree and raised garden beds.

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