Jake @ HUBhistory
@hubhistory.com
Host of HUB History, a Boston history podcast that goes far beyond the Freedom Trail. Freelance podcast producer. Recovering marathoner and current YMCA swimmer. Dog lover.
🔗 https://HUBhistory.com/
📍 Boston, MA
🎧 HUB History
🔗 https://HUBhistory.com/
📍 Boston, MA
🎧 HUB History
It's not a pyramid, it's a reverse funnel system!
January 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
It's not a pyramid, it's a reverse funnel system!
World's biggest participation trophy
January 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
World's biggest participation trophy
I just cried at a restaurant table imagining a future where the US goes to war with France, our first and oldest friend. Without France, we would not be free.
When the US entered WWI, the American general staff marched to Lafayette's grave and announced "Lafayette, we are here."
How is this real?
When the US entered WWI, the American general staff marched to Lafayette's grave and announced "Lafayette, we are here."
How is this real?
January 15, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I just cried at a restaurant table imagining a future where the US goes to war with France, our first and oldest friend. Without France, we would not be free.
When the US entered WWI, the American general staff marched to Lafayette's grave and announced "Lafayette, we are here."
How is this real?
When the US entered WWI, the American general staff marched to Lafayette's grave and announced "Lafayette, we are here."
How is this real?
Ongoing fascist coup aside, I took one of my best ever bird pics through sheer dumb luck today.
January 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Ongoing fascist coup aside, I took one of my best ever bird pics through sheer dumb luck today.
"Are not protection and allegiance reciprocal? And if we are out of the King's protection, are we not discharged from our allegiance? Are not all the ligaments of government dissolved?"
John Adams, Dec 21, 1765
www.masshist.org/digitaladams...
John Adams, Dec 21, 1765
www.masshist.org/digitaladams...
January 9, 2026 at 2:13 PM
"Are not protection and allegiance reciprocal? And if we are out of the King's protection, are we not discharged from our allegiance? Are not all the ligaments of government dissolved?"
John Adams, Dec 21, 1765
www.masshist.org/digitaladams...
John Adams, Dec 21, 1765
www.masshist.org/digitaladams...
Throwing snowballs at armed federal agents sent to enforce unjust laws... Where does that sound familiar from?
January 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Throwing snowballs at armed federal agents sent to enforce unjust laws... Where does that sound familiar from?
"The governor" in this case, of course, refers to that notable Marxist radical John Winthrop.
January 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
"The governor" in this case, of course, refers to that notable Marxist radical John Winthrop.
Typical Boston Globe BS, framing real estate developers as the only legitimate constituency in Boston and completely ignoring the people who live and vote here. Why do I still pay for this garbage paper?
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Typical Boston Globe BS, framing real estate developers as the only legitimate constituency in Boston and completely ignoring the people who live and vote here. Why do I still pay for this garbage paper?
Ebenezer Scrooge did nothing wrong.
December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Ebenezer Scrooge did nothing wrong.
The algorithm knows I like cars, so now my news feed is full of this slop.
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The algorithm knows I like cars, so now my news feed is full of this slop.
If Trump and the DoD follow through on this threat to court martial a US Senator/war hero/astronaut/devoted husband for reminding US troops that they swore an oath to the Constitution and not to any one man, the reaction of the uniformed military will be a useful measure of how screwed we all are.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If Trump and the DoD follow through on this threat to court martial a US Senator/war hero/astronaut/devoted husband for reminding US troops that they swore an oath to the Constitution and not to any one man, the reaction of the uniformed military will be a useful measure of how screwed we all are.
We're seriously getting a lecture in appropriate dress from Secretary Real World?
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We're seriously getting a lecture in appropriate dress from Secretary Real World?
The amount of 100+ year old infrastructure that's still going strong in this city is mind boggling.
www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo...
www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo...
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The amount of 100+ year old infrastructure that's still going strong in this city is mind boggling.
www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo...
www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo...
Just the stupidest goddamn headline imaginable. Snow on a 14,000 foot peak halfway around the world does not have "Boston bracing itself."
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Just the stupidest goddamn headline imaginable. Snow on a 14,000 foot peak halfway around the world does not have "Boston bracing itself."
"I should be glad, if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
Bostonian Edward Everett to Lincoln after they both spoke at Gettysburg #OnThisDay in 1863.
Everett's letterbook copy via @mhs1791.bsky.social
Bostonian Edward Everett to Lincoln after they both spoke at Gettysburg #OnThisDay in 1863.
Everett's letterbook copy via @mhs1791.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"I should be glad, if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
Bostonian Edward Everett to Lincoln after they both spoke at Gettysburg #OnThisDay in 1863.
Everett's letterbook copy via @mhs1791.bsky.social
Bostonian Edward Everett to Lincoln after they both spoke at Gettysburg #OnThisDay in 1863.
Everett's letterbook copy via @mhs1791.bsky.social
If Roku would come up with a way to create a cross-service streaming playlist, it would really help with my Thanksgiving media binge.
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If Roku would come up with a way to create a cross-service streaming playlist, it would really help with my Thanksgiving media binge.
Republican DOJ official **on camera** "They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files... [Trump's] name won't be in it."
www.newsweek.com/doj-official...
www.newsweek.com/doj-official...
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Republican DOJ official **on camera** "They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files... [Trump's] name won't be in it."
www.newsweek.com/doj-official...
www.newsweek.com/doj-official...
