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Jake @ HUBhistory

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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

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 8d

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.

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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 · 3h

Also BPL digital collections

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4h

Both Digital Commonwealth and @bplmaps.bsky.social are experiencing downtime with their online collections, and it's making my skin crawl.

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Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re ever booking a flight to Boston, make sure you’re going to the right one! Wouldn’t wanna accidentally end up in Australia 🫠

#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 1d

I went to Dunks for the first time in a while and tried ordering a medium latte with an extra espresso shot.

They gave me a cup of steamed milk with no trace of coffee in it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 5d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4d

Wifi didn't exist yet when I grew up in the middle of nowhere Appalachia, taking the bus an hour and 45 minutes each way to school, but I can dream of what it would be like to have connected school buses. And they want to rip that away. Probably helped the kids get their homework done!

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4d

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Fuckin clown take

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4d

I thought maybe I had missed something, but there's nothing in here about show trials of political opponents, military occupations of cities that voted for the wrong guy, secret police snatching people off the street with no cause or warrant and sending them to overseas gulags with no trial...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4d

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 4d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 4d

It is impossible for me to watch the second episode (from Lexington to Independence) of John Adams with a dry eye in the climate of 2025.

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 7d

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-...

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 8d

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.

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 9d

If everybody's doing it...

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 10d

This is all Isaac Smith, Jr.’s fault.

250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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...