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Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Smooth operator.
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
“Coast to coast, LA to Chicaaaaaago…”
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
When you’re sitting in a jazz bar in NOLA and it occurs to you to wonder who wrote “Tea For Two” and it turns out it was a superstar composer of the 1920s who was also an incredibly prolific alcoholic and horndog who died of tuberculosis before he turned fifty and whose photo is utter perfection.
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This historical plaque on the edge of the French Quarter is a JOURNEY.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"I do actually think she's kind of pretty in a way, but I can just tell she's absolutely miserable to live with."
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
November 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
At my polling place seven minutes before polls close.

I believe that there’s an aphorism that provides advice in this situation, if only I could remember what it was.
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Here's to Diane Arbus's halloween photos—spooky, warm, intimate, tender.
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
74. This photo from that thread of my daughter Elvis, then aged four, singing at Sun Studios, at a mic that someone else with a similar name may have once sung at.
October 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
68. The pencil lead sculptures of Dalton Ghetti.
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
66. This photo of Humphrey Bogart.
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Once more for old times’ sake, before he’s gone forever.
October 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I would also accept...
October 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke.”
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
52. This poster, which I bought when I was in junior high school, and which I recently put up on a wall again after multiple decades.
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ed and Amy think that’s a crap joke.
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Correct (and unfortunately way too obscure to do numbers) answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My sign.
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Out here wearing my most patriotic shirt.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This guy was a friend of my uncle's from college. He took me to the Kingdome to watch batting practice when I was ten.

It's been a long ride.
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM