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
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...
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
A sign posted in Massachusetts campgrounds, as the season comes to a close in the land of expensive housing.
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A sign posted in Massachusetts campgrounds, as the season comes to a close in the land of expensive housing.
That reminds me of the first season of the TV show Alone. 10 "hardcore survivalists" get dropped off in the woods, and all the cops and gun nuts immediately chickened out.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
That reminds me of the first season of the TV show Alone. 10 "hardcore survivalists" get dropped off in the woods, and all the cops and gun nuts immediately chickened out.
I think the 57% comes from a poll that asked Bostonians if they had ever met Tom Menino. My rough math says he would have needed to shake 45-ish new hands every day... Which seems doable for him!
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I think the 57% comes from a poll that asked Bostonians if they had ever met Tom Menino. My rough math says he would have needed to shake 45-ish new hands every day... Which seems doable for him!
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In 1777, American troops went hungry at Valley Forge because of the Redcoats. In 2025, American troops are going hungry because of their own President.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
In 1777, American troops went hungry at Valley Forge because of the Redcoats. In 2025, American troops are going hungry because of their own President.
Just the funniest juxtaposition in my feed.
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Just the funniest juxtaposition in my feed.
