Bob Hutton
@herecomesdrbob.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, and Divisive Concepts
Author of BLOODY BREATHITT from @KENTUCKYPRESS
I like to steal, gamble, and rob.
Author of BLOODY BREATHITT from @KENTUCKYPRESS
I like to steal, gamble, and rob.
Nicely-done press release about a great history department, written by my friend O.J. Early.
news.etsu.edu/articles/ets...
news.etsu.edu/articles/ets...
ETSU scholars re-center Appalachia in U.S. history - ETSU News
ETSU historians are reshaping how Appalachia is understood, from the Civil War to industrialization, through award-winning, nationally recognized scholarship.
news.etsu.edu
January 22, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Nicely-done press release about a great history department, written by my friend O.J. Early.
news.etsu.edu/articles/ets...
news.etsu.edu/articles/ets...
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There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
January 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM
There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
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Indiana 771 feet above sea level
Miami -30 feet below sea level
(Statistics accurate as of March 21 2031)
Miami -30 feet below sea level
(Statistics accurate as of March 21 2031)
January 20, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Indiana 771 feet above sea level
Miami -30 feet below sea level
(Statistics accurate as of March 21 2031)
Miami -30 feet below sea level
(Statistics accurate as of March 21 2031)
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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All told, we raised $1,277 for a community pantry keeping vulnerable people alive and fed in MN.
With permission of the local organizer we did it for (who is a Teamster), if you want to support folks fighting the good fight up there, give to labor as we gear up for January 23.
With permission of the local organizer we did it for (who is a Teamster), if you want to support folks fighting the good fight up there, give to labor as we gear up for January 23.
Support Impacted Union Families! | Working Partnerships
workingpartnerships.betterworld.org
January 18, 2026 at 8:38 PM
All told, we raised $1,277 for a community pantry keeping vulnerable people alive and fed in MN.
With permission of the local organizer we did it for (who is a Teamster), if you want to support folks fighting the good fight up there, give to labor as we gear up for January 23.
With permission of the local organizer we did it for (who is a Teamster), if you want to support folks fighting the good fight up there, give to labor as we gear up for January 23.
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A fantastic cover of Mazzy Star's Fade Into You but NZ's finest, Nadia Reid.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1u...
Nadia Reid covers Mazzy Star's 1993 hit 'Fade into You'
YouTube video by RNZ
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 AM
A fantastic cover of Mazzy Star's Fade Into You but NZ's finest, Nadia Reid.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1u...
Students with a background in 4-H or FFA often have a leg up on their classmates for a handful of reasons- one being that they learned at a young age how to talk to people they still consider "adults."
January 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Students with a background in 4-H or FFA often have a leg up on their classmates for a handful of reasons- one being that they learned at a young age how to talk to people they still consider "adults."
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While Graeber’s work has been indispensable to left organization and advocacy since before Occupy, what’s needed now is a framework for mobilizing, rather than refusing to engage, the considerable fiscal agency already at hand at all levels of governance.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
While Graeber’s work has been indispensable to left organization and advocacy since before Occupy, what’s needed now is a framework for mobilizing, rather than refusing to engage, the considerable fiscal agency already at hand at all levels of governance.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
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Breaking news: Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86.
Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer on a Montgomery bus, dies at 86
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a star witness in a civil rights case.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Breaking news: Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
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Herblock on the prospect of nuclear annihilation, Nov 1965.
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Herblock on the prospect of nuclear annihilation, Nov 1965.
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I get the sentiment, but how does one go about "standing with" a Fed chair?
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM
I get the sentiment, but how does one go about "standing with" a Fed chair?
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RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States
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In memoriam: Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and UCLA professor
His scholarship reshaped how Americans understood the nation’s political, intellectual and religious past.
newsroom.ucla.edu
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States
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Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up
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"Without the logistical, financial, and political support of business, its capacity to terrorize our communities would crumble."
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:56 AM
"Without the logistical, financial, and political support of business, its capacity to terrorize our communities would crumble."
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Are there studies of abandoned books, such as William F. Buckley’s magnum opus on conservatism, Schlesinger’s Age of FDR series—he did complete three volumes but only got Up to 1936–and C. Vann Woodward’s history of Reconstruction? I’m not talking about books uncompleted because the author died.
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Are there studies of abandoned books, such as William F. Buckley’s magnum opus on conservatism, Schlesinger’s Age of FDR series—he did complete three volumes but only got Up to 1936–and C. Vann Woodward’s history of Reconstruction? I’m not talking about books uncompleted because the author died.
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the fact that the prof in question holds an endowed chair is just icing on the cake.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
the fact that the prof in question holds an endowed chair is just icing on the cake.
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Ex-lax modernism
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Ex-lax modernism
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I think our world will be a lot better if we try to use the word “narrative” less often in our everyday lives.
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I think our world will be a lot better if we try to use the word “narrative” less often in our everyday lives.
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the meeting will take place under a box being held up by a stick on a string
President Trump, who has had a highly adversarial and contentious relationship with the President of Colombia, just posted this.
January 8, 2026 at 12:04 AM
the meeting will take place under a box being held up by a stick on a string
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Can anyone make sense of the defense of banning a Plato text from a philosophy class by Brian Harrison, a GOP Texas State Representative who has championed the chilling of free speech at Texas A & M: He says people who criticized that ban are trying to “hype up any actual or perceived issues.” /1
January 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Can anyone make sense of the defense of banning a Plato text from a philosophy class by Brian Harrison, a GOP Texas State Representative who has championed the chilling of free speech at Texas A & M: He says people who criticized that ban are trying to “hype up any actual or perceived issues.” /1