John S. Huntington
@johnshuntington.bsky.social
Historian and community college professor. Author of Far-Right Vanguard. Fan of soccer, acoustic guitars, and black labs. Posts are my own.
You can follow my leukemia journey here: https://johnshuntington.substack.com
You can follow my leukemia journey here: https://johnshuntington.substack.com
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So, how'd you find out?
My journey through the Leuking Glass.
johnshuntington.substack.com
Hi all, I got diagnosed with leukemia back in January, and I decided to start a Substack to detail my journey, from diagnosis through treatment.
The first post is available now: johnshuntington.substack.com/p/so-howd-yo...
I would be honored if you would read it.
The first post is available now: johnshuntington.substack.com/p/so-howd-yo...
I would be honored if you would read it.
Look, I'm a lefty-lib who taught at a university, a suburban public high school in a conservative district, and an inner-city community college over the last decade. I've never seen an ounce of this supposed censorious behavior from my students.
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Look, I'm a lefty-lib who taught at a university, a suburban public high school in a conservative district, and an inner-city community college over the last decade. I've never seen an ounce of this supposed censorious behavior from my students.
Bro what
Erika Kirk: “No one will ever replace my husband, but I do see some similarities of my husband in JD”
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Bro what
God dammit, I need to go to bed, but how can you with Kershaw coming to the mound with bases loaded.
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
God dammit, I need to go to bed, but how can you with Kershaw coming to the mound with bases loaded.
Unlimited funding for guns but weird how we keep running out of butter.
Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.
“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”
“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”
October 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Unlimited funding for guns but weird how we keep running out of butter.
Yes, please, I need to go bed. My toddler doesn't know what extra innings are and will not accept that as an excuse in the morning.
Has somebody tried hitting the base ball over the fence
October 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Yes, please, I need to go bed. My toddler doesn't know what extra innings are and will not accept that as an excuse in the morning.
There is some *great* October baseball happening right now.
October 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
There is some *great* October baseball happening right now.
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"I asked Chat GPT"
Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.
Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.
October 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"I asked Chat GPT"
Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.
Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.
One of the best jazz shows I've ever been to was the Duke Ellington Orchestra. I was in college and a total metalhead with a soft spot for jazz, and man, they blew me away.
sometimes i watch classic hollywood films — this happened recently with HIGH NOON — and i think, “yeah i get it, this whips.” i’m having a similar experience with music right now and specifically the work of duke ellington. i’m listening to the man’s work and i’m like, “yeah, this stuff is sick”
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
One of the best jazz shows I've ever been to was the Duke Ellington Orchestra. I was in college and a total metalhead with a soft spot for jazz, and man, they blew me away.
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Reconstruction bros have long understood that in the American context, "socialism" most often means "integration and equality" bsky.app/profile/bren...
As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild
BARTIROMO: The idea of government owning portions of public companies -- this is something that free-market have to get their heads around.
BESSENT: Maria, there are decisions that the US government makes that we believe are good for society
BESSENT: Maria, there are decisions that the US government makes that we believe are good for society
September 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reconstruction bros have long understood that in the American context, "socialism" most often means "integration and equality" bsky.app/profile/bren...
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[new Isaac Chotiner interview]
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
[new Isaac Chotiner interview]
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Pretty neat distillation of why it's dangerous to let companies consolidate control over TV stations.
This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."
September 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Pretty neat distillation of why it's dangerous to let companies consolidate control over TV stations.
I wrote this nearly right years ago and conservatives keep proving me right.
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I wrote this nearly right years ago and conservatives keep proving me right.
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It’s a terrific conference! Join us!
This CFP looks so good. The program committee includes
@pastpunditry.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social @rachelshelden.bsky.social & other luminaries. Via @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/cfp-...
@pastpunditry.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social @rachelshelden.bsky.social & other luminaries. Via @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/cfp-...
CFP: American Political History Conference
[We have the following CFP . DRE] Call for Proposals: American Political History Conference , June 4-6, 2026, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Cente...
legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It’s a terrific conference! Join us!
To quote former football coach Dennis Green:
"They are who we thought they were."
"They are who we thought they were."
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
To quote former football coach Dennis Green:
"They are who we thought they were."
"They are who we thought they were."
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"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."
Nobody Cares That White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now
Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for Trump early during his first term, posted the following in October 2024, a month before Trump would win re-election: “Competent white men must be in charge if you wa...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."
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nobody can possibly predict what the labor market is going to look like over the next 40 years, it's impossible. better to get some broadly useful mental skills, and that will be a lot easier if it's something you're interested in like history, literature, etc
August 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
nobody can possibly predict what the labor market is going to look like over the next 40 years, it's impossible. better to get some broadly useful mental skills, and that will be a lot easier if it's something you're interested in like history, literature, etc
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"Research, valuable not in itself but for some ulterior purpose, will be of little import except in so far as it is transmuted into common knowledge. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world."
-- Carl Becker, American Historical Association presidential address, 1931
-- Carl Becker, American Historical Association presidential address, 1931
When academics sit at universities and publish highly researched academic monographs that few read, we are responsible for the destruction of our field for not engaging the public. When we engage with the public, we are betraying our scholarly mission and so are responsible for our destruction.
The history profession is in free fall, but its members can write liberal briefs that are cited in dissents to conservative decisions. Doesn’t seem like a great deal all told.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
August 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Research, valuable not in itself but for some ulterior purpose, will be of little import except in so far as it is transmuted into common knowledge. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world."
-- Carl Becker, American Historical Association presidential address, 1931
-- Carl Becker, American Historical Association presidential address, 1931
This is excellent from Ganz. I agree wholeheartedly. We need leaders who excite and inspire with their rhetoric, not who try to campaign by solely sifting through the chicken bones of polling data.
August 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is excellent from Ganz. I agree wholeheartedly. We need leaders who excite and inspire with their rhetoric, not who try to campaign by solely sifting through the chicken bones of polling data.
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Crucial to the pronatalist worldview is the reality that children are only considered desirable so far as those children and their care needs can be used to constrain women’s dignity and prospects.
August 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Crucial to the pronatalist worldview is the reality that children are only considered desirable so far as those children and their care needs can be used to constrain women’s dignity and prospects.
Ah, this must be the president of the working class I keep hearing about.
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this coming September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
n.pr
August 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ah, this must be the president of the working class I keep hearing about.
This is true, but it's up to Congress to defend their constitutional turf. I'm not holding my breath.
The 👏 president 👏 has 👏 neither 👏 statutory 👏 nor 👏 constitutional 👏 authority 👏 to 👏 unilaterally 👏 negotiate 👏 “trade deals”
July 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is true, but it's up to Congress to defend their constitutional turf. I'm not holding my breath.
Pretty dispiriting to watch the Ivies, the ostensible bulwark of the academy, cave to authoritarian extortion.
July 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Pretty dispiriting to watch the Ivies, the ostensible bulwark of the academy, cave to authoritarian extortion.
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just spoke to a very nice man from the paper named isaac. had a good conversation about my orphan crushing machine. he really let me go in-depth on all of its exciting new features. good bit of press for the orphan crushing industry
July 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
just spoke to a very nice man from the paper named isaac. had a good conversation about my orphan crushing machine. he really let me go in-depth on all of its exciting new features. good bit of press for the orphan crushing industry
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This is indistinguishable from 14 words, Aryan Nations discourse.
This is a real tweet and Musk really RT'd it.
I don't care if he's saying the right things about Epstein - he's a terrible person.
I don't care if he's saying the right things about Epstein - he's a terrible person.
July 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is indistinguishable from 14 words, Aryan Nations discourse.