Angus Johnston

@angus.bsky.social

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CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.

Attachment and Loss, Volume 1: Attachment
The radical Black activist and Soviet spy Gregory walking down a city street in S1E10 of The Americans.
King Kong on the top of the Mole Antonelliana, swatting away fighter jets and clutching Fay Wray.
A nod of “Three Stars Safety Matches” with a thrillingly old-timey red-and-yellow-and black logo.
First post I saw on waking: “The Some days you wake up, see news, and run to social media” Second post: “RIP Lindsey Graham.”
Unbowdlerized, edited image of the final portion of Platner's withdrawal letter: "Fuck Graham Platner."
Norman Rockwell guy standing at town meeting meme.
The bicentennial-kitsch tee I’m wearing today.
A big-ass sailing ship.
Crowd of folks by the water in Riverside Park, many ships visible on the Hudson in the distance.
Brown 1968 Cadillac parked on the sidewalk under the elevated subway in Queens.
Photo of page from book: “Order was essential in Rex's peace of mind. By temperament he was a scheduler. Every Sunday, without fail, I sent him a questionnaire, supplementing the questions I put to him during our frequent summit meetings at High Meadow. He caught my rhythms and incorporated me into his schedule. Over one hundred and eighty-seven weeks he dutifully answered and returned to me one hundred and eighty-seven questionnaires, answering, in all, more than seventy-five hundred questions. I did learn to give him a week off while the World Series on, and to announce my visits three days in advance. ‘I'm still breathing,’ he would say. ‘Come ahead.’”
Text from book: “Order was essential in Rex's peace of mind. By temperament he was a scheduler. Every Sunday, without fail, I sent him a questionnaire, supplementing the questions I put to him during our frequent summit meetings at High Meadow. He caught my rhythms and incorporated me into his schedule. Over one hundred and eighty-seven weeks he dutifully answered and returned to me one hundred and eighty-seven questionnaires, answering, in all, more than seventy-five hundred questions. I did learn to give him a week off while the World Series on, and to announce my visits three days in advance. ‘I 'm still breathing,’ he would say. ‘Come ahead.’l
Five cards from the deck, with colorful 1970s line art. and the elephant and the dragon and 3 birds and 5 cows and the duck
Wally Shawn speaks for all of us.
A snippet of a printed page centered on the clause “literature is mere.”
Wikipedia disambiguation list for "The Matchmaker."
Linda Fiorentino, The Last Seduction.
Elliott Gould wincing skeptically in The Long Goodbye.
A Mamdani "FREEZE THE RENT" campaign sign.
The cover of the children’s book Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.
Screenshot from The Pitt with Noah Wyle walking toward an ambulance. EMT is saying "Elbridge Gerry, 25, stable with good vitals." The original Gerrymander cartoon has been pasted in clumsily to represent the patient.
What it says on the tin.
Text exchange in which Fox News invites me to go on the air to talk shit about Andrew Cuomo. I reply "lol, no," they respond with ":) Are you sure?" and I reply with "yup".
8 Million New Yorkers. 3 Million Immigrants. 500,000 Undocumented. One City. Our City.
Dr. Robby and Joy tend to a patient in a still from The Pitt.
An extremely stylized signature that owes nothing to penmanship classes. For reasons I refuse to investigate, it has "#48" scrawled in its lower right corner.
Ellie Aghayeva’s social media post as she was being abducted. Black and white image of her knees in jeans in the back of the car, with the words “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help” overlaid.
Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton making goo-goo eyes at each other in Reds.
Von Trapp ripping up the flag.
Norman Rockwell speaking-truth guy.
Text from the kid. The phrase "Just like" followed by a still of Threepio in deep resigned distress on whatever the fuck the desert planet was.
A Norman Rockwell painting of multicultural Americans glaring at the viewer in varying expressions of mistrust, skepticism, and disgust.
Life magazine profile of Victor Mature describing him in the subhed as a "Beautiful Hunk of Man."
Fosse Fosse Fosse
Dennis the Menace. No, the other one.
Email to Epstein with sender redacted, November 6, 2017: Subject: Talking shortly now I am the part of "Lolita express" Body: Ahahaha. Already third network did this thing and they kept earning me
NYT Front page with Trump headline replaced with TRUMP TERMINAL image.
JL and JW stoic, splattered with their own blood. Zwerg is checking a tooth.
Baby Capaldi in TLOTWW.
Book passage that includes the phrase "The planters refer mournfully to the 'before times,' by which they describe the old slave days."
A hand reaching out of a cloud to offer a chalice. (Detail from the Four of Cups card from the Rider-Waite tarot deck.)
The three of cups, three of swords, and five of cups in a three-card spread, with the nine of wands beneath them.
Gail from Letterkenny.
A stall selling Zohran merch in Union Square.
STAY STRONG protest sign.
Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions for 1943: Don't get lonesome. Beat fascism. Love everybody. Wake up and fight.
Protest marcher carrying a small sign on brown cardboard: HER SOUL GOES MARCHING ON.
Woman marching, seen from behind. Her sign reads ANOTHER FUCKING BITCH AGAINST ICE.
Statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Cardboard poster: “THE YEAR JUST FUCKING STARTED.”
Mamdani's Executive Order Number 1, as described in the post.
Kate MacKinnon licking her gun.
Mamdani being sworn in.
Eric Adams saying in the 2021 campaign that he intends to retire to the Golan Heights.
Mike Fossey tweet: dude last night was crazy. we were all smiles. we lit up the room