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Charles Sumner

@charles-sumner.bsky.social
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A Union-Saving, constitutional, conservative, law-and-order, right-side-up-with-care, unblushing, unquivering, unsectional, Zoave-drill, Garibaldian, up-to-the-times Abolitionist. 19th Century Best Century.

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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 12h
-Mendel Beilis's defense lawyer, October 1913.
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder how different this is from the era of lots of small partisan newspapers in the 1700s & 1800s. I’ve read some accounts of the Adams vs Jefferson presidential election and it seems like the crazy beliefs of the time (Jefferson will confiscate your Bible!) are similar to today’s crazy beliefs
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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 13h
Cam Schlittler is on the verge of officially becoming "Cam F*cking Schlittler".
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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 15h
The Yankees this inning:
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 18h
barest of minimums, but WHAT
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h
Person who is only reading about the Russo-Japanese War: getting a lot of Russo-Japanese war vibes from this
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h
'What If You Did The Willie Horton Ad In Reverse' is one of those questions no one was quite brave enough to ask until now and UH
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is playing devil's advocate in the sense that it is the literal perspective of the devil during the temptation in the desert
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Boston Strong
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hopefully Karen Bass using free transit as a cynical, half-baked electoral Hail Mary while Zohran and Nithya are laser focused on actually improving service will kill the silly free transit idea once and for all
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no reasonable xenophobic sentiment, it doesn't exist. A society that doesn't use brute force to crush it is on the way to Hitlerism.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MESSENGER As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought The Wood began to move. MACBETH Fuck.
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M Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
the "tonight's episode" image, with the quote-skeeted text
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So apparently that post about oil trucks going from Iraq to Syria because the Hormuz is closed is AI slop. Sorry about falling for that.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
that's uh not great
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Squidward window meme. he looks out the window sadly at a happy spongebob and patrick
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Votre attention, s'il vous plaît!
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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Getting my Ian McCollum on at the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of 19th-century lefty types were convinced that a socialist revolution in Russia would mean that Russians would stop marching into Central Europe to crush uprisings and uhhh
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The existence of the USSR is apparently the equivalent of getting kicked in the head for Russia scholars because they are just fundamentally incapable of grasping the continuities that exist because a red coat of paint got slapped on the Russian Empire for 70 years
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i’m wearing all black and long pants. fall is HERE and she’s beautiful
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ya know who didn’t get scared out of fighting for their country’s democracy by sniper fire?
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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 25/09/2026
So, uhhh, Boston Logan is apparently running low on JET-A. 💸💸 #avgeek
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
next administration should burn every asset to the Canadians.
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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's the kind of energy we want to see in our low-info voters don't we folks
I'm not falling for that election. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man, the Packers fucking suck. We kinda had started to realize that but man
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
leftists who yearn for the tyranny of the village aren't socialists they are just depressed and alienated
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scooby Doo villain unmasking meme. 
Masked villain: mainstream media story
Unmasked villain: jesse singal group chat
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The Pun-isher 💀 @cttrekkie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do feel bad for the sailors, overwhelmingly already people with very hard lives coming from developing countries, who are bearing the brunt of this
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deeply honored to be back in Chicago this weekend to receive Citizen Action Illinois' Egan-Evans Award for Distinguished Service. Thank you to Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Rep. Chuy García, Rep. Danny Davis, & Bob Creamer for your service and for lifting every voice in the way that only Chicago folks can.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026
[matthew vauggn voice] you know what this reboot needs? a sexy rasputin pic unrelated
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23/09/2026
saw some of the reported satellite images of Gaza that have been going around and assuming they're accurate, that is bleak and horrifying as hell I sure wish we'd elected a President who would have done something to try to mitigate/prevent this,so there'd be any chance of doing anything before 2029
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 23/09/2026
very cool stuff will the chicago tribune be pivoting to the lucrative business of DSP clip farming next
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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 23/09/2026
Home style Afghan food in a regal setting The Helmand continues to serve distinctive food in a fine dining atmosphere...
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Home style Afghan food in a regal setting
The Helmand continues to serve distinctive food in a fine dining atmosphere
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes wonks
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we meme about Nothing Ever Happens, but Actually Things Happen, and there are people who happen to be alive when things happen, and buddy, this thing? You're alive to see it. There isn't a Whig Party anymore. The Party Switch. Things, they happened. And now a new Thing is Happening
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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a fantastic bill for all sorts of reasons. It: - adds offices to every public university for voter registration - requires all universities to have polling places - guarantee student IDs are accepted for voter ID purposes - allows youth to pre-register to vote before turning 18
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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mfers are out here re-inventing anabaptism from first principles.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The fact that it's become such a shrugged-off overused cliche has blinded us to how much the dashboard really is lit up with screaming red lights blaring "this the fall of the Roman republic, you idiots."
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So much of civil society and the political establishment did a lot to prevent Trump 1 from being like this. Neoliberal economics and blob imperialism were never good, but they were not the worst things could get, either. The deep state had standards. This time, their brakes are worn out.
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TF2 Professionals Have Standards
Alt: TF2 Sniper saying Professionals Have Standards
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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
President Biden was able to not just recover the economy but make it one of the best in HISTORY, we were outpacing CHINA again. And as much as some people hate it, his quote, "We are the United States of America, and there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together," is true
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Thoreau Away @thoreauaway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Pu... An unarmed populace nonviolently put down a coup by a notoriously brutal military, by civil disobedience and general strike
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Kapp Putsch - Wikipedia
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This wouldn't so much be touching the stove as it would be gorilla gluing both ass cheeks to the stove. The US refines roughly 20% of all the diesel traded globally. This would crash the global economy.
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 22/09/2026
why are we being weird about el-Sayed campaigning with Kamala Harris in any of the possible directions we could be being weird about this instead of going "waow, based", get with the program, people
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In addition, the Reimagining Regional Rail master plan has been released! We finally might get the S-Bahn Philadelphia deserves. Read now: wwww.septa.org/initiatives/...
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if AOC loses the 2028 nomination she will be perfectly positioned to clean Gillibrand's clock in 2030 bsky.app/profile/revp...
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