Reposted by Charles SumnerAndy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I 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 221
Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 13hCam Schlittler is on the verge of officially becoming "Cam F*cking Schlittler". 130
Reposted by Charles Sumnerashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 18hbarest of minimums, but WHAT 4716
Reposted by Charles SumnerWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21hPerson who is only reading about the Russo-Japanese War: getting a lot of Russo-Japanese war vibes from this 1553
Reposted by Charles Sumnerthe 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 311318
Reposted by Charles SumnerKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is playing devil's advocate in the sense that it is the literal perspective of the devil during the temptation in the desert 120839
Reposted by Charles SumnerSam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026hopefully 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 2526915
Reposted by Charles SumnerTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There 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. 2274
Reposted by Charles SumnerMichael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026MESSENGER As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought The Wood began to move. MACBETH Fuck. 1351
Reposted by Charles Sumnerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026current 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 311880319
Reposted by Charles SumnerAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes 2934356
Reposted by Charles SumnerThe Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So apparently that post about oil trucks going from Iraq to Syria because the Hormuz is closed is AI slop. Sorry about falling for that. 3398
Reposted by Charles SumnerReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026that's uh not great 1069793
Reposted by Charles SumnerNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Votre attention, s'il vous plaît! 091
Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Getting my Ian McCollum on at the Massachusetts Historical Society 121
Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 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 160
Reposted by Charles SumnerSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The 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 613925
Reposted by Charles Sumnerashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i’m wearing all black and long pants. fall is HERE and she’s beautiful 0151
Reposted by Charles SumnerVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ya know who didn’t get scared out of fighting for their country’s democracy by sniper fire? 37112
Reposted by Charles SumnerSeth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 25/09/2026So, uhhh, Boston Logan is apparently running low on JET-A. 💸💸 #avgeek 4279
Reposted by Charles SumnerBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026next administration should burn every asset to the Canadians. 31449
Reposted by Charles SumnerShimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's the kind of energy we want to see in our low-info voters don't we folks 0235
Reposted by Charles Sumner21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Man, the Packers fucking suck. We kinda had started to realize that but man 3111
Reposted by Charles Sumnerthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/09/2026leftists who yearn for the tyranny of the village aren't socialists they are just depressed and alienated 2514
Reposted by Charles SumnerMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do feel bad for the sailors, overwhelmingly already people with very hard lives coming from developing countries, who are bearing the brunt of this 340462
Reposted by Charles SumnerAyanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Deeply 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. 2253
Reposted by Charles SumnerDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026[matthew vauggn voice] you know what this reboot needs? a sexy rasputin pic unrelated 522321
Reposted by Charles Sumnerellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23/09/2026saw 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 3955
Reposted by Charles Sumnerheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 23/09/2026very cool stuff will the chicago tribune be pivoting to the lucrative business of DSP clip farming next 249866
Reposted by Charles SumnerCambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 23/09/2026Home style Afghan food in a regal setting The Helmand continues to serve distinctive food in a fine dining atmosphere...cambridgeday.comHome style Afghan food in a regal settingThe Helmand continues to serve distinctive food in a fine dining atmosphere 041
Reposted by Charles Sumnerdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes wonks 221621
Reposted by Charles SumnerDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I 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 69310
Reposted by Charles Sumnerpleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This 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 56621
Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Mfers are out here re-inventing anabaptism from first principles. 010
Reposted by Charles SumnerAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 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." 211920
Reposted by Charles SumnerPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Walter 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. 242210884
Reposted by Charles SumnerEmma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So 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.static.klipy.comTF2 Professionals Have StandardsAlt: TF2 Sniper saying Professionals Have Standards 312220
Reposted by Charles SumnerFascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026President 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 16219
Reposted by Charles SumnerThoreau Away @thoreauaway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Pu... An unarmed populace nonviolently put down a coup by a notoriously brutal military, by civil disobedience and general strikeen.wikipedia.orgKapp Putsch - Wikipedia 3185
Reposted by Charles SumnerAndy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This 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. 20529107
Reposted by Charles SumnerJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 22/09/2026why 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 149410
Reposted by Charles SumnerBen S @bensh3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In 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/... 2016828
Reposted by Charles Sumnerthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026if AOC loses the 2028 nomination she will be perfectly positioned to clean Gillibrand's clock in 2030 bsky.app/profile/revp... 1382