Charles Sumner
@charles-sumner
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.
>Fail to become president multiple times >Try to get the Democratic Party to embrace "heartland-focused" populism, fail, wind up fighting 30 years of factional trench warfare instead >Have weird bad opinions >Your protégés are more successful than you'll ever be >Welcome back William Jennings Bryan
Some may wonder why I, former Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, seem to find myself more at home on Bluesky than in any other place - my grave, for instance. This is why.
>Island nation in the middle of the Atlantic >Political identity centered on Island's role as the "First Colony" of a Colonial power >Won vaugely socialist-y independence in the 20th century >Huge diaspora in Mass. >Social dancing and button accordions are important >Be Cape Verde >Pic Unrelated
La mitraille en vain nous dévore, Elle enfante des combattants! Sous les boulets voyez éclore Ces vieux généraux de vingt ans. Ô jour d'éternelle mémoire! Paris n'a plus qu'un cri de gloire!
Bonnie Clover's noo awa/Safely o'er the friendly main/Many's the heart will brak in twa/Should he no' come back again
The recipie is actually out of a Hungarian cookbook I got at the library a few weeks ago - here it is - I just ground the nuts up after cooking them and added vanilla + powdered sugar instead of vanilla sugar.
Update: They're better the second time (I used pecans instead of walnuts, ground them in a mortar and pestle after toasting them, and added more butter).
How has it taken me this long to realize that Joseph Warren, martyr of the battle of Bunker Hill and "Greatest Incendiary in all of America", bears a shocking resemblance to Will Stancil.
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Here I am, in 1861, having fully embraced Woke II, declaring not only the necessity of waging no-shit war on the confederacyto free the slaves, but that "Patriotism surely is not less potent as a motive than treason. It must be invoked".
By the mid 1850s, Americans of all colors and backgrounds were embracing a willingness to wield political power to fight slavery and combining it with fierce patriotism and millitarism. See: the Wide-Awakes, that Dr. Hicox-Lee uses as the poster child of Woke II.
There was also, as Dr. Hicox-Lee observes was the case in Woke I, a belief that wielding political power was either pointless or hypocritical. Here, Rev. William Ellery Channing declares that "Slavery must continue" if exterminating it requires anti-slavery people to gain and weild political power.
There was also the flip side to this somewhat naiêve belief in inevitable progress - a belief that America was forever damned by its association with slavery and that neither it nor any of its institutions could ever accomplish good things. Here's a songbook from 1848 saying that on its cover:
Here I am going on for ages about how we live in a new age now, where humanity has indeed already triumphed over evil, and all that's left is to mop up the remaining bits of inhumanity that are left on the floor.
Congratulations to John Korir for breaking the Boston Marathon course record by more than a minute, (!), and I'm so glad I was there to watch you do it.
Man, I cannot believe that a) the seats we lucked into are this good and b) Roman Anthony knew almost before the ball left the bat that the Milwaukee left fielder wouldn't catch that fly ball.