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Online encyclopedia of the Sangamon County (IL) Historical Society. We're more than Abe.
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Abraham Lincoln’s hometown wasn’t immune to the racial violence that plagued America in the early 20th century. SangamonLink examines the Springfield (Ill.) Race Riot of 1908, its victims, its perpetrators, and its consequences: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/race-riot... #blackhistory #springfieldil

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Lewis Martin, a Black soldier in the Union Army, lost an arm and a leg in the Civil War Battle of the Crater. His photo is an iconic image of the horrendous injuries the war inflicted on combatants of both races. From SangamonLink: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/lewis-mar... #civilwar #blackhistory

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The man who killed Abraham Lincoln’s dog has gone down in history as a shiftless drunk. It might be a bad rap. From SangamonLink.org, online encyclopedia of the Sangamon County (Ill.) Historical Society. sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/the-death... #fido #abrahamlincoln

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Vachel Lindsay “wrote songs for the Illinois country,” Edgar Lee Masters once said. SangamonLink.org, online encyclopedia of the Sangamon County (Ill.) Historical Society, profiled our hometown poet in 2013. New to Bluesky: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/vachel-li...

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Covered bridges were the lovers’ lanes of their time. New on SangamonLink.org, the online encyclopedia of the Sangamon County (Ill.) Historical Society.

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The first map of Springfield, Illinois, was printed in 1856. The city’s population was around 7,000, and a local politician named Abraham Lincoln was on his way to national prominence. SangamonLink.org, the digital encyclopedia of Sangamon County history, makes its Bluesky debut with this post.

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In Nov. 2020 Chuck Todd was the first TV host to put an election denier, Sen. Kevin Cramer, on the air to say the election was stolen. He signaled to every journalist that it was OK to put them on air, normalizing them so they could plan Jan 6 Not a single writeup of Todd leaving NBC mentions this

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Point 1. Cornyn didn’t extend this same deference to several of Biden’s nominees. And Biden won more decisively than Trump. Point 2. These are extraordinary circumstances. Gabbard, whose sympathies often lie with America’s enemies, is extraordinarily unqualified and dangerous.

submitted 26 days ago • 76 comments

Thinking again about the people who assured us that Merrick Garland's timid actions were the only way to ensure the independence of the Department of Justice, which is now decisively over 11 days into the Trump administration.

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

submitted 26 days ago • 476 comments

Big news! Temporary restraining order granted in the federal funding pause case: OMB is "restrained and prohibited from reissuing, adopting, implementing, or otherwise giving effect to the OMB Directive under any other name or title or through any other Defendants."

submitted 26 days ago • 28 comments

i just cannot stress enough how much better @aoc.bsky.social is than her colleagues at nailing the tone of *doing something* even here where it's just informational, it feels active

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

submitted 26 days ago • 278 comments

All these people in Congress and media were like “Trump could never enact his most extreme plans, he’d be checked by Congress and media. So it won’t be that bad.” And then he got in office and immediately enacted his most extreme plans, and the people in Congress and media just didn’t react at all.

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”

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