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Lynn Sacco

@urbanexile.bsky.social
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Retired historian + lawyer, Chicagoan, lesbian-feminist, sometime Dolly expert, angry. I lived in Knoxville TN for 16 very long years. Author, "Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History."

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/10/2026
"A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally." This factory is the community's economic cornerstone, and its wages helped sustain everything from hair salons and coffee shops to local auto repair shops. 💔 apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 15h
I didn't think this story could get worse. 'Pike’s lawyers retained me as a med expert in the months leading up to her execution. I reviewed her records and warned her team that she had conditions that could lead to a painful and cruel death by lethal injection.' www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o...
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Opinion | Christa Pike Has Exposed the Truth About Lethal Injection (Gift Article)
Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Susan Collins, Mainers still have questions for you. We’ll keep asking, even though you refuse to answer.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 17h
“..large groups of National Guard members and federal agents appeared outside Bruce-Monroe Elementary School in the Park View neighborhood of Northwest Washington as children arrived for the school day.” They are seeking to accustom young children to authoritarian control.
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The National Guard keeps appearing outside D.C. schools, stoking tensions
The U.S. Marshals Service says the guard members and federal agents are there to deter crime. Families say their presence is ineffective and unsettling for students.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h
Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)
By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Former managing director at BGC Group/British banker-turned-whistleblower Simon Andriesz, the man who told the FBI about Lutnick/BGC’s “financial irregularities,” fraudulent 9/11 charity, and revealed Howard Lutnick’s secret business partnership with Epstein in Adfin, has been found dead.
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Whistleblower who outed Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 15h
He said he just sent $5000 checks to people in Ohio --
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 16h
What do writers do when their book proposals are rejected? Of course, they WRITE about it! www.confrontthehate.com/p/top-new-yo...
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Top New York Editors Loved My Story of Confronting Hate. Then Came the ‘But...’
What happens when a “hair-raising,” “powerful,” “impressive” story meets a “challenging market”? And where does that leave important stories?
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16h
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just arrived in the Middle East. I’m the first Democrat to be in the region since the war began. I’m here to view war damage, talk to our partners about the impact of the war, and meet with those who are working to end the conflict.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s wild how every (putatively independent) federal agency has focused their social media messaging around the GOP’s midterm strategy of “stopping communism.” Also, how many American voters do you think could identify this “loser” who died 102 years ago and never set foot in the US?
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Christian Crazy Gov. Lee RECRUITED this guy, who Arizona fired because he couldn't properly execute prisoners there, either. Who's pastor recommended him? Such a sick sick state GOP. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Tennessee Prison Chief Was Hired Despite a Trail of Troubled Executions (Gift Article)
The failed execution of Christa Pike has prompted new scrutiny of Frank Strada, the state’s top prison official, and his past role overseeing executions in Arizona.
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can reporters ask him for one example where the media identified someone as a rapist and Trump agreed he was?
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The party of small government.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re raising money to help volunteers across the country document ICE flights. This helps with accountability, advancing policy, and demostrates to detainees, and their loved ones, that they’re worthy of being counted, and are cared for by their community. Please help: ottergoose.net/ice
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FLASHBACK: “You call conflict of interest ‘EXPERIENCE’?” Trump’s son-in-law @jaredkushner was so triggered by the new @CNN piece on his obvious conflicts in Israel that he tweeted for the first time in weeks — so here’s when @60Minutes asked him about it👇🏽🤔
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I remember how the former editor of the Spokesman, Steve Smith, wrote a big column for The Inlander after this about what an ethical breach it was.… which it was. Turns out Smith was not somebody to listen to on issues of ethics! www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Former Spokesman-Review editor gets 10 years in prison after apologizing and touting career
Former Spokesman-Review editor and University of Idaho journalism professor Steven Smith will spend 10 years in prison for child pornography and child exploitation after he paid underage girls as youn...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
After Trump's pool guy screwed up the reflecting pool renovation, Trump tried to frame a Marylander, David Hearn. Yesterday, justice won & a judge barred the admin from bringing more baseless charges against him. Now the Trump admin should be held accountable.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 02/10/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he is giving U.S. servicemembers a day off this month to vote in the midterm elections, in which Republicans are fighting to maintain control of both the House and Senate. on.wsj.com/4ypdedB
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Hegseth Gives U.S. Troops a Day Off to Vote
Commanders told to grant a one-day ‘stand down’ so their personnel can vote no later than Oct. 15
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
U.S. ICE officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal guidance issued after several drivers were shot in encounters with ICE. to.wttw.com/4hqPTSY
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New ICE Guidance Bans High-Speed Car Chases and Sets Tighter Rules for Traffic Stops, a Memo Shows
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal g...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
More than a year after the Trump administration attempted to dismantle Voice of America, it is paying an estimated $1.6 million a week to keep 420 of its staffers on administrative leave, according to a State Department inspector general report.
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Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave
Hundreds of VOA staffers have been on paid leave since the agency sidelined them in March 2025.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
Chicago's city council empowered COPA last March to investigate alleged collaboration between CPD and ICE. Since then, people have filed at least 7 reports with COPA over ICE using local police facilities, including the 25th District station that connects to a Cook County courthouse.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ashely Moody voted to take away 444,000 Floridians' healthcare because the government 'didn't have enough money.' Meanwhile, Medicare for All would save over 1 trillion dollars a year. It's time for a leader who fights for you & not for insurance companies. #AngieforFlorida
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Forty-three people, including three women, have been exonerated after they were sent to prison on murder convictions in cases handled by Guevara in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of them lived in Humboldt Park.' chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
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$260.8M settlement proposed to resolve misconduct cases involving ex-CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara
“We have a lot of these cases. Any time we can put them all together and package them and get a better settlement amount, it’s best for the taxpayers,” said Ald. Pat Dowell, chair of the City Council'...
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Tampa Bay Times @tampabaytimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Faith-based voucher schools can reject students with disabilities in Florida| Column
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Faith-based voucher schools can reject students with disabilities in Florida| Column
ProPublica recently published an exposé on the rejection students with disabilities face from publicly funded voucher schools.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is this the future of education in America? This quiz is eye opening! Look at my answers and where they wouldn’t matter. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Your Private School projects.propublica.org/private-scho....
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is where a successful accountability and affordability campaign leads you. More to come (there and here). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Two ex-ministers from Orbán era held over suspected bribery and misuse of public funds
Ministers from former far-right government arrested after MPs vote to lift their immunity
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
!!!!!!!! OMG Fox News goes to TORTURE IS OK Guy who says ';lethal injection' is the most 'humane' but who urges TN to 'try again' to kill Pike by 'perfecting these methods' --
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