Lynn Sacco
@urbanexile.bsky.social
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." If you want to hate on boomers, I'm not your therapist
Here's a MAGA family waiting to be cancelled. Businesses that rely on slavery - not paying employees - should be thrown in jail. No comeback!
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Gino & Marty’s Mired In Debt And Legal Troubles, But Owner Of West Loop Restaurant Vows A Comeback
Once a celebrity hangout, the Randolph Street restaurant is facing eviction, tax liens and more than a dozen wage-theft complaints while owner Gino Bartucci makes new plans for the space.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Here's a MAGA family waiting to be cancelled. Businesses that rely on slavery - not paying employees - should be thrown in jail. No comeback!
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GOP: guardians of pedophiles
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
GOP: guardians of pedophiles
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BREAKING:
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING:
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
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Mainstream Democrats have been content to repeatedly elect people who, by and large, stand for nothing, challenge nothing, are willfully in denial. They only lose their sh*t when young candidates show up with clear and bold positions and tell the truth and push back.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Mainstream Democrats have been content to repeatedly elect people who, by and large, stand for nothing, challenge nothing, are willfully in denial. They only lose their sh*t when young candidates show up with clear and bold positions and tell the truth and push back.
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I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
Last night proved Republicans right again.
Did they all become buddies at Epstein's?
"Mr. Braun’s family had hired the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Mr. Trump’s ally at the time, to lobby on his behalf."
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"Mr. Braun’s family had hired the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Mr. Trump’s ally at the time, to lobby on his behalf."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
Felon Freed by Trump Is Set to Be Sentenced Again in Brooklyn
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Did they all become buddies at Epstein's?
"Mr. Braun’s family had hired the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Mr. Trump’s ally at the time, to lobby on his behalf."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
"Mr. Braun’s family had hired the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Mr. Trump’s ally at the time, to lobby on his behalf."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
@govpritzker.illinois.gov please be prepared to replace @durbin.senate.gov with someone who will - as you asked the rest of us to do - get out onto the street and run into danger for our neighbors. Leave office today, @durbin.senate.gov so @govpritzker.illinois.gov can put in a serious fighter.
I called for this with Kaine last night, but Brian is right that it holds true for King, Durbin and Fetterman too.
If I lived in Virginia, the second that Spanberger is sworn in as governor, I'd be demanding @kaine.senate.gov's resignation so she could replace him with someone who's actually aware of what is going on.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov please be prepared to replace @durbin.senate.gov with someone who will - as you asked the rest of us to do - get out onto the street and run into danger for our neighbors. Leave office today, @durbin.senate.gov so @govpritzker.illinois.gov can put in a serious fighter.
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Jesus, people, I'm not saying they'll all fall on their swords because we ask politely.
You demand a politician's resignation not because you think it will actually happen, but because you want to make it clear you think it *should* happen, you're that pissed off.
It's a vote of no confidence.
You demand a politician's resignation not because you think it will actually happen, but because you want to make it clear you think it *should* happen, you're that pissed off.
It's a vote of no confidence.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Jesus, people, I'm not saying they'll all fall on their swords because we ask politely.
You demand a politician's resignation not because you think it will actually happen, but because you want to make it clear you think it *should* happen, you're that pissed off.
It's a vote of no confidence.
You demand a politician's resignation not because you think it will actually happen, but because you want to make it clear you think it *should* happen, you're that pissed off.
It's a vote of no confidence.
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The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
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What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?
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One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.
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I used to think the idea of AOC primarying Schumer was far fetched. Now I think it needs to happen.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I used to think the idea of AOC primarying Schumer was far fetched. Now I think it needs to happen.
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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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Was that her constituent Alex Karp calling speed dial?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Was that her constituent Alex Karp calling speed dial?
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Why shouldn't @durbin.senate.gov retire TODAY?
First he dragged his feet now he is making deals that his constituents do not want.
You need to walk out of DC today and get out of our political lives before you do even more damage. What a fucking loser.
First he dragged his feet now he is making deals that his constituents do not want.
You need to walk out of DC today and get out of our political lives before you do even more damage. What a fucking loser.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Why shouldn't @durbin.senate.gov retire TODAY?
First he dragged his feet now he is making deals that his constituents do not want.
You need to walk out of DC today and get out of our political lives before you do even more damage. What a fucking loser.
First he dragged his feet now he is making deals that his constituents do not want.
You need to walk out of DC today and get out of our political lives before you do even more damage. What a fucking loser.
Finally made now?
Italy’s biggest pasta exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in the U.S. too costly.
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Finally made now?
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse
I learned the hard way that my clerical collar doesn’t offer much protection from ICE. But immigrants have no protection at all.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
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The "free lunches are bad" and "down with empathy" sloganeers never, ever want their words applied to them.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The "free lunches are bad" and "down with empathy" sloganeers never, ever want their words applied to them.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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If Trump believes war is necessary, he must bring his case to Congress and prove why it's worth turning more moms and dads into Gold Star parents.
Let Congress debate. Let us vote. It's our duty.
Let Congress debate. Let us vote. It's our duty.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If Trump believes war is necessary, he must bring his case to Congress and prove why it's worth turning more moms and dads into Gold Star parents.
Let Congress debate. Let us vote. It's our duty.
Let Congress debate. Let us vote. It's our duty.