Lynn Sacco

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Retired historian, Chicagoan, lived long enough to get out of Tennessee alive. Straight me - do not bother.

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This is the vital, masculine, “anti-woke” nation led by an admirably virile leader that is favored by our “America First” conservatives like Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump,

"Russia's losses in Ukraine since 2022 exceed the number of losses in all its wars since World War II combined...The latest estimates suggest that approximately 2% of all Russian men aged 20 to 50 may have been either killed or severely injured in Ukraine." www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

MSNwww.msn.com

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Read this, share this widely

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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How long before the professoriate is next? 🗃️ www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags. They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock. Consumers pay $2,780 per bag. The production of the bags costs Dior $57. Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social

Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagwww.businessinsider.com In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

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Welp SCOTUS opened the door, Joe. Your move.

If Biden loses in November, he's definitely going to drone strike Mar A Lago on January 6th and then post this

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BY simply keeping going and getting a Disinfo specialist on board. And media literacy into schools. Because people are falling for the same dirty tricks. TWICE.

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Two male Texas professors are suing to flunk students who get abortions. Their reason? The students had "consensual sexual intercourse." Which the professors appear to believe is their right to punish. www.salon.com/2024/06/03/t...

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"www.salon.com It's part of a larger pattern of men using the new law to control and abuse women in their lives

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The increasingly brazen endorsement of political violence by the GOP is a tremendously dangerous development that warrants high-profile media coverage.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Here's a guest link to an opinion piece the NYT published today that is actually worth your time and attention: Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problemwww.nytimes.com The site of the battle is hallowed ground, but it is littered with Confederate propaganda.

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Renaissance art.

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Last spring the Heritage Foundation sponsored a Leadership Summit by the "Bull Moose Project." Here's the leader of that project talking about his racist and homophobic, "blood and soil" version of what America should be about.

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That is an open threat. Terrorism as politics.

sure it’s heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6

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When the League of the South was formed in 1994 they sought a "godly" nation run by white men. Here I discuss how the Lost Cause is used by political conservatives who use it to help them achieve white male patriarchy including power over women, minorities, etc. realmsofmemory.com/podcast/epis...

Episode 30: Confederate Monuments and the Fight for Racial Justice - Realms of Memoryrealmsofmemory.com Despite the removal of scores of prominent monuments to the Confederacy the vast majority remain firmly in place. For communities to make informed decisions about the future of these monuments they n...

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New on @realmsofmemory.bsky.social podcast: UNC Charlotte historian and professor emerita @drkarenlcox.bsky.social discusses NO COMMON GROUND: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. realmsofmemory.com/podcast/epis...

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Today's must-read. Everything has a history, including yesterday's judicial coup on behalf of the executive, now possessing legal immunities that would be the envy of an absolute monarch.

My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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Honestly, if he does not lay out some specific plans that can be pursued (besides simply waiting for them to retire or die), I'm going to be pretty pissed off

President Biden will deliver remarks on the Supreme Court's immunity decision tonight at 7:45 p.m. ET www.whitehouse.gov/live/

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

Thinking that I've seen more chance spottings of that StupidElonTruck than I have sightings of Clarence and Ginni's little RV pulling in at a Wal-Mart for the night. How can that be?

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You heard it from NPR - this election is now a referendum on if Donald Trump can do crimes or not. Time to hammer that home to the American people!

BREAKING NEWS: The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

Supreme Court says Trump has absolute immunity for official acts onlywww.npr.org The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

One of my Chicago relatives took a trip to see Tennessee. First thing she texted, in shock, were the Trump Stores surrounding Dollywood. I warned her.....

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Trump "re-truthed" this meme yesterday. But look, whatever you do, don't call it fascism.

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At the Portland Timbers match last night the Star Spangled Banner was sung by a local drag queen. You know what the audience did? They cheered like crazy because it was a killer rendition of the song. Anyway, happy last day of Pride month.

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Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.

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The crux of this is that these people feel sincerely entitled to a president who fits their personal preferences, rather than just trying to get the least fucked-up and harmful option in a busted system where bad interests have lots of power

The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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Immigrants are a blessing, bring us so much. But our government scorns them to promote bigotry for perceived political advantage.

I love people who do what they can, where they are, within their capacity. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Chicago woman running the Free Store helping migrants risks deportationwww.cbsnews.com Kraal said they see around 300 people a week, stamping each card before families start to "shop" for free.

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So who’s “us”?