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What to watch in Massachusetts: From the Politics Desk

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Stephen Lynch has rankled progressives over the years, breaking with the majority of his party on votes including the passage of the Affordable Care Act and, more recently, the Laken Riley Act, an immigration detention measure.

They were Old Style kind of guys,” said Abdon Pallasch , a former longtime political reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, who went on to work for the state and is now a courts spokesman. (He’s also a former colleague of mine).

“In the age of social media where you can barely verify if an actual human or a Russian bot is posting, the press should treat criticism from a few loud online voices with more skepticism,” Pritzker spokesman Matt Hill said.

In a post on X , Pritzker noted that the Trump administration slashed anti-violence funding efforts in Chicago in 2025. Malört never existed back then,” Bouchaib Khribech said of the beloved, late Pulitzer Prize winner.

He said he would send federal law enforcement but needed local officials to ask him.

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