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Kim Bellware

@bellwak.bsky.social
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Chronically tardy yet somehow…Breaking news + bummer beats, formerly @washingtonpost Why are you booing me? I’m right. ✶ ✶ CHICAGO ✶ ✶

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote a story about menopause in May, when many women were already reporting having trouble obtaining estrogen-replacement patches. Nearly 9 months after the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists acknowledged a shortage, the FDA is too.
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FDA acknowledges estrogen patch shortage, says it’s working to increase supply • Stateline
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it’s helping manufacturers increase the supply of estrogen-based hormonal patches and acknowledged a current nationwide shortage as more women seek hormonal ...
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How workers died last week: Skid loader incidents, airplane crash, lawn mower, explosions, industrial incidents, firefighting, drowning, heat, shootings, and vehicular collisions: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Those Who Didn't Come Home: The Weekly Toll - Confined Space
On average, 100 workers die every week from traumatic injuries on the job in the United States. Here are how a few died last week.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICE and Oklahoma state police are illegally arresting and detaining Ukrainian truck drivers who are here legally via TPS. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Truck drivers who fled Ukraine war are being jailed by ICE in Oklahoma
Many believed they had proper paperwork but have been ensnared by inconsistent immigration policy and a federal push for deportations. Most remain in custody at Oklahoma prisons.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 10/09/2026
Unfortunately, very crappy news today from me, on the McClatchy hedge fund gutting Kentucky's second-largest paper 👇
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 10/09/2026
Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Read this!
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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Helping found my union through @sagaftra.org is one of my proudest achievements. Our union has consistently helped workers and improved conditions from pay to discipline. Happy labor day to my union brothers and sisters, it's an honor to fight for you all
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here's a good reason to visit Columbus, Ohio. The exhibit "Chris Ware: Life Is Complicated" is at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Columbus through Jan. 3. (And he'll be there in person Oct. 17.) cartoons.osu.edu/exhibits/chr...
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Chris Ware - Life Is Complicated
Designed and lightly annotated by the artist, the exhibit includes original drawings, notes and sketches as well as sculptures, paintings and more.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The thing people should know about ZZ Top is that those early records, like Tres Hombres for example, are the gold standard for how rock records should sound. Immaculately recorded records, true auteur stuff, albums that set out to be exactly what they are
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
I just want to know who's baby this is? Because I am proud of her like she's one of mine. This is perfection
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Headstone for Eugene Williams, whose murder was the first in a wave of racialized violence in Chicago in the summer of 1919. 102 years after his death, a group of people determined to see him remembered & honored were successful in getting his grave marked.
Color photo taken in Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island of the grave marker placed for Eugene Williams, a child who accidentally floated over an invisible border at a segregated Chicago beach and was murdered for it, touching off days of racialized violence in 1919. The marker is extremely shiny in this shot and has a lot of difficult to transcribe text, but the dates alone remind us of just how young he was at the time of his death:

EUGENE WILLIAMS
MARCH 10, 1902 - JULY 27, 1919
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...
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BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage
YouTube video by Pick Six Productions Xtra
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win
Argentina players holding up a handwritten LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS banner
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The end of consensus reality, baby
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
From who? And if you are a white house reporter please do not be too scared to ask this
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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
At 8:00 pm it’s still 90, feels like 100.
The Weather channel - Chicago
90°
Feels like 100° | H 96° | L 78°
Chance of rain 2%
• Extreme Heat Warning
NOW UNTIL 10PM CDT WED
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Absolutely deranged
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Controversial to whomst? The owner of the Los Angeles Times?
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 22/06/2026
Zoo staff members are breeding thousands of tadpoles to ship to Puerto Rico in an effort to save from extinction the island’s endangered crested toad, known as the sapo concho in Spanish.
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How Brookfield Zoo is helping Puerto Rico repopulate Bad Bunny’s favorite toad
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/06/2026
This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Summer solstice sunrise at Montrose Beach
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 20/06/2026
Only one Chicago journalist won a James Beard Foundation Media Award this year. Ahmed Ali Akbar received the honor at a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday.
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Chicago journalist wins James Beard 2026 Media Award with story about legendary bean pie
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/06/2026
Human Rights Watch has released a comprehensive report detailing human rights abuses by the government during this winter’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, which the group alleges also violates international human rights treaties that the U.S. is signed onto.
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Report authors say feds violated Minnesotans' human rights during ICE surge
The 186-page report from Human Rights Watch in part highlights how federal agents stopped or detained thousands of people and alleges that many of the arrests were arbitrary and race-based.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just watch Thierry Henry once Lalas is done
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 15/06/2026
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A friend of mine volunteers here and they are always looking for more volunteers. It's the only free restaurant in NYC and it's based in Harlem. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/n...
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In a Harlem Church, a Free Three-Course Dinner, No Questions Asked
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Authorities that won't introduce congestion pricing are making an official announcement that their policy is to prioritize convenience for car owners over all of these benefits for all residents.
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
49. On January 8, the Kennedy Center’s Chief Financial Officer sent an email to
WNO’s General Director and Board President asserting for the first time and, contrary to the terms
of the 2024 Agreement, that the funds in the WNO BSRF belonged to the Kennedy Center. In
addition, the CFO disclosed that the Kennedy Center had used those funds—funds that the 2024
Agreement expressly required to be held for the long-term benefit of WNO—to collateralize the
Kennedy Center’s own line of credit.
50. The next day, on January 9, 2026, the WNO Board voted to terminate the 2024
Agreement. WNO’s Board President and Board Chair immediately notified the Kennedy Center
of that decision in a letter to Mr. Grenell and requested that the parties begin unwinding the
affiliation.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 12/06/2026
Reminder, this “Blessing of the Bicycles” is tomorrow outside St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Illustration of exterior of St Paul’s Cathedral with lots of cyclists outside and a priest officiating. Text: BLESSING
OF THE
BICYCLES
THE INAUGURAL BLESSING OF THE BICYCLES
A BRAND-NEW TRADITION AT ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
Date: Saturday, 13th June
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Paternoster Square EC1A 7BA
Entry: FREE!
SPECIAL BONUS: RIDE THE CLOSED LOOP OF THE NOCTURNE ON THE DAY!
REGISTER FOR FREE VIA EVENTBRITE LINK
13TH OF JUNE 2026
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"You will not speak on Flock tonight." A County Commissioner refused to let residents opposing Flock speak at a meeting. Instead forced the group to designate one single spokesperson www.404media.co/you-will-not...
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‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting
"I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 10/06/2026
Wait ... are bison wildlife or livestock? 🦬 It sounds like a simple question, but it’s not. And the answer is shaping a major fight over conservation, grazing rights and the future of bison restoration in the American West.
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Bison restoration efforts and grazing rights hinge on one question: Are bison wildlife?
Approximately 400,000 bison roam the North American landscape today, of which nearly 90% are considered livestock.
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.
An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company
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Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If the @poynterinstitute.bsky.social memes folks don’t get ahold of this for Friday’s roundup, I’m gonna be so sad
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There was literally an entire documentary about the Chinese community along the Mississippi Delta and the director, Dolly Li, was hired to be a consultant on Sinners, but sure: youtu.be/2NMrqGHr5zE?...
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The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese [Chinese Food: An All-American Cuisine, Pt. 2] | AJ+
YouTube video by AJ+
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
hey quick question, am I having a stroke
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New York's entire vibe today is like a class about to give the substitute teacher a breakdown
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Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hell yeah @gillianbrockell.com
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