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Chloe Johnson

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I write about health and the environment at the Minnesota Star Tribune. DM for signal or tell me your story at: chloe.johnson@startribune.com

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 04/05/2026
The Minnesota Star Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church last summer.
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Star Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Annunciation shooting
The newsroom last won the award for coverage of the George Floyd murder and following unrest.
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Cracking up at this in the NWS #mnwx forecast discussion on why they have a blizzard warning: “In addition, when the common citizen looks out the window Sunday morning (ie. not the blizzard purist!), they'll likely say, yup, this is one heck of a blizzard.”
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota
Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...
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Walker Orenstein @walkerorenstein.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
NEW: Google will build a data center in Pine Island, near Rochester. The tech giant will also pay for a significant amount of new wind, solar & battery power. Google has been eyeing the state for at least a year, but had been quiet about its plans: www.startribune.com/google-annou...
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Google announces Minnesota data center in Pine Island, near Rochester
An agreement with Xcel Energy includes an investment in clean energy the utility provider says will help the state meet carbon-free goals.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
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Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota BCA, said the FBI has formally denied his agency access to evidence and information from the killing of Pretti at the hands of federal officers.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 31/01/2026
The front page of tomorrow's Minnesota Star Tribune: Feb. 1, 2026
The Feb. 1 front page of the Star Tribune
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 30/01/2026
The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

“We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Federal agents pinned a man to the ground in south Minneapolis and sprayed him with chemical irritants directly in the face. Minnesota Star Tribune photographer Rich Tsong-Taatarii did not witness the man put his hands on agents.
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 15/01/2026
Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Minneapolis prepares for ‘March Against Minnesota Fraud’ led by right-wing influencer www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
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Minneapolis prepares for ‘March Against Minnesota Fraud’ led by right-wing influencer
At a weekly public safety meeting, residents raised fears that a Saturday march led by conservative influencer Jake Lang could result in Somali residents being harassed on the street.
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Abby Sliva @abbysliva.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
There are reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in north Minneapolis. We will be updating our live blog at the MN Star Tribune as we get more info. Please consider following local sources during breaking news situations, we are familiar with the area in a way national media isn't.
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Live: Shooting reported in Minneapolis allegedly involving federal agents
Gov. Tim Walz address Minnesotans in a live broadcast Wednesday night on the surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota. A federal judge has declined to immediately rule on the ICE surge in Minn...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 13/01/2026
The majority of the leadership team inside Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from federal officials in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, according to sources familiar with the decision.
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Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota, resigns from office
Thompson has been at the center of the national debate around fraud in Minnesota and has claimed that billions have been stolen from tax payers.
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Joe Thompson, US Attorney who was leading fraud investigations in Minnesota, resigns. By Jeff Day @startribune.com www.startribune.com/joe-thompson...
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Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota, resigns from office
Thompson has been at the center of the national debate around fraud in Minnesota and has claimed that billions have been stolen from tax payers.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/01/2026
New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
The first time Kovarik saw private data used by ICE agents was a couple days after Christmas. They were observing ICE agents while a friend from Robbinsdale drove. The agents had already stopped them to warn they'd be arrested, but they kept following the vehicle. Then they realized the agents were leading them to their friend's home in Robbinsdale.
"He pulled up to her house, both the agents got out of the car and were both performatively and theatrically taking pictures of her house," Kovarik said. "Then they drove off and they went around to the back alley behind her house and took pictures of the back of her house."
It happened again to Kovarik last week when an ICE agent led them to a residence where Kovarik used to live.
"It's one of many intimidation tactics, and obviously people should be safe," Kovarik said, "but if you feel pretty comfortable that ... they're not really going to be able to do anything to harm you, I think it's to our benefit to show them that we're not scared."
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that their offices, alongside the Minnesota BCA, will pursue an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Live: Minnesota officials rail against federal government taking over ICE shooting probe
Gov. Walz called for a day of unity. Federal and state officials clashed over the fatal shooting by an ICE agent as the FBI takes control of the investigation.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 08/01/2026
The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show.
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ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis is identified
Jonathan Ross, a Minnesota-based agent, was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing motorist.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 08/01/2026
Statement from the Minnesota Star Tribune:
White text on a green card that says: Statement from the Minnesota Star Tribune: We are currently monitoring a coordinated online disinformation campaign incorrectly identifying the ICE agent involved in yesterday’s shooting. To be clear, the ICE agent has no known affiliation with the Star Tribune. We encourage people looking for factual information reported and written by trained journalists, not bots, to follow and subscribe to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/01/2026
I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 07/01/2026
Live updates: Law enforcement agents have closed off several blocks of Portland Avenue as hundreds of people gather at the scene of the shooting near Portland and E. 34th Street.
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Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis
Local law enforcement flooded the scene in south Minneapolis following the shooting around 9:30 a.m.
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Abby Sliva @abbysliva.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
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Live: Mayor Frey blasts ICE in fiery response to fatal shooting
The mayor called for calm after a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 15/09/2025
We need your help with a project looking into hospitals that make it challenging to apply for charity care or take exceptional actions to collect medical debts. Have you or someone you know had trouble with medical bills? Share your story here:
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Have you or your family sought free hospital care in Minnesota? We want to hear from you.
Have you or someone you know had trouble with medical bills? Tell us your story.
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Nancy Yang @nyang.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our reporter was investigating Minnesota’s ban on PFAS chemicals when she faced a painful and distracting case of dry eye. So @chloeajohnson.bsky.social went looking for treatments. She was prescribed an eye drop that's a type of PFAS.
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I was investigating PFAS. Then a doctor told me to put it in my eyes.
Facing a painful and distracting case of dry eye, a reporter went looking for treatments. What she found was surprising.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 28/03/2025
The Social Security Administration snatched Alex Vukovich’s January payment right out of his bank account and hasn’t made February or March payments — because the government insists he's dead. (He's not)
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Colorado man declared dead by Social Security still fighting to restart payments: “I’m at my wit’s end”
Alex Vukovich’s Social Security check disappeared from his bank account in late January after the federal agency mistakenly placed him on its list of deceased recipients.
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MaryJo Webster @maryjowebster.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today's must-read from @chloeajohnson.bsky.social & @readbrooks.bsky.social... They bought items from local stores & tested them for PFAS chemicals to see how Minnesota's new law is working. www.startribune.com/we-tested-ho...
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We tested household products for PFAS using Minnesota’s new regulations. Here’s what we found.
The Star Tribune used a screening test similar to what the MPCA would. Some results were above the level that could trigger a state inquiry.
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Alex Chhith @alexchhith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great story up today on PFAs in household products by @chloeajohnson.bsky.social & Brooks Johnson www.startribune.com/we-tested-ho...
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We tested household products for PFAS using Minnesota’s new regulations. Here’s what we found.
The Star Tribune used a screening test similar to what the MPCA would. Some results were above the level that could trigger a state inquiry.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
this interview is incredible www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
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DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BREAKING: Trump team has removed the top IRS attorney as career staff resist demands to give DOGE access to sensitive taxpayer records, multiple sources say DHS has sought home addresses of undocumented immigrants who pay taxes W/ @jacobbogage.bsky.social & co
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Feeding Our Future trial rocked by witness tampering allegations www.startribune.com/feeding-our-...
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Feeding Our Future trial rocked by witness tampering allegations
New security measures were implemented in the federal trial after a defendant tried to “corrupt” the proceedings.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 17/02/2025
If you are a federal employee in Minnesota and recently lost your job, we'd like to talk to you. Please contact reporter Janet Moore at JMooreStrib.60 on the encrypted messaging app Signal. You can also email us at whistleblower@startribune.com. We strongly encourage you to use a personal device.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/02/2025
The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years
Elon: Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. 

That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. 

Just wow.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What the NIH cuts are jeopardizing: new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and virtually every other ailment you can think of. Minnesota institutions alone are poised to lose $100 million in research funding, according to a preliminary estimate. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/10/n...
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NIH cuts could affect hundreds of medical studies at the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota and 21 other states have sued the National Institutes of Health over the Trump administration’s steep cuts to grants that fund medical research in the United States. If those cuts are implem...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thanks @zoemjack.bsky.social for stopping by Stump Party and sharing our silly little tradition with the world! www.startribune.com/swing-an-axe...
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Swing an ax and make a new friend at Minneapolis ‘stump party’
A Minneapolis man wanted to find a reason to gather on cold, gray winter days. Enter stump party, a do-it-yourself holiday that just celebrated its fourth year.
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New: manufacturers of frying pans under brands like All Clad, Circulon, T-Fal and Farberware are suing Minnesota, saying the state can't ban PFAS from their products. www.startribune.com/cookware-ass...
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Cookware association sues Minnesota over PFAS ban, calling it unconstitutional
A federal suit says Minnesota’s sweeping “forever chemical” prohibitions violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
How much warmer is Minnesota than it was in your childhood? www.startribune.com/how-does-202...
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How does 2024’s weather compare with your childhood?
See if 2024 was anything like what you remember from growing up.
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frielf @goblin.fans · 05/01/2025
my door just closed
“Only a witch cat can close a door.”
image from House (1977) with a fluffy cat sitting in someone’s lap, being offered food by the women surrounding it
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Sad story from my colleague Kim Hyatt: animal investigators first found 300 animals in distress at a rural MN rescue. When they returned to seize them, only 64 were left. www.startribune.com/animal-human...
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Animal Humane Society prepared to rescue 300 animals. When agents returned, only 64 were alive.
A couple from Hines, Minn., is accused of burning many of the animals at what they claimed to be a rescue facility.
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A sinister sense at the Wilco show that Jeff Tweedy could be lurking anywhere in the waiting audience, because most of this crowd, frankly, are Tweedy lookalikes
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Mr. Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Mr. Siri serve in the Health and Human Services Department’s top legal job, general counsel.” Mr. Siri “has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine”. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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Chloe Johnson @chloeajohnson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is so delightful. Knausgaard on his favorite and least favorite books: "I think it's so dreadful. But I will read it, because I have to, because of what I'm writing." wapo.st/49t8yaV
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Karl Ove Knausgaard shows us the books he loves (and hates)
Karl Ove Knausgaard guides us through his personal book collection at home in London.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 09/12/2024
Luigi Mangione’s sprawling family found success after patriarch’s rise
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Luigi Mangione's sprawling family found success after patriarch's rise
Nick Mangione Sr. had a ready retort when people questioned how he had purchased a high-profile local country club in the 1970s: “They asked me what family I belonged to. I told them, ‘I belong to...
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Kristen Leigh Painter @kristenpainter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Health care reporter Jeremy Olson delves into the company's reputation re: claims denials.
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Why UnitedHealthcare is a four-letter word to critics
Some mourn the shooting of chief executive but still have scorn for the insurance company he ran.
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