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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Barr was one of the senior editors alleged to have banned Felicia Sonmez from covering Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing because she had spoken publicly about the experience - estimated to be shared by 1 out of every 6 women - of being sexually assaulted.

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Defeated today by knit fabrics......my sewing machine and I will live to fight another day

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NEW: @law360.bsky.social has created a public database of legal cases involving President Trump's executive orders and other actions. The data is searchable and sortable and will be updated regularly; links to coverage for subscribers. Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...

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Federal authorities are investigating a near-collision at Chicago's Midway airport between a Southwest 737 and a small business jet. The 737 was landing when the business jet entered the runway.

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Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez's chief of staff kicked a Block Club reporter out of a meeting on a controversial bar reopening. Two other reporters stayed. The move could violate the media’s First Amendment rights, experts said. I was that reporter. More on this: blockclubchicago.org/2025/02/25/a...

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The Chicago Police Department finally responded to a FOIA request I made nearly two years ago. 😭 I forgot I even asked for this stuff.

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For the last several decades, federal jobs helped Black workers find stable work with guardrails to prevent bias, but mass cuts are threatening decades of upward mobility.

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For @slate.bsky.social I wrote about my mini @lecreuset.bsky.social and how it gave me a sense of the enviable homemaking lifestyle largely unattainable for perennial renting millennials. slate.com/life/2025/02...

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I'm a Paddington Adult

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we used to respect the computer

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New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

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If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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After McDonald's rolled back its DEI initiatives last month, I reviewed the policies of 15 other major Illinois-based companies. Many still referenced DEI online and in annual reports, but some have changed their policies within the last month. 1/8

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Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

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Catch Senior Reporter Sarah Conway and @invisible.institute trina keynoting with Chicago Headline Club #FOIAFest this March! They'll be speaking about their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation #ChicagoMissingPersons. headlineclub.org/2025/02/21/f...

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Bowled over by this tres leches cake from Jewel

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The Broccoli family????

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When we first published about Semicolon owner Danielle Moore’s fundraiser to keep the bookstore alive, she had raised $9,000. Now her Kickstarter is at $17,000. The goal is $25,000. “If it works, that’s great. We can stay,” she says. thetriibe.com/2025/02/semi...

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Federal Employees Rally Against 'Billionaire Takeover' Of Government By Trump Administration “It’s a systematic unwinding of our federal safety net,” said Chicago Federation of Labor pres. Bob Reiter at Tuesday’s protest in Federal Plaza. @taylormoore.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/02/18/c...

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About 200 workers and their allies gathered at Federal Plaza on a dangerously cold Tuesday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s severe cuts to the federal workforce. My story for @blockclubchi.bsky.social with 📷 by @colinbphoto.bsky.social

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Black bookstores saw a surge in interest after 2020’s social justice movement. But that support has waned, they say, and with the post-COVID economic downturn and competition from online retailers, business has been sluggish. chicago.suntimes.com/books/2025/0...

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Yesterday, several hundred people gathered outside Lurie Children’s Hospital to protest the hospital’s pause of gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 in compliance with the Trump executive order. My story for @blockclubchi.bsky.social with 📷 by @taliaspraguephotography.com

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new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

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Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

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Hundreds gathered outside Lurie Children's Hospital Saturday to protest it ending gender-affirming surgeries for patients 19 and younger. "What they're doing isn't right,” Noella, 13, said. “But I don't know if I could actually change their minds.” chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/0...

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The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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Yesterday, several hundred people gathered outside Lurie Children’s Hospital to protest the hospital’s pause of gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 in compliance with the Trump executive order. My story for @blockclubchi.bsky.social with 📷 by @taliaspraguephotography.com

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The TRiiBE is celebrating 8 years of reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago 🥳 In a time when voices like ours are under the threat of being silenced, we need our community to stand with us. We hope you’ll celebrate with us by becoming a TRiiBE member ⬇️ thetriibe.com/product/resh...

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I wrote about how journalists shouldn’t write about “eliminating DEI” without explaining the clear outcome: resegregation.

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The CFPB has returned $21 BILLION to consumers. It’s the reason your overdraft fees aren’t 7x the amount. They go after the shitty customer service you love to complain about online and get you refunds. Killing the agency is taking money out of your pocket.

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My colleague @juliarock.bsky.social has been reporting on child care access in NY. We want to hear from parents, providers, and social workers to better understand how people are navigating the child care system. Fill out and share our form:

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The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

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Chicago History Museum’s employees are forming a labor union, joining the growing wave of workers organizing at the city’s cultural institutions. chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/02...

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Incredible updates from Hulu

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New Yorkers: I don't care how much you (and so many of us) hate the established Democratic Party. PLEASE REGISTER AS A DEMOCRAT by this Thursday. It's the only way to vote in the mayoral and council primaries, which, as usual in NYC, is basically THE general election (in most of the city).

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NEW, from me: U.S. border czar Tom Homan met with an associate of the Proud Boys on at least 4 separate occasions to discuss deportations, including one “closed door meeting” that took place Dec 11, 2024, in Chicago and included Chicago Alder Raymond Lopez (D). www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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34-0 is crazy

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The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

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