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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.

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)

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...

Great story up today on PFAs in household products by @chloeajohnson.bsky.social & Brooks Johnson www.startribune.com/we-tested-ho...

this interview is incredible www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

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

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.

Feeding Our Future trial rocked by witness tampering allegations www.startribune.com/feeding-our-...

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 [email protected]. We strongly encourage you to use a personal device.

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

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...

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...

Thanks @zoemjack.bsky.social for stopping by Stump Party and sharing our silly little tradition with the world! www.startribune.com/swing-an-axe...

Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.

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...

How much warmer is Minnesota than it was in your childhood? www.startribune.com/how-does-202...

my door just closed

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...

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

“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...

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

Luigi Mangione’s sprawling family found success after patriarch’s rise

Health care reporter Jeremy Olson delves into the company's reputation re: claims denials.

Very funny to me that WaPo thinks a Minnesotan would find 31 degrees (the low in NYC yesterday) “frigid”

Thousands of people in Minnesota (and across the US) have recently gotten letters informing them a lead pipe sends drinking water into their homes. Don't panic; there's a lot you can do to protect your health. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mn-lead-pipe...

South Korean unions representing journalists called Yoon's actions “anti-democratic,” “unconstitutional” and a denial of the “historical achievements of democracy and press freedom that the entire nation has fought for with blood over half a century.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/b...

Seems like people wanna talk about all the locked-up stuff at chain pharmacies and big box stores today. Here’s a gift link to a feature I published a few months ago about why retailers started putting so much stuff behind plexiglass and how badly it’s backfired. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I am enjoying this app a lot, but I will not be convinced it has reached terminal velocity as the new place to be until people stop talking constantly about Twitter/X

Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller

Who is responsible?

Great art installation right now at Minneapolis’s best coffee shop (SK - Whittier) from local photographer Nicole Neri The pictures look galactic, but they’re just closeups of household oils in a jar of water, which is a very cool perspective: nicoleneri.com/universe.html @nicoleneri.bsky.social

A beekeeper in Orono recently walked outside and found one of his hives -- drones, worker and queen -- had vanished. www.startribune.com/some-minneso...

Was one of them a weird hottie with a dowsing rod?

Really pleased with my Bluesky feed so far, because it’s all reposts of and posts about the CC-owners-want-to-sell story. www.startribune.com/cc-club-dive...

Exciting personal news: today I start as the Strib's outdoor recreation reporter. Incredibly excited to join the team of amazing reporters and in time for my favorite season 🏂 Lmk of story ideas: [email protected]

Fluoride is all over the news right now because of HHS nominee RFK Jr. -- I went deep on why we actually use it for @startribune.bsky.social www.startribune.com/rfk-jr-says-...

Nothing sweeter than than rolling up to an incredibly backed up Clear line at the airport and zooming through an empty “standard passengers” lane