Michael Hawthorne
@scribeguy
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Midwesterner. Pulitzer finalist. Dig into environment/public health for @chicagotribune. EPL/NBA/MLB obsessive. Victoria Concordia Crescit.
Chicago
Joined October 2008
Forever chemicals: They’re in your drinking water and likely your food. My latest @chicagotribune investigation. More to come.
chicagotribune.com
Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. Scie…
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I was wondering how Trump found his troop pay money without a congressional authorization/appropriation. He found it by taking it away from troop housing money. Always a con artist.
OVERNIGHT: President Trump’s $1,776 checks for 1.45 million troops announced Wednesday night come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior official confirmed to @DefenseOne. https://t.co/mGWski9Exl
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Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies
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As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.
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Private equity firms control the top 3 providers of fire department software This NYT story details how they take over affordable services, retire them, and then jack up the price of new tools by 3-5x, selling modernization while feeding off a reliable stream of taxpayer funding
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As @propublica shows, @FoxNews misleads viewers to bolster a false narrative, splicing old clips and video from elsewhere to suggest that Portland is a war zone. This appears to be what led President Trump to try to dispatch national guard troops to suppress a nonexistent riot
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland. https://t.co/wKQGAZNUNg
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Garry Kasparow: "NATO was built to fight only one war, not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria, one war to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only country that is fighting this war, and we're still discussing, should we include them or not?"
Garry Kasparov is 100% correct. Thank you for always telling it like it is, @Kasparov63. Listen before it's too late.
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What a moment for Christian Pulisic 🇺🇸 His scores the game-winning goal for @acmilan in the Milan Derby 😁
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Eberechi Eze is the first player with a palindromic surname to score a top-flight hat-trick since Albert Malam for Huddersfield against Liverpool in November 1934
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This is an astonishing thread: Please read every word. It outlines how the Trump administration has systematically and repeatedly lied about its use of force in Chicago. I don't know what the remedy is, but if federal agents assault civilians, shouldn't they be held accountable?
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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President Trump did a whole lot of lying on "60 Minutes." Here's a fact check of 18 of his false claims to Norah O’Donnell, the vast majority of them previously debunked: - It's not true grocery prices "are down"; Trump told this lie even after O’Donnell told him they're up -
cnn.com
President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate...
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Arsenal saw the tweets about open-play goals and took it personally 😅 Bukayo Saka scores their second of the game, and the Gunners look destined for the League Cup quarter-finals 💪 https://t.co/InjpDLa9yZ
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Conservative ball from Eze, conservative backheel from a Euros -winning midfielder, conservative cutback from 19yo academy midfielder playing inverted fullback, smashed home conservatively by an 18yo academy graduate who made his senior debut at 15.
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🎥 "Dowman shines on another great night for Hale End" - Arsenal 2-0 Brighton | On the Whistle https://t.co/M1ZGqub9s2
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🚨 Arteta: “Saliba will be out, we are assessing him. Gabriel Martinelli will be out as well. We have to do some more tests and see the extent of the injury”. “Rice, Calafiori and Saka are going to be fine”.
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“I’m not just going to sort of sit here and take all the blame for something that was made out to be completely my fault…I was just upset that I wasn’t really playing.” Completely tone deaf from Gio Reyna given Pochettino’s team-first messaging. #USMNT
apnews.com
Gio Reyna went to the 2022 World Cup as one of United States’ brightest young soccer stars. He came back amid controversy over his commitment and his parents’ conflict with the then-coach.
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Set-piece masterminds ♟️🧠 The Reds have now scored 40 times from set-pieces in the @premierleague since the start of last season - the best tally of any team in the division ✨
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Only can be Chicago
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'In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”' Everytime you think they can't sink lower: https://t.co/Hrd6LkoiaE
huffpost.com
Asked who chose Budapest given that history, top White House aides told HuffPost: “Your mom.”
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