Steph Whiteside
@stephgwhiteside
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I write news. Prev. @WSIURadio @SideEffectsNews @AJplus & Current TV. Also a fan of cats, yarn, and tea. Opinions are mine, RTs not endorsements.
Chicago, IL
Joined April 2007
Hey @UberEats what's up with the lack of support? Got an order misdelivered to me but can't tell anyone because I'm not a customer (and won't sign up just for that).
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So far at the DNC we’ve spent about five hours trying to figure out where things are or stuck trying to get there
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Those born between 1981 to 1996 have been called the "unluckiest generation." Since entering the workforce, they've experienced the slowest economic growth of any age group. They've also been weighed down by student debt and child-care costs.
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The profound toll COVID-19 has had on heart health is only now starting to emerge. Doctors are grappling with how to help. “We are seeing effects on the heart and the vascular system that really outnumber, unfortunately, effects on other organ systems.”
apnews.com
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the nation's heart health but how profound is only starting to emerge. Heart attack deaths spiked early in the pandemic, erasing years of progress in battling cardiovas...
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A lot of people are defending their in-theater phone use by saying they get bored during long movies. I get that. But here's the thing — boredom is a part of life. Movie theaters are shared spaces. You aren't entitled to distract other people from the art because you're bored.
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Yeah I'm good in Chicago, I'll take 2 straight weeks of 0-degrees-plus-windchill over a single day in this nightmare
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Heads up: The Supreme Court just agreed to take up the issue of whether people accused of domestic violence can own firearms.
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Justices Sotomayor and Kagan have read three dissents from the bench in the past two days—a fairly rare phenomenon signifying profound disagreement. For a reason no one has ever explained, Americans cannot listen to those live and have to await audio recordings in the fall.
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To my legal friends here: I’ve heard competing interpretations of the ruling’s impact but a big picture question remains: is precedent effectively dead for this court, given Dobbs and now this? What previous court decisions carry weight now, if any?
Breaking: The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, a landmark decision that upends long-standing precedent.
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I wrote about the Instant Pot bankruptcy and why private equity will never just let a good, well-liked product be good and well-liked.
theatlantic.com
A one-hit wonder is never enough.
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Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about how you compensate IT staff :P
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How was CNN able to break the news on Trump pleading not guilty, despite devices ban? By hiring a group of Miami high school students who ran info out of the courtroom and dictated it via pay phone. Great behind-the-scenes look by @oliverdarcy:
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LIVE: Watch NewsNation's special coverage of former President Trump's arraignment on federal charges in Miami. UPDATES: https://t.co/MiLCBfxoYP
newsnationnow.com
Former President Donald Trump is the first former president to face a federal indictment.
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This might be the nerdiest thing I have ever written and it brings me untold amounts of joy: https://t.co/UZpT0SDHAS The truth is out there?
newsnationnow.com
A whistleblower claims the U.S. has a secret UFO retrieval program. But America’s fascination with UFOs has a much longer history.
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“You can use the N95 mask you bought for the pandemic to filter out the wildfire smoke engulfing the entire Northeast” is a neat little sentence that lets you know we’re in the fun part of the century that future historians are going to talk about a lot.
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BREAKING- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tells Speaker McCarthy the date by which she expects the US could hit its spending limit is now JUNE 5th… 4 days beyond the previous X date of June 1st:
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Twenty-four hours after appearing with Elon Musk to announce his campaign for president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a bill into law that will shield Musk's SpaceX and other private space companies from negligence lawsuits after an explosion or a crash.
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crystal lovers and geology nerds! have you ever seen for sale, or purchased, crystals/stones that were not what they claimed to be? wrong mineral? fake mineral? if so I’d love to speak with you for a story. DMs open.
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Working on a special report about military recruitment. The Army, Air Force and Navy say they likely will not meet their fiscal year recruitment goals. Less and less people signing up. Looking for active duty or former military who can share their thoughts & experience with me.
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Spotted: Ducks attempting to sneak into the State Department building
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