Poonam

I don’t think I was prepared for how much of having a baby is just a little creature sitting on you making deep eye contact while they poop.

Tour de France Femmes 2025 preview: Schedule, yellow jersey contenders, riders to watch The nine-stage race is the final grand tour of the season and will be covered here on The Athletic.

The 2025 Tour de France Femmes begins on Saturday in Brittany — and is set to be the biggest and best edition yet.

Jess Hopkins breaks down the key contenders for the iconic yellow, green, white and polka dot jerseys, and explores a gruelling nine-day route.

In 2024 alone, immigrants paid approximately $24 billion into Social Security, despite being ineligible to receive benefits. Eliminating this critical source of revenue not only undermines the program’s stability, it brings it closer to collapse.

Chicago Pride Parade 2025 🌈
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Andersonville’s iconic pizzeria Great Lake has quietly returned, with more than pie Named the best pizza in the country at one point, the husband-and-wife-run shop went viral before viral was even a thing, then closed. Now it's back.

Missed having Lydia and Nick in the neighborhood- Welcome Back, Great Lake! www.wbez.org/food-drink/2...

Owners of Great Lake Pizza have opened a new shop in Andersonville. blockclubchi.co/4nA8Un0

Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Could Cast Haze Over Chicago This Weekend Wildfires are burning out of control in central Canada, and the smoke is drifting toward Chicago.

Wildfires are burning out of control in central Canada, and the smoke is drifting toward Chicago.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service are saying a haze could settle over Chicago on Friday, lasting through the weekend.

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We’re on our way!!!!!

The administration pulled funding for research on devices for babies with heart conditions.

A decades-long effort at Cornell University to build a medical device to save the lives of babies with heart conditions was thrown on the trash heap by the Trump regime.
There's a death toll attached to the recklessness of Trump and Musk.

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.

“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"

Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

I legitimately hope the Diana Taurasi Wintrust Door ends up in a museum one day

Paczki Day Is Next Week. Here Are 5 Bakeries to Place Your Next Order Come Fat Tuesday every year, “Paczki Day” is celebrated across Chicago and the Midwest, and the doughnuts are recognized as a symbol of Polish culture and pride.

Come Fat Tuesday, “Paczki Day” is celebrated across Chicago and the Midwest, and the doughnuts are recognized as a symbol of Polish culture and pride.

Digital Video Producer Nicole Cardos gives her five recommendations on where to place your next paczki order.

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I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:

Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Children are the most vulnerable road users, and they're most exposed to traffic violence while walking or biking.

I had a hunch that CPS schools with lots of resident students also had lots of nearby crashes involving kids on foot or bike. Unfortunately, the data confirm this.

Rest in poetic peace Yvonne Zipter. She was a longtime writer for Windy City Times and Outlines. An original of the lesbian Capricorn party hosts. And an incredible writer of many forms.

Wow democrats really took that first line from Ice Ice Baby to heart

Every home match, every away showdown—it’s all on the page now. 🏠🏟️

Best schedule drop this year imho….

How window dots at McCormick Place are saving birds: https://buff.ly/40eHHeH

Glad you enjoyed it!

I’m totally borrowing that! Also just made a shortcut for “fourstars” ✶✶✶✶

Truly the end of an era — Becky Sauerbrunn has announced her retirement. Her post:

This Norwegian study linking school and health records, says school smartphone bans are great : "banning smartphones significantly decreases the [psychological] health care take-up among girls. Post-ban bullying...decreases. girls’ GPA++ openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bi...