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Trucks Move the Country’s Goods Through This County. As Even More Loom, People Are Pushing Back. - Inside Climate News Illinois’ Will County has North America’s largest inland intermodal transport hub. Residents worry about more traffic and pollution from a huge new warehouse complex.

ICYMI: I wrote about how trucks and warehouses are infringing on people’s quality of life and their health insideclimatenews.org/news/0611202...

‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘operation midway blitz’

There’s been a lot of stories about what Chicagoans have been enduring under ICE raids, here’s one about what they’re doing to fight back www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

11/5/25: On repacking your unpacked funeral clothes an obituary I couldn’t bring myself to volunteer to write; a walk through Chicano history; thoughts about grief and the government; photos from reporting trips.

In late September, my family and I lost our matriarch, my abuela. I've been a bit all over the place since. My abuela moved to our hometown in the 70s. She loved it even as one of the first Mexican families there.

It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Lex is the reason that so many young people have gotten a political grounding and education on lgbtq+ and trans rights, housing, labor, climate, politics itself. This is a monumental loss for the industry 💔

Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
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Tbh it requires a lot of resources and time to do deep, community-engaged work in places that don’t already have access to high-quality journalism but it’s worth it to prevent misinformation, particularly around climate, and something like the rollback of the IRA

I kept saying this, that despite it being so popular in climate circles, nobody outside of those circles knew what was going on (yes despite a lot of amazing journalists documenting it) part of reaching new audiences is to help increase public understanding of the good things and the bad things

We must keep Jamaica in the news and in our hearts and actions.

What's happening there right now in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa is nothing short of a humanitarian emergency and it requires an immediate international aid response.

CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

The dangerous combination that made Melissa a monster hurricane Hurricane Melissa’s power was undeniable, intensifying faster than most storms on record.

My quote for today's WaPo story: "We’re going to be seeing a lot more Melissas in the future and we’re definitely not ready for it".

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Cook County Board Reapproves Contract with ICE-Linked Data Firm as Raids Sweep Chicago Four years after first being warned that a contract risked exposing immigrant data to ICE, Cook County approved another renewal—this time with advocates commissioners voicing frustration that stronger...

I’ve been tracking this contract since 2023, and last week, Cook County quietly renewed it. As ICE raids continue across Chicago, the board approved another $1M deal with a data broker tied to ICE. My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social

COVID Stole a Parent from Over 200,000 Children. Indian Country Lost the Most – MindSite News COVID was not an equal-opportunity destroyer. American Indian and Alaska Native children were orphaned at three times the rate of white children, and Black children at double the rate. Without support...

Highly recommend reading this @mindsitenews.bsky.social article on how Native kids were impacted by higher rates of parental death in the early Covid pandemic. mindsitenews.org/2025/03/12/c...

How do military strikes 'test' rather than 'end' a ceasefire? Make it make sense

Welcome to the Take, Teen Vogue’s politics newsletter, where we’ll keep you up-to-date on the organizers, politicians, and agents of change trying to save our world — or at least shift things for the better. I’m politics editor Lex McMenamin, and starting today, I’ll be explaining how we’re seeing current events, and sharing our coverage. On Saturday, an estimated 5 to 6 million people joined a No Kings rally in their area, likely becoming the largest recorded single-day action in the United States. But what does one day have to do with all the rest, if you're not sure how to sustain your resistance beyond an event? "Protest is a tactic; it is not a strategy on its own, and it should never be intended to stand on its own outside of a broader strategy," Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg, co-organizer of No Kings, told me the day before the rallies. So we’re sharing some key ways you can get involved in your community today, if you’re not sure where to start. Til the weekend! Lex

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as politics editor, I'm now writing our newsletter The Take (with a refresh from our art team 😍)

first one focuses on plugging into organizing post-No Kings, from ICE watch to salting a workplace.

it is 100% free and sends Wed + Sat! sign up! www.teenvogue.com/newsletter/t...

Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year | CNN Melissa is about to deliver Jamaica its most devastating blow from a hurricane.

Melissa is a monster. Thinking of Jamaica tonight www.cnn.com/weather/live...

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first

Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.
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The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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A Struggle to Find Adequate Care for a Common Menstrual Disorder Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

Good article. I also hate how much stigma there is around premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which leads to so many that menstruate that have this condition to suffer in silence. undark.org/2025/10/22/p...

Chicago-Area Companies Raked In Millions From Feds As Operation Midway Blitz Intensified One Chicago-based company was awarded more than $7 million to relocate ICE employees while a suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5 million in two weeks to supply pepper balls and air-powe...

Chicago-Area Companies Raked In Millions From Feds As Operation Midway Blitz Intensified

Among the awards: A suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5M in 2 weeks for pepper balls + air-powered guns

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time.

Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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Brooklyn. Have you seen this lady? Her family fears that she may have been picked up by ICE.