Chloe Johnson
@chloeajohnson.bsky.social
I write about health and the environment at the Minnesota Star Tribune. DM for signal or tell me your story at: [email protected]
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We need your help with a project looking into hospitals that make it challenging to apply for charity care or take exceptional actions to collect medical debts. Have you or someone you know had trouble with medical bills? Share your story here:
Have you or your family sought free hospital care in Minnesota? We want to hear from you.
Have you or someone you know had trouble with medical bills? Tell us your story.
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September 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We need your help with a project looking into hospitals that make it challenging to apply for charity care or take exceptional actions to collect medical debts. Have you or someone you know had trouble with medical bills? Share your story here:
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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.
I was investigating PFAS. Then a doctor told me to put it in my eyes.
Facing a painful and distracting case of dry eye, a reporter went looking for treatments. What she found was surprising.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
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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)
Colorado man declared dead by Social Security still fighting to restart payments: “I’m at my wit’s end”
Alex Vukovich’s Social Security check disappeared from his bank account in late January after the federal agency mistakenly placed him on its list of deceased recipients.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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)
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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...
We tested household products for PFAS using Minnesota’s new regulations. Here’s what we found.
The Star Tribune used a screening test similar to what the MPCA would. Some results were above the level that could trigger a state inquiry.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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...
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Great story up today on PFAs in household products by @chloeajohnson.bsky.social & Brooks Johnson
www.startribune.com/we-tested-ho...
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We tested household products for PFAS using Minnesota’s new regulations. Here’s what we found.
The Star Tribune used a screening test similar to what the MPCA would. Some results were above the level that could trigger a state inquiry.
www.startribune.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Great story up today on PFAs in household products by @chloeajohnson.bsky.social & Brooks Johnson
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this interview is incredible www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
this interview is incredible www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
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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
DHS has sought home addresses of undocumented immigrants who pay taxes
W/ @jacobbogage.bsky.social & co
March 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
DHS has sought home addresses of undocumented immigrants who pay taxes
W/ @jacobbogage.bsky.social & co
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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.
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.
March 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
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.
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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.
February 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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.
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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
* 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
February 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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
* 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
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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...
NIH cuts could affect hundreds of medical studies at the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota and 21 other states have sued the National Institutes of Health over the Trump administration’s steep cuts to grants that fund medical research in the United States. If those cuts are implem...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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...
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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."
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February 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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."
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Thanks @zoemjack.bsky.social for stopping by Stump Party and sharing our silly little tradition with the world! www.startribune.com/swing-an-axe...
Swing an ax and make a new friend at Minneapolis ‘stump party’
A Minneapolis man wanted to find a reason to gather on cold, gray winter days. Enter stump party, a do-it-yourself holiday that just celebrated its fourth year.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thanks @zoemjack.bsky.social for stopping by Stump Party and sharing our silly little tradition with the world! www.startribune.com/swing-an-axe...
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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.
February 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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...
Cookware association sues Minnesota over PFAS ban, calling it unconstitutional
A federal suit says Minnesota’s sweeping “forever chemical” prohibitions violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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...
How does 2024’s weather compare with your childhood?
See if 2024 was anything like what you remember from growing up.
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January 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
How much warmer is Minnesota than it was in your childhood? www.startribune.com/how-does-202...
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...
Animal Humane Society prepared to rescue 300 animals. When agents returned, only 64 were alive.
A couple from Hines, Minn., is accused of burning many of the animals at what they claimed to be a rescue facility.
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December 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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
December 14, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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
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“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...
Mr. Siri “has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine”.
Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
December 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
“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...
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
Karl Ove Knausgaard shows us the books he loves (and hates)
Karl Ove Knausgaard guides us through his personal book collection at home in London.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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
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Luigi Mangione’s sprawling family found success after patriarch’s rise
Luigi Mangione's sprawling family found success after patriarch's rise
Nick Mangione Sr. had a ready retort when people questioned how he had purchased a high-profile local country club in the 1970s: “They asked me what family I belonged to. I told them, ‘I belong to...
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December 9, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Luigi Mangione’s sprawling family found success after patriarch’s rise
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Health care reporter Jeremy Olson delves into the company's reputation re: claims denials.
Why UnitedHealthcare is a four-letter word to critics
Some mourn the shooting of chief executive but still have scorn for the insurance company he ran.
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December 6, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Health care reporter Jeremy Olson delves into the company's reputation re: claims denials.