Whitney Curry Wimbish
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This is beyond horrific.
ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is beyond horrific.
ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
This makes my blood boil hotter than the Planck temperature. After a lifetime of diligent work and saving and this is what you get. Stress, anxiety, discrimination, uncertainty.
I'm one of them. I'm 61 and have about $500,000 in retirement savings. Is it enough to retire on? I'm about to find out since I was laid off (thanks, DOGE) in April and the job market is abysmal. Ageism is real.
No idea if this is going to work. We live modestly, with a 14 year old car.
No idea if this is going to work. We live modestly, with a 14 year old car.
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This makes my blood boil hotter than the Planck temperature. After a lifetime of diligent work and saving and this is what you get. Stress, anxiety, discrimination, uncertainty.
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Trump picks new CFPB director amid efforts to close agency
Trump picks new CFPB director amid efforts to close agency
The nomination of Stuart Levenbach was a "technical" maneuver intended to extend White House budget director Russ Vought's oversight of the agency.
dlvr.it
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Trump picks new CFPB director amid efforts to close agency
Please understand that if something like this doesn't pass soon, we will be facing yet another crisis. A huge wave of people is about to retire on 401(k) plans, which is an untested retirement vehicle for the volume of people retiring.
GOOD NEWS: @ramirez.house.gov will be working with @sanders.senate.gov to introduce the Pensions for All Act.
The bill requires corporations to provide traditional pension plans for their workers or pay into the federal retirement system to ensure all workers receive retirement benefits.
The bill requires corporations to provide traditional pension plans for their workers or pay into the federal retirement system to ensure all workers receive retirement benefits.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Please understand that if something like this doesn't pass soon, we will be facing yet another crisis. A huge wave of people is about to retire on 401(k) plans, which is an untested retirement vehicle for the volume of people retiring.
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House demands Epstein financial records from J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and US Virgin Islands
House demands Epstein financial records from J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and US Virgin Islands
Republicans are pushing ahead with an investigation into the activities of Jeffrey Epstein — even as legislation forcing the release of all Department of Justice files on the late sex offender appears to be heading to President Donald Trump for a signature.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a series of subpoenas Tuesday for some of Epstein’s financial records.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the committee, issued subpoenas to J.P. Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank and requested additional documents from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon Rhea.
According to the subpoenas, J.P. Morgan Chase began an internal investigation into accounts previously held by Epstein, flagging some 4,700 transactions as “suspicious” in the process. Epstein also held accounts at and banked with Deutsche Bank from 2013 until potentially late 2018, the subpoenas state.
The letter to Rhea comes after documents released last week reveal that Del. Stacey Plaskett consulted with Epsteinduring a 2019 hearing with President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Epstein previously owned the islands of Little St. James and Great St. James. The House on Tuesday will vote to censure Plaskett and remove her from the House Intelligence Committee.
“The records sought by this subpoena will assist in the Committee’s oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and specifically its handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell,” the subpoenas to the banks read.
The subpoenas were announced just after the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to force the Justice Department to release more information about the case it built against Epstein.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
House demands Epstein financial records from J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and US Virgin Islands
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want to tell your Obamacare premium story? contact Whitney! bsky.app/profile/whit...
If anyone has time to talk with me about their ACA increases and how they're coping, please shoot an email to wwimbish@prospect.org or text on Signal at wwimbish.07.
It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!
It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
want to tell your Obamacare premium story? contact Whitney! bsky.app/profile/whit...
If anyone has time to talk with me about their ACA increases and how they're coping, please shoot an email to wwimbish@prospect.org or text on Signal at wwimbish.07.
It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!
It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If anyone has time to talk with me about their ACA increases and how they're coping, please shoot an email to wwimbish@prospect.org or text on Signal at wwimbish.07.
It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!
It's OK if you want to only use your first name or prefer to be anonymous!
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1. An abrupt decision by the Trump administration on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing — according to previously unreported ICE documents obtained by Popular Information.
Follow this thread for details.
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Follow this thread for details.
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EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees
An abrupt decision on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing.
popular.info
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
1. An abrupt decision by the Trump administration on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing — according to previously unreported ICE documents obtained by Popular Information.
Follow this thread for details.
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Follow this thread for details.
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I wonder how much MSNBC spent rebranding to MS Now, which sounds like the name of a multiple sclerosis nonprofit
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I wonder how much MSNBC spent rebranding to MS Now, which sounds like the name of a multiple sclerosis nonprofit
Reuters is helping out Trump's immigration terror campaign.
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reuters is helping out Trump's immigration terror campaign.
Source request! 📣 I'm looking for folks who use Obamacare and are seeing the cost go up for next year. If that's you, please let me know, I'd love to talk.
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Source request! 📣 I'm looking for folks who use Obamacare and are seeing the cost go up for next year. If that's you, please let me know, I'd love to talk.
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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Julie Brown was for the Miami Herald. She actually cared about the victims, not the powerful.
And it is inexcusable she didn't win a Pulitzer for her work.
And it is inexcusable she didn't win a Pulitzer for her work.
Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Julie Brown was for the Miami Herald. She actually cared about the victims, not the powerful.
And it is inexcusable she didn't win a Pulitzer for her work.
And it is inexcusable she didn't win a Pulitzer for her work.
Here's Epstein and his circle talking about a possible video recording of the Saudi government's assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, calling it "making Saudi sausage."
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Here's Epstein and his circle talking about a possible video recording of the Saudi government's assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, calling it "making Saudi sausage."
I genuinely do not get how Michael Wolff is getting a pass on this. He continues to do image rehab via his podcast with The Daily Beast, Inside Trump's Head, on which he says he would not do anything differently because this is how journalism is done.
How chummy is too chummy? Epstein emails shine light on relationships between journalists, sources
The emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein that were released this week shine a light on the relationship between reporters and their sources — and that light isn't always flattering.
apnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I genuinely do not get how Michael Wolff is getting a pass on this. He continues to do image rehab via his podcast with The Daily Beast, Inside Trump's Head, on which he says he would not do anything differently because this is how journalism is done.
Lmao The News™ is at it again, dressing up needing multiple jobs to make ends meet as "polyworking."
Workers turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation
Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.
apnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Lmao The News™ is at it again, dressing up needing multiple jobs to make ends meet as "polyworking."
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
I stayed up too late reading Epstein's emails and dms and I know I'm not the first to say it but holy shit all these people are so fucking stupid. The whole elite crew is full of the most idiotic, arrogant fucks in the world. Look at this exchange with a literary agent. "Keep it coming."
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I stayed up too late reading Epstein's emails and dms and I know I'm not the first to say it but holy shit all these people are so fucking stupid. The whole elite crew is full of the most idiotic, arrogant fucks in the world. Look at this exchange with a literary agent. "Keep it coming."
LETS GO @pghguild.com !!!
Newspaper Union in Pittsburgh just told Fetterman to get fucked.
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Glad to see some journalistic integrity.
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Glad to see some journalistic integrity.
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
LETS GO @pghguild.com !!!
As Michael Wolff said on Dec. 11, 2017 at 5:45 p.m., according to recently released emails, "This is not going to end until Trump goes down."
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As Michael Wolff said on Dec. 11, 2017 at 5:45 p.m., according to recently released emails, "This is not going to end until Trump goes down."
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I downgraded from a silver plan to bronze and as a result have had to change every single doctor I see. I spent the last week chasing down one new doc for an urgent refill. One foundation gift could change everything so I can focus on reporting:
www.autonomynews.co/help-us-rais...
www.autonomynews.co/help-us-rais...
one of my pet peeves is people who post about "the MSM stinks" etc but then don't want to be bothered to think about the fact that journalists also need to eat, have health insurance, and even wear shoes.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I downgraded from a silver plan to bronze and as a result have had to change every single doctor I see. I spent the last week chasing down one new doc for an urgent refill. One foundation gift could change everything so I can focus on reporting:
www.autonomynews.co/help-us-rais...
www.autonomynews.co/help-us-rais...
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We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/
God these Epstein emails are so gross and depressing. Here’s Harvard literature professor and Poetry in America host Elisa New, who is married to Larry Summers, casually chatting with Epstein about the novels Lolita and My Antonia. 🤮
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
God these Epstein emails are so gross and depressing. Here’s Harvard literature professor and Poetry in America host Elisa New, who is married to Larry Summers, casually chatting with Epstein about the novels Lolita and My Antonia. 🤮
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