Whitney Curry Wimbish
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social
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Experience With The US Foster System
What have you gone through in the US foster care system? How has your connection to the system affected your health, access to medical care, emotional well-being, education, or other areas of life? Ho...
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TAP reporters @naomibethune.bsky.social and @emmarjanssen.bsky.social and I are gathering info for upcoming stories about the foster care system. Do you have experience working with or going through the system? We'd love to hear about it. Anonymous is OK.
Please share!
Please share!
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
WTF. Embarrassed by my alma mater yet again. Sign here if you're an alum and you think gutting the school sucks:
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
WTF. Embarrassed by my alma mater yet again. Sign here if you're an alum and you think gutting the school sucks:
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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Friday news dump? I was recently laid off by McClatchy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I loved expanding into politics/policy reporting, and pursuing stories about communities underserved by their local paper.
Eager for correspondent-level work? Or, have something else in [email protected]
Eager for correspondent-level work? Or, have something else in [email protected]
December 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Friday news dump? I was recently laid off by McClatchy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I loved expanding into politics/policy reporting, and pursuing stories about communities underserved by their local paper.
Eager for correspondent-level work? Or, have something else in [email protected]
Eager for correspondent-level work? Or, have something else in [email protected]
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Details here:
Video: Tiberius via X (@tiberiusfiles)
Video: Tiberius via X (@tiberiusfiles)
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Details here:
Video: Tiberius via X (@tiberiusfiles)
Video: Tiberius via X (@tiberiusfiles)
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Black immigrants make up 5.4% of the undocumented population in the U.S., but around 20% of immigrants facing removal. Race is a factor in immigration enforcement just as it's a factor in criminal justice—in fact, the two are related. Great piece by Naomi Bethune:
prospect.org/2025/12/12/v...
prospect.org/2025/12/12/v...
The Vulnerability of Black Immigrants - The American Prospect
Black immigrants are more likely to be deported, in part because of their contact with the criminal justice system.
prospect.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Black immigrants make up 5.4% of the undocumented population in the U.S., but around 20% of immigrants facing removal. Race is a factor in immigration enforcement just as it's a factor in criminal justice—in fact, the two are related. Great piece by Naomi Bethune:
prospect.org/2025/12/12/v...
prospect.org/2025/12/12/v...
🌞 My evening request is now a morning request!🌞
If you have experience with the SAVE student loan repayment program, I'd love to talk with you.
I'm at wwimbish at prospect dot org and on Signal at wwimbish.07
If you have experience with the SAVE student loan repayment program, I'd love to talk with you.
I'm at wwimbish at prospect dot org and on Signal at wwimbish.07
🚨 Evening Source Search 🚨
Are you repaying your student loans via the Biden-era SAVE program? If so, I would love to talk with you about how that program has helped you (or not), and what you'd do if you had to switch to another plan.
Anonymous is OK! Please share!
Are you repaying your student loans via the Biden-era SAVE program? If so, I would love to talk with you about how that program has helped you (or not), and what you'd do if you had to switch to another plan.
Anonymous is OK! Please share!
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🌞 My evening request is now a morning request!🌞
If you have experience with the SAVE student loan repayment program, I'd love to talk with you.
I'm at wwimbish at prospect dot org and on Signal at wwimbish.07
If you have experience with the SAVE student loan repayment program, I'd love to talk with you.
I'm at wwimbish at prospect dot org and on Signal at wwimbish.07
Pharmacist union, LETS GO!!!
“Pharmacists increasingly have less time to thoroughly examine patient profiles, catch potential drug interactions, think critically about dosing, or notice subtle discrepancies in a prescription. In many settings, there is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind.”
I'm a CVS pharmacist. My retail pharmacy colleagues and I face a crisis
“There is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind,” and that makes it harder to catch potential problems, a pharmacist warns.
www.statnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Pharmacist union, LETS GO!!!
🚨 Evening Source Search 🚨
Are you repaying your student loans via the Biden-era SAVE program? If so, I would love to talk with you about how that program has helped you (or not), and what you'd do if you had to switch to another plan.
Anonymous is OK! Please share!
Are you repaying your student loans via the Biden-era SAVE program? If so, I would love to talk with you about how that program has helped you (or not), and what you'd do if you had to switch to another plan.
Anonymous is OK! Please share!
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🚨 Evening Source Search 🚨
Are you repaying your student loans via the Biden-era SAVE program? If so, I would love to talk with you about how that program has helped you (or not), and what you'd do if you had to switch to another plan.
Anonymous is OK! Please share!
Are you repaying your student loans via the Biden-era SAVE program? If so, I would love to talk with you about how that program has helped you (or not), and what you'd do if you had to switch to another plan.
Anonymous is OK! Please share!
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Despite an evacuation order, some farmworkers were still at work as of Thursday morning, concerning community organizers.
Organizers raise alarm after spotting farmworkers in fields in Skagit County amid floods | Cascadia Daily News
During disasters, laborers get put in positions of 'risking their lives or not getting paid'
www.cascadiadaily.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Despite an evacuation order, some farmworkers were still at work as of Thursday morning, concerning community organizers.
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A virtual private school that’s scammed investors is going to teach kids at an ICE detention center. It won’t fix the deplorable conditions: “It’s a prison here—it is truly a living hell,” one child said. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/jwlwJmg
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended detention of hundreds of children.
trib.al
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A virtual private school that’s scammed investors is going to teach kids at an ICE detention center. It won’t fix the deplorable conditions: “It’s a prison here—it is truly a living hell,” one child said. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/jwlwJmg
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This isn't really the flex that ICE thinks it is.
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This isn't really the flex that ICE thinks it is.
Yet another person has died in ICE custody, this time a 48-year-old man from Pakistan who had lived in the US for decades.
ICE took Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani to the hospital last month for "low oxygen levels and tachycardia," the medical term for a heart rate over 100 beats a minute. Then he died.
ICE took Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani to the hospital last month for "low oxygen levels and tachycardia," the medical term for a heart rate over 100 beats a minute. Then he died.
Criminal illegal alien from Pakistan passes away of suspected natural causes at Fort Worth hospital
A 48-year-old criminal, illegal alien from Pakistan with prior criminal arrests for aggravated robbery and felony cocaine and marijuana possessions, passed away Dec. 6 at the Texas Health Huguley Hosp...
www.ice.gov
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Yet another person has died in ICE custody, this time a 48-year-old man from Pakistan who had lived in the US for decades.
ICE took Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani to the hospital last month for "low oxygen levels and tachycardia," the medical term for a heart rate over 100 beats a minute. Then he died.
ICE took Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani to the hospital last month for "low oxygen levels and tachycardia," the medical term for a heart rate over 100 beats a minute. Then he died.
In October, the AP published a story that said reporters had identified a dozen instances in the last decade where the WRAP killed people, or, in the sanitized language of the mainstream press, "played a role" in their death.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In October, the AP published a story that said reporters had identified a dozen instances in the last decade where the WRAP killed people, or, in the sanitized language of the mainstream press, "played a role" in their death.
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History as an ouroborus.
Capt'n Richard Pratt, bringing "education" to Indian POW's in Fort Marion, St. Augustine FL. 1887
He then went on to build Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Capt'n Richard Pratt, bringing "education" to Indian POW's in Fort Marion, St. Augustine FL. 1887
He then went on to build Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
History as an ouroborus.
Capt'n Richard Pratt, bringing "education" to Indian POW's in Fort Marion, St. Augustine FL. 1887
He then went on to build Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Capt'n Richard Pratt, bringing "education" to Indian POW's in Fort Marion, St. Augustine FL. 1887
He then went on to build Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Every time I hear these guys talk about anteeefa I think of this scene from that cozy little Will Ferrell vehicle about writer's block
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Every time I hear these guys talk about anteeefa I think of this scene from that cozy little Will Ferrell vehicle about writer's block
picturing fifteen guys tricked out in full tactical gear and M4 carbines surrounding a beetle
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
picturing fifteen guys tricked out in full tactical gear and M4 carbines surrounding a beetle
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ICYMI yesterday, we reported on a for-profit school opening in a for-profit ICE prison. Uniquely American.
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ICYMI yesterday, we reported on a for-profit school opening in a for-profit ICE prison. Uniquely American.
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
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Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
It's interesting to me that this story is drawing hate mail from a very specific type of hate mailer. They're usually from Florida, and they list their names and their contact information, including their cell phones.
New from me in @prospect.org: ICE is opening a school inside one of their concentration camps and the outfit they picked to run it is a virtual education company that's been failing students for years. Stride, aka K12, was also accused of securities fraud just a few days ago.
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's interesting to me that this story is drawing hate mail from a very specific type of hate mailer. They're usually from Florida, and they list their names and their contact information, including their cell phones.
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Dems are sounding the alarm about ACA premium increases without mentioning something:
State insurance regulators - often appointed by Dems! - have the power to reject the increases but they are approving them with no resistance & basically nobody is challenging those decisions.
It's maddening.
State insurance regulators - often appointed by Dems! - have the power to reject the increases but they are approving them with no resistance & basically nobody is challenging those decisions.
It's maddening.
Why Your Health Insurance Could Explode Next Year
A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
www.levernews.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Dems are sounding the alarm about ACA premium increases without mentioning something:
State insurance regulators - often appointed by Dems! - have the power to reject the increases but they are approving them with no resistance & basically nobody is challenging those decisions.
It's maddening.
State insurance regulators - often appointed by Dems! - have the power to reject the increases but they are approving them with no resistance & basically nobody is challenging those decisions.
It's maddening.
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doesn't look like our military is refusing to follow illegal orders :^(
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
doesn't look like our military is refusing to follow illegal orders :^(
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there's a lot in here, none of it good
A for-profit education firm called Stride is opening a school inside a for-profit immigration prison run by CoreCivic. Stride has been accused of defrauding investors and providing substandard education to children.
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
there's a lot in here, none of it good
Reposted by Whitney Curry Wimbish
A for-profit education firm called Stride is opening a school inside a for-profit immigration prison run by CoreCivic. Stride has been accused of defrauding investors and providing substandard education to children.
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A for-profit education firm called Stride is opening a school inside a for-profit immigration prison run by CoreCivic. Stride has been accused of defrauding investors and providing substandard education to children.
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...