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Whitney Curry Wimbish

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Staff writer, The American Prospect. Send tips to wwimbish at prospect.org Words in The Baffler, Financial Times, NYT, Semafor, Sentient. Co-writing the amquickie.com daily newsletter for @majorityreport.bsky.social. Proud WGAE member

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 10h

So so happy to see Brooklyn's own Craig Taborn get a genius grant. One of my favorite pianists ever. Here's a moody solo he played years ago at the Skopje Jazz Fest.

Craig Taborn solo, live @ Skopje Jazz Festival 2015

YouTube video by skopjejazzfest

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 14h

Hell yeah, let's go. Some of her platform issues were improving the civic response to mental health crises, affordable housing, and preparing the local infrastructure for climate disasters, and she won in conservative, macho Fairbanks.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 14h

Hours after burying his wife, two children and grandson, Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh went back on air to continue reporting

His ability to continue his job while Israel killed tens of thousands of Gazans around him has turned him into an icon of bravery

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 17h

WE WILL RUN OUT OF FOOD.

The fact we aren’t using this precious & precarious moment to rebuild our food system around need & not profit - changing what we eat, how we produce food & how we transport it - will prove our gravest & most suicidal mistake.

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 5d

It looks like they won some nice gains!

WGA Members at CBS News Ratify New Union Contract | Press Room

Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) members at CBS News and management reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. The contract was overwhelmingl...

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 5d

since newswriters and others recently ratified a new union contract with @wgaeast.bsky.social, I’d suggest everyone covered force her to try to get rid of them and then absolutely wreck her with ULPs

Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social · 5d

The question is whether people should quit or make Bari spend her time firing them for doing journalism. I honestly don't know what to think.

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

conservative constitutional jurisprudence: "the Special Boy legal school of thought. It holds that Donald Trump is America’s most Special Boy, and nothing whatsoever can be allowed to interfere with any of the Special Boy’s goals or cause him a moment’s discomfort." h/t @fleerultra.bsky.social

The Real Problem With the Trump Shutdown

The reactionary Supreme Court has given him Congress’s power of the purse.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12d

John Knox takes huge offense!

Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 21d

Experiencing extreme levels of FOMO. I wish Rus and I could be there, it's gonna be great!

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 29d

ok bee

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 2

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 2

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.