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Whitney Curry Wimbish

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Staff writer @prospect.org. Send tips: wwimbish at prospect dot org & Signal at wwimbish.07. Co-writing the daily newsletter for @majorityreport.bsky.social. Proud member of The NewsGuild.

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Chrississippi 🏳️‍🌈🏁@kpopstannascarfan.bsky.social · 10h ago

He wrote an article for Jackson Free Press (now @mississippifreepress.org) back in 2010 that has turned out to be incredibly correct in ways many didn't see coming. www.mississippifreepress.org/facts-matter/

Facts Matter - Mississippi Free Press

I have come to expect this from politicians. It disappoints me, but I no longer expect most politicians to be straightforward. They simplify. They pontificate. They talk in code and refuse to stray fr...

mississippifreepress.org

Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19h ago

When I say these are concentration camps, it's not to be dramatic or to paralyze you with fear, but to give you an idea of the challenge we're up against—particularly given the astronomical resources DHS has to expand detention. They're working to entrench the system; we have to uproot it entirely.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h ago

The @nytimes.com gets new details on ICE's October 13 policy to electronically "disappear" tens of thousand of detained immigrants, including orders to contractors to refuse to reveal where immigrants are held to family or lawyers. 30% of all immigrants in ICE jails now have their location hidden.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2d ago

I wrote about this flight as it was happening in late July as being one of a handful of exceptionally cruel ICE flights. ICE flights both enable human rights abuses and ARE a human rights abuse. My deepest condolences to his family. gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again

Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.

gillianbrockell.com

whet moser@whetmoser.com · 2d ago

"People who were deported and on the same flight as Ahmed said they could see his health deteriorating over the course of the flight, and upon landing in Pakistan, according to recorded interviews with Ahmed's family." abc7chicago.com/post/donald-...

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 2d ago

@laresistencianw.bsky.social reports that GEO Group is following through on their threats of retaliation. They've put at least one hunger striker in solitary and is abusing others in cruel and dangerous ways, like taking away their soap and medicine. Sadistic.

Advocates with La Resistencia were able to speak with hunger strikers on November 9, who shared that they are facing retaliation in many ways. Strikers reported that yesterday, Nov 8, at least one member of USI on strike was transferred to segregation. Yesterday, November 8, after the daily count, strikers in general population were separated and registered differently. After the count, GEO group, operator of NWDC, officers removed items such as soap, pillows, pens and pencils, medicine, from the striker's belongings and gave no reason for the removal. GEO officer Portillo came to speak with strikers and insisted they eat, and began threatening that remaining strikers would be transferred units. Strikers also reported that they have been unable to communicate with advocates such as La Resistencia and loved ones, as their accounts have been listed as having insufficient funds, when they know there is money on their accounts.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 4d ago

@laresistencianw.bsky.social reported an hour ago that they're now unable to reach hunger strikers, a day after GEO Group staff threatened to put them in solitary confinement.

Marcia Brown@marciabrown.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEWS: USDA is proposing to further tighten eligibility for the nation's largest anti-hunger program, a change that could remove 6M+ people currently receiving benefits from SNAP. USDA says the change will ensure benefits only go to "the truly needy." www.politico.com/news/2026/11...

USDA policy shift would cut millions of people off food aid program

The Agriculture Department is reviving a plan that will require low-income people to take additional steps to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

politico.com

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3d ago

I have been reporting this since I first published the Third-Country Removal Tracker on October 2 of last year, when there were two dozen such removal flights. Now there have been 160+. The vast majority of these people have been refouled within hours or days. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals

Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 25,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.

gillianbrockell.com

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 3d ago

. @nytimes.com finds same thing 60 Minutes did. Noncitizens are being systematically returned home despite immigration judges' orders that they'll face persecution or torture there. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/w...

ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻@rjnietubyc.bsky.social · 3d ago

Because of PBMs, my insurance stopped covering my kid’s Novolog (insulin for T1D), then “helpfully” explained that Humulin was still covered and my kid could start using that. WRONG! They act differently - Novolog is a rapid-acting insulin. I started paying $300-$600/month for the Novolog script.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 3d ago

I wish more people knew about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the middlemen who decide if your medicine gets covered. I wrote about PBMs last year and began the piece with someone who died after a PBM decided insurance would no longer cover his inhaler.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 3d ago

I wish more people knew about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the middlemen who decide if your medicine gets covered. I wrote about PBMs last year and began the piece with someone who died after a PBM decided insurance would no longer cover his inhaler.

Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect

Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.

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Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3d ago

Your health insurer shouldn’t own your doctor’s office, pharmacy, and the middleman who decides which prescriptions are covered and how much they cost. That gives one corporation at least 4 ways to squeeze every penny out of you when you get sick. Let's break up Big Medicine.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 3d ago

Subscribe to the @majorityreport.bsky.social's AM Quickie morning news roundup. Here's how I covered Miller's new job.

Trump Elevates White Supremacist Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff Voters overwhelmingly rejected Trump and his immigration terror campaign last week. They flipped multiple seats blue, took control of the House and Senate, and repeatedly elected leaders who have vowed to stop the regime’s vile policies of ethnic cleansing, family separation and “third-country removals,” aka extraordinary renditions aka human trafficking. The incoming House Oversight chair, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), promised to investigate the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, calling their mass detentions and deportations “inhumane” and saying that Americans, “regardless of party, are sick of it.” As US Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) put it: “We will rip ICE apart.” How did Trump respond? By promoting white supremacist and immigration terror architect Stephen Miller to lead his administration. Trump announced Friday that he had elevated Miller to his chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles, the Guardian and the New York Times reported. The decision is a “fuck you to the Republican establishment and to democratic socialists,” Trump’s former special advisor, Steve Bannon, told Le Monde, which correctly identified Miller as “a reactionary ideologue” who peddles in conspiracy theories, a reality-based description that mainstream media outlets stateside were too squeamish to repeat. Instead, they referred to him as “controversial” and “divisive,” a man whom the NYT said is “a hard-nosed lieutenant” with a “brusque approach to issues like immigration.” Be careful if you read articles about this because you may roll your eyes so hard they fall out of your head and bounce out the door.
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 3d ago

1. Publications that covered Stephen Miller’s appointment as White House Chief of Staff but did not mention he promotes "white nationalist” ideas: ABC News Associated Press The Atlantic Axios The Baltimore Sun Bloomberg Boston Globe CBS News The Clarion-Ledger CNBC CNN Daily Beast Deseret News

Elise Wang@elisewang.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reading between the lines, ICE brought a prisoner who needed med attn to the hospital, and when doctors refused to let them into the examination they retaliated by blocking off the ER and forcing ambulances to be rerouted for two hours. ICE has to be the new congress’s first priority.

Protest erupts at Boyle Heights hospital after ICE transports patient, blocks ambulance entrance

A protest erupted outside Adventist Health White Memorial Medical Center in Boyle Heights Saturday after ICE agents show up, block ambulance entrance.

abc7.com

The NewsGuild-CWA@newsguild.org · 4d ago

🚨 US-based workers of leading French newspaper @lemonde.fr are striking this weekend after filing an unfair labor charge against the company. The journalists & media workers are protesting similar issues that had led them to strike two months ago, following many months of unsuccessful bargaining.

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