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Whitney Curry Wimbish

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Pro-Palestine Super PAC Brings Multimillion-Dollar War Chest to Midterms
American Priorities is targeting multiple races across the country and spending significantly on congressional primaries in North Carolina and Texas. The post Pro-Palestine Super PAC Brings Multim...
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ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent
The company’s year-end earnings call came just days after a lawsuit alleges guards in the company’s Washington state immigrant prison routinely sexually assaulted immigrants. The post ICE Boosts I...
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Olympic Spirits on ICE
Why would tourists come to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics when Trump is transforming the entire country into a xenophobic danger zone? The post Olympic Spirits on ICE appeared first on The American...
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Progressive Win in New Jersey Hinged on Anti-ICE Organizing
Analilia Mejia won a close congressional primary race by preparing constituents for encounters with ICE. She warned that the agency’s surveillance technology needs more attention. The post Progres...
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Read Trump’s Pitch Deck for Selling America’s Birthday
Freedom 250 is urging donors to repeat far-right Christian nationalist and anti-abortion talking points. The post Read Trump’s Pitch Deck for Selling America’s Birthday appeared first on The Ameri...
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Nurses Hold the Line for Workplace Safety
In New York, nurses mark the fourth week of their strike with a march on Gov. Kathy Hochul. A West Coast strike is in its second week. The post Nurses Hold the Line for Workplace Safety appeared f...
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured
ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list. The post A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured appeared first on The American Prospect.
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Organized Labor Escalates Against ICE Summary Executions
Unions in Minnesota and across the country have spent the days after an immigration officer murdered Alex Pretti discussing how to escalate, including toward a national general strike. The post O...
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Venezuelan Oil Revitalization: Paid For With Your Taxes
The biggest oil companies will immediately profit off Trump’s Venezuela coup, including via American taxpayers’ money. The post Venezuelan Oil Revitalization: Paid For With Your Taxes appeared fir...
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Minnesota On Strike
Minnesota labor unions, faith leaders, community organizations, and businesses of all kinds are calling for what amounts to a statewide general strike tomorrow, in response to the ongoing federal ...
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Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms. The post Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant appeared first on The Ameri...
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ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Immigrants
The agency this month altered more contracts with private prison companies to remove care and protection measures it took advocates years to win. The post ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Imm...
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Noem Attempts to Distract From ICE Execution
A day after one of her ICE agents shot a woman to death in broad daylight, the secretary of homeland security was in Manhattan urging Americans to buy them lunch. The post Noem Attempts to Distrac...
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Profiting Off Immigrant Illness, Abuse, and Terror
Staff writer Whitney Wimbish’s Best of 2025 The post Profiting Off Immigrant Illness, Abuse, and Terror appeared first on The American Prospect.
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GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it. The post GOP Forcing Eight Million Studen...
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For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison
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...
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Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children
GOP funding cuts mean that more children will grow up with the lifelong implications of untreated illnesses. The post Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children appeared first on The American ...
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Meet the Connectors
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. The post Meet the Connectors appeared fir...
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