Esmy Jimenez
@esmyjimenez
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Reporter in the streets/chaos in the tweets. Current @Bagehots fellow, former @bostonglobe @seattletimes @kuow @reveal. Listen to my podcast Lost Patients!!
SEA/NYC
Joined December 2011
I’m probably gonna die on this boring hill but: we need media literacy to be taught in K-12 and beyond. It needs to be part of how you learn to read and write at this point, how you consume, research, and communicate information. The stakes are too high to wait
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Do yourself a favor and go watch the latest episode of @LastWeekTonight. Then go bid on the bizarre things they're auctioning off so you can say you personally support public media and also own something unhinged from the show.
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“I don’t even know what the middle is anymore,�� Alexa Arena said. “I’ve been living basically paycheck to paycheck.”
Being middle class once granted financial security, even a measure of comfort. The ability to buy a house. Enough left over to take an occasional vacation. But those days are gone. Today, the middle class is being hollowed out.
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They met on Hinge and now she’s First Lady of New York,,, keep swiping ladies
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There is a man on my train who looks suspiciously like Louis Theroux
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain in their underwear. At least three were pregnant when agents detained them. @propublica
https://t.co/7QKF6ZvedZ
propublica.org
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
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NEW: A DHS "self-deportation" contract worth up to ~$1 billion was "unlawful, rushed, and noncompetitive," per a lawsuit. It went to a firm w/ no prior fed contracts whose CEO earlier worked w/ a top DHS official involved in the award https://t.co/5svsCAnR8r
pogo.org
The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.
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"The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Dept. on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE... 'My world collapsed,' Berto said." https://t.co/GDEWBmNJpn
bostonglobe.com
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
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I cannot believe I have midterms next week. How did this happen
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Fascinating look at how an accounting system influence CEO $$ with stock options back in the 90s — and how that led to the current massive pay gap between workers and CEOs https://t.co/IPiZ6WZy5z
open.spotify.com
Planet Money · Episode
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One of the best historical tours I’ve taken. 10/10 and a great reminder that “failure is impossible” and progress will march on ✊🏽
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“Why are leaders in the media, law and finance failing to stand up more forcefully to what many inside these industries say are abuses of presidential power? Fear is the most obvious answer.” https://t.co/EjyrzWc2h8
nytimes.com
When broadcasters like CBS and ABC surrendered to the president, it looked as if they lacked backbone. The explanation runs much deeper.
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‘Chief Of War’ Producers Confirm Season 2 Will Show Hawaiians Battling Mark Zuckerberg
theonion.com
LOS ANGELES—Announcing the next chapter of the story was already in preproduction, Chief Of War producers confirmed Tuesday that the second season of the Apple TV+ series would follow the Native...
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After the racial reckoning of 2020, more than 150 newsroom created jobs that were explicitly related to race, diversity, or equality. What happened to those jobs? @HanaaTameez looked into it https://t.co/bnwKdZqhEW
niemanlab.org
Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck.
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While everyone is focused on jobs revisions, Census has released its income and poverty report for 2024. Last year the top 10% saw solid income gains, not much for middle- and lower-income households:
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Countless lesbian relationships have been thrown into chaos this morning. https://t.co/B2eHhWXyFb
nytimes.com
Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.
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