@midwestespresso.bsky.social
Midwesterner with lots of opinions and occasional sarcasm. Call me liberal, call me a feminist, just don’t call me late for dinner.
The day after a lawsuit claiming ICE detention facilities were rife with abusive and unhealthy living conditions, ICE conveniently lost 2weeks of video footage from that time period.
DHS claims they don’t have money to preserve footage.
Budget: $200 billion
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ICE point gun at father in front of son—drag him out of truck by smashing window.
"Please put the gun down! That's my dad!" son cries. "You're hurting him... Look he's bleeding!"
"Why did you break window? He wasn't doing anything."
Club Heights neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina.
I'm still reporting this story. If you work for DOT or an industry regulated by the agency and have relevant information to share, my email is jesse.coburn@propublica.org and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at jesse_coburn.56).
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Read my full investigation here: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Take road safety. The last admin pushed rules for speed limiters+side guards in big rigs and automatic emergency braking in cars+trucks—est. to save 1k lives annually.
After industry blowback, the Trump admin has killed, made plans to weaken or signaled delays/changes for each.
DOT is on an unprecedented deregulatory blitz. The Trump admin calls this cutting red tape. Left unmentioned is just how many of the targeted rules sought to prevent deaths/injuries.
"The regulations are written in blood," one former official told me. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
20.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 3370 🔁 1451 💬 83 📌 73The Trump administration announced new efforts today to roll back key parts of the Endangered Species Act, aiming to reinstate changes from his first term that were previously halted by a federal court.
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People 47-Year-Old Nurse Was Told Her 'Crushing' Chest Pain Was Indigestion. She Died 3 Days Later Paula Ivers was sent home from the hospital in March 2024, despite saying her pain was 'severe' and worse than childbirth By Becca Longmire Published on November 18, 2025 08:07AM EST 1 COMMENT Paula Ivers. Credit: Family Handout
NEED TO KNOW A 47-year-old nurse from England went to the emergency room complaining of "crushing" chest pains Paula Ivers was sent home that same day with a diagnosis of indigestion; she subsequently died three days later from an aortic dissection Ivers' partner, Simon Norbury, said, "We were shocked to have lost her when we were told it was indigestion and there was nothing to worry about," per U.K. outlet the Metro, adding that Ivers told doctors her pain was
Ivers' ECG scan came back as abnormal, but Dr. Osama Ahmed considered her as "low risk," the outlet stated. He told the inquest he now realizes that was not the case, and she should have been hospitalized immediately. Ivers' partner, Norbury, said, "We were shocked to have lost her when we were told it was indigestion and there was nothing to worry about," per the Metro. He added that Ivers had told a doctor that her pain was "severe," rating it an "eight or nine out of 10," the Manchester Evening
Dr. Osama Ahmed made the decision to send Ivers to the hospital's Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit, despite not knowing her family history or examining her himself, the outlet noted. Ivers was discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease, the Manchester Evening News stated. Norbury said medics had told them his partner had been suffering from trapped
Yet another death due to a woman's pain being dismissed by a medical institution, even one of their own.
20.11.2025 03:01 — 👍 281 🔁 47 💬 24 📌 2
Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Traditionally, the standard for whether you can afford to buy a house is a 3:1 price-to-income ratio (i.e., if you make $50k a year, you can afford a $150k house). Every single major city in America is over that ratio, except Detroit, Cleveland, Memphis and Oklahoma City...
20.11.2025 01:49 — 👍 59 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
Absolutely brutal report just out from National Association of Realtors on the utterly broken US housing market.
First-time homebuyers fell to a historic low of just 21% of all homebuyers, and their median age was an all-time high of 40 years old.
The American Dream is dead.
Shouldn’t men see this too?
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Almost two-thirds of small and mid-size business owners say they plan to increase prices next year as nearly all wrangle with inflation hitting their operations, a Bank of America report finds, yet many owners still expect higher revenue and plan to expand in the year ahead.
19.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 1449 🔁 591 💬 150 📌 58![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
20.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 9431 🔁 3433 💬 147 📌 17740% seems low to me.
20.11.2025 01:42 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Part 2
19.11.2025 13:15 — 👍 1549 🔁 642 💬 60 📌 30Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
19.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 8185 🔁 4312 💬 700 📌 517BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
19.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 11407 🔁 3367 💬 653 📌 383Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
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OPINION: "There is a glaring omission in the wall-to-wall coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein case... The facts of the crimes and the trauma inflicted on the innocent children continue to fall to the wayside." — Paul DelPonte and Aaron Hanson
19.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 65 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
We had Teen Vogue too, but they silenced it.
18.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
The information contradicts the Trump administration's narrative that it is targeting the "worst of the worst" when conducting immigration enforcement. and seems to violate a 2022 federal consent decree that puts strong conditions on warrantless arrests. n.pr/4i6rNLX
18.11.2025 13:26 — 👍 619 🔁 235 💬 27 📌 22These are the living conditions ICE/border patrol provides for the children they kidnap.
Does this look pro-Life to you?
Just read an article about Iowa being ranked 46th in the country for hospital safety. Now my brain is connecting it with the prevalence of industrial poultry and livestock farms in Iowa… Oh and the bonus of having the 4th highest rate of cancer. What could go wrong living here?
18.11.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This bird flu investigation is well worth your time. I got a little peek behind the curtain into the data analysis and it's truly impressive work from @natlash.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/bird...
18.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 306 🔁 124 💬 8 📌 6Could you work in the out-in-the-open corruption of the Trump family (including Jared Kushner’s) into the headline regarding this visit and deal?
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