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Josh White

@JoshWhite1998

Father, husband, softball coach. Executive communications at Amazon. Former WaPo journalist.

 Washington, D.C.
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Joined March 2010
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This video about Amazon's HQ2 is past, present and future for me. Shot near where @nikkicwhite and I went on our first date and at her old apartment complex. Can't wait to meet all my amazing new colleagues in person soon! Great video @alliflicker ... aboutamazon.com/news/amazon-…
An HQ2 update for our Arlington employees and the community

An HQ2 update for our Arlington employees and the community

New video takes an in-depth look at Amazon’s Arlington Headquarters, highlighting ongoing construction, community initiatives, and the inspiration behind The Helix building design.

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We receive a lot of resumes, but this one stands out! When our CEO transition was announced last week, this 7-year-old was inspired to apply for the top job.
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Image from Amazon News (@amazonnews)
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NEW from @NickMiroff Trump administration now wants a floating border wall to seal off waterways along Mexico boundary washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
Trump administration now wants a floating border wall to seal off waterways along Mexico boundary

Trump administration now wants a floating border wall to seal off waterways along Mexico boundary

As the United States builds a $15 billion border wall, it is exploring adding a “Buoy Barrier System” to block river and sea crossings.

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NEW from @NickMiroff DHS’s changing mission leaves its founders dismayed as critics call for a breakup washingtonpost.com/national/…
DHS’s changing mission leaves its founders dismayed as critics call for a breakup

DHS’s changing mission leaves its founders dismayed as critics call for a breakup

President Trump has pushed the powerful agency into a focus on immigration and has put DHS into the center of his domestic agenda.

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NEW excellent reporting, as always, from @NickMiroff and @jdawsey1 -- Chad Wolf emerges as Trump’s favorite Department of Homeland Security chief washingtonpost.com/national/…
Chad Wolf emerges as Trump’s favorite Department of Homeland Security chief

Chad Wolf emerges as Trump’s favorite Department of Homeland Security chief

Previously overshadowed by more bombastic political appointees, Wolf has become a close Trump ally and the face of the president’s police crackdown on protesters.

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EXCLUSIVE from @NickMiroff -- Trump administration hires tech firm to build a virtual border wall, an idea Democrats have praised washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
Trump administration hires tech firm to build a virtual border wall, an idea Democrats have praised

Trump administration hires tech firm to build a virtual border wall, an idea Democrats have praised

The administration is to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to use a high-tech detection system at same time it spends billions on an actual concrete-and-steel wall.

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New from @NickMiroff -- Border officials spent emergency humanitarian funds on dirt bikes, dogs and enforcement programs, according to government report washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
Border officials spent emergency humanitarian funds on dirt bikes, dogs and enforcement programs,...

Border officials spent emergency humanitarian funds on dirt bikes, dogs and enforcement programs,...

A new Government Accountability Office report finds some of the $4.6 billion emergency funding bill last year was spent on enforcement-related items rather than on migrants.

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New from @griffwitte and @NickMiroff -- Beleaguered and besieged, police try to come to grips with a nation’s anger washingtonpost.com/national/…
Beleaguered and besieged, police try to come to grips with a nation’s anger

Beleaguered and besieged, police try to come to grips with a nation’s anger

Leaders say morale is low in departments, potentially complicating the push for change.

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Very interesting story from @RobertKlemko -- ‘A man was unjustly killed here.’ Interracial families face challenge explaining George Floyd’s death to their children washingtonpost.com/national/…
‘A man was unjustly killed here.’ Interracial families face challenge explaining George Floyd’s...

‘A man was unjustly killed here.’ Interracial families face challenge explaining George Floyd’s...

Families brought their young children to the spot where Floyd was killed in Minneapolis as a way to help them understand why the nation is roiled in protest.

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Really great story from @isaacstanbecker and @TonyRomm -- Armed white residents lined Idaho streets amid ‘antifa’ protest fears. The leftist incursion was an online myth. washingtonpost.com/national/…
Armed white residents lined Idaho streets amid ‘antifa’ protest fears. The leftist incursion was an...

Armed white residents lined Idaho streets amid ‘antifa’ protest fears. The leftist incursion was an...

Misinformation about outside extremists spread widely online, fueling militant reactions throughout Idaho and other states.

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New from @NickMiroff People are sawing through and climbing over Trump’s border wall. Now contractors are being asked for ideas to make it less vulnerable. washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
People are sawing through and climbing over Trump’s border wall. Now contractors are being asked...

People are sawing through and climbing over Trump’s border wall. Now contractors are being asked...

Though the president had previously sold his border wall as a nearly impenetrable structure, his administration is hoping to find ways to shore it up against those defeating it.

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Important story from @robertklemko as we look at the deeper effects of the outbreak -- As coronavirus took jobs or workers fell ill, teen children have toiled full-time, becoming lifelines washingtonpost.com/national/…

As coronavirus took jobs or workers fell ill, teen children have toiled full-time, becoming...

With parents in quarantine or unemployed, teens have had to dump schooling for critical breadwinning jobs at grocery stores and other high-risk endeavors.

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NEW from @robertklemko -- Gatherings as states reopen could spell return of another dark American phenomenon: mass shootings washingtonpost.com/national/…
Gatherings as states reopen could spell return of another dark American phenomenon: mass shootings

Gatherings as states reopen could spell return of another dark American phenomenon: mass shootings

Coronavirus stopped mass gatherings at schools, churches, concerts and shopping malls, and it also came with a lull in mass shootings.

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With citizenship ceremonies postponed, hundreds of thousands could miss chance to vote in November washingtonpost.com/immigrati…

With citizenship ceremonies postponed, hundreds of thousands could miss chance to vote in November

Unless the Trump administration resumes the ceremonies and clears the backlog of immigrants, many will be ineligible to cast ballots in presidential election.

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New from @nickmiroff -- Trump’s preferred construction firm lands $1.3 billion border wall contact, the biggest so far washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
Great story from @mffisher -- The need to go is a big barrier to going out. Why public bathrooms are a stumbling block for reopening. washingtonpost.com/national/…
The need to go is a big barrier to going out. Why public bathrooms are a stumbling block for...

The need to go is a big barrier to going out. Why public bathrooms are a stumbling block for...

Concern about catching the novel coronavirus in germ-ridden public bathrooms keeps some people home and could be a major obstacle for concerts, sporting events, movies and schools.

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New from @PostScottWilson -- California nursing homes are examples of how cruel the coronavirus pandemic can be washingtonpost.com/national/…
California nursing homes are examples of how cruel the coronavirus pandemic can be

California nursing homes are examples of how cruel the coronavirus pandemic can be

More than 40 percent of the state’s coronavirus-related deaths have come in skilled-nursing facilities, where staffs and the elderly are particularly at risk.

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BREAKING from @nickmiroff -- Under Trump border rules, U.S. has granted refuge to just two people since late March, records show washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
Under Trump border rules, U.S. has granted refuge to just two people since late March, records show

Under Trump border rules, U.S. has granted refuge to just two people since late March, records show

Emergency restrictions that have shuttered the U.S. immigration system have blocked almost all people seeking humanitarian protection at the southern border.

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NEW from @ByMoriah -- Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind washingtonpost.com/national/…
Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican...

Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican...

As Michigan residents largely support pandemic policies to keep the state shuttered, Republicans are balancing health with a political push to reopen.

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More excellent reporting from @robertklemko -- Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow washingtonpost.com/national/…
Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow

Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow

The Navajo Nation has a devastating coronavirus outbreak, and some on the reservation say U.S. government help has been slow and inadequate

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