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James North
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Covering the Global South for 50 years. Wrote “Freedom Rising,” about apartheid South Africa. Bylines @thenation.com, @newrepublic.com, @truthdig.com. Editor @Mondoweiss.net. Reporting about Trump's assault on #immigrants.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · May 9
The Trump administration has already sentenced tens of thousands of #Africans to death by cutting the #PEPFAR program. But the mainstream U.S. media is largely ignoring the crisis. My article @newrepublic.com. @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @timlongman.bsky.social
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The Trump Atrocity Happening in Plain Sight on the Media’s Watch
The president’s demolition of the lifesaving Bush-era HIV/AIDS program will kill tens of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Why does nobody care?
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d
Some patients are opting to give birth at home with the help of midwives because of the possible presence of ICE at hospitals.
Ice Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies at Risk - Truthdig
Fear of deportation is deterring pregnant immigrants from seeking critical care. Doctors are worried for their health.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 23h
Same here.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 23h
Extraordinary bias in the #NYTimes. #Israelis held captive are "hostages." But #Palestinians, most of whom have never been put on trial, are called "prisoners."
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d
you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate
NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."
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Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 2d
Mark Bray—a Rutgers professor—is trying to leave America for Europe because he’s getting MAGA death threats and he’s being stopped because he wrote a book about antifa during Trump 1.0. This is so fucked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 2d
Nazi stormtroopers in Halloween costumes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d
Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.

Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
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Quote: Their outcomes, along with the Court’s actions in the last few years, carry the seeds of American tragedy. Roberts, often described as an institutionalist, has enabled the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president. The leader of the nation’s judicial system has empowered the president who is the most disdainful in history of the decrees of judges, the provisos of the Constitution, and the workings of American democracy. The chief justice, attempting to thread the needle between principle and practicality, has opened the door to the possibility of the ultimate constitutional crisis: a president’s outright defiance of the Supreme Court.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 6d
#ICE: Nazi stormtroopers in Halloween costumes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 4d
Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’
Allies of President Nicolás Maduro vow to resist any military intervention but experts suspect Venezuela’s leaders were rattled by Trump’s decision to bomb Iran
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d
I gifted the article. Can we please do that first.
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mk2005.bsky.social @mk2005.bsky.social · 3d
Will they uphold the Constitution against a lawless Commander in Chief?
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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 4d
"Across the Amazon, environmental defenders are frequently targeted — Colombia has led the world in killings for several years, while Peru also ranks among the most dangerous places to speak out against illegal mining and logging." - @sjgrattan.bsky.social

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Gold demand puts Peru's Amazon at greater risk from mercury poisoning, bishop warns
A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people across the region.
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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 4d
Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 4d
Micah Sifry has a new book from the inside of the Israeli peace movement of 50 years ago, before a lot of water under the bridge and Palestinian deaths micahsifry.com/books/whendo...
When Doves Try: Israel’s Peace Now Movement 1978-1983
When Doves Try: Israel’s Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 tells the story of how a handful of young Israeli reserve officers helped ignite the country’s largest grassroots peace movement. In 1978, their o...
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 6d
This #NYTimes headline is beyond belief.
#GazaGenocide
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 4d
Will Trump deploy the 82nd Airborne to Portland? Previous 82nd leaders include giants like Omar Bradley. Will the 82nd's current commander, Major General Brandon Tegtmeyer, obey what might be an unlawful order? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/us-military-portland-oregon-trump-administration
White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland
Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 5d
Saturday Market unfolded as usual; 9,000 people ran the Portland Marathon; the Thorns beat Bay FC 2-1 and Powell's was jammed full of readers sipping kombucha. Oh, yeh--ICE personnel sent two 84-year-olds to the hospital after beating them to the ground. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/t...
The Judge Standing up to Trump’s Portland Invasion
A report on the Justice Department’s Orwellian arguments and how a Trump-nominated jurist is holding the line for democracy.
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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 5d
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PODCAST | The President's Inbox : The Legality of Trump's Drug-Boat Strikes, With Matthew Waxman
Matt Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy and Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia University sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the legality of the Trump administra...
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 6d
Contrast this weak, timid, inaccurate headline in the #NYTimes with the truthful one below from #Israel's leading newspaper. @mondoweiss.net #Gaza
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6d
I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.

In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6d
Oh so the guy who made up gross lies about immigrants STEALING AND EATING PETS has more thoughts about immigrants? I’m sure he’s totally telling the truth this time.

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They’re Lying, Dividing, And Distracting. Don’t Believe The GOP’s Shutdown Hype
“This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law," said Sen. Mark Warner. "It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 6d
'"They are holding 100s of dead Palestinians. They are holding unknown numbers of children. There are as many as 15,000 or more Palestinians held captive right now…

Israel routinely holds children in military facilities... It’s a systematic campaign of child abuse.”'
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Decades of Abuse: Israel Holds Thousands of Palestinians Captive, Hundreds of Bodies Withheld
YouTube video by Drop Site News
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 6d
This #NYTimes headline is beyond belief.
#GazaGenocide
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 6d
#ICE: Nazi stormtroopers in Halloween costumes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6d
Just posting this. Everyone knows why.
Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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