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@ishmael.bsky.social
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Journalist in NYC: digital editor for @democracynow.org and engagement editor for northsouthnotes.org

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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love when Jackie's opponents are kickers
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the most consequential elections in the world is happening today in Brazil. open.substack.com/pub/northsou...
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How to watch Brazil this month
Four illustrious guides to a crucial cycle
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you've thought to yourself, "Hey, there's major elections in Brazil and I should probably read more about that," then this is the post for you!
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is happening in Brazil in October, and why does it matter? We asked a philosopher, a social scientist, a journalist and an organizer. Now up on North South Notes, featuring Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha, Piero Locatelli and Stephanie Weatherbee Brito: www.northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to-wat...
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How to watch Brazil this month
Four illustrious guides to a crucial cycle
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hmm, something feels off about celebrating "journalism you can trust" followed immediately by a plug for UnitedHealthcare
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pride and Dependency: A Letter from Cairo The latest dispatch in North South Notes, the excellent semi-monthly newsletter you should definitely subscribe to.
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Pride and Dependency
A letter from Cairo
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pride and Dependency -- in a new letter from Cairo, reflections on the deep causes of a painful national paralysis. North South Notes : www.northsouthnotes.org/p/pride-and-...
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Pride and Dependency -- in a new letter from Cairo, reflections on the deep causes of a painful national paralysis. North South Notes : https://t.co/SXMhyaHqZ9
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
what a life
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reupping this because we've published some great stuff over the last couple months👇
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this is nuts data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Was reminded of this guy today. Funny to think back to the discourse about him at the time, which cast him as some kind of tribune of the masses. They even made "Rich Men North of Richmond" a focus of the first 2024 GOP presidential debate!
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A Driver’s Fatal Spiral After a Police Officer’s Typo By Livia Albeck-Ripka Police thought they had caught a car thief in San Francisco. Instead, they had mistyped his license plate number, a watchdog agency said, then arrested him with excessive force.
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A Driver’s Fatal Spiral After a Police Officer’s Typo (Gift Article)
Police thought they had caught a car thief in San Francisco. Instead, they had mistyped his license plate number, a watchdog agency said, then arrested him with excessive force.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I truly have no idea how the war in Ukraine is going. For all the talk of how "Kyiv is turning the tide" it seems like things are still pretty dire. Ukraine left exposed as Patriot launchers run empty www.ft.com/content/6448...
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Elon Musk obviously succeeded. The 'vibe shift' was a leveraged buyout --- North South Notes: www.northsouthnotes.org/p/the-vibe-s...
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The 'vibe shift' was a leveraged buyout
Media ownership matters
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
good @vincentbevins.bsky.social blog www.northsouthnotes.org/p/the-vibe-s...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please don’t write in the newspaper 700 years from now that I got absolutely smoked.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
he's also an expert on media, business, technology, politics and whatever else happens to be trending that week
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I hate this dude so much
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Why did you unblock me, exactly?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Vincent Pastore, actor most known for his role as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died at 80
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Vincent Pastore Dies: 'The Sopranos' Star Was 80
Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I must have wildly misjudged how popular Tim Pool was on the right. He's getting fewer YouTube views than Charlie Kirk.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'll bet you could convince people to start purposely getting the diarrhea parasite if you just called it "raw lettuce"
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@milesklee.bsky.social talked to parents who keep receiving AI-generated books featuring their kids as the star. None of the kids enjoy reading them—but their grandparents won't stop gifting them. www.wired.com/story/boomer...
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/07/2026
It looks like the dog is saying this
A woman and a small black dog are lounging on a beige sofa. Under them is the headline "I had my first alcoholic drink at 16. By 26, I was given six months to live." The dog is looking directly into the camera.
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) @mst.org.br is now one of the most famous social movements in the world. But not many people know they run their own publishing house. My interview with Miguel Yoshida, editor of Expressão Popular: www.northsouthnotes.org/p/the-stampede
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The stampede
An interview with Miguel Yoshida, editor of Expressão Popular
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
sometimes you do, unfortunately, have to hand it to them
New York Post cover reading "PIED-A-TERROR" in relation to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's tax policies
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This might seem like standard Atlantic contrarianism but there's a pretty good argument here about taking people's concerns seriously when it comes to Big Pharma, food safety, environmental contaminants, etc., and not letting the charlatans monopolize the space.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ro Khanna?
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
2016 never ended
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
quick question: what the fuck is this
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dang they really got a category for everything
THR
The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
With the renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz, we're maybe just weeks away from a global fuel crunch after countries burned through most of their reserves earlier this year. "We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. www.ft.com/content/6c31...
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
my main take about left-wing tools and tactics is that the "people's microphone" thing needs to stop. also if you're addressing a crowd please just print your remarks on paper. nobody wants to see you stammer through your speech as you squint at your phone screen.
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Is there such a thing as "left-wing" tactics? What about organizational models? Do tools have ideological content? Up now at North South Notes, with input from Serbian students, Rodrigo Nunes in Rio, and Bora Mema in Tirana: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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But leftistly
Do tools have ideological content?
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Taliban have joined the war on smartphones www.npr.org/2026/07/10/g...
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Taliban declares war on smartphones
A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare and educational facilities. Ordinary citizens worry they'll be next.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
when people ask what my job is
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“.. They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
UEFA calls the suspended red card for Folarin Balogun an "unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision."
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UEFA statement on the Balogun case
Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm cheering for whichever team has more Ishmaels playing. Currently that's Morocco.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
kudos for transparency but this is an egregious fuck-up
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NPR retracts story about Alito retirement
A misheard comment led to the error
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Legendary actor Danny Glover reveals on TODAY that he’s been living with Alzheimer’s disease:
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"15-term incumbent" 🫪
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I don't really understand celebrity PR, but if your money depends on the public not hating you isn't this kind of tacky shit just bad for business?
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You'd think that building a lot of solar power would be a climate success story. But rates have fallen dramatically in Spain and investors are trying to get out because they're not making enough. Some are even trying to build data centers to use up more power. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What exactly is a "Gen Z" protest? What does such a label connote about a movement's goals and grievances? The 2024 uprising in Kenya was perhaps the first to get that label. To mark the second anniversary, several brilliant Kenyan writers offered some reflections. Well worth your time!
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The day we became Gen Z — by Njeri Mwangi and Kenya's Organic Intellectual Network — Two years of reflections since the 2024 revolt — North South Notes www.northsouthnotes.org/p/the-day-we...
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The day we became Gen Z
Two years later in Nairobi
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
it's ok bro, just 7 more years
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sitting on the tarmac in Toronto for 2+ hours because our plane had an engine problem that needed to be checked, then a flat tire, and now we can't take off because the ground crew walked away without removing the ramp. Not even mad, just impressed how bad Air Canada is at running an airline.
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