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James North

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Covering the Global South for 51 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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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h
Four Times reporters, 53 paragraphs, and no mention of AIPAC’s new stealth strategy: hiding Israel and running ads on unrelated issues in primaries. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/new-... #Palestine #Israel
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 13h
In the #NYTimes, a 53-paragraph article on #AIPAC, the #Israel lobby's flagship. But not a single sentence explaining that Israel is now so unpopular that AIPAC has to hide its real motives when it donates to U.S. politicians. My post @mondoweiss.net. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/new-...
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New York Times report on AIPAC hides a central truth about Israel’s unpopularity
Four Times reporters, 53 paragraphs, and no mention of AIPAC’s new stealth strategy: hiding Israel and running ads on unrelated issues in primaries.
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 13h
F_ck ICE
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This should be made into an ad and run non-stop on every channel until the election is over.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h
“Another longtime resident, Carlos Rodriguez, said he felt ‘soiled’ by ICE’s presence in his neighborhood. ‘I need to take a shower and clean off the filth that comes into my ambit of being,’ he said.”
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 13h
In the #NYTimes, a 53-paragraph article on #AIPAC, the #Israel lobby's flagship. But not a single sentence explaining that Israel is now so unpopular that AIPAC has to hide its real motives when it donates to U.S. politicians. My post @mondoweiss.net. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/new-...
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New York Times report on AIPAC hides a central truth about Israel’s unpopularity
Four Times reporters, 53 paragraphs, and no mention of AIPAC’s new stealth strategy: hiding Israel and running ads on unrelated issues in primaries.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Crowds of protesters outer 26 Federal Plaza where ICE has its main offices now.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Your regular reminder that the job of an ICE officer is dramatically safer than the job of a regular cop, such that not a single ICE deportation officer has been killed in the line of duty since 1949 (and that was actually a stabbing inside an INS jail in Hawaii, not street enforcement).
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Washington Post struggles to sabotage James #Talarico's increasingly successful #Texas Senate campaign with dishonest irrelevance.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 09/10/2026
No speech, title, or presidential ambition can scrub that death toll from Rubio’s legacy. In this upcoming election, from local races to national contests, voting against anyone running as a Republican reminds the entire party that its power has limits.
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Up to 700,000 people estimated to have died due to USAid cuts, Minister to say
Neale Richmond to tell EU ministers that cuts to international development cost lives
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Flat-out cowardly journalism: NYT calls DOJ’s malicious and illegal witch hunt “star-crossed” and says it “continued the erosion of the principle that politics must be kept strictly separate from federal law enforcement.” “Erosion”? It is long gone. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“At a press conference, Espaillat said that he attempted to visit the shooting victim in the hospital, but was prevented from doing so by federal authorities. ‘I went to the hospital to see the victim,’ Espaillat said, ‘but we were not allowed by ICE agents to go in the room.’”
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#ICE in action this afternoon in New York City.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
After an extraordinary 322 days at sea, nearly a year away from their loved ones, the sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are finally home! 🇺🇸 These sailors and their families have sacrificed so much. They deserve every hug, every tear, and every bit of this incredible homecoming. WELCOME HOME!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/10/2026
New Yorkers: Do you have a form of immigration relief called withholding of removal? Have you received an ICE letter summoning you to 26 Federal Plaza? Here’s what  you can do:

1. Call our Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365, or call 311 and say "Immigration Legal" for free, confidential help in your native language.

2. Fill out our intake form to get help from the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative: nyc.gov/RRLC

3. Make a plan. Make sure you have an emergency contact and that someone you trust has your A-number. Talk to a lawyer before making any decisions.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Check this out: www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Why French Students Are Revolting
France’s education system is stretched to its limits, as student anger kicks off a hot fall protest season.
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Mybrid Wonderful @mybrid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are slowly waking up to the fact that there is only one Earth that we all share. (Why is we all okay and you all not?) Nations are nonsense. Enter mesh society with no nations. Can we wake up fast enough?
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
U.S. Democrats should immediately and loudly proclaim that they will end Trump's support for the far right-wing #Bolsonaro family as soon as possible. #Brazil #Lula @murosinvisibles.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Brazil Elections Head to Runoff Between Lula and Bolsonaro Son
Neither President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nor his top challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro, won a majority of votes in the first round. But for now, Mr. Bolsonaro is leading the race.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 2022, I wrote @thenation.com that #Brazil's president #Lula was the most important person on the planet confronting the climate emergency. I'm still right. If he loses, the rainforest will start burning again. @greggrandin.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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A Habitable Earth Depends on Lula
The Amazon rain forest is disappearing. We must help Brazil silence the chain saws.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
U.S. Democrats should immediately and loudly proclaim that they will end Trump's support for the far right-wing #Bolsonaro family as soon as possible. #Brazil #Lula @murosinvisibles.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Brazil Elections Head to Runoff Between Lula and Bolsonaro Son
Neither President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nor his top challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro, won a majority of votes in the first round. But for now, Mr. Bolsonaro is leading the race.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 2022, I wrote @thenation.com that #Brazil's president #Lula was the most important person on the planet confronting the climate emergency. I'm still right. If he loses, the rainforest will start burning again. @greggrandin.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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A Habitable Earth Depends on Lula
The Amazon rain forest is disappearing. We must help Brazil silence the chain saws.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extraordinary, in Bloomberg. An accurate headline would say: "Multinational Mining Giants Demand That Organized Miners in #Bolivia Surrender Their Already Limited Labor Rights." @greggrandin.bsky.social @murosinvisibles.bsky.social
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wrote about the Trump ads newrepublic.com/post/216153/...
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Trump’s Illegal Campaign Ads Are an Admission of Defeat
Even as the administration pummels the airwaves with slopaganda, Republicans are panicking about the president’s drag on their electoral ambitions.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the same Mike Pompeo that smeared Jamal in his book. This is who Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs believes should be teaching the next generation of global leaders. share.google/3e5Yp0xTLu8J...
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Washington Post blasts Pompeo's "shameful" remarks on Jamal Khashoggi
Pompeo made the remarks in his new book.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extraordinary, in Bloomberg. An accurate headline would say: "Multinational Mining Giants Demand That Organized Miners in #Bolivia Surrender Their Already Limited Labor Rights." @greggrandin.bsky.social @murosinvisibles.bsky.social
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As a transphobic male senator, there is nothing more important to me than protecting women's sports. Here's why it never occurred to me that Jack Smith, a man, would choose to attend a women's college basketball game. by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 01/10/2026
This is exciting! I still mourn the death of the Washington Post magazine (so quick! so stupid!)
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yet another report you won't see in the #NYTimes. But it was in @haaretzcom.bsky.social, #Israel's paper of record. A suggestion to the top brass at the #NYT, the Washington Post and CNN: poach Haaretz staff and run their reports -- instead of your usual whitewashes. @mondoweiss.net
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/10/2026
Women in Gaza who lost their husbands in the genocide are caught between the need to work and the pain of leaving their children alone, susceptible to Israeli violence. According to the UN, these women now represent 1 in 4 households in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/in-g...
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Inside Gaza’s ‘widows camp,’ where women now support their families alone
Women in Gaza who lost their husbands in the genocide are caught between the need to work and the pain of leaving their children alone, susceptible to Israeli violence. According to the UN, these…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yet another report you won't see in the #NYTimes. But it was in @haaretzcom.bsky.social, #Israel's paper of record. A suggestion to the top brass at the #NYT, the Washington Post and CNN: poach Haaretz staff and run their reports -- instead of your usual whitewashes. @mondoweiss.net
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the U.S. mainstream media reports this prominently, Trump will sink even further. #Diesel
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump’s intervention in Brazilian elections undermines a basic and generally cherished right to self-determination, as well as the right to democracy itself. It is even clearly illegal under the Charter of the Organization of American States, to which the US is a signatory.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/09/2026
More of this please dems!
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DeedsMcDeeDee @deedeedeeds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m with Jack. He should be the next Attorney General.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Extraordinary bias in the #NYTimes. Multiple human rights groups charge #Israel with #apartheid in occupied West Bank #Palestine. Senate Democrats vote for an investigation. How is this "punitive?" @mondoweiss.net
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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