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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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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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"All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff
should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 5h

Why does this #NYTimes report nowhere explain that by far the deadliest drug, #fentanyl, is NOT smuggled from #Venezuela at all? Trump's claim that the U.S. attacks are necessary to save many thousands of American lives is a lie. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 5h

Just for the record: #Chicago's East Side is an old, storied working class area, close to the steel mills that once provided jobs. I grew up near there. Many 4th and 5th-generation Mexican-Americans live there, and they are resisting #ICE, along with their neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 7h

The bias in this #NYTimes headline is just astonishing.

@mondoweiss.net #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 7h

you can't expect much from ESPN who are not really journalists but a cog in the sports gambling industry but the reason Trump is mad at Boston is that they have a supremely effective non-white mayor and not because of crime

www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

Trump threatens to remove WC games from Boston

President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to revoke Boston's World Cup matches if local authorities don't get tougher on crime.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 8h

We don’t know who these people were, and even if they had tons of drugs—you board the motorboat, you don’t murder people on the open ocean.

This is like watching a serial killer count his victims.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 17h

The real problem with journalism today, the artificial fair and balanced ethos that Fox introduced, on full display at NPR.

“Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent.”

That headline should read “ICE tactics are growing more violent.”

It is not conjecture, it is not an opinion, it is fact.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago never disappoints 💪🏽😂

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 2d

Now playing at an airport near you. Kristi Noem’s TSA propaganda video. Watch till the end.

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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 2d

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney redux

James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 2d

Fugitive slave patrols. 1850s. Northern states.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 2d

Trump isn't "blowing up boats." He's "murdering" or "assassinating" people without due process.
Were the editors off duty at the #NYTimes? Or don't #Venezuelans count as "people?"

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 5d

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.

www.truthdig.com

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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 4d

Same here.

James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 4d

Extraordinary bias in the #NYTimes. #Israelis held captive are "hostages." But #Palestinians, most of whom have never been put on trial, are called "prisoners."
@mondoweiss.net

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

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 · 5d

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

www.theguardian.com

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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 5d

Nazi stormtroopers in Halloween costumes.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

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.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

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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 · 10d

#ICE: Nazi stormtroopers in Halloween costumes.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

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.