@jamesnorth7.bsky.social
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.
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
06.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
06.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 45 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
Every time DHS agencies want sympathy for their agents, they float these accusations but give zero proof just like Noem does here. BULLSHIT.
06.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 208 🔁 58 💬 13 📌 16
🧵 of articles I’ve wriiten to help you understand the immigration engircenent agencies.
When you say these cannot be real agents & they will be held accountable, I’ve got some bad news for you. 1/
open.substack.com/pub/jennbudd...
Contrast this weak, timid, inaccurate headline in the #NYTimes with the truthful one below from #Israel's leading newspaper. @mondoweiss.net #Gaza
05.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I’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👇🏽
'"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.”'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCE9...
This #NYTimes headline is beyond belief.
#GazaGenocide
#ICE: Nazi stormtroopers in Halloween costumes.
05.10.2025 01:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.”
Just posting this. Everyone knows why.
05.10.2025 00:30 — 👍 5488 🔁 2163 💬 91 📌 81Contrast this weak, timid, inaccurate headline in the #NYTimes with the truthful one below from #Israel's leading newspaper. @mondoweiss.net #Gaza
05.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jake Tapper and other mainstream U.S. media figures will wax poetic about free speech, but they ignore when advocates for Palestine are targeted, or even jailed, for speaking out.
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/jake...
#Palestine #Israel
Rs are lying and changing the subject, because even their own voters like Medicaid, Medicare and ACA benefits. So they invent “illegal aliens” getting benefits.
04.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 223 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 0
You will not see the equivalent headline in the #NYTimes, or other U.S. mainstream outlets. Amos Harel is not some extremist, but the military correspondent for #Israel's leading newspaper, @haaretzcom.bsky.social. @mondoweiss.net #Gaza #Palestine
04.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn't accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...
#Palestine #Israel
Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
Agreed. Medicaid has stringent requirements, which you have to renew regularly. Unlike, say, trading in crypto currency.
03.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.
www.wabe.org/family-says-...
Good @gregsargent.bsky.social chat with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Murphy is one of the most alert and observant politicians in the Democratic Party
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Ongoing theme: student-run @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social is place for news on Trump's attempts to take down Harvard.
Eg today: cuts Harvard already making, because of $ Trump has illegally (per court ruling) frozen. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
College papers overall the go-to news source
A result of the #TrumpGovernmentShutdown.
03.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just for the record, this is personal. I grew up in the South Shore neighborhood in #Chicago. So did Michelle Robinson Obama. Many veterans come from our neighborhood. None of us there could have ever expected that one day South Shore would be invaded by undisciplined, un-American thugs.
#ICE
What a progression.
From:
Edward R. Murrow
Walter Cronkite
Dan Rather
To:
Bari Weiss
This soldier has a beard. So I guess there would be no room for him in #PeteHegseth's army.
02.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
An honor richly deserved.
What a progression.
From:
Edward R. Murrow
Walter Cronkite
Dan Rather
To:
Bari Weiss
Agreed.
02.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just for the record, this is personal. I grew up in the South Shore neighborhood in #Chicago. So did Michelle Robinson Obama. Many veterans come from our neighborhood. None of us there could have ever expected that one day South Shore would be invaded by undisciplined, un-American thugs.
#ICE
