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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel

@acatwithnews.bsky.social
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Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer. EIC, The Ten Four: latenfour.com Links: linktr.ee/acatwithnews Venmo: venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: SeanCarmitchel@protonmail.com

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Traveling in the lap of luxury today
A sign on a vending machine informing potential customers that it is not owned by Greyhound
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry State supreme court rules Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and says he ‘must refrain from further handling’ of ballots ...
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California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry
State supreme court rules Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and says he ‘must refrain from further handling’ of ballots
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Video of the end of this incident as agents drove off near Dodge and Howard, posted on Facebook:
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This never ended up anywhere, so throwing it up here. One time I interviewed a mime in the middle of one of the country’s first large scale protests against the federal surge in federal deportation raids. Los Angeles, CA 6.14.25
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You know, as a straight white dude I don’t get mansplained to a lot but shoutout the guy at this bar who has been yelling at me about the works of Corinne Day for 20 minutes I guess.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m surprised this isn’t being discussed more over on this app but on the other one Channel Five just admitted giving a free copy of their email subscriber list to an interviewee and that interviewee is Hunter Biden.
An apology message from Channel 5 that ends with “shout out to the homie”
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Genuinely asking here, fellow Jewish people: since Peter Parker is usually ethnically Jewish is it okay for him to break Shabbat to fight Doctor Octopus
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I feel like we don’t talk enough about the fact that one of the main sources of photography from the 1965 March on Selma was Dennis Hopper. www.vanityfair.com/culture/phot...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. making a speech
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Donate to @lcrw.news so Abner & Co can get more of these drinks
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It seems like the theme of the @lcrw.news Cinematic Universe today was “go to a show,” which makes me very happy.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Today I had the distinct pleasure of watching polka rap, klezmer and now polka metal. Today is a good day in Milwaukee at what I’m told is called the “Polka Riot.”
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The most recent video of Tuesday’s LAPD Board of Police Commissioners meeting has an audible sound that sounds like very heavy breathing or snoring. For years, LAPD’s BOPC has been delaying release of their livestream by a day or two saying they needed to clean up audio and do some post processing.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
See some of my photos of some very bloodied people! We are trying to justify a TenFour sports section so click on it please!
Deathmatch wrestler Phil Insane holds a fluorescent light tube above wrestler Joe Dred as Steven Jury pleadsJoe Dred stares at Phil InsanwWrestler Hoodfoot looks with concern at wrestler Phil Insane
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Los Angeles, CA - A few shots for @tenfourla.bsky.social of the 56th Annual Chicano Morarium in Boyle Heights. The 56th Anniversary of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium. Organizers and groups gathered to remember the 1970 Chicano Moratorium and the generations who protested against the Vietnam War.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Los Angeles, CA - Dolly Parton’s star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Still a lot of flowers, candles and well wishes left there.
The Dolly Parton star in Hollywood, CA. The outside is blurry and filled with motion but the center is in focus.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Serious question why the fuck haven’t more people covered Coat of Many Colors? (Yeah I know her version is basically perfect but that never stopped anybody from covering Jolene)
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Looks like even after her death, Dolly Parton’s philanthropy will continue. nationalexaminer.com/dolly-parton...
nationalexaminer.com
Dolly Parton’s Revised Will Leaves Most of Her $500 Million Fortune to Charity
Dolly Parton's estate plans reveal her fortune will support charitable causes, including her Imagination Library literacy program and medical research donations.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jairo Tomico is in the red, white and blue hat recently attempted to participate in a “free speech rally” outside of a mosque in Los Angeles this weekend. He’s attacked several reporters over the last several years at rallies. *MULTIPLE* TenFour reporters have had issues with him over years.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I once took care of Dolly Parton back in the day when I was the wine director of the Hotel Bel-Air. One of the kindest people I’ve ever served. There were a bunch of really big name celebrities there and THEY were starstruck too. She tipped a crazy good amount too.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It helps a lot to support Ten Four while we grow and hopefully at some point become sustainable to support. If you don’t have the money, give a watch all the way through and maybe throw a like or subscribe. It actually really does help a lot. youtu.be/hwO7q_BsieE?...
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Two-man Hate Rally Fails to Find Solace Inside Mosque, Church, Starbucks
YouTube video by TenFourNews
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Ten Four News @tenfourla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
8.23 Right-wing provocateur Eoin Richard tried organizing a “Take Back LA: Free Speech Rally” in Koreatown. They were covered in a blue liquid, calling police and asking workers at a nearby Starbucks for help. A collaboration with @lcrw.news ! 🎥 @gonzotimes.bsky.social youtu.be/hwO7q_BsieE?...
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Proud to have co-edited this piece with @lcrw.news . Amazing, bizarre and surreal photos from @kayjel.bsky.social and @gonzotimes.bsky.social .
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“”Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—& they can do whatever they want,’ Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of [about] 50 white nationalists in Rome,” before adding, “This is a good thing.” 1/
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As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Currently live streaming on YouTube at the Jake lang rally in Dearborn, Michigan where pro-Lang, pro-Palestine, community members, Neo-Nazis and at least two Klan members are assembling into various competing factions and alliances. Lots of guns. Lots of fights. www.youtube.com/live/c83jxtN...
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why is every tik tok recipe review account just hours of them making fundamental changes to some “viral recipe” then complaining about the finished product’s qualities that suggest the “viral recipe” was correct in the first place
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Heading to Dearborn tomorrow. Does anyone have any local restaurant recommendations or coffee shop recommendations to hit up while I’m filing or eating?
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Say what you will about election coverage in this country, you gotta give credit to Kornacki for somehow being allowed to write notes on TV even worse looking than my reporters notebook
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If anyone ever says “we take care of us” in an attempt to stop you from doing something run as far and as fast as you can from that person.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So this whole time there was a cat balaclava wearing two piece band with a theremin playing Yiddish jazz standards and NONE OF YOU TOLD ME?! www.yahoo.com/news/videos/... (If anyone knows these people I would very much like to do a short film about them thank you and yes I’m 100% serious)
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The Hissy Kits: The piano and theremin playing jazz cats from Milwaukee
Possibly the most unique band in Milwaukee is The Hissy Kits. They are piano and theremin playing jazz cats from Milwaukee.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Since Greek literature is de rigeur these days can I just say that our boy Diogenes doesn’t get enough credit for becoming immortalized in serious philosophical discussion by sleeping in a barrel, chilling with dogs all day and beefing with Plato and Alexander the Great
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
At least (there are no official numbers) 60 Muslims died during the World Trade Center attacks. Those include Mohammad Salman Hamdani, an EMT and NYPD Cadet who rushed into the building to assist. Subsequently the CIA investigated his family, wanted posters were spread throughout.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
LAPD has released their proposed After Action Report regarding the 2025 ICE protests (only 6.6-6.17) the Commission is reviewing and (likely) filing on Tuesday Story to come for @tenfourla.bsky.social but here’s the doc and some highlights. www.lapdpolicecom.lacity.org/081126/BPC_2...
A recommendation from Chief McDonnell that the report be reviewed and filed 
A mention of chemical agents being deployed for the first time in decades for crowd control by LAPDMention of the arrest of David HuertaCosts related to staffing LAPD during the ICE protests
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just rewatched the Naked Gun remake and why the fuck haven’t people cast Pamela Anderson in Neo-Noir films yet
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just finished Moby Dick and gotta tell you, whales really are a mammal of contrasts
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I know this is years late to the party but I do think it bears mentioning that amongst the firefighter bars, tequila bars and bars near hospitals in Milwaukee Popes Leo and Benedict are extremely popular. Kind of a fascinating little wrinkle.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Welp
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
An LAPD officer was charged today with illegally recording portions of conversations of officers without the permission of those who were recorded. The officer recorded them in an attempt to blow the whistle on sexist, homophobic and racist remarks, then handed them to LAPD’s internal affairs.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Words and photos by @kayjel.bsky.social - excited to venture into the world of professional ass kicking at its most extreme level over at @tenfourla.bsky.social Also, both great follows
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s my 40th birthday! And before my appointment with the Glue Factory, I set up a new online Print Shop / Gallery. I’d appreciate you taking a look or even saying some kind things, because THE WEIGHT of forty is hitting me. seancarmitchel.gallery.aftershoot.com/collection/s...
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey everyone! Doing some birthday housekeeping. Please follow @tenfourla.bsky.social for specifically news stuff. It’s a great, scrappy outlet and could use your eyes and follows. I’m the EIC over there, I promise it’s worth it. You’ll still see my sparkling personality and reporting here as well.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So I’m not going to get into it too much but we are taking a day or two off here at Ten Four. Also I don’t know who else needs to know this but some beef sticks apparently do need to be refrigerated.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I’ve never cared much for using Barbie as a put down implying women are dumb because ok fine you go be a Swim Instructor Gymnast Rapping Fashion Designer Ballerina Surgeon then if you think you’re so cool
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The wild thing about Wisconsin DUI laws is I’ve been punished for parking in the wrong spot in Los Angeles worse than someone who blows above a .08 BAC and gets behind the wheel in Wisconsin www.nfl.com/news/nfl-ana...
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NFL analyst, former Cowboys QB Tony Romo arrested on suspicion of OWI
CBS NFL analyst and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has been arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle while under the influence.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A few more personal shots taken at the vigil for Corey Ruiz in Madison, WI today. I think they capture the three most common emotions at the vigil. 1) A family member of Ruiz 2) A Pastor 3) A protest organized with PSL
A woman in front of candles.A man with a clerical collar surrounded by shadowsA man with a smile and a fist up.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Greetings! I’m in Madison, WI at the vigil for Corey Ruiz. There’s a planned protest currently, a few dozen people are congregating around a large wooden fist emblazoned with “Black Power” and candles for Ruiz. The fist went up sometime today. Some b/g: apnews.com/article/core...
Candles and flowers as well as messages of mourning for Corey Ruiz. A black power fist is at center frame, on the left people are laying flowers.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Greetings! I’m in Madison, WI to cover the Corey Ruiz shooting. A planned community listening session has been postponed. I’m told council president Sabrina Madison will be at the vigil. (On my way to the vigil)
A notice of postponement for a vigil for Corey Ruiz
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23/07/2026
"Not only was LA the first testing ground for aggressive federal immigration enforcement, it also has a gruesome history of extreme violence by Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department against both protesters and press," @adamrose.bsky.social says.
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Local Law Enforcement in Los Angeles Emerges Epicenter of Crowd-Control Weapon Misuse, New Report Finds
Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026, according to a r…
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hitting Madison, WI to cover the Corey Ruiz shooting and whatever resulting things happen there. Feel free to say hello or throw me some pointers. Looking like I’ll be there starting tomorrow.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New photos and words from me at the Ten Four: Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026. latenfour.com/2026/07/22/l...
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Local Law Enforcement in Los Angeles Emerges Epicenter of Crowd-Control Weapon Misuse, New Report Finds
Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026, according to a r…
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Since there’s a Vice episode about his legendary march with Samoa Joe, thought I’d share this photo of Necro Butcher I took last year.
A professional wrestler with glasses and cuts on his forehead sits on a bench.
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