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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s not a big deal at all, but my state fair operators have demolished the food stands that make the fair a fair and replaced it with a big grey box that will have a food hall. At this point, just cancel fall and cancel me. nothing matters anymore.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bowie State is firing 20 faculty, including multiple tenured Black faculty. Administrators claim it's to address a deficit that could be easily covered by a recent $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. This story should be getting more attention in Maryland and nationally.

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Bowie State University to lay off 20 faculty members amid $18 million deficit

Roughly 20 faculty members at Bowie State University, at least one of them tenured, have been told they won’t have a job next year as administrators seek to curb the historically Black university’s $1...

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Paul Coates, Katie Mitchell, Char Adams and I are discussing "Black Bookstores: Past, Present and Future" this Thursday at the University of Baltimore. Drop by if you're local or just in town for #awp! Everyone's Place will be on hand selling copies of Black-Owned and Prose to the People. #awp2026

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I’m looking forward to this conversation *tomorrow* at @redemmas.org with @historianheather.bsky.social about her new book Fear and Fury on how vigilante NYC subway shooter Bernard Goetz’s attack on four Black teenagers paved the way for our current political era of white rage and vigilantism.

Heather Ann Thompson presents "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" in conversation with Joshua Clark Davis
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH 2026
7:00 PM
RED EMMA'S

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Looking forward to our discussion on "Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance" this Thursday at the Schomburg with @madameclair08.bsky.social @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and Robyn Spencer-Antoine!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

American Federation of Government Employees union president condemns the murder of AFGE Council 238 member Alex Pretti by ICE.

EPA Union President Condemns Murder of AFGE Member Alex Pretti
NATIONWIDE — Following the murder of Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse and AFGE member, by federal agents in Minneapolis, AFGE Council 238 President Justin Chen released the following statement:
“AFGE Council 238 condemns the appalling murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents. As a fellow AFGE member who dedicated his life to serving veterans as a VA ICU nurse, the murder of our union brother Alex Pretti is an unconscionable act of violence and a betrayal of the values federal workers are sworn to uphold.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Pam Bondi should stop spending her time weaponizing the DOJ against Trump's critics and start, you know, actually following the law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline

Over 2 million documents are under DoJ review despite ‘legal obligation’ from Epstein Files Transparency Act

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16/01/2026

"Los Angeles County was the second deadliest jail system in the United States in 2025." "46 people died in-custody, nearly one person a week." "[D]ismal living conditions: smeared feces, rats scampering around, holes in the walls, and missed meals." #California #USA #Drugs #Food #Incarceration

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Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year

Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by ICE after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test."

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Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check

“They didn’t ask very many questions.” Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a ...

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/01/2026

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

RIP #ClaudetteColvin. This is the arrest record from when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, nearly 6 months before Rosa Parks did the same. Note how small her fingers appear, compared to Parks' fingers. Colvin was only 15 years old.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"ICE said the van tried to run the agents over and three agents opened fire on the vehicle, injuring the driver...But county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, when he was hurt."

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Anne Arundel County Police dispute ICE’s account of Glen Burnie shooting

A deadly shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis on Wednesday renewed scrutiny of a violent Christmas Eve incident involving ICE agents in Glen Burnie, with Anne Arundel County ...

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Piper French @psfrench.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

People tend to associate law enforcement repression of black activism w/ the naked violence of Birmingham or the Panthers vs the FBI. That's not the whole story. I reviewed a new book abt local police surveillance of the civil rights movement for @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2028...

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How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups

Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The University of Alabama is claiming two student publications violate federal law because one of them focuses on women students and the other on Black students, and it has shut them both down.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.

Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance
After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call. by Joshua Clark Davis

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

"Siembra NC was at the center of a counter-movement that saw thousands quickly mobilize in churches, neighborhoods, and schools across North Carolina...They also began training an army of volunteers across the state to monitor Border Patrol activity and ensure the safety of immigrant communities."

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How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown

“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.

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Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Proud to see that two of our favorite author interviews each made the NYT Best Non-Fiction list this year! Well-deserved congratulations to John J. Lennon (The Tragedy of True Crime, OA1210) and Professor Michelle Adams (The Containment, OA 1198)

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Baltimore and Atlanta: I'm doing two more talks in 2025. Two cities that have been home, and I'm looking forward to both. Tues, 12/02 at the Enoch Pratt Central Library with Senator Emerita @jillpc.bsky.social + Thur, 12/04 at Auburn Ave Research Library with @jduffyrice.bsky.social. Come say hello!

Cover of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back

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Maddi O’Neill @maddioneill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My latest: In 2015, a Cumberland police officer told his boss he'd had "filthy" conversations with a high schooler. In 2020, Cumberland city leaders made that officer chief of police.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Shout out to Petey Pablo for standing up to ICE!

On Sunday, as ICE agents began their descent on Charlotte, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino posted a video on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, with a familiar soundtrack.

The video features Petey Pablo's 2001 hit "Raise Up" played over footage of federal agents traveling to the city and making arrests.

Pablo confirmed he did not authorize the use of his song in the video.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Anticipatory obedience in "the city too busy to hate," where local council members have renamed the DEI office the "Office of One Atlanta.

Atlanta officials quietly rebrand city’s DEI office
The City Council recently passed an ordinance changing the equity office to the ‘Office of One Atlanta.’

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If you haven’t picked up a copy of Police Against the Movement yet, what are you waiting for? Essential for anyone who studies civil rights, political movements, surveillance, or policing.

A cover of the book Police against the Movment: the sabotage of the civil rights struggle and the activists who fought back by Joshua Clark Davis

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Absurd how the Washington Post is normalizing federal troops occupying U.S. cities by describing opposition to occupation as a "challenge facing business leaders with roots in liberal communities."

Washington Post headline: How a tech billionaire philanthropist got caught between Trump and San Francisco
Backlash over the Salesforce CEO’s now-retracted suggestion of a National Guard deployment highlights the challenge facing business leaders with roots in liberal communities as they navigate Trump’s second term.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts. And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more. Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️

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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back

Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Educat...

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 07/11/2025

“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” @codepink.bsky.social co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.”

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We’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism

“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don't think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out o...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Tomorrow (Nov 6) at 7:00pm EST, The Word Is Change welcomes @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social for a discussion with @chenjerai.bsky.social on his book, Police Against the Movement, shattering the myth that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it Learn more: buff.ly/OVXgWpc

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with @chenjerai.bsky.social next Thursday, 11/06 at the Word is Change!

Please join us as we help launch Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis in conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Thursday November 6th.

Police Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, activists confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing department headquarters, and blocking traffic to protest officer misdeeds. In return, organizers found themselves the targets of overwhelming political repression in the form of police surveillance, infiltration by undercover officers, and retaliatory prosecutions aimed at derailing their movement.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with @chenjerai.bsky.social next Thursday, 11/06 at the Word is Change!

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

GALLATIN HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE SPEAKER SERIES ON LAW, AUTHORITARIANISM AND DISSENT: POLICING AND COUNTERINSURGENCY

Chenjerai Kumanyika (New York University), Stuart Schrader (John Hopkins Univerisity), Christina Heatherton (Trinity College)

THURSDAY, OCT 30 2025
IN-PERSON EVENT
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Center
255 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On
September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking
in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr.
O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on
his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened
to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording
and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant
MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in
essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him
from continuing his peaceful protest.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Judges in every courthouse in the country should be doing this.

County judge in Chicago area bars ICE from arresting people at court, by the Associated Press

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I'll be in conversation with Judy Richardson of SNCC tomorrow at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue!

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