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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's journalistic malpractice to write an article about a lawsuit but not include a link or a pdf in this day and age.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

95% of my practice is representing people facing criminal charges, suspension, and firing for protesting UC investment in companies that profit from war crimes in Palestine. As it prosecutes these anti-genocide protesters, the UC system unironically advertises itself as the home of free speech.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of Obama's greatest failures and a great lesson about reform v abolition. Instead of closing Guantanamo, he created a task force to study it. Instead of releasing people, he reduced the population. Obama's reformist approach is why it still exists for Trump to cage human beings.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Closing the Workhouse didn't cause deaths at the Justice Center. They didn't start torturing people in"restraint chair," hiring monsters as guards, or sexually assaulting people because the Workhouse closed. They've always done this and City leadership has always known. Don't pretend now.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Noura Erakat has more courage than virtually every single member of Congress put together. She's clear about the law and her principles, and is willing to risk arrest for what's right. But that's not even what happened. She was arrested for exercising her right to speak at a public hearing.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."

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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

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Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

42 years ago, Steven Van Zandt organized artists including Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Run-DMC, Lou Reed, Bono, Keith Richards, George Clinton, Kurtis Blow, and Herbie Hancock to stop playing South Africa to protest apartheid. It made a difference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR2...

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Muhammad Ali Risked It All When He Opposed The Vietnam War

Muhammad Ali wasn't The Greatest just because of boxing. Arrested for draft dodging. Stripped of his right to box. Shunned by fellow athletes. Threatened with prison. He never went back on his opposition to the racism and cruelty of the Vietnam War. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/muhamm...

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He chose his beliefs over his boxing career.

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Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Why can't you buy a house and or afford your rent? Why do cities say there's no money for schools, transit, or healthcare? It's not "market forces;" it's fifty years of deliberate conservative and neoliberal policy. Listen to @thedigradio.bsky.social for more. thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

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Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

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⚡GENDER DISPLAY NAME FEVER⚡ @displaynamefever.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I represent faculty, students, and community members across the UC system facing firing, suspension and jail because of their opposition to US funded war crimes in Palestine. They have nothing close to the protections Ed Sheeran's money and fame provides him, but they have far more courage.

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Freedom Fries. What the fucking fuck was that shit?! OMG France won't take part in our phony war!!! Better change the name of fries then.

Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What I remember the most about 9/11 is torture, Guantanamo bay, extraordinary rendition, warrantless wiretapping, anticipatory self-defense justifications for war the Iraq war, and paper thin representations of "patriotism" like freedom fries and american flag lapel pins---precursor to MAGA hats.

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a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The War on Terror" was probably the exact opposite of the correct reaction to 9/11. Maybe a bit of self-reflection, withdrawing from the Middle East maybe, turning down the Empire a touch. But no: mass murder and racism.

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Emmogene 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @emmogene.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Agreed. It gave cover for racism/white nationalism. 9/11 drummed up a need for vengeance via the Iraq War. It allowed the neocons to justify torture and indefinite imprisonment of “enemy combatants.”

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Yep. Ffs, the subsequent 15 years of blockbuster tv shows featured Muslims as villain/s. Hell, “24” and “Homeland” alone launched the careers of hundreds of Muslim actors beloved today. Arguably, that’s why White nationalist terror has been so hard to believe since Charlottesville. #nine11 #USA

Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 10/09/2026

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I started as a regular columnist for Hearst CT in January 2003. One of my early columns was titled "Bush in a China Shop." It still holds up all these years later. sarahdarerlittman.com/wp-content/u...

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Yulia @yuliasilvae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A fearful and paranoid citizenry is easier to control. I remember a massive anti-Islamic propaganda machine. I remember my nonwhite friends being spat on, abused, cursed, harassed, fearful. I remember a constant thrum of paranoia.

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AlyceMiller @alycemiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Exactly.

Monica V @classyearlgrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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🙋🏻‍♀️ me too

Stephanie @sfor4th.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Have you read Ghost Wars? You just summed it up perfectly

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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remember attacking a country that DIDN'T ATTACK US and blaming it on 9/11. I remember the loathsome stupidity of "Freedom Fries" (though it seems pretty mild now) and sending troops to fight in the desert w/o enough armor, ammunition of WATER.

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christiancults.bsky.social @christiancults.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Funny how America can remember the 3k plus killed but don't remember the 100,000 Iraqis killed by America for something they didn't do to America.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This great piece from @radleybalko.bsky.social explains more. Bush said the terrorists would win if we didn't give up our rights. Obama more eloquently justified drone murder, including USians, based on the same theory of power. Now Trump is taking it all further. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...

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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You're going to see a lot of ridiculous coverage of 9/11 and American unity soon. That's not what I remember. I remember presidents lying, rampant torture, indiscriminate murder, and an entire legal system weaponized against Muslims and Arabs---which paved the way for the fascism we have now.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

17 years ago today, I got sworn in as a lawyer and started taking cases. That was the first official day of legal work at ArchCityDefenders with MJ and John. Proud of what we started and couldn't be prouder of what Blake, Jacki, Z, Will, Inez, and so many others have kept building.

Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As we approach 25 years since 9/11, don't forget that even Ron Paul in 2008 knew the official story was bullshit. "Have you read about the reasons they attacked us?...They don't attack us because we're rich and we're free. They attack us because we're over there." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7d...

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Terrorism: Ron Paul vs. Giuliani @ SC Debate

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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After LAPD citations, MacArthur Park street vendors demand repeal of anti-camping law. Street vendors said they’re afraid this law will be used to target them and unhoused people before the 2028 Olympics. lapublicpress.org/2026/09/lapd...

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After LAPD citations, MacArthur Park street vendors demand repeal of anti-camping law

Street vendors said they’re afraid this law will be used to target them and unhoused people before the 2028 Olympics.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have you seen these horrible videos coming out of the U.S. of young women being kidnapped off the street by ICE? Can I send them to Steven Cheung?

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is what anyone who protests genocide faces in the UC system Jay Sures, the Vice Chair of United Talent Agency and a UC Regent, suing them individually for protest. We beat Sures in this case and he had to pay our fees. But the fight goes on for so many others. www.jns.org/news/u-s-new...

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University of California system ‘figured out’ response to Jew-hatred after ‘real slowness,’ Jewish regent says

“I think they allowed it to go on too long—the protests, everything,” Jonathan (“Jay”) Sures, one of 26 regents of the public school system, told JNS.

Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just a reminder that you have to simultaneously fight the fascists and the NAACP for real progress on decarceration. New report undermines the achievement of local racial justice organizing, gives the City cover for jail deaths, and ensures more people, mostly Black men, will be incarcerated.

Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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I have a student who was at these protests in April 2024 who is still on probation. she has been harassed not just by admin for this whole time, but weirdly by their weaponizing of AI to draft hundreds of pages of nonsensical complaints against her

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've represented Dylan for nearly 2 years in a series of increasingly ridiculous hearings aimed at suppressing pro-Palestine speech. Excited to file this case against UCLA and hope to create more space for people speaking out against genocide. Lawsuit here. adc.org/wp-content/u...

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Keep your radical friends close. Never let them talk to Democrats. Van Jones was once a radical: a communist abolitionist who denounced American imperialism on 9/11. Then the Democrat consultants and Obama got to him. By the time Bezos gave him $100 million it was already over. Now this.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you read 30 paragraphs, you make it to what should have been the main point of this story. Police are a drain on the City’s resources, which means they can’t provide housing, treatment, and services for the people our society has abandoned.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've been a lawyer for 17 years representing unhoused people, protesters, people in prisons and jails. I've always been able to find law firm co-counsel to help out. Now that I rep pro-Palestine clients, that’s over. Reach out if you have courage and want to help. We have plenty of cases.

Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just one of the obvious ways media trains you to have negative feelings about unhoused people. Imagine alternative headlines: “Homeowner embezzles millions” “Mansion owner rapes girlfriend" They would never publish a headline like that. Why this one? www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

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Homeless man charged in stabbing north of downtown St. Louis

The victim was seriously injured in the incident Aug. 6 on North 14th, according to court records.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AOC dismisses police abolition as crazy 12 years to the day Mike Brown was murdered by Darren Wilson in Ferguson. Could this clown be any more disrespectful? Not only to his parents, but to the people who came to the streets to demand no more police murder, catalyzing a national movement.

Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you ever wondered what the great liberals at the New York Times would have done in Weimar Germany, pay close attention to how they urgently ask why today's authoritarians don’t immorally and unethically destroy more lives in service of their own open racism.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of the founding fathers had a 1000 page 1st person manuscript detailing the history of the american revolution. Instead of telling the truth about the founders, he burned the whole thing. Explicitly so the lies we now call history would become US propaganda. rayraphael.com/Founding_Myt...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jonathan Porritt has been arrested. As he says "trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

You have to stop reading the Atlantic and the New York Times. They exist to defend a corporate, neoliberal, war mongering democratic party bent on being slightly less evil than actual fascists. Start reading Current Affairs, Black Agenda Report, Hammer and Hope, and Dropsite News, among others.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I worked with many people for years to end the racism and exploitation in Missouri’s municipal courts. We made amazing progress. But everytime you think the battle was decisive, remember that Ferguson’s Stephanie Karr is still a prosecutor and former muni judge Wesley Bell is now a congressman.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Perfect illustration of police’s role in society: when you protest for better living conditions, lower rent, higher wages, an end to mass killing, or racial justice, they send the cops or the military to crush you. Even the firefighters who actually protect people in danger. x.com/GrandserreSy...

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Sylvain GRANDSERRE (@GrandserreSylv1) on X

Rappel en image de la réponse de Macron et d'Édouard Philippe aux revendications des #pompiers (15/10/2019).

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And firing all ICE agents, supervisors & staff. Shutting ICE down completely. Redirecting all the funds towards visa processing & other neglected parts of the actual immigration system.