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Clarence Okoh

@clarenceokoh.bsky.social

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Civil rights attorney & writer focused on race, technology & the law. Co-founder of the @noticecoalition.bsky.social Alabama native fluent in country grammar & cuisine. www.clarenceokoh.com Posts are my own

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · Jan 24

Interested in learning how folks protect Black & Brown youth from Big Tech & AI-powered surveillance, discipline, censorship & criminalization? #School2PrisonPipeline2.0
Do you want to see how we can envision liberated futures with young people? Then follow @noticecoalition.bsky.social

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 18h

I never have the expectation that all Black people will line up together. My view is built around meaningful political solidarity, not just identity-based solidarity.” -- Cathy J. Cohen

Building a Political Home | @bostonreview.bsky.social with Brandon Terry
www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

www.bostonreview.net

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Everything that's happening is because a majority of white Americans would rather oversee a country on fire than be a smidgen less racist

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate:

❌ 27 blue congressional districts
❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats
❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats

And the effects could ripple for over a generation.

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 2d

It was a lot of fun writing this piece & reflecting on how the @noticecoalition.bsky.social builds grassroots infrastructure to fight against AI surveillance and algorithmic injustice impacting youth and young adults! More to come just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/no-...

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 2d

At this point I can't tell if the absurdity is part of the propaganda or if they genuinely believe this is merit. Or both?

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

Perfect example of what they mean by meritocracy.

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣😢🤣 www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

Even though New York, Washington, Colorado, and Maryland can’t redistrict in time for 2026 — they need to be laying the groundwork to draw new maps for ‘28.

SCOTUS could give the GOP up to 19 new seats by striking down the VRA. We can’t be caught off guard. We need to be ready to cancel them out.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social · 3d

Our teammate @clarenceokoh.bsky.social co-authored this wonderful essay about a fellowship program that the @noticecoalition.bsky.social created to imagine and enact freedom from the violence that AI is wreaking on marginalized communities, particulary Black youth. Read + share!

“No Data about Us without Us”: An Afrofuturist Reflection on Digital Liberation

Here, Chelsea Barabas and Clarence Okoh (a 2022 Just Tech Fellow) reflect on the work of the No Data about Us without Us Fellowship (NDAUWU), a program of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization...

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 4d

This is a modern Fugitive Slave Act. Federal agents going into free states raiding buildings, busting down doors, and snatching up children. Rounding up every person of color without papers and sending them god knows where. If the government can do this, you are not a free person.

Poster from antebellum era cautioning colored people in Boston of kidnappers and slave catchers.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 5d

I'm beyond grateful for the millions more who are fighting back and working their asses off every day for all of us. But it's just sad af seeing how down bad so many people are rn

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 5d

It's so wild that millions of people will accept an authoritarian takeover so long as they collect a paycheck every two weeks & have stable Internet connection. COVID & capitalism completely hollowed us out. The only freedom we value is consumption & convenience. A bunch of dollar tree zombies

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · 7d

The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected.

So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure.

If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 8d

The fall of Chappelle is so tragic. I'm old enough to remember when he left the country to avoid money. Now he's out here tap dancing for dirty dollars. He's just a bitter & hateful old rich man doing dated stand-up. His art used to challenge power & privilege. Now he's become it.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

Stand up comedians go in the same vocational bucket to me as podcasters where the ones I enjoy are some of the most talented and wonderful people in the world but at a baseline I regard them as human scum

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 8d

Ughh I hate autocorrect, it's "insidious" not "industrious" lol although the second kinda applies too bc these ideas are produced at an industrial scale

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 8d

In the US, we are conditioned from childhood to devalue historical atrocities against nonwhite people— if we are ever taught about them at all. It reflects a racial hierarchy of human life that shapes how we interpret the world around us today. It's industrious, but it can be unlearned

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 8d

A big tell is when they can only compare ICE raids to Nazis and never to slave patrols or white settler violence. It's low-key a sign of internalized racism.

Ask yourself why authoritarianism is a *foreign* concept in your imagination? Who taught you that? Who benefits from that thinking?

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 8d

My favorite armchair comment is Americans don‘t understand authoritarianism, because so many of you don’t count Black people as Americans. Learn the history or shut up.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 8d

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. 🏴‍☠️

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 8d

Not sure if you've ever read Rudy's three-part series "Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space" from a couple of years ago but it's great grounding for the work he and the team have done since then.

blog.rudyfraser.com/blacksky-par...

Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space (Part 3)

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. - Black Panther Party 10 Point Program

blog.rudyfraser.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 9d

This is very bad journalism. The experts cited are highly controversial figures that do not reflect the consensus of the field. Suggesting that the military use predictive policing as an "evidence based" strategy against civilians is reckless, unethical & irresponsible. I expect more @npr.org

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 10d

Should've said Nicki....

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 25d

I'm so happy for her and her family, this is such great news. But also.... Somebody needs to take Offset's phone away from him IMMEDIATELY. Delete all socials. Cancel his TV subscription. And book a six month silent meditation retreat. we not doing any more Jerry Springer theatrics

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25d

Cardi B tells Gayle King she and her boyfriend Stefon Diggs are having a child: