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Jonathon Booth

@jboothhistory.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder Current projects: The Legal Architecture of Emancipation Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective jonathonbooth.com

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · Jan 14

So happy that my article about the origins and first decades of the Atlanta Police is finally out!

It traces the institutional development of the department, the discourses of Black criminality that underlaid racist policing, and protest against the police.

lawreview.colorado.edu/print/volume...

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Just like the way rich conservatives will always send their kids to ivy league colleges

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3h

Was it like this in the gilded age? Rockefeller was a but kooky but was anyone this dumb?

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3h

Does genuinely seem like a bad thing that every rich person is completely deluded now

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3h

What happened to this woman is simply a crime and should be treated as such by the cook county states attorney

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 5h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 4h

I mean if federal agents started brutalizing random citizens... yes!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Third Amendment reference!

Moreover, two of the Constitution's first ten Amendments articulate safeguards against the military: the Second Amendment-with its assurance that well-regulated militias would be prepared and armed to fight for the security of the states and the Third Amendment, with its prohibition on quartering of soldiers in times of peace.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 4h

This finally arrived last week, but I'm glad it didn't get destroyed by UPS!

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 9h

Jane Manners, a constitutional historian & member of the Brennan Center’s Historians Council, filed an amicus brief in Grundmann v. Trump, a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s removal of the chair of an independent federal agency as unconstitutional www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 11h

Hospital has a view of the mountains too bad it’s cloudy

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 11h

Had a baby 👍

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 11h

My kingdom for a reporter to ask “why will there by violence this time when there wasn’t at the first no kings protest”

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 12h

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

The vast majority of drugs come through legal border crossings.

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

None has been provided. There is no evidence that they were anything worse than normal drug traffickers if they were even that. So do you think the government should be able to declare Americans terrorists and kill them?

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

What they've been "doing to the cartels" drone striking them in small boats nowhere near the US after declaring them "terrorists" with no proof and no due process. Do you think they should be able to do that to Americans as well?

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

But you think the government should be able to declare someone antifa and then drone strike them?

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

You think the government should be able to drone strike your house?

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 2d

I can only interpret this as 'extrajudicial killings for anti-ICE protestors'. I hope to God that I am wrong.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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