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Jonathon Booth
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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

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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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jboothhistory.bsky.social
Wrote this jot about Grace Watkins's great article Piety Police, highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of universities or policing
Religious Police Forces with Public Powers - Legal History
Grace Watkins, Piety Police, 134 Yale L.J. 2645 (2025).Jonathon BoothOver the past decade, histories of American policing have proliferated. Understandably, the majority of these works have focused on...
legalhist.jotwell.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
Britain is a failed state at this point but it’s only going to get worse
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h
NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity
NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity
Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths • Full story: How the FBS is linked to baby deaths around the world The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby deaths around the world after promoting labour without medical support. A number of NHS trusts are directing women who are contemplating a “free birth” to a charity website that until Monday referred to FBS podcasts as a source of “empowering stories” that can help British women “preparing for their own birth”. Continue reading...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
The answer to Noah smiths first question is of course that everything the United States did against slavery was the result of a radical faction, which had spent the precious 20 years being attacked and killed, managing to seize federal power and win a war
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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copolitics.bsky.social
Hells yes

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Judge rules that strippers are employees and protected under Denver's wage and employment laws
Lawyers for the strip clubs argued the dancers were "licensees," not employees, and were exempt from certain city wage and employment laws.
www.9news.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Swing pianist Teddy Wilson made over 200 records for ARC and related companies in the 1930s, notably as Billie Holiday's backing band on Brunswick. Session data now online.

adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ma...
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist and arranger, was born on Nov. 24, 1912 (d. 1986). #TeddyWilson

Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, and Lester Young - "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) (1937)
#Music #Jazz
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Billie Holiday - Easy Living (Official Audio)
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November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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davidc1935.bsky.social
Teddy Wilson - #BOTD - with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton and Gene Krupa, 1937.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRXE...
Benny Goodman Quartet | Hollywood Hotel (1937)
YouTube video by Tomasz Wojdat
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November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Teddy Wilson, Jazz Pianist, #BornOnThisDay in 1912, in Austin, Texas

(cc @glennkenny.bsky.social)

‘Prisoner of Love’: youtu.be/yJb-03xp2ZU?...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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davidc1935.bsky.social
The superb pianist Teddy Wilson was born on 24 November 1912.
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
I think I've found the best name of a guy
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
I put on some of the earliest Billie Holiday recordings, with Wilson on piano, Chu Berry on sax, and Roy Eldridge on trumpet. Some of the best music ever recorded

open.spotify.com/track/56qjJi...
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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primaryschool.bsky.social
Isaac Chotiner like my editors haven't assigned me a new act of violence in two whole weeks I gotta start freelancing
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16h
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf." Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac. To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet? My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist @msergie whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular." Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge." Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it" Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame. Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was" Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291" Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well." Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations. As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity." Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Teddy Wilson!
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
Stoller really is a kind of uniquely dumb writer. Obviously he's right about a few things but he basically lacks object permanence and sometimes it just shines through so clearly
cooperlund.online Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d
Matt Stoler is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. Zohran went because everyone knows that Trump's going to try sending the national guard into NYC in January to derail Zohran's time as hizzoner, not to validate Matt Stoler's extremely credulous personal politics.
annpettifor.bsky.social Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 1d
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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One of the best to ever do it, rest easy king
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
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November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
I respectfully disagree with Kyle. Currie says Bondi couldn't ratify Halligan's indictment after the statute of limitations. She does NOT say that a future, validly appointed U.S. Attorney (interim or otherwise) is barred from bringing a NEW indictment under §3288 (she leaves that possibility open).
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23h
MORE: Judge Currie basically slams the door on re-indicting Comey here. She notes that "there is no legitimate peg" to extend the expired Sept. 30 statute of limitations. The window for James is a little wider. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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lol the judge who disqualified lindsay halligan as us atty for edva included this footnote, citing a guy who agrees with him (or used to!?!?)
"... From 1986 to 2006, section 546 was identical to its current form. [n14] ... [n14] Three days after Congress enacted the 1986 law, an Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) memorandum ***authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Alito*** concluded the statute does not allow “the Attorney General [to] make another appointment pursuant to [subsection (a)] after the expiration of the 120-day period.” Memorandum from Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Deputy Assistant Att’y Gen., Off. of Legal Couns., to William P. Tyson, Dir., Exec. Off. for U.S. Att’ys 3 (Nov. 13, 1986), available at https://perma.cc/SD5Q-7CPH. “The statutory plan,” Alito reasoned, “discloses a Congressional purpose that after the expiration of the 120-day period further interim appointments are to be made by the court rather than by the Attorney General.” Id. ..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
The attorneys for everyone indicted in EDVA since Halligan took over are rapidly writing motions to dismiss right now, right?
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
ok yeah that makes sense i was wondering about that
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23h
MORE: Judge Currie basically slams the door on re-indicting Comey here. She notes that "there is no legitimate peg" to extend the expired Sept. 30 statute of limitations. The window for James is a little wider. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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nellstra.bsky.social
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?

Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.

You can access and read it for free, below.

www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
www.academia.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
Guy was fired for being right
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
Wow RIP Jimmy Cliff, one of the very best
Special
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🔎 We used the results to make an interactive web map that allows people to look up how the property wealth in their own metro area (or any other) is fragmented across different local municipalities. This tool visualizes tax base fragmentation across the US—check it out: www.taxbasefragmentation.net
Tax Base Fragmentation | Discover Fiscal Insights — Explore Now
Explore data on tax base fragmentation and fiscal capacity across municipalities with interactive maps and analysis tools.
www.taxbasefragmentation.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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bhighsmith.bsky.social
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
jboothhistory.bsky.social
Wrote this jot about Grace Watkins's great article Piety Police, highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of universities or policing
Religious Police Forces with Public Powers - Legal History
Grace Watkins, Piety Police, 134 Yale L.J. 2645 (2025).Jonathon BoothOver the past decade, histories of American policing have proliferated. Understandably, the majority of these works have focused on...
legalhist.jotwell.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM