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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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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2h

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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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 2h

How horrible is the “political climate” that companies are worried about offending the fucking Ku Klux Klan

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for someone finally saying this

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10h

This is literally an old joke.

In a private exchange between Jones and Republican Virginia Delegate Carrie
Coyner, Jones griped about how the then-Republican speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert was paying tribute to a former moderate Democratic
lawmaker who died, according to screenshots of text messages first reported by the National Review and obtained by CNN.
"Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head," the text reads in part, referring to Gilbert and the two dictators.

- Return to Search Results
r/funny 14yr. ago
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inmyrhyme
You're stuck on an island with Hitler, Stalin, and a lawyer. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
Shoot the lawyer twice.
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks! I’ve found crying easier to read than I was expecting. But I assume gravity’s rainbow is much denser? I also want to read the new one!

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve found it very funny! And loved this description of Berkeley from McCarthyism to the 60s

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for your solidarity, fellow members of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social !!

Defending Our Colleagues from Attacks by the Rutgers Chapter of Turning Point USA - Rutgers AAUP-AFT

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray has come under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Their campaign to have Dr. Bray fired has resulted …

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 4h

Decided to read crying of lot 49 after seeing OBAA. Enjoying it a lot. What’s the next Pynchon book I should read? (I’ve never read any of his other books)

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 18h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 5h

Somebody go report powerplants lol survey.alchemer.com/s3/8284335/F...

Protecting Florida Skies: Report Suspected Weather Modification Activities

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 5h

remember things can always get stupider

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 6h

This is good and I think the level of silliness outside of the vote counting center in philly after the 2020 election was extremely important

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

#WarRavagedPortland

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David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General @daveyseligman.bsky.social · 1d

We are beginning trial today in our case on behalf of a class of all those incarcerated in Colorado fighting for their basic right to be free from involuntary servitude. But we shouldn’t have to be here. /1

www.westword.com/news/colorad...

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 6h

Alright I'm donating

David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General @daveyseligman.bsky.social · 6h

We must hold accountable under Colorado law everyone who tramples the rights of Coloradans. That includes prosecuting ICE agents when they use unreasonable force. #copolitics #alamosa #ice

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 6h

I do think it’s worth noting that it is totally possible for ICE to conduct operations in ways that don’t spark widespread protest. They’re choosing not to for largely ideological reasons!

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 6h

Not the most important point here, but what are they supposed to do have local and state police act as body guards for ICE?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—& a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter & Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.

@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement is now available: hubs.ly/Q03Mp5Ss0

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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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry an oil change shop

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

She did! She drove to a tire shop and got medical help there

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 1d

Read my analysis here www.ft.com/content/6ff9... and reporting on Trilogy here www.ft.com/content/8951...

Trump’s resource nationalism is the worst of all worlds

Demand for rare earths is greatest in the clean energy sector that the US president is intent on dismantling

www.ft.com

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

honestly one problem is that harvard makes it a real headache to give a bad grade. You give a kid a C and you have to tell like 3 different deans. Much much easier to simply not

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

yeah just that whole "these questions should be left to the people's elected representatives" idea is gonna go right out the window for the most favored speech.

I do think it fits quite well with the crisis pregnancy center cases – if you're a christian you can lie and the state can't stop you

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be funny to see how they try to square this with Skrmetti but they might just decide not to

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

His eyes look surprisingly normal in this one