Joey Scott
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LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodians in California. Documentary photographer. Signal: joeyscott.05 Venmo: @joeyneverjoe https://www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/
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"Do you want new wave or do you want the truth?"
Joey is an LA-based investigative journalist and documentary photographer. He covers policing, surveillance, protests, prisons, and inequality. He is also a job creator by keeping public agencies thro...
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lce.bsky.social
Andy Ngo literally said "I nearly died...."
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After he called me a violent extremist journalist, Andy Ngo blocked me on Twitter and then stole one of my videos from behind the block. His entire career is built around stealing other people’s videos and making up shit about antifa.
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premthakker.bsky.social
From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec
joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
Trump admin continues catching L’s.
Kling said it was notable that the grand jury likely had members on both sides of the political divide and still decided not to indict.
"You know the old saying that a good prosecutor could have a grand jury indict a ham sandwich?" Kling said. "Apparently the evidence against my client was less than a ham sandwich."
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Some folks took a chance on me because of my social media reporting and here I am!
joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
I became a journalist because of it.
conradhackett.bsky.social
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Ellis shoots that down. Any restraining order she grants won't be limited to the Broadview ICE facility.

"Given the record before me... these issues are not limited to Broadview," she says.
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My latest for L.A. TACO....
lataco.bsky.social
“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

lataco.com/bayron-rovid...
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unraveledpress.com
(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.
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jacksapoch.bsky.social
Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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because I see this blowing up, I want to be clear: Newsom "declin[ing] to sign" the other bills DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE VETOED.

the pocket veto _does not exist in CA_, so if Newsom does not sign nor veto them within the allotted period, they become laws without his signature.
lgbtqnation.com
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
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dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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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theonion.com
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
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Kraft mac and cheese with ketchup on top
faineg.bsky.social
What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?
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The Battle of Blair Mountain would like a word, sir. And Kent State.
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NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.
ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones  | TechCrunch
The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.
techcrunch.com
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lcrw.bsky.social
The goal of these groups—and they’ve said this at press conferences I went to—is to incite state violence against people they consider their enemies.
alkapdc.bsky.social
On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."
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A county commissioner tried to take down a License Plate Reader in his jurisdiction where elected officials had ended their contract w/ Flock. Police arrested him.

Who really runs these counties? Politicians gave blank checks to police and are now learning the genie is out of the bottle.
Camden County commissioner pleads guilty to misdemeanor for removing Flock camera
A Camden County commissioner has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from taking down a Flock camera on Highway 54.Todd Isaac Skelton pleaded guilty
krcgtv.com
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"Let's do the fucking news!" he says in the mirror at his other job.
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Joey Scott
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