“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” @codepink.bsky.social co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.”

Tomorrow (Nov 6) at 7:00pm EST, The Word Is Change welcomes @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social for a discussion with @chenjerai.bsky.social on his book, Police Against the Movement, shattering the myth that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it Learn more: buff.ly/OVXgWpc

I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with @chenjerai.bsky.social next Thursday, 11/06 at the Word is Change!

I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with @chenjerai.bsky.social next Thursday, 11/06 at the Word is Change!

Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Judges in every courthouse in the country should be doing this.

I'll be in conversation with Judy Richardson of SNCC tomorrow at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue!

Read an excerpt from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social’s “Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back.” www.hnn.us/article/sani... @princetonupress.bsky.social

Paul Robeson’s house museum has reopened in Philadelphia after 8 months of renovations and nearly 50 years since his death.

Discussing my new book tonight at Red Emma’s with SNCC veteran Judy Richardson!

Tomorrow (Oct 16) at 7:00pm EDT, join @redemmas.org in welcoming @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social for a discussion of his new book, Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, in conversation with Judy Richardson. RSVP here: buff.ly/gsGH7ko

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.” 🚨 new from me 🚨 ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can. How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

please contact the president of Texas State University, Kelly Damphousse, and urge him to respect academic freedom and the first amendment and restore Professor Tom Alter to teaching. [email protected], 512-245-2121. aaup-texas.org/blog?blog=y

We should be putting up signs to mark these acts of state violence in every community in the country.

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

🚨 We wrote about Flock rolling out "distress detection" that monitored human voices on their gunshot detection devices & asked how it was lawful under eavesdropping laws. Now, they've changed the ad to replace a "SCREAMING" alert with a "DISTRESS" alert. See below: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Tomorrow (October 9th) at 7:00 pm PDT, please join Skylight Books in welcoming @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, Police Against the Movement, in conversation with @elizabethkai.bsky.social. Learn more about this free, in-person event here: buff.ly/dBngfAS

📢 Tuesday 10/7 7pm PT @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social in conversation w/ Daphne Muse celebrating POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back @princetonupress.bsky.social In-person, or register for Zoom here: citylights.com/events/joshu...

A federal worker "told her that a time-stamped application for a 1st Amendment demonstration can be automatically permitted after 24 hours, if it isn’t explicitly denied. She submitted another application...When no one responded directly to the permit by Thursday, the group reinstalled the statue."

Get found “in seconds”

Today, I spoke w @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social about his new book, Police Against the Movement. Joshua recounts how local police infiltrated, surveilled, & sabotaged civil rights orgs, how those orgs fought back, & what it means for modern police reform movements open.spotify.com/episode/1IVv...

By placing activism against state violence at the center of the civil rights story, @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement offers critical insight into the power of political resistance in the face of government attacks on protest. Out Oct 7: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This book promises to be one of those works that cause us to reevaluate what we think we know about the struggle for civil rights.

My new book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour in SF, LA, Baltimore, DC, NYC, and ATL! 10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse 10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton 10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson 10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson

Hoping to check out the only museum in the US dedicated to public housing the next time I’m in Chicago

LA Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive directive today to expedite the hiring process for new LAPD officers. It currently takes a year for applicant to apply and then hired. She wants it cut to 180 days by shortening the psych, background check, and medical exam process.

today we have an author's pitch from @rahimk.bsky.social on his important new @ucpress.bsky.social book on policing and housing in LA, INDEFENSIBLE SPACES carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

Two years after Georgia AG Chris Carr issued a sprawling RICO indictment targeting the #StopCopCity movement, a judge found the AG's office missed a basic procedural requirement to even be able to bring a RICO case:

It’s stunning how badly all the other outlets soft-pedaled the body-cam footage, missing virtually every important detail in their stories about the it. Now that it has been ruled a homicide, I hope other outlets pay better attention. Grateful to be able to cover this for the Beat.

"Deepest darkest Africa" is a real tell for the way these people see the world

NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)

ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

Here are resources to teach about history of policing including lessons, the Empire City podcast by @chenjerai.bsky.social, Police Against the Movement by @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social, interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, on "The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime" & more. ⬇️

Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." Today's Washington Post opinion page:

Disappearing people to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, sending the National Guard into U.S. cities, and laying the groundwork for military action against cartels are all elements of the Trump administration’s efforts to militarize policy and frame issues in terms of “war.”

AI thinks the postwar presidents mated with each other to birth future presidents.

Nice piece by @mguariglia.bsky.social on Amazon's efforts to collaborate more with police on surveillance!

I wrote about John “Ozzy” Osbourne—a working class lad made good, who rose from a slaughterhouse killing floor to the highest echelons of rock stardom in spite of himself, who gave us heavy metal and left a more complex legacy than many realize—for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Johns Hopkins University Press has licensed its books for training AI models. Authors have until the end of August to opt out.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Really sad news

Are police foundations subject to public records laws? A judge just ruled that they are in a case brought by Cop City plaintiffs, potentially opening the door for release of police foundation records in other cities.

Amazon Ring is re-pivoting back to surveillance, including introducing a new tool to let police request footage from Ring users again. The reason they pivoted away was like...4 years of horrendously bad press, atrocious brand recognition, and hard pressure by activists around the country!

This morning, dozens of US Customs and Border Enforcement vehicles assembled at Carver High School in southeast Atlanta. School administration says that the federal officers are training Atlanta police K9 units at the low income school. Cop City has been open just a few months.

On June 20, protesters seeking justice following the BPD killing of Bilal Abdullah reported seeking a drone hovering overhead before it flew back to BPD officers nearby. If BPD used a drone for surveillance of the protest, that was a significant breach of their own policy and promises. 🧵

Avelo Airlines to close US West Coast base amid backlash over deportation flights reut.rs/4eKM08a