Joshua Clark Davis

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

Ozzy Osbourne, Rock God Despite Himself (1948–2025) The Prince of Darkness, who gave us heavy metal as we know it, has been laid to rest.

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 Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

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.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ Star, Dies at 54 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theodore Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show,' has died in an accidental drowning. He was 54.

Really sad news

Nearly 300 pages of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ records released after first-of-its-kind ruling Atlanta Police Foundation forced to disclose a year after a lawsuit, and could have implications for other cities

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's Ring goes full founder mode, taking the company back to its crime-fighting roots Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has returned to the Amazon doorbell business and is reinstating its crime-fighting mission while emphasizing AI efficiency

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.

A picture of a gray quadcopter drone with prominent cameras on a white background.

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.

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Avelo Airlines to close US West Coast base amid backlash over deportation flights Avelo Airlines, a Texas-based budget carrier, said on Monday it will close its base at Hollywood Burbank Airport as it struggles financially, amid calls to boycott the airline over its decision to operate deportation flights under a contract with the Trump administration.

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

So the next President will be able to dismantle Homeland Security without Congressional approval?

ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.

ICE’s acting director has instructed officers to hold people charged with entering the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings”—which can take months or years.

The CIA reveals more of its connections to Lee Harvey Oswald Newly released documents confirm that an agent in Miami oversaw a Cuban student group that interacted with Oswald in the months before the JFK asassination.

“For more than 60 years, the CIA claimed it had little or no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That wasn’t true, new documents unearthed by a House task force prove.”

Our feeds are flooded with what’s broken and going wrong. But to care for our mental health and our communities we need stories about how to build something better. Grateful to @oscarthinks.bsky.social for this powerful book, and to @redemmas.org for hosting such a timely conversation.

if we had scandals anymore, it seems like this would be one

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

“SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he peacefully observed ICE’s militarized invasion of the agricultural community of Ventura County yesterday.”

Federal trial starts over Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists University associations are challenging the Trump administration campaign of arresting and deporting faculty and students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

“Not since the McCarthy era have immigrants been the target of such intense repression for lawful political speech.”

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

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Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️

Thank you! I’m indebted to your work on Southern red squads.

Cop City RICO video: Mistrial declared in Ayla King’s case The speedy trial of Cop City RICO defendent Ayla King resumed Monday after 18 months of delays. Watch the full video.

Ayla King’s trial has been declared a mistrial in Atlanta.

King is the first of 61 defendants indicted under Georgia’s RICO statute for their alleged actions related to Stop Cop City.

Scathing SFPD Audit Finds Rampant Abuse of Police Overtime Charges The SF Police Department is now spending $108 million a year on overtime pay alone, with wild and potentially fraudulent abuse of paid sick leave, officers approving their own overtime, and some takin...

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Audit: Excessive BPD overtime cost taxpayers $66M from 2021-22 According to a state audit of the Baltimore Police Department, overtime payments cost city taxpayers $66 million from January 2021 through June 2022.

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Boston mayors have tried to rein in police overtime for decades. Why won’t it stick? - The Boston Globe Last year police overtime costs soared to $88.5 million — more than 20 percent of the department’s overall budget.

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They Made Over $100,000 in Overtime. Now the N.Y.P.D. Is Cracking Down.

Cheating on overtime pay is maybe *the* top scheme corrupt officers use to illegally squeeze more cash out of taxpayers.

Patrick Yoes

Fraternal Order of Police president Patrick Yoes to Trump:

“You made a promise that you were going to address overtime — a tax on overtime…The one big new bill is certainly making good on that promise.”

Senate Passes Trump’s Big, Beautiful Boon for Police The Senate GOP passed its “megabill” on Tuesday — handing police billions in grants to fuel Trump’s deportation regime and tax write-offs.

While adding billions in funding for police, the Senate budget bill also eliminates taxes on police overtime—likely fueling further abuses of overtime pay in departments across the country. theintercept.com/2025/07/01/b...

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.