@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodian’s in California. Signal: joeyscott.05 Venmo: @joeyneverjoe Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/joeyneverjoe www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/
Iowa ranks second in cancer rates. It’s also 7th in country for population decreases. Also, its water is polluted with nitrates from agriculture runoff. But the state’s main priority is passing laws to strip trans people of their rights.
8 defendants (all but Des) declared guilty of riot, material support to terrorism, conspiracy to use & carry an explosive device, use & carry an explosive device.
Bad news regarding the Praireland case.
Great org, good people.
In remarks accepting the RTDNA First Amendment Award tonight, Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin spoke about the Pentagon press corps walking out in protest, the importance of Voice of America, and the safety risks for journalists — including fallen colleagues.
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...
What a world
U.S. incarceration fact that I wish more progressive-types knew:
Maybe campus protests are not an objective measure of people’s opposition to something?
An early 2000’s anti-war cartoon that I scanned off of a t-shirt.
Made it to the top of the list to borrow Against the State by @jamesstout.bsky.social from the LA Library (so glad they let me keep my card to increase what’s available). I read around 100 books a year, but only a fraction are non-fiction so I’ve got to make sure they’re good ones.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released this statement in light of the claims Iran may strike California. They’re keeping an eye out for threats, including “sleeper cells.”
NEW: Chicago should pay $27 million to the family of a man who was struck and killed by a driver being chased by Chicago police, city lawyers recommended, the latest massive settlement prompted by a police pursuit. @wttw.bsky.social
real estate investment trusts, or reits, have been crucial to the expansion of u.s. private prisons and immigration jails.
but what actually is a reit? and how can you make sure your retirement savings aren't invested in one that owns prisons?
check out this guide from @jamieludwig.bsky.social:
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
Thot daughter or ska singer son?
[Friedmann] has been contributing to the online magazine of the Prison Journalism Project, covering minor injustices, such as the comparatively high cost that his Muslim prisonmates have to pay for Qurans."
I spent my morning at the vet (planned) and the entire afternoon at the emergency room (unplanned). Everyone is ok!
Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
The Oklahoma Eagle reported that the family of Michael Glunt was told it could take 8+ months and $3,000 to obtain bodycam footage from a Feb. 8 police shooting. After publication, the family met with the mayor’s office and was told the video does not exist.
“He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.”
Not enough reporting on surveillance tech is centered around this premise! Yes, Flock is an invasion of privacy, but every camera is choice in a city’s priorities. It’s either the illusion of safety or keeping people safe from poverty/inadequate healthcare/dangerous street/etc.
There’s not a single piece of police surveillance technology that makes a significant impact on stopping or lowering crime. It’s nothing more than marketing that enriches tech companies at the expense of funding supportive social programs. It’s another instance of the police defunding us.
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
“Two of the officers at the scene had undergone crisis intervention training for handling such incidents, Howard County police said.”
Alex LaMorie had recently moved to a Maryland complex that is inclusive to people with disabilities. He was fatally shot after police said he approached officers with a knife.
His family and advocates say they want answers and accountability. https://bit.ly/40dg71T
There’s a lot of sadness in the world and when I need an escape from it I think about danhausen grabbing the miz’s fingers and saying “Yeah!!”
Almost every major outlet has run a piece entitled “who are the Kurds?” In the last week. Which other ethnic group, much less US ally for decades, would they write like this about? Why do Kurdish people have to be treated like some kind of oddity every time they’re relevant to a US audience?
Why lick the boots when you can wear them?
That trainer is a relic these days. I drove my parents nuts in the winter with the noise from my trainer.
I knew it wouldn’t be long until this gas station showed up on the news. It’s notorious for having the most expensive gas in the city for some ungodly reason.