Jonathon Booth

Just absurd this person is the top civil rights official in this great nation. An embarrassment.

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From my investigation last year into Higgins' friendship with Leon Boudreaux, a former cop who was convicted of incest after a teenage relative accused Boudreaux of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 14 and 18.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Clay Higgins built his brand on law and order. He pals around with a man guilty of incest. A Mother Jones investigation has revealed troubling connections between the Louisiana Republican congressman and fellow former cops accused of severe misconduct.

MoJo reported on Higgins last year: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

who voted no?

Wouldn't be surprised if SCOTUS stays this PI until it decides Callais, then blocks a new PI under Purcell. (IOW: don't get too excited.)

Not sure who the one from this morning was but the co teachers are

www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/robe...

www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/jeff...

ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/00197...

Seems like they have some meetings at 430? I’d assume for guest speakers. not sure what the N stands for

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.

In case you missed it - a pardoned J6er has been charged with sex crimes against two children. According to police, he told one victim they could receive a share of the $10 million in J6 reparations he claimed he would be receiving.

He is not on the schedule as teaching anything in the spring

Hey you won't find a more cowardly bunch than econ majors and HKS students

Indentured Citizens - Joshua Page & Joe Soss - Inquest Making incarceration profitable—for both the state and corporations—generates untold hardship not only for incarcerated people but also for their families and communities.

"Since the mid-1980s, government and business interests have retrofitted criminal legal institutions so that they function as generators of revenue." @joshpage.bsky.social & @joesoss.bsky.social on what happens when you merge extractive capitalism + the carceral state

since people are making assertions with no evidence: here are the 5 classes Larry Summers is teaching this semester. *They're all co-taught* (the ones where you don't see his name he's listed second; the first and last are the same course just crosslisted in Econ and at HKS)

Stop Cop City's Deep Roots – Scalawag Stop Cop City activists are part of a 150-year tradition of movement work and direct protest against the Atlanta police.

My inquest piece was republished at the wonderful scalawag magazine!

scalawagmagazine.org/2025/11/stop...

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

If you get this reference you should consider having a colonoscopy

It is depressing though. I know so many talented, smart, not totally psycho people working in journalism who will never have Nuzzi’s opportunities.

I don’t believe meritocracy is real but this is just major magazines deciding to be based on kakistocracy

Cool that Nuzzi decided to hike the Appalachian trail

White House tweet showing the McDonalds arches behind the White House Quote-tweeting: White House * @WhiteHouse •4h TONIGHT: President Trump speaks at @McDonalds summit on the economy & more. "The Biden administration started the affordability crisis, but President Trump will end it so all Americans can achieve economic prosperity."

Real tweets from the White House are indistinguishable from anti-Trump AI slop.

Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.

Two years ago today was the last time I photographed Flaco in Central Park. He would leave the park a day later and spend the next few months hunting pigeons on the Upper West Side. His incredible story is one I'll never forget. #Flaco #CentralPark #birdcpp

When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened?

It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.

Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.

👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The bullet theoretical would be a good name for a math rock band

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

FWIW, I've reached out to the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — groups that have long touted their support for religious freedom — about things such as the treatment of clergy, alleged inability of ICE detainees to access religious rites, etc.

No response yet.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building.

But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone.

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

The 2025 Pfizer Award, awarded annually for an outstanding book in the history of science, is given to Adrian Johns for The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America.

(Apparently he wrote the entire book in ~8 months during COVID!)

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #HSS2025

Kristin Johnson received the 2025 Watson, helen, Audrey & Miles Davis Prize for her book Darwin's Falling Sparrow: Victorian Evolutionists and the Meaning of Suffering. (One of her students is accepting the prize on her behalf.) #HSS2025

www.amazon.com/Darwins-Fall...