Joshua Clark Davis

Paul Coates, Katie Mitchell, Char Adams and I are discussing "Black Bookstores: Past, Present and Future" this Thursday at the University of Baltimore. Drop by if you're local or just in town for #awp! Everyone's Place will be on hand selling copies of Black-Owned and Prose to the People. #awp2026

Paul Coates, Katie Mitchell, Char Adams and I are discussing "Black Bookstores: Past, Present and Future" this Thursday at the University of Baltimore. Drop by if you're local or just in town for #awp!

Everyone's Place will be on hand selling copies of Black-Owned and Prose to the People. #awp2026

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Heather Ann Thompson presents "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" in conversation with Joshua Clark Davis TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH 2026 7:00 PM RED EMMA'S

I’m looking forward to this conversation *tomorrow* at @redemmas.org with @historianheather.bsky.social about her new book Fear and Fury on how vigilante NYC subway shooter Bernard Goetz’s attack on four Black teenagers paved the way for our current political era of white rage and vigilantism.

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Looking forward to our discussion on "Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance" this Thursday at the Schomburg with @madameclair08.bsky.social @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and Robyn Spencer-Antoine!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

“Every federal employee takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution. The actions of ICE and CBP agents operating in Minnesota violate that oath and undermine fundamental constitutional protections, including due process. Just one week before Alex Pretti was killed, our Executive Board unanimously adopted the Minneapolis Solidarity Resolution, condemning ICE’s militarized presence in the Twin Cities and demanding accountability for the killing of Renee Good. The murder of Alex Pretti makes those demands even more urgent. “AFGE Council 238 calls for ICE and CBP to immediately cease operations in Minneapolis and for fully independent investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. We stand in solidarity with their families, with Alex’s coworkers at the VA, and with the residents of Minneapolis. All federal workers must be held to the constitution, and that includes ICE and border patrol agents. No one is above the law.”

EPA Union President Condemns Murder of AFGE Member Alex Pretti NATIONWIDE — Following the murder of Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse and AFGE member, by federal agents in Minneapolis, AFGE Council 238 President Justin Chen released the following statement: “AFGE Council 238 condemns the appalling murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents. As a fellow AFGE member who dedicated his life to serving veterans as a VA ICU nurse, the murder of our union brother Alex Pretti is an unconscionable act of violence and a betrayal of the values federal workers are sworn to uphold.

American Federation of Government Employees union president condemns the murder of AFGE Council 238 member Alex Pretti by ICE.

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.

The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor | CNN The US Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ap...

They're marking King Day by claiming that protesting in a house of worship violates federal law.

Is this Morgan State policy a threat to free press? For years, current and former editors said, reporters at The Spokesman, the HBCU’s student newspaper, have hit a wall getting the information they need to cover the news.

Is this Morgan State policy a threat to free press? www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance After J. Edgar Hoover cast civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a “liar,” the New York City Police Department’s spy unit heeded the call.

As officials celebrate MLK today, remember that police across the country blanketed King with surveillance and wanted to sabotage his movement.

Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline Over 2 million documents are under DoJ review despite ‘legal obligation’ from Epstein Files Transparency Act

Pam Bondi should stop spending her time weaponizing the DOJ against Trump's critics and start, you know, actually following the law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform.

"Los Angeles County was the second deadliest jail system in the United States in 2025."

"46 people died in-custody, nearly one person a week."

"[D]ismal living conditions: smeared feces, rats scampering around, holes in the walls, and missed meals."
#California #USA #Drugs #Food #Incarceration

Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check “They didn’t ask very many questions.” Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a ...

"U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by ICE after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test."

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

It's horrific but also this is pretty much a regular arrest. That's how violent arrests are. I am glad people can see it and be horrified -- that's what police are out there doing every day, legally. Every 3 seconds basically.

Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

Rosa Parks's arrest record from 12/01/1955

Rosa Parks's arrest record

Claudette Colvin arrest record

RIP #ClaudetteColvin. This is the arrest record from when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, nearly 6 months before Rosa Parks did the same.

Note how small her fingers appear, compared to Parks' fingers. Colvin was only 15 years old.

I very much appreciate your thoughtful review! It was clear how carefully you read it and grappled with its arguments.

Prisons, Prose & Protest - #34 Rants, Musings and More

1000% to what @mguariglia.bsky.social posted. People should read @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's new book Police Against the Movement to dig deeper. I offer an overview of the book's key arguments here: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Anne Arundel County Police dispute ICE’s account of Glen Burnie shooting A deadly shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis on Wednesday renewed scrutiny of a violent Christmas Eve incident involving ICE agents in Glen Burnie, with Anne Arundel County ...

"ICE said the van tried to run the agents over and three agents opened fire on the vehicle, injuring the driver...But county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, when he was hurt."

Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy - UNICORN RIOT Atlanta, GA – Racketeering charges against 61 people indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in t...

ICYMI: Racketeering charges against 61 people charged as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed on December 31, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution nearly two years after they were indicted.

How a ‘ghost highway’ destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood “Road to Nowhere,” a new book by historian Emily Lieb, sheds light on what happened to Rosemont, a neighborhood in West Baltimore that was set to be demolished for a highway.

How a ‘ghost highway’ destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood

How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.

People tend to associate law enforcement repression of black activism w/ the naked violence of Birmingham or the Panthers vs the FBI. That's not the whole story. I reviewed a new book abt local police surveillance of the civil rights movement for
@newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...

I didn’t write about it but others have. Check out Bloom and Martin’s Black Against Empire. Scot Brown’s books on US might also have something.

The University of Alabama is claiming two student publications violate federal law because one of them focuses on women students and the other on Black students, and it has shut them both down.