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Joey Scott

@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social

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LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodians in California. Documentary photographer. Signal: joeyscott.05 Venmo: @joeyneverjoe https://www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · Nov 11

I love public records. I love data. I think news outlets should prioritize photography in their stories. And I love whistleblowers, leaks, and tips. You can sign-up for my newsletter and options for contacting me securely w/ docs, leaks, tips, and other leads.

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"Do you want new wave or do you want the truth?"

Joey is an LA-based investigative journalist and documentary photographer. He covers policing, surveillance, protests, prisons, and inequality. He is also a job creator by keeping public agencies thro...

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 17m

Waaaa waaaaa waaaa I’m a police who is scared of everything waaaahhhh.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 7

“Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right”

And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 3h

Not everyone can fail upwards like Bari Weiss. Support my independent reporting below:
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 3h

An opposition party who wants to win elections should run ads featuring these headlines and videos of ICE agents assaulting people. Say you’re going to make sure people face consequences for this type of behavior and hold public hearings over it.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 4h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 8h

As Trump tries to rule the nation as an authoritarian, it's important to understand the role of mass surveillance in all of this.

I talked to @mguariglia.bsky.social about that for my newsletter

The threat of mass surveillance under Trump

The Trump administration is collecting our data to realize its authoritarian goals.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 16h

THINGS/CHAIR.GIF

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 17h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 20h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 20h

Tucson has better Mexican food, imo

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 1d

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 2d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 21h

There are ballistic goggles that are rated for being hit with projectiles, do NOT wear swim goggles. If it doesn’t pop out your eye, then you’ll lose it when it shatters the plastic.

There is PPE within a number of price ranges that ACTUALLY protect you. Please don’t be an idiot, get the right shit

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 21h

Swim goggles can't survive a munition hitting you in the face and can cause your eye to pop out. Invest in your safety. Get goggles rated for ballistics and a good seal.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

Out of most categories of reporting, I think “political reporting” has remained really homogenous, which explains some conventions. (To add, political reporting remains prized and reliant on access. I think the whole category should be upended — everything is politics!)

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

A screenshot of a Dril post: my favorite feature of this site is absolutely no consequences for my opinions sucking fucking ass and me being 100% wrong about everything

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Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t spell embarrassing without b-a-r-i

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that can help is disabling app tracking on your phone. VPNs and online tracker blockers can help, too. But it’s nearly impossible to avoid it. You can make it harder by also not bringing your phone to protests or other first amendment activities.

Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Beverly Hills PD is another agency that uses it. A lot of departments purchase it using Homeland Security antiterrorism grants. They’ll keep justifying the purchases of it because of the Olympics and other large events coming to LA.

An invoice from Cobwebs Technology to Beverly Hills PD for $75,000. Beverly Hills PD purchase Web Intelligence platform.
Dated 10/11/22

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Penlink gives police geolocation data from the advertising data your phone collects when you use various apps and websites. Data like this is often public because commercial data brokers buy and sell it.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about LAPD has been using the same technology since 2022 in 2023. I updated it to include their most recent “audit” of it which found there’s been no impact on the public’s privacy. Other California depts use Penlink, too:

www.joeyscott.xyz/the-lapd-is-...

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that all of this is in defense of a detention center where people are being held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped off the street for no reason.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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