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Jonathon Booth

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Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder Current projects: The Legal Architecture of Emancipation Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective jonathonbooth.com

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · Jan 14

So happy that my article about the origins and first decades of the Atlanta Police is finally out!

It traces the institutional development of the department, the discourses of Black criminality that underlaid racist policing, and protest against the police.

lawreview.colorado.edu/print/volume...

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 4h

Vance is a bad liar and that’s good

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 5h

Let's hear it for new york

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 12h

Remember when they were gonna make sure he stood trial for human trafficking 🙄

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 12h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 12h

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 12h

IMO the anti slavery movement is the greatest progressive success story in American history. They went from getting lynched to controlling the White House in 3 decades. And the different factions really hated each other but they still had great success!

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 12h

This is a good idea. Especially if the list contains links to footage etc to be used in courts and at hearings

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 14h

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

media.tenor.com

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 1d

Good context on an historic Western Slope rainstorm from my colleague Cory Reppenhagen.

And more rain moves in Monday-Tuesday.

#COwx

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1d

impressive free press engagement on facebook

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Just like the way rich conservatives will always send their kids to ivy league colleges

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Was it like this in the gilded age? Rockefeller was a but kooky but was anyone this dumb?

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Does genuinely seem like a bad thing that every rich person is completely deluded now

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

What happened to this woman is simply a crime and should be treated as such by the cook county states attorney

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

I mean if federal agents started brutalizing random citizens... yes!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Third Amendment reference!

Moreover, two of the Constitution's first ten Amendments articulate safeguards against the military: the Second Amendment-with its assurance that well-regulated militias would be prepared and armed to fight for the security of the states and the Third Amendment, with its prohibition on quartering of soldiers in times of peace.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

This finally arrived last week, but I'm glad it didn't get destroyed by UPS!

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d

Jane Manners, a constitutional historian & member of the Brennan Center’s Historians Council, filed an amicus brief in Grundmann v. Trump, a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s removal of the chair of an independent federal agency as unconstitutional www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

www.brennancenter.org

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Hospital has a view of the mountains too bad it’s cloudy

Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Had a baby 👍

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d

My kingdom for a reporter to ask “why will there by violence this time when there wasn’t at the first no kings protest”

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 2d

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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