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J. Sh—vitz
@jforjacob.bsky.social
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Stories in film, photography, maps, comics, and code. Often concerned in a concerning world.
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jforjacob.bsky.social
Something the dog ate today.
A child’s boot, with a large chunk of the toe chewed off.
February 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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craigweekend.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Clown in Armor — Robert Remsen Vickrey, 1961
egg tempera on gessoed panel
Grumpy looking middle-aged man with a white cap over his skull in a suit of armor with spikes
September 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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panasonicdx4500.bsky.social
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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gothamgirlblue.com
This isn’t a bill, it’s a declaration of war
July 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.
June 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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ourobororoboruo.bsky.social
In China we refer to this kind of power play as 指鹿为马 “pointing at a deer and calling it ‘horse’.” In 1984 it’s “2+2=5.”

Let us be like Jean Luc Picard and shout, “THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.”
June 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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cinemacultist.bsky.social
Absolutely love this Behind the music clip
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
-- Louise Glück
May 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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rally.luckyraven.cc
The government is supposed to be there to serve you, to support you, to help make your life easier. You shouldn't need to earn it, we all pay into it so it can help support people's needs. It shouldn't be profitable or business-like, because it's not a business, it's a service you are co-owner of.
April 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.
April 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Thank you for defunding Medicaid and social security… those grandmothers don’t need all that money…”

@waltermasterson and others disrupt an @repmikelawler fundraiser
March 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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therafischwartz.bsky.social
Sometimes, when things feel extraordinarily bad - like they do these days! - it becomes more important than ever to watch this video of the coolest kids on earth absolutely *rampaging* through Fugazi's "Waiting Room"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZD...
32 - Fugazi: Waiting Room
YouTube video by wdiprod
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
jforjacob.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Tim Roth bloody in the back seat in Reservoir Dogs: “I’m okay.”
January 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
I think about this almost daily.
December 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Plenty of sangria, brandy & oblivion.
December 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM
jforjacob.bsky.social
Working out my new film scanning process, here are more shots (sprockety ones). Thanks to @keithdevereux.bsky.social for the heads up on the Lomo camera sale.

#ShittyCameraChallenge #believeinfilm
Photo of a stone bridge over a stone bridge over a walkway along a creek Photo of a very triangular house Photo of an intersection with buildings from maybe the 1800s?
December 9, 2024 at 2:04 AM
jforjacob.bsky.social
The Pig-Dog / Nathan walking

From a trial run of a 4-lens toy camera, on expired Tri-X 400.

#ShittyCameraChallenge #believeinfilm
4 photos of a wood carved creature 4 photos of a boy standing outside, hamming for the camera and swinging long hair
December 7, 2024 at 11:28 PM