Joey Scott
@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. Creator of public records custodian’s job security in California.
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Joey Scott
@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
· Oct 6
Joey Scott
Writings about policing, inequality, and a better world.
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1. Journalism that doesn't suck up
2. Journalism that punches up
3. Journalism that would annoy Bari Weiss
4. Journalism
5. More journalism, but its an essay
6. Journalism, but photos
7. Not journalism, but secret 8th thing
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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1) Please stop replying with the refusal to follow unlawful orders thing. I know, and I promise you troops deployed in the Caribbean are not seeing your reply to me on Bluesky. 2) This buildup isn't out of nowhere, this isn't a sudden "distraction." Navy has been amassing forces since August.
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
1) Please stop replying with the refusal to follow unlawful orders thing. I know, and I promise you troops deployed in the Caribbean are not seeing your reply to me on Bluesky. 2) This buildup isn't out of nowhere, this isn't a sudden "distraction." Navy has been amassing forces since August.
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SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
Bovino is taking part in CBP detentions in Charlotte. dickfc_w_l on TikTok.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
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Paywalls are flawed, but reporting and editing and photography are full time jobs. Unless you have another monetization scheme in mind that works for the service newspapers provide, there isn’t a conversation
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Paywalls are flawed, but reporting and editing and photography are full time jobs. Unless you have another monetization scheme in mind that works for the service newspapers provide, there isn’t a conversation
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Is this anything?
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Is this anything?
Los Angeles. 9:20pm.
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Los Angeles. 9:20pm.
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I imagine these are the kinds of titles you'd see on the VHS tapes in the backroom behind the curtain at the movie rental store in the 90s.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I imagine these are the kinds of titles you'd see on the VHS tapes in the backroom behind the curtain at the movie rental store in the 90s.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
It’s not great journalism to only cite an anonymous source, and cite no sources to the other claims made in the story. At a minimum at least seek out other perspectives. Here’s a lawyer’s POV about the story from Reddit.
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s not great journalism to only cite an anonymous source, and cite no sources to the other claims made in the story. At a minimum at least seek out other perspectives. Here’s a lawyer’s POV about the story from Reddit.
If I get cut from work tonight I may hop on Twitch and talk FOIAs, news, and play some video games. Follow me to get alerts about when I decide to hop on or not.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If I get cut from work tonight I may hop on Twitch and talk FOIAs, news, and play some video games. Follow me to get alerts about when I decide to hop on or not.
m.twitch.tv/itsjoeynever...
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
Shouldn’t it be Our Sex is on Fire and not Your Sex is On Fire?
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Shouldn’t it be Our Sex is on Fire and not Your Sex is On Fire?
The “outside agitator” trope has always bugged me because it insinuates nobody can show up in solidarity if they live outside the imaginary city borders of a city. People can often neither pick the venue nor the issues, but they can pick whether to show up or not.
broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices.
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The “outside agitator” trope has always bugged me because it insinuates nobody can show up in solidarity if they live outside the imaginary city borders of a city. People can often neither pick the venue nor the issues, but they can pick whether to show up or not.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
I made a TikTok that goes into more detail, including the idea of surveillance capitalism and crime wave narratives.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dnnv7t/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dnnv7t/
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I made a TikTok that goes into more detail, including the idea of surveillance capitalism and crime wave narratives.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dnnv7t/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dnnv7t/
Finished @lukeoneil47.bsky.social’s new book. I haven’t finished a book in awhile, so please clap. Feel kinda biased because he’s published my work before for Hellworld, but the book is a certified gem.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Finished @lukeoneil47.bsky.social’s new book. I haven’t finished a book in awhile, so please clap. Feel kinda biased because he’s published my work before for Hellworld, but the book is a certified gem.
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Lots of new discourse in LA newspaper editorials, City Attorney op-ed, and LAPD press release basically asking:
Can LAPD shoot press?
The answer: NO!!
But all LA City officials do is deflect from the question.
This piece is right on the issues, and right on how great @susanseager.bsky.social is!
Can LAPD shoot press?
The answer: NO!!
But all LA City officials do is deflect from the question.
This piece is right on the issues, and right on how great @susanseager.bsky.social is!
Larry Wilson: Stop shooting at the press while we do our jobs
The LAPD doesn’t like being watched
www.dailynews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Lots of new discourse in LA newspaper editorials, City Attorney op-ed, and LAPD press release basically asking:
Can LAPD shoot press?
The answer: NO!!
But all LA City officials do is deflect from the question.
This piece is right on the issues, and right on how great @susanseager.bsky.social is!
Can LAPD shoot press?
The answer: NO!!
But all LA City officials do is deflect from the question.
This piece is right on the issues, and right on how great @susanseager.bsky.social is!
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During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
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HEY BTW this is why I hate the argument "minimum wage shouldn't be a living wage b/c it's fun money for teens" DID U KNOW there are teens who work b/c they actually need $$$?? Maybe if min wage were more than $7.25/hr this poor kid wouldn't have felt pressured to have sex with MATT FUCKING GAETZ
Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
HEY BTW this is why I hate the argument "minimum wage shouldn't be a living wage b/c it's fun money for teens" DID U KNOW there are teens who work b/c they actually need $$$?? Maybe if min wage were more than $7.25/hr this poor kid wouldn't have felt pressured to have sex with MATT FUCKING GAETZ
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The disappearances in Los Angeles continue. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood in East L.A., not far from the part I grew up in. It is a majority Mexican/Central American heritage community.
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
Worker at Boyle Heights auto shop taken by immigration agents
A manager at an auto mechanic shop was taken by federal immigration agents Thursday morning in Boyle Heights, according to rapid response teams.
boyleheightsbeat.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The disappearances in Los Angeles continue. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood in East L.A., not far from the part I grew up in. It is a majority Mexican/Central American heritage community.
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
You can thank the LAPD for creating militarized policing. They used the shootout with the Black Panther’s and the Watts Uprising to justify its existence. Later on they’d use the 1984 Olympics and War on Drugs to further entrench the police as soldier, in equipment and mentality.
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You can thank the LAPD for creating militarized policing. They used the shootout with the Black Panther’s and the Watts Uprising to justify its existence. Later on they’d use the 1984 Olympics and War on Drugs to further entrench the police as soldier, in equipment and mentality.
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They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.