Thomas Harvey
@tbh1910.bsky.social
Co-founder ArchCity Defenders. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney working with movements to support transformational change. Cat loving abolitionist and national non-profit survivor. (photo by Nathaniel St. Clair)
I get it. He was really friendly, sounded smart, and said lots of nice words. He didn't engage in mean rhetoric.
Does that matter when he was also drone strike murdering american citizens, deporting hundreds of thousands, endorsing Bush's torture regime, and letting the wealthy rob us?
Does that matter when he was also drone strike murdering american citizens, deporting hundreds of thousands, endorsing Bush's torture regime, and letting the wealthy rob us?
"There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday. n.pr/3ZzY1H0
Obama responds to Trump sharing racist AI video depicting him as an ape
"There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday.
n.pr
February 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I get it. He was really friendly, sounded smart, and said lots of nice words. He didn't engage in mean rhetoric.
Does that matter when he was also drone strike murdering american citizens, deporting hundreds of thousands, endorsing Bush's torture regime, and letting the wealthy rob us?
Does that matter when he was also drone strike murdering american citizens, deporting hundreds of thousands, endorsing Bush's torture regime, and letting the wealthy rob us?
King's intelligence and moral clarity is unparalleled, especially his attack on military spending in 1967.
Then think about how in 2026 we'll spend $40 billion to turn warehouses into immigrant concentration camps, but won't house people on the streets.
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Then think about how in 2026 we'll spend $40 billion to turn warehouses into immigrant concentration camps, but won't house people on the streets.
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Beyond Vietnam — Alternative Radio
Martin Luther King Jr.’s charismatic “I Have a Dream” speech is emblazoned in our historical memories. But another address to a much smaller audience on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York i...
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February 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
King's intelligence and moral clarity is unparalleled, especially his attack on military spending in 1967.
Then think about how in 2026 we'll spend $40 billion to turn warehouses into immigrant concentration camps, but won't house people on the streets.
www.alternativeradio.org/products/kin...
Then think about how in 2026 we'll spend $40 billion to turn warehouses into immigrant concentration camps, but won't house people on the streets.
www.alternativeradio.org/products/kin...
This is what neoliberal democrats in the tradition of Clinton, Obama, and Biden want: mass deportation, but the "nice" kind.
It's exactly the same thing about the mass suffering caused by human caging: that's fine so long as the cops, guards, and prosecutors use kinder, gentler rhetoric.
It's exactly the same thing about the mass suffering caused by human caging: that's fine so long as the cops, guards, and prosecutors use kinder, gentler rhetoric.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This is what neoliberal democrats in the tradition of Clinton, Obama, and Biden want: mass deportation, but the "nice" kind.
It's exactly the same thing about the mass suffering caused by human caging: that's fine so long as the cops, guards, and prosecutors use kinder, gentler rhetoric.
It's exactly the same thing about the mass suffering caused by human caging: that's fine so long as the cops, guards, and prosecutors use kinder, gentler rhetoric.
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A mob of fully grown masked men assaulted college students at UCLA for five hours and there were absolutely no consequences. This country hates young people, and always has
This week we had plenty of student protests. This is the USA it is all of our rights under the FIRST AMENDMENT but these people have been showing up and starting trouble with high school kids. This was one in Blaine.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
A mob of fully grown masked men assaulted college students at UCLA for five hours and there were absolutely no consequences. This country hates young people, and always has
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February 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Conditions in ICE detention facilities are horrific and merit your outrage. This will only get worse as they seek to warehouse more human beings.
But don't forget the everyday horror of America's human caging system.
9 people have already died in LA county jail in the first 43 days of 2026.
But don't forget the everyday horror of America's human caging system.
9 people have already died in LA county jail in the first 43 days of 2026.
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Conditions in ICE detention facilities are horrific and merit your outrage. This will only get worse as they seek to warehouse more human beings.
But don't forget the everyday horror of America's human caging system.
9 people have already died in LA county jail in the first 43 days of 2026.
But don't forget the everyday horror of America's human caging system.
9 people have already died in LA county jail in the first 43 days of 2026.
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I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
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When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
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“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
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"One of the last things I heard on that cell floor was my cellmate begging for medical care."
Aliya Rahman describes her brutally assault, arrest and detention by ICE agents, who also refused to provide medical care or disability accommodations, in Minneapolis.
Aliya Rahman describes her brutally assault, arrest and detention by ICE agents, who also refused to provide medical care or disability accommodations, in Minneapolis.
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
"One of the last things I heard on that cell floor was my cellmate begging for medical care."
Aliya Rahman describes her brutally assault, arrest and detention by ICE agents, who also refused to provide medical care or disability accommodations, in Minneapolis.
Aliya Rahman describes her brutally assault, arrest and detention by ICE agents, who also refused to provide medical care or disability accommodations, in Minneapolis.
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman from Paterson, NJ, who courageously protested the genocide in Gaza, has been held in ICE detention for nearly 11 months. The Trump administration and IC...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
This is all useless.
Cops love bodycams.
Renee Good's murderer filmed it.
Steve Bannon says ICE will surround the polling places.
What difference would body cams make while murdering and interfering with elections when the feds promise immunity and those convicted will be pardoned?
Cops love bodycams.
Renee Good's murderer filmed it.
Steve Bannon says ICE will surround the polling places.
What difference would body cams make while murdering and interfering with elections when the feds promise immunity and those convicted will be pardoned?
Body cameras on.
Masks off.
Judicial warrants required.
Independent investigations.
Justice for victims.
Is that too much to ask?
Masks off.
Judicial warrants required.
Independent investigations.
Justice for victims.
Is that too much to ask?
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is all useless.
Cops love bodycams.
Renee Good's murderer filmed it.
Steve Bannon says ICE will surround the polling places.
What difference would body cams make while murdering and interfering with elections when the feds promise immunity and those convicted will be pardoned?
Cops love bodycams.
Renee Good's murderer filmed it.
Steve Bannon says ICE will surround the polling places.
What difference would body cams make while murdering and interfering with elections when the feds promise immunity and those convicted will be pardoned?
"the worst of the worst"
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 AM
"the worst of the worst"
It's unclear which is more embarrassing:
Democrats' list of pathetic, ineffective, borderline useless polite requests to do things ICE is already required to do that they call "demands"
or the fact that Republicans call them "unrealistic," "radical and extreme," or a "far left wish list"
Democrats' list of pathetic, ineffective, borderline useless polite requests to do things ICE is already required to do that they call "demands"
or the fact that Republicans call them "unrealistic," "radical and extreme," or a "far left wish list"
February 6, 2026 at 1:17 AM
It's unclear which is more embarrassing:
Democrats' list of pathetic, ineffective, borderline useless polite requests to do things ICE is already required to do that they call "demands"
or the fact that Republicans call them "unrealistic," "radical and extreme," or a "far left wish list"
Democrats' list of pathetic, ineffective, borderline useless polite requests to do things ICE is already required to do that they call "demands"
or the fact that Republicans call them "unrealistic," "radical and extreme," or a "far left wish list"
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My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante
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February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
Anyone who works with left-leaning groups knows that actual radical groups rarely get a penny of funding.
Roughly 6 percent of philanthropic dollars support racial equity work, and only 1 percent supports racial justice work.
The rest is just people caring about each other and fighting fascism.
Roughly 6 percent of philanthropic dollars support racial equity work, and only 1 percent supports racial justice work.
The rest is just people caring about each other and fighting fascism.
My Senator is investigating people who bring donuts to protests instead of the men who r@pe and torture children
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Anyone who works with left-leaning groups knows that actual radical groups rarely get a penny of funding.
Roughly 6 percent of philanthropic dollars support racial equity work, and only 1 percent supports racial justice work.
The rest is just people caring about each other and fighting fascism.
Roughly 6 percent of philanthropic dollars support racial equity work, and only 1 percent supports racial justice work.
The rest is just people caring about each other and fighting fascism.
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“Both Google and Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months.”
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.
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newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:25 AM
“Both Google and Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months.”
The only benefit of Trump, assuming we survive, is a deeper understanding that we should never trust cops and prosecutors.
They were lying to judges well before Trump took over.
Trump is an escalation, but the problem of cops and prosecutors lying, and judges trusting them, has always existed.
They were lying to judges well before Trump took over.
Trump is an escalation, but the problem of cops and prosecutors lying, and judges trusting them, has always existed.
Sadly, this is the ICE M.O.: Assault innocent people and then tell elaborate lies to blame the victim. No judge should give any credence to anything a DHS lawyer says to them. They have proven themselves to be liars too often.
February 4, 2026 at 12:23 AM
The only benefit of Trump, assuming we survive, is a deeper understanding that we should never trust cops and prosecutors.
They were lying to judges well before Trump took over.
Trump is an escalation, but the problem of cops and prosecutors lying, and judges trusting them, has always existed.
They were lying to judges well before Trump took over.
Trump is an escalation, but the problem of cops and prosecutors lying, and judges trusting them, has always existed.
Another meaningless kente cloth moment from Democrats, proposing meaningless "reforms" that wouldn't have saved Renee Good or Alex Pretti's life, let alone anyone else who ICE has murdered, or any of the 30+ people who have died in detention.
This is complicity.
This is complicity.
February 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Another meaningless kente cloth moment from Democrats, proposing meaningless "reforms" that wouldn't have saved Renee Good or Alex Pretti's life, let alone anyone else who ICE has murdered, or any of the 30+ people who have died in detention.
This is complicity.
This is complicity.
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Lol holy shit. They are drowning themselves.
February 3, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Lol holy shit. They are drowning themselves.
Huge shout-out to the solo practitioners and small firm lawyers, along with non-profits, who have stepped up to try to get people free while the nation's biggest firms were busy either capitulating to or collaborating with the fascists.
h/t @jesspish.bsky.social
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h/t @jesspish.bsky.social
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/01/e...
El Paso, West Texas federal courts deluged with challenges to immigration detention
Federal judges in El Paso are increasingly ordering bond hearings and releases for ICE detainees as a surge in habeas corpus filings challenges the Trump administration’s immigration detention policie...
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February 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Huge shout-out to the solo practitioners and small firm lawyers, along with non-profits, who have stepped up to try to get people free while the nation's biggest firms were busy either capitulating to or collaborating with the fascists.
h/t @jesspish.bsky.social
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/01/e...
h/t @jesspish.bsky.social
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/01/e...
Religion really, really, really matters to MAGA fascists---unless you are Black, brown, or poor, in which case they can raid your congregation and kidnap all your worshippers.
Same goes for schools and courthouses in the secular world.
Same goes for schools and courthouses in the secular world.
A community is devastated after ICE raids an LA church and arrests a congregant during a church event.
“This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.” ~ Church officials, in a press release
“This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.” ~ Church officials, in a press release
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Religion really, really, really matters to MAGA fascists---unless you are Black, brown, or poor, in which case they can raid your congregation and kidnap all your worshippers.
Same goes for schools and courthouses in the secular world.
Same goes for schools and courthouses in the secular world.
This does nothing. Another act of complicity by democrats to have ever made this useless demand.
ICE/CBP and every other cop knows they can turn off or obscure body cam footage. If all else fails, they just won't turn over the footage.
The kidnappings and killings will continue.
ICE/CBP and every other cop knows they can turn off or obscure body cam footage. If all else fails, they just won't turn over the footage.
The kidnappings and killings will continue.
Kristi Noem announces body cams for all DHS officers in Minneapolis
www.rawstory.com
Kristi Noem announces body cams for all DHS officers in Minneapolis
twp.ai
February 2, 2026 at 10:13 PM
This does nothing. Another act of complicity by democrats to have ever made this useless demand.
ICE/CBP and every other cop knows they can turn off or obscure body cam footage. If all else fails, they just won't turn over the footage.
The kidnappings and killings will continue.
ICE/CBP and every other cop knows they can turn off or obscure body cam footage. If all else fails, they just won't turn over the footage.
The kidnappings and killings will continue.
One of the major failings of our legal system is the enormous deference given to "the DOJ", "the FBI" or any other prosecutor or cop in general.
You could list thousands of examples of cop lies and prosecutor misconduct, and the answer would almost always be the same:
We believe the state.
You could list thousands of examples of cop lies and prosecutor misconduct, and the answer would almost always be the same:
We believe the state.
JUST IN: Judge Tostrud lifts restraining order against Trump administraiton, concluding they're unlikely to destroy or alter evidence related to the Pretti shooting -- though he says the record is "not one-sided." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 PM
One of the major failings of our legal system is the enormous deference given to "the DOJ", "the FBI" or any other prosecutor or cop in general.
You could list thousands of examples of cop lies and prosecutor misconduct, and the answer would almost always be the same:
We believe the state.
You could list thousands of examples of cop lies and prosecutor misconduct, and the answer would almost always be the same:
We believe the state.
If you have leftist politics and you ever had any thought about running for something, now is the time.
Per @taniel also, Dems just flipped a +17 Republican district.
Everything is possible.
Per @taniel also, Dems just flipped a +17 Republican district.
Everything is possible.
NEWS: No one filed to challenge two conservative/Republican justices on the Nevada supreme court who are up for reelection this year. The deadline was a few days ago.
They will run for new terms unopposed.
They will run for new terms unopposed.
February 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
If you have leftist politics and you ever had any thought about running for something, now is the time.
Per @taniel also, Dems just flipped a +17 Republican district.
Everything is possible.
Per @taniel also, Dems just flipped a +17 Republican district.
Everything is possible.