🧵 1. The White House folded in the face of CNN v. Trump (2018), the suit brought when the press credentials of @jimacosta.bsky.social were revoked. Sherrill v. Knight was cited as precedent. Stop me if you've heard this before, but real quick...anyone know about Thomas King Forcade? - ThreadSky

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1. The White House folded in the face of CNN v. Trump (2018), the suit brought when the press credentials of @jimacosta.bsky.social were revoked.

Sherrill v. Knight was cited as precedent.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but real quick...anyone know about Thomas King Forcade?

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seanhowe.bsky.social•12 days ago

2. Forcade ran something called the Underground Press Syndicate. It was a consortium of underground papers, and in 1970, it was based in NYC, near Union Square.

seanhowe.bsky.social•12 days ago

3. In May of 1970, UPS staff members took a road trip to DC. Forcade was going to speak at a presidential commission on obscenity. They loaded into a stretch limo. One person dressed as a nun, two as Young Lords, etc.

seanhowe.bsky.social•12 days ago

4. (There are stories about the road trip that involve pot brownies and anti-aircraft ammunition, but that's getting off track.)

seanhowe.bsky.social•12 days ago

5. Forcade and his compatriots showed up at the commission hearings. Dressed in black clerical garb and a wide-brimmed hat, he read a 1000-word statement in protest of the unfair treatment of radical newspapers.

seanhowe.bsky.social•12 days ago

6. He then leaned over the rostrum, and reached into a cardboard box.

seanhowe.bsky.social•12 days ago

7. And then he hurled a cream pie into the face of a commission member.

joegross.bsky.social•12 days ago

WHO?!?!

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