dscinnyc
@dscinnyc.bsky.social
Fighting for voting rights, against immigration detention. Also other things.
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This is 100% true. If you live in NYC, you should join your local community board — right now they’re much richer, older, whiter, more conservative, and more likely to be drivers+homeowners than the communities they represent.
That distorts our politics on every issue, especially housing.
That distorts our politics on every issue, especially housing.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is 100% true. If you live in NYC, you should join your local community board — right now they’re much richer, older, whiter, more conservative, and more likely to be drivers+homeowners than the communities they represent.
That distorts our politics on every issue, especially housing.
That distorts our politics on every issue, especially housing.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
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The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Over 16 years, ICE has detained people across 1,397 facilities total—not only private detention facilities and local jails, but also unexpected places that are excluded from public reporting, such as hotels, hospitals, airports, and military bases.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Over 16 years, ICE has detained people across 1,397 facilities total—not only private detention facilities and local jails, but also unexpected places that are excluded from public reporting, such as hotels, hospitals, airports, and military bases.
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Border Patrol is using a secretive program to track drivers across the U.S. This surveillance has led to searches, interrogations, and arrests of people because their everyday movement was deemed “suspicious”—and it disproportionately targets immigrants.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Border Patrol is using a secretive program to track drivers across the U.S. This surveillance has led to searches, interrogations, and arrests of people because their everyday movement was deemed “suspicious”—and it disproportionately targets immigrants.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
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Last month, in a video obtained by @thenyic.bsky.social, law enforcement forcefully stormed a #Queens home without announcing themselves or showing a warrant, in search of someone who no longer lived there.
www.amny.com/news/ice-rai...
www.amny.com/news/ice-rai...
Armed ICE agents terrorized Queens family while raiding home in search of person who does not live there, nonprofit says | amNewYork
Gun-toting ICE agents allegedly forced their way into a Queens home last week without announcing themselves or presenting a warrant for a person who no longer
www.amny.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Last month, in a video obtained by @thenyic.bsky.social, law enforcement forcefully stormed a #Queens home without announcing themselves or showing a warrant, in search of someone who no longer lived there.
www.amny.com/news/ice-rai...
www.amny.com/news/ice-rai...
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NEW: The Department of Homeland Security comes to an agreement with four GOP-led states to redesign its federal immigration database to serve voter “verification” purposes — an unprecedented use of federal data that could supercharge wrongful purges.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS Agrees to Overhaul Federal Immigration System for Mass Voter Screenings
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
NEW: The Department of Homeland Security comes to an agreement with four GOP-led states to redesign its federal immigration database to serve voter “verification” purposes — an unprecedented use of federal data that could supercharge wrongful purges.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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They are making detention so bad that people beg to be deported. Think about that.
Immigrants begging to be deported are languishing in ICE’s Aurora detention facility. Deportation, once seen as a loss, is much needed relief from detention for some.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/18/i...
Immigrants begging to be deported are languishing in ICE’s Aurora detention facility. Deportation, once seen as a loss, is much needed relief from detention for some.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/18/i...
Immigrants begging to be deported are languishing in ICE’s Aurora detention facility
Despite the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy, immigrants have languished behind bars in Colorado, largely in the dark about when they will be freed.
coloradosun.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
They are making detention so bad that people beg to be deported. Think about that.
Immigrants begging to be deported are languishing in ICE’s Aurora detention facility. Deportation, once seen as a loss, is much needed relief from detention for some.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/18/i...
Immigrants begging to be deported are languishing in ICE’s Aurora detention facility. Deportation, once seen as a loss, is much needed relief from detention for some.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/18/i...
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What can voters learn by connecting with their local election officials in person? Municipal clerk Toya Harrell explains: “Our main goal is to make sure that we have transparency and integrity in the election process.” https://issueone.org/interviews/meet-the-faces-of-democracy-toya-harrell/
Meet the Faces of Democracy: Toya Harrell - Issue One
issueone.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
What can voters learn by connecting with their local election officials in person? Municipal clerk Toya Harrell explains: “Our main goal is to make sure that we have transparency and integrity in the election process.” https://issueone.org/interviews/meet-the-faces-of-democracy-toya-harrell/
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.
Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.
Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.
Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.
Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
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Republicans are FREAKING OUT about how close this race is. We can elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social and send a massive message to MAGA - help GOTV here:
It’s clear that Republicans are very worried about the upcoming special election in a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits.
Help us GOTV for @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) before Election Day on Tuesday: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Help us GOTV for @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) before Election Day on Tuesday: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Scoop: Trump and Johnson to hold tele-rally for GOP in tight Tennessee House race
Should Republicans lose — or win narrowly — it would further expectations that the party is heading toward a perilous midterm.
www.axios.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Republicans are FREAKING OUT about how close this race is. We can elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social and send a massive message to MAGA - help GOTV here:
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After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
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Black sharecroppers in West Tennessee in 1959 were evicted by white landowners when they registered to vote, sparking the encampment known as Freedom Village. Decades later, the battle for fair political power and representation continues in the county.
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Black sharecroppers in West Tennessee in 1959 were evicted by white landowners when they registered to vote, sparking the encampment known as Freedom Village. Decades later, the battle for fair political power and representation continues in the county.
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A growing number of GOP-led states are restricting student voting access, from banning campus polling places to making it harder to prove residency. Earlier this year, Indiana banned student IDs for voting.
Indiana Republicans Are Banning Student IDs for Voting
The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, is poised to make it much harder for many young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout.
boltsmag.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A growing number of GOP-led states are restricting student voting access, from banning campus polling places to making it harder to prove residency. Earlier this year, Indiana banned student IDs for voting.
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Do you live in Tennessee, Georgia or New Jersey?
There might be an election for YOU on Tuesday!
Or you might know someone who has an election on Tuesday!
There might be an election for YOU on Tuesday!
Or you might know someone who has an election on Tuesday!
a VERY busy Tuesday ahead.
Quick reminder about this Tuesday's (12/2) Special Elections:
#TN07*
Atlanta, GA City Council & School Board
Roswell, GA Mayor*
Sandy Springs, GA Mayor
South Fulton, GA Mayor/City Council
Jersey City, NJ Mayor/City Council
Hoboken, NJ Mayor
*Races deemed 'flippable'
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
#TN07*
Atlanta, GA City Council & School Board
Roswell, GA Mayor*
Sandy Springs, GA Mayor
South Fulton, GA Mayor/City Council
Jersey City, NJ Mayor/City Council
Hoboken, NJ Mayor
*Races deemed 'flippable'
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Do you live in Tennessee, Georgia or New Jersey?
There might be an election for YOU on Tuesday!
Or you might know someone who has an election on Tuesday!
There might be an election for YOU on Tuesday!
Or you might know someone who has an election on Tuesday!
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
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Another major accomplishment for RFKJr.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Another major accomplishment for RFKJr.
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Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
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It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
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Our families, friends, and neighbors have no business being held in federal detention centers! The detention of people with NO criminal record has jumped by 2,000% under Trump's cruel deportation agenda.
Yup, 2,000%. No typo there.
Yup, 2,000%. No typo there.
The number of non-criminal detainees arrested by ICE has surged by 2,000% under Trump. These charts show who's in detention.
The number of immigration detainees without criminal records held in detention after getting arrested by ICE has increased by over 2,000% since the start of the second Trump administration.
www.cbsnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Our families, friends, and neighbors have no business being held in federal detention centers! The detention of people with NO criminal record has jumped by 2,000% under Trump's cruel deportation agenda.
Yup, 2,000%. No typo there.
Yup, 2,000%. No typo there.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, please build as high a wall of surveillance cameras as you can waste your taxpayers' money on. No one from the city wants to go to Nassau County anyway.
gothamist.com/news/nassau-...
gothamist.com/news/nassau-...
Nassau County exec plans wall of surveillance cameras at NYC-Long Island border
Bruce Blakeman said he’s boosting surveillance and facial recognition, citing Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s policies.
gothamist.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, please build as high a wall of surveillance cameras as you can waste your taxpayers' money on. No one from the city wants to go to Nassau County anyway.
gothamist.com/news/nassau-...
gothamist.com/news/nassau-...
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I'd just like to point out this is happening because MAGA pig Bruce Blakeman defied national trends and cruised to reelection thanks to the incompetence of New York/Nassau Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs, who opposed Mamdani with far more vitriol than he opposed the Republicans
This rocks, whole communities are self-selecting themselves out of relevance because a nice man was democratically elected
www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc...
www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc...
NYC suburb makes major security move by city border after Mamdani victory: 'Talks like he's pro-criminal'
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that he is directing cameras and security technology be installed along the New York City border in light of Zohran Mamdani's victory.
www.foxnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'd just like to point out this is happening because MAGA pig Bruce Blakeman defied national trends and cruised to reelection thanks to the incompetence of New York/Nassau Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs, who opposed Mamdani with far more vitriol than he opposed the Republicans