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David Jenkins
@grillcover.bsky.social
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member of ‪@socialists.nyc‬ & @dsa-lsc.org‬ running for NPC.
• artist • theatre-maker • writer • getting • organized • he •
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grillcover.bsky.social
I helped found the Flatbush Branch of NYC-DSA, and served on the first OC as Campaign Coordinator, wearing many hats. I wrote & led a branch campaign that kickstarted our weekly tabling, connected tenant legislation & organizing, and srsly pissed off our State Senator:

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David holding a handful of signed petition postcards, the front of which reads: “Senator Kevin Parker: The Rent Is Too Damn High” in front of the Senator’s office, which has been plastered with hundreds of postcards bearing messages from tenants. A close-up shot of a bag of hundreds of signed petitions hanging on the redecorated office door with a note: “This is only a small portion of the petitions. We’re just getting started!!” A group of people taping up the array of colorful petition postcards and tenant messages to Senator Kevin Parker’s office exterior. One of their faces is obscured by a laughing emoji.
July 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
grillcover.bsky.social
A proud lifelong New Yorker, I’m an artist & professional mime (yes, really: brokenboxmime.com) making ends meet through legal transcription and court reporting work. My politics have been shaped by the dueling legacies of my Southern WASP and NYC socialist Jewish heritages.
A bearded bespectacled white man with long hair pulled into a bun wearing a white t-shirt (David), lit under stage lights, is shown given directions to mime collaborators (out of costume). Slightly out of focus, we see the back of one person wearing red, orange, and purple in the foreground, and in the background a white woman with a pixie cut stands watching David. Five people pose briefly in the street at a march for Abolition and Housing Justice in NYC. David, left, is wearing a gray t-shirt, backpack, with hair pulled back and a Housing Justice For All mask. One woman in tank top and shorts holds a handmade “Defund the NYPD” sign. A recent photo of David sitting in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, with medium-length hair, glasses, and a casual patterned white button-up. He’s got a small smile and is just chilling, surrounded by trees, grass, and a blue sky. Small groups of people can be seen in the distance. Photo circa 1880’s of David’s earliest ancestors to move to NYC on his Jewish side. A dour old man (Isaac) with a long twin-pointed beard and cap sits beside his smiling standing wife (Rebecca) in front of hung laundry, chicken coop, and small farmhouse somewhere in historic Flatbush / Southeast Brooklyn (we think).
July 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
grillcover.bsky.social
I haven’t ever posted here, but with the @demsocialists.bsky.social Convention coming up, and since I’m running for National Political Committee on the @dsa-lsc.org slate, I wanted to introduce myself to members outside of NYC!

& don’t miss my candidate app:
discussion.dsausa.org/t/npc-candid...
Graphic for the Libertarian Socialist Caucus candidates for DSA’s 2025 National Political Committee. The black & red LSC logo (hands shaking over the DSA rose & black/red flag of anarchism) serves as the background, with portraits of Byron L. (Orange County), C.S. Jackson (San Diego) and David J (NYC-Flatbush) lined up underneath.
July 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM