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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 24/05/2026

Last week, a woman was forced to give birth while handcuffed in a courtroom, with no regard for her safety, privacy, or human dignity. This type of treatment of pregnant New Yorkers is cruel, dangerous, and inhumane – and it happens more than you might think.

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Opinion: Why does New York shackle women during labor?

The Anti-Shackling bill and CARE Act would ensure we treat all pregnant New Yorkers, including those in police custody or incarcerated, with the care they and their newborns deserve.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please read this account from my fiercely righteous colleague about the violence of a public birth surrounded by people who cuff & control you, all while a judge peers down from his bench over you. So many opportunities to intervene by cops, DA Gonzalez & attny. TY @nickpinto.bsky.social & Hellgate

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Proud to still be here on these steps with the statewide #CommunitiesNotCages campaign demanding that we pass the #MarvinMayfieldAct the #SecondLookAct and the #EarnedTimeAct

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/05/2026

Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully. A landmark reform by former Governor Phil Murphy in January will make the jury pool in New Jersey more representative of the state.

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In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions - Bolts

New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Since redistricting and the VRA are rightfully getting attention, here‘s info about prison gerrymandering. If unfamiliar, prisoners are counted as part of population of area in which they are held captive and not where they’re from, despite felony disenfranchisement. www.prisonersofthecensus.org

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Prison Gerrymandering Project

Legal and factual research to support advocacy campaigns to end prison-based gerrymandering focusing on the Census Bureau, and state and local redistricting.

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Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03) @votewelch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day! More than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Just 7.2% of members of the 119th Congress are moms of minor children. There are only five moms with children under the age of six in Congress. Please donate today so we can have at least one more: www.votewelch.com

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Truly thought this was some kind of anniversary gag for the movie “Never Been Kissed”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

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ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals

Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

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New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Dolores is a farmworker, immigrant organizer, grandmother and asylum seeker who has been building community in Wayne County, NY for over 20 years. She was detained while at a routine ICE check-in and separated from her young daughter. We demand her immediate release. #FreeDolores

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone even after the app was deleted because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database” Check Signal notification settings on iPhones: www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It is PAST TIME to abolish the NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor. They got 28 million of our tax dollars in 2024. They charge people from all over the city in front of the extra white/privileged juries of Manhattan. We don't need a 6th DA for 5 boros.They are a relic & should be abolished yesterday.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In NY in 2024 we passed the Jury Of Our Peers Act to finally end the complete and lifetime ban of anyone with a felony conviction from being considered for jury service. Gov Hochul vetoed it. Sen Cleare and AM Gibbs are working to move it again. Join us www.juryofourpeers.org #JuryOfOurPeers

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JOOP NY

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 17/03/2026

In today’s newsletter: A judge orders Colorado prisons to stop using solitary confinement to force prisoners to work. Plus, many elections are happening today, and Massachusetts prisons have transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

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Colorado prisoners win in long fight against forced labor

Plus, D.C. gears up for ranked-choice voting

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 18/03/2026

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In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions

New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.

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Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03) @votewelch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself. www.votewelch.com

Happy International Women's Day

I am proud of and encouraged by the countless ways that women around the world continue to display bravery and resilience in a world that often feels designed to disempower us. As one of my daughter’s favorite shirts proclaims, “The patriarchy isn’t going to smash itself.”

But with the United States rapidly and dramatically going backwards on gender equality, it is hard to feel celebratory this year—particularly as the mom of a young daughter.

Today, I am raising a daughter in a country where pregnant women die preventable deaths.

I am raising her in a country where the comfort of powerful men is still prioritized over justice for the girls and women they harm, as the ongoing mishandling of the Epstein Files shows.

I am raising her in a country where the government is pushing for legislation that would make it much harder for many women to vote.

I am raising her in a country where a right wing extremist who has dined with the President of the United States openly stated that “Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact.”

I am also raising her in a Congressional district that has never been represented by a woman. I hope you will help me change that, so that I can help fix the rest.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 07/03/2026

Local / County governments pushing the New York State government (read: Kathy Hochul) to do what's right and stop colluding with ICE. Here, it's Ulster County in the Mid-Hudson Valley. #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight. hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

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Mamdani Is Getting Snowballed by His Own NYPD

The situation is absurd. The stakes are real.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dani Welch is all of these things and more - as her colleague I can say she never stops fighting, has absolute moral clarity and is a hell of an excellent human with the sweetest kid you ever did see. NY-03 would be so lucky to elect her. Let's go!

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 24/02/2026

Friends, whether what motivates you is... 😇 Positive (advance ethical politics in NY-03), 😡 Negative (punish Tom Suozzi), or 🤯 Both ...you can now plug directly into @votewelch.bsky.social's campaign because her website is now live!

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Danielle Welch for Congress

It isn't enough for Democrats to flip the House in 2026. We need leaders who will fight for us.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Watching city council committee to combat hate and for me- the issue with using cops to "keep people safe" is that NYPD DOESN'T KEEP PEOPLE SAFE + Giving NYPD ability to set up camp outside mosques which they SURVEILLED for decades is also just outrageous. More policing ≠ safety

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 24/01/2026

Done. Here was my script: "This is Bright Limm, constituent in Jamaica, Queens. I urge the governor to publicly support—and commit to signing—the New York for All Act. If she does not, please know: I will most certainly be supporting her challenger in the primary instead."

Screenshot of my Google Voice page showing a call recent made to the Office of New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Another murder by ICE. 10 shots. Voting to fund them is a war crime in itself. It’s madness. We have no opposition party. It’s sick. Every single elected democratic from local to feds should be doing everything in their power to defund and block ICE from everywhere. #AbolishICE

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“I told both of my children, that they had to go ahead and to live their lives ... And to not stop living because their mom was wrongfully imprisoned, because that would kill me before anything else. That would truly break my heart." #MothersDay innocenceproject.org/news/stronge...

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How This Mother Modeled Strength Despite Decades of Wrongful Incarceration

Renay Lynch not only was a source guidance for her own children but also for other women in prison.

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Brad Racino @bradracino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is a massive story — and revelation — from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social for @nysfocus.bsky.social. "The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny." nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...

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The New York State Police Are Feeding ICE a Gang Database

For 20 years, state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they're feeding it to Donald Trump's administration.

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

URGENT: New York is on the brink of a major rollback that could lead to more wrongful convictions. Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We won't let @governor.ny.gov take us back to the days of coerced pleas, prolonged pretrial detention and wrongful convictions. #ProtectKaliefsLaw #DefendDiscovery

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

TY to Renay Lynch - wrongfully convicted & exonerated after 26 years of incarceration thanks to @innocenceproject.bsky.social - who was invited to speak w/ the BPHA Caucus led by Chair @solagesny.bsky.social TY for the full throated support for automatic and open discovery! #ProtectKaliefsLaw

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New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

At the BPHA Caucus press conference in the capital to protect New Yorkers, to protect #KaliefsLaw, as Hochul pushes to put more people into jail. Thank you to caucus chair @solagesny.bsky.social for organizing this!

NYCC’s James Ellis speaks at a podium with a group of legislators united to protest Kalief’s law

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Amanda Wallwitch @wallwin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov's proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov' proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Please read this deep dive by @nickpinto.bsky.social - he has long reported on nyc criminal courts and this is one of the best reads there is on the current fight to save discovery reform- more, including how to join our fight at protectkaliefslaw.com

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Alliance to Protect Kalief's Law

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 07/03/2025

Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law." hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...

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Discovery Reform: Why It Matters, and Who Wants to Kill It

Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to tweak reforms made five years ago. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"The gov & all of the city’s DAs want the 2020 discovery reforms amended so prosecutors would have unilateral control over the speedy trial clock, leaving them to largely be the judges of whether their efforts to provide evidence to the defense are reasonable." www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/25/r...

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Rollbacks to discovery reforms will increase unfair prosecuting in NYC: law professors

More than 80 law professors on Tuesday urged state lawmakers to categorically reject Gov. Hochul’s proposed rollbacks to New York’s discovery reforms, saying they would gut progress and see pretria…

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Indicted felony speedy trial dismissals ("serious" cases) have remained steady since 2019, the year before our landmark discovery reform. There is no "loophole" to close; no "technical dismissals" NO ROLLBACKS. PROTECT KALEIF'S LAW. queenseagle.com/all/2025/1/1...

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With discovery law rollbacks looming, coalition launches to defend reforms — Queens Daily Eagle

As lawmakers and district attorneys appear to flirt with the idea of rolling back the state’s discovery reforms, a coalition of public defense groups have joined up in an effort to protect the changes...

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Instead of asking for grants/revenue streams to simply make fares free or fix the trains MTA is out there getting grant money to study the "psychology of fare evasion". www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/13/m...

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MTA Nabs Federal Money to Study the New Psychology of Fare Beating

Facing a behavioral shift seen since the pandemic, the transit agency is pulling out all the stops to figure out how to get people to pay their own way.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NYU anti war students blockade Bobst Library to demand disclosure of investments and divestiture from war profiteering. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘀 SRG goons = Riot Squad Community Affairs = Intel TARU = A/V spying–handheld & drones Legal = Coordinate fabrication of claims in cops' affidavits

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today, the NYC Council considers Intro 606: which would subject 100k New Yorkers who ride e-bikes every day - to take their kids to school, commute to work, or pay their bills-to be “licensed” to do so. City council must REJECT this costly, ineffective bill & instead BUILD bike infrastructure.

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

TY @phara4assembly.bsky.social: we must INVEST in community based resources, supporting housing & supportive off-ramps like #TreatmentNotJail & stop reliance on "the revolving door of the criminal legal system & the cudgel of incarceration as our only response" www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/23/r...

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Amanda Jack @ajjack.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Organizer extraordinaire Thomas Gant from Center For Community Alternatives at my Alma mater CUNY Law speaking about excessive sentences and the need to pass #TheSecondLookAct says the harm goes beyond prison walls “the harm and hurt that is being done is to keep families from being whole again.”

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