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Daniel Nichanian. http://bsky.app/profile/taniel.bsky.social Editor & founder of @BoltsMag. Local politics, criminal justice, voting rights.
NEW at Bolts: Wyoming just became the second state to enforce a strict 'proof of citizenship' law. This has been a conservative priority since Trump's reaction to 2020, & it risks tripping up a lot of eligible citizens who don't have the right documents: boltsmag.org/wyoming-voter-…
A bill awaiting Gov. Pritzker’s signature would create a statewide public defender office in Illinois, helping under-resourced local offices with specialized attorneys, expert witnesses, and staff to help with overflow cases. boltsmag.org/illinois-publi…
@Taniel New York will make phone calls free for incarcerated people starting next month, lifting a financial burden for the loved ones of the state’s more than 30,000 prisoners. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyr…
Inbox: a new Boston Globe poll by Suffolk finds a big lead for Mayor Wu against her more conservative challenger, Josh Kraft: 60% to 30%. (The election is in September.)
As a result of the FCC blocking new regulations, incarcerated people in North Carolina will continue to pay 10 cents per minute for phone calls. The new rules would have dropped the price to 6 cents per minute. boltsmag.org/north-carolina…
I’m pretty horrified by the torrent of hate I’m seeing this weekend anytime I open my social media but I for one am delighted by the season’s winner! Congrats @TheGingerMinj!
I was team @TheGingerMinj a decade ago when season 7 of #dragrace was airing, and still am today. I can quote her Adele religiously, and the Phone lipsync is one of the best across the show’s one billion seasons. Time for her to get her roses!!
The Democratic Party convention in Minneapolis endorsed Omar Fateh, the state senator and democratic socialist challenger to Mayor Jacob Frey: startribune.com/can-minneapoli…
New Mexico began implementing a new program of automatic voter registration this month, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Since July 1, 17,000 people have been registered, or had their existing registration updated, while interacting with DMV offices. abqjournal.com/news/article_6…
Update to this: Justice Kavanaugh issued an administrative stay to the lower court ruling today while SCOTUS considers the issue.
Tribes in North Dakota yesterday appealed to the Supreme Court, after a lower court said they couldn’t challenge state maps under the Voting Rights Act. Bolts covered that ruling, which risks making the VRA a “law without a way to enforce it,” in June: boltsmag.org/voting-rights-…
First piece for @boltsmag dropped this afternoon boltsmag.org/wyoming-voter-…
Trump says Powell is a terrible Fed chair and that he was surprised he was appointed. Trump appointed him Fed chair.
New York Senator Jessica Ramos now faces a primary challenger from a sitting Assemblymember, Jessica González-Rojas, who cites Ramos' decision to endorse Cuomo: cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/…