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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social Status Quo Politics is holding us back. Who will call for a big fight, and big change? The status quo cannot hold.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social research on the UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, and international relations. interested in joy, screwball comedy. custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social She/her. Human rights lawyer (national security, warfare); humanitarian law, civilian protection, and the occasional rant about Belfast. BPLS board member. Legal Director @propertyofthepeople.org 🇮🇪 / 🇩🇿📍Belfast / Paris / NYC
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
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Mike Becker @mikebecker.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Trinity College Dublin, School of Law). Public International Law, International Courts and Tribunals, ICJ, ITLOS, International Human Rights Law, Fact-Finding and Inquiry, Law of the Sea
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social Mainer in DC. Host “State of the States” on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President of @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Mark Lazerus @marklazerus.bsky.social Senior NHL Writer, The Athletic
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's premier racial justice & civil rights law organization.
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Philip Jacobson @philjaco.bsky.social Journalist @mongabay.com covering SE Asia from Chiang Mai, previously Indonesia. Recent @pulitzercenter.org fellow investigating the global shark trade. Follow dulu nanti saya follbak
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how we teach literacy and what it means to be a good reader. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Elissa Silverman @elissasilverman.bsky.social 
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social Journalist. Politics and policy. Contributing editor Boston Magazine, bylines Politico Magazine, Atlantic, many more. Formerly of Boston Phoenix. Substack: https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social Exec. Director, Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice, @OleMiss.bsky.social;
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Sean McIndoe @downgoesbrown.bsky.social Sean McIndoe of The Athletic. Co-host of Puck Soup and The Athletic Hockey Show podcasts. "The Down Goes Brown History of the NHL": http://goo.gl/Z197VX. Elbows up.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social Reporter for @boltsmag.org covering voting rights, democracy, and criminal justice at the local and state levels. Previously @denverpost.com. Support local journalism.
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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social "Making statements with undertones of superior legal thinking."
Reporter of Decisions, Court of History.
Judicial review is a thing.™
Good behavior lol
Marie Harf @marieharf.bsky.social Buckeye born and raised. IU and UVA taught. Executive Director of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania & Fox News contributor.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
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Jason C. Moyer @jasoncmoyer.com Transatlantic security, NATO, EU defense, Arctic, Nordics, Baltics, OSCE | Foreign & Security Program Director at Heinrich Böll Foundation's Washington office| Nonres Fellow @ Atlantic Council; Researcher at LIIA
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social NPR media guy
Author, Murdoch’s World
Carol Leonnig @carolleonnig.bsky.social @washingtonpost investigative reporter
@MSNBC contributor
finder of fact
best-selling author "Zero Fail", "A Very Stable Genius", "I Alone Can Fix It".
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social Covering health care @ProPublica. Signal: 347-549-0332. Email: annie.waldman@propublica.org. (Also #COYS)
Nancy Youssef @nancyayoussef.bsky.social Journalist. Egyptian-American. And according to one reliable source, "a much better stepmom than Cinderella’s.” http://WSJ.com #autismstepmom
Clare Malone @claremalone.bsky.social Writer at The New Yorker. (Currently on leave working on a book about MAHA.)
Host of Still Counting. 🎧Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social ProPublica reporter covering voting, elections and democracy. Phoenix native. Mom of two. Send tips: In chat or on Signal: jenafifield.01
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Fortify Rights @fortifyrights.bsky.social Ensuring #Rights4All by investigating violations 🔍, engaging people with power 🤝, and strengthening human rights defenders and communities 💪. https://www.fortifyrights.org/
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Peter Bouckaert @bouckap.bsky.social I am a passionate human rights activist, conservationist, permaculture farmer, father. Current senior director at Fortify Rights, building local human rights capacity in Asia. Living in Madagascar.
Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social Dedicated here to the unfinished work. - 16
Messy is the work, and the work can be joyful— Shepard Fairey.
Former, future.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social Work in human rights, international criminal law, and accountability for mass atrocities - in Canada and around the world.
Professor and advocate.
Based in Vancouver.
www.markkersten.com
Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social Senior reporter, The 51st. Pittsburgh born and forever a Hokie. Send story ideas or spam to alexkoma(at)51st.news.
Molly Quell @mollyquell.bsky.social I've already been sent to The Hague. Tell me things: mollyquell@proton.me
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; President, American Society of International Law; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Stephanie van den Berg @svdberg.bsky.social Journalist @Reuters & host of the @asymmetricalh.bsky.social podcast on international justice. Reports on international justice, war crimes courts & Dutch news. Also posts about cats, books & neurodiversity (she/her)
Esther Ciammachilli @estherc.bsky.social On your radio and in your ears.
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Host, Producer: Making Contact on KPFK Los Angeles - 90.7FM
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social Prez & CEO @civilrightsorg. Cat Mom. Former @msnbc. Ran 4 Mayor of NYC; IG @Maya4CivilRights Views & typos are mine. She/Her
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
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Drew Hinshaw @drewhinshaw.bsky.social Senior world reporter for @WSJ
📖Author, BRING BACK OUR GIRLS, the Overseas Press Club best book of 2021
Pulitzer finalist.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org Public interest 501(c)(3) law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. Website https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome; details on website front page. Media email Media@ NationalSecurityLaw.org, others email Kel there
Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social Author: Five Days at Memorial, War Hospital. EP, Pandemic (Netflix); producer, Five Days at Memorial (Appletvplus). @nytimes.com. MD, PhD. Sherifink.net/bio
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.