Vera Institute of Justice @vera.org We’re fighting to secure equal justice for all, end mass incarceration, and strengthen families + communities
ACLU of Connecticut @acluct.bsky.social The ACLU of Connecticut is a nonprofit 501c4 organization. Visit linktr.ee/acluct for more about us, the ACLU Foundation of CT, and ACLU of CT Rise PAC.
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social “middle-brow theorist” aiming for low-brow. just a private citizen speaking on matters of public concern
Charlotte E. Rosen @charlotteerosen.bsky.social historian, writer, abolitionist, buttercream enthusiast
NYC for Abortion Rights @nycforabortion.bsky.social an intersectional collective of socialist feminist abolitionists fighting for free abortion on demand and reproductive justice. 💚 FTP 💚
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast | columnist @nplusonemag.com
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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social abolition, prisons, journalism, and also sometimes my dog
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
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Black & Pink National @blackandpinkorg.bsky.social Fighting for prison abolition via advocacy, support, & organizing for LGBTQ+ folks & PLWH who are system impacted | Directors Tena Hahn Rodriquez & Jasmine Tasaki
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social human @theintercept.com | co-host 🎙️ The Intercept Briefing podcast
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social Co-founder @hellgatenyc.com. Writing about cops, courts, jails, prisons and NYC. You may have known me on Twitter as @macfathom. nick [at] hellgatenyc dot com. On Signal at NickPinto.11
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
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I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
The Appeal @theappeal.org We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system.
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
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.
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social Professor at Maryland Carey Law, director of Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (UC Press). She/her/mom. leighgoodmark.com
Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app Somali - Cidda 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Dwayne David Paul @dwaynedavidpaul.bsky.social educator, writer, zealot. Not exactly a philosopher & theologian; not NOT a philosopher & theologian. Find my work here: linktr.ee/DwayneDavidPaul 📍Connecticut
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
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ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Building a vibrant Jewish Left in NY, fighting arm-in-arm with our neighbors for care not cops. Extremely pro-glitter. https://www.jfrej.org/
Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible
This account surrounds hate and forces it to surrender
Téa J-Y @teaj-y.bsky.social abolitionist, queer/trans, author of "experimental" prose and poetry, "mile deep inch wide" organizer, org dev and systems change strategy consultant, social justice program development & implementation, youth worker, daytime soap and romance novel fanatic
Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social law prof, Brooklyn Law School; author, Radical Acts of Justice, https://thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-of-justice
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org.
The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social The Humanist Report is a leftist political news show on YouTube, Facebook & Twitch hosted by Mike Figueredo (he/him) | HumanistReport.com
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Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social Zoe and Samson’s mom
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social Public Defender (NYC & Baltimore) & Writer. Sydney ✈️ NYC + DC. she/her. Views my own. “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin
Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social Queer. Latina. Abolitionist. NYC Council Member repping Queens. Local Progress Board Member.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social Lawyer trying to transform public defense. Author of The Price of Mercy ( www.emilygalvinalmanza.com ). Can drive a truck and trailer through places you shouldn't. Personal account, personal opinions.
Beth Wilensky @bethwilensky.bsky.social #LegalWriting Professor at University of Michigan Law School. #WilenskyOnStyle. Cardinals and cooking and kids oh my. https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/beth-h-wilensky
Diana @artemisdiana.bsky.social @artemis_nieves on Twitter.
Union-strong public defender.
Mostly posting my takes on law and the prison industrial complex—and increasingly union activism because Elon’s hellscape is not a fan.
Laura Miers @lauramiers.bsky.social Chronically ill, LongCovid since 2020. Public health advocate and lived experience expert. Ex-Texan. Medicine, languages, Sociology, & law. Global citizen & polyglot.
Jason Wasserman @jasonwasserman.bsky.social #Connecticut (Greater Hartford area) is my home. I wear many hats and have some very strong opinions- especially about how we should treat one another.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Olayemi Olurin-Boleware @olurinatti.bsky.social ⚖️ Lawyer, Writer & Creator
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her
Josh Vaughn @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social Investigative reporter for PennLive in Harrisburg, Pa
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
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Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social Mom, wife, pastor, and former nurse running to represent the people of Missouri’s 1st District in Congress. St. Louis Strong. ✊🏾 Email: info@coribush.org
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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social Attorney. Posting about criminal legal issues, immigration, and protests.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place)
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Alyssa Leader @alittleleader.bsky.social public defender | causes problems for a living | can guess your taylor swift era | she/her
Kathy Flaherty @connconnection.bsky.social CW: mental health, law, Covid. MUFC/HCFC/FC Pinzgau. Adoptee. Arc bender. Muter of trolls. I made it!
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Bad Legal Takes @badlegaltakes.bsky.social Posting the worst legal takes on social media. Have a submission? @ me.
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
EndTheRegistry @endtheregistry.bsky.social Check out the Amplified Voices Podcast at amplifiedvoices.show
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