Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Anna Brownlee @annabrownlee.bsky.social I am an University of Wyoming MA student writing about 18th century women and missionary religion in the Atlantic World. I love books, knitting, cooking fancy things, rpgs, board games, Sci-fi /fantasy, and (of course) museums, libraries, and archives.
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.
Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social Legislative attorney at CRS. NatSec, IHL, international law, etc. Army Intelligence officer in previous life. Opinions mine. No skeets from this account are attributable to CRS.
Blank Check with Griffin & David @blankcheck.bsky.social Sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes they bounce, baby! Your favorite movie podcast's favorite movie podcast, hosted by Griffin Newman and David Sims.
Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social Computational demonologist (infosec?), photog, math enthusiast, periodic augmented reality warlord. Peculiar but refined tastes in triangles, cinema, and cocktails. Azad certified.
Signal: bdowney.23
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer)
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social linguist, discourse/pragmatics
podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social
author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com
singer with the Wild Lilacs
https://www.instagram.com/thewildlilacs?igsh=MXJqOXZ6NHpoOXRrYg==
she/they
substantively unserious
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social Staff writer, The New Republic. Law, democracy, and the courts. 49ers/Dodgers stuff too.
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Parmy Olson @parmy.bsky.social Tech columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, ex-WSJ, Forbes; author of We Are Anonymous.
Leon Sinoff @signonleon.bsky.social Attorney. Criminal Defense. 15 year public defender.
Declined to live with Trumpists and left the USA.
New to Toronto 🇨🇦
Still love Columbus ⚫️🟡
Liberal.
ICYMI (Law) @icymilaw.org I’m a law-themed discovery bot built by @davidcolarusso.com. Follow me to add a dash of law talk to your timeline—roughly 60 posts/day. Approximate algo: follow law folks; share new & popular posts.
Daily digest: https://icymilaw.org (news & scholarship)
Maya Tulip @mayatulip.bsky.social reader, writer, lawyer, repro & disability justice advocate 🏳️🌈🚺❤️🔥♿️
Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social Teaching Constitutional studies, poli sci, political theory, US history topics in Virginia. Own views & comments, these don't reflect my institutional affiliations. Husband / cat person / Madisonian / Lincolnite / Trekkie / strategy gamer / metalhead.
Alex Adames @socinequality.bsky.social Postdoc @Princeton; Sociology PhD @UPenn.
Social stratification, social mobility, wealth, labor markets, education, sociology, and economics.
I mostly repost interesting research and resources.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology / PoLAR journal @polar-journal.bsky.social Devoted to the ethnographic and interdisciplinary study of law and politics, broadly conceived. Journal: PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
polarjournal.org
politicalandlegalanthro.org/
Diego Monserratte @diegom.esq Miami Immigration Attorney
(not legal advice & opinions are my own)
Matthew Kirk @microbialmatt.bsky.social Professor of geology at #KState | groundwater, streams, microbes, geochemistry, critical zone science, DEI | #firstgen | he/him
Jeanine @jcrider.bsky.social
Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social Asst. Prof @Louisville Law (torts, writing, religion, employment)
Former: Mng. Attny @Ky. Comm. on Human Rights and lawyer for KY plaintiffs in Obergefell.
Brother of St. Andrew
Scholarship:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2147917
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Real Mel Valentin @melvalentin.bsky.social I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. Writer-for-hire. SF-based film critic (Cinapse, Screen Anarchy, That Shelf). Pragmatic progressive.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
@austereroberto.bsky.social @austereroberto.bsky.social
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Lea Bickerton @leabickerton.bsky.social Lawyer, Bookstore owner, still trying hard to be the shepherd —Still in the middle of researching the Ninth Amendment, so don’t expect a lot of posting yet—
Currently reading—“Revolution in Redline” by Sam J. Merchant
Becky says @beckysayswords.bsky.social bex • she/her
Typos: yes
just doing my best
🌉 San Francisco
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David O’Brien @davidobrien.bsky.social Higher education policy specialist and advocate. I work for California Community Colleges but this is my personal account.
ND | Exile Theology @theopolitical.bsky.social Archivist | Christian humanist | egalitarian socialist | cofounder CHOGAffirm chogaffirm.com 🌈
David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social Law, politics, history, and German Absolute Idealism.
Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org A nonprofit media outlet for progressive, bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold. Run by @jaywillis.net.
AJ @aje.bsky.social Pop culture, sports fan, politics, history dude, community
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social Labor lawyer (formerly @seiu), into court reform & judicial nominations, writer, consultant, person with kids, watcher of TV, she/her- K @kyliew.bsky.social @kyliew.bsky.social
Chihiro Isozaki @cisozaki.bsky.social Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice. Adjunct Professor at NYU Law. civil rights, court reform, state con, history & the constitution. // she/her. all views my own. & yes, I have seen Spirited Away.
Daniel Collette @danielcollette.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University. Father of two. Pascal stan. he/him
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Rebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social Professor, Tulane Law | award-winning scholar, author, speaker
scuba diver | environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, NYC history, urban policy, comic books | mom | optimist (mostly) www.RebeccaBratspies.com
Cat Hadley @cathadley.bsky.social Truman scholar, AADL trustee, and lots of other things. All thoughts are my own.
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social partner • 3L @ BLS • photographer • writer • night owl • he/him
summa: con law, the judiciary, due process, equal protection • analytic juris, fregean & performative semantics • cognition, episteme, ontology; parmenides, plato, aristotle
Susan R Burgess @srburgess.bsky.social Distinguished Prof. Emerita, Ohio University, law/courts, LGBTQ politics, social movements, radicals, pop culture. I edit a book series in LGBTQ politics at NYU Press - contact me re your project. Also a fan of music, animals, nature. Chicago. Dublin.
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Harris Mylonas @harrismylonas.bsky.social ▫️Prof. of Political Science @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Director of IERES @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Editor-in-chief of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social
▫️Nationalism | nation-building | migration | diasporas
🔗 https://harrismylonas.com
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA
Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP);
on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP)
Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening
Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism
www.nomiclairelazar.com
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Angelo Alcid 🇵🇭 🎮 ⚖️ @angeloalcid.com The lawyer for Halo, Gears of War, and Hellblade. Would probably rather be playing a video game right now. he/him
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Andrew Needham @andrewneedham.bsky.social Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy:
https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social AEDPA-schmedpa. Noncapital habeas lawyer whenever needed. Musician whenever possible. Devoted dad whenever.
Avatar: Me & my boy in Death Valley ca. November 2024.
Banner: Sunset over Whitley Heights.
Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social SF native w/ MN accent, now 📍 LA
Attorney, stepmom, pro-democracy politico
Raised by 2 therapists, married a therapist (can't get away)
Antiracist Daughter of the American Revolution
US Civil War historian & Constitutional law
Aspiring author (someday)
John Haubenreich @johnhaubenreich.bsky.social Attorney fighting for voting rights and democracy with @protectdemocracy.org. Board member, @organizetn.bsky.social. Teach "Democracy and Voting Rights Litigation.” Film photography hobbyist. Bojangles stan. Opinions my own. Sorry for the soccer stuff.
caylen @caylen.bsky.social official Bluesky account of Cowboy.
director of marketing for @gardens.dev 🌳
Gina @regina7.bsky.social Retired attorney, loves north Florida, environmental science, 🎨, and 🐈!
Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social Civil Rights Lawyer
“Crusading against government officials and the immunity doctrines that protect them." -St. Tammany Parrish Sheriff's Office
Contractually obligated to say that my opinions are my own
Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
Uphold Yang Wenli Thought
He/him
https://www.eveningconstitutional.net
Corinne @corinnecox.bsky.social Costume dramas, watched by piranhas.
Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social civil rights lawyer, exhausted
DM for Signal info
Guillotine Hunger Force @themilfmag.net nothing good can happen. it can only bad happen
Adrian @age.bsky.social Associate Editor at Liberal Currents
Bioethics & ethics of science and technology are what I mostly teach these days
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social
Evan Prellberg @evanprellberg.bsky.social Chicago based ex-academic who spends most of his time taking pictures of his dog. She is evil, and I love her. I’m never really sure if I’m doing things right, but I’m still here and still trying.
Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com Senior editor for Liberal Currents. Former (?) economist. Pacers fan. briggeman.org
Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social Parent of four, Organizing & Network Director at People's Parity Project, UU lay preacher, former structural biologist and airborne infantry, fake lawyer. He/him
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.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis
maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social former poster
the hot dam historian (phd) @varsha.bsky.social will index your book in exchange for money, send me a book rec, dissertating at berkeley: history+dams+us foreign policy+india.
linktr.ee/varshaoforange
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
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
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // YIMBY // AICP // kentuckian in california // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social dumb laws deserve my thoughts on them
https://linktr.ee/ugarles
i will do your podcast
http://nohomework.website with @veryimportant.lawyer and @lronmexico.bsky.social
City Saint/Country Saint with L. Ron
remember the law pods? those were fun.
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com Writer, cathyreisenwitz.substack.com
Center-leftish takes on gender and politics
OF creator: /cathyreisenwitz, spicy art