Inquest @inquest.bsky.social National Magazine Award finalist. Cited in Best American Essays. Stillwater Award winner. Focused on ending mass incarceration.
All our links: https://linktr.ee/inquest.org
Can you spare $5?: https://inquest.org/donate/
Mignon Clyburn @mignonclyburn.bsky.social SC native. 1st Chairwoman & Former FCC Commissioner. Entrepreneur. Pro DEI. Will speak up and out for the voiceless.
Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com Reporting, rebelling and truth-telling from the feminist front lines for over 50 years. Read more at MsMagazine.com.
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
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
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social Dr. MRO. Literary Historian. Public scholar, activist & small biz owner who dyes yarn inspired by Black/brwn premodern figures.
WOC: product of Black & brown love. Gif lover. Racist magnet. Abolitionist. Not Eddie Murphy. She/hers
www.RepublicOfYarnia.com
💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app “This that Grey Poupon, that Evian, that TED talk”
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
Atlanta Justice Alliance @atlantajustice.bsky.social 🖤❤️🖤
Activists, Allies, and Accomplices
Stop Cop City. Justice for Tort. 1312. ACAB. Free Palestine. Human rights. BLM. Direct Action>Compliance. Fuck off if you disagree.
The Marshall Rancifer Memorial Mutual Aid Project
Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social Prison & police accountability lawyer at OJRC. Dream baby dream. He/Him.
Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social Journalist | Politics, Justice, Immigration, Latin America, Cuba, Texas | Words: Unicorn Riot, Cultured, Antagonist, Momentum | Formerly: Capitol Press, Latino Rebels | Defending Rights and Dissent Board Member | News & Analysis: extremearturo.substack.com
Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social Policy analyst/advisor. Newsletter: stephensemler.com
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Jeffrey Ian Ross @jeffreyianross.bsky.social Criminologist @ubaltmain #corrections #CrimesofthePowerful #StreetCulture #graffiti #streetart #police Co-founder #ConvictCriminology Website www.jeffreyianross.com Instagram http://buff.ly/2Se7geg Amateur Japanese Chef bit.ly/4f2XEtX
Jawanza James Williams | He, Him | @jawanza.bsky.social Lover of all the People | Love is a commitment to what is possible, not weak acquiescence
Black. Queer. Leftist. Community Organizer. PhD PoliSci student.
•Dir. of Movement Building with VOCAL-US (jawanza@vocal-us.org)
Jawanzajameswilliams.com
Community Protection Broadcast @cpb.works Portland, OR | He/Him & They/Them | A developing broadcast API for community awareness & mutual aid.
#AntiRacism #AbolishThePolice #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #LandBack #EndSudanGenocide
https://linktr.ee/communityprotectionbroadcast
Trevor Aaronson @trevoraaronson.bsky.social Journalist writing a book about the FBI | Peabody winner | Pulse and Into the Madness now on Audible | Signal: taa.10 | linktr.ee/trevoraaronson
Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social Organizer, Writer, Lawyer
Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/
Black Liberation Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6o7j4ZNNziKnCyds8-XzA
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/
@swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.
SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social Sex Worker Community Support Line - 1-877-776-2004 - Chat for support on our website at www.swopbehindbars.org We create Community from the Inside Out!
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.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.
Support our work: https://bit.ly/4rioDIW
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Film The Police LA @filmthepolicela.bsky.social Hollow’s dad. Copwatcher specializing in LAPD accountability. substack.com/@filmthepolicela
Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com Former prisoner. Dharma student. Union tradesman. Dharma leader at Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Center, & San Jose Insight. Sober since 2005. Hobbyist photographer. San Jose, CA.
Kicked a divot out of Stalin’s grave.
https://linktr.ee/MatthewHahn
brittany packnett cunningham (she/her.) @mspackyetti.bsky.social the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration.
writer. talker. strategist. activist.
Black. loved. grateful. free.
subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org.
upEND Movement @upendmovement.org Abolition movement to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable intervention. upendmovement.org
Black Lives Matter DC @blmdc.bsky.social Centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
NOT PART OF THE NATIONAL BLM ORG!
Matthew Solomon (he/him) @mattytheglue.bsky.social Director of “Reimagining Safety”, host of “Conversations for the People,” conflict resolution, abolish the police. 
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social We are a coalition of over 80 organizations working to reduce the number of incarcerated people in California, reduce the number of jails and prisons in our state and shift wasteful spending away from incarceration and toward healthy community investments.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Writer of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com Digital Strategist
Comms Expert/Coach
Abolitionist
Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social Organizing fandoms, making shit pop and bring pop culture shift narratives and change stories. I'm more on threads ...
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @myharmreduction.bsky.social Harm Reductionist. Drug Policy Reformer. Writer. Speaker. Lapsed Academic. Researcher-Advocate. Brown. She/Her/Dr. 
Amistad Law Project @amistadlaw.bsky.social Organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania.
📍Philly
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social Investigative Reporting Fellow for The Appeal. Words in: Truthout, The Appeal, The Nation, NY Focus. Founder of The Carceral Report. www.thecarceralreport.com
Free Palestine. Abolish ICE. Anti-Zionist Jew. she/her
Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Afro-Latino, abolicionista, Puerto Rico será libre, teaching criminal law and criminal procedure while researching surveillance, law, technology, and decoloniality. Creando un mejor mundo con @amartinez-orabona.
Saul Williams @saulwilliams.bsky.social Poet
Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist!
And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
Steven Donziger @sdonziger.bsky.social Advocate, writer & public speaker on human rights and corporate accountability. Lawyer on team that won historic $9.5b judgment against Chevron.
Watch the first episode of my podcast Donziger on Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nXKlrdt8Y&t=71s
Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
Abolitionist Law Center @abolitionistlawcenter.org ALC is a movement lawyering and organizing project that defends human rights and challenges incarceration and other state & structural violence
abolitionistlawcenter.org
Housing For All Is Hot @ahouse4all.bsky.social LA. Mutual aid, my dog, social housing, and organizing the working class. Married to my husband and revolution. I write sometimes. Views strong + my + my own.
open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social and then there's this
https://linktr.ee/openmikeeagle
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com The educator Gotham deserves. Math teacher turned sociologist + policy, studying contemporary and historical teacher professionalism and work , best-selling author, executive director, adjunct, father.
Join the movement 👇🏾
thejosevilson.com/newsletter
Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social Co-founder ArchCity Defenders. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney working with movements to support transformational change. Cat loving abolitionist and national non-profit survivor. (photo by Nathaniel St. Clair)
Josh Sbicca @joshsbicca.bsky.social Author | Dreamer | Builder
Associate Professor of Sociology | Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab
https://joshuasbicca.com | https://prisonagriculture.com/
Timothy Welbeck @timothywelbeck.bsky.social Director, Center for Anti-Racism, Temple University | Civil Rights Attorney |
Believer. Husband. Father.
www.timothywelbeck.com
JustLeadershipUSA @jlusa.org Celebrating over 10 years of educating, elevating, and empowering justice-impacted leaders! #OurExperienceIsOurExpertise jlusa.org
Michelle Dione @shelledione.bsky.social Oakland CA based photo+writer journalist independent blog @ Classic8Media.com
Political-sociology-philosophy & stories
40+ years in Bay Area
20 yrs blogging
18 years photography
10 years publishing, doc & research
shelledione@classic8media.com
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu
Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social My job is to scroll through this spreadsheet and look for numbers that are scary?
Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social Writer, dog lover, cat lover, and human rights advocate. My personal takes. Read my stories on race, law, and human rights: https://www.salon.com/writer/jonathan-hutson
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net ✊Traumatologist. Activist. Sex & Psyche Healer. Alchemist Artist. The Real Resistance Kitty. Leadership Coach. Lupus Warrior. EpsteinWiki field commander. I fight fascism with glitter, science, and a very sharp tongue.
🐾 ResistanceKitty.com
Reuven Blau @reuvenblau.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ The City Reporter. Co-author: "Rikers: An Oral History." Denver native.
Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
TheRealMrFive @therealmrfive.bsky.social Activist - Organizer - BlackPantherPartyCUB - Artist - Mental Health Advocate- Credible Messenger- Juvenile Injustice My work builds safe spaces for Justice impacted Young Adults
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social i'm a teacher, scholar, collaborator, organizer, and parent, among other things. i work at the collapsing University of California under the title of Distinguished Professor.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Author of PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, coming March 2027
Other books include STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & more
Doing things with Washington Prison History Project.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
Talila A. Lewis, Esq. @talilalewis.bsky.social multilingual abolitionist, artist, educator, writer, movement strategist, community lawyer | proud legacy of the Black Southern griot & recitation traditions | orator-signer-writer-storyteller | www.talilalewis.com
Empowerment Avenue @empowermentave.bsky.social A collective committed to supporting incarcerated writers, elevating their published work, and advocating for fair payment.
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Author "Brought To You By" @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social. Pod: https://push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com ✦ co-founder, @genderlib.com
✦ author, THE RISK IT TAKES TO BLOOM
✦ host, AFTERLIVES + QUEER CHRONICLES
✦ activist ✦ media strategist ✦ georgia peach
RaquelWillis.com
Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social 📌 U.S. History Teacher & Writer in NYC
👋🏻 sari@saribeth.com
https://linktr.ee/saribethrosenberg
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social Twitter’s Maggie Serota. Writer. Frequent podcast guest.
maggieserota@substack.com
Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social Union Flight Attendant since 1996 and president of the Flight Attendant Union, @afacwa.org, 55k at 20 airlines. Sanders Institute fellow. @unionnow.org founder. (she/her)
Rosanna @rosannaarquette.bsky.social Mother, Filmmaker, Activist…. Love begets love.
Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social Executive Director of Campaign for New York Health, VP Legislation National Organization for Women NYS, LGBTQ+ nonprofit co-founder, and former congressional candidate in NY03
Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
*Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (Substack + graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK
*Founder: Women In Media & News
*Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops
*Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE
*Comedy nerd
She/Her
Piper French @psfrench.bsky.social reporting on prisons, jails, DAs for Bolts. freelance magazine work: NYRB, NYmag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation
piperstrehlowfrench@gmail.com
-> psfrench.com
en/es/fr
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social Climate and disaster scientist, famed government whistleblower, and former candidate for Congress. Expertise includes climate science, natural disasters, politics, and media.
www.MESOSCALENEWS.com
https://linktr.ee/georebekah
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social Potty Mouth Anti-Racist, Anti-Child Trafficking Advocate, Nonprofit, BlackLivesMatter, Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️