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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social Journalist. Beat reporter covering the court, prison and other aspects of life at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Former Miami Herald Middle East correspondent.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ Louisville Law
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Debbie Jeon @debbiejeon.bsky.social Legal Director at ACLU of Maryland, TFXC Mom, eternal optimist, ride-or-die Dem, lover of cats and dogs. Posts my own.
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Rachel Barkow @rachelbarkow.bsky.social NYU law professor and faculty director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. Author of Prisoners of Politics (2019) and Justice Abandoned (2025).
Heather Lynn Weaver @heatherweaverdc.bsky.social First Amendment attorney, poet (not necessarily in that order). @ACLU. Views expressed here are my own.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
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Patrick Berry @berrypatrick.bsky.social Voting rights, @BrennanCenter
Bridget Lavender @bridgetlavender.bsky.social state constitutions, federalism, civil rights | currently Staff Attorney at ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative | views are my own
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
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.
Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ leads research group at WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️🌈
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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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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
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Ali & Lockwood LLP @alilockwood.bsky.social Women-owned firm litigating civil rights and commercial matters. Focused here on our civil rights docket and related issues.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
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.
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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social Senior advisor to the Ethics and Journalism Initiative at NYU. Ex-legal journo. Cat lady.
Amanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social Professor of immigration & citizenship at UVA Law. Author of YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press, 2021). Forthcoming book on the history of birthright citizenship in the USA. Civil rights lawyer. 
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Profs and Pints @profsandpints.bsky.social A social enterprise devoted to democratizing access to higher learning and providing scholars with new audiences.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Formerly an ACLUFL Attorney. I enjoy writing about free expression, academic freedom, and American history.
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