Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social 23 years as a military ops analyst. Lots on DOD, especially special ops & irregular warfare. Author of a forthcoming book on the history of US CT in Afghanistan (https://a.co/d/00ChSA82). All views my own, RT not endorsement. Be droll, not a troll.
@nicholaswu12.bsky.social @nicholaswu12.bsky.social Reporting on Congress for Semafor. Previously: POLITICO
Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
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Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/- J James Risen @jamesrisen.bsky.social Author and Reporter
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social Law professor (personal account/views only). International law, foreign relations law, contracts, etc. Formerly DoJ, State Dep't, private practice.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social Senior Director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and the Kohlberg Center on the U.S. Supreme Court. Editor-in-chief of State Court Report. All opinions are my own.
Hernandez D. Stroud @stroud.bsky.social Senior Legal Advisor to the U.S. Remediation Manager for the City of New York Jail System. Adjunct Professor, Columbia University + New York School of Law.
Kasia Szymborski Wolfkot @kasiawolfkot.bsky.social Senior counsel at the Brennan Center w/ a focus on using state constitutions to protect rights. Managing editor of State Court Report. In a past life I was an appellate attorney combating cruel & inhumane prison conditions.
lbeisen.bsky.social @lbeisen.bsky.social Senior Director, Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law; attorney; author of Inside Private Prisons (Columbia University Press); editor of Excessive Punishment (Columbia University Press)
Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
Emile Ayoub @emileayoub.bsky.social Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center | Lakers enthusiast | LA raised, NY based, 🇱🇧 heritage | views my own
Dan Weiner @danw329.bsky.social Senior Director, Elections and Government Program, Brennan Center for Justice @ NYU Law. Previously, Senior Counsel, FEC. Husband. Dad. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈✡️
Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social Author: "Policing White Supremacy,” "Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide," "Thinking Like a Terrorist." Co-writer of "Imperium." Former FBI Special Agent, turned civil rights advocate. Re-posts are not endorsements.
Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social Brennan Center at NYU Law | Used-to-be: Policy Director for Senator Amy Klobuchar + the Senate Rules Committee | VP @ Common Cause | Sr. Counsel to Representative Zoe Lofgren + House Admin Committee Dems | Special Counsel at the FEC | opinions are my own 🏳️🌈
Ivey Dyson @iveydyson.bsky.social she/elle/هي | counsel @brennancenter.bsky.social | frmr
@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social | proud Okie and meme connoisseur
Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center, working on criminal justice policy and understanding the impact of federal funding cuts. Hopefully building a better world for everyone, especially two little girls. Views my own, dad jokes and sci-fi takes welcome.
@LemonSlayer @lemonslayer.bsky.social When you're handed lemons, make lemonade!
Veteran & Progressive.
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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social Baseball fan. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own. 
Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social @BrennanCenter | ex Atlantic, WaPo | Author, Angler & Dark Mirror | bartongellman.com/contact
Joseph Nunn @josephanunn.bsky.social Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Expert on domestic deployment of the military.
Margy O’Herron @margyoh.bsky.social Immigration Law and Policy Expert | Senior Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU | Migration and Human Rights Fellow, Cornell Law School | Former Biden Administration Domestic Policy Council | Former Department of Justice
Douglas Keith @douglaskeith.bsky.social @BrennanCenter.org, focus on courts + state constitutions. Co-founding editor @StateCourtReport.org. Dad.
Carl Takei @carltakei.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Formerly @asianlawcaucus.bsky.social @aclu.org. Posts are my own opinions.
Kate Brannen @k8brannen.bsky.social Non-Resident Journalism Fellow at NYU’s Reiss Center on Law and Security. Formerly: Foreign Affairs, Just Security, Foreign Policy, and Politico.
Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/rebecca-ingber
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
Devan Sinha @devsinha.bsky.social Neuroradiologist | Molecular Medicine | into science and data | via Oxford Med
Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social I work at the Philadelphia DA’s Office, and I’m the Third Circuit Bar Association president.
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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social Immigration lawyer, co-founder & President/CEO of @immdef.bsky.social, mom fighting for a better world for my kids. Based in beautiful Los Angeles. #Resist #DueProcess4all #SaveAsylum #TeamImmDef #WelcomeWithDignity
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
Dr. Haris A. Durrani @hdernity.bsky.social Prize Fellow, Harvard.
Law, tech, history. Space. PhD Princeton, JD/BS Columbia. Author, Technologies of the Self.
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Theo Tamayo @theotamayo.bsky.social Law Clerk, Former Legal Fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute. Opinions mine.
Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
Hannah James @hannahajames.bsky.social Counsel at the Brennan Center
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social Law Prof at AUWCL |Exec. Editor at Just Security |Mama of 4 fab young ppl |Fmr Washington Post, Reuters, International Criminal Court| Atrocity prevention, tech, climate |Proud #firstgen | Open water swimmer| 
Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social Working for a just democracy. We’re mobilized, and now it's time for us to organize. Personal account: sometimes silly, sometimes serious
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social Reporter at Mother Jones covering immigration, Latin America, and more. Falo português.
Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social Appellate public defender, tennis umpire, member of U.S. Soccer’s Fan Council, former SID
Noah Chauvin @noahchauvin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Studies free speech, surveillance, and the production of legal scholarship.
Heather Brandon-Smith @hbrandon-smith.bsky.social Foreign Policy Director @fcnl.bsky.social | Adjunct at Georgetown Law.
War powers, AUMF, law of war, use of force, international law
JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social Law prof at GW Law. New Yorker turned Virginian. Former SDNY clerk and litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell. Studying and writing about court admin and the judiciary. #LFGM #COYS Papers here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=22389
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.
Mike Milov-Cordoba @milov-cordobam.bsky.social Counsel, Judiciary & Democracy Programs, Brennan Center for Justice. State courts, state constitutions, and SCOTUS reform. All opinions are my own.
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Eric Petry @eepetry.bsky.social Counsel in the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, working to address money in politics and public corruption. Opinions my own.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social Senior Counsel, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Redistricting, voting rights, elections. From Texas.
KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social Senior Legal Analyst for the Constitution Project at @pogowatchdog. Trying to annoy CBP for rights violations as badly as I used to annoy the CIA. Personal account; views are my own, etc.
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Pinky Weitzman @pinkyweitzman.bsky.social VP of Comms, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. Democracy nerd, rabble-rouser, multi-instrumentalist, portmanteau lover. Former: HIAS, ACLU, touring musician, Bernie '16, UNIX sysadmin. Views are my own.
FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). A nonpartisan Quaker lobby in the public interest working for peace and justice for 80+ years.
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Michael Waldman @mawaldman.bsky.social President & CEO, @BrennanCenter. Author, The Supermajority, The Fight to Vote, etc. etc. Ex-speechwriter. 
Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social National security law and policy, NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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>> Signal: sreynolds.16
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.
Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller.bsky.social Professor of International Law & Security, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies. Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (UK). Arsenal, Bears, Magpies, All Blacks.
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Faiza Patel @faizapatel.bsky.social Co-Director, Liberty & NatSec @BrennanCenter
Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, reformed oboist and whitewater kayaker, mom of teenage twins. Opinions are my own.
Rachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social Director, Liberty & National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice. Raised in Austin TX; in DC for last 20+ years; MA/WA/IL/CA/NZ in between. Owner of extremely cute dog.
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