Veronica Paredes @veroyque.bsky.social book in-progress called SURVIVING CINEMA about how race matters within repurposed movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles; currently teaching a class about David Lynch’s filmography & television shows
Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; former DOJ/OLC attorney
maddy varner @regret.bsky.social reporter @wired.com ✨ prev the markup, FTC ✨ signal: mvarner.01
Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Ash Splawinski @splawinski.bsky.social PhD candidate in political science @ UofT
Researching federalism, policy design, administrative burdens, and political mobilization
Previously a visiting scholar at UT Austin & CU Denver
Overthinks for work, underthinks for fun!
Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social Mom 💙 Wife ❤️ Texan
Pres & CEO @DemocracyForward.org (views mine)
Our kids will ask what we did.
My book: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
On sale 8/25/26 💡📚💙
Pre-order: ordinarypeopleaction.com
Felicity Rose @felicityrose.bsky.social Criminal justice research & policy wonk at FWD.us, trying to get people free, solo mom, reader, #GoDucks football, #DubNation and #Valkyries fan, will ply you with baked goods if we meet IRL. Living the dream with my library ladder.
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
Andrew Ba Tran @abtran.bsky.social Washington Post Investigative Data Reporter
@westonrowland.bsky.social @westonrowland.bsky.social 
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
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...
Envision Freedom Fund @envfreefund.bsky.social Freeing people from immigration detention, dismantling the criminal legal & immigration systems, and fighting to end pretrial & immigration detention.
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write and talk about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them in a number of places. Working on a new thing.
Signal: cristianfarias.33
Asad L. Asad @asadasad.bsky.social Sociologist, writing on immigration, surveillance, and inequality. Author of ENGAGE AND EVADE: http://bit.ly/m/asadbook
Immigration Policy Lab @immigrationlab.bsky.social We use big data and innovative research to help governments, nonprofits, and service providers create evidence-based immigration policies and programs.
Stanford | ETH Zürich
Cesar Vargas Nunez @cvargas100.bsky.social Stanford PhD '23 & Pitzer College '14.
Assistant Professor at UCLA
Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social Lecturer in US History & Labor Studies at UC Irvine & UCLA. VP of Leg, UC-AFT, AFT Local 1474. LAWCHA Board. FOIA user. Co-Founder, Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. Gen X in Long Beach, CA. Higher Ed blog: https://campuslabor.substack.com/
Hannah Liu @hannahjliu.bsky.social MPA @ LSE | Formerly CLASP and AAJC | she/her
hannahjliu.github.io
Ethan Boldt @eboldtprof.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Political Science at UMass Boston. Studying federal criminal justice decision-making, courts, and law. Views my own.
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Joncollinsjournalism.com
Lindsay Nash @lindsaycnash.bsky.social Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Cardozo Law
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org Economist at @epi.org
https://www.epi.org/people/ben-zipperer/
Zabdi R. Velásquez Zavalza @zabdiveee.bsky.social Poli Sci PhD student @ UCLA 🐻 | proud first-gen everything 🇲🇽🇺🇸👨🏽🎓 | I study how environmental inequality is felt across marginalized groups in the US-LatAm | UCR and SDSU alumnus | he/him/él
Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
Find me at Dodger Stadium, Disneyland or hiking in the mountains.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social Los Angeles
Ximena Bustillo @ximenabustillo.bsky.social 🎧NPR Politics Reporter covering DHS & Immigration policy in the beltway + beyond. Still some rural y ag 🖊️
📲Signal/Cell: 240.935.0166
💃🏻Co-Founder of Voces Internship of Idaho.
📸IG: @ximena.bustillo
IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social In Congress and at the ballot box, we fight for Palestinian freedom and human rights for all. Affiliated organization of @theimeu.bsky.social
WEBINAR: http://imeupolicy.org/nakbaconvo
Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org We're a national nonprofit that works to reduce poverty, improve the lives of people with low incomes, and create pathways to economic security for everyone.
🔗https://linkstre.am/CLASPDC
Suma @sumasetty.bsky.social Leveraging research to forward a pro-democracy and pro-human rights agenda. @clasp.org
@letkidsthrive.bsky.social
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice @njaij.bsky.social New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice is the state’s largest immigration coalition. We fight for policies that empower and protect immigrants. #NJforALL
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC @aaaj-aajc.bsky.social Our mission is to advance the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
Visit advancingjustice-aajc.org
CHIRLA @chirla-org.bsky.social CHIRLA was formed in 1986 to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees. Educate, organize, and advocate.
Children Thrive Action Network @letkidsthrive.bsky.social A network of advocates & service providers at the national, state, & local levels who work directly with or on behalf of children in immigrant families.
People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social Abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the ppls voice through direct action, public ed + community space https://www.patreon.com/therobinsonspace
Subscribe to our new project: https://www.peoplescitycouncil-la.com/podcast
Mike Bonin @mikebonin.bsky.social Living my best life as a teacher, writer, mentor, consultant, and troublemaking progressive activist. Dad, husband, hiker, 🏳️🌈, DC Comics nerd. Host of What's Next Los Angeles podcast, co-host of LA Podcast. Former member of the LA City Council.
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. LA Podcast co-host, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Just published a book about anarchists at war in Spain, Kurdistan, and Myanmar, previously wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics.Para todos,todo✌️
https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout
Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social Senior advisor, Bridging the Gap; Research Affiliate, Stanford; Non-resident fellow, Kennan Institute. Was a professor for 35 years and a dean for six. Views are my own. www.jamesgoldgeier.com.
Doug MacMillan @douglasmac.bsky.social biz + tech investigations @washingtonpost
douglas.macmillan@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/douglas-macmillan/
UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies @uclaits.bsky.social Research That Moves Us
Advancing research, education and civic engagement on the many pressing transportation issues facing our cities, state, nation and world today.
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mel_buer
Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social Enlightening data. New ideas. Civil conversation. Visit us at vitalcitynyc.org
Jessica Cobian @jessicacobian.bsky.social UCLA Political Science PhD candidate | REPS Lab Affiliate | Voting Rights Project Senior Fellow | Fronteriza 🇲🇽🇺🇸 RTs ≠ Endorsements. https://jessicacobian.com
Chinemelu Okafor @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social Fourth-year PhD Candidate at Harvard University studying political economy🧚🏿♀️
White House CEA (2023-2024)
www.chinemeluokafor.com
Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
Public International Law | Human Rights | Statelessness | Int’l Environmental Law
https://law.hawaii.edu/people/melissa-stewart/
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
aaronsojourner.org
Be kind. Work hard. Have fun.
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social senior reporter at HuffPost covering prisons/jails/courts • HuffPost Union + WGAE Councilmember
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social Economist & public safety expert. Author, The Science of Second Chances. Host/author, @ProbCausation podcast & substack. Passionate about ROI.
https://jenniferdoleac.com
UCLA Lewis Center @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social Studying housing affordability and transportation equity in the LA Region
Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy.
Co-Director, Segregation Tracking Project: http://edopportunity.org/segregation
Co-Editor, City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social
Brian Dolinar @bdolinar.bsky.social Abolition journalist, educator, scholar of the Depression era. 
Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social Reporter for @boltsmag.org covering voting rights, democracy, and criminal justice at the local and state levels. Previously @denverpost.com. Support local journalism.
Signal: burness.02
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
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
PAL PAC @votepalpac.bsky.social Peace, Accountability, and Leadership PAC. Building a world where human rights, dignity, and international law are universally upheld.
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social New role to be announced soon!
Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Fan of Tom Paine.
Hannah Fresques @fresques.bsky.social ProPublica Deputy Data Editor
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Research on #immigration #immigrationpolicy #daca #immigrationdetention #health
Councilmember Nithya Raman @cd4losangeles.bsky.social Proudly serving Los Angeles City Council District 4- S Stephanie Luce @stephluce.bsky.social Professor of labor studies and sociology, union member. Co-author of Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World.
LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social An abolitionist collective organizing with the unhoused via mutual aid in Historic Filipinotown, Echo Park, Rampart, East Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz.
Join us: tinyurl.com/joinlasc
Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org We use the law to advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people by defending progress, disrupting extremism, and building for the future. Join us at democracyforward.org
National Day Laborer Organizing Network @ndlon.bsky.social Building power with immigrant workers from the bottom up. ✊🏽🍞🌹
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social building new worlds in the shell of the old / trusting kids / abolition / decolonization / Free Palestine! / anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness / https://abolition.university / Beyond Education: Radical studying for another world / http://elimeyerhoff.com
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
Francisco Garfias @fgarfias.bsky.social Associate Prof of Political Science at Duke University
http://franciscogarfias.com/
Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social Guardian senior reporter, based in Los Angeles. Sam.Levin@theguardian [dot] com. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-levin
Martha Bailey @marthajbailey.bsky.social Professor of Economics, UCLA
Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social Opinions of pro-choice feminist futbolista, cat herder, dog lover, civil rights litigator, & Oxford comma nut in SF. No kings, crush ICE.
Day job @aclu.org National Prison Project Deputy Director
Bossed around by @palmercatsf.bsky.social
Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social Lexis-Olivier Ray
Artist & Award-Winning Investigative Reporter
Based in L.A.
347-644-0191 for news tips
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
Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com
Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
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🤓 Fellow at Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🗞️ Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
🆕 Anchor on Medlines
Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social Immigration and labor reporter @bloomberglaw.com. Covering the legal and policy landscape affecting immigrant workers in the US.
Member of @wbng.org
Email: akreighbaum@bloombergindustry.com
Signal: kreighbaum.85
More reporting: https://aboutblaw.com/bj21
Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Smuggler (preorder now), Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected; Personal account www.reecejonesauthor.com
Deportation Data Project @handle.invalid The Deportation Data Project obtains and analyzes U.S. government immigration enforcement data via public records litigation.
Led by Berkeley Law & UCLA faculty, FOIA litigators
deportationdata.org
Support us: giving.ucla.edu/DeportationDataProject
Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UC-AFT Comms crew
memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
carolineluce.com
Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com He/Him. I work on security, borders, and migration at the Washington Office on Latin America (my views, not necessarily theirs). I'm also at wola.org, adamisacson.com, borderoversight.org, Mastodon elefanti.co/@adam
Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats. 
Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodian’s in California.
Signal: joeyscott.05
Venmo: @joeyneverjoe
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/joeyneverjoe
www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social Movement Lawyer & Clinical Law Prof
Down w/ @nlg.org @wplc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social
https://x.com/carltonwilliams
#BDS #BLM #LandBack #AbolishICE
#FreePalestine
carltonwilliams@ProtonMail.com
Maria J. Stephan @mariajstephan.bsky.social Civil resistance, nonviolent action, social movements, democracy, authoritarianism, political violence, peacebuilding.
Peter Mancina @petermancina.bsky.social Anthropologist, author of On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State @NYUpress.bsky.social (2025), Visiting Scholar @law.rutgers.edu, views my own