Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer, when I'm not playing board games.
Chi Ossé @chiosse.bsky.social @nyccouncil Member for Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights (CD 36) @CMChiOsse | Personal Account
John Roman @johnkroman.bsky.social Director, Center on Public Safety and Justice, NORC at the University of Chicago. Essays: https://johnkroman.substack.com/.
James Sample @jamessample.bsky.social Law professor. Montanan in NYC. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=792805
Nila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social Acting Prof at UC Davis School of Law, Former Public Defender, Singer
Daniel L. Hatcher @povertylawprof.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Baltimore Civil Advocacy Clinic, https://2cm.es/1ooRG;
Author: Injustice, Inc. (UC press), https://2cm.es/1ooR0;
The Poverty Industry (NYU Press), https://2cm.es/1oLHu
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Clyde McGrady @camcgrady.bsky.social New York Times national correspondent https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/politics/black-church-gen-z-attendance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social Senior correspondent at New York magazine. Author of the recent book UNBEARABLE: FIVE WOMEN AND THE PERILS OF PREGNANCY IN AMERICA (2025). Two kids and not a night of decent sleep since 2020. Here for that old magic time suck.
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social Part chaplain, part cross-pollinator, part coach, part builder. Multiracial multicultural institution dreamer. Brava pero vulnerable.
www.bravaleaders.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof/Research Dean at Tulane Law. Criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, punishment, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada.
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Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Congressman for #CA47. Formerly CA State Senator, @ucirvine.bsky.social law professor, @americanprogress.bsky.social policy director.
"Not some kindly professor" according to the GOP.
Official account: @congressmin.bsky.social
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social Reporter at the NYT covering NYC
David Meyer @dmey.bsky.social journalist @nyc.streetsblog.org, dmeyer@streetsblog.org. 🏳️🌈
Peter Sterne @petersterne.com State Editor at cityandstateny.bsky.social. Previously @nysfocus.bsky.social, @freedom.press and @politico.com. He/him.
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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social Live on @wnyc from 10AM - noon. NY Public Radio's most popular politics and society talk show. Tune to 93.9 FM, AM820 or visit wnyc.org/radio to listen live.
New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social We’re a multi-racial, working class political party fighting for a New York for the many, not the few. Text JOIN NY to 30403.
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Alexandra Natapoff @anatapoff.bsky.social Harvard law professor, criminal law scholar, author of 'Punishment Without Crime' and 'Snitching,' creator of video casebook CRBW
Scott Harman-Heath @scottharm.bsky.social Lawyer. I write about policing and uses of force. Prolific consumer of caffeine, golf, and the New York Mets. UVA Law and McGill alum.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social hosts the Emmy Award-winning “All In” Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. ET on MS NOW.
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Most recently I covered cops and prosecutors for
@theappeal.org. Huge fan of hiking and baking 🍪 megoconnor.com
Straight Outta Brooklyn @chriscarrega.bsky.social A veteran criminal justice reporter and adjunct professor turning a new leaf.
Priors: @CapitalB @CNN @ABC 2 top U.S. tabloid newspapers. 🇧🇧🇬🇾 #NABJ #CUNY #SJUAlumni
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Taylor Six @taylorsixhl.bsky.social Criminal justice journalist | Founder of the Journalists Recovery Network
Piper French @psfrench.bsky.social reporting on prisons, jails, DAs for Bolts. freelance magazine work: NYRB, NYmag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation
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Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice @quattronecenter.org National research and policy hub at the University of Pennsylvania, created to correct errors and catalyze long-term structural improvements to the US criminal justice system. Visit https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/quattronecenter/
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.
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.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Sarah Lawsky @sarahlawsky.bsky.social Law professor at UIUC, Catala team at Inria. Tax law, computational law. https://www.sarahlawsky.org/
Tisha Rajendra @tisharajendra.bsky.social Too many hats!: Professor of Ethics, Literacy Tutor, k-college SOR Advocate, and Social Justice Warrior.
nutshell-literacy-tutoring.com
Gabriel "Jack" Chin 趙健民 @jackchin.bsky.social Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair & Martin Luther King Jr. Prof. at UC Davis School of law. Immigration, Race and Law, Asian Americans and the Law, Criminal Law and Procedure--all the same. Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=20152
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Brandon L Garrett @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social Professor of law @DukeLaw, Director @WilsonCSJ_, Author Convicting the Innocent (2011), Too Big to Jail (2014), End of its Rope (2017), Autopsy of a Crime Lab (2021) and Defending Due Process (just published)
Jennifer Lee Koh @jenniferleekoh.bsky.social Professor @ Pepperdine Law - Immigration, Criminal Law, Evidence. Co-Director Nootbaar Inst Law, Religion & Ethics. 
Neil Sobol @nsobol.bsky.social Professor & Director of Legal Analysis, Research & Writing at TAMU Law. I write about abuses by debt collectors in the civil and criminal justice arenas.
Andrew Levchuk @agllegal.bsky.social Massachusetts attorney specializing in criminal defense, data privacy, and cyber security. Alumnus of DOJ Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and United States Attorney's Office. CISSP. www.agllegalnet.com
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.
B.J. Priester @redpenoflex.bsky.social Professor of Law and Associate Dean; criminal law, criminal procedure, fandom and constitutional interpretation. Executive Editor, FANgirl Blog and Co-host, Hyperspace Theories podcast.
Anna VanCleave @annakvancleave.bsky.social Associate Professor and Director of Criminal Defense Clinic, UConn School of Law. Crim procedure, prisons, and fines/fees/bail.
Eric J. Miller @millerej11.bsky.social He, him, his. Afro-Caledonian. Law Professor, teaching criminal law, criminal procedure; reparations. All posts are my personal opinion and do not reflect the opinion of any institution with which I am affiliated.
Vanessa Miller @vanessamiller.bsky.social Assistant Professor at FIU Law. Writing at the intersection of education and policing. Weightlifting at the intersection of metal and reggeaton. Miami born and raised.
Eve Brensike Primus @primuseve.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School (criminal procedure, evidence, habeas corpus); Public Defender; Director, MDefenders Program https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/eve-brensike-primus
@alegalnerd.bsky.social @alegalnerd.bsky.social Attorney w/43 years experience primarily in criminal law and procedure and constitutional law. 100+ jury trials to verdict, including capital cases. 1000s of motions and briefs, in state and federal court at trial and appellate level.
Tracy Pearl @tpearl.bsky.social William J. Alley Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma | Law & Tech, Autonomous Vehicles, Crowd Crush, Criminal Law & Procedure | Save the Oxford Comma
Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social Bainbridge-Mims Professor of Law, University of Alabama. I write about Criminal Law and Procedure, sometimes by drawing comparisons to Civil Procedure. I also write about prosecutors.
https://law.ua.edu/faculty_staff/russell-gold/
Matthew Tokson @mtokson.bsky.social Law professor at U. Utah, teaching criminal law and procedure, privacy, AI, cyberlaw. Views are my own. My writing is here: tinyurl.com/ycw29snm
Bio here: https://faculty.utah.edu/u6012359-Matthew_Tokson/hm/index.hml
Kimberly Robinson @kimberlyrobinsn.bsky.social Mom, runner, nerd. Formerly Supreme Court reporter.
Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social Law Professor at Cardozo Law, former appellate public defender. I write about our national addiction to the carceral state and complain about mundane things. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/kate-levine
Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. & Harold Reuschlein Emerging Scholar @Villanova_Law
I teach and write at the intersection of crim law, media, technology, racial justice & society. Formerly @Stanfordlaw @stanfordccsre
Randall Eliason @rdeliason.bsky.social White collar crime prof, former federal prosecutor, columnist and blogger, a cappella singer, husband, dad and grandpa.
Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
BIO: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/
Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice- E Erin Collins @erincollins.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Richmond and former appellate public defender. Writing and thinking critically about criminal system change, especially data-driven reforms. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2286196
Alexis Hoag-Fordjour @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social Prof & Co-Dir Center for Criminal Justice @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social; @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social & @abolitionistlawcenter.org Boards; @legaldefensefund.bsky.social & FPD alum. https://www.brooklaw.edu/Contact-Us/Hoag-Fordjour-Alexis
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Supporting local coalitions to tell more compelling stories and work better together.
My org: https://ZEALO.US
The Appeal @theappeal.org We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system.
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Joel Johnson @joeljohnson13.bsky.social Law Prof at Pepperdine -- Criminal Law and Procedure, Statutory Interpretation, Constitutional Law
Research @ http://tinyurl.com/SSRNjsj
Valena Beety @valenabeety.bsky.social Criminal Law Prof, Indiana University Maurer (@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social). Post-Conviction Litigator, Indiana Innocence Project. Writer, MANIFESTING JUSTICE; PINK CRIME (Aug 2026). www.valenabeetyjd.com
Rachel Moran @rachelmoran82.bsky.social Professor, University of St. Thomas (MN) Law. Former PD. Criminal law/policing.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2441245
Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social Assistant Professor @University of Wisconsin Law School | Criminal procedure, family law, evidence, feminist legal theory | Former public defender @The Bronx Defenders
Susan A Bandes @susanabandes.bsky.social Law prof emeritus, DePaul. I write about the emotions that pervade the legal system and about criminal procedure and civil rights. Also post about cooking, travel, art, tv and novels.
Zachary D. Kaufman @zacharykaufman.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Criminal Law, International Law, National Security Law, Transitional Justice, Human Rights
Bio: https://www.zacharykaufman.com/biography/
Publications: http://tinyurl.com/bpaas2b7
Amy Kimpel @kimpel-amy.bsky.social Law Prof & Director of the Cal Western Innocence & Justice Clinic. Former public defender and middle school teacher. Mom living in San Diego.
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
Carissa Byrne Hessick @cbhessick.bsky.social Criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina
Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project
Author of Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal
Alison Guernsey @alisonguernsey.bsky.social Clinical Law Prof at Iowa Law — Fed Crim Defense Clinic and Adjudication. Former AFPD in the EDWA. Champion of almost-lost causes with an affinity for pounding sand.
Adam Gershowitz @adamgershowitz.bsky.social Law Professor at William & Mary Law School. Criminal Law and Procedure
Nadia Banteka @nbanteka.bsky.social Gary & Sallyn Pajcic Professor, Florida State University College of Law • Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Law & AI, Int'l Law • Music Worshiper • Master Mover & Suitcase Maker 🌈 https://law.fsu.edu/faculty-staff/nadia-banteka
Michael Smith @msmith750.bsky.social Associate professor of law at University of Oklahoma College of Law. Researching constitutional law, criminal law, and legal oddities.
https://law.ou.edu/node/716
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social Law prof at UC Irvine, writing about criminal law, mental disability, law reform, and legal writing. Fan of desert sunsets and national parks.
Angelo Petrigh @apetrigh.bsky.social Clinical Assoc. Prof. at BU Law's Crim Clinic, former public defender at the Bronx Defenders. he/him