Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social Journalist
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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social evidence-based transgender writer. fellow at interrupting criminalization. author of the view from somewhere: undoing the myth of journalistic objectivity and radical unlearning, out now. www.lewispants.com
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.
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Ellen Kuwana, MS (#SciComm) @ellenkuwana.bsky.social Science writer, med comms, editor (>600 articles + $89B in grant proposals). Public speaker. Writing coach. APA & plain language expert. Interests: AI ethics, chocolate, SciComm. If I've helped you, thank me here, https://buymeacoffee.com/ellenkuw
Sanders Lauture @golf1052.com https://golf1052.com
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5% cyborg. 50% coder. Where you work doesn't define who you are. KPVD ✈ KBOS ✈ KSEA
Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social UIC senior lecturer in data and digital journalism | RTDNA/GNI lead trainer | ONA AI lead trainer | Founder JournalistsToolbox.ai | Author: "Data + Journalism" and "The Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI"
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social Publishes unwantedpersons.com on alternatives to police, care-focused first responders. Also Tracking the Jackboot on authoritarian policing. Poet & artist. Bookings @ kaiasand.net
Hannah Furfaro @hannahfurfaro.bsky.social Seattle Times Mental Health Reporter
Jessica Gillooly @jessicagillooly.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Suffolk University; Sociologist studying the 911 system
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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA. Civil rights, police accountability, civil procedure. Author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Learn more at: joannaschwartz.net
Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social Law prof, Pepperdine Law; Affiliated Scholar, Duke Center for Firearms Law. I write about constitutional law, especially the Second Amendment.
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Howard Henderson @howardhenderson.bsky.social Professor. Director of the Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University. I research solutions to crime.
Joy Resmovits @joyresmo.bsky.social Editor at The Trace focused on creating a more inclusive model for covering gun violence at the local level, and some other things.
Before that (and always, in a sense): the education beat.
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Cass Crifasi, PhD, MPH @drcrifasi.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Co-Executive Director, Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
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Dan Semenza @daniel-semenza.bsky.social Criminologist | Associate Professor at Rutgers University | Director of Research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center | Stoneleigh Fellow
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Marc Krupanski @mkrupanski.bsky.social Working for healthy, safe + strong communities
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social Greenwald Chair in Gun Policy at RAND.
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Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net Sociologist at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice studying policing, city budgets, suburbs, and housing. brenden.beck@rutgers.edu
John Shjarback @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social Policing/Criminal Justice Researcher. Associate Professor in the Dept. of Law & Justice Studies at Rowan University. Views are my own.
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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social Professor at UMN, Sociologist, Mom | Books: Breaking the Pendulum on criminal justice & The Minneapolis Reckoning on the politics of policing | www.michellesphelps.com.
Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @pcgvr.org Collaborating with journalists, researchers and the survivor community to advance more empathetic, ethical and impactful reporting. PCGVR.org
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
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Lisa Geller @lisageller.bsky.social State Affairs & ERPO implementation at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions | Gun violence & domestic violence prevention | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health & UW Madison alum / views = mine
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
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New podcast: Collateral Damage
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Wayne @justicedragon.bsky.social Executive Director National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. National trial lawyer and lecturer. Defender of Liberty.
Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) @transequality.bsky.social Fighting for legal and political rights of transgender people in America.
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social Filter was a nonprofit news outlet covering drugs, harm reduction and human rights from 2018-2026. The website remains online: https://filtermag.org
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NAPD @napdie.bsky.social #NAPD is the Professional Association for post primary Principals & Deputy Principals in the Republic of Ireland #leadership info@napd.ie
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons, jails and more for The Marshall Project. Formerly WBEZ (Chicago NPR affiliate). Host of Motive podcast (Season 4). Writes short stories and essays. Tips: sheffernan@themarshallproject.org