alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, founder at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, "in this horrible age of abuse and decay / its good to know somebody's looking ok"
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Open Technology Fund @opentechfund.bsky.social We advance internet freedom by supporting research, development, & implementation projects that fight censorship, increase privacy, and improve security online.
opentech.fund
The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social 📺 The Rundown with @jeyantvo.bsky.social on @wearetvo.bsky.social
More: https://my.linkpod.site/therundown
RSF @rsf.org Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
We fight for #PressFreedom all over the world.
Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her ||
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
ICIJ @icij.org Stories that rock the world. We expose wrongdoing so the world can make it right. Find us at ICIJ.org. #UberFiles #EricssonList #PandoraPapers #FinCENFiles #PanamaPapers
Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org The global hub for investigative journalism, sharing resources, stories, events, and jobs.
Find #GIJN's regional feeds, here: http://gijn.org/follow-gijn/
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
State Court Report @statecourtreport.org State Court Report is a nonpartisan news source, resource, and commentary hub covering state constitutional developments in high courts across the 50 states. Visit StateCourtReport.org.- D Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social Cornell constitutional law professor and dilettante in many other fields. Vegan. Cyclist. Knicks fan. I mostly provide links to my work, especially my Verdict columns & blog posts (as well as those of my co-bloggers). I also occasionally post snark.
Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer)
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Ireland Lesley @irelandlesley.bsky.social Law student. Former congressional staffer.
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
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
Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social Director, Program on Law & Public Policy, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs. Still teaching Con law, still aiming to get out of the new social media market.
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.
Either joking or quite serious. Posts deleted due to age, typos, irrelevance.
Curtis Bradley @curtbradley.bsky.social Professor, University of Chicago Law School
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
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; former DOJ/OLC attorney
MT @madiha.bsky.social Antifascist. Asst Prof @ Yale. Personal acct. Writing book on digital war, drones, & empire w/ view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech, militarism, anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis, transnatl solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social law prof
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3079682
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
ClimateHope @climatehope.bsky.social Doing my best to share good quality climate information and promote renewable energy. Born at 317ppm.
Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social Historian of environment/climate/disaster/cities/culture. Also public history & urban/enviro/recreation public policy. UCLA Bruin.
Book: The Frontier of Leisure: SoCal and the Shaping of Modern America; writing on climate & history in US & North America.
The Festival Center @festivalcenter.bsky.social We are a faith-based community center in Washington DC dedicated to building movements for justice
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
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.
Mike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com Executive director and co-founder of @free.law. Occasional long distance athlete. Woodworker. Adroitful dodger of questions.
Signal: mlissner.06
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social D.C. reporter, @washingtonsun.bsky.social. Former: @51st.news, WAMU, and DCist.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State @americansunited.bsky.social Bringing together people of all religions and none to defend our democracy & fight for freedom without favor & equality without exception. linktr.ee/au.org
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social Crowdfunded entirely by readers and viewers. All works free to republish/use/translate. No AI in any works. All works co-authored by Tim Foley.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social Decode the universe. A popular science magazine, writer-owned forever. From @goesbykim.bsky.social @maxlevy.bsky.social @dsamorod.bsky.social and @maddiebender.bsky.social
https://www.sequencermag.com/
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Tricontinental: Insitute for Social Research @tricontinental.bsky.social Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations.
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
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)
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
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/
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.”
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Invisible Institute @invisible.institute A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more. 
People's Tech @peoplestechproject.bsky.social Arming movements for liberation with the tools to fight the tech that oppresses us.
peoplestechproject.org
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social Civil rights attorney & writer focused on race, technology & the law.
Co-founder of the @noticecoalition.bsky.social
Alabama native fluent in country grammar & cuisine.
www.clarenceokoh.com
Posts are my own
Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social Senior reporter, The 51st. Pittsburgh born and forever a Hokie. Send story ideas or spam to alexkoma(at)51st.news.
CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social Office of Ward 4 DC Councilmember Janeese Lewis George. Fighting for working families in the community where I grew up. She/her #PeopleFirst
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social Correspondent, Vanity Fair
Signal: @mjnblack.09
Work: https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Abolitionist Law Center @abolitionistlawcenter.org ALC is a movement lawyering and organizing project that defends human rights and challenges incarceration and other state & structural violence
abolitionistlawcenter.org
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Movement Law Lab @movementlawlab.bsky.social Bringing the power of lawyers to social movements.
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Bina Ahmad @binaahmad.bsky.social Civ rights/fed+state crim defense/state crim appeals attorney. Muslims for Just Futures General Counsel + legal network co-chair. AMBA Advocacy Chair. Abolition+animal liberation. Ahmadi. Views my own.
The Legal Aid Society @legalaidnyc.bsky.social The nation’s oldest public defender, delivering #JusticeInEveryBorough via free legal services, advocacy, and community empowerment. Founded in 1876.
NYCLU @nyclu.org We are the New York state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), fighting for the rights of all New Yorkers.
VOCAL-NY (Voices of Community Activists and Leaders) @vocal-ny.bsky.social G'roots organizing for healthy & just communities. HIV, drug policy, incarceration & homelessness.
The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social A task force of nonprofit organizations that have combined our expertise and collective power to fight back against SLAPPs and protect the free speech of public interest advocates in the United States. Shares ≠ endorsements. #StopSLAPPs #ProtectTheProtest
Death Penalty Action @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social Lifting up the visibility & capacity of the anti #DeathPenalty movement. Join us!
DeathPenaltyAction.org
KPFA Radio @kpfa.org Listener Powered Radio Since 1949
#wediditfirst
We speak truth to power! It’s kind of our thing.
Tune in @ 94.1 FM Berkeley
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org We fight against oppression. We stand with social justice activists and communities under threat. We use the power of the law to achieve justice for all. ccrjustice.org
Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social Associate Professor, Government Department, LSE
Indian politics, state capacity, status politics, historical political economy
www.pavisuri.com
Editor at http://broadstreet.blog
Adam Moore @conflictgeog.bsky.social Geographer studying political violence, war, peacebuilding, U.S. military, geopolitics, empire, Bosnia. UCLA professor.
Author of Peacebuilding in Practice (2013), Empire's Labor (2019), and The Difference Place Makes (2026)
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social Senior Scientist at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna #AUTNES 🇦🇹
Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social Policy analyst/advisor. Newsletter: stephensemler.com
Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social Investigating the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. By @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project @brechnerfoi.bsky.social The Brechner FOI Project works to educate journalists, policymakers and the general public about the law of access.
Based at University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications. Inquires: brechnerreport@jou.ufl.edu 
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social 🖤 Material support & advocacy for unhoused & recently housed people in Washington DC 🖤
Mutual Aid Ⓐ Anarchy Ⓐ Anti-fascism
https://linktr.ee/remorahousedc
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
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Plz be patient with me @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
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.