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Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social Writer. Film: Framing Agnes (2022). Book: Boys Don’t Cry (2022). Podcast: One From the Vaults. Capricorn. UK.
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📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
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Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
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Alex Kane @alexbkane.bsky.social Senior reporter for Jewish Currents. I report on the politics of Palestine/Israel in the United States. Also lover of the Yankees, pizza, and Brooklyn.
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Five Boro Defenders @5borodefenders.bsky.social NYC public defenders, attorneys & advocates organizing around the systemic injustices of the criminal legal system.
Amir Khafagy @amirkhafagy.bsky.social Award-winning New York City-based labor reporter. Currently a Report for America Corps member with @documentedny.bsky.social
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
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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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
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Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social State Representative out of Missoula, Montana. Fighting for housing, health care, & human rights.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social @TheNation. @CapTimes. @freepress. @theprogressive. Tom Paine. Quaker. Latest book (w/ Sen. Bernie Sanders): NYT bestseller: It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism.
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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social Economist & public safety expert. Author, The Science of Second Chances. Host/author, @ProbCausation podcast & substack. Passionate about ROI.
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Charles Fain Lehman @charlesflehman.bsky.social Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal.
Vishaan Chakrabarti @vishaan.bsky.social
Architect|Author|Urbanist
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Author:
The Architecture of Urbanity (Princeton University Press, 2024);
A Country of Cities (DAP, 2013)
Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social Author of Back from the Brink. https://t.co/mABbQyS1jf
Professor. Writer. New Yorker. Here for the pigeons and also discourse on policing and criminal justice. 
@policingproject.bsky.social @policingproject.bsky.social We partner with communities and police to promote public safety through transparency, equity, and democratic engagement.
Open New York @opennewyork.org Grassroots nonprofit fighting for more homes for all New Yorkers
Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com Assistant professor at NYU interested in computational public policy and the criminal justice system. Co-direct @comppolicylab.bsky.social.📍NYC 🏳️🌈 alexchohlaswood.com
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
John Roman @johnkroman.bsky.social Director, Center on Public Safety and Justice, NORC at the University of Chicago. Essays: https://johnkroman.substack.com/.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social Professor, Yale Law School. 
Brandon del Pozo @brandondelpozo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of medicine and public health at Brown University. Former chief of police and NYPD precinct commander. BK born, NY raised.
Health + Safety = Justice
David Thacher @dtha15.bsky.social Professor studying police history, police reform, policy responses to serious mental illness, ethics. Richard Olney & John Dewey stan. Dad to a danseur and a goalie; married to a historic preservationist
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dthacher/index.html
Morgan C. Williams, Jr. @mwilljr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at @barnard-college.bsky.social of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Interested in crime & criminal justice through the prism of racial inequality.
Website: https://morganwilliamsjr.com/
Mark Obbie @markobbie.bsky.social Freelance criminal justice journalist writing for national publications about community gun violence victims and prevention. Based in upstate New York. Mostly retired, but dabbling still.
@jjhall.bsky.social @jjhall.bsky.social 
Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social Senior Reporter covering NYC + state politics for Bloomberg News. Formerly at Daily News Editorial Board, POLITICO, City + State
Matt Klein @mattklein.bsky.social Chief Program & Impact Officer, Robin Hood Foundation @robinhoodnyc.bsky.social. Where you start out should not predict where you end up. Posts are in personal capacity.
Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.
Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social Ex-Bloomberg, Daily News, New York Post; standup, improviser, pun-dit, overthinker, undersharer, Trini-Dad jokes, comics nerd, etc. Writing: https://thepunstack.substack.com/
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Jeffrey Butts @jeffreybutts.bsky.social Research Professor and Center Director, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City Univ of New York). Kid from Ohio, living in Manhattan - https://JeffreyButts.net -
#justice #criminology #research
Ted Alcorn @tedalcorn.bsky.social Reporting on health + justice in NYTimes, NM in Depth, more • Teaching @ Columbia & NYU Wagner • Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC • tedalcorn.org
Barry Friedman @barryfriedman1.bsky.social Professor @nyulaw. Director @policingproject. Litigator, author (and dad). Author - Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission; The Will of the People; Open Book
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social City Hall reporter / New York Playbook co-author @politico.com. From 🇸🇪. Have a tip? DMs are open or reach me at csommerfeldt@politico.com
Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social Covering politics, policy and power in health care for POLITICO New York
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
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Yoav Gonen @yoavgonen.bsky.social Communications Director for City Council Speaker Menin. Former reporter @ THE CITY. Will RT anything, even if it's true. #GoBlue
Alec MacGillis @alecmac.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica, author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC, native of Pittsfield, resident of Baltimore.
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 University School of Law.
Jillian Jorgensen @jillianjorgensen.bsky.social Emmy-winning education reporter at NY1. NYC public schools graduate. Former newspaperwoman. Fan of pizza and pasta. jillian.jorgensen@charter.com
DAVID C. BLOOMFIELD @dcbloomfield.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Education Leadership, Law & Policy @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @brooklyncollege.bsky.social
City&State NY: Brooklyn Power 100;
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davidcbloomfield@gmail;
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𝙼𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝙺𝚊𝚗𝚐 @mkang.bsky.social Sociologist and assistant professor @JHU.edu School of Government and Policy | gun violence, deviance, and gangs | megankang.com
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social Sewer Socialism beats climate change and bureaucracy explains the world. Re tootskeets don't endorse, new tootskeets represent nobody.
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Alex Krales @alexkrales.bsky.social Photojournalist at THE CITY Reporter
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Building a vibrant Jewish Left in NY, fighting arm-in-arm with our neighbors for care not cops. Extremely pro-glitter. https://www.jfrej.org/
Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com Let's Create Some Good In the World 🌎💕Community organizer, media strategist, writer. Co-founder @GenderLib.com
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social Art Critic Futurist 🧬 Editor-at-large, cofounder of @Hyperallergic.com 🗽 Aleppo born, Toronto raised, Brooklyn based w/ @veken.bsky.social
I tweet about art and politics because art doesn't exist in a vacuum.