Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard.
Author with Niko Bowie of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton, Sept. 15, 2026).
readsupremacy.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Law and Political Science at U. of Minnesota. AdLaw, Admin. Capacity, and the Federal Workforce. Contributing Editor for Lawfare; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings. Signal: Nbednar.46
Opinions are my own; Not UMN.
Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social Law professor at Cornell
Subjects: litigation risk, torts, civil procedure
https://www.alexandralahav.com/
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social Advocate. Feminist. Court reform enthusiast.
Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social Senior Supreme Court Reporter, NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/author/lawrence-hurley-ncpn1298564
Signal: @lawrencehurley.25
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
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.
Adele M. Stan @addiestan.bsky.social Artist practicing journalism w/o a license. Longtime chronicler of the American right. Union maid. Plays the ukulele. She/her
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Russ Choma @russchoma.bsky.social Investigative reporter @Motherjones DC ex OpenSecrets.org tip me at rchoma @ motherjones.com
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Christine Kexel Chabot @kexelchabot.bsky.social Professor of Law @ Marquette. Is the administrative state history?
Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy at Michigan State. Contributor to The Downballot. I teach, write, and post about state constitutional law, institutional development, and criminal law. I write (infrequently) at guaranteedrepublics.substack.com.
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/
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social Fighting Judicial Corruption
Building Toward a Better Democracy
https://linktr.ee/courtaccountability
Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social Dean & Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law @USCGouldLaw. Order my book! https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/law/us-law/congress-we-trust-enforcing-voting-rights-founding-jim-crow-era?format=PB&isbn=9781009781619
Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. https://linktr.ee/injusticewatch
MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social MaddowBlog.com
Rachel: https://bsky.app/profile/maddow.bsky.social
Steve: https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com
Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director, Nonprofit organization
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.
Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social Chicago ➡️ LA
Writer for Bolts Magazine.
Policing & Criminal Justice. Democracy. Data.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), @emtrap.bsky.social enthusiast, ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.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.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social President, @civildefenseinst.bsky.social
Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Exec. Editor @justsecurity.org. Fan of Tom Paine.
Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective.
Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
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 . . .
Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social Deputy editor of investigations, Guardian US. I'm an editor and reporter. Feminist. Mother of two. Years in DC, Rome, NYC, London. But mostly DC. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephanie-kirchgaessner
Nathalie Baptiste 🇭🇹 @nhbaptiste.bsky.social National reporter, formerly HuffPost.
Email me: nhbaptiste@gmail.com
Brendan Benedict @brendanbenedict.bsky.social Lawyer. Principal, Benedict Law Group PLLC. DC/NY. Antitrust & commercial litigation. (Attorney Advertising - Prior Results Do Not Guarantee Outcomes) benedictlawgroup.com
Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social Oil Painter and French Fry enthusiast
https://www.atinyrocket.com/p/links.html
Keith E. Whittington @kewhittington.bsky.social David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Founding Chair, Academic Freedom Alliance; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. All opinions are mine alone. Personal website at https://keithewhittington.com/
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com I study immigration enforcement. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
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.
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com NBC News senior reporter | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Retired t-ball coach
www.mikehixenbaugh.com
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.
Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social Bloomberg Law reporter covering the Justice Department
Bpenn@bloombergindustry.com
Signal: benpenn.06
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Greg Lipper @theglipper.bsky.social Criminal and constitutional lawyer; former church-state separator; (virtual) taekwondo student; theater and improv lover. #NeverSkeet (he/him/his)
https://www.lipperlaw.com
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social Reporter at Mother Jones covering immigration, Latin America, and more. Falo português.
Melissa Lewis @melissa.news data reporter, Center for Investigative Reporting (@motherjones.com + @revealnews.org)
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social I would prefer not to.
NM civil litigator. Trials, appeals, plaintiff, defense, you name it. Opinions are my own, not my firm's #USMC
Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social #Notacourt but yes a law prof
Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social Law Prof at AUWCL |Exec. Editor at Just Security |Mama of 4 fab young ppl |Fmr Washington Post, Reuters, International Criminal Court| Atrocity prevention, tech, climate |Proud #firstgen | Open water swimmer|
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61
Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social Supreme Court reporter @law360.bsky.social | DMV Native, #Mizzou Tiger | Former local news reporter in TX, FL & MO
Contact: katie.buehler@law360.com | Signal: kbuehler.42
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
Brendan Fischer @brendanfischer.bsky.social Director, Strategic Investigations @CampaignLegal.org. Wisconsinite.
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Carol Leonnig @carolleonnig.bsky.social @washingtonpost investigative reporter
@MSNBC contributor
finder of fact
best-selling author "Zero Fail", "A Very Stable Genius", "I Alone Can Fix It".
Story tip? carol.leonnig@washpost.com
Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social Law Professor, University of Minnesota. Constitutional Law • Family Law • Sex Equality. Three books—We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, Intimate Lies and the Law, and Family Law Reimagined.
Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Next Books: “Every Man a Sovereign” and “Going Low”
Libby to my pals
Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
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
Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social Professional Minneapolis enthusiast. Won a Pulitzer once. She/her.
Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com Meteorologist for REBUILD.US based in Minneapolis. Contributing climate journalist for The Guardian. Author of The Future Earth. Optimistic to a fault.
DM to contact me securely on Signal
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/
Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times
LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Rick Pildes @rickpildes.bsky.social Legal expert at NYU on issues concerning democracy and the structure of American government.
Damon Silvers @damonsilvers.bsky.social Senior Advisor to the AFL-CIO and the AFT. Senior Council to Jubilee USA. Visiting Professor of Practice, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London. Posts are solely my personal opinions and not that of any organization.
AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
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.
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
David Nir @davidnir.com Publisher, @the-downballot.com. davidnir (at) the-downballot (dot) com
Our site: https://the-downballot.com
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
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social Democracy nerd, DC politics guy, public-interest lawyer, Jewish American. Live Free or Die. Views and puns solely my fault; everything else is fedsoc’s fault.
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Danielle Lang @danilang-votes.bsky.social Sr Dir., Voting, Campaign Legal Center. Former legal aid lawyer. You can also find me on Substack: https://theonlypollsthatcount.substack.com/
Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social SCOTUS reporter @ Courthouse News
Come for the legal news, stay for the Taylor Swift commentary and cat photos
Signal: @kreichmann.13
Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social Chinese-Italian Scallion • Correspondent, comedian • Host of The Bitchuation Room Podcast on YouTube and Twitch • Newsbroke on @ajplus• IG: @franifio
LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the @lpeproject.bsky.social. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://lpeproject.org/subscribe/
Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: charles.ornstein@propublica.org. Posts are my own.
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Shoe @shoe.bsky.social Former conservative. Good poaster with even gooder opinions. Truck h8er. Costco 4eva. Truth and Reconciliation Commission Advisor.
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law- R Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social Professor, University of Michigan Law School. Senior Editorial Adviser, Journal of American Constitutional History. I study the constitutional past and try to do my part for the rule of law in the present.
Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (SAIS & Carey Business School), Johns Hopkins University. Political economy, Brazil, and a little bit of futebol.
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social Political consultant, media critic, and longtime Cassandra.
www.findinggravity.net
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social Co-host of @onthemedia.bsky.social from WNYC
mloewinger(at)wnyc,org Signal: (646) 753-2373
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing