Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham @roshanabraham.bsky.social journalist covering land and housing | bylines at WIRED, New York Times, Baffler, etc I Contributing Editor Next City | member @fspnwu.bsky.social
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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social Communications @hrw.org (Associate Director, Europe)
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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social Oakland-based researcher, communist, lumpenprole. Sex worker organizing & trans marxist theory. "Toda mi obra es contra la policia."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature
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