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Nicole B @kindkaleidoscope.bsky.social Trapped in 🇺🇸 Alabama
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
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former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
Bernard Taylor @bernardtaylorforfl.bsky.social Firefighter. Paramedic. Democrat running to flip FL-21. Fighting for healthcare, clean water & a Congress that works for you. Primary: Aug 18, 2026 🗳️
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Lupe Fiasco @lupefiasco.bsky.social Rapper. 1st & 15th. Chicago. TEXTFX. MIT
EmpathyTour - David Clayton @empathytour.bsky.social Official North Carolina District 5
Independent Congressional Candidate
2028 ( not enough signatures to get on ballot for 2026) Not giving up. Building Up!
Clayton4NC.com
Articles / Legislation / Merch
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Judah @glutelord.bsky.social political science himbo and dummy thicc internet clown
glutelord is the handle for the spicier stuff too btw
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social Lawyer trying to transform public defense. Author of The Price of Mercy ( www.emilygalvinalmanza.com ). Can drive a truck and trailer through places you shouldn't. Personal account, personal opinions.
blackness everdeen @traceycorder.bsky.social Dreamer, organizer, teacher, auntie.
pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social Attorney. Posting about criminal legal issues, immigration, and protests.
@pdxlawgrrrl on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/pdxlawgrrrl
Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social Dr. MRO. Literary Historian. Public scholar, activist & small biz owner who dyes yarn inspired by Black/brwn premodern figures.
WOC: product of Black & brown love. Gif lover. Racist magnet. Abolitionist. Not Eddie Murphy. She/hers
www.RepublicOfYarnia.com
💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app “This that Grey Poupon, that Evian, that TED talk”
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.bsky.social Co-founder of the upEND movement to abolish the family policing system | Writer and co-facilitator at Toward Liberation, an abolitionist learning group | www.alandettlaff.com | www.towardliberation.com
Atlanta Justice Alliance @atlantajustice.bsky.social 🖤❤️🖤
Activists, Allies, and Accomplices
Stop Cop City. Justice for Tort. 1312. ACAB. Free Palestine. Human rights. BLM. Direct Action>Compliance. Fuck off if you disagree.
The Marshall Rancifer Memorial Mutual Aid Project
Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social Prison & police accountability lawyer at OJRC. Dream baby dream. He/Him.
Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social Professor at Maryland Carey Law, director of Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (UC Press). She/her/mom. leighgoodmark.com
Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social Sr. Policy Manager at Dream.Org, Host of the Decarceration Nation Podcast (on hiatus). Formerly Incarcerated.
Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me. It’s mutual. Comfortable in conflict. | Views my own
Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social Decolonized Journalist | US Politics, Justice, Immigration, Geopolitics, Hate Groups, Cuba, Texas | Words: Unicorn Riot, Cultured, Antagonist, Momentum | Formerly: Capitol Press, Latino Rebels | #WEOC Leader | News and Analysis: extremearturo.substack.com
Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social Policy analyst/advisor. Newsletter: stephensemler.com
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social Associate Prof, American U. Critical geographer writing on caste, race, and planetary ecologies.
Sha Merirei @merirei.com Irritant to borders, bots, & billionaires 💀
Decolonial comms + digital resistance 🔥
Micronesian (Palauan) | Omo Oshun 🌻 | 50501 National Coms
Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social Writer~Professor~Literacy Advocate~Blogger~Creative~Community Organizer-Consultant
Native Chicagoan living in the south.
YouTube: @tiffanyaflowers
Spoutible: @Prof_Flowers
Fanbase: @drtiffanyaflowers
Medium: The Black Aesthetic Tradition Blog
Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social Movement Security Training w/ Vision Change Win | Jail unbuilding | Sci-fi nerding | Juris Doctoring | Veggie slangin | Homosexualing | She/her-ing | #SkyClear ✅✈️
TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social #TenForJustice: The Road to Abolition • Founded 2020 • Harm Reduction, Decriminalization, Decarceration, Reparations, Dual Power, Mutual Aid, Community Defense, and Transformative Justice • thisisawkword.com/ten-demands • tendemands@gmail.com
Jawanza James Williams | He, Him | @jawanza.bsky.social Lover of all the People | Love is a commitment to what is possible, not weak acquiescence
Black. Queer. Leftist. Community Organizer. PhD PoliSci student.
•Dir. of Movement Building with VOCAL-US (jawanza@vocal-us.org)
Jawanzajameswilliams.com
Community Protection Broadcast @cpb.works Portland, OR | He/Him & They/Them | A developing broadcast API for community awareness & mutual aid.
#AntiRacism #AbolishThePolice #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #LandBack #EndSudanGenocide
https://linktr.ee/communityprotectionbroadcast
Trevor Aaronson @trevoraaronson.bsky.social Journalist writing a book about the FBI | Peabody winner | Pulse and Into the Madness now on Audible | Signal: taa.10 | linktr.ee/trevoraaronson
Dr. Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social 🏹 Los Angeles |🌱Herbalist + Mystic | sociologist + professor | 📖 Author of CARCERAL APARTHEID | 🌹| www.brittanyfriedman.com
Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Supporting local coalitions to tell more compelling stories and work better together.
My org: https://ZEALO.US
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
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...
Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social Organizer, Writer, Lawyer
Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/
Black Liberation Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6o7j4ZNNziKnCyds8-XzA
Cerise Castle @cerisecastle.bsky.social she/her. multi-award winning journalist. Wrote history of #LASDgangs, now writing the book. covering inequality Capital & Main, freelancing. IG/TikTok @yourmajestcee. Tip? DM
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.
Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social abolition, prisons, journalism, and also sometimes my dog
hannahrileyfernandez.com
thejumpline.substack.com
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/
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social Public Defender (NYC & Baltimore) & Writer. Sydney ✈️ NYC + DC. she/her. Views my own. “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin
@swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.
SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social Sex Worker Community Support Line - 1-877-776-2004 - Chat for support on our website at www.swopbehindbars.org We create Community from the Inside Out!
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social Nonprofit Marketing Strategist + Activator | Journalist • Comms, @joindayenu.bsky.social | Writer, @unicornriot.bsky.social | Board, @crushcolonialism.bsky.social | Co-Founder, @tendemands.bsky.social • aka @awkword.bsky.social • philmandelbaum.com
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.
Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of @prismreports.org | Co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid and Displacement | lara@prismreports.org
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
Support our work: https://bit.ly/4rioDIW
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Film The Police LA @filmthepolicela.bsky.social Hollow’s dad. Copwatcher specializing in LAPD accountability. substack.com/@filmthepolicela
Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com Former prisoner. Dharma student. Union tradesman. Dharma leader at Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Center, & San Jose Insight. Sober since 2005. Hobbyist photographer. San Jose, CA.
Kicked a divot out of Stalin’s grave.
https://linktr.ee/MatthewHahn
Jag Davies 🌹 @jagdavies.bsky.social communications director @fairsharehousing.bsky.social
alum: @drugpolicy.org, @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social, @aclu.org
housing policy, decarceration & decriminalization, harm reduction & public health, political & narrative strategy++
#HousingNotHandcuffs
Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org
brittany packnett cunningham (she/her.) @mspackyetti.bsky.social the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration.
writer. talker. strategist. activist.
Black. loved. grateful. free.
subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd
A is for Afro @aisforafro.bsky.social Busy w/ Black Liberation | Award-Winning Political Strategist | Organizer | Writer | Podcaster | #TheLawAccordingToAmber Creator
Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
bit.ly/NoMorePolice
bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds
InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social Indigenous academic living and working on the original homelands of my ancestors. Nu’Eta & Hidatsa. Fort Berthold | MHA Nation | Indian Country I’m a Tribal College President fond of storytelling and green chile. All opinions are my own.
brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org.
upEND Movement @upendmovement.org Abolition movement to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable intervention. upendmovement.org
Black Lives Matter DC @blmdc.bsky.social Centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
NOT PART OF THE NATIONAL BLM ORG!
Matthew Solomon (he/him) @mattytheglue.bsky.social Director of “Reimagining Safety”, host of “Conversations for the People,” conflict resolution, abolish the police.
Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social Founder, Center for Transformational Change.
Strategist, producer, writer, traveler.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/LinaSrivastava/
https://linasrivastava.com
https://transformationalchange.co
She/her.
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social We are a coalition of over 80 organizations working to reduce the number of incarcerated people in California, reduce the number of jails and prisons in our state and shift wasteful spending away from incarceration and toward healthy community investments.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com Digital Strategist
Comms Expert/Coach
Abolitionist
Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social Drug policy. Prisons and jails. Journalism. Research. Harm reduction. Veterans. Heart in Portland, skin under San Diego sun.
Judith Browne Dianis @jbrownedianis.bsky.social Movement Lawyer; Racial justice advocate. Former Exec. Dir, Advancement Project& APActionFund
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @myharmreduction.bsky.social Harm Reductionist. Drug Policy Reformer. Writer. Speaker. Lapsed Academic. Researcher-Advocate. Brown. She/Her/Dr.
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social Afro-Indigenous Boricua mother, daughter, sister, wife, matriarch building for climate justice- walking with my ancestors 💚♥️🖤🇵🇷 🌻🐝🍯💛 my opinions are my own 🌻
Amistad Law Project @amistadlaw.bsky.social Organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania.
📍Philly
Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own
book info/events: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social Investigative Reporting Fellow for The Appeal. Words in: Truthout, The Appeal, The Nation, NY Focus. Founder of The Carceral Report. www.thecarceralreport.com
Free Palestine. Abolish ICE. Anti-Zionist Jew. she/her
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social Who decides in health? | Health Equity | AI Governance | HIV | Community Participatory Research | Physician | Founder, Health Justice & The Grounded Innovation Lab
@akinfe.bsky.social's life partner | she/her(s)/yeye
#MedSky #BlackMedSky #QueerSky
Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Afro-Latino, abolicionista, Puerto Rico será libre, teaching criminal law and criminal procedure while researching surveillance, law, technology, and decoloniality. Creando un mejor mundo con @amartinez-orabona.
Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social Organizer (immigration & LGBTQ+), campaign manager, writer. Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, brown ✊🏽, & disabled ♿️.
Lg: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇸🇳
All work: bit.ly/m/link2Anoosh
Political t-shirts: bonfire.com/store/downtown-angry-brown/
Parent. Armenian 🇦🇲 Filipinx 🇵🇭 American. ❤️🐕
Alexis Hoag-Fordjour @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social Prof & Co-Dir Center for Criminal Justice @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social; @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social & @abolitionistlawcenter.org Boards; @legaldefensefund.bsky.social & FPD alum. https://www.brooklaw.edu/Contact-Us/Hoag-Fordjour-Alexis
victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app † doktora | research+policy | perpetually horizontal
ID’s: Brown skin grl w/ curly hair wearing shirt that says hot girls arent ableist. Banner: Sepia picture of a couple married w/ family around.
vashetc.com | restandmecfs.com | survivorsandallies.com
Steven Donziger @sdonziger.bsky.social Advocate, writer & public speaker on human rights and corporate accountability. Lawyer on team that won historic $9.5b judgment against Chevron.
Watch the first episode of my podcast Donziger on Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nXKlrdt8Y&t=71s
Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"; "Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture"; and "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform."
Angela Lang @angelalang8.bsky.social She/Her Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC). Always an organizer. Views are my own.
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
Housing For All Is Hot @ahouse4all.bsky.social LA. Mutual aid, my dog, social housing, and organizing the working class. Married to my husband and revolution. I write sometimes. Views strong + my + my own.