Conor Fitzpatrick @ctfitzpatrick.bsky.social First Amendment attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
Lukas Hauser @lukashauserdesign.bsky.social filmmaker / designer / sc / nyc
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
jenn Zahrt @zahrtillery.bsky.social wordsmith
Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis Law School, where I teach con law & civil procedure and write about academic freedom & aesthetics. Author of The Opinionated University (U Chicago Press 2026) and Permitting Art (Cabinet).
https://law.ucdavis.edu/people/brian-soucek
Rebecca Bryant Novak @notorious-rbn.bsky.social Expelled from the Eastman School of Music after reporting harassment. Publishing the legal filing on Substack. Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has jumped in for advocacy. Stay tuned.
rebeccabryantnovak.substack.com
thefire.org/rochester
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
Zach Greenberg @zach2greenberg.bsky.social Faculty Legal Defense Counsel @thefireorg.bsky.social. We defend the academic freedom and free speech rights of professors.
Wayne Batchis @waybat.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional Law in the Political Science Department @udelaware.bsky.social. I study the First Amendment and Election Law. Urbanist, Philly Enthusiast.
Angel Eduardo @angeleduardo.bsky.social Writer | Musician | Photographer | Designer
Be kind; we're all first drafts.
www.angeleduardo.com
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
Jackie @peggyhill.bsky.social 9-5 at fire.org
thoughts, opinions, rants are my own
Global Tetrahedron @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social Global Tetrahedron was born of the shadows, and it is committed to control in all its forms. Parent company of The Onion.
Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social Oklahoman in Virginia. Appellate attorney.
I talk about federal court decisions. A lot.
Sometimes the most you can do is the best you can do.
gabriel.malor@gmail.com
F L A P @snowballiv.bsky.social
BUFFALO, NY
СМЕРТЬ ВОРОГАМ
Matthew Fairburn @matthewfairburn.bsky.social Writing about the Buffalo Sabres and NHL for The Athletic. Occasionally writing about the Buffalo Bills as well.- E @enmitch.bsky.social @enmitch.bsky.social
Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social Senior News Editor, Mother Jones/CIR
Evan Cree Gee @evancreegee.bsky.social Still an open question as to whether this is going to be professional or silly
Hannah @partyboots.bsky.social Everybody out of the god damn way. You got a hat full of bomb, a fist full of penis, and a head full of empty.
Philly livin’, SF born. First Amendment lawyer, for my sins. Opinions my own, do not steal
Joe Gramc @joegramc.bsky.social 🇺🇲🇸🇮🇮🇹🇷🇴 Lover of Cleveland, Food, Travel, Tech. Angel Investor, Classical Liberal, Trucking and Logistics Exec , Penn State Alum. #41,103
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Messages with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story.
Matt “Mad Dog” Maielli @mattmaielli.bsky.social 
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Arleigh Helfer @arleighhelfer.bsky.social Literate lawyer, advocate for free expression, erstwhile Reagan Youth conscript, and chap with a quirky, dark sense of humor. Fond of dandelion breaks. Fan of 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘒𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵. "Where law ends, tyranny begins."
Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night
Alison Schary @alisonschary.bsky.social Media, entertainment, and First Amendment lawyer. 
Harper Zacharias @harperzacharias.com Chicagoan in Brooklyn. Passionate about dogs & redistribution of wealth.
Fundraising and strategy consultant w/ NYC Mesh, PSNY, VONA, & others. Prev @ Lambda Literary, Sex Workers Project, PEN America. Former tenant organizer.
harper@harperzacharias.com
Zach Silver @zachsilver.bsky.social First Amendment attorney @thefireorg.bsky.social. Posting about law, politics, and my dogs.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Tom Klitus @tklitus.bsky.social Filming and editing. Fascinated by science, history, genealogy, interviews. Betsy-Tacy, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, anything by Baldwin. All music!
@cp-4.bsky.social @cp-4.bsky.social 
StuntmAEn Bob @stuntmaenbob.bsky.social 🏞️ I’m StuntmAEn Bob & I do pixel art
📩 bob.stuntmaen@gmail.com 💌
🛍️ https://www.inprnt.com/profile/stuntmaen_bob/
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/stuntmaenbob
🚫 no AI/ nf t
#pixelart #pixelartist #pixel ✨
Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law We are the non-profit host of RECAP, CourtListener, and the Big Cases bots. We use technology and advocacy to make the legal sector better.
https://free.law | https://free.law/recap/ | https://courtlistener.com | https://bots.law
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person
I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/
I also post silly things too.
Ari Cohn @aricohn.com First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org (x2)
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
Kurt Opsahl @kurtopsahl.bsky.social Counsel at RCJ Law, former Deputy ED and GC of EFF, now EFF Special Counsel, president SRLDF, board emeritus USENIX, advisor Open Archive, former Technical Advisory Council CISA. Skeets are my own.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Marcia Hofmann @marciahofmann.com Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, US-UK Fulbright.
Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / computer scientist / other things
Jmiers@uakron.edu
TechFreedom @techfreedom.org Think tank. We think about technology and freedom, esp. free speech, in 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺. Hayek put it best: "it is in the technical discussion concerning administrative law that the fate of our liberty is being decided"
media@techfreedom.org
TechFreedom.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social dumb laws deserve my thoughts on them
https://linktr.ee/ugarles
i will do your podcast
http://nohomework.website with @veryimportant.lawyer and @lronmexico.bsky.social
City Saint/Country Saint with L. Ron
remember the law pods? those were fun.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social I nudge people to care about privacy and security. CPO/DPO. Privacy/infosec lawyer. Hacker. Fighting for privacy, digital civil liberties & the users. Ex @EA @FTC |my views are my own. I used to post on Twitter at @wbm312.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social sex, speech, tech, justice, parenting, politics, & panic ✨ senior editor @reason.com, journalism instructor at University of Cincinnati, Midwestern mom
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy @jpjassy.bsky.social First Amendment, media, entertainment, and intellectual property lawyer at Jassy Vick Carolan LLP. Taught First Amendment law at USC and UC Irvine Law Schools. Padre and Padres fan. Bills hours and Bills fan. Sco 🦆s! Faithful to US Constitution. 🇺🇸
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social NBC News National Enterprise Reporter. Currently covering education and tech. Iowa raised, Los Angeles living. Bad at social media, good at petting animals.
Signal: tylerkingkadenbc.20
tyler.kingkade[at]nbcuni.com
https://www.tylerkingkade.com/
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Gabe Walters @gabewalters.bsky.social Free speech lawyer at FIRE. Formerly at PETA. UVA Law grad. Licensed in DC and NY. Opinions are my own.
Andy Geronimo @geronimooo.bsky.social Free speech lawyer & Director of the First Amendment Clinic @ CWRU School of Law (@cwru1stamclinic.bsky.social). ⚖️ Law stuff, Cleveland sports, dad tweets. Personal account.
Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social civic transparency for a better tomorrow. founder, MuckRock. also caretaker of DocumentCloud, FOIA Machine, and many other internet friends.
Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969.bsky.social Father, Husband, W&M LawProf, guy with opinions; @chkbal co-founder;
@volokhc.bsky.social contributor;
Law before policy before politics;
Philly sports always;
'the cowbell of Twitter'-N. Schulz
typos are part of the brand.
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
Matthew Schafer @matthewschafer.bsky.social Adjunct law prof Fordham Law; Scholar focusing on the intellectual history of press freedom: http://shorturl.at/bhsv7; rare book collector
Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social Constitutional litigator. Tennessee public interest/First Amendment/civil rights/innocence/election/appellate litigation. Nashville politics. Anti-SLAPP evangelist. Email daniel at horwitz.law. My views are my employer’s.
Thomas Berry @thomasberry.bsky.social Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review.
https://www.cato.org/people/thomas-berry
Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social Civil Rights Lawyer | Personal Views | Not Legal Advice | https://as.tufts.edu/politicalscience/people/faculty/matthew-segal
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
JT Morris @jtmorristx.bsky.social Trout bum. Chile pepper nut. Coonhound fan. First Amendment litigator @thefireorg.bsky.social. Views my own.
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social Doctor of Journalism. Law-talking guy. Chaotic good. Fan of bad sports teams. I have friends everywhere. https://schieffercollege.tcu.edu/faculty_staff/daxton-chip-stewart/
Joseph Mead @josephwmead.bsky.social Principal and Deputy General Counsel at Washington Litigation Group. Former law professor, DOJ, etc. Views are my own. https://washingtonlitigationgroup.org/.
David Sugerman @davidsug.bsky.social Oregon lawyer on the side of people. Impact litigation, consumer protection, and civil rights class actions. https://sugermandahab.com/ Fighting fascists, fraudsters, and climate destroyers; laughter and rage; truth and beauty. #PDX #SantaCruz
Jay Wolman @wolmanj.bsky.social Threemost expert on antiquartering law
Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social Law Prof. Economist.
I do not speak for my employer. RT are not endorsements. Duh.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339527
Mastodon: @lawprofblawg@mstdn.social.
Twitter: @lawprofblawg
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Mike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com Executive director and co-founder of @free.law. Occasional long distance athlete. Woodworker. Adroitful dodger of questions.
Signal: mlissner.06
CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social Jeopardizing the good order and security of institutions for Reason Magazine. I report on prisons, policing, and civil liberties. Based in the fabulous Florida Keys.
Email: cj@reason.com, cj.ciaramella@protonmail.com.
Signal: cjciaramella.68
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Tom Leatherbury @tsleather.bsky.social Dallas and Austin lawyer. Clinical Professor of Law and Director, First Amendment Clinic at SMU Dedman School of Law. Up the Toffees. Views my own
Jeff Zeman @jdzeman.bsky.social Dad. Michigander living in Philly. 1A attorney
at fire.org. Posts my own - if I’m in your replies we’re friends irl.
Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff.bsky.social Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota, jeffkosseff.com
David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social @EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA. Civil rights, police accountability, civil procedure. Author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Learn more at: joannaschwartz.net
Patrick Jaicomo @pjaicomo.bsky.social Civil rights litigator at @IJ.org.
Lover of freedom.
Fighter of bullies.
(All my posts have typos and express my own views.)
Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
www.politico.com