Joshua Clark Davis
Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
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Historians of Movements and the Left
Writers, scholars, organizers, archivists, and journalists working on the history of social movements, left and left-leaning
@burness.bsky.social
Reporter for @boltsmag.org covering voting rights and criminal justice at the local and state levels. Previously @denverpost.com. Support local journalism. Signal: @burness.02
@johncarlbaker.bsky.social
nuclear weapons, foreign policy, Korea, the left - occasional antiquity posts Words: Nation, NK News, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jacobin, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere seniores tollunt omnia
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories. https://bit.ly/4lbdmXU
@prisonpolicy.org
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people. Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
@jphillll.bsky.social
Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻 www.jphilll.com
@nacdl.org
The nation’s criminal defense bar association & liberty's last champion since 1958. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) envisions a society where all accused of crimes receive fair, rational, and humane treatment. linktr.ee/NACDL
@michellesphelps.bsky.social
Professor at UMN, Sociologist, Mom | Books: Breaking the Pendulum on criminal justice & The Minneapolis Reckoning on the politics of policing | www.michellesphelps.com
@wagingnv.bsky.social
Original reporting and analysis on movements for justice around the world. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://wagingnonviolence.org/subscribe/
@etiennetoussaint.bsky.social
Law Professor @ University of South Carolina | On Substack: “The Tenure Track” & “Freedom Papers” | husband + dad of 3 boys www.thetenuretrack.com
@evanbernick.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). “Mildly Sephirothic at worst.” He/him.
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@monicacbell.bsky.social
Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods. In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
@carolinesommerlind.bsky.social
Autistic. ADHD.. Democratic socialist.😊 Lives on the west coast of Sweden. 1 young adult son. Not a fan of the current politicians and leadership in the US. 💙 ♾️ health care is a human right!
@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. Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
@fablecorp.bsky.social
Ex-Navy. Ex-athlete. Ex-X (kinda funny). Philosopher. Master debater. Jack-of-all-Trades, Master of some. Historian. Writer. Broke Philanthropist. Supporter of Civil Rights. Believer in meritocracy. Realist to moderate Woke. 🚫MAGA 🚫PORN 🚫CRYPTO 🚫DM
@jalaneschmidt.bsky.social
Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽🏫🗣️#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer. Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
@profkori.bsky.social
Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner. KorithaMitchell.com
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@joshsbicca.bsky.social
Author | Dreamer | Builder Associate Professor of Sociology | Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab https://joshuasbicca.com | https://prisonagriculture.com/
@gwynmell.bsky.social
Media historian and recovering journalist. Author of Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow (2024) #RacializingObjectivity; Chasing Newsroom Diversity: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action (2013)
@mlk50.com
Based in Memphis, Tenn., MLK50 is a nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of poverty, power & public policy. Our beats: government, enterprise, environmental justice, youth life, public safety, Radical King https://mlk50.co/m/mlk50memphis
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Writing the technological history of how America really got to space, while trying to keep my sanity in this fascist takeover of what used to be called the United States of America. Officially a Twitter refugee.
@briannanofil.bsky.social
history prof @williamandmary; THE MIGRANT'S JAIL: An American History of Mass Incarceration, out now from @PrincetonUPress https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691237015/the-migrants-jail
@sophieloywilson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216
@andrewpopp.bsky.social
Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia. Associate Professor, Australia
@bethbourdon.bsky.social
public defender doing death penalty/1st degree murder cases. @/bethbourdon on twitter, bbourdon on Insta.
@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.
@lilianasegura.bsky.social
Journalist covering prisons and harsh sentencing. More fun than I sound. https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/
@hannahgais.bsky.social
Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social steward. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
@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
@jbrownedianis.bsky.social
Movement Lawyer; Racial justice advocate. Exec. Dir, Advancement Project& APActionFund
@kungernyc.bsky.social
Optimism of the will/ Pessimism of the intellect. Strategist, activist, deeply rooted cosmopolitan. Board member @jfrejnyc/ @thejewishvote cofounder. RTs not endorsements. she/her
@awinston.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT. WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/ Ali.winston@protonmail.com Awinston.17 on Signal
@iwriteok.bsky.social
I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
@hughryan.bsky.social
Author & queer historian. The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019). I also teach nonfiction in the Bennington MFA program. Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/HughRyan
@jeffreyianross.bsky.social
Criminologist @ubaltmain #corrections #CrimesofthePowerful #StreetCulture #graffiti #streetart #police Co-founder #ConvictCriminology Website www.jeffreyianross.com Instagram http://buff.ly/2Se7geg Amateur Japanese Chef bit.ly/4f2XEtX
@lakauffman.bsky.social
Organizer + writer. She/her. Books: DIRECT ACTION and HOW TO READ A PROTEST. Newsletter: lakauffman.substack.com
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Precarity • Race General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️
@biancatylek.bsky.social
Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me, it’s mutual | Views my own
@dskamper.bsky.social
Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" coming in 2025 from New Press. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.
@ebrandom.bsky.social
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
@chasefoster.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics, King’s College London. http://www.chasefoster.com
@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, Writer. Author. Next 📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25) ashleydfarmer.com
@muleskinnerpress.net
Dick Durbin the Big Homie!!! Patron saint of thankless endeavors, writer, trade unionist, zinemaker. APOPHANY and KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER now hosted at Kittysneezes.com
@chrisgelardi.bsky.social
Exasperated journalist investigating the criminal-legal system for @nysfocus.bsky.social. Also The Intercept, The Nation, many more. He/him. Send tips ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/chrisgelardi