Matthew Valasik, Ph.D.
•Criminologist •Associate Professor @uofalabama.bsky.social •Gangs, Alt-Right / White Power Movement, Policing, GIS
Author of Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White from @ucpress.bsky.social
mvalasik.people.ua.edu
@policinginsight.bsky.social
Policing Insight is the leading platform to keep up with the latest in progressive policing. It is where the global police and criminal justice community both consume and share knowledge, opinion and analysis.
@amirrostami.bsky.social
Professor in criminology @sodertorn | Police Superintendent | Organized crime, extremism, illicit economy | Distinguished Fellow @ottawa_of & @RutgersU
@profegascon.bsky.social
Criminologist, ethnographer @UMassBoston, fellow @GastonInstitute @webduboiscenter, author of The Limits of Community Policing and editor of Police & State Crime in the Americas.
@globalextremism.bsky.social
Resisting Authoritarianism. Protecting Democracy. Preserving Human Rights. globalextremism.org
@igd.bsky.social
In search of new forms of life. Digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reports on autonomous movements, social struggles, and revolt across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective. itsgoingdown.org
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Senior politics writer at Salon.com. Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
@wired.com
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Data, charts, analysis and games from The New York Times: nytimes.com/upshot
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Committed to the bit. Signal: daralind.18
@theatlantic.com
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
@brookings.edu
Independent research and analysis on the most important policy issues in the world. Sign up for the daily Brookings Brief: http://brook.gs/3JuZxRE
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@moskos.bsky.social
Author of Back from the Brink. https://t.co/mABbQyS1jf Professor. Writer. New Yorker. Here for the pigeons and also discourse on policing and criminal justice.
@malcolmnance.bsky.social
Fmr US Intelligence +36 yrs. Expert MENA/SWA & US Terrorists | x5 NYT Bestselling Author, Navy Senior Chief, Widower, Ukrainian army Intl’ Legionnaire. Malcolmnance.Substack.com
@andrewrsorkin.bsky.social
@NYTimes Columnist/Editor & @SquawkCNBC Co-Anchor. Author, Too Big To Fail. Founder, @DealBook. Co-Creator, BILLIONS @Showtime.
@maxboot.bsky.social
CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. maxboot.net.
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
@jamesgunn.bsky.social
Filmmaker, husband, friend to dogs and cats. Creature Commandos debuts on Max Dec 5. Superman in theaters July 11, 2025.
@motherjones.com
Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪 Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
@jerilryan.bsky.social
Actress, mom, wife, foodie, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Trying to make a better world for our kids. Star Trek: Picard. That’s CAPTAIN Seven to you. 🖖🏼😋❤️
@schwarzenegger.bsky.social
Bodybuilder. Conan. Terminator. Former Governor. I killed the Predator. I told you I’d be back. Join my positive corner of the internet - Arnold’s Pump Club.
@stevendeknight.bsky.social
Writer/director/producer. Showrunner/creator of Spartacus for Starz. Showrunner of Marvel's Daredevil, Season 1. And a bunch of other stuff.
@markruffalo.bsky.social
A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
@kumail.bsky.social
@rollingstone.com
@alabamareflector.com
The Alabama Reflector is an independent, nonprofit news outlet dedicated to covering state government and politics in the state of Alabama.
@thetrace.org
We’re a nonprofit newsroom investigating gun violence in America. Sign up for our newsletters: thetrace.org/newsletter
@thesccjr.bsky.social
The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Stirling and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding of justice. https://linktr.ee/sccjr
@jackhspicer.bsky.social
Criminologist at University of Bath. Interested in drug markets, policing, policy and harm reduction
@www.pelobuddy.com
Your one stop shop for all your Peloton news. Breaking news, new instructor rumors, demos of new features, class overviews, and so much more.
@professorstas.bsky.social
old punk. cranky academic. critical sociologist and criminologist. antifa and fascism scholar. author of American Antifa from Routledge and Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know forthcoming on Oxford University Press. https://antifascismresearchnetwork.com/
@irms.bsky.social
Nonprofit supporting a transnational network of fellows and mentees conducting research on misogyny and its intersections with other forms of supremacist ideology and violence. #IRMS2025 CONFERENCE APRIL 24-26TH https://www.theirms.org/conference
@alexdibranco.bsky.social
@splcenter.org
Catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements. splcenter.org
@seywarddarby.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, The Atavist Magazine (@atavist.com) • Contributing Editor, Longreads • Author, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Frontlines of White Nationalism • May I please pet your dog? • www.seywarddarby.com
@franetwork.bsky.social
We are a network of scholars focusing on the rise of populism and the far right
@rightwingwatch.bsky.social
Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy. A project of People For the American Way. https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
@abbierichards.bsky.social
Researching misinformation, extremism, conspiracy theories, and the general decay of collective reality we’re currently enduring. Also I produce videos explaining these issues but BlueSky only lets me post videos up to 60 seconds. So TBD on those
@inkstickmedia.com
Human. Global. Security. Nonprofit news about our life with endless war. https://inkstickmedia.com/
@vera.org
We’re fighting to secure equal justice for all, end mass incarceration, and strengthen families + communities