taran
yale polisci phd student / criminalization, democracy, movements / unite-here local 33 / they / taransamarth.com
@elisejoshi.bsky.social
Love unions, protected bike lanes, berkeley pizza. Hate cybertrucks. Formerly Executive Director of Gen-Z for Change.
@mayasinghal.bsky.social
Postdoc at UChicago RDI • writing about black and chinese community defense • they/them mayasinghal.com
@psfrench.bsky.social
reporting on prisons, DAs, & people working to change the criminal legal system with @bolts.bsky.social freelance magazine work: NYRB, NY mag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation @ los angeles, mostly piperstrehlowfrench@gmail.com -> psfrench.com en/es/fr
@sarahquinn.bsky.social
Sociologist who studies finance, housing, and the history of American political institutions. Broadly interested in cultural categories and power.
@jocelynsimonson.bsky.social
law prof, Brooklyn Law School; author, Radical Acts of Justice, https://thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-of-justice
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | future book (maybe) on philosophies of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer
@alexmcclelland.bsky.social
Author of Criminalized Lives: HIV & Legal Violence (Rutgers, 2024) https://linktr.ee/decriminaliza
@kshoub.bsky.social
Public policy assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. www.kelseyshoub.com
@rafaelshimunov.bsky.social
Host of Beyond The Pale on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, Board alum Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. Co-founder of the Jewish Vote. Art at Art V War. Queens is the Future. @rafternoon on IG
@hpullenblasnik.bsky.social
sociology phd candidate at columbia, sr data scientist at vera. political economy & the criminal legal system, urban development, algorithms & surveillance. views=mine. hpullenblasnik.com
@davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social
Historian. Academic Advisor @ University of Virginia. Columnist @ Boston Review. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // April 2024
@jesspish.bsky.social
she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
@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
@motorres.bsky.social
sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism · umich.edu/~motorres
@courtwatchma.bsky.social
Community volunteers supporting neighbors + shifting power dynamics in #MApoli courts by exposing decisions of judges & prosecutors. @justicehealing @massbailfund
@michaelsierraa.bsky.social
Sociologist: UT Austin 🤘🏽 AY 24/25: Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University Center for Human Values Author: The Danger Imperative📕💀👮🏽♂️ lnk.bio/michaelsierraa
@tonykcheng.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University PhD Yale Sociology; JD NYU Law www.tonykcheng.com
@swcolumbia.bsky.social
A Union for Instructors, TAs and Researchers at Columbia University | UAW Local 2710 | RTs ≠ endorsements.
@benchansfield.bsky.social
asst prof of history at temple // they/them preorder BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19) https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science. I think about identity, stigma, race, and politics more than any normal person should. Lover of life. Pro-democracy. People should dance more. Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
@jeremylevine.bsky.social
Sociologist. Writing second book on crime victim policy in the U.S.; first book was an ethnography of urban development in Boston. Professor at Michigan. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jeremylevine/
@meganstevenson.bsky.social
economist & legal scholar studying criminal justice issues. professor of law at UVA. research: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2420348 webpage: https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/ms5cj/2914912
@alexvitale.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
@bostonreview.bsky.social
A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. Independent and nonprofit since 1975. SUBSCRIBE: bostonreview.net/memberships DONATE: bostonreview.net/donations
@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/
@premthakker.bsky.social
reporter @zeteo.com Any tips or info you’d like to share? Signal premthakker.35 Prem@zeteonews.com https://linktr.ee/premthakker
@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
@melanienewport.bsky.social
US carceral and urban history, jail and policing. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
@milophd.bsky.social
Survivor Father Husband Ex-Bouncer Pluviophile Thugonaut Urbanist Professor Awardee Karaoke 📚: (1) Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America and (2) God & Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America
@marissathompson.bsky.social
assistant professor of sociology at Columbia • researching inequality, education, race/ethnicity, & social policy • 26.2 x1, 13.1 x13 • 1913 | Γ • she/her • views mine marissaethompson.com
@loudsocialist.bsky.social
urban planner, social houser, rent stabilized tenant, socialist, woso fan | proud hunter mup alum | queens dsa member | writing "modern housing for the 21st century", a newsletter about (social) housing: https://www.modernhous.ing/
@waleedshahid.bsky.social
Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Former Spokesperson, Justice Democrats. Formerly @ Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, YNWA.
@marioluissmall.bsky.social
Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Posts occasionally.
@pamelaoliver.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
Sociology Prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
@joesoss.bsky.social
Professor, U. of Minnesota. Social Inequalities, Politics, and Policy. Forthcoming book: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice
@abolitionistlawcenter.org
ALC is a movement lawyering and organizing project that defends human rights and challenges incarceration and other state & structural violence abolitionistlawcenter.org
@progressivereform.bsky.social
https://progressivereform.org/ Progressive policy for the public good 🌎 Climate Justice 🌐 Public Protections 🏛 Responsive Government
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social
Professor of Democracy, Ethics, and Rhetoric + Mindfulness teacher and scholar + co-owner of Yoga Lab. Author of 6 books including A Declaration of Interdependence: On the Practice of Mindful Democracy (Parallax 2026) and Living Namaste (2026).
@ryanenos.bsky.social
Social Scientist, Harvard University https://www.ryandenos.com/ https://ryandenos.substack.com/
@elotroalex.bsky.social
faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
@reuning.bsky.social
politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc https://kevinreuning.com/ https://almanacofuspolitics.com/ https://unionelections.org/