Walter Olson
Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
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@courtneybuble.bsky.social
Congress reporter for @law360.bsky.social Courtney.buble@law360.com
@patrickneithard.bsky.social
Cultural Studies in Arts, Media + Design ZHdK | fmr curatorial assistant + documentalist Museum für Gestaltung |🇨🇭Zurich based | Editor A Sharper Blur 📎 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇮🇱 DavosSTNDRD https://linktr.ee/patrickneithard 🗣️🇨🇭🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹
@maggiewittlin.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Fordham Law. Evidence, law teaching, crosswords, jokes.
@mcdanielcollege.bsky.social
@rsimmonsen.bsky.social
Mom, wife, lawyer, former newspaper reporter. Rooting for Baltimore. Trying to learn how to bring equity to K-12 education, and how to have productive conversations about current affairs. Firm believer in a civic duty to educate oneself about the world.
@hassankanu.bsky.social
Covering courts/regulatory law/antitrust @politico. Priors @TheProspect @reuters @blaw. Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱. Continuously depressed Wizards fan. Alum @DukeLaw @Morehouse
@profsaunders.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Columbia; editor, Good Authority; non-res Senior Fellow, Brookings. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace (preorder: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game)
@pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social
Amateur wildlife photographer, Specializing in Bird Photography. Retired Army, a Rotarian, 25 years + w/soulmate, lesbian. *Photos best viewed in full-screen.
@garywinslett.bsky.social
Middlebury Professor + IPE Director. Sr Advisor at Chamber of Progress on the Democratic Cost-of-Living Agenda. Studies the politics of trade and the tech sector. YIMBY.
@danbelson.bsky.social
reporter at The Baltimore Sun covering the everything beat. Guild strong. tell me secrets at dbelson@baltsun.com, DM for Signal digits (he/they)
@tiffanycli.bsky.social
Tech, Privacy, & AI Law Professor 🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli 🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li 🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli TiffanyLi.com if you insist
@justinrohrlich.bsky.social
Senior news reporter at The Independent, with a focus on courts and criminal justice. Previously at The Daily Beast, Qz, etc. Say hi: justin.rohrlich@independent.co.uk
@cshaplaw.bsky.social
Law prof at Chicago-Kent College of Law; co-director of CK Institute on the Supreme Court; Of Counsel, Schnapper-Casteras, PLLC; former IL Solicitor General.
@alexandrachandler.bsky.social
Policy strategist @protectdemocracy.org Elections, natsec, and tech. Board member @gladlaw.bsky.social Former IC analyst. Astronomy and history geek. Lover of spooky music. Trans, wife, and mom. Views mine.
@profnickstephan.bsky.social
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Aligning Election Law: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/aligning-election-law-9780197662151.
@emilychamleewright.bsky.social
President @theIHS.org. We support and connect scholars and thought leaders advancing the liberal project.
@matthewstiegler.bsky.social
Appellate lawyer, president of Third Circuit Bar Association, former prosecutor, fellow of American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Views here: just mine.
@manojmate.bsky.social
Prof @Univ. at Buffalo Law @ubuffalo.bsky.social | Constitutional Law, Election Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Democracy
@zachsdorfman.bsky.social
National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House. It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
@jamesoliphant.bsky.social
Political Correspondent for Reuters Creator, Nuclear Theater on Substack Movies, politics, writing https://open.substack.com/pub/nucleartheater?r=1e8g9&utm_medium=ios
@adamchilton.bsky.social
Law Professor at the University of Chicago. Research on law and economics, empirical legal studies, international law, and comparative law.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@matsgz.bsky.social
Boomer. Manchester liberal. 🇪🇺 🇸🇪 Stockholmer 💛❤️💙 Stranded in Jerusalem.
@professorperino.bsky.social
Law professor at St. John’s Law and writer (The Hellhound of Wall St.) who still believes in the rule of law and the American experiment
@mattsteilen.bsky.social
Law professor. Legal history, constitutional law. PhD in philosophy. Forthcoming book on the origins of the English parliament, Routledge.
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS, Trump, LGBTQ, criminal justice, and other legal news. / Email: lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. / He/him.
@politicsprof.bsky.social
Director @harvardash@bsky.social. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. I study participatory democracy. All views expressed here are my own.
@mikescarcella.bsky.social
⚖️ Courts and other legal things at Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/authors/mike-scarcella/ Daily Docket co-writer - https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/daily-docket/ 📧 mike.scarcella@tr.com
@katiefallow.bsky.social
Dep. Litigation Dir., Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Cat enthusiast.
@decloet.bsky.social
Executive editor for Canada at Bloomberg News. Opinions are mine; likes are often bookmarks. Facts matter. Work email: ddecloet@bloomberg.net Also: decloet@protonmail.com
@josh-kaplan.bsky.social
ProPublica reporter | Email me at joshua.kaplan@propublica.org | Contact info & stories here: propublica.org/people/joshua-kaplan
@eaisaacson.bsky.social
Civil-appellate attorney. Duke Law (JD 1985); Harvard Divinity (MRPL 2022); enrolled in Harvard Extension ALM graduate-degree program. Interested in law & religion, advancing LGBTQ+ rights, curbing abuse of class actions. https://www.ericalanisaacson.com
@jeisinger.bsky.social
ProPublica Editor & Reporter. “Chickenshit Club" author. http://bit.ly/2mI34A0 @sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Green Bay Packers. Also @Eisingerj
@brianrcannon.bsky.social
One of many folks fighting the good fight for structural democracy reform. Voting should = ranking. FairVote. Fmr redistricting reform lead in Virginia.
@alexanderwinn.bsky.social
@professoru.bsky.social
VP for Academic Affairs at Stonehill College, Member, Board of Directors of the JFK Hyannis Museum, political scientist, Cape Codder
@joldmcginn.bsky.social
Northwestern law professor interested in constitutional theory, administrative law, and technology.
@vincentgeloso.bsky.social
Assistant professor of economics at GMU. Québécois economic historian, LSE-trained, TTU-proud, GMU-blood. See my published papers at www.vincentgeloso.com
@salimfurth.bsky.social
Mostly on the old site. Housing nerd. Personal views only. It's a free country.
@rcvmd.org
We are building a movement to make our elections more effective and representative through ranked choice voting. www.rcvmd.org
@relenski.bsky.social
Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.) Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org Banner pic: From NYC, shared by someone (sorry, I forgot who!) on other site.
@prasad.bsky.social
Prof & Lab Head in NYC. 100% research: cell division, genome integrity, cancer. Curious to a fault. Also πολύτροπος. Talking here for me alone. I listen to the finest worksong. Like/repost = bookmark/news, not agreement/endorsement.