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@jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
Investigations editor www.southsideweekly.com ✶ DM for Signal ✶ jim.daley@southsideweekly.com ✶ https://www.jim-daley.com/ ✶
@janosmarton.bsky.social
Chief Advocacy Officer, Dream.Org Staten Island, but rep for all 5 boros Pro-pizza, anti-corruption Formerly ACLU, #CLOSErikers, Moreland Commission and 2010s-era Burning Man
@dustyc123.bsky.social
Indy journalist | Investigations editor at The Shoestring | Contributor at New England Public Media | Teaching future muckrakers at UMass Amherst and Smith College first dot last @ protonmail dot com
@tinavasquez.bsky.social
Immigration Reporter & Features Editor @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
@francescadnunz.bsky.social
Texas Observer investigative reporter covering the US-Mexico borderlands, immigration, AI-powered surveillance tech, + extremism. chatty polyglot 🗣 FOIA gremlin 🧾 📩 dannunzio@texasobserver.org https://linktr.ee/FrancescaDnunz
@josiahbates.bsky.social
Reporter at @thetrace.org | Author | Expect a lot of NBA posts 🇹🇹 🇯🇲 https://www.josiahbates.com/
@danaflo.bsky.social
they/them. SFF writer. ENNIE-winning TTRPG writer & editor. website https://danafloberg.carrd.co. opinions are my own. (icon by @byrd_works on insta)
@chunterct.bsky.social
@cb-312.bsky.social
Senior reporter @ Injustice Watch, son of immigrants, against genocide, se habla español
@nausheen.bsky.social
Muslim, writer, data+docs journalist, professor | words in The Nation, The Appeal, The HuffPost, Chicago Tribune | send tips: DM or nhusain@syr.edu | urdu mein bhi nausheenhusain.github.io
@somilbtrivedi.bsky.social
Director of Strategic Initiatives, @DemocracyForward | Exes: @ACLU @MDLegalAid @TheJusticeDept @WilmerHale @InnocenceTexas | Dad, jokes | Views are my own, etc.
@thomasbirm.bsky.social
Y23, He/Him | Someone once said I’m naturally anti-dogmatic. Housing is a human right. Currently @thenation.com. Previously @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social and more!
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@leftfemme.bsky.social
HBTFD! 🇳🇬. Civil rights lawyer. Lover of politics, social justice, and college football. A bit of they, a dash of them. Views are too cool to represent my employer.
@kailanthropy.bsky.social
Research and writing fellow at the African American Policy Forum. Yogi, plant whisperer, bookworm. Bylines in Talking Points Memo, POLITICO, The Baffler, etc.
@uncagedcritique.bsky.social
● Friendly Neighborhood Tranny-saurus Rex🏳️⚧️ ●Theologian & Historian📚 ● Independent Journalist🤓 ● Prison Conditions Reform Advocate🤬 ● Abolitionist😤 ● 2023 TPF PSC Scholar🥸 ● 2023 Marvel Cooke Fellow
@shreddedkale.bsky.social
Journalist writing #longreads about things under the radar. Here to build a social media presence (followers in the triple digits)
@rebeccakmccray.bsky.social
writing/editing/reporting https://www.rebeccakmccray.com/ currently @ CUNY Newmark J School
@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
@byadamrhodes.bsky.social
Deeply unserious person writing about serious things | investigative journalist writing about queer people & the legal system | nonbinary menace & belligerently queer | dog dad | Chicago is home | DMs are off the record | read my stuff: byadamrhodes.org
@biancatylek.bsky.social
Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me, it’s mutual | Views my own
@samstecklow.bsky.social
journalist & FOIA fellow @invisible.institute indie local news cheerleader if you were really smart, you’d know what to do orlando he/him
@galvinalmanza.bsky.social
Lawyer trying to transform public defense. Author of upcoming books on criminal court, and novels about kids who fight for their rights. Crime data nerd. Can drive a truck and trailer through places you shouldn't. Personal account, personal opinions.
@laurengill.bsky.social
writing about criminal justice and voting rights @bolts.bsky.social lgill@boltsmag.org. DM for Signal
@victorialaw.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
@derecka.bsky.social
rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
@jbenmenachem.com
criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
@brycecovert.bsky.social
Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com, member of @fspnwu.bsky.social. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
@felipedlh.bsky.social
Life’s a bitch and then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
@pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social
Attorney. End mass criminalization. Keep protesting. @pdxlawgrrrl on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/pdxlawgrrrl
@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
@scotthech.bsky.social
Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Supporting local coalitions to tell more compelling stories and work better together. My org: https://ZEALO.US
@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.”
@natashalennard.bsky.social
Well, since you’re all here, too… columnist at The Intercept; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life”; antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
@jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com) Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
@leximcmenamin.com
permanent Philadelphian in NYC news + politics editor @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin on twit/insta/tumblr linktr.ee/leximcmenamin
@keribla.bsky.social
Reporter: LA Times. Author: Corrections in Ink. New America fellow. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
@elongreen.bsky.social
Edgar Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (out now) http://www.elongreen.com
@ahjohnson.bsky.social
citationspod.bsky.social podcast, write @ The Nation, Real News, In These Times, things of that nature columnblog.com
@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.
@kylietcheung.bsky.social
Staff writer Jezebel.com James Harden’s real-life wife / free Palestine / kyliewrites.net :) Subscribe kylietcheung.substack.com
@msolurin.bsky.social
🇧🇸🇳🇬Movement Lawyer + Political Commentator. subscribe to Olurinatti on YouTube and substack
@jaywillis.net
I write about courts, democracy, media, and the three raccoons who live in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
@eoinhiggins.bsky.social
Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@taniel.bsky.social
Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Forthcoming book: The Defenders (Spring 2026) Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
@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.
@lilianasegura.bsky.social
Journalist covering prisons and harsh sentencing. More fun than I sound. https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/
@hannahcrileyy.bsky.social
occasional writer/organizer, all the time abolitionist. into good journalism and a better atlanta. hannahcriley.com thejumpline.substack.com
@jduffyrice.bsky.social
i write things and think about prisons. i live in atlanta. i read a lot.
@nickwing.bsky.social
Editing @theappeal.bsky.social Doing my best to avoid being terminally online.
@jerryiannelli.bsky.social
Report/edit stories about cops for the worker-run @theappeal.org, sometimes union organizer. LA-based. Nonbinary goth. They/he/any 🏳️⚧️ jerry.iannelli@theappeal.org
@megoconnor.bsky.social
Reporter covering cops and prosecutors for @theappeal.org, a worker-led newsroom. Free Palestine. I also love hiking and baking. she/they 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/megoconnor13
@elizabethweill.bsky.social
Reporter @theappeal.org. I report on prison and jail conditions and wrongful convictions, in particular Shaken Baby Syndrome cases. Tips: elizabeth@theappeal.org. Free Palestine. she/her
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