dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
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Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own. 
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social Epistemologist @ NYmag
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social writer, work in @nymag.com, @newrepublic.com, @nplusonemag.com + more
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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social writer and film critic • author Algorithm of the Night, Last Week in End Times Cinema, The Earth Dies Streaming • member Natl Society of Film Critics
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social it’s regular but it’s not normal | EIC: POW Mag | Founder: P.O.W. Recordings | "Waiting For Britney Spears" out now on MCD/FSG | Long Live Drakeo
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David Ma @davidmadavidma.bsky.social Music journalist/editor: NPR, Wax Poetics, Dust & Grooves, Complex, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Billboard, SF Weekly, Pitchfork, Passion of the Weiss, The Ringer, etc. Needle To The Groove Records + Dad Bod Rap Pod + SJSU
Kate Storey @katestorey.bsky.social Features Director at Rolling Stone + New York Times bestselling author of “White House by the Sea”
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