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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social ER doctor at Brigham and Women's in Boston, Harvard Medical School.
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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social Historian, writer, and teacher of early American gender, culture, & politics; Assoc. Prof; Public Historian; Author of FIRST FAMILY (Hanover Square) & FOUNDING FRIENDSHIPS(OUP)
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/4kspr3ds) Other projects in the works, probably
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
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David Gambacorta @dgambacorta.bsky.social Writer @ The Philadelphia Inquirer and other fine publications. Send coffee.
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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social Professor @setonhalllaw.bsky.social. Torts, Healthcare Law, Disability Law, Employment Law, Family Law, and Empirical Legal Studies. My scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2440349
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Law @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
Adam Crews @adamgcrews.bsky.social Rutgers Law Prof | Admin • Civ Pro • Fed Courts | 🏳️🌈
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social Journalist. Former NYU J-school prof, current and forever dog parent. Chills.substack.com
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Next book: MANLY WHILE STIMMING 03.30.27. Tar Heel He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com Tech and Product @ Philadelphia Inquirer. Hockey fan, trivia buff, pinball nerd, lapsed pizza chef.
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
Danny Freeman @dannyefreeman.bsky.social @cnn Correspondent in Philly.
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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social Pennsylvania voting/elections reporter for @VotebeatUS, in partnership w/ @SpotlightPA. Previously investigations @lancasteronline. Tips: cwalker@votebeat.org
Michael Scherer @michaelscherer.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Previously at the Washington Post, TIME, Salon, others. Signal: michaelscherer.11
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Alexander Cohen @capitolmuckrakr.bsky.social Investigative data journalist. Native Washingtonian, garage rock ❤️. Past work: Bloomberg, CNN, Center for Public Integrity, Reuters. Aspiring Butlerian Jihadist. Teach me. Mostly doesn’t follow soapboxers, meanies. He/him. Signal: capitolmuckrakr.01
Sandy Darity @sandydarity.bsky.social Visiting Professor of Economics, Howard University
Emeritus Professor, Duke University
Coauthor with A. Kirsten Mullen of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social Senior reporter for Vox thinking about factory farming & animal rights, ag, economics, science & its discontents, cities, housing, transit and ✨ideas✨
marina@vox.com
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I live in Madison, WI
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pratt Institute
Contributing Editor at The New Republic
Feed the People! (Basic Books 2026)
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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social Historian of modern US disability and childhood.
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Alon Arad @alonarad.bsky.social Archaeologist | Heritage Rights | Executive Director @EmekShaveh
Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social Maddow/MS NOW. (↖️ In this picture, I'm the cyclist. http://nyti.ms/3f8MIPR)
Molly T-H @mollytack.bsky.social Attorney at Earthjustice, previously ACLU of Pennsylvania and Washington.
Based in Seattle (previously Philly).
Focusing on environmental justice in OR and WA.
She/they
Opinions are mine.
JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social 🧊✈️ I forecast & track ICE Air flights
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Jacqueline Thomsen @jacqthomsen.bsky.social Legal reporter, sometimes not. jthomsen@bloombergindustry.com
Charlotte Varnes @charlottevarnes.bsky.social covering the phillies for the athletic • northwestern alum • other stops in IND, SF, ATL, TPA • space coast native
Mike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com Executive director and co-founder of @free.law. Occasional long distance athlete. Woodworker. Adroitful dodger of questions.
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Abraham Gross @abrahamgross.bsky.social Senior reporter at Law360 covering insurance and risk, co-lead on newsroom AI standards. Views my own, likes/shares are not endorsements.
Ryan Tarinelli @ryantarinelli.bsky.social Reporter for @bloomberglaw.com, covering law firms, the legal profession and the important things in between
Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social Associate Professor (Medicine/Public Health/Anthro) at Yale | opinions own
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social Lawyer for people at Kline & Specter. Teach @Duqklinelaw, “Faith and Democracy.” Former representative, Marine, prosecutor. Town hall participant.
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New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
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Mallory SoRelle @profsorelle.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Duke Sanford | Author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection | Aspiring Renaissance woman
Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social Legal/Justice Reporter, HuffPost.
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Ryan Oehrli @oehrli.bsky.social NC Local Accountability Reporter via @reportforamerica.bsky.social | Past stops: The Charlotte Observer and Asheville Citizen Times
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maia spoto @maiaspoto.bsky.social @nytimes.com national fellow reporting on disability
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Emily Siegel @emilyrsiegel.bsky.social Senior reporter @ Bloomberg Law covering litigation finance. Say hi: esiegel@bloombergindustry.com
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social Bloomberg Law editor for Supreme Court, federal judiciary, Justice Department and Homeland Security news; author of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens and co-author of Justice Brennan biography; Jonathan Hurtarte photo illustration
Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social Immigration and labor reporter @bloomberglaw.com. Covering the legal and policy landscape affecting immigrant workers in the US.
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Cory James Young @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social assistant professor of history at UIowa | personal account | northern slavery, legal history, Black America | i ♥️ WNY
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social Senior Supreme Court Reporter, NBC News
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
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Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
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Avi Wolfman-Arent @avi-wa.bsky.social Reading news into a microphone for WHYY, Philly's NPR station. Co-host of Studio 2, M-Th at noon. awolfmanarent at whyy dot org.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com