Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social Undaunted.
Member @massdems
All In for #NC
and #uglydogs
Paul Schlichtman @handle.invalid School board member; retired urban educator & principal. My passions are public policy (especially education & transportation), local governance. Oxford commas, Daf Yomi. (he/him) #mapoli #maedu #ArlingtonMA
Arlington, Massachusetts
Kate @k8droste.bsky.social reading, baking, art, archaeology, museums, sparkles, birds, politics
The One True Loaf @theonetrueloaf.bsky.social Weird Celtics Greensky, lawyer, dad, lefty (physically and philosophically)
John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usually for @CambridgeDay.
MIT; public recs; data; legal news
Lately: immigration.
jhawk@alum.mit.edu
617.797.0250
Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social future neuro-affirming clinician, always a nerd, aspiring writer, often elections & transit geek, big fan of da mystic river. usual disclaimers.
Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social Local isn’t a place, it’s a level of governance. Covering Plymouth County and Mass. news with the unbiased decoding it deserves. 100% Grade-A sourced data. The journalism is always free. Paid Bonus Humor.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Sarah(‘s new account) @harriet-vane1.bsky.social Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini.
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
Michele Somerville she/her @michelesomerville.bsky.social NYC mama, poet, writer, teacher, religion scholar. Books (poems): Glamourous Life, Black Irish, WISEGAL. Bylines: NYT,
https://indietheology.substack.com Harvard Div. Bulletin, oodles of jobs & journals.
https://linktr.ee/mmsnypoet
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition @miracoalition.bsky.social MIRA is New England's largest coalition advocating for the rights and integration of immigrants and refugees.
➡️ www.miracoalition.org
eve peyser @evepeyser.bsky.social writer // evepeyser.com
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
Herself @elainerichards.bsky.social Oh yeah. It's summer. The tomatoes are just about done and the whole month is the typical August fog. Don't worry. We pay for the cool weather in October, when it really heats up.
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
The Brattle Theatre @brattletheatre.bsky.social Celebrating 25 years as a non-profit! Boston's Unofficial Film School since 1953. Learn more and see what's playing at brattlefilm.org. We are located at 40 Brattle St, Cambridge MA
Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social Jessica is an editor, writer, dancer, and smut peddler. Stella is her unpublished pseudonym. She/they.
Trying to make "I hate AI" my whole entire personality.
Hire, tip, or subscribe https://linktr.ee/bluelegenddancer
Kam Asanyi (they/them) 🏳️🌈 ♿️ @kamasanyi.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤
#kidlit author
Stonewall Award Honoree
MARLEY’S PRIDE (Barefoot Books)
OUR WORLD USA (Barefoot Books)
MADINA'S BIG, FABULOUS, WIN (Disney Hyperion '27)
BELLY GROWLS (Henry Holt '27)
🇭🇹 |♿️|🐈⬛+🍄 ❤️
Rep’d by James McGowan
Wilfred Mbah @wilfredmbah.bsky.social Somerville City Councilor At-Large
Building a welcoming, equitable city with quality jobs, transportation and housing
www.willmbah.com
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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Sarah Dalglish @sarahdlish.bsky.social Executive Director @CAP2030org. #ChildHealth and #GlobalHealth
@JohnsHopkinsSPH & @UCLGlobalHealth. English/French/#Hausa
IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system. We demand equality, justice & a thriving future for all #CeasefireNOW https://linktr.ee/ifnotnoworg
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social We are uniting a movement of progressive American Jews and allies fighting for justice for all.
www.bendthearc.us
Jaylen Brown @fchwpo.bsky.social 741 performance
Jessica Pishko @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.”
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
Julie Rohwein @jirohwein.bsky.social Composer, geek, reader of many books on all sorts of topics. Also cats! And other critters.
Jacqui @heajacq.bsky.social Elder millennial. // Former classically trained ballerina getting back to the barre. // Theatre kid forever. // Probably watching too much TV for my own good.
C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social Editor, translator, filmmaker. Recovering academic. Leftist. Perfumista. ME/CFS, MCAS, POTS. EN/FR. She/they. DMV. More some days than others.
Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social Marketing guy, former paid blogger, current commerce content guy. #juggling #cycling #comics #film #gaming. All opinions strictly my own. He/him
LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net Books Booze Belles Balls | Publisher | http://littlepuss.net | We're a feminist press run by trans women | Buy PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID and MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS | Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
Andrew Bishop @andrewebishop.bsky.social Deputy Director, Cummings Foundation | Tennessean turned Bay Stater | 🏳️🌈 | Thoughts expressed here are my own.
Kristen Eck @kristeneck.bsky.social Airborne reporter on WBZ News Radio and Queen Bee at BumbleBeeRadio.com. 🐝
MBTA @mbta.com The official Bluesky account of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
mbta.com
Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social She’s a musician, advocate for safe streets, arts & food-filled, walkable, kid-friendly communities w/ great transit. Reader. Cook. Teacher of music and bike riding.
Estoy aprendiendo español y buscar #ciclista
Feeling pretty salty under fascism
Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social 📍Somerville, MA, Ward 7
bikes and bugs and snakes and salamanders and also a rescue pibble
Wildlife photography | traditional art | environmental field audio
https://soundcloud.com/jasonjong
Laura Pearle @vennlibrarian.bsky.social Then: Director of Library Services
Now: Archivist
Always: Reader, researcher, tea-drinker, friend
Siebznet @siebzy.bsky.social I'm Uncle Sam, That's who I am. Been hidin' out, in a rock n' roll band.
Mainer, mariner, skier, data man, deadhead, etc.
Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social Law talkin' guy. @bostondsa.org & @marxistunitygroup.bsky.social member. Co-chair @merrimackdsa.bsky.social. Advocate for socialism, anti-imperialism, & appreciation of the mustelid family. Occasional international politics knower. He/him. Opinions my own.
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.
Avodah @weareavodah.bsky.social Social justice. Community. Judaism.
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Brown's Promise @brownspromise.bsky.social Fighting to advance educational equity through integration. We collaborate with partners to use research, litigation, and advocacy to create diverse, well-resourced schools for all children.
www.brownspromise.org
Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social associate professor of English at Hartwick College | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | https://bradleyjfest.com
Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social Writer. NU/VCFA WCYA alum. One day some little fat girl in ohio could be the next Mozart & make a beautiful film on her father's camera-corder -Francis Ford Coppola. rep @LindaCamacho she/her
AdrienneHope @adriennehope.bsky.social I still just want to make shit and do art until the seas rise to reclaim us. Jewish nature witch & div student, she/her
Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social Organist for Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park. I also do a bunch of other music stuff.
Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social Political scientist.
- Substack: https://leedrutman.substack.com
- Podcast: http://politicsinquestion.com
- Senior Fellow: New America
- Co-Founder: https://www.fixourhouse.org
- Washington Post Next 50 (2026): https://tinyurl.com/4m95978c
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Boston Women's Sports @bostonwomenssports.com Dedicated to the radical and reasonable notion of Excellent, Equitable, and Antiracist Sports Coverage.
Shey Peddy fan club
https://bostonwomenssports.com
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
eeka @eeka1313.bsky.social Boston USA. Personal account. All opinions mine.
#JewSky #MedSky #LawSky #QueerSky #WhateverWeAreCallingBikeSky
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Health Law Advocates @hlamass.bsky.social A public interest law firm providing pro bono legal services to Mass. residents in low-income situations experiencing difficulty accessing health care.
Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Law professor (emeritus), philosopher, progressive. Committed to rule of law and pluralistic democracy. Interests include art, books, history, science, cats […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social Trying to stop being the wrong kinds of annoying and to start being the right kinds of annoying.
brianhood
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social Dad
Assistant Prof of Medicine @ BU
Academic Hospitalist & Medical Educator
Progressive, Antiracist, Ally, ANTIFASCIST
Loudmouth Bostonian speaking only for myself.
City Life/Vida Urbana @citylifevidaurbana.bsky.social Organizing for racial, economic, and gender justice since 1973. Building solidarity to put people before profits. #KeepMassHome #HousingEquityMA #EquidadDeViviendaMA
Donnitas @donnitas.bsky.social Proud citizen of the very blue Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Posts are my own.
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics
Signal: dgaristo.72
Email: digaristo@gmail.com
Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social Prez & CEO @civilrightsorg. Cat Mom. Former @msnbc. Ran 4 Mayor of NYC; IG @Maya4CivilRights Views & typos are mine. She/Her
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Ari Rubin @ariarubin.bsky.social This is my personal account. For my writing, see @TheSurrealAri.bsky.social. Mostly ranting about sports. #redsox #celtics #commanders (even though I live in NYC.
Klaus @klausdor.bsky.social Cargo bike Dad, Celtics fan, Actuary, Beyond lucky to live in Somerville MA.
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social lawyer & LA Public Library superfan.
reading, thinking (and maybe writing) about a progressive Jewish future, civil rights, courts, and where justice, spirituality, and belonging intersect. plus literary fiction.
views are mine.
Matthew Bell @matthewjbell.bsky.social International desk editor, Christian Science Monitor (CSMonitor.com).
Irrational Boston Celtics fan. And yes to funk, soul, R&B, jazz and other American roots music, esp rhythm guitar.
Probable Caws @probablecaws.bsky.social Jewish. Father to two children and one dog. Husband to one wife. Attorney maligning officers for sport. Gamer/geek. One time martial artist. Dad jokes. He/him. Magneto made some valid points. 
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social Students building power.
Send us tips: info@mpuniversity.us
Join! linktr.ee/mpuniversity
Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social Union Flight Attendant since 1996 and president of the Flight Attendant Union, @afacwa.org, 55k at 20 airlines. Sanders Institute fellow. @unionnow.org founder. (she/her)
32BJ SEIU /// #UnionStrong @32bjseiu.bsky.social With 185,000 members in 12 states & the District of Columbia, 32BJ SEIU is the largest property services union in the country.
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social evanforcambridge.com
Organizing in Cambridge for social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Our community is our power! 🌹🏳️🌈✊
Show your support and canvass! actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/evan-for-cambridge
Stephen Chan @scchan.bsky.social Senior Advisor to @MayorWu for Partnerships | Public-Private Boundary Crosser | Building a better future for our kids | Formerly @Northeastern @BostonFdn 🌈 he/him
Carolyn Fuller @carolynfuller.bsky.social Retired, in #CambMA. Proud #urbanism+ who loves new neighbors & supports alternative forms of transportation (i.e., non-privately owned car). Passions: human rights, democracy #YIMBY #walkable LGBTQIA+ally
Cambridge Somerville Independent @csindie.bsky.social News, arts, community, resources and events for Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.
csindie.com
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's premier racial justice & civil rights law organization.
Posts are my own.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social Professor of Sociology. Health & Wellbeing, Medical Sociology, Sexualities 🔮
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social writer, editor, scholar, cat lover
Books:
The Computer’s Voice (U Minn, 2020)
Robot Suicide (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024)
Worker Bots (U Minn, in progress)
https://www.lizfaber.com/
Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social International Digital Editor @meidastouch.com
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
David Mattingly @davidmattingly.bsky.social I'm an illustrator & teacher, I did 54 Animorphs covers. I teach at Pratt Institute. I am Professor Emeritus at School of Visual Arts. You can get signed prints of my artwork at: https://davidmattingly.com
Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social Listen.
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl.
let’s work together! ⬇️
meredithshiner.com