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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social Israeli. Author: The Wrong Kind of Jew. Son of Amazigh + Iraqi Jewish refugees. Founder The Tel Aviv Institute. Seen/Words: NY Times, LA Times, CNN, NBC, BBC, Sky & more.. 🏳️🌈🇮🇱🕊️
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com Journalist: abortion and politics. Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, MSNOW, Jezebel. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
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Tim Ives @timives.bsky.social Researcher exploring healthcare, educational & environmental systems.
Behaviour | Prevention | Systems
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social Never read the writers who signed the Harper's letter. Substack supports Nazis. Please use alt text.
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Matthias Gafni @mgafni.bsky.social San Francisco Chronicle investigative reporter, embarrassing dad, sourdough/burrito snob
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
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Luke Burns @lukevburns.bsky.social Writing funny stuff/weird stuff. New Yorker, McSweeney's, NY Mag, etc. Translator of THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT (2026), on shelves now, and MASTERS OF THE NEFARIOUS, also on shelves now. https://lukevburns.tumblr.com/writing (He/Him) Header image by Lucas Adams
Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social Former head of Obama Auto Task Force. Wall Street financier. Contributing Writer to NY Times Op-Ed. Morning Joe Economic Analyst. 🌐
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social State Rep | Running for SD 7 and building a movement for a Georgia we can afford 🍑 | Early Voting: October 13 - 30 | Election Day: November 3
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
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Accountability Journalism Institute @accountabilityji.bsky.social We are scientists, investigative journalists, human rights advocates and media professionals joining forces to expose disinformation and help science fight back.
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The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 @thevirologist.bsky.social Med-tech CEO, virologist (UW/FHCRC), MBA. Classical violinist, award-winning brewer, press photographer. An American 🇺🇸 expat (from Kauai, HI, no ka oi 🤙) in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 via Scotland 🏴.
Victim of the syntonic comma.
Tu non sai chi cazzo sono io.
Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social Looking at misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories. He/him.
FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social Posting facts. democrats.org
Mera L🪬 @mlicc1701.bsky.social Virologist in progress. Duke University 💙😈 alumn, current Regional Biocontainment Lab research analyst. Forever repping the Sheahan Lab at CVRG (y'know, at that other blue 🩵🐏 school). Pop punk millennial. she/they. ✡️•🏳️🌈•🖖 Views are my own, not Duke's.
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social i grew up in alaska, was a journalist for 15 years, and now i'm a law student in london. 🇬🇪🇹🇷🏴☠️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM
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Nazis need to be punched.
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics, especially in marginalized communities. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social Mostly about bacterial gene/protein regulation & function, esp. with Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. Professor at U Kentucky, views are my own. He/him
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org Science writer, journalist, physicist, hat man, cat man, queer. I do not use AI for anything, and block AI proponents on sight.
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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social PhD student doing urban econ and industrial organization at Duke. Former highest paid cashier in the Midwest; former RA at Eviction Lab; Macalester College. Not a real bus driver
Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social Death Panel podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social
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wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027)
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
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The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social "Democracy Dies In Dampness"
Parody
Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social I'm a journalist in Chicago
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Experimental abstract photography. Rediscovering my American history.
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Retweets=full blown 1000% endorsements
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
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AILA @aila.org The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is a national association of 18,000+ attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. Visit us at aila.org
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social Who decides in health? | Health Equity | AI Governance | HIV | Community Participatory Research | Physician | Founder, Health Justice & The Grounded Innovation Lab
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William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com Democratic Socialist, Unapologetically Snarky, and I like my Oxford commas | he/him | Professional site: https://ineedufg.com/agent/79DFC8A6
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
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(she/her)
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social Staff writer @LiveScience.com
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PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist.
I crochet and bake a lot. Chapel Hill, NC based.
the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social Investigative Journalist climate, energy, environment.
Rolling Stone politics contributing reporter.
"Gripping in its disgusting clarity." - my writing
Books include, THE TYRANNY OF OIL.
Lecturer.
http://www.AntoniaJuhasz.net
maddy varner @regret.bsky.social reporter @wired.com ✨ prev the markup, FTC ✨ signal: mvarner.01
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social Picower Professor of Neuroscience @ MIT
Cognitive neuroscience, executive brain functions, consciousness, and bass guitar. You know, the good stuff.
ekmillerlab.mit.edu
Co-founder, Neuroblox
https://www.neuroblox.ai/
Aaron Kessler @akesslerdc.bsky.social Data and investigative journalist with The Associated Press in Washington, DC; Board member IRE & NICAR; Previously: Bloomberg, CNN, New York Times, Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Fan of Philly sports, rstats, journeys with unknown ends.
Pew Health @health.pew.org Using data to make a difference in public health, behavioral health, health policy and more. Follow along for health research and nonpartisan policy recommendations from The Pew Charitable Trusts. https://pewtrsts.org/4vhnSAT
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Astrid Meyer-Knutsen @astridmeyerknutsen.bsky.social Interests: ME/CFS, Long Covid, politics, science, nature and animals. Norwegian but post mostly in English. Newbie allotment gardener.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social Non nobis solum nati sumus. Husband. Dad x3. Upstreamist. Pracademic. Oregifornian. Storyteller. It’ll be ok in the end. If it’s not ok then it ain’t the end. Alphabet soup after my name: DPT PhD MPH OCS. https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-davenport-2795ba10
Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social Commercial determinants of health reporter @STAT, previously @qz
she/her
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Jason Levitis @jasonlevitis.bsky.social Health and tax policy and law, private insurance, Marketplaces, 1332 waivers, admin burdens. Led ACA implementation at Treasury. Now Urban Institute, SHVS, and Yale Solomon Center.
memory @damagedamages.bsky.social all possible futures are now radical.
NOT GREAT, BOB!
i think i want to abolish cars.
http://archive.fo gets around paywalls
Frederik Seelig @frederikseelig.bsky.social Medium-sized mammal. Interested in disease vectors & #VBDs 🦟🕷️🪰, #immunology, #GlobalHealth, birdwatching and #SciComm. Center Manager @civia-aarhus.bsky.social , previously Partnerships Manager for @globalvectorhub.bsky.social at @lshtm.bsky.social.
Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
Maggie @courageousgirl2.bsky.social Health Science and Technology Teacher RN retired OBAMA GOTV HQ Daughter of ANTIFA “The Greatest Generation We need this Courage now in this Hellscape of Corruption
Photo of my Dad WW2 Berlin #4 Commando SAS 1945 See Prime Video Rogue Hero’s
Andrew Hazlett @andrewhazlett.bsky.social Writing & Teaching | Creative Nonfiction | Neoclassical Liberal | Baltimoron in Seattle | he/him | Proverbs 26:11 | Слава Україні! | https://andrewhazlett.com
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning editor and data journalist. Now: Data Editor at @statnews.bsky.social
✉️ emory.parker@statnews.com 📸 jemoryparker 🐘 @jaspar@mastodon.online | Signal: jaspar.01
Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social Writer. Reporter. Listener. Forecaster. Editor. Former Brookings foreign policy and WaPo weather/climate. #wx #dc #dogs #climatechange #policy #military #python #gis
capitalweather.com
Dwayne Fatherree @dfatherree.bsky.social Special projects editor at Southern Poverty Law Center. Former military officer. Known to beat bass guitars into submission, noisily. Also enjoys digging things up.
George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social Journalist for The Guardian (and occasionally Rolling Stone) in Atlanta, covering politics and the odd Young Thug tidbit. Massive D&D nerd. Veteran. #AddToBlackSky Signal: George_Chidi.80
Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social Physicist, Journalist, Director of Digital Experience. All views are my own, not my employer. Fan of Film Festivals, Opera, and theater. Believer in buying two books for every one leaving the house. Unlikely to respond to DMs unless I know you.
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Chasing wealth and income, present and past, onshore and offshore.
https://gabriel-zucman.eu
https://www.taxobservatory.eu
Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social Pediatric Psychiatrist | Author | Director, UCSF Gender Psychiatry Program | Op-Eds in WaPo, CNN, NYT et al. | #LGBT Health Policy Research | Samoyed Dad | Views Mine & Not Medical Advice 🏳️⚧️🩺🏳️🌈
www.jackturban.com
Karla Marx @karlamarx1917.bsky.social Transgender Drag Queen Burlesque Performer Host Stand up Comedian & DJ in Calgary AB
bad futa @badfuta.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🎨🖊️ she/they
most liberal politicians are diet fascists who will sell your rights on the whims of billionaires