Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟
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Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
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Author of Monolithic Undertow.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’ 
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
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Danielle Allen @dsallentess.bsky.social Scholar focused on democracy renovation + democracy advocate. Harvard. Partners In Democracy. Coalition for Healthy Democracy. FairVote. Author of Our Declaration, Justice by Means of Democracy, Radical Duke. Write at https://therenovator.substack.com/
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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/
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
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Beverly Mann @beverlymann19.bsky.social Economic-progressive Dem posting on politics, law, pet-rescue efforts. Was prolific on Twitter/X. Native Upper Midwesterner living in north central FL. Anti-lawn movement fan. #Berner since '15. Have cats. Views my own, but you may borrow them.
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader.
Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Angela @j-beanz.bsky.social Democratic supporter. Dog mom. Fed up with the impact of Trump's policies on our people. I love my blue state.
Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social "Spouting my nonsense into the wind" Catalyst for the curious. Fan of Strategic Mischief, Books and the sea. Former lifeguard, still pulling people in.
Molly Rains @mollyrains.bsky.social Energy and Environment Reporter @newhampshirebulletin.com
I love the Northeast, being outside, old dogs, electrons.
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Mira @smokesoulburn.bsky.social Do everything with your heart, and happiness will be all around you.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
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Wendy @thistleandmoss.com Trans woman, Druid priestess, polyam queer kin 🌾
Tending a hearth for the burned-out and the becoming. Earth magic, queer joy, dispatches from the edges.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social Recent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. SamForNJ.org.
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
David Stuart Platt, PhD, MLIS @spoilheap.bsky.social Archivist, archaeologist, librarian, historian. 20th century Brit, 21st century USAian. Manc. Was "SmallFind" on the Bird site. Former circuit digger. Roman & rescue archaeology, ruins, libraries & book history, archaeological archives. (GPA+VT)
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
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
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. 
Faithful Defence Advocate @faithfuldefenceadv.bsky.social I know the end of the story 
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
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parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
sallyforjustice @sallyforjustice.bsky.social Women's rights are human rights. Mother, grandmother, daughter, sister resistor. Deeply entangled in the local and global. Seeking to add beauty and justice to the world.
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social parent, activist, speaker, author (Becoming Eve, Sources of Pride), ordained rabbi, woman of trans experience.
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Polly Smythe @pollysmythe.bsky.social Reporter @londoncentric.media | stories and tips to polly@londoncentric.media | signal: pollysmythe.92
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Anthony Burnett @burnettanthony.bsky.social Who am I? l’m an expat Canadian living in London, England. Read my posts in English, Deutsch, Français y Español & decide for yourself. He/er/il/él
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Cheryl YoureNotMySupervisor @scurvydagger.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇨🇺🇺🇸
I wish it need not have happened in my time - Frodo.
So do I. And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -Gandalf
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
doctor eep (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social a political scientist but not your political scientist (methods x ir); jewess, gemini, chaös muppet.
do the readings or we all die
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Now Voyager @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social NOW VOYAGER is a new magazine of global writing, art, and photography.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com who fucking gives a shit
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
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/
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - Iranian-American - inforezaakbari@gmail.com - I write The Guarded Domains, a Substack newsletter focused on Iran and the broader Middle East region. https://guardeddomains.substack.com
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Manu Raju @mkraju.bsky.social Anchor and Chief Congressional Correspondent, CNN. “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju.” 8aET and 11aET Sunday. Rabid Chicago sports fan. Wisconsin Badger for life
West Branch Magazine @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social Thrice annual magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews published by the Stadler Center at Bucknell University.
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Matthew Shaer @matthewshaer.bsky.social Contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, Emerson Fellow at New America, host of the Origin Stories podcast. Red Sox fan. Please God don't ask me about the "progress" on my "book"