Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social Media studies and communications professor
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh.bsky.social Author Satirist Cyclist
Journalism in NYT NYMag TNR and more
The Trump Women: Part of the Deal https://shorturl.at/ejoxN
Zero Visibility Possible https://rb.gy/lbjnd9
American Freakshow: https://rb.gy/11mb87
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social Truth-Teller | Independent Journalist and Legal Analyst | Trial Lawyer | @katiephang on Substack, Instagram, Threads, & TikTok
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“Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce”
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Nicolle Wallace @nicollewallace.bsky.social 
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social Portland city politics reporter, @opb.org
Past lives: CA, DC, TX
📬 azielinski@opb.org
Signal: alex_zee.03
www.opb.org/author/alex-zielinski/
Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com News. Culture. Trouble. Established 2000.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social A data-driven resource promoting a fair Arena deal for Portland and every other city in the US.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social I watch a lot of tennis.
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The Second Serve @the2ndserve.bsky.social Free weekly newsletter and home of OPEN Tennis magazine.
thesecondserve.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
Guardian US @us.theguardian.com With 200 years of history and staff across America and the world, we offer a global perspective on US news.
We keep our fact-based news paywall-free.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Author. Defender of democracy. marytrump.org
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social the man, the legend....
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social From Mark Remy, original humor for runners who enjoy laughter and pie, 100% commercial-free and reader-supported! DumbRunner.com/support
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social News reporter at @portlandmercury.com
Sometimes @theguardian.com
Also in Street Roots, The Nation, more.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social I teach math to future elementary school teachers at Fresno State. I make math memes and explainer videos. http://linktr.ee/howiehua
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Josh Levin @joshuablevin.bsky.social Host of Replay Booth. Host of Slow Burn seasons on David Duke and Fox News. Creator of One Year. Author of NBCC winner THE QUEEN. https://www.josh-levin.com/
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social New York Times columnist, author, backpacker and Oregon farmer. Always reporting on the ground. Trying to help democracy prevail and distracting myself by making great wine and cider at KristofFarms.com. 
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social Historian. Author of Mischievous Creatures (2023) and Taming Manhattan (2014). Professor at Portland State. Enthusiastic amateur. #envhist #envhum
www.catherinemcneur.com
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Susan J. Demas @sjdemas.bsky.social CEO+Executive Editor at @lincolnsquare.media. Founding Editor of @michiganadvance.com. Former Inside Michigan Editor+Publisher. Hiker, Photographer, Wife+Mom.
Visit susanjdemas.com
Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media Where facts, experts, fearless media, and the ferocious opposition meet. We're fighting back against the American autocratic movement and fighting forward to create the America we all deserve. Join us. https://lincolnsquare.media
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social Please do check out my tennis writing, BOUNCES, at benrothenberg.com
Emily Peck @emilypeck.bsky.social Axios reporter, Slate Money host. I'm back on coffee.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social BikePortland.org founder 🚲. Basketball coach 🏀. North Portlander.
BikePortland @bikeportland.org A platform for bike-minded Portlanders since 2005.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social Co-author, "Life After Cars,” co-host, The War on Cars. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him)
https://www.lifeaftercars.com
Donate to my 2027 run in support of PPMD:
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social "Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education. 
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
Benevolent dictator of Historians At The Movies #HATM
New episodes available now.
https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social Mother, physician, and proud U.S. Representative for Oregon's Third Congressional District.
dexter.house.gov
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Garage tinkerer. Thorn in the side of the privileged and powerful. U.S. Senator from Oregon. Official campaign account. Fighting for YOU. He/Him.
jeffmerkley.com
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State.
https://linktr.ee/senwhitehouse
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Kurt Kohlstedt @kurtkohlstedt.bsky.social Skeptical urbanist & design journalist @ 99% Invisible || NYT Best Seller: http://99pi.org/book || M. Arch || Visual musings @ http://instagram.com/kurtkohlstedt 🦝 More @ kurtkohlstedt.com
John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
This American Life @thisamericanlife.org Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. A weekly public radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass.
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social Writer. Raconteur. Sex Icon. Intimacy coach through BestSelfPsych (but not a psychotherapist).
Regular column at Slate, occasional bylines elsewhere.
USA born. Living in Serbia.
Management: Info@lovermanagement.com
Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social Writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box & Ringer Tailgate | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988 | Dez & Lani’s dad.
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social Don't just understand the economy – understand the world.
linktr.ee/planetmoney
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social Hosting Slate’s daily news podcast What Next. Getting closer to God in a tight situation. Alum: WNYC Always: therealness.org
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social articles of interest
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
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
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins, author of Uncivil Agreement and co-author of Radical American Partisanship