Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social Journalist
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/nina-zeelen-b65651106
@crackingtheframe.bsky.social
A. Natasha Joukovsky @joukovsky.bsky.social author of THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR and MEDIUM RARE (forthcoming March 2026)
joukovsky.substack.com
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Natural Resources Law, Public Utility Regulation, Monopolies, Private Law Theory, Law and Technology PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
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)
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Peter Cordwell @petsku47.bsky.social Wordsmiff. Short stories, songs, community journalism.
Tim Shenk @tim.doctorswithoutborders.org Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA. Based in NYC and internationally focused. Opinions my own.
@doctorswithoutborders.org
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social "You think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?" / Feuilletonist / Former arts & media editor of Salon and NPR / Words for New York, Slate, sometimes the Times, other places.
not text, but texture
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social Reporter covering the intersection of business, politics and climate change https://www.politico.com/staff/corbin-hiar
Also a dad, cyclist, union steward and lapsed Minnesotan
Email: chiar@politico.com | Signal: CorbinHiar.80
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social Girl Dad, Public School Teacher, Proud New Yorker, Rabid Unionist, Social Justice Warrior. Rep & Con refugees welcome, but if you’re MAGA you’re getting blocked. 🚫NO DMs🚫 #UnionStrong #TwitterRefugee 🦋🦋🦋🦋
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
Escape the algorithm
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social Columnist and editor at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC). WGAE member. Ex-Washington Post Opinions. DC born and raised. D.C. United and Montreal Canadiens fan.
Email: jim.downie at versantmedia.com; jdow.92 on Signal
Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz Tech policy and government affairs guy. Ex-Block, Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles / Iowa City
David Futrelle @davidfutrelle.bsky.social Writer. Thing for cats to sit on. The We Hunted the Mammoth guy.
New newsletter: Brotopians
Clips in NYT, WaPo, Slate, The Nation, The Cut, Vice, etc.
Brotopians.com
WeHuntedTheMammoth.com
https://www.david-futrelle.com/ (Writing coach page)
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Leslie Jones @spiker715.bsky.social Mom to Brad Jones @thecinemasnob & Harold, my Siamese cat. Loyal Democrat! Big 🎾🏈⚾️WNBA fan! There is no such thing as too many books. 📚 Favorite quote:
"Pressure is a privilege" - Billie Jean King.
#JusticeMatters #HistoryMatters #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈
eben (躺平; Tang-Ping era) @automax.bsky.social hi i’m Eben; a wife-guy; i’m here to put my special touch on things
‘First as awkwardness* then as epilepsy’
*major depressive disorder, art college
christopher webb @christopherwebb.bsky.social Writer & critic, work in @theguardian.com, @1854.photography, @spikeart.bsky.social, @litreview.bsky.social, @thetls.bsky.social etc.
Author of Useless Activity, now out in paperback
𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://tinyurl.com/livupwebb
𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘: https://christopher-webb.com
Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com Behavior Analyst, M.Ed., Liberal Socialist, Musician, He/Him, Coachella Valley https://elirector.bandcamp.com/music
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social Energy and Planning Manager @cplusc.bsky.social (opinions expressed are my own) • sometimes writing at www.terrain.news • based in Birmingham, AL
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/users/mollie-wilson-oreilly-0 and sometimes other places, too. Currently making rooting for the NY Liberty my whole personality. She/her.
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Rebekah Young @rebekahwyoung.bsky.social I read the news today, oh boy
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.com
Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social Ex-NPR. Writer. New Narratives Fellow, EHRP. Books: Generation Debt, DIY U, The Art of Screen Time, The Test, The Stolen Year, and next up: Falling In Love With The World Again. thegoldenhour.substack.com
Nick Martin @nickamartin.bsky.social Features Editor, National Geographic.
Sappony Tribe.
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social staff writer at @newyorker.com // editor-at-large @thedialmag.bsky.social, @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social // jes’ grew carrier
https://www.julianlucas.com
Matt Hanson @matthansonaf.bsky.social Writer moviesbooksmusicpolitics. Masshole now living in the land of dreams. Cont. ed at The Arts Fuse. Byline all over the place. Opinions solely my own, whoever I am. Website: www.hansonmatthew.com
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mel_buer
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Maggie Black @witchofscots.eurosky.social Artist
A Green Menace
https://www.redbubble.com/people/ArtWitchOfScots/shop?asc=u
https://witchofscots.com/
Chris Kromm @chriskromm.bsky.social Director, Institute for Southern Studies | Publisher, Facing South
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Registered Parliamentarian. FSP. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://Hillheat.news/subscribe
David Daley @davedaley.bsky.social Author, "Antidemocratic," "Ratf**ked," "Unrigged." Likes democracy, Boston College basketball
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
Sam Adler-Bell @samadlerbell.bsky.social writing / podcasting
https://www.patreon.com/c/knowyourenemy
https://samadlerbell.substack.com/
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social Since 1850. “America’s most interesting magazine” —New York Times
Subscribe: harpers.org/save
Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social Mainer in DC. Host “State of the States” on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social
Husband of @carlosonhousing.bsky.social. Dog dad to Oliver
Wannabe wildlifer
John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social Writer. "BACKBEATS: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers" is one of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2025.
Also: "Homeplace," about Patsy Cline's hometown. "A Song for Everyone," about Creedence.
johnlingan.com
Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. Working on my Spanish. He/him. Todos somos americanos.
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social Prof. of Politics @rooseveltu.bsky.social, writer @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY and THE KIDS ARE ALL LEFT. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone.
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️
Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social Han Shot first. Making trouble @ Firekit Campaigns and baking pie. Formerly AFT, New Organizing, Obama '08. It's good to punch Nazis. https://linktr.ee/evanyellsatclouds
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social Former Twitter dad is now a skeeting dad. I do a lot of political work mainly focused on empowering educators, nurses and workers. Beyond that it's Iran, music and trying to believe i can one day be funny. @kombiz everywhere
David Kusnet @davidkusnet.bsky.social Was chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. Author: Love the Work, Hate the Job; Speaking American. Co-author: America Needs a Raise; To Build New York:100 Years of Infrastructure. Posts are my own. 
Jean Guerrero @jeanguerre.bsky.social Contributing Opinion Writer a the New York Times. Author of "Hatemonger" and "Crux."
https://ourunsilencing.substack.com
Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social milwaukee union thug
avatar by @dsoart.com
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social Senior health care editor at Axios. Politics and policy with some music and sports sprinkled in. Signal: oradea.10
https://linktr.ee/abettelheim
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social Stratcomms ▶️ @pacificastrategies.bsky.social | Priors include: Sen. Harry Reid; Rep. Louise Slaughter; Common Cause; CREDO Mobile | More ▶️ pacificastrategies.com
Obsessions: UCLA, Manchester United w/ a side of 49ers | Repost or like =/= endorsement.
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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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Liz Pollock: bookseller, non-fiction writer. @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social Specializing in unique books & ephemera on gastronomy, wine, menus, kitchens, and American theater history. Proud to be a member of the National Writers Union. https://www.cooksbookcase.com
Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social Filmmaker: Hyperobject Industries/Yellow Dot Studios
Climate & societal collapse with some sports and movie talk. And yes, the mixture is disorienting.
James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality
https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social - Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com
- Host, Working People podcast
- Author, The Work of Living
- Dad to many cats
Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social Former tech guy. Writer. Standing somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see. Observations here: http://notesfromthecircus.com