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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.
Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him.
Linktree.com/joekatz45.
WNBA @wnba.com The official account for the WNBA
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Tariffs are Taxes @jmatsby.bsky.social Licensed Customs Broker.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Brianna Vandrey @brivandrey.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying memory formation
Enthusiastic about all things entorhinal cortex
Lecturer at @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
Avid reader, (occasional) runner, always on a side quest
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Angela Colter @angelacolter.bsky.social @bridgecivictech / former civil servant @18F / sic semper tyrannis
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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Laura Lewis @lauraklewis.bsky.social Film and TV Producer. Founder of Rebelle Media. Runner, advocate of equality and women, friend, theater lover, Disney adult.
Rita McGrath @rgmcgrath.bsky.social Columbia University Business School Professor | C-Suite Strategist | Thinkers 50 Top 10 | Best-selling author | Founder, Valize and Rita McGrath Group
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Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social Mother, wife, Nana, activist, Sunday School teacher, sister. Bird by Bird, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. Old quotes compiled by Dean Dauphinais.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
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Tracy Kaplan @tlkaplan.bsky.social NY born and raised, SF living and learning. Lover of coffee, travel, my kids (my hubby too), and good laughs. Creator of The Ten News, news for kids 8-12.
Brooke Pryor @bepryor.bsky.social ESPN NFL reporter covering the Steelers and other things. Nap lover, Bojangles aficionado.
iambic.bot @iambic.bot With careful eye I scan the bluesky stream / For metered posts that match my rhyming scheme
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Andrea Wasserman | Executive Express @theexecexpress.bsky.social Holding the corporate ladder steady so you can climb higher 🚀 | Transforming ambition into action 💡 | Empowering you to rise, lead, and succeed 🌟
Tom Eisenmann @teisenmann.bsky.social Entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
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
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Amber Briggle @mrsbriggle.bsky.social I'm that mom from Texas suing Gov Abbott to #ProtectTransKids 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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jasmin singer @jasminsinger.com vegan, lesbian, podcaster, author, actor, tv & radio host, mom to 6 rescued animals (murray, herbert, louise, pietro, stanley, and blanche), wife to 1 rescued angeleno (moore), appreciates practical footwear 
Helaine Olen @helaineolen.bsky.social A woman with many opinions, all my own. American Economic Liberties Project/contributing columnist MSNBC. Previously: WaPo, Slate. LA/NYC.
Casey Erin Clark @caseyerinclark.bsky.social I help people communicate well, on stage and off | pro singer/actor | amateur maker of pretty things | many soapboxes | “walking exclamation point”
Heather J Myers @heathmy.bsky.social 
Ann Shoket @annshoket.bsky.social CEO and Owner of TheLi.st, Founder of 10 Minutes To Togetherness, Author of The Big Life, you might remember me as EIC of Seventeen Mag or as the nice judge on America's Next Top Model. Scrabble champ of my family. 
Andrew Cotter @mrandrewcotter.bsky.social Dogs, Broadcasting, Writing, Mountains. 
Al Turkos @turkos.bsky.social Systemic change is my love language. Talk to me about tech accountability, and how accountability must be a voluntary act.
they/them
Running for the House in Winooski, VT (Chittenden- 21)
Winooski, VT City Council Member
Nina Roberts @ninaroberts.bsky.social Journalist (words & photos) covering independent businesses, especially immigrant-owned, storefront retail and CPG. Try my newsletter NYC's Mercantile Mayhem here: https://ninarobertsnyc.substack.com/ and articles/photos here: https://ninaroberts. 
Bob Wachter @bobwachter.bsky.social Chair, UCSF Dept of Medicine. Career: What happens when a poli sci major becomes an academic physician. Author, "A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future." Hubby/Dad/Grandpa/Golfer
Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Health Services Research | Public Health
Preserving a modicum of peace where I can. If engagement is not respectful, I will block.
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social Your Congresswoman. Proudly representing the MA 7th. Here to break concrete ceilings & shake the table. Personal account. She/hers. #ChangeCantWait
Steak-umm @steakumm.bsky.social ummmmm
Jodi Kantor @jodikantor.bsky.social NY Times investigative reporter. Co-author of SHE SAID, about how Megan Twohey and I broke the Weinstein story. Now focused on illuminating the Supreme Court.
Amanda Gorman @amandagorman.bsky.social Poet, Activist and Model. Advocate for gender justice, racial equality, and the environment.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Frances Frei @francesfrei.bsky.social Harvard Business School Professor, Co-host of Fixable with Anne & Frances podcast
Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social Market Design/Entrepreneurship Economist • Harvard
Research Partner • a16z crypto
Editor • Review of Economics and Statistics
Puzzle writer & NFT enthusiast, QED | http://scottkom.com/
Lorraine Besser @lorrainebesser.bsky.social Philosopher, author, professor @MiddleburyCollege
Author of the Art of Interesting
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Jo Tango @jtangovc.bsky.social VC in three exited Unicorns. Angel investor. Harvard Business School Lecturer. Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ. Blog: http://jtangoVC.com.
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Dorie Clark @dorieclark.bsky.social Author at Harvard Business Review Press; Professor at Columbia; WSJ bestselling author of The Long Game.
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Jen Snow @jensnow.bsky.social Creative Director • Saturday Night Seder Producer • New Yorker • (Former: Russ & Daughters Director of Brand & Marketing & PR & Design & Digital)
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Glynnis MacNicol @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social I’M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF (Penguin, 2024)
WILDER: A Reckoning w Laura Ingalls Wilder (@Tribeca 2023 Selection)
NO ONE TELLS YOU THIS (S&S, 2018)
Tutuwa Ahwoi @tahwoi.bsky.social
posting through it. Data Analytics & Revenue Operations | Podcast & digital ad ops expert |Reader, writer, & pop culture lover | data & ideas | 📝 https://theinvitation.substack.com | tutuwaahwoi.com
Parul Singh @parulia.bsky.social board partner @ Initialized. cofertility, stellarsleep, medivis, mantle bio. SWE & founder --> investor.
TheLi.st @thelisters.bsky.social We're a community of high-impact women and non-binary leaders who are devoted to helping each other succeed and united by the drive to do BIG things in the world.
Rubina Fillion @rubinafillion.nytimes.com Working on A.I. Initiatives @nytimes; formerly @WSJ, @theintercept, @columbiajournalism; avid consumer of coffee and novels
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Abby Falik @abbyfalik.bsky.social Founder | Futurist | Building an education higher than higher ed
Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social Senior writer at @chronicle.com, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society. stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / stephaniemlee.com / San Francisco
Amy Shoenthal @amysho.bsky.social Leadership and workplace expert, marketing consultant, corporate and keynote speaker, USA Today best selling author of The Setback Cycle, journalist (Forbes, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review)- C Caroline Waxler @cwaxler.bsky.social
Brooke Moreland @brookemoreland.bsky.social Writer and East Village Resident
LMB @lmirandabrowne.bsky.social Strategist - Advocate - Change Maker - Feminist Mother
Follow along for clean energy info + politics + needlepoint + Broadway
Kim McCabe @kimmccabe.bsky.social Global citizen, brand communicator, PR pro, news-media vet. Seeking/sharing inspo & knowledge. Chasing blue skies. Now: in-house comms lead for EO, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Past: a long, winding road >🎥 📰🌳🌎✈️ Boston, baby.
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
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Lorraine Ali @lorraineali.bsky.social News, media, culture columnist @LATimes.com. Previously Rolling Stone, Pup ‘N’ Taco. Wrote the book “No Lessons Learned: The Making of Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Angeleno Iraqi. Pitbull named Potato.
Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social Senior Political Editor at TIME Magazine. Background in economics and TX politics. Formerly New York Times, Texas Tribune. Dad. #washingtondc @nytimes.com
Signal: @amanbatheja.46
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
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Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
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Matthew Polevoy @mattpol.bsky.social Dad and senior producer at 60 Minutes ⏱️
60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social Skeets from the most successful news magazine in TV history, offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news ⏱️
Ali Vitali @alivitali.bsky.social ☀️ Host @waytooearly.bsky.social
🗳️ Senior Congress Correspondent
📕 Author “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In the White House…Yet.”
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social Visuals editor at The Bulwark. Founder of TheOmnicosm.com, home of the Snackology, Popculturology and The Cold Open newsletters. Rochester, N.Y., native. Was once featured on Late Night.
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Caroline Ambrose @carebrose.bsky.social producer, ms now’s all in with chris hayes
Joe Ragazzo @jragazzo.bsky.social Publisher of TPM, Writer of Rhapsody
Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social
Investigative reporter
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social Covering the Supreme Court etc at TPM & co-hosting the TPM Show; Philly-born Mystics diehard 🚴♀️🏃♀️Call me/beep me: kateriga.24/ kate@talkingpointsmemo.com 📸 Leah Miessler, Anna Moneymaker
Khaya Himmelman @khayahimmelman.bsky.social Reporter at Talking Points Memo
Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social covering Congress @Talkingpointsmemo.com • formerly Washington Week, NewsHour Weekend & NPR investigations
signal: eyucel.76
Steve Benen @stevebenen.com Rachel Maddow Show producer, MaddowBlog author, MS NOW contributor, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social I do my little walks & I edit TPM
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
John Light @johnalight.bsky.social executive editor at TPM
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social TPM editor at large + all things Morning Memo: https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/
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Proton: davidmkurtz@proton.me
LaLa @theoriginallala.bsky.social Be the person your dog thinks you are.
Megan Monaghan Rivas @megan-m-rivas.bsky.social Dramaturg, director, playwright. Educator, leader, maker of good trouble. Loves a lot of people, and also dogs.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social Investigative reporter for PROPUBLICA
Contact me: 202-215-6203 (phone/Signal)
First book: A DEATH ON W STREET
Next book: Southern true-crime epic about porn kingpin Michael Thevis, the mob, and the FBI. Imagine Goodfellas meets Boogie Nights…
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
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Andy Campbell @andybcampbell.bsky.social Senior Enterprise Editor @MS.NOW
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Author, “WE ARE PROUD BOYS: How A Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In A New Era Of American Extremism.”
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social Reporter, DailyKos.com, Previously Media Matters. Subscribe to http://oliverwillis.substack.com
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
Shannon Bond @byshannonbond.com 🎙️NPR correspondent covering how technology, power, politics & influence intersect. send tips on Signal to shannonbond.01
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.