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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social small press + zine distro!
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
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Maggie Mertens @maggiemertens.bsky.social Journalist
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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org @oaklandbikelab elsewhere. Bicyclist, unicyclist, mobility justice advocate. Generally unpopular opinions about urbanism, often including data.
Skepticism is my beat.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social 🌲🏳️🌈🧙♀️ 🖋️rep @jwongbaxter.bsky.social | eat & make obsolete at the same time | they/she | opinions=mine
Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social Writer, researcher covering the right-wing media // Book coming feb ‘27 (Sourcebooks) // madeline dot peltz at gmail, signal: madeline.46 // numbertwopencil.substack.com
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Ghazal Azizi @dear-gazelle.bsky.social 🦌
Adam @grimisham.bsky.social Music, history, film, and literature obsessive. Educator and dad. DJ at Hearing Music weekly on XRAY.FM. Former yellypants in sadly defunct no wave “legends” Hustler White. Very occasional writer.
Jessalyn Aaland @jessalynaaland.bsky.social 🙂 San Francisco Bay Area visual artist
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
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Annie Lloyd @annieblloyd.bsky.social annieblloyd.com
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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net Techie, public historian, and activist from Berkeley, California.
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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social writer/DSM-5 darling
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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social Editorial director @ Rewire News Group |Writer. Flaneuse. Brooklynite. Virginian |This account goes polyglot
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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social just play the song, schneebly
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Tobin Ng @tobinng.bsky.social “the human form of Snopes” | programs coordinator @jhrnews.bsky.social, contributing editor @xtramagazine.com | they/them | tobinng.wordpress.com
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social author, biography of justin townes earle
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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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Cecilia Lei @cecilialei.bsky.social Bay Area journalist, aspiring optimist.
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eel, i @eliacugini.bsky.social writer & end-stage PhD student. i work on literary culture, sex, queer life, child liberation, and anti-trans persecution. contributing writer @ Vashti, work @ Baffler, Dazed, Defector, &c. he/him.
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Tommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social Writer and editor. Late of "Game Theory With Bomani Jones" on HBO, Mother Jones (no relation), HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, Deadspin, etc. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com. Email: tcraggs22@gmail.com. 
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc, often for @oaklandreviewofbooks. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Finbarr Toesland @finbarrtoesland.bsky.social British award-winning Ukraine correspondent ✍️🇺🇦
Currently📍Kyiv
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social (he/him) journalist/author. trans guy who lives in the woods.
📝: The Believer, Cosmo, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, This American Life, etc.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social fandom + media + tech + history + polar exploration + the libidinal pleasures of obsession. book out in 2027!!!!!!
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social Politics @ TPM // Previously @ Teen Vogue
Momo Chang @momo-chang.bsky.social Freelance Writer & Editor (@npquarterly.bsky.social)
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photographer and small wave surfer
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Azucena Rasilla @chroniclesofazu.bsky.social ✍🏼👩🏻💻 The Oaklandside’s bilingual arts and community journo
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Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social Journalist, writer, historian; peripatetic, skeptic; fisherman, amateur pomologist, admirer of wildflowers, mushrooms; worshiper of forests, swamps, deserts, and mountains.
The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org Journalism for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. A nonprofit newsroom part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social I'm @hyphy_republic on Twitter, aka The Oakland Observer, an Oakland journalist. Newsletter @ https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/ :One time contributions to the OO instead of subscription https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/#/portal/support
Kat Ferreira @katferreira.bsky.social Consultant | Former Communications Director @maynardinstitute | Social media marketing survivor with love/hate for tech | @OaklandVoices alum | I suffer from topophilia and watch too much TV
Alan Chazaro @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social Writing things for COYOTE, NPR, GQ, The Guardian, SLAM, L.A. Times, The Believer, SFGATE, etc
Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social Sparks/UCLA/more for @latimes.com
Valkyries at @valkyriesbeat.bsky.social and @missionlocal.org, @theixsports.bsky.social
PWHL/Valks/flag football for @mercurynews.com
WNBA for @herhoopstats.com
AWSM president | Likes Pokémon too much | BU ‘17 | 🏳️🌈
Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social reading books, writing books, defending books
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Investigative reporter and researcher: abortion, reproductive justice, disinformation.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social cool cartoonist & neurotic little freak. adult man, he/him. pfp by winguro.bsky.social. you can read my webcomic at whathappensnext.webcomic.ws and you can give me money at patreon.com/maximumgraves. commissions: closed.
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com
Luke Tsai @theluketsai.bsky.social Food editor, KQED Arts & Culture
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | James Beard award winner | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
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Noble Ingram @nobleingram.bsky.social audience engagement editor at @boltsmag.org
he/him
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social CNET Editor, here for tracking decentralized media, primarily Bsky/AtProto and Mastodon/Fediverse ... and for disc golf! #DiscGolf
he/him/they/them
Berkeley, CA
Other AT presences
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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social Doctor in Women's Studies | Reporter, editor, researcher | Co-founder of The Flytrap | she/her | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
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www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
@clockluvr.bsky.social @clockluvr.bsky.social Timekeeper & Artist
Chicago
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com Founder/Editor-in-Chief, @stereogum.com
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
JF Frankel @jffrankel.bsky.social cartoonist, Bay Area, https://linktr.ee/jfhimself
Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social Cargo bike doctrinaire
Script @script.health Queer, credible health information, made for you
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Max T. Nix @ributionsfehler.bsky.social Used to work in strategic communication, now researching crisis communication and disinformation || Da machste nix. (he/him)
Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social OG Black feminist storyteller • Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Directing writing @empowermentave.bsky.social • I live where the sky ends
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