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
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
*Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (Substack + graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK
*Founder: Women In Media & News
*Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops
*Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE
*Comedy nerd
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social 
Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social I post about public education, school integration, cultural theory, media literacy, sex ed, parenting, and random thoughts from my ADHD brain. Proud co-editor of uncoveringpossible.com out now from Vernon Press! CFC166871CD4B 24% off
Jamia Wilson @jamiaawilson.bsky.social * femme de lettres *
www.jamiawilson.org
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social Host, Laura Flanders & Friends, “Where the people who say it can’t be done take a backseat to the people who are doing it.” On PBS tv/radio/youtube. Author, rabble rouser, media activist. Fresh episodes Fridays, 5pm ET, http://lauraflanders.org
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA.
PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
📚 Buy my book 'Abortion' at prh.com/abortion
Elisa Camahort Page (she/her) @elisacp.bsky.social Current: Co-founder Optionality (https://optionality.life)
Speaker, Writer
Former: Founder/COO BlogHer, Start-up CxO
#theNOWofWork #vegan #undercoverintrovert
https://bio.site/ElisaCP
The bloggess (Jenny Lawson) @thebloggess.bsky.social Author, blogger, proprietress of Nowhere Bookshop, loose cannon. 
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social Black feminist scholar and lover of freedom and justice.
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.
Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com Reporting, rebelling and truth-telling from the feminist front lines for over 50 years. Read more at MsMagazine.com.
Reductress @reductress.bsky.social The first and only satirical women's magazine. Constantly moving to a new social platform.
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
Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social writer, comedian, social strategist, living in the city of angels, occasionally singing about leopards. shop.franchesca.net
Luvvie @luvvie.bsky.social NYT bestselling author (4x) 📚 Noted speaker. Book coach (Founder of The Book Academy).
Latest book: LITTLE DEFENDS HER NAME (out 5/6/25). Preorder: http://LittleTroublemakerBook.com
Heather Corinna @heathercorinna.bsky.social (they/them) Twitter expat. I give good ed. Founder @ Scarleteen; Our Bodies, Ourselves chair. Always teaching, always learning. Queer af, equally tired. Writer of banned books. Relic. Making obscene hand gestures & fighting the good fight since 1970.
Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person.
SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff.
she/they
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social Media studies, feminism, children’s culture, and more. Books:
Growing Up With Girl Power
The Princess Problem
Princess Cultures
Cultural Studies of LEGO
The Marketing of Children’s Toys
Communication in Our Lives
Supernatural Youth in Media—just released!
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social That woman from that thing you saw.
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social 🍆Guggenheim Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama and the face that used to launch 1000 free meals off Tinder. www.KristinaWong.com 🧵🪡
Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social My debut novel about music and love THE SINGER SISTERS (Flatiron) is available at a bookstore near you. 🎶 📖
I edit at feminist quarterly Lilith Magazine. ✊
I am a tired NYC mom and probably need some coffee right now… ☕️
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Jenny Boylan 🦞 @jennyboylan.bsky.social Author of 19 Books.
Barnard/Columbia prof.
President, PEN America.
Former chair, GLAAD.
Pizzaiola.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Trixie Films @trixiefilms.bsky.social Therese Shechter, documentary filmmaker | My So-Called Selfish Lives | about reproductive freedom, pronatalism & childfree lives. Dua Lipa called it "An urgent documentary"
https://myselfishlife.com https://linktr.ee/trixiefilm
Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social Independent journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
Aja Barber @ajabarber.bsky.social Here’s why you don’t need that $10 dress. Author of Consumed. Contributing editor at ELLE UK. 
mckayley gourley @mckayleygourley.bsky.social girl writer
associate editor @reductress
writing in @newyorkerhumor @mcsweeneys @theonion
twitter @_chase_____
https://www.instagram.com/mckayg/
she/her
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social Writer. Director. Live Lit Performer. Perennial Screamer into the Abyss. Decent Tomato Grower. 
Rosamund Lannin @rosamund.bsky.social reading and writing and domestic life in Chicago. #amquerying a YA (?) novel about live action role-playing (LARP). // rosamund.co
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/
Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social Coloradan. Loud talker. Soccer lady. Italian matriarch. Justice minded thinker and writer. Can’t quit won’t quit trash talking SCOTUS. Not necessarily in that order.
Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social Independent journalist in Asheville, NC | https://jessicawakeman.contently.com | jessica dot wakeman at gmail dot com | signal: jessicawakeman.80
Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social I wrote DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY, a USA TODAY bestseller (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) | I also wrote REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP | monkeythumbs.com | birdiehorne.com | Amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Pris Blossom @prisblossom.bsky.social Journalist. Essayist. Critic.
Queer Latina Mama.
Watches too much TV and won't shut up about Pedro Pascal💖
A short glass of caffeinated anxiety and good intentions.
she/her/ella
Elizabeth Gomez (Juanna Rumbel) @elizabethgomez.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, public speaker, pain in your a**, but adorably funny.
Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social Writer. Speaker. Feminist Troublemaker. She/her. (IG: @jaclynfable) Come change U.S. sex education with me at @educateusaction.bsky.social
Darlena Cunha @darlenacunha.bsky.social Journalist, (NYT, Washington Post, TIME), against fascism.
Britt Julious @britticisms.bsky.social Music critic for Chicago Tribune. Occasional freelance writer and editor. The last girl on the dance floor. 🪩✨
HIT ME UP: http://brittjulio.us
Gloria Feldt @gloriafeldt.bsky.social 👋🏽 Hi! I’m a #Leadership #author, #speaker, prez taketheleadwomen.bsky.social, advocate for women.
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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social Slinging zines in Chicago @wildramppublishing.bsky.social.
Co-host of "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz" podcast
https://linktr.ee/KeidraC
Profile ID: Black woman looking up at picture of mountains
digitalsista @digitalsista.bsky.social Digital data analyst/Disinfo fighter in diversity, tech, media & politics 👩🏾💻http://digitalsista.me/about
@stopovaw
💜🧡💜 Stop Digital Voter Suppression™
Washington, DCstopdigitalvotersuppression.net
Renee Bracey Sherman @renee.bsky.social reproductive justice activist • co-author of LIBERATING ABORTION 📒• co-host of The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion 🎙️• founder of We Testify • Communication PhD Student • “The Beyoncé of Abortion Storytelling”
Tamara Winfrey-Harris @twinfreyharris.bsky.social Writer: NYT, Atlantic, more. Author: The Sisters Are Alright, Dear Black Girl, and a Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free. Yogi. Reiki master. Lover of humanity. Femme stan. TamaraWinfreyHarris.com
Holly kearl @hollykearl.bsky.social Writer, work at Aspen Institute (views here are my own), #streetharassment activist, momma to 2 young kids, runner. #disabilityrights, #rarediseaseparenting, #highstakesparenting #feminist #vaw #eldermillenial
Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social Researcher, explorer, writer, whisperer, and speaker on #MathIRL 💖 - w/ an occasional sprinkle of nascar & mlb.
Long Island’r by birth, Oregonian 4life 🌊🏎️⚾️ #SmashThePatriarchy
🔗 katelovesmath.com
Andrea Blythe @andreablythe.bsky.social Game writer, poet, and lover of the fantastical, horrifying, and weird. TND alum. She/her
Games: VAUNTED (Lost Lake Games), MONOCHROME HEIGHTS (Steam), and more
Poetry: TWELVE and NECESSARY POISONS (Interstellar Flight Press)
https://linktr.ee/andreablythe
Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
bit.ly/NoMorePolice
bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds
InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
Avital Norman Nathman @avitalnn.bsky.social Cheerio connoisseur.
Freelance writer and editor. Find me here and there writing pop culture, maternal health, repro health, good mother myth, cannabis, and more.
Miriam Zoila Pérez @miriamzperez.bsky.social Writer & activist 🇨🇺✨🌈
Author of CAMILA NÚÑEZ’S YEAR OF DISASTERS
https://linktr.ee/miriamzperez
Jennifer S. Brown @jsbrown.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction, among other things. Novels: THE WHISPER SISTER (Lake Union) and MODERN GIRLS (NAL/Penguin) Drinker of bourbon. Die-hard liberal. Crocheter. Lover of dogs. People? Meh, not so much. https://linktr.ee/jennifersbrownwrites
Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social #Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com
Lisa May Bennett @lisamaybennett.bsky.social Author, feminist, sober, growth/acceptance
Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
Sara Benincasa @sarajbenincasa.bsky.social Author, TV/film writer, actor. Writing about our tallest president.
SARATONIN: SaraJBenincasa.Substack.com
Live events & all the rest: https://linktr.ee/SaraJBenincasa
Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social @Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest
Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing
www.annaclark.net
Leora Tanenbaum @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social Passionate about equity. Nonprofit comms professional. Slut-shaming expert. Most recent book: “Sexy Selfie Nation"
leoratanenbaum.com
Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
Amy Guth @amyguth.bsky.social Producer: film, events and broadcast
📍Los Angeles
https://www.amyguth.com/about
Mary C. Murphy @marycmurphy.bsky.social Author, CULTURES OF GROWTH | Latina professor @IUPsych | Founder @EquityAccelerator focused on improving education, organizations, and inequality | Texan @ ❤️ | https://marycmurphy.substack.com/
Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social Cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, Politico. The Nib alum. Recipient of the Herblock Prize and Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation.
Newsletter: jensorensen.com/subscribe
Patreon: patreon.com/jensorensen
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
Samhita @samhita.bsky.social Let’s get free
Xio Axelrod @xioaxelrod.bsky.social (ZEE-ohh) she/her
USA Today Bestselling author 📚💙🌶️
Vocalist
Philly girl
Words+Music
GenX brain/Millennial🖤
I'm rarely in my DMs
Karen Hawkins @chiefrebelle.bsky.social Story editor * @19thnews.org
Founder * @rebelliousmag.bsky.social
Cat lady.
🌈
Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social LGBTQ Blogger, Advocate, Social Worker, Gen X, Cat Folx.
She/her
Blogging at pghlesbian.com for 20 years. Won some awards.
"Keeping Lesbian Blogging Alive" according to @autostraddle
Email pghlesbian@gmail.com
Signal Pghlesbian.24
Protect Trans Kids
Robin Marty @robinmarty.com Author, New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, End of Roe v. Wade. Executive Director, https://bsky.app/profile/wawchealth.bsky.social Alabamian. Exhausted. Donate here! https://wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250703-keep-wawc-funded
Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Let’s Move The Needle, is out now. 🖖🏼. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super 🏳️🌈. Gen X
Sally Kohn @sallykohn.bsky.social Mom. Writer. Media Strategist + Trainer. Activist. @TED curator. @USAToday @Remodelista + @AFARmedia contributor. Author of #TheOppositeOfHate. Human. Being. >> sallykohn.com
Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news writing the Out of Your League queer sports newsletter / co-author of HAIL MARY: The Rise & Fall of the National Women’s Football League / they/them 🏳️⚧️🌈
Jacinta Bunnell @jacintabunnell.bsky.social artist. author. candy baloney.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (March 16, 2027) PRE-ORDER NOW | patreon.com/kameronhurley | Newsletter: http://bit.ly/42qnhkx | kameronhurley.com
E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social Writer
Jamil Smith @jamilsmith.bsky.social Faculty lecturer, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. Columnist, @us.theguardian.com.
Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social Abortion access correspondent at The Nation and author of Killers of Roe, a whodunnit on the history of the anti-abortion movement, out now wherever books are sold https://www.amylittlefield.com/killersofroe/
Marianne Schnall @mschnall.bsky.social Journalist, Forbes contributor
Podcast Host: ShiftMakers
Author: What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power
Founder WhatWillItTake.com / Feminist.com
www.marianneschnall.com
Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social Senior correspondent at New York magazine. Author of the recent book UNBEARABLE: FIVE WOMEN AND THE PERILS OF PREGNANCY IN AMERICA (2025). Two kids and not a night of decent sleep since 2020. Here for that old magic time suck.
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail