Velshi Banned Book Club @velshibbc.bsky.social Join @velshi.com live on weekend mornings at 10AM ET
Mark Rosati @msrosati.bsky.social Communications leadership for nonprofit organizations. Playwright, member @DramatistsGuild. Published short-story writer. Former journalist; ex-editor Associated Press @AP Washington, Chicago. #defenddemocracy #voteblue #LGBTQIA+ ally #fightfascism #resist
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️
My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
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Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction | I write about wild things, I run & I read
https://www.claire-cameron.com
Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social Author MILL TOWN; Director @storytellingstudio.bsky.social & @nsota.bsky.social; Write @ WaPo, NYRB, NYT, Boston Globe. 🇫🇷 kerri-arsenault.com
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social Books: Glass House, The Hospital, The Mayor. http://BrianRAlexander.com.
Past: Atlantic/Wired/Outside/Washington Monthly/MIT Tech Review/Janitor/Gas Station Attendant/Lifeguard.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social she/her
author, editor, history nerd, sporadic quilter, lapsed knitter, novice crocheter, avid reader, dog mom, animal rescue volunteer, world's slowest swimmer
www.ilenegoldman.com
Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social Passionate connector who believes biz can be a force for good. Author, "The Lost Art of Connecting." Sustainability and Impact Leader. Founder. CEO. Philanthropist. Angel Investor. Pup Lover. Substack: https://susanmcpherson.substack.com/
Chris M. Hughes, MD @cmhughesmd.bsky.social Founder, Moral Healthcare; former Hospice & ICU Doc; cognitive psych and contrarian Econ enthusiast. OG @Drsforamerica; https://christopherhughes.substack.com/
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3fYQiw0
All opinions my own!
Shannon Hardin @shannonhardin.bsky.social Father to Noah
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
Librarian to The Man @nobpeck.bsky.social Gov't Librarian, Artist, Former historian, Servant to Tilly, Friend,
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Resister, and booklegger in training.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/ DM for Signal 🔐
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social Political scientist. Political behavior + methods. Spatial analysis.
Speaking in a personal capacity. Opinions expressed are my own.
suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social Too much to tell, you wouldn’t believe it anyway. Only way to find anything out about me is to hang out together for quite awhile. I’m more interested than interesting. #Postie #Post 
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
UNICEF @unicef.org UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to protect children's rights. We won't stop, #ForEveryChild.
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Dave Wasserman (unofficial bot) @redistrict.bluesky.bot Senior Editor & Elections Analyst of the nonpartisan @CookPolitical Report w/ @AmyEWalter. Nerd for 🗺️ maps, ⛷️ ski slopes & 🎻 trad tunes. Has seen enough.
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Philip Kennicott @philipkennicott.bsky.social Senior Art and Architecture Critic at The Washington Post, author of Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning (Norton).🐕🎹
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/philip-kennicott/
Book Passage Bookstore @bookpassage.bsky.social The Bay Area's Liveliest Bookstore!
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Catie @sjw-catie.bsky.social Fed employee in Veteran suicide prevention, clinical social worker, social justice warrior, book nerd, found love at 43, lives with 1 buff cat & @scoopernicus. Ready to use my unearned privilege to thwart the haters & protect the most vulnerable.
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Laurie Stephens @lauriestephens.bsky.social “Mostly retired” writer, former CP journo and press secretary to Premier Bob Rae, mother of two awesome kids, living the best life in Meaford with her partner and doggos.🇨🇦🌻🌈
Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social Immigration attorney based in Washington, DC. Views are my own & posts ≠ endorsement. Message me to reach out.
Previously at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago and the United Nations in Switzerland.
Steve Murray @stevoandgus.bsky.social Warfie union man.
Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social #Reporter, #publisher, #photographer, #entrepreneur. CEO, Technology News and Literature: technewslit.com. Photography chair, National Press Club in DC. Photo portfolio: https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563.html #BillsMafia #IowaHawkeyes
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis __ ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires
Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social Peace through memetic firepower
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social Words at DailyKos, Public Notice, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online writer and coffee professional, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.
I also have a newsletter: https://jesseraub.online
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social This is me, not an official account. Led NYU-Marron’s passenger rail modernization effort; co-authored/edited the landmark ‘A Better Billion’ subway report. Now working on next gen trains at the MTA. City beat reporter in a former life. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈.
Michael F Ozaki MD @brontyman.bsky.social Husband, Retired Pediatrician, Berkeley Graduate. I resist. I persist.
Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social Founder of the Housing Frame on Substack. Housing, markets, economy. Buc-ee’s fan.
conorsen.substack.com
📍Atlanta, GA
Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social Senior editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Books, menswear, parenting, politics, religion. Post the posts you want to see in the world.
Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
Gretchen Van Ness @gvlaw.bsky.social Executive Directing at LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc. Occasional publisher of The Neponset Wildlife Chronicles. Civil rights attorney & community organizer. Still on Facebook. Opinions my own, obviously.
Katie (she/her) @gaudior13.bsky.social 
Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social Media reporter at The Washington Post. GW adjunct professor of journalism. Send tips securely on Signal: scottnover.99
Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law, DePaul University College of Law. Adjunct @Georgetown Law ; LLM Georgetown Law; Penn Bioethics; Univ of Man. Pop Health Evidence; Univ of Huddersfield 🇧🇸🇵🇹Health Law, Tech & Bioethics
Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Immigration Reporter @gbhnews.bsky.social #desgraciada 🇵🇷 journalist since 2007. Occasional freelancer elsewhere. IRE award 2018 w/ ProPublica.
Nick Evans @nckevns.bsky.social Ohio Capital Journal reporter
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Lyz @lyz.bsky.social Men Yell at Me. I write books.
Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Past: HotWired/Wired News/Wired, Newser, Adweek, USA Today. Tw: @chipbayers IG/Threads: @cbayers
That’s my recently-departed Dad in the header pic.
Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social Doctor, advocate, girl from Y-Town. Running for Governor to fight for Ohioans who are struggling and give power back to the people. It’s time for a change.
Red Wine & Blue @redwine.blue Not political? No problem. In fact, it’s perfect. Red Wine & Blue is a community of diverse suburban women fighting extremism, one friend at a time.
➡️ go.redwine.blue/RWB-BS
Licking County Ohio Democratic Club @lickingcodemclub.bsky.social A home for Democrats and allies in Licking County, Ohio. All who support human rights are welcome!
Find us on the web at lickingcountydemocraticparty.com .
Volunteer run. Any paid content paid for by the Licking County Democratic Club
Gregory Korte @gregorykorte.com White House and domestic policy reporter, Bloomberg News.
✉️ gkorte@bloomberg.net
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Rebecca Raskin @rjraskin.bsky.social Former nonfiction editor at HarperCollins. Now a very tired med student researching science communication. Writing here: https://thosenerdygirls.org/nerdygirls/rebecca-raskin-wish/
Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social Running for U.S. Senate to take on the rigged system and fight for Ohio workers. Proud grandpa, dad, and husband to Connie.
Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social Music theorist, ass prof @UMN music. Public music theory, popular music, telling it like it is.
she/her
DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social Retired Govt, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & econ watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty’s mine. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism & film, have a sense of humor I'm not your thing. Eclectic who knows politics isn't a spectator sport.
Marty Swant @martyswant.bsky.social NYC-based journalist covering tech/marketing/policy/media focused on AI, ads, antitrust, etc.
Currently freelance (NYT, FastCo, Inc, etc.), I spent the past decade on staff at Digiday, Forbes, Adweek, the AP and elsewhere. https://authory.com/MartySwant
JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social President Social Security Works PAC. Vice-Chair DNC Seniors Council. Hundreds of Campaigns, Thousands of Shows. Columbia College, ‘68. Legendary “Greaser.”
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
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John King @johnkingucc.bsky.social 
Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social Former journalist, hate corruption, MArch, AIA Assoc, LEED AP BD+C, Climate change is real, y'all
Mom to 2 border collies 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐕🐕
#SlavaUkraini 💙💛🇺🇦
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Amy Probst @amyprobst.bsky.social Writer, typewriter poet, instructional designer, saver of worms, lover of dogs and trees. Raised blue-collar intellectual. Memoir in the works.
Workshops: amyprobst.com
I love Drummond Island.
Nicole Blair lcnblair@bsky.social @lcnblair.bsky.social Teaching Professor of Literature and Composition at UW Tacoma; happily married; author of academic books; singer-songwriter at Curtain Call Records; women’s rights advocate; love nature, travel, animals, art, poetry. NO DMS!
John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social journalist. alum: WSJ/NYT/NBC/CNN.
public speaker. requests: https://www.wsb.com/speakers/john-harwood/
advocate of decency in government and elsewhere
@ebww.bsky.social @ebww.bsky.social The only writers’ workshop in the country devoted to humor and human interest writing.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
One Country Project @onecountryproject.bsky.social We are dedicated to reopening the dialogue with rural communities, rebuilding trust and respect, and advancing opportunities for rural Americans.
Greg Mitchell @gregmitch.bsky.social Author of more than a dozen books, director of 5 PBS films since 2021 with latest "Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today," which everyone can now watch here: https://www.pbs.org/video/woody-guthrie-and-the-ghost-of-tom-joad-today-ynvxeh/
Plunderbund @plunderbund.bsky.social All politics. All #Ohio
Senator Casey Weinstein @senatorweinstein.bsky.social State Senator. Husband to @profweinstein.bsky.social and father of 3. Proud Air Force Academy Falcon and Ohio State Buckeye.
How Things Work at the Statehouse @howthingsworkoh.bsky.social Former #Ohio Statehouse staff helping Ohioans understand state government and impact state legislators -- https://TakeActionOhio.com
Beryl Brown Piccolantonio @berylbrownpic.bsky.social State Representative, OH HD4. Mom🩷
Anna Staver @annastaver.bsky.social Ohio legislative reporter for Cleveland.com Got a tip? Email astaver@cleveland.com
Tyler Buchanan @tylerbuchanan.bsky.social Midwest editor, @Axios. BGSU grad, @Rangers fan. Everything's coming up Milhouse.
Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social #HoldTheLine. Ask, think, translate tech/media strategy (subs, ads, video, monopolies, privacy, press freedom, trust) for @dcnorg.bsky.social to advance future of trusted news and entertainment. @jason_kint on X, 20yrs leading major sports sites
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
Lucky Adams (aka JDAdams Author) @luckyadams.bsky.social I did stuff. I know things.
Follower of Rule 303 Revised
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Grandson of Blair Mtn UMW Organizer.
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Carlos Thompson, Jr @dmcrcy4life.bsky.social Retired from UCLA Healthcare Dept of Finance, father of 3, granddad of 12, Progressive. Fan of UK Wildcats, 49ers, Lakers, USC & Dodgers, NO DM's,CancerSurvivor #Woke #BLM #HealthCareForAll #NoKing #WomensRights #VoteBlue #Equality #Resist #LGBTQally 
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social director/editor @matternews
Appodlachia @appodlachia.com John Brown is a hero / Unions are good / Accents are sexy / redneck is a term of endearment https://lnk.bio/appodlachia
Dignity of Work Institute @dignityofwork.bsky.social Launched by Sherrod Brown and dedicated to the people who make this country work. Creating an economy where all work is valued.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Henry J. Gomez @henryjgomez.bsky.social Senior National Political Reporter at NBC News.