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Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for Carole King. Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Author
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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social Bloomberg Opinion Executive Editor and markets/eco columnist. Former Executive Editor for Global Markets. Opinions are my own.
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
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Fredrick Kunkle @blueskytrotsky.bsky.social Washington Post staff writer before the Post died in darkness. Now white-knuckling the crash landing into Trump’s authoritarian dystopia
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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com D.C.-based freelance technology journalist covering, and often vexed by, computers, gadgets, and other things that beep. May or may not be notable. He/him. Read: PCMag, Fast Company, etc. Write: rob@robpegoraro.com
Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social National correspondent, The Nation. Co-producer of "The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show." Author: "What's The Matter With White People." Proud mom of Sadie, Stella and NoraWD.
Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social Texas. Senior director of polling at YouGov. Adviser to Young Men Research Initiative.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social "a Washington lawyer whose practice representing people about security clearances is part of an entire legal subspecialty made possible by the current system." - Politico
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social Solo gay dad of 3 kids (teens). Newly minted empty nester. Future indefinite. Wrote/directed "Transamerica." NYC/LA/London/SD. Art, love, beauty, compassion, curiosity, stories, high spirits, connection, history, and ideas. I come in peace.
Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social Executive Producer, Last Week Tonight. Friend to nearly all the animals. 
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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).
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Journalist. Created @thebarbedwire.com. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
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John A. Farrell @biographer.bsky.social Historian. UVA. PhD, Groningen. Biographer of Clarence Darrow, Tip O'Neill, Ted Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Next up: The American Revolution on the Frontier.
Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social I write about public policy issues for Blueprint magazine. Former Arts & Entertainment Editor at LA Times, Executive Editor at The Wrap. Founding editor of Culture Monster. Teach arts reporting at USC.
Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social Reporter focusing on water and climate change, Los Angeles Times. ian.james@latimes.com
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social Media studies and communications professor
Bill Menezes @shuckabee.bsky.social Personal account of Denver-based complexifier, Coltrane/Neil Young worshipper, die-hard Royals, Chiefs, KU supporter, expresser of solely his own opinions.
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social Reporter, DailyKos.com, Previously Media Matters. Subscribe to http://oliverwillis.substack.com
Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. US material & visual culture, museum studies, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects. shirleywajda.com
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Tim Healey @timbhealey.bsky.social Red Sox beat reporter for The Boston Globe
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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social A Father of Daughters | Occasional Writer | It's a book about metals | #COYS
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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
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
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
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Working to end hunger in America
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social Former GOP Congressman. Ex‑Tea Partier turned relentless anti‑Trump truth‑teller. Want the unfiltered takes the cable shows won’t touch? Read & spar with me on Substack 👉 https://substack.com/@socialcontractwithjoewalsh
PTmac @ptmac.bsky.social My country is the world and my religion is to do good... Thomas Paine
Truth is the substance of all morality… Mahatma Gandhi
Steven Goff @stevengoff.bsky.social ⚽️ writer.
Recently: Yahoo Sports.
Previously: The Washington Post.
15 World Cups (9m/6w), 99 WC qualifiers, 357 US caps (267m/90w), 25 MLS Cups.
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Chris Brennan @bychrisbrennan.bsky.social USA Today columnist writing about people, power and politics. Tell me a story: cbrennan@usatodayco.com.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
m2c4 @thesoundings.bsky.social Politics and economics with sidelights in photography, astronomy, tennis, and the Canadiens...
NewsLab @thenewslab.bsky.social The NewsLab is operated by the Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and New Media of the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. We work to advance journalistic standards, media literacy and professional training.
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
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Updates on the meritocracy:
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
MALDEF (MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND) @maldef.bsky.social Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Our commitment is to protect and defend the rights of all Latinos living in the U.S. and the constitutional rights of all Americans.
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social ICE OUT
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social Labor Reporter at @TheGuardian.com
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Judy Graham @judygraham.bsky.social Investigative reporter, national correspondent, columnist. Interested in all things having to do with the healthcare system. And aging. Knitter, potter, hiker, daily cook. Chicago-born. Now a Rocky Mountain gal.
Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia with @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social
Luca Powell @lucapowell.bsky.social Data Reporter, CT Insider.
Formerly investigative reporter with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Probably eating a panini at Nica's.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.