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We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
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Nuance? In this Economy
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André Natta @acnatta.bsky.social I've been a journalist, a planner, and a hotel general manager. It's always about buying the ticket and taking the ride. Bronx native. Executive director/Executive editor, @bhamwatch.bsky.social
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Alicia Ramirez (she/her) @aliciak2010.bsky.social Texan. Journalist. Entrepreneur.
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USC Annenberg adjunct professor.
📍Los Angeles
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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
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.”
Dawn G W @bajoranengineer.bsky.social (She/her) DevRel + Community Advocacy Dir @ Anaconda, ex-Microsoft, The PSF, WagtailCMS, Djangonaut Space. #BlackSky 🌈
ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social Tracking and documenting ICE flights. Housed @humanrightsfirst.org and based on @tomcartwright.bsky.social’s methodology.
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
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Pooja Ravindran @poojaravindran.bsky.social 🙄
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I am not my employer so neither are my opinions my employers' opinions
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm a teacher 🇺🇸 of English living in Slovakia.
Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social Senior Director of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for Common Cause. Ultracrepidarian. My views and opinions (particularly on Arsenal Football Club) are my own.
Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond.bsky.social Working to #EndMoneyBail & pretrial incarceration across Illinois. We work for racial justice & freedom.
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
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Kelly Weinersmith @weinersmith.bsky.social A big nerd. Co-author of NYTimes Bestsellers Soonish & A City on Mars. Co-host of Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe. She/her
www.weinersmith.com
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social.
Home of the ongoing webcomic SMBC, A City on Mars, and of little books featuring large concepts abridged beyond the point of usefulness.
John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social Comics
I have no idea what I am doing
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
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.
Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social We advocate for housing abundance and sustainable, inclusive cities in Illinois.
🏙️ https://abundanthousingillinois.org
PJM Interconnection @pjminterconnection.bsky.social PJM Interconnection coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity and ensures power supplies for 67 million people in all or parts of 13 states & D.C.