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Former science communicator, now documenting Mount St. Helens: before 1980, the eruption and the years of activity that followed, and the land's recovery since.
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thousands of interviews | trusted by every White House administration.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social 🏛️ Portland City Councilor
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social Portlander, journalist, bicyclist
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Just here to have a nice apocalypse. Moisturized. Unbothered.
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grace @acab4cutie.top “[grace is] the internet equivalent of when a child gets left in the woods and they find it completely feral years later”
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Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
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Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
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Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
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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...
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social crows can hold grudges for 17 years. amateurs.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
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My dog is named Canelo.
Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
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DevRel @ GitHub. Past: Google DeepMind. Lover of OSS, media, tech and pop culture. Journalist (Mashable, Gizmodo) turned developer. I host podcasts and videos.
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.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
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We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
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Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A.
Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood trustee. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy.
Signal: 352.222.2706
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
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
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Pépito @pepitothe-cat.bsky.social Not the official account, just trying to bring the beloved Pépito to the Brazilian community
Pépito owner: PM me to remove/stop this account.
Não é a conta oficial, estou apenas tentando trazer o nosso querido Pépito para nós
Dev: otavin1.bsky.social
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
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.
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
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