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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Evan Yeats @evanyeats.bsky.social Union guy. Former Commissioner. DC denizen.
Nick Sementelli @nsementelli.bsky.social National progressive political strategist by day, local safe streets and housing advocate by night. @ggwash board member.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social Labor lawyer (formerly @seiu), into court reform & judicial nominations, writer, consultant, person with kids, watcher of TV, she/her
SpotlightDC @spotlightdc.bsky.social The Capital City Fund For Investigative Journalism
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Nuance? In this Economy
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
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Icewind Dale Gribble @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social 38 y/o cishet polyamorous miniaturist offtank
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Phrack Zine @phrack.org since 1985
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
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Matt @mrrenn.bsky.social Ocean stater. Koozie aficionado. Nascent purveyor of Old Books. Buffalonian. Bills. Sabres. City. Sox. State. Bonas. Celtics. Alty. RIFC. A life on the coast is a thing you can boast, my friend.
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
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Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social I run a kill shelter for small dogs 💖
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. wesweeney.com
Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social Photography, Youth Organizing, and Storytelling in the District of Columbia
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Minas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social Astrophysicist and proud cat dad. He/him
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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
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shreyan (normal) @shreyanjain.net im shreyan
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Elaine @miscelaineous.bsky.social Intersectional Feminist
Abortion is Healthcare
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social the lovechild of Dolly & Elvira
actor who podcasts
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Madison Gant @madgant.bsky.social Executive Producer at KMBC in Kansas City. 🏳️⚧️ (she/her). Biological woman. Not a distraction.
mary🐇 @mary.my.id 🏳️⚧️🇮🇩 she/it · 23
web dev @buttondown.com @bookwalker.com
bad at this social media thing
Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social Tech correspondent for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I write about how we use technology, and how technology uses us. Contact me on tomgermain.com
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
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extremely annoying transsexual
doll-sized canis latrans
co-host of @bimbomentality.bsky.social
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Bylines in Mother Jones, Zeteo, Rolling Stone, American Prospect. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
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Trump accountability project.
Public Citizen.
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born and raised in hollywood, ca.
pfp is Lucretia, 1517 by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland
L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot) @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot President Pro tempore, Senate of Virginia | Representing the 18th District | Chairman of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se Visual artist / graphic designer. MÖRK BORG, CY_BORG, Barkhäxan, Into the Odd Remastered, Electric State, Alien, Invincible and a bunch of zines, doodles and illegible metal logos. Swedish dork with opinions on typography. He/him.
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Jank @jank.cool The first good website about PC games. https://www.jank.cool/
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world. 
Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com visuals editor at ProPublica 🦂
probably headbanging
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net Former journalist, long-time Minneapolitan, curator of Uptown’s borders and chief rememberer, Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Amplifier & participant in the Minnesota Resistance.
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
eliza🌻 @elizas.website e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Robin Griswold @robingriswold.bsky.social A history teacher, regardless of employment. 🏳️🌈. Polyamorous. 🏳️⚧️ Trans (and its getting worse). Mid 40s and dad-coded. Baseball lesbian and bisexual. BUF🚋NYC
[SuperEgo voice] Im a woman.
writing--> https://The-fox-and-the-buffalo.ghost.io
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist.
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
SeditionSleuth @seditionsleuth.bsky.social OSINT Researcher
New Mexico
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Golda Velez @goldavelez.org 60% earnest 10% snark and the rest is random tree pics and stuff
volunteer human rights- RaisetheVoices.org
earned governance startup- LinkedTrust.us
signal: @minty.53
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Mr_Roarbert @mr-roarbert.bsky.social 
Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social Potential game show contestant.
Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
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https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @Pratt.edu
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
"fart" @jonhendren.com tall but otherwise normal
sydney
jonhendren.com
Toby Morton @tobymorton.bsky.social Writer from South Park, Madtv. Voice of Scott Tenorman among others. Creator of Fascist Websites. Immature and irresponsible.
Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com I’m only on here to chill and joke around 🤓
DMs open for good faith questions about communism or dsa. if I don't respond you can message me again. resources in pinned post
Marxist | get involved in socialist organizing now!
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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social WW3 has already started it’s just unevenly distributed | Aerospace, AI, and a real-life #polycythemiavera mutant.
more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social please don't yell at me while i'm on the phone
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/