- J Jim Quigley @jjquig.bsky.social Life-long Democrat and progressive. I want everyone to be able to live a dignified life, no exceptions. Born in Des Moines, now living in Spokane.
Gill Wildman @wildwoman.bsky.social Designer, Director of Stby and Plot
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social Senior editor at The Atlantic (arts x politics, and much more) and proprietor of http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social Historian of political ideas, Sr Fellow@UC Berkeley’s Institute European Studies;
lecturer @Santa Clara U; editor at HISTORY & THEORY; author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS (Stanford 2022), write on IR theory, 20th cent. Germany, transatlantic intellectual history
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.
@junebug19691988.bsky.social @junebug19691988.bsky.social 
Sabir @sabirsultan.bsky.social He/him. Books & events at PEN America. Previously Strand Bookstore & B&N. Views my own.
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member
She/Her
Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival
Chapel Hill, NC
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
avvocato @avvocato.bsky.social AmLaw 100 partner; former Navy JAG officer; feisty octogenarian; proud dad, granddaddy, blue dot/red state; ADVOCATES FOR: rule of law, "Earth 1" facts, profiles in courage; ADVOCATES AGAINST: MAGA, disinformation, voter suppression. I vet & follow back!
@amosnic.bsky.social @amosnic.bsky.social 
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social Digitalisation, Democracy and anti-Disinformation. European Parliament 2019-2024. Danish diplomat 2005-2017. https://karenmelchior.eu/
Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Communication & Journalism, University of Maine.
2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra.
Posts speak only for myself, not my employer
https://umaine.edu/directory/ums_directory/michael-j-socolow-ph-d/
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com essayist, journalist, wandering-around-and-looking-at-stuff-ist
books: On Trails; In Trees.
magazine work: The New Yorker, Outside, NYMag, New York Times Book Review, Emergence, Lapham's Quarterly, n+1, Granta
website: robertmoor.com
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social ICE OUT
Beniamino Ambrosi @benambrosi.bsky.social Foreign Rights Director and Agent @ The Cheney Agency. Once and always a translator. He/him.
cheneyagency.com
David DeSteno @daviddesteno.bsky.social Psychological Scientist, Author, and host of PRX podcast "How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality." Studying the Science of Emotion, Morality, & Religion. Words frequently in NYT, WSJ, etc. https://davedesteno.com https://www.howgodworks.org
Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social Author of the novel A Burning, nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the ALA Carnegie Medal
Iddo Gefen @itisiddogefen.bsky.social
Author • Jerusalem Beach • Debby’s Dream House •
Columbia University • Forbes 30 Under 30
Alex Van Buren @alexvanburen.bsky.social Journalist (NYT; WAPO) turned copywriter/ strategist. Nonfiction writer; aspiring fiction writer; ice cream obsessive.
Here for music, food, politics, feminism, typography, #pvd, books, owls, otters, comedy & progressive community-building.
She/ her
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Jessica Cohen @jesscohen.bsky.social Hebrew-to-English literary translator, editor, consultant. Reader. Social media lurker. No time for anything else.
The Atlantic Communications @theatlanticpr.bsky.social News and stories from @theatlantic.com's communications team. Inquiries and media requests: press@theatlantic.com
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social Atlantic writer, ME, BUT BETTER available now: https://www.amazon.com/Me-But-Better-Science-Personality/dp/1668012545
Substack: https://olgakhazan.substack.com/
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Ted Genoways @genoways.bsky.social • Author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
• Senior editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network
• Contributing writer at Mother Jones
tedgenoways.com
Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com Writer, historian, cosplayer, Vermonter. Author of Cosplay: A History.
Newsletter: https://www.andrewliptak.com
Jeffrey Goldberg @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.
Lora Kelley @lorakelley.bsky.social writer!
Will Gordon @willgordon.bsky.social senior associate editor, The Atlantic
Mya Frazier @myafrazier.bsky.social Journalist based in Ohio | @rad-institute.bsky.social Fellow, 2025 | Words in many places: @NYTmag @BW @Harpers @climate @gdnlongread
Watchdog Writers Group, University of Missouri
laura albert @lauraalbert.org Laura Albert / JT LeRoy. Sarah, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (bit.ly/newjt), Harold's End (bit.ly/Haroldsend). G. Van Sant's Elephant.
Dr Rodney Collins, PhD @rwjc.bsky.social Anthropologist | Linguist | Middle East & North Africa | CatDad
Artofthefeast is my bsky baking alter.
Ada Calhoun @adacalhoun.bsky.social Debut novel #Crush out 2/25/25 from Viking Books. NYT bestselling #author of non-fiction including #AlsoaPoet #WhyWeCantSleep #StMarksIsDead 
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Joanna Rakoff @joannarakoff.bsky.social Margaret Qualley played me in the movie.
https://www.instagram.com/joannarakoff/
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social Reader/Writer/Teacher. Author of QUIET AMERICANS: STORIES & BIRTHRIGHT: POEMS. Focusing (mostly) on matters bookish and/or #Jewish. linktr.ee/erikadreifus
Amy Weiss-Meyer @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social senior editor at The Atlantic
Adam Eaglin @aeaglin.bsky.social Agent & Vice President @ The Cheney Agency
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
@debiob.bsky.social @debiob.bsky.social Mom and pie snob
Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of HE | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, Critical Studies in Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos
Birmingham and other places.
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.)
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Hanna Rosin @hannarosin.bsky.social Host, Radio Atlantic. I wrote the End of Men and yet, they reign again. Reach me at hrosin@theatlantic.com
Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social Jerusalemite. Journalist.
Author, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East"
Lecture contact info at http://tinyurl.com/ggersh
Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE
Christia Blomquist Freedman @ccblomquist.bsky.social Anti-authoritarian. Anti-plutocrat. Anti-kleptocrat.
Pro democracy. Pro rule of law.
Pro separation of church and state.
Preserve, protect, and defend the US Constitution.
Recommended reading list shown above.
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Kim Dozier @kimdozier.bsky.social CNN global affairs analyst
Along the way: ✍️TIME, Rolling Stone, Daily Beast, AP, 🎥 CBS News 🎙️BBC
Here to spread accurate reporting & follow folks aiming to do the same.
www.kimberlydozier.com
Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social Journalist, essayist, activist. Climate justice correspondent @TheNation.com. Contributor, @TheBaffler.com etc.
New book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-dark
Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social Director, Research & Analysis @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Migration + Cities, Asian digital diaspora. Pediatric transplant mom.
Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social Editor
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Stefan Timmermans @stefantimmermans.bsky.social Anyone been abducted?
Medical sociologist and ethnographer @UCLA. Sunrise over sunset. Dog is Belgian shepherd named Theo.
Russell Berman @russellberman.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore.bsky.social Reporter for @NYTimes, staff writer at @NYTmag.
Lauren Sandler @laurensandler.bsky.social Journalist, author, jaywalker. Books: THIS IS ALL I GOT, ONE AND ONLY, RIGHTEOUS. Next up: AMERICAN PROPHECY. Thought I'd finally join Twitter.
Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Isabel Fattal @isabelfattal.bsky.social Senior editor for newsletters at The Atlantic 
Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social National Editor, The Atlantic. Author of My Age of Anxiety and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. Bostonian in DC.
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social Reporter covering chemicals, climate, cool plants. Author of THE LIGHT EATERS, a plant book, out from Harper Books. I'm zoeschlanger.99 on Signal
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Amanda Cook @amandacookbooks.bsky.social Editorial Director at Crown (Penguin Random House)
Matt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis.
Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp.
www.mattweiland.com
Laurie Muchnick @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social Fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews. Welsh by marriage. 🏴✡️📚
Elaine Godfrey @elainegodfrey.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Politics, etc. Iowan 🌽
Michael Taeckens @mtaeckens.bsky.social Co-founder, Broadside PR
Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman
https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Elizabeth Weil @lizweil.bsky.social “great story!”— Judith Butler.
Feature writer, @nymag (before that: “propublica, @nytmag). 
Nathaniel Popper @nathanielpopper.bsky.social Editor at Bloomberg News. Previously, reporter at NYT, LAT and the Forward. Wrote: "The Trolls of Wall Street" + "Digital Gold.”
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
Liz Calamari @elisabethcalamari.bsky.social Penguin Press book publicist, New Yorker, dog-lover, always be travelling
Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social senior literary agent & VP at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, ce@goldinlit.com
@talyazax.bsky.social @talyazax.bsky.social Senior Editor, Books at The Atlantic
Andrew Rice @andrew-rice.bsky.social Features writer at New York Magazine, author of The Year That Broke America and The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget. Please tell me secrets. Email: andrew.rice@nymag.com
Alan the Baltimoron @bmorons.bsky.social Mostly the opinions of Alan, 1/2 of dumb podcast about the Baltimore Orioles, co-owner of @Footballclubgroup, lefty politics, impotent rage against capitalism - the standard bluesky experience. 
@rachelkadish.bsky.social @rachelkadish.bsky.social 
Spencer Kornhaber @skornhaber.bsky.social staff writer at The Atlantic
Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
jenduende @jenduende.bsky.social Senior editor, The Atlantic. New York Times + Washington Post alum.
2012-13 Nieman fellow. Occasional writer, always a dancer.
David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social Journalist, nouvelle-lettrist, and unionist at The Atlantic. Rubber City -> Bull City. dgraham@theatlantic.com
NYT bestseller THE PROJECT out now: https://smarturl.it/GHz99R