Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social 🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
📕 Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry
✍️ Emmy-nominated journalist (NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone)
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social The digital policy strategist you didn’t know you needed—using terms like 'sovereign data assets' as casually as most would say 'hello'.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
@jgetchiu.bsky.social @jgetchiu.bsky.social Former nasa now navigating the stars for commercial companies. Scotch, vinyl, books, Green Bay Packers and Michigan Wolverines. Go Blue!
Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social Journalist
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/nina-zeelen-b65651106
@crackingtheframe.bsky.social
Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡ Web: https://netopia.eu | https://x.com/NetopiaEU | LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/netopia-eu/
Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
signal @millionbear.44
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social Metro columnist, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social Construction Consultant • Lifelong Democrat • 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸
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Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social Cartoonist, Politico Washington DC
National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social We're a team of attorneys and advocates using litigation, policy advocacy, and education to solve homelessness. #HousingNotHandcuffs
https://linktr.ee/homeless_law
homelesslaw.org
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rudeness will get you blocked.
FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social Posting facts. democrats.org
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Commonwealth Club World Affairs @cwclub.bsky.social CCWA is the nation's largest and most active public forum, dedicated to providing space for civil discussions from many viewpoints & improving the general good—the common wealth. Nonprofit, nonpartisan.
Rep. Morgan McGarvey @repmcgarvey.bsky.social Lifelong Louisvillian proudly serving #KY03 in Congress. Husband & father, dad band guitarist, bourbon fan 🥃 🎸
House Committee on Small Business | House Committee on Veterans' Affairs | House Committee on the Budget
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
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Joy @joymiriam.bsky.social Psychotherapy, spirituality, neurodiversity, literature, cats, nature, how do we stay present to suffering and beauty?
@kris-cuaresma-p.bsky.social @kris-cuaresma-p.bsky.social 
Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social Comedian union organizer writer dad Frisco. he/him https://linktr.ee/natogreen
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
Neşe Devenot, PhD @neselsd.bsky.social Rhymes w/ paper mâché 🍉
Psychedelic humanities: literature, ethics, harm reduction 🍄
Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University 🌐
University Writing Program 📝
Indigenous/Kurdish 🟥☀🟩 ND (they/them)
chemicalpoetics.substack.com
Dakota Smith @missdakotasmith.bsky.social LAT reporter.
YokaiCafe @yokaicafe.bsky.social 🦋💙 True Blue 💙🦋
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Cool People Only (You know who you are)
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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.
Newsletter: gillianbrockell.com
Signal: gbrockell.44
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. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
peregrine kate (she/her) @peregrinekate.bsky.social cat lady, Democratic PD, gardener, birder, mother, grandmother, recovering academic (UMich Am Cult PhD), TNG-CWA member, climate justice activist, local TEC admin, Third Act MI co-fac (roles not ranked). #ShutDownLine5 #WaterIsLife #OldAndBold
djbelieve @djbelieve.bsky.social he/him • Climate • Ecology • Politics • Progressive Tech House • ⓥ
Psymposia @psymposia.bsky.social Critical perspectives on drugs, politics, and culture | 501(c)(3) | patreon.com/psymposia | psymposia.com/donate
Lisa who used to use her last name here but deleted it:) @amidprivilege.bsky.social Ran product management and UX. Now I write a blog and attempt fiction. I try not to be a jerk. Princeton Comp Lit/Columbia MBA, happily married. If you repost my comments to incite a dogpile, or DM me without acquaintance, I block you. She/her
Froward Jason @jason.jagaimo.com Kawasaki resident, Seattleite, cooks a lot, Elixir nerd, software consultant.
I bought a bakery in Mizonokuchi. Then I sold it. Now I help companies figure out how to build software and grow their organizations. He/him. https://jason.jagaimo.com
Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social Covid is airborne. Covid is not mild (ask your neurons & vasculature).
And -- Covid is not over 😷 #wekeepussafe #covidcompetentcommunity #makeairbreathableagain #maskup
[art credits: Eyvind Earle, "Paradise"; Artur Rosa, "Layers of Impossibility"]
maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
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NWArkProgressive @arkprogressive.bsky.social Texan now living the good life in NWA Librarian and Genealogist Let's turn Arkansas blue ... link tree https://linktr.ee/NTX_AR_Progressive
Matt @mplewis.com he/they.
photography and software.
hard and shiny candy-colored exoskeleton.
trans rights are human rights.
worker power is our power.
📍 Colorado, USA
Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
amy m. @amymedeiros.bsky.social the only system i believe in is the library system. cat herder at simon & schuster; opinions my own. she/her. 🩷💜💙 amymedeiros.com
Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social Activist. Political content creator. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions Substack.
Linktree 👇
beacons.ai/jesscraven101
Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social ‘28 Progressive Dem candidate Hart28.com
1) End genocide globally
2) Pardon 100k protestors
3) Nuremberg type trials
4) Free Healthcare for every citizen
5) END fascism/zionism
Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social Cherokee/Chicana college student working on history, anthropology degrees. Kern County Country Mouse who escaped to LA. Proud granddaughter of farm workers, friendly neighborhood socialist feminist raised in a trailer park. 44. She/Her
Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
Upstate New Yorker, emergency backup hockey writer. FR/EN 🇫🇷
jakelahut.com
(Signal: Leak2Lahut.26)
Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social Jornalista, polímata de pequenas causas, tio dos dados, erudito em Deep Purple. Posto pra falar de ideias e jogar conversa fora, às vezes mostro meu trabalho. Sou de boas, mas evite me encher o saco. Dirijo @lagomdata.bsky.social
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
paris martineau @paris.nyc investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
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Mark Wilkens @markwilkens.bsky.social Words on paper, sometimes words on screen.
Order “You Can’t Discover What Was Always There” http://pepperpeakpublications.com
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @handle.invalid Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
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Alex Shultz @alexshultz.bsky.social Journalist, Hard Reset co-author, pickup basketball enthusiast
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Signal: ajshultz.13
Website: alex-shultz.com
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social Tech journalist @sf.gazetteer.co
email me cydney@gazetteer.co ✉️
signal: cyd.01
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social Author of Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the Environment, 2023, Daraja Press. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/bookdarkpr
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Website: https://decoherence.media/
FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social Encouraging better tech, and resisting Big Tech.
- Host, Techtonic on WFMU: https://techtonic.fm
- Founder/host, Gel conference: http://gelconference.com
- Tech criticism: https://creativegood.com/blog
- Newsletter: https://creativegood.com/newsletter
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social Journalist at @decoherence.media investigating authoritarian movements and exposing far-right networks
Other bylines: @thenewarab.bsky.social and @lcrw.news
Signal: Jennefer.02
MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social Money, Lies, and God & other books
@nytopinion.nytimes.com, @newrepublic.com etc
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks contact goodnewskatherine@gmail.com
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social Historian.
Life. Fortune. Sacred Honor.
Cats and Dogs. Coffee.
Analilia Mejia for New Jersey @analiliafornj.bsky.social Jersey girl | Organizer | Mom
Fighting for working families & a stronger democracy.
Unbossed. Unbought. Unafraid.
🌟 #TeamMejia
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social Join us to fight against the tech corporation fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state at PurgePalantir.com. 🫡
Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social Journaliste pour le service enquêtes de @telerama.bsky.social. Essayiste. Dernier livre : "Apocalypse Nerds" chez @divergences.bsky.social.
☎️ Signal : tesq.37
https://linktr.ee/oliviertesquet
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
Ryan Kearney @ryanjkearney.bsky.social Executive Editor, NewRepublic.com
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Senior Director of Technology at https://propublica.org. I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
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Nicolle Wallace @nicollewallace.bsky.social 
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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
Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, whose research is on the feminist political ecology of agrarian change, livelihoods and food systems.
Christian Haag @christianhaag.bsky.social Fact-Checker // Ex Logically Facts // All things TikTok, Misinformation, Conspiracy theories and History // Based in Sweden // Previously written about the use of history and religion in political communication by extremist groups //
Mattha Busby @matthabusby.bsky.social Investigating altered states, power and culture
@guardian @wired @rollingstone @vice @playboy @gq @menshealthmag @atmos Rep’d @aevitas_creative
matthabusby.net
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social Assistant Prof, CS@Mines
Director: @napplab.bsky.social
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social Professor of Rhetoric in Georgia. Gators, Bonhoeffer, Merton, AAUP, and a Substack about all things TPUSA https://www.matthewboedy.com/
Golden State @goldenstateorg.bsky.social Fearless, informed news and commentary in CA via LA. Not controlled by billionaires. Co-founded by ex-LATers Mariel Garza and Paul Thornton.
https://golden-state.org
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