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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents. Kiran Pfitzner
Stoo Odom @misterodom.bsky.social booglarizer
Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social A brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. https://immersivearts.uk/
@ashaeaston.bsky.social @ashaeaston.bsky.social Cross-Sector Innovation at @innovateuk | Spatial Computing | ED&I | Tech Ecosystem Builder | Connector | Board Member | Leading IUK Immersive Tech Network | Co-Founder XRDI | UK TechWomen100 Winner | UK Emerging Tech Champion of the Year ‘24
Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication.
Uncap the House @uncapthehouse.bsky.social We are a movement to remove the 435 cap on the US House of Representatives by 2029, the 100-year anniversary of the cap.
Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12 Newsletter: letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures. https://www.markhertling.com
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver. Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli wajali.com wajahatmali@protonmail.com
Peter Feld 🍉 @peterfeld.bsky.social Progressive strategist (polling, direct mail). Ex: NY Observer, Conde Nast, GSG, Lake, Hart, Tsongas, Dukakis, UC Berkeley PhD (Clinical Psych). They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable, not because what I said was wrong.
Joe Miller 🧶 🏳️‍🌈🪷 @getmejoemiller.bsky.social UGA Law prof, musing aloud. Nerd for history and for network analysis (esp citation networks). Particular interests include i.p. law, general jurisprudence, common law history & method, and fiduciary law. Team Bloot. Faculty bio at bit.ly/jsm_bio
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Jessica Johnson @jessicajohnson.bsky.social Co-author, “What Should the CBC Be?” (@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social 2025). Adjunct professor @uoft.bsky.social. Former EIC @thewalrusca.bsky.social. I post here about writing, journalism and books.
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
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social Award-winning 🇬🇾 🇨🇦 Political Economist. Columnist. Law & Order historian. Reality TV veteran. Talking my shit @badandbitchy.com Never forget 👉🏾 I will be vindicated.
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
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.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy. At The Empty City blog and elsewhere. Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC www.theemptycity.com
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employer's I did a TED talk once
Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ leads research group at WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.) NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) No substack. No podcast. You're welcome. Too sarcastic for my own good.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement. Also to be found at @APHClarkson https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World Opinion @ The i Paper Fellow @ Tech Policy Press Fellow @ Demos PhD researcher @ UCL Laws newsletter @ techtris Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.jamesrball.com/
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving. Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co 🏳️‍🌈
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️ Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social linguist, discourse/pragmatics podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with the Wild Lilacs https://www.instagram.com/thewildlilacs?igsh=MXJqOXZ6NHpoOXRrYg== she/they substantively unserious
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net Writing a book (Broadleaf) Go Knicks He/Him
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit. #3A
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"
Thomas L Friedman @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnists and Author
Jeffrey Goldberg @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
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!
@nealkatyal.bsky.social @nealkatyal.bsky.social
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. New podcast: Collateral Damage Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra. I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027. Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social Dean of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Obsessed with baseball, basketball, regulation, TV
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com Political Science Professor at Marquette University. I write about constitutional history. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com Website: https://patsobkowski.com/ SSRN: https://tinyurl.com/3za4hf8f
Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social 🌊 Anti-Fascist #Resist #SubGenius Creator of Israel-Hamas War feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmnjia7e5eh3jamsizupx5yc/feed/aaalrzaywm6ls And a US Politics feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmnjia7e5eh3jamsizupx5yc/feed/aaai4nqpmaptk
Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com Managing editor of http://wonkette.com, executive editor/proprietor of The Moral High Ground (SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://evanhurst.substack.com) Political analyst and comedy yeller, with some table-flipping ex-vangelical cussing thrown in.
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)
Dr. Nola Haynes @drnolahaynes.bsky.social War & weapons girl | Political Scientist, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor & Media Analysts Host, Nola Haynes is Not A Spy #SecurityBrief on Substack https://youtube.com/@nolahaynes1?si=9cCwuIWnOOxJswDA
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social Editor in chief, @Liberalism.org. A gay dad still cultivating his garden on the Big Island. Views expressed here are strictly my own. 🍍🌴🌱📖🏳️‍🌈🌐☸️
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
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Speaker The Tracinski Letter https://www.tracinskiletter.com Author of "Dictator From Day One" https://amzn.to/3KaCKyZ
The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world. https://www.theunpopulist.net
Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social ISMA @ismapolicy.bsky.social. The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Views personal, not institutional.
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/ Host of a Secret Podcast. Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social Football writer, analyzer, podcaster. Sportsball good. Enjoyer of Bowie. Millennials are the Greatest Generation.
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right. https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Some More News @somemorenews.bsky.social News show. News podcast. Hosted by codyjohnston.bsky.social and katystoll.bsky.social.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist. (She/her/hers) From Eastern KY.
DarkMatter2525 @darkmatter2525.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/darkmatter2525
Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Views my own.
Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social Carpenter and woodworker. Democracy and unions liker. Building and fixing things: capehenlopencarpentry.com. Writing and editing: aaronhuertas.com.
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social Father of lots, earnest as shit, Regular and not too fancy, weird li’l guy enthusiast. He/him.
Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com Senior Research Director at School Perceptions Author of "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability,” “Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching,” and “Community and Skepticism in Shakespeare’s Comedy” Co-Host: budgetcommittee.show
David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social Prof. of Politics @rooseveltu.bsky.social, writer @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY and THE KIDS ARE ALL LEFT. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone. https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social *views are mine only* Blair Chair Southern Studies & Plsc Prof AMST PhD UTx; Truman Sch; The Long Southern Strategy; 2024 Carnegie Fellow; Data + Cultural Crit; Exhausted mom
Alasia Nuti @alasianuti.bsky.social Political theorist. Historical injustice, gender and sexuality, resistance, political liberalism, and democratic erosion. Senior Lecturer at the UoY. Books: Injustice and the Reproduction of History, and Politicizing Political Liberalism (with G. Badano)
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University https://www.ryandenos.com/ https://ryandenos.substack.com/
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.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.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Founder and Publisher of Liberal Currents liberalcurrents.com Signal profile adamgurri.41 Threads handle adamgurri
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Never Trump.
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/