Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
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.
Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social “Hilarious” — Eric Idle
“Amazing” — Patton Oswalt
“Absolutely killed” — Rolling Stone (Carnegie Hall review)
2026 thru 2079 tour schedule: www.emophilips.com/events
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi - Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social
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- Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Alex Shultz @alexshultz.bsky.social Journalist, Hard Reset co-author, pickup basketball enthusiast
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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Morgan L. Stringer @mostring.bsky.social 🗡️ Making Lies & Dangerous Products Expensive
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Jesse Berney, LGPC @jesseberney.com Therapist. 20+ years in politics, advocacy, and labor. Writer. He/him. DC.
Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social Fading lawprof. Scholar of WWII Japanese American incarceration. Quasi-intermediate bassist. Squeeze, XTC, Fountains of Wayne. Lover of small dogs--yes, all of them.
Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social Lawyer. I make up songs about my dog and sing them to her. I am going to get on Jeopardy! this year. I'm sure this time, I can feel it.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
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wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social You’ll be hearing from my lawyer. Not to threaten litigation or anything. Just, you know, to commiserate with you about my behavior.
Jordan @jordanfreiman.bsky.social People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov Proudly serving IL-06. Dad, husband, former clean energy entrepreneur. Climate nerd, gun safety & consumer advocate. Member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
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.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social civil rights lawyer, exhausted
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andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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.
Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social macro, fiscal, Fed. creator of the Sahm rule recession indicator. Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM) Substack.
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social Congressman, former Mayor of Long Beach, educator, comic nerd, progressive & proud American 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Official: @robertgarcia.house.gov
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social Founder of the Housing Frame on Substack. Housing, markets, economy. Buc-ee’s fan.
conorsen.substack.com
📍Atlanta, GA
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
Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social I write boring things for big companies that don't use my name. I write other things here and use my first name. I have two sweet dogs that wish the UPS man wouldn't ring the doorbell.
(Same handle on Dead Bird site--account now dormant--and on Threads.)
Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com Editor in chief of @allrisenews.com. Fearless journalism about the law, your rights, and your powers to effect change during the Trump era. www.allrisenews.com/
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
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Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social 9 years in the NFL. 2 rings. #9years2rings
Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social Host of the Bulwark Podcast
MSNBC political analyst.
Punching bag on FYPod with Cameron Kasky.
Church of Jokic.
Nola Dad.
Weak and Gay.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social Investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, via Business Insider and The Seattle Times. katherine.long@wsj.com. Send tips on Signal: longka.38
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
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.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.