Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social Politics, labor, art, graffiti, and dogs
Work: newsletter strategy at Forbes
Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
Jim Lippard @lippard.org I like infosec (esp. threat intelligence), history and philosophy of science and technology, skepticism. (started compsci but phil BA; phil MA to ABD; did later human/social dimensions of sci/tech; career infosec) Mastodon: http://infosec.exchange/@lippard
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com Reporter @azmirror.com
Signal: JerodMacEvoy.07
http://SeeDisclaimer.com
He/Him
"smart little loser"
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
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tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social Writer. Organizer. Coffee drinker. Cancer warrior. Twin Mom.
Expert in countering far-right extremism and hate, and the intersection of tech, culture, and politics.
Newsletter: https://www.altrightdelete.news/
sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social former senior reporter at HuffPost covering prisons/jails/courts • WGAE Councilmember • jess.schulberg@protonmail.com • Signal: jessicaschulberg.01
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
www.instagram.com/doniecnn/
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
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Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social Malicious software researcher. Technical debt collector. Aspiring woodturner. Former bus driver. He/him. Durham, NH.
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
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
Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social Reporter, most recently with @huffpost.com and @talkingpointsmemo.com.
Reach me: mattshuham.01 on Signal (don’t use a work device or network) ❁ 646-397-4678 ❁ mattshuham@protonmail.com. Read past work at mattshuham.com/clips.
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Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Andy Campbell @andybcampbell.bsky.social Senior Enterprise Editor @MS.NOW
Signal: @andyMSNOW.411
Author, “WE ARE PROUD BOYS: How A Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In A New Era Of American Extremism.”
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (@thejcpa.bsky.social)
Focused on democracy, hate, & extremism.
Previously: sued Nazis & won; Comms Director & Sr Policy Advisor, NY Attorney General
Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters; Recovering Philosopher; “An evil piece of garbage” - Ben Shapiro 
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
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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Daryle Lamont Jenkins @dlj.bsky.social Somali Sympathizer. Isis & Wespennest PRESENTE!
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social Hi. Hello. PHX local. Tired af. Antifascist researcher and occasional writer | Make zines dammit | Find some of my BS at LeftCoastRightWatch.org or linktr.ee/az_rww 🏜️🌵
Not John Pork. Not Penis Man. Haley Orion.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. 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
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Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
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