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Randy Shaw @beyondchron.bsky.social Founder and Director of San Francisco’sTenderloin Housing Clinic. Founder of the Tenderloin museum. Author: The Activist Handbook, Beyond the Fields and Generation Priced Out (all from UC Press) and The Tenderloin. Editor: BeyondChron.org
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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com Author: Confidence, The Road Home, The Dharma of the Princess Bride, Host of The Road Home podcast, Buddhist Student & Teacher
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
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Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social Catholic theologian, M.Div. Theology Department at DePaul College Prep, Chronicler of all things Catholic. Pope Leo XIV. Vatican analyst.
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not that naomi wolf
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Jonathan Church, CFA @jondavidchurch.bsky.social Economist & author. Cancer survivor (so far). Senior editor at merionwest.com. Enjoy philosophy, literature, & history. Critic of capitalism. Pro-union. People over profits. It should have been Bernie.
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
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OMNISHAMBLES
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MAGIC + LOSS
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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social Professor: Religion scholar teaching tech ethics, religion, and bioethics at UIC. Former hospital chaplain and ethicist. Memoir in progress on grief, kidneys, and what we owe each other. Part of Big Blue Nation--Go Cats!
Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com Associate Professor and Director of Anglican Formation and Studies at the Vancouver School of Theology
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Emily (I'm not leaving) Feiner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social Retired, Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti war, pro peace, pro worker. One husband, 2 kids, 1 cat. I am weighing my options.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech
Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition.
Memento mori
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
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Bsky is my spam acct basically
Ali Velshi @velshi.com Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Moral Minority Podcast @moralminority.bsky.social Moral Minority is a podcast on moral philosophy and the problem of moral foundations and the possibilities of an emancipatory politics.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
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I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
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