May May @emay.bsky.social I really put me on the map. (she/her)
Margaret Shield @margaretshield.bsky.social working on policies for healthier people & planet. public health. prevention. environment. circular economy. sustainability. most importantly equity & justice. looking for the blue sky. listening to the music. admiring my cat
Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social Author of DOGLAND (on the Westminster Dog Show) and THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (memoir on obesity in America). Newsletter: THE WRITING SHED. Georgia boy, Carolina man.
Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchet-man in the fight against violence.
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Kelly Jiang @kellyjiang.bsky.social Issaquah City Councilmember, housing / transit / energy nerd
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher, analysing antiblackness in climate and ecology. See chapter:
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social He/him. Seattle. People should be able to walk and roll without dying.
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in ๐ฎ๐น&๐บ๐ธ) // full Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery โwith extraordinary moral clarity.โ The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025. ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟHistory is the only education; everything else is just training.
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DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
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finn @vndvm.bsky.social doing one long exposure therapy experiment on myself | they/he
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Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell.bsky.social Yes! My mother named me this!
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
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.
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Julie Guyot @julieguyot.bsky.social Artist. Dog enthusiast.
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WA State House Democrats @housedemocrats.wa.gov The official account for Washington State's House of Representatives Democratic Caucus (not the Democrats in Congress) #waleg 
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Donโt Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
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Hacks & Wonks @hacksandwonks.bsky.social Political Hacks and Policy Wonks talk about state and local politics and policy in Washington state
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social Filmmaker (WHAT LIES WEST) and formerly a little Twitter famous. Married to @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social, writes with @nicksinnott.com
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Just Sarah @sarahchadd.bsky.social As of Fall 2026: Horticulture student! She/her. Seattle environmentally-conscious urbanist (not a Treeactionary, though trees are cool!). Enemy of NIMBYs ๐
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of โLegendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaulโs Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,โ publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
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Skyvibe Seattle @seattle.skyvibewx.com The Seattle sky is emotionally unstable, and so are we. We cover it anyway. Your weather, every day.
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social Musings on biking in and around West Seattle.
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social Graphic designer, Catholic dad, guy who makes beer, bread, and sometimes art.
Angela Li @angelamli.bsky.social Spatial inequality, housing, environment, and quantitative social science | Sociology and Social Policy PhD @ Princeton + Office of Population Research
Loather @loather.bsky.social I am not, nor have I ever been, a Las Vegas showgirl.
I am a headliner!
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social Seattle urbanista, interested in education, safe streets, and housing. Grew up in Baltimore. Hampshire College grad. GIS graduate student and bike mom. Former wetland biologist. I follow Seattle School Board meetings and yell at cars.
Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social Writing, labor organizing, politics, poetry. "Variations of Labor." You can find my creative writing at www.alexgallobrown.com. The labor organizing exists in various places, beyond me, in the world. 
Rocco DeVito @radevito3.bsky.social Gardener, baker, optimist | Burien City Council Member | Work in transit/TDM | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | โฝ๏ธ๐๐ฒ enthusiast
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social decolonial dreamz
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posting from the southern Seattle suburbs in Coast Salish territory
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Daniel Sohn @danielsohn.bsky.social Coming to you live from beautiful downtown Interbay/Magnolia in Seattle!
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Josephine Robertson @josephinerobertson.com I'm a priest, writer, poet, spiritual director, breathwork guide, Jungian influenced CMHC intern & maker of pie. Wonder, connect, love. https://holdfasttherapynw.com She/Her.
Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
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christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology, Nov 2026: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889838357/Abolition-Ecclesiology
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Chanhee Heo ํ์ฐฌํฌ @chanheeheo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis | race and religion in the pacific | dog mom
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
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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.
Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social โค๏ธโ๐ฉน๐ฅ๐ฉบ๐งจ๐ซ tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar ๐๐ฅ๐๐ช๐งป
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Jennifer Macko @sagewell.bsky.social Neurodivergent PhD candidate researching the intersection of mental health, disability, and sex/gender in educational spaces. Former special education teacher. Current university instructor. She/her.
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