emily @soupmuse.bsky.social lawyer. human rights and civilian protection. forever Arabic student.
conscientious objector to “AI”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social Palmer Chair in Law and Public Policy at Dalhousie Law. Formerly @ UCLA and Yale. All things tech and democracy. Dachshund enthusiast.
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. https://www.danielloxton.com
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • 🇮🇪 & 🇺🇸 • he/him
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
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Daniel Bastaja @kupac1.bsky.social 
Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social News reporter at @portlandmercury.com
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Also in Street Roots, The Nation, more.
Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social Oh God What Now & More Jam Tomorrow; writer, reviewer (TV & books), editor; author, The Future of Trust (Melville House)
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Greg Abbott’s Arborist @samoanattorney.bsky.social
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social Queen of the Omelet Bar, and friend of Dax
Dreadnought, Sovereign, and a forthcoming third book
I unfollow and/or mute anyone I see posting generative AI images.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social Winner of the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Humor, Cartoonist and Author https://www.paulnoth.com https://substack.com/@paulnoth?r=7j6we&utm_medium=ios
Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social Writer. Former lawyer. Progressive rabble rouser. Baseball guru. Travel junkie. San Francisco apologist.
Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
andreaformaine.com
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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social Labour MP for Warrington North 🌹
Jewish, book worm, happiest outdoors
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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
Dr. Adam Hamawy @hamawyfornj.bsky.social Surgeon, veteran, small business owner, and father running for Congress to fight for a New Jersey where everyone can thrive.
ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social comedian and writer
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Christy Lambertson @christy-lambertson.bsky.social Non-profit fundraiser, mom, moderately grumpy liberal
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
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Based in the Seattle metro area.
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Soon-to-be Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Recreational essayist. Still technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Haley Norris @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social *Views are my own* | Policy Analyst @americanprogress.bsky.social | Political Scientist | Queer | Trans | AuDHD | I have no more hobbies
hvnorris.com
(they/them)
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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"
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Signal: pbump.11
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Just trying to do a little more painting when not gardening. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. 🚫AI
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ
Vietnam Cat Welfare @vietnamcatwelfare.org Rescuing cats in Vietnam since 2009 and providing a safe shelter for more than 110 precious animals.
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Frank & Joe 🇨🇦 @thehardyboycats.bsky.social Frank and Joe, brothers and besties from Halifax, Nova Scotia
These guys are not AI, they're just weirdos (complimentary)
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Scribble scribble scribble
Latest novel: Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
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Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social The only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest.
Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
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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.
all cats all the time ᓚᘏᗢ ᓚᘏᗢ @cats.willowashmaple.sbs 😺 spoiled kitties are good kitties 😺
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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social CEO at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where we create the in-depth, rigorous, and free-to-all journalism that you deserve. Follow my amazing colleagues at @MotherJones.com and @Revealnews.org.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social Writer. Comms person.
Mostly sci/tech/health.
Sometimes music/food/culture.
Lifelong Eagles fan from the South. (We exist!)
Let’s make the South better, y’all.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Kirsten Comandich @kcomandich.bsky.social she/they
Courtenay Hameister @courtenayhameister.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Portlander. Author of Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
Carly Novell @carlynovell.bsky.social media relations @ Media Matters, views my own
Melissa Stetten @melissastetten.bsky.social LA via Kalamazoo. Retired model. Trying to finish writing a book but I have ADHD & a child.
Web Crawlers. Pistol Shrimps 🏀
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Emily Wilder @emilywilder.bsky.social Oysters & more PNW gifts at Salinity Seafood & More
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Aaron Edwards @aaronmedwards.bsky.social Unabashed dork. Jersey boy. Writer.
2021 The Blood List 🩸
2025 Dead List 💀
PAGE Awards Gold Prize 🟡
Xenomorph enthusiast. Pizza snob. (He/Him)
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social Boston Globe Love Letters advice columnist and podcast host. Author of some books about love, fiction and non. Rewatching the Vampire Diaries again somehow.
Iona Craig @ionacraig.com Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @franceskalbs.bsky.social This is an unofficial placeholder account. If you represent Ms. Albanese, we will hand you this account. Thank you
David Chaffetz @davidchaffetz.bsky.social Author, « Raiders, Rulers, Traders », « Three Asian Divas », « A Journey through Afghanistan ».
Brian Cassella @briancassella.bsky.social Chicago Tribune photojournalist
Stacey Wescott (Wescott Images) @staceywescott.bsky.social visual journalist @chicagotribune.bsky.social
armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social Photojournalist for the @chicagotribune. Born in ATX. Still getting used to the cold. Breakfast taco enthusiast. No such thing as bad light or small stories.
Jose Carlos Fajardo @fuzyjoe.bsky.social I’m a photojournalist with 32 years experience. Part of a team of journalist that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for Breaking News Reporting. Adjunct professor teaching photography at Las Positas College.
Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social Purpose-driven storyteller, independent photog
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Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social Photojournalist @BlockClubCHI | BSJ, MSJ, Adjunct Lecturer @MedillSchool | Lifelong Chicagoan | #TodaysReportingLunch | Cats | News | Local Lens
Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social Garden-loving photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a very loud Bengal cat.
📍Oakland, CA
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social Photojournalist
Washington, D.C.
Spirit resides in Colorado
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DominicGwinn.com = portfolio.
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Olya Fedorova @olyafe.bsky.social Visual journalist European Pressphoto Agency📍 New York City
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Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social freelance photojournalist reporting live from nyc! work featured in: NBC, NY Times, The Washington Post, CNN, TIME, Politico, The Cut, Reuters, The Gothamist, Huff Post, Democracy Now! they/she. work lives mainly on instagram: madisonswart
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social Portland Mercury news editor. 🗞️ Got a tip? cvaughn @ portlandmercury.com
Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social i believe that i am the biggest bonnie raitt fan of my generation.
she/her
COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Democracy’s newsroom 🇺🇸
Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social Environmental lawyer, union member/officer, & wife guy. Voted #1 Portland pizza hype guy account.
Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social Independent Journalist. IU alum. Recovering lawyer. She/her
Author - Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being A Woman in America; Losing My Perspicacity (newsletter)
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge