Namwali @namwalien.bsky.social "I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | "Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading." -Toni Morrison
Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
Joseph M. Thompson @jmthompson.bsky.social 
Virginia Film Festival @vafilmfestival.bsky.social Oct 21-25, 2026. #VAFilmFest
https://linktr.ee/vafilmfest
Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social Singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style, contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Ringer, Pitchfork, LGM.
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
j cassar 🅴 @disabledinter.net disabledinter.net/linkinbio
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social De 🇵🇪 para el 🌎
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics @UVAbatten
🎙Podcast: The Hidden Curriculum
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hidden-curriculum
Crezcamos juntos🤝🏾 @econthaki.bsky.social
sebastiantellotrillo.com
Slate Union @slateunion.bsky.social Official account for @slate.com's editorial union with @wgaeast.bsky.social.
Amelia Abreu @ameliaagain.bsky.social tech dropout, teacher, writer, anarchist soccer mom. tejas > pnw 🌲🌹 she/they
baddantakes @baddantakes.bsky.social an oral history of steely dan
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gaucho-amigos/id1676094378
Katie Rayford @katierayford.bsky.social VP of Brand and Communications @ Slate. Alum of BuzzFeed News. Fantasy Football and Bracket Enthusiast. Here if you need me: katie.rayford@slate.com
Rob Harvilla @harvilla.bsky.social Host of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S, old guy at THE RINGER, tentative embracer of new social-media platforms
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social History professor @ OU, views are my own. Author of Mastering Emotions, 2021. I write about slavery, emotions, & poison, I skeet about teaching, politics, & pop culture. She / hers. Proud union member. Live in Detroit but my heart is still in NOLA
Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social I care about ideas doing work in the world
Professional humanist and book editing person
Seeking to enter by the narrow gate.
Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport
MN born NC by choice
Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social Hunter High, WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks, Hound Dog, Oxford Handbook of Pop Music
Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social New York Times reporter. 5’9”
Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social Guy in Buffalo Tom. Author, Leon Russell, Rolling Stones, & 2025: The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told. https://linktr.ee/billjanovitz
Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social New, used, and rare books in D.C.
Totally not judging your purchases (to your face).
https://www.capitolhillbooks-dc.com/
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social Artist, Jerry Orbach Car owner, Sears shopper. store.brandonbird.com
Corbin Reiff @corbinreiff.bsky.social Writer / Photographer
Seattle Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard
Author: Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography Of Chris Cornell
corbinreiff@gmail.com
Erin MacLeod @touchofallright.bsky.social I teach teens about lit and theory. Also, Polaris Prize jury foreperson, working on M&E, coms, español, français and sleeping. Settler In Montréal. https://www.youtube.com/@ErinExplainsStuff
Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social Feminist music geek
Website | https://sites.ua.edu/avesey/
Substack | https://substack.com/@alyxvesey
PMBIP | https://www.youtube.com/@ericweisbard8091
Extending Play | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/extending-play-9780190085643
Susan Zalkind @susanzalkind.bsky.social Courts, crime and New England. Author of The Waltham Murders. Creator and producer of The Murders Before The Marathon on ABC News Studios and Hulu.
www.zalkind.info
Laura Bennett @lbenn.bsky.social 
Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
www.rahawahaile.com
Katy Waldman @xwaldie.bsky.social 
David J Heller @djheller.bsky.social Global health physician and associate professor at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai. Trying to build health systems that achieve community primary care for all - inclusive of noncommunicable diseases. Views my own.
Matt Hedstrom @matthedstrom.bsky.social Historian of US religion, politics, culture, SBNR at UVA. Writing a book about religion, the UN, and “one world” in Cold War America. Author of The Rise of Liberal Religion. Will also post about baseball and tennis whether you like it or not.
Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social Author of Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations | Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Director of Film Studies Concentration at the University of Virginia
Norma Coates @nocoates.bsky.social American expat who escaped to Canada in 2005 when " it couldn't get any worse." Popular music and media scholar, professor, mom. I don’t reply to unsolicited DM’s.
Antoine Hardy @slangdini.bsky.social I am not weird, just worldly. Undercover academic
Allison Wrabel @craftypanda.bsky.social City woman. Opinions mine. Enthusiastic about Cleveland sports. #YRICD. Peaked in middle school. Last name rhymes with table. #MIZ CLE-COU-CHO
olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com writer, editor, historian.
oliviapaschal.com- R @reggaechristmas.bsky.social @reggaechristmas.bsky.social
David Grann @davidgrann.bsky.social Author of The Wager, Killers of The Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, The White Darkness, and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Also a longtime New Yorker writer. 
Justin Sayles @justinsayles.bsky.social Content Lead, Culture // The Ringer
@chrisryan77.bsky.social @chrisryan77.bsky.social 
Bill Simmons @billsimmons.bsky.social The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, The Ringer, Spotify, HBO’s Music Box, The Book of Basketball. Formerly: Grantland, 30 for 30, ESPN.
Wos @bigwos.bsky.social Co-Host of No Fouls Given
Co-Founder of Count The Dings
Proud Haitian 🇭🇹
Justin Verrier @justinverrier.bsky.social Editor + Host, Ringer. Eat, eat, eat, eat MCs.
Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis.bsky.social Editor-at-large of The Ringer
Host of the Press Box podcast
Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/Yxm9H
Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.social Host, The Big Picture • Watch and Listen: https://tinyurl.com/2f3tkx89 • Writer, Projections • Subscribe: https://tinyurl.com/4xexb4wt • See you at the movies
Ringer NBA @ringernba.bsky.social We love this game.
📝: https://www.theringer.com/nba
📼: http://tiktok.com/@ringernba
🎨: https://www.instagram.com/ringernba
📺: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRingerNBA
Lana Berry @lanaberry.bsky.social who even knows anymore
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Eric Koreen @ekoreen.bsky.social Senior editor at The Athletic NBA. Invented the #HotTake.
Thought it was something/Turns out it was nothing/Wish I could say that didn't happen often
Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social son of a legend. PDX. D1 Ball at UNLV/ASU. Co-host of The Dunker Spot. 5+ years of NBA exp. Former Asst. Coach w/Nets, Video w/Grizz. 0-2 as a Head Coach in Summer League. shjones1@gmail.com
Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social ✍️ http://TomTheFinder.com substack and Yahoo Sports | 📺 Portland Trail Blazers analytics insider | 🍽️ Pack Your Knives and Count the Dings | 💪🏼 Hoops4ALS
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
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
Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social Journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, author, generator of highly disposable matter.
David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social NPR media guy
Author, Murdoch’s World
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social Books and culture columnist for Slate
Hannah @keepitonthehdl.bsky.social homepage at slate.com, freelancing all over, https://hdocterloeb.com/contact/
Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social Hosting Slate’s daily news podcast What Next. Getting closer to God in a tight situation. Alum: WNYC Always: therealness.org
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social writer, editor at [redacted], previously @gawker @eater. i am not jenny zhang
jennygzhang.substack.com
jennygzhang.com
Willa @willa.bsky.social Slate, Decoder Ring, previously cared about television 
Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social Jurisprudence Editor, Slate.com
Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.
profloumoore.com
Tali Woodward @taliwoodward.bsky.social Editor in Chief @thetrace.org, a nonprofit newsroom investigating gun violence in America.
https://www.thetrace.org/
Julia Turner @juliaturner.bsky.social Co-Founder & EIC, L.A. Material. Formerly Slate, L.A. Times. Co-host, Slate Culture Gabfest.
Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com ESPN writer/yapper
Baxter Holmes @baxterholmes.bsky.social LA-based Senior NBA Writer for ESPN. ex-Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe. Oklahoman. Signal: baxterholmes.01 Baxter_holmes@protonmail.com
Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social Author, LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE, HOW LUCKY, THE TIME HAS COME. Contributing Editor, New York. Columnist, The Washington Post & The Athletic. Writer, MLB. Critic, Grierson & Leitch. Founder, Deadspin. Illini. Mattoonian. https://williamfleitch.substack.com
Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social Politics Correspondent, The New York Times.
Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Communication & Journalism, University of Maine.
2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra.
Posts speak only for myself, not my employer
https://umaine.edu/directory/ums_directory/michael-j-socolow-ph-d/
Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social Senior editor at The Atlantic (arts x politics, and much more) and proprietor of http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Josh Levin @joshuablevin.bsky.social Host of Replay Booth. Host of Slow Burn seasons on David Duke and Fox News. Creator of One Year. Author of NBCC winner THE QUEEN. https://www.josh-levin.com/
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social Even now, despite everything
Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social he/him. English professor, Democrat (but I can't bear the DCCC), Mets fan. Views expressed are my own and not those of my employer or David Stearns, Steve Cohen, or the late M. Donald Grant. "'We’ll see if it is,' said Rivera."
alex sammon @alexsammon.bsky.social features writer @ slate
alex.sammon@slate.com
nadira 🙃 @calllmenadira.net staff writer @slate.com | amateur @ life
📍 philly cream cheese; ny bagel
Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social Editor/journalist most recently at @vox.com. Edited politics and sports at @slate.com for a long time. Friend of @flaminghydra.com. @seth.maxon on 🐦/🥚.
rebecca onion @rebeccaonion.bsky.social senior staff writer at slate - www.rebeccaonion.com
i don't really post here - more active at:
https://www.instagram.com/rebeccaonion
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13150472-rebecca-onion
and
https://letterboxd.com/rebeccaonion/
Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social Staff Writer, Slate. It's all gonna work out this time.
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social Shareholder value = 3 eggs
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
Lizzie.oleary@slate.com
Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
Slate @slate.com ~ ~ *brb visiting the 90s* ~ ~
You, you, you oUghTa KnOw: slate.com/party96
Sarah Blackwood @sblackwood.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Jorts. | www.sarah-blackwood.com
Alan Scherstuhl @alansch.bsky.social Editor/writer hanging in there, thinking abt books and jazz. PW, NYT, Sci-Am, elsewhere on occasion.
Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social Sports media news, analysis, and commentary. Part of Comeback Media. All our links: https://awfulannouncing.start.page.
Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social TV critic & union woman @ TIME. Writer & catastrophist @ Brooklyn. Exhausted & bored @ Twitter. Guess I'm here now, too.
Claire McNear @clairemcnear.bsky.social culture writer | wrote a book about Jeopardy! | geist that could've been polter along with zeit
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
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."