Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social dipshit dilettante | og sjw | wokescold | apprentice of the cathedral | acolyte of cthulhu | partisan of the unpopular front | game theoretic moralist | free market communist | evangelist for anarchy | antistemlord aktion | mtm dysphoric | he/him/his
Mark McGrath @markmcgrath.bsky.social Hello! I’m Mark McGrath. Lead singer of Sugar Ray and talented actor in the Sharknado series.
Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com I’m so done with doomerism. 🌱
Queer🏳️🌈 Jewish✡️ disabled😷 political influencer 💙
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Justin Beach @flybeach.bsky.social 🏡 SoCal
💼 Immersive things
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚 Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Sarah Laurent @sarahlaurent.bsky.social Journaliste à New York tant que je peux
Society, L'Humanité, La Vie
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https://sarahlaurent.substack.com
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Apple Bottom Jings @afraidofwasps.bsky.social driving behind you really close with my brights on and i'm screaming
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
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Video at Highlight Reel.
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Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Firmilian Talpan @fir193.bsky.social 
Jahfurry / Jeff Newelt @jahfurry.bsky.social "That's It, Be a Little Civic Hellraiser" said Frank Zappa to Jeff Newelt | PR & Social Media for my heroes| Comics Editor, HEEB Mag + Harvey Pekar’s (z”l) CLEVELAND | Reggae ditties w/allstar pals ➡️ bit.ly/JahfurryRubADub
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
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IG/Threads @yasharali
Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social Ad astra per aspera | archivist | in unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute territory | settler/trespasser | bitch who reads | higher ed baby| she/her | views are mine
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
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Such Great Heights @suchgreatheights.bsky.social indie nostalgia by @chrisdeville.bsky.social
pre-order SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-heights-9781250363381/
Dario Fatello @dfatello.bsky.social 
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Thinking Out Loud @sweetninnocent.bsky.social WARNING: My sense of humor is such you may not know if I’m being sarcastic or serious.
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social Veteran beauty/wellness/retail reporter (BoF, NYT, Businessweek, Allure, FT,Vox). Former nurse practitioner. Earnest birder.
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social Been called alarmist, Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersafety Research Center (NYU).
Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
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Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now! 
Yonty Friesem @yonty.bsky.social Exploring #Inclusive #MediActivism - all roads lead to #Empathy 👥 | Associate Professor & Graduate Director @ColumbiaChiComm | Executive Director @MediaEdLab
News Literacy Project @newslit.org We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
Kara Alaimo, PhD @karaalaimo.bsky.social FDU communication professor writing for CNN. Author of "Over the Influence" Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls - And How We Can Take It Back." I research and write about issues affecting women/girls and what social media is doing to us all.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
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.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com Author. Extremism, dystopia, fiction.
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Neil Perry @nwperry.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Communication Studies @ American University where I study media, technology, and democracy. Former sound designer/music composer at Warner Bros./Discovery. Producer, mixer, lover of the Arsenal FC. Currently living between the EU & US.
Chris Vespoli @chrisvespoli.bsky.social Award-winning writer/producer (Gizmodo, The Onion, TIME, Star Trek + more). Host of Worst Time for Everything podcast. New Yorker. Trekkie. Self-loathing Yankees/Giants fan. Peaked around 2013. (he/him) https://bio.site/chrisvespoli
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress & 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book)
Past: Free Expression @PENamerica, Litigation @ACLU
www.norabenavidez.com
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Naomi Nix @naominix.bsky.social I cover Meta and other social media companies for The Washington Post.
Matt Navarra @mattnavarra.com Social Media Consultant & Industry Analyst | Prev: @GovUK Digital Comms Advisor + Director of Social Media @TheNextWeb | Founder of Geekout Newsletter
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal 
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com writing sources.news, co-hosting the Access podcast
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
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Chosen by god, perfected by science
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta:
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA
Lauren Williams @laurenwilliams.bsky.social CEO + Cofounder, capitalbnews.org
Straight Outta Brooklyn @chriscarrega.bsky.social A veteran criminal justice reporter and adjunct professor turning a new leaf.
Priors: @CapitalB @CNN @ABC 2 top U.S. tabloid newspapers. 🇧🇧🇬🇾 #NABJ #SJUAlumni
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Aallyah Wright @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social Journalist focused on rural Black America 🌎
A daughter of the Mississippi Delta 🌻
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Akoto Ofori-Atta @akoto.bsky.social Co-founder of Capital B. 
Gillian White @gillianbwhite.bsky.social Journalist, CRO @CapitalB previously: The Atlantic. Long suffering Knicks fan
Adam Harris @adamhsays.com writer, southern.
Co-host, Radio Atlantic.
Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America?
More: www.harrisadam.com
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle