Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
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Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social Africa correspondent @TheEconomist
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Kenneth Cukier @kncukier.bsky.social Journalist, book author, et cetera.
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
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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.
Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
Elliot Forhan (he/him) @forhanforohio.bsky.social Nicole’s husband. Candidate for Ohio attorney general. Lawyer, former state rep. Tax the rich.
“Happiness depends on freedom, and freedom on courage.”
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social 2023 Pulitzer Prize, commentary. Columnist for AL.com (@aldotcom.bsky.social). Dislikes: corruption, cruelty, hypocrisy & incompetence. Likes: quiet heroes.
Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social Purveyor of Texas history and culture. Cowboy boots junkie and chronicler of all things Lone Star. 100% organic, free-range Texas content. A politics-free feed. DON'T get political! Buy me a coffee? Click here: https://buymeacoffee.com/tracesoftexas
Laurel West @laurelwest.bsky.social After 35 years in Asia, mostly with The Economist Group, now in Vancouver batting for the home team with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
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Zanny Minton Beddoes @zannymb.economist.com Editor-in-chief at The Economist
Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social Good Politics/Bad Politics - Subscribe! https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/ Also I root for the Giants. The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024.
Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com White boy with some guitar chops, some coding chops, and an appreciation for deft sarcasm. Haole from Hawai'i. Uncivil when necessary.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Vinjeru Mkandawire @vinjeru.bsky.social Journalist at The Economist
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
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The Niskanen Center @niskanencenter.bsky.social Strengthening liberal democracy through innovative policy solutions.
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform- D @danielseltz.bsky.social @danielseltz.bsky.social
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
Too sarcastic for my own good.
Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social Homeland security consultant; Cyber renaissance man; rugby referee; grandparent; uncle; art lover; Nats fan.
Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism @bagehots.bsky.social The global mid-career journalism program for reporters covering business, economics finance and tech.
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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
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Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
David Edmondson @thegreatermarin.bsky.social Urban planner, specializing in transportation, but posts a helluva lot about indigenous political cartography. aka theGreaterMarin. Find me as @OctaviusIV elsewhere, too. DC and SF.
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
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Achewood @achewood-official.bsky.social The only true Bluesky page for Achewood — the official comic strip of our species, as told through cats and bears - check out the FREE starter Patreon collection at https://www.patreon.com/collection/1517675
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social US cities & schools, historically.
Works: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem; nyccivilrightshistory.org.
Voted most likely to assign too much reading.
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Everything here is me, not my employer.
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
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Cortney Lollar @clollar.bsky.social Professor & Faculty Director, Center for Access to Justice, Georgia State University College of Law
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
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Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social Knower of things about Alabama, mass criminalization, fines and fees, healthcare access, capital punishment. Chair of the Praline Matzo Committee. Actively fearful of the Mariana Trench. Spreadsheet person.
Brian Fung @brianfung.me Googler and former tech policy reporter for CNN, The Washington Post, The Atlantic & National Journal. A few things I enjoy: 🎮 🚴🏕️🍳🖖
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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Víctor Manuel Ramos @vmramos.bsky.social Journalist and writer; arranger of words. Interested in the human story. Editing breaking news and features at The New York Times.
Periodista y escritor; arreglador de palabras. Me interesa el relato humano. Neoyorquino.
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social Book History, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, TV, and the New York Knickerbockers
Kaitlin Tosh @kaitlintosh.bsky.social Digital Investigations Journalist @news.sky.com | Formerly at The Economist, Reuters
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
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”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social Team game
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Jordan Claridge @jordanclaridge.bsky.social Economic Historian of Medieval Europe.
Associate Professor, LSE Economic History.
🇨🇦 in London.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance.bsky.social Politics, media, NYC.
Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, Nations Apart, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Eleonora Terzi @eleonoraterzi.bsky.social Senior Global Communications Manager at @economist.com
@schaffermichael.bsky.social @schaffermichael.bsky.social 
Dave Infante @dinfontay.com reporter covering the beer industry (@vinepair.com), drinking in america (fingers.email), and east end richmond (chlookout.com) | send tips to dave@dinfontay.com, or dinfontay.11 on signal (good tips only, thank you) | more: linktr.ee/dinfontay
Dave Brown @davebrown.bsky.social Deputy Managing Editor for Global Security at Politico
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social Staff writer at the New Republic (third tour), former Politico, former Slate, former Wall Street Journal, former Newsweek, former Washington Monthly, former US News and World Report, plus some other places. (I get around.)
Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social Author of Early Warning with Juliette Kayyem on Substack. Harvard Professor. Author. CNN Senior National Security Analyst. The Atlantic Contributing Writer.
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.
Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Contributor CNBC. 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. FDA. Boards: Pfizer, Illumina, TempusAI, United Health
Elizabeth Lees @eljlees.bsky.social Visual data journalist @TheEconomist
Joseph C @josephc.net visual journalism @TheEconomist | studying MSc Geographic Data Sci. | remote sensing, computational journalism, infrastructures, climate | josephc.net 🇪🇺🇭🇰
Rosamund Pearce @rospearce.bsky.social Visual Data Journalist for The Economist
Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net Special Projects Editor at The Economist. Bad puns on The Internet.
Olivia Vane @oliviafvane.bsky.social Data visualisation design + code
Interactive data journalist at The Economist
oliviavane.co.uk
Andreas Moor @grmnd.bsky.social Interactive data journalist at @economist.com
Matt McLean @mttmc.bsky.social Lead data vis designer at The Economist
James Fransham @fransham.bsky.social Data journalist @ The Economist Newspaper.
Covering everything under the sun, but now with a British focus. 
Matthew Brooker @mbrooker.bsky.social Columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in London. CFA holder, from Slough, 25 years in Hong Kong, 5 in Shanghai. Opinions are my own.
@lloydparker1.bsky.social @lloydparker1.bsky.social 
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Jonathan Beckman @jonathanbeckman.bsky.social Editor, 1843. Author, How to Ruin a Queen. Winner, Somerset Maugham Award