ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
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/
Joe Beda @h.olysh.it Out of retirement to be CTO @ Stacklok. Did k8s, GCE, gtalk and IE. Figuring shit out. Protect Trans kids 🏳️⚧️. Seattle. Signal: jbeda.99 he/him
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov Proud to represent the Ninth Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. 
Ocean Exploration Trust @nautiluslive.org 
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social USCAnnenberg Digital Profe, #JOVRNALISM creator, NAHJ Hall of Famer/Program Manager, CalMatters & InquireFirst board member. Chicas Poderosas #wjchat #HorizontalLoyalty he/him 🇸🇻 // I live sweat but I dream light years.
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social Writer/speaker/journalist/professor. @kegill almost everywhere. Deep south ex-pat, she/her. Fights #disinfo. #UX #Elections geek #BookLover #BreastCancer “facts maxer”
Sean Bonner 🔥 @seanbonner.com Artist. Troublemaker. Misanthropologist.
🖥️ https://seanbonner.com
💬 https://t.me/justanothercrowd
Nelson @nelson.somebits.com Main social is on Mastodon, @nelson@tech.lgbt. Now bridged here: https://bsky.app/profile/nelson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social A nerd who likes cryptography. A bit weird, a bit witty, a bit whimsical
Fediverse: @Natanael_L@mastodon.social
DM open. For E2EE IM: @Natanael_L:matrix.org
ccTLD: SE
Mod @ https://reddit.com/r/crypto for cryptography 
Keely Adler @keels223.bsky.social accelerating better futures in multiplayer mode @ RADAR 🔮 reading the internet, everyday 📚trying to find the cozyweb, is it you bluesky? 💭 
Ace @alexyoungkwon.bsky.social 🔮 perl.xyz
Ken Schafer 🇨🇦 @schafer.com Endlessly curious about what happens next.
Miranda @miranda.bsky.social
• Writer
Bridget Bryson (she/her) @media-and-mayhem.bsky.social “Never underestimate a public school teacher” Teacher Librarian. Love to read or hang with my dogs. Whovian. Newly obsessed by Pickleball.
Website: https://www.magicandmayhem.us/
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Glenn Tenney @glenntenney.bsky.social Ran The Hackers Conference (aka THINK) since Stewart Brand started it in ‘84. Recent widower. Office @ IIT while in HS in 60’s. Sware developer, sys architect, infosec, IP, tech policy, CISSP, CISM, fountain pens, watches, photography… RTs, ❤️ may ≠ agree.
Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
📰 homewiththearmadillo.blog
📧 (secure) grimesandrea at proton dot me
🛍️ andreagrimes.threadless.com
Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social I see and say things that need seeing and saying.
twitter.com/shoq
mastodon.social/@shoq
sidetalk.net/@shoq (matrix)
threads.net/@shoqv4
Karoli @karoli.bsky.social Grantifa in CA. Card-carrying member of the human race. Managing editor at crooksandliars.com Podcast at MOMocrats.com
Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com Retired, getting better at it. 30+ years as a tech guy at the @houstonchronicle.com, but no longer columnizing. Still an aspiring cat lady, passable iPhone photographer. Also at https://dwightsilverman.com & https://www.threads.net/@dsilverman
Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social I write about tech, AI, and food. Ex-MSFT, IBM, Linux Foundation, ZDNET. Rants @ techbroiler.net. Creator of MNEMOS, Zoder, Claw ecosystem "Tokenomics" plugin, NCZ-OS, & InvestorClaw. Opinions are mine. 🔗 linktr.ee/jperlow https://byli.me/jperlow
Peter Adams @peteradams.bsky.social Head of research & design at the News Literacy Project. newslit.org RumorGuard.org Checkology.org
Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social Freelance writer specializing in computers, freedom, and privacy. New net.wars posting every Friday at https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net. Based London. Folksinger. 2024 CD: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/lasttriphome.htm. Not age-verified here; no DMs.
Nicole Wong @nicolewong.bsky.social Forever OOO. Formerly US Deputy CTO, also previously at Google, Twitter, Perkins Coie. Now board member for Mozilla Foundation, Tech Talent Project, CalMatters & Open Technology Fund. Currently studying words.
Mark Thompson @markthompson.japantimes.co.jp Managing editor @ The Japan Times https://japantimes.co.jp
Usual disclaimers
Long-term Tokyoite
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Tim Chambers @timothychambers.net Technologist, researcher, fascinated at how new technologies enable new politics, and vice versa. @tchambers@indieweb.social on Mastodon, which you can follow via: @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
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.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social Covering Asia at The Washington Post. Mom to two needy cats & a rambunctious golden retriever. michelle.lee@washpost.com
Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net J-prof at Northeastern University. Co-leader, with Ellen Clegg, of @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.
David Boardman @dboardman.bsky.social Journalist/educator. Dean, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University. Chair, Spotlight PA. Founding chair, Lenfest Institute. Board, RCFP, OCCRP. Ex-editor of The Seattle Times. Passion for Philly sports and Pacific NW coastline.
Lance Knobel @lknobel.bsky.social CEO and co-founder, Cityside Journalism Initiative. Berkeleyan. 
Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAU
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer.bsky.social Not my first social media rodeo, probably not the last one either.
Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com Pulitzer-winning investigative tech reporter. Looking for TPM roles supporting cybersecurity teams. 💕
📣 https://yaelwrites.com
💌 yael@yaelwrites.com
💥 #alwaysantifascist
☕️ Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter11745
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen.bsky.social Editor of @niemanlab.org / a fun mom in Cambridge, MA
https://illberightback.substack.com/
Ebikes | Mysteries | Baking | Parent gossip | Public schools
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
mathewi @mathewingram.com I write about technology and culture from my kayak somewhere in Canada
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Kristy Roschke @roschkekj.bsky.social Executive Director, McGee Applied Research Center for Narrative Studies, Vanderbilt University
Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly Staff software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.
Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.
@anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv 
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
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Research Group @charg-wfu.bsky.social CHARG is focused on community engaged archaeological and heritage research that brings Wake Forest University resources into communities. Directed by @brockter.bsky.social.
charg.chp.wfu.edu | https://charg.beehiiv.com/
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
@theshreddedscholar.bsky.social @theshreddedscholar.bsky.social 
RosieTheOriginator @rosietheoriginator.bsky.social ✊🏼 Punch Up, Not Across
Fluent: English & Spanish
💚History-Finance-Science-Perspective💚
NMLS 2000449 NC, GA, FL
M.S. Animal & Poultry Sciences-VA Tech
Nick McNamara @nickmcnamara.net Built to roam🔸Truth-liker🔸Hat-enjoyer
Californian-turned-Kansan-turned-Virginian🔸
WHRO Public Media reporter 🔸
Former KMAN asst. news director🔸
Kansas State 🔸Long Beach State🔸L.A. Pierce College
He/Him
H.127
Archaeoashley @archaeoashley.bsky.social Archaeologist and generally decent human being.
Dr. Larry Smith PhD @drlarrysmithphd.bsky.social Historian, Activist, and Entrepreneur. Founder Organization of Black Unity.
https://linktr.ee/DrLarrySmithPhD?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=63135083-451b-4c23-ac98-58c44603d572
Dane Roberts @daneroberts1.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, comic lover, dungeons and dragons player, all around nerd
Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social Public Historian, NYT Bestselling Author
A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (2026)
Media requests: anne@miracleworkerpr.com
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.
subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe
inbox: oliver@status.news
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
S.C.E.W. @socalextremismwatch.com Extremism watchdogs with a focus on SoCal:
Christian nationalism/NAR/MAGA.
Moms for fascism groups.
Council for National Policy/school board politics/Dark money.
Visit socalextremismwatch.com
Go ahead-hit that chat button.
Noelle Cook @noellecook.com Author of THE CONSPIRACISTS: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, THE CONSPIRACISTS (2024) noellecook.com
https://linktr.ee/NoelleCook
Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social Words/photos on Latin America: World Politics Review, Vice, USA Today, the New Humanitarian
+ lots more. Editor: Pirate Wire Services
Sign up for our newsletter: www.piratewireservices.com
Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodian’s in California.
Signal: joeyscott.05
Venmo: @joeyneverjoe
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/joeyneverjoe
www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/
BAY 161 @bay161.bsky.social SF bay area anti-fascist research. Send tips to Bay161(at)riseup(dot)net
Research @ https://bay161.noblogs.org https://kolektiva.social/@bay161
Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) counters, monitors, and exposes far-right hate movements, groups, and figures. Fully independent.
www.antihate.ca | info@antihate.ca
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org DDoSecrets is a 501c3 journalist non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks and other data in the public interest.
DDoSecrets.org
LibraryOfLeaks.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets
DonorBox.org/ddosecrets
Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action @sunlightafa.bsky.social Sunlight really is the best Disinfectant
Contact: sunlight161@protonmail.com
Website: https://sunlight161.noblogs.org
Birdsite: https://twitter.com/SunlightAFA
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social Report + edit @us.theguardian.com | Past: visual investigations @forensicarchi.bsky.social (The Murder of June Knightly https://vimeo.com/913426020) and @theintercept.com (Meet the Riot Squad https://vimeo.com/935228869) | +2,500 @nytimes.com bylines
Miro Dittrich @mirod.bsky.social Researching German far-right-extremism/terrorism, QAnon, and content moderation policies
Senior Researcher @cemas.io
steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12
Read & support my work: https://linktr.ee/Stevanzetti
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them