Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Founder and Publisher of Liberal Currents
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.
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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social ISMA @ismapolicy.bsky.social. The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Views personal, not institutional.
Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Views my own.
Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com U.S. Marine, host of Dollemore Daily on YouTube & I Doubt It Podcast - Voicemail Line - (714) 576-4054 https://linktr.ee/dollemore
📍Washington, DC
Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social Eager lifelong learner. Therapy is political. Poverty is a policy choice. Page Perspective on YouTube/Co-host I Doubt It Podcast. https://linktr.ee/brittanyepage
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social Wasting time online
Liberal
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social Senior editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Books, menswear, parenting, politics, religion. Post the posts you want to see in the world.
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social linguist, discourse/pragmatics
podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social
author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com
singer with the Wild Lilacs
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she/they
substantively unserious
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social the only moral position on immigration is open borders.
she/her. socialist in the liberal tradition. Reconstructionist. Liberal Currents Contributing Editor, i guess???
boycott the New York Times
Pessimismus intellectus, optimismus voluntatis
Rebecca J. Ritzel @rjritzel.bsky.social Professional asker of cultural questions.
Bylines: NOTUS, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Dance Magazine, and many more. Cancer and stroke survivor somehow still here. rjritzel@gmail.com
ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
Lucy Calkins' #2 hater
Play it fucking loud.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
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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"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social Prod/Editor for:
Edutopia for @edutopia.org
NWSL Soccerwise for @kickbacksoccer.bsky.social
TBA for [REDACTED]
@roseroomco.bsky.social SG Co-founder
🇸🇻 & DC Born
douglasrc.com
he/him
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Ed Bott @edbott.com Tech journalist and author. Lifelong antifascist. Opinions are all my own but feel free to borrow. If you need to get in touch, there's a contact form on my website.
Andrew Beaujon @abeaujon.bsky.social Reporter at Washingtonian. @abeaujon.87 on Signal. Still working on the sound.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social believe in a better future for it is all that you can do - @jael.bsky.social
park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, pushing papers for our public lands. Advanced EMT student, PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack. opinions are mine alone. 🏳️🌈
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social Won journalism awards at ancient places called "newspapers" | Author | Columnist Raw Story, Alternet, Elsewhere | Navy Vet | Former Managing Editor Stars & Stripes | Animal-lover | https://dearlstephens.substack.com for my latest ...
Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; former DOJ/OLC attorney
Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com Local news guy @ Fox 5 • Pittsburgh-area native • Bostonian emeritus
Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social American, Texan, Father, former USAF F-16 pilot & NASA Astronaut. Trying to bring some happiness and sanity down here on Earth.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
Garrett Reisman @astro-g-dogg.bsky.social USC Professor of Astronautical Engineering
Former NASA Astronaut
Former SpaceX Director of Space Operations
www.garrettreisman.com
One of Two Funny Astronauts
https://www.youtube.com/c/2funnyastronauts
Scott Kelly @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social Former NASA Astronaut & US Navy Captain | Inquiries: Keppler Speakers or United Talent Agency | Husband to @amikokelly.bsky.social | Brother of Senator Mark Kelly | When disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.
Chris Hadfield @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social Astronaut, back on Earth after 3 spaceflights. For events & media, please write to info@chrishadfield.ca. Order books at http://chrishadfield.ca/books
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social Executive Producer, Last Week Tonight. Friend to nearly all the animals. 
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
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social I write about college, Olympic and other sports for @wsj.com. Graduate, Minneapolis South High School. I sometimes post about old-timey sports. rachel dot bachman at wsj dot com.
Matthew Cappucci @matthewcappucci.bsky.social Senior meteorologist. MyRadar. Washington Post/NPR/TV too. Atmospheric scientist. Educational consultant. Harvard/MIT ‘19.
Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social Member-supported community newspaper with reporting on Washington, D.C. culture, food, arts, sports, and politics. Support our work: https://buff.ly/HSgIgcc
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
BeyondDC @beyonddc.bsky.social Urbanism & transportation, WashDC.
Planner, professor, longtime GGWash.
Trying for joy rather than doom & dunks; not always succeeding.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
DC Public Schools @dcpublicschools.bsky.social 
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
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"
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)
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
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.
Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social Editor-at-Large @ProPublica. I ❤️ journalism and good trouble. Tips/ideas: eric.umansky@propublica.org and securely on Signal EricUmansky.04.
More about me: https://www.propublica.org/people/eric-umansky
Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social Bethesda Declaration signer. Science advocate.
"... government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln
🇺🇸🧪🔬🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇬🇱
Helicopters of DC @helicoptersofdc.bsky.social Washington D.C.'s community based flight tracking platform copterspotter.com
David Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social Award-winning journalist and online news editor at Science. Author of Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs. Lover of cats, movies, and bad puns.
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
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https://www.tiktok.com/@jennajmn
https://linktr.ee/declarationsofdissent
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl.
let’s work together! ⬇️
meredithshiner.com
Ted McClelland @tedmcclelland.bsky.social Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Writer, Chicago magazine
Washingtonian Problems @washprobs.bsky.social Memes, News, & Community
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Kara Newman @karanewman.bsky.social Drinks & travel writer. Serial cocktail book author. Spirits reviewer. IG: newman_kara
Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social He / him. Author of “The Absinthe Forger.” Monthly drinks columnist at VinePair, freelance contributor to the NYT, etc. Included in Best Food Writing, The NY Times Book of Wine and elsewhere. Prague Post food writer, 2000-2006. Jdeme na jedno.
Sarah Miller @ginadingding.bsky.social Drinks writer and judge
Spirits columnist for Drinksbiz magazine
Founder & host of #GinADayMay
Susannah SB @whattastesgood.bsky.social Tasting and writing about whisky and all things spirituous since 2012. she/her
susannahskiverbarton.com
Frederic Yarm @fredericyarm.bsky.social Boston bartender, cocktail blogger, author of Drink & Tell: A Boston Cocktail Book and Boston Cocktails: Drunk & Told. He/him.
David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social Barroom historian. Author of The Comic Book History of the Cocktail, Imbibe, Punch and a mess of other books. Ardent Wet. Brooklynite and part-time Triestino. Intellegentia mechanice generata delenda est.
Libation Legacy🍸 @libation-legacy.bsky.social Cocktail and cultural history blogger at http://libationlegacy.wordpress.com
CompactDisc sales on Discogs https://www.discogs.com/seller/DougInDC
Contributor to the Oxford Guide to Spirits & Cocktails
Also, Python/Spark/SQL data analysis and ETL.
Tammy Coxen @tammylc.bsky.social 2026 Hugo Awards administrator. Booze and cocktail history nerd. I host the My Tiny Bottles podcast & YouTube series (mytinybottles.com), and teach cocktail classes online and in-person as Tammy's Tastings (tammystastings.com).
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social Parent. Interdisciplinary biomedical researcher. Hardline scientist, Professor, PhD. New platforms and real-world impact, emphasis on scientific rigour, reproducibility, integrity and efficiency. Diverse interests.
E.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social Prof. McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, New York Times opinion writer. Passionate Celtics fan. Opinions here are my own.
Molly McCluskey @mollymccluskey.com Investigative journalist & editor covering public lands, the environment, foreign affairs and diplomacy. Founder & Publisher: Diplomatica Global Media. DC/CA/SE AK
https://www.mollymccluskey.com/
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.
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
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.
Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social Cataloguing threatening music notation.
Reposting from the original account.
Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News. "FOIA terrorist." Subscribe to my newsletter, FOIA Files and my FOIA podcast, Disclosure.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel