Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Basic Books Group @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social Renowned publisher of serious nonfiction by leading intellectuals, scholars, and journalists. A division of Hachette.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Official account of NYC Comptroller. Working to hold NYC government accountable and secure a more just and sustainable future.
comptroller.nyc.gov
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
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, demolish the arch.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Akash Mehta @akashmehta.bsky.social Editor in chief, @nysfocus. Reach out: akash(at)nysfocus.com
Brad Racino @bradracino.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at Floodlight; Board Member, NY Coalition for Open Government
Past: ME/Publisher/Reporter/Director: NY Focus, NY Cannabis Insider, Syracuse.com, inewsource
https://www.bradracino.com
alex arriaga @alexarriaga.bsky.social local journalist | new york focus audience engagement editor
Julia Rock @juliarock.bsky.social Due Diligence reporter at the Financial Times
julia.rock@ft.com
Colin Kinniburgh @colinreports.bsky.social Reporter covering climate and environment for New York Focus. Tips: colin@nysfocus.com, @colin.36 on Signal or DM for cell
Chris Gelardi @chrisgelardi.bsky.social Justice desk chief, @nysfocus.com. Also The Intercept, The Nation, many more. He/him. Send tips ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/chrisgelardi
Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social reporter @motherjones.com etc | signal: @shurwitz.18, email: shurwitz@cir.org
Nathan Porceng @nporceng.bsky.social Journalist, Recovering Engineer.
Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
Sammy Sussman @sammysussman.bsky.social Investigative reporter | @nyc.streetsblog.org, @nytimes.com 2025 Local Investigations, bylines in @nysfocus.com, @nymag.com, @wired.com, etc.
Signal: @sammysussman.01 and Email: sammybsussman2@gmail.com
jake neenan @jakeneenan.bsky.social broadband/telecom policy reporter // tell me secrets, about that or otherwise: jake at breakfast dot media // signal: jakeneenan.01
jakeneenan.github.io
k.e. harloe @keharloe.bsky.social freelance writer, work many places / member @fspnwu.bsky.social / all else kateharloe.com
Chris Bragg @chrisbragg1.bsky.social Albany Bureau Chief, New York Focus
Eliza Fawcett @elizafawcett.bsky.social reporter
Jie Jenny Zou @jiejennyzou.bsky.social social services reporter for @nysfocus.bsky.social, send tips to jenny(a)nysfocus.com
@sammellins.bsky.social @sammellins.bsky.social Senior Reporter at New York Focus
Tips/praise/rants: Sam(at)nysfocus.com
Signal: mellins.613
Rebecca McCray @rebeccakmccray.bsky.social Reporting/Writing/Engaging. Find my work @ The Marshall Project, The Guardian, New York Focus, Hell Gate, NY Mag, Offrange, etc.
Writing a newsletter about incarceration in New York: https://mailchi.mp/nysfocus/prisons-newsletter
@biancafortis.bsky.social @biancafortis.bsky.social NYC-based investigative reporter and researcher 🕵🏻♀️
Rebecca Klein @rebsklein.bsky.social Publisher @nysfocus.bsky.social
Ryan Kost @ryankost.bsky.social Reporter @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com. Previously: Columbia Journalism Investigations; @SFChronicle; @Oregonian; @AP. Desert rat. 🏜
www.ryantkost.com
Anil Doshi @anilrdoshi.com Researcher: firms and genAI/LLMs/innovation/fake news/social media. Teacher: data analytics and strategy. Recovering politics and news junkie.
Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer.bsky.social I write about billionaires and their impact on the world for The New York Times. MSNBC contributor. Proud Puck, Recode alum.
Get my stories at this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/theodore-schleifer
Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
Emily Peck @emilypeck.bsky.social Axios reporter, Slate Money host. I'm back on coffee.
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com Host, Slate Money. Author of THE PHOENIX ECONOMY.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social Fighting disinformation/misinformation. Film/TV producer (The Walking Dead, The Terminator, Aliens, T2, Tremors, Armageddon) and documentaries (The YouTube Effect, Mankiller) & a bunch of stuff you've never heard of. Full-time Gooner. Part-time Cassandra.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
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."
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social Actor, writer, podcast guest 
They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social Official. Our LP The World is To Dig is here. Multi-night stands right now in Milwaukee Madison Kansas City St Paul Minneapolis Austin Dallas Houston Washington DC / NEW YEARS EVENTS in Montclair and New Haven! www TMBG com for detes and tickets.
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social Never’s just the echo of forever
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social Writer, Comedian, TV’s Frank
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
J. Smith-Cameron @jsmithcameron.bsky.social Actress and goofball
#Succession #WacoTheAftermath #TheYearBetween
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. Just an old lady trying to eat a taco. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
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.
Janet Maslin @janetmaslin.bsky.social Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Brian Koppelman @briankoppelman.bsky.social Billions, Rounders, Computer on The Bear, The Moment, O13. And such. 
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
Sarah Phelps @phelpsiesarah.bsky.social Writer. The Christie Quintet that got on some people’s tits. Dublin Murders. A Very British Scandal. Coming soon: The Sixth Commandment. 
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social These hips don’t lie
Aaron Mahnke @aaronmahnke.com Historian. Author. Hall of Fame podcaster.
Creator of Lore (podcast + TV + book series), Cabinet of Curiosities (podcast + book), & Bridgewater (podcast).
AaronMahnke.com/exhumed
Annette O’Toole @annetteotoole.bsky.social Actrix. Knitter. 
Chris Eigeman @chriseigeman.bsky.social Ok, BlueSky, let's see.
Actor/Director
Warren Leight @warrenleight.bsky.social Playwright (Tony Award, Side Man), Showrunner: SVU,CrimIntent,Lights Out,In Treatment(NAACP, Imagen, Peabody Awards). Jazz, Knicks, Mets, WGA, Italy, cooking. Capricorn like you couldn’t tell. 
Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social Time Out New York theater editor and critic, Drama Critics' Circle president, recalcitrant humanist, wiseacre. Be gentle.
Lisa Jane Persky @lisajanepersky.bsky.social Another dopeless hope-fiend. Greenwich Village kid.
Photog, Actor, Writer, Artist, Friend, Mystery.
Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created Game Show Network's blog, was an arts reporter for NYC weekly The Villager, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts. Currently digital marketing for NYC nonprofit New Plaza Cinema.
NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social Movie critic, shareholder advocate #corpgov #movies she/her/mom www.authory.com/NellMinow I stand for: protecting the environment, reproductive health, dignity and respect for all except bullies, grifters, and haters. I lack decorum, per Congress.
Julia Duffy @duffyj.bsky.social Actress and all that. Just google to find pics of my whole face.
Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social Theatre Aficionado/Writer/Raconteur. Researcher for the 2022-2025 Tony Awards telecasts. Tea Enthusiast. Alleged short king. Soprano Connoisseur. Raised on TCM. He/Him.
Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social Frasier farceur, and co-perpetrator of several other TV shows. Lyricist, playwright. Novels: Blue Heaven, Putting On The Ritz, My Lucky Star. Awards available on request, or I'll just work them into our next conversation.
David Levy @itsdlevy.me Middle-aged gay man.
Comms at Actors’ Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social)
Cohost of Muppeturgy (@muppeturgy.com)
Stamford, CT
(he/him/his)
🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social Film correspondent and general blowhard for The Irish Times. Bias so-called 'critic'. You're the tray of nice things I upset yesterday. https://www.irishtimes.com/author/donald-clarke/
Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social Film critic, Catholic deacon, theology teacher, father of 7. Not in that order. NYFCC member. Please follow/subscribe at greydanus.substack.com! Also at decentfilms.com
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay.