Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
@mpallen.bsky.social @mpallen.bsky.social
Maura @oaksmont.bsky.social #BlueCrew
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social Your critic and co-listener // ex-Washington Post // reccos/rants/prayers/curses at thefutureisourstomake.substack.com // contact me: christopherpaulrichards at proton dot me
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
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J. Smith-Cameron @jsmithcameron.bsky.social Actress and goofball
#Succession #WacoTheAftermath #TheYearBetween
Dr Kat, Epidemiologist @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social Epidemiologist at University of Illinois Chicago, misinformation debunker, data nerd, Chicagoan, scientist for the resistance
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
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.
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
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
cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social Mostly politism, sometimes track and field, sometimes a secret third thing, banned from leaving maine
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account. past: tfgh, cdc, emory. interests: health policy, law, & politics, global health. big fan of: human rights, vaccines, abiding no hatred. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his/him.
Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org The greatest city in the world should have the greatest streets in the world 🗽
Join us: transalt.org/connect
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
Hannah Rosefield @hannahrosefield.bsky.social editing at The Dial and elsewhere
sometime Victorianist, London Library emerging writer 25/26
Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social Writer?
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
NBCC Board. Freelance writer. Coffee drinker.
https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com Author of USELESS ETYMOLOGY, WORDS FROM HELL, ONCE UPON A WORD, INTO THE WORDS. Podcaster, Words Unravelled. Adjunct prof at Emerson and UFL. Speaker, content director, social pro, ad world wordsmith. https://linktr.ee/JessZafarris
Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social Atlantic writer, ME, BUT BETTER available now: https://www.amazon.com/Me-But-Better-Science-Personality/dp/1668012545
Substack: https://olgakhazan.substack.com/
Alex Bronzini-Vender @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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.
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
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
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
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social Investigative reporter at the Baltimore Banner
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.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
@mparsfield.bsky.social @mparsfield.bsky.social
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Leah Reich @leahreich.com Writer, researcher, tech industry survivor, tennis obsessive 🎾, and fortunate to live with Lumpy, the greatest cat in the universe
You should go read my newsletter at www.leahreich.com
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social Class Politics reporter at The New Republic. Tips on Signal at monicabpotts.57. Past: 538, The American Prospect. BUY: The Forgotten Girls monicapotts.com
Michael Friedrich @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social writing about the politics of cities and housing for The Baffler, The New Republic, & others https://linktr.ee/mfriedrichnyc
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
Deb Cohen @debscohen.bsky.social Broadcaster and writer | Senior visiting fellow, LSE | Escapee medic | Former health correspondent, BBC Newsnight | Science editor, ITV News | Investigations editor, BMJ | Scouse
https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=16769
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social ProPublica AME.
Working: “Make Them Pay: The 250-year Fight to Tax the Rich”: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Make-Them-Pay/Jesse-Eisinger/9781668072202
@sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Pulitzer-winner. Green Bay Packers.
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
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
Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist and
senior culture editor @wired.com | VICE News final girl (RIP) | tips: manisha_krishnan@wired.com or mkrishnan.79 on Signal
Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and co-host of the new podcast "Everybody's Business." Also co-host of "Elon Inc." and author of “The Contarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs.” Msg me on signal: @chafkin.83
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
Faiz Shakir @faiz.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director of @MorePerfectUnion.bsky.social
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social United States Senator for Hawaii. Climate hawk. Chief Deputy Whip.
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.
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Rachel Riederer @readerer.bsky.social writer on science, culture, and the environment
professional allegiances: @newyorker & @newsguild.
back in the day @guernicamag
Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. I like financial crisis hindsight, spurious correlation and puppies. London ➡️New York ➡️Abu Dhabi ➡️Hong Kong ➡️New York
@indigoolivier.bsky.social @indigoolivier.bsky.social reporter-researcher at The New Republic | politics, labor, higher ed | indigoolivier@gmail.com
John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social writer and researcher, covering books, films, and psychoactivity, in no particular order. a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited.
Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo246539639.html
Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Elisabeth Donnelly @heydonnelly.bsky.social Writer of books, journalism, screenplays. Work in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, The Believer, The Cut, and more. Get in touch:
elisabeth.donnelly@gmail.com
elisabethdonnelly.com/clips
instagram.com/heydonnelly
donnelly.substack.com
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social Wrote Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Other words in The NYT, The Nation, The New Republic, The Boston Review, Dissent et al. Teach some words, too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3l6Gqddnj0&t=512s&pp=ygUPZ2FpdXRyYSBiYWhhZHVy
Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social thinking about some stuff here and there
writer / strategist
stephenlurie.com
@emilycooke.bsky.social @emilycooke.bsky.social
Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social Even now, despite everything
BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social critic & essayist / my dog's name is Boswell
i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/
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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
haley mlotek @haleymelodic.bsky.social it’s pronounced melodic
www.haleymlotek.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612168/no-fault-by-haley-mlotek/
Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
James Yeh @jamesyeh.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist, professor of writing. Words in the New York Times, Guardian, the Drift, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Believer, Dissent, and elsewhere. Formerly an editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, the Believer, and VICE
Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation.bsky.social
Alex Colston @recolston.bsky.social No one’s free until we are all free
Jack Hanson @jackhanson.bsky.social Associate editor at The Yale Review and lecturer at Yale. Writing about religion, literature, and culture.
Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social senior literary agent & VP at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, ce@goldinlit.com
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story) & college essay coach. My name has two l's and two t's.
elliottholt.com
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Jeremy Gordon @jeremygordon.bsky.social My novel SEE FRIENDSHIP is out now, I edit on the culture desk at the Atlantic, my newsletter is at http://jeremygordon.substack.com, and my website is at https://jeremygordon.xyz
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social I’m a cohost of the Page 7 podcast and the parent of several children and cats
Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social EVP at @cipolicy.bsky.social.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social Econ person. VP of Policy and Research, @economicsecurityproject.org. Former NEC. #Rstats, Team Macro, dad, Chicago Guy. newsletter.mikekonczal.com
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Views my own. https://marshallsteinbaum.org/