Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress | 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
www.norabenavidez.com
PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social Immigrant. Citizen. Mouthy advocate. NYT bestseller of A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE. Official account💙
https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
Read us: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
Email us: ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Surfrider Foundation @surfrider.org 🌊 Protecting Our Ocean, Waves, and Beaches Since 1984
🤝 The Ocean Needs More Friends
🌎 Click Below to Join the Movement! ⤵
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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social Transit and safe streets advocate, dad, Seattle School Traffic Safety Committee, biker and fixer of bikes, working for the labor movement since a long time ago.
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Alexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social Tech + discrimination researcher @AmnestyNL.
Likes/shares not endorsements; views my own
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social staff writer @theatlantic.com ✨ audio + film | CAA + Pande Literary
https://www.danyelsmithwriter.com/
https://shinebrighthq.substack.com/
Flavia Padovani @flpadovani.bsky.social Associate Professor of Philosophy, Drexel University
Faculty Member, Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University
Current President of HOPOS
flaviapadovani.org
Lydia Patton @profess.bsky.social Philosophy professor. Mostly reposts.
Chris Goldammer @floorarearatio.bsky.social Urban data, mostly NYC. I'm developing citytracker.ai — DMs are open both for data questions about NYC (and everything else) and business inquiries.
Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social PhD student doing urban econ and industrial organization at Duke. Former highest paid cashier in the Midwest; former RA at Eviction Lab; Macalester College. Not a real bus driver
Julie Flynn @gardenstate-julie.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing at Rutgers University
Vice President of the New Brunswick chapter of the AAUP-AFT
Member of the Rutgers Senate
New Jersey’s 4th Congressional District
Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com Elected District Leader, 51st AD | Full-time Superhero | Sunset Park | posts my own | Positively bedeviled with meetings et cetera
https://linktr.ee/juliopenany
Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social NYS Assemblymember, AD 52 Brooklyn | Disability Civil Rights Lawyer. Educator. Community Activist.
Victor Caston @vcaston.eurosky.social Philosophy & Classical Studies, University of Michigan. In case anyone was in doubt, my opinions are my own.
daniel sieradski @self.agency fmr. publisher: jewish worker, jewschool + orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead: nylon, jta news + repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. holds numerous dubious ordinations. aft+iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny.
🔗 https://self.agency
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and your fav auntie. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Serious about Protecting Black girls and RJ.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.com
Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
Dark Hi and Lois content now at @darkhiandlois.bsky.social.
My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social assistant professor of landscape architecture for the health of all living beings via psychocultural & behavioral analyses. spatial restitution = mattering to place-wellbeing. cortisol reduction-re-wilding. tell your dog I said hi.
Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social Organizer. Florida State Rep. Mom.
Running for US Senate because Floridians deserve better. Change can’t wait.
Quentin Ruyant @qruy.eurosky.social Researcher in Philosophy of Science
Universidad de Sevilla
Working on: representation and models in science, conceptions of scientific theories, scientific realism, modal epistemology, the interpretation of quantum mechanics. #philsci
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/
Hui-ke me up before you go go @thyacinth.bsky.social Philosophy goblin in training at MIT, using formal methods for woke agendae
Shift Work Forward @shiftworkforward.org Redesigning work. Expanding opportunity.
https://shiftworkforward.org/
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
B.A. Parker @baparker.bsky.social co-host of code switch on npr (she/her)
Gene “GD” Demby @geedee215.bsky.social co-host, Code Switch at @npr.org. South Philly forever; Tottenham 'til they kill me. 
Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈
I write on tax, race, and democracy:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1538104
Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social Author of "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History." Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
💡 Helping you make informed health decisions
🎓 MPH, PhD
👇🏻 Get weekly science-backed updates
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Luke Bronin @lukebronin.bsky.social Dad, veteran, former Hartford Mayor, running for Congress in CT-01.
Cassie Pritchard @hecubiandevil.bsky.social 
Council Member Lincoln Restler @cmrestler.bsky.social Government account for NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler. Representing the 33rd Council District. Tweets by Lincoln and staff.
NYC Progressives @nycprogressives.bsky.social New York City Council Progressive Caucus
Building power for a more just, equitable and thriving NYC
Founded in 2009 nycprogressives.com
Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social Investigative Journalist climate, energy, environment.
Rolling Stone politics contributing reporter.
"Gripping in its disgusting clarity." - my writing
Books include, THE TYRANNY OF OIL.
Lecturer.
http://www.AntoniaJuhasz.net
Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com Farmer. Organizer. Running for TX Ag Commissioner to make food/farming affordable by busting monopolies & protecting our water from AI Data Centers.
https://linktr.ee/claytontuckertx
East Bay Kidical Mass @ebkm.org We host group bike rides in the East Bay, California, for kids, families, and supporters. More kids on bikes! Follow our ride calendar at https://lu.ma/ebkm and learn more at https://ebkm.org
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social I wanna get free & see all our folk, together, at the finish line.
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social Former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ex-Council of Economic Advisers, Census, and Treasury. Bay Area/DC dual citizen. Personal account, all opinions my own
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
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Fusion Essentials @fusionessentials.bsky.social Level 3 NAHA Aromatherapist handcrafts microbatches of eco-friendly at-home spa products made w/certified organic wild-crafted aromatherapy blends for holistic wellness & daily self-care routine. #supportmicrobusinesses #womanownedbusiness #makersgonnamake
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Jake Berman @lostsubways.com Lawyer, historian, mapmaker. Transport + housing nerd. Californian living in New York.
Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning @ Columbia. Wrote "The Lost Subways of North America". Get the book at http://lostsubways.com.
Personal account.
Jean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social Elected AC Transit Board Member representing Berkeley, Emeryville, and parts of Oakland, CA. Car free since 2004.
*Views expressed here are my own*
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
www.rahawahaile.com
Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social "One of the great journalists of our time at a venerable institution for investigative journalism... Joe Patrice at Above the Law" -- Judge William Pryor (Somehow I think he might’ve not meant that earnestly)
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein.
Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social Writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box & Ringer Tailgate | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988 | Dez & Lani’s dad.
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social Mainer by birth. Logger by trade. With your help, Senator for the people.
http://www.JacksonForMaine.com
That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social Mack. Yes, That Mack
Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social Proudly Representing California's 12th Congressional District. 
Worse On Purpose @worseonpurpose.bsky.social Investigating how private equity and brand licensing quietly degrade the products you used to trust.
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social Philadelphian, Chicagoan, Catholic lay minister • she | her
“And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:”
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. East coaster in Ann Arbor. Internationalist. Any pronouns.
Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, and attachment. Wrote: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." Blog/essays here: jgcarpenter.com
LSU Law Center @lsulawcenter.bsky.social The official account of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. #LSULaw
Elise Joshi @elisejoshi.bsky.social Love unions, protected bike lanes, berkeley pizza. Hate cybertrucks.
Head of More Perfect Union's campus newsroom More Perfect University
Juniper @boringjuniper.bsky.social She/her
I’m a lesbian btw
Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com "A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes.
Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC AR7 lead author.
Website: https://zekehausfather.com/
Substack: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social Reporter covering Iowa politics (and sometimes wildflowers) for the progressive website Bleeding Heartland. https://www.bleedingheartland.com
Co-host of "KHOI's Capitol Week" on KHOI Radio in Ames and podcast platforms. https://laurabelin.substack.com
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social Murray and Kathleen Bring Prof., NYU Law. IP, antitrust, behavioral econ, occasional con law (bad for my health). ssrn.com/author=370802. Partner, lex-lumina.com. https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=37891
Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. billiesweeney.com
Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social CA State Assemblymember from the beautiful East Bay, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, mom of 2 fierce little girls.
https://lnk.bio/BuffyWicks
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
www.propublicaguild.org
Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social The climate crisis & inequality. Married, two kids. Lifelong NYCer, diner guy.
With nychange.bsky.social, directing climate/jobs campaigns 9 years. Previous: 10 yrs CWA D-1, 7 yrs NYPIRG. On climate only, my takes are NYCC “official”. 🇵🇸
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social www.blackagendareport.com
https://linktr.ee/margaretkimberley
"Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents"
https://steerforth.com/product/prejudential-9781586422486/
Shtlibs, right wingers, racists, and zionists blocked with a quickness.
Rick Howell @rickhowell56.bsky.social Proud liberal Democrat!! Life-long activist; writer and broadcaster: On Substack: howellr.substack.com
Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social https://www.thesaveamericamovement.org/
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Demography at University of California Santa Barbara.
Book coming from UC Press in Aug/26. How Economics Discovered Women.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/how-economics-discovered-women/hardcover
sjlundberg.weebly.com
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social Mom. Scientist. State Representative. Democratic nominee for Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Join us: jasmine4ga.com
Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, sex. Part time metalsmith. Book on the long history of abortion out now! US: https://bit.ly/4iwTsoL
UK: bit.ly/4aCNEqu Substack: https://maryfissell.substack.com/
Dan Caroselli @dancaroselli.bsky.social Public Servant @ City of L.A. | LA stuff | architecture appreciator | maps/charts/tables when I have the time
Matthew Villar Miranda @villarrecords.bsky.social I’m Matt!