UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics @scipsychedelics.bsky.social Exploring the potential of psychedelics for the betterment of all. @UC Berkeley
Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social Philosopher at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social Ideas that matter, storytelling that lasts. Award-winning fiction and nonfiction. https://www.penguin.com/penguin-press-overview/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
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City Arts & Lectures @cityartssf.bsky.social Art. Science. Politics. Culture. Live @ the Sydney Goldstein Theater & Radio Broadcast on KQED. Free tickets for students & educators! Contact info@cityarts.net
Indivisible SF @indivisiblesf.bsky.social San Franciscans standing indivisible for a progressive agenda in CA-11 and -15. Also at http://sfba.social/@IndivisibleSF. Website: https://indivisiblesf.org/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cHlx6r
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
Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social Philosopher, writer.
Journal of Contemplative Studies @jcontemplatives.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing humanities-based and transdisciplinary scholarship in Contemplative Studies | Published by CSC at UVA. https://linktr.ee/ContemplativeJournal
Upaya Zen Center @upaya.bsky.social Zen Buddhist community focused on the integration of practice & social action, bringing together wisdom & compassion. Founded by Roshi Joan Halifax ⬇️ @joanhalifax.bsky.social PROGRAM LINKS HERE: https://linktr.ee/upayazencenter
David DeSteno @daviddesteno.bsky.social Psychological Scientist, Author, and host of PRX podcast "How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality." Studying the Science of Emotion, Morality, & Religion. Words frequently in NYT, WSJ, etc. https://davedesteno.com https://www.howgodworks.org
Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social Activist and Organizer. Coauthor of Protest- Respect it, Defend it, Use it (w/ Andre Carothers, 2026). Team @janeclimatepac. Creator @storyofstuff talk, book & org. If we lose the right to protest, we stand to lose so much more.
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social Astrophysicist. Author of The Little Book of Aliens. Stuff shows up at The Atlantic, NYTimes, Big Think, etc. The Ramones, the Mets and lots of video games.
Luis Cásedas @lcasedas.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at CONNECTS, @cimcyc.bsky.social, University of Granada | Psychological, meta- and contemplative research | INMINDS interview series | lcasedas.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
Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social Abbot and Founder, Upaya Zen Center
Steve Pyne @sjpyne.bsky.social Writer, fire guy (aka pyromantic), exploration historian, urban farmer. Recent books include "Pyrocene Park" and "Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico."
Website: www.stephenpyne.com
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social Professor, Georgetown Law; contributor to New York Review of Books; former National Legal Director, ACLU. Views expressed are my own. 
Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social Host & exec prod, "Talking Feds Pod" and "Talking San Diego." FCA Lawyer. Teach con law at UCSD & UCLA. Senior Fellow USC. Former US Atty, Dep Assis AG. Founding Contributor, The Contrarian
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social Professing science journalism, directing NYU's SHERP. 62-time loser, 1-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Probably off chasing 🦋 somewhere.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Oblong Books @oblongbooks.bsky.social Independent booksellers in the Hudson Valley since 1975. Signed books, staff picks, and more! 📚 Open daily + free shipping on online orders over $30.
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social Writer and editor, NYTM and NYM. Signal: christophercox.01
Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, My American Rev, Thoreau, etc.; Contributing ed @APublicSpace. OUT NOW --> Double Exposure, by FSG. Philadelphia.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Bob Dylan Smiling @bobdylansmiling.bsky.social Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Liz Garbus @lizgarbus.bsky.social Filmmaker. The Farm, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, What Happened, Miss Simone, Lost Girls. And TV like Handmaid's Tale and Yellowjackets. Oh and 2 kids. Made them too. They're the best.
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.
Brooke Gladstone @brookegladstone.bsky.social Co-host of On the Media. Author of The Influencing Machine and The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.
Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
@larissa-macfar.bsky.social @larissa-macfar.bsky.social 
Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social Covering health care @ProPublica. Signal: 347-549-0332. Email: annie.waldman@propublica.org. (Also #COYS)
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. Former CDC Director and New York City health commissioner. Focused on partnering with communities around the world to save lives.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Seth Mnookin @sethmnookin.bsky.social Journalist, science writer, director of sciwrite.mit.edu, cochlear implant user. Formerly: brain tumor patient
Corby Kummer @ckummer.bsky.social Executive Director, Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, senior editor of The Atlantic, senior lecturer at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Judith Shulevitz @judithshul.bsky.social Essayist, critic.
Staff writer: The Atlantic. Book: The Sabbath World
Articles: linktr.ee/judithshul.
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
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Gabriel Sherman @gabrielsherman.bsky.social Vanity Fair special correspondent, screenwriter of THE APPRENTICE
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social Simpsons, Tap, Derek, Le Show.
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social El Chabon perdura.
https://msha.ke/handmadeplaylists
Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
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.
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social I am easily found. Shafer.Writer@gmail.com
Alex Heard @aheard.bsky.social Executive editor, @searchlightnm.bsky.social—home of deep-dive investigative reporting about the Land of Enchantment. Previously Outside Magazine, Wired, the New York Times Magazine. Author of "The Eyes of Willie McGee" and "Apocalypse Pretty Soon."
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Annie Lowrey @annielowrey.bsky.social Writer on economic policy, bureaucracy, household finances, and the human relationship with animals, among other stuff, at The Atlantic. Ping me on annie@theatlantic.com and annielowrey.25 on Signal. 
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
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.
Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social CEO of The Atlantic. Going out of business soon, since 1857.
Author of “The Running Ground: A father, a son, and the simplest of sports.”
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
@stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social Former Republican media consultant. Worked in 5 presidential races. Senior advisor to Lincoln Project. Author of 9 books. I am obsessed with doing endurance sports badly.
Betsy Reed @thebetsy.bsky.social Editor, Guardian US
Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social Pod Save America, Obama White House, Message Box, and some books
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo.bsky.social Formerly a columnist at New York Times, Slate. generally wonderful person.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Adam @adamdavidson.bsky.social Dachshund wrangler
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social Staff writer @theatlantic.com covering immigration and the Department of Homeland Security.
Tips? Signal: NickMiroff.78
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
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Joe Trippi @joetrippi.bsky.social Founder of https://sez.us Senior Advisor Lincoln Project Host of That Trippi Show podcast. Co-founder of Lincoln Square
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.