Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
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KENNNN @kenbensinger.bsky.social 
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aim_coalition_nyc
Tuomas Äystö @tuomasaysto.eurosky.social Yhteiskunnalliset ilmiöthän ne aina mielessä on. Uskontotieteen dosentti ja yliopistonlehtori, Helsingin yliopisto.
Kuva: Tinksu Wessman/Sapfograf.
Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social 📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
becca @beccaquon.bsky.social exploring gardens, gaming, mental health, history + culture. supporting research and education at the metro ny library council.
posting about 📚ny + 🌲pdx
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
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
Jon Swaine @jonswaine.bsky.social Washington Post reporter
Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social Reporting on Congress and sometimes clothes for The Bulwark. Perticone@thebulwark.com
📍 D.C.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
maddy varner @regret.bsky.social reporter @wired.com ✨ prev the markup, FTC ✨ signal: mvarner.01
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
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https://sambiddle.com
Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social 🍎 Education news updates & policy breakdowns
🇺🇸 Public schools 🤝 Democracy
🫧 Got it, got it?
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Avishay Artsy @heyavishay.bsky.social Vox supervising producer on Today, Explained
Peter Balonon-Rosen @peterbalononrosen.bsky.social 
Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social Stars and Stripes provides independent news and information to the U.S. military community from reporters and bureaus located around the world.
Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social National correspondent at Mother Jones. tmurphy@motherjones.com.
Signal: timothypmurphy.41
Proton Mail: timothypmurphy@proton.me
Wes J. Bryant - Former Pentagon Chief | War Analyst @wesjbryant.bsky.social Former Pentagon Chief of Civilian Harm Assessments | Defense and National Security Analyst | Strike and Joint Targeting Expert | Special Operations Veteran | Author | Human Rights & Antifascism
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. (All skeets here are my views alone.) Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Fred Kaplan @fredmkaplan.bsky.social Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
@hannahallam.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social 
Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social Vice Chair,The Carlyle Group; Chair, Rockefeller Foundation Board; PhD; ADM, USN(Ret.) fmr Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Website: AdmiralStav.com
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Susanna Ånäs @susannaanas.bsky.social 
Jim Rutenberg @jimrutenberg.bsky.social Writer At Large, NYT/NYT Mag * Na+ (aq) + Cl- (aq) *Flyers 
Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek.bsky.social Legal news for Bloomberg
📍Austin, TX
💌 mmekelburg@bloomberg.net
Meghann Cuniff @meghanncuniff.bsky.social Legal affairs journalist in Southern California. Follow my work by subscribing to Legal Affairs and Trials.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
ECFR @ecfr.eu European Council on Foreign Relations: the only pan-European think-tank. We foster coalitions for change and promote debate on Europe's global role.
Jana Kobzova @jkobzova.bsky.social Co-director, European Security Programme @ European Council on Foreign Relations @ecfr.eu, previously foreign policy advisor to Slovakia's President Caputova.
Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
nick quah @nwquah.bsky.social big ol alien boy
@vulture
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News. "FOIA terrorist." Subscribe to my newsletter, FOIA Files and my FOIA podcast, Disclosure.
Signal: JasonLeopold.666
http://swap.fm/l/O8A3zzBKsGWpqLtjzLSF
https://www.bloomberg.com/foiafiles
The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy 🤝📚🇺🇸 from director KIM A SNYDER.
Stream now- US: PBS, UK: BBC
Get tickets now TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
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
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
Tips to: 📨hannah.murphy@ft.com
Signal: mshannahmurphy.04
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Tim Johns @timoncheese.bsky.social Producer, BBC Radio 2, Jeremy Vine.
News bloke. Audio nerd. Cynic.
Prone to occasional camping.
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Jess Bravin @jessbravin.bsky.social Senior special writer, The Wall Street Journal (on leave). Visiting Lecturer, UC Davis School of Law. Author, "The Terror Courts"; "Squeaky." Founder: Raymond Chandler Square, L.A. City Historic-Cultural Monument No. 597.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
Upstate New Yorker, emergency backup hockey writer. FR/EN 🇫🇷
jakelahut.com
(Signal: Leak2Lahut.26)
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com words and sounds and the sounds of words
🚫 https://neverpo.st 🐉 https://funcity.ventures 🪦 https://ripcorp.biz
BK NYC // rugnetta.com // posts delete regularly
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
Brian Steinberg @bristei.bsky.social Senior TV Editor at Variety, covering media, advertising, sports TV, late night and much more. Also talk about comics and music. 'Some days are diamonds / Some days are rocks'
gwynnek @gwynnek.bsky.social Expert plate spinner. Changing the world one pixel at a time. Also dogs+food+fam+bad culture. she/her
[posts+ likes my own]
ID & WA News Guilds @idwanewsguilds.bsky.social Protecting journalists at The Olympian, Tacoma News Tribune, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald and Idaho Statesman.
Help us save local news!
linktr.ee/idwanewsguilds
amanda hess @amandahess.bsky.social writer at large, @nytimes.com *** my book is called SECOND LIFE: HAVING A CHILD IN THE DIGITAL AGE https://bookshop.org/p/books/second-life-having-a-child-in-the-digital-age-amanda-hess/21713723
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social Mother Jones reporter. Covering corruption, foreign influence. Derrick White enthusiast. Signal: danfriedman.67
Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social Seasoned extremism reporter at @rawstory.com. Investigations: law enforcement, national security, politics. Contact me at jordan@rawstory.com or jordangreen.03 on Signal. Here for the long haul.
https://www.rawstory.com/u/jordan-green-special-to-raw-story
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
@terrymoranabc.bsky.social @terrymoranabc.bsky.social 
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Eric Chenoweth @ericdchenoweth.bsky.social Director, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe. Principal author, Democracy Web. Posts my own. For time being at Twitter (to counter propaganda).
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Maria J. Stephan @mariajstephan.bsky.social Civil resistance, nonviolent action, social movements, democracy, authoritarianism, political violence, peacebuilding.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Ugly Reykjavik @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social Exploring the nature of ugliness.
I post all things ugly, old, run-down, worn out, kitsch and tacky. Finding beauty and charm in unusual places.
Located in Reykjavik.
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social Peabody Award-winning radio producers of NPR's The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens and the Radiotopia podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present...
Fall in Maryland 🦀 🍂 @howie.schoolbread.com Everything is better with Old Bay | Maryland stuff | nonprofits | education | animal welfare | occasional theme park nonsense | I play with my food.
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social media reporter @semafor
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Kelcee Griffis @kelcee.bsky.social Telecom reporter @ Bloomberg News. 
Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter covering all things aerospace and defense. Before that, telecom. Have a tip? Ping me on Signal at drewfitzgerald.87
Stories: https://www.wsj.com/news/author/drew-fitzgerald
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
candice wang @cwango.bsky.social producing audio @onthemedia.bsky.social 🍵
@zeitchik.bsky.social @zeitchik.bsky.social Veteran Washington Post reporter writing on AI, tech, humans and the future at Mind and Iron. Subscribe here! https://mindandiron.substack.com/
Sapna Maheshwari @sapna.bsky.social NYT (@nytimes.com) covering TikTok and emerging media. love consumer-y business news. former retail and advertising reporter. pun fan, Tar Heel, CT native, toddler mom - contact me at sapna@nytimes.com or Signal me directly @Sapna.87
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Gigi Sohn @gbsohn.bsky.social Telecom, media and technology policy. Many hats. Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, American Association for Public Broadband, Georgetown Law School, G Squared Strategies. Find me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gigisohn/