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Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Clean air/COVID safety advocate/activist/researcher. Other health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
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PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social Advancing #ChildrensRights through interdisciplinary and child-centred research, evidence-based advocacy, and education. An applied research unit of the University of Cape Town. ci.uct.ac.za | uct.ac.za
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
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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
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.
TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com 🚀rockit network engineer
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🛜 weird use cases & silly tech!
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Alexis Gay @yayalexisgay.bsky.social happy to be here ✨ www.alexis.gay
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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Kerry Cullinan @kerrycullinan.bsky.social Cape Town-based health journalist. 🇿🇦 Passionate about people's right to live with dignity. Deputy editor of Geneva-based Health Policy Watch. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/
Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
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."
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Robert @callicoinnc.bsky.social A Charlotte Progressive
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social Infectious Diseases specialist doctor in London. Fungal disease researcher (UCL). Officially the 1st person to use word #Covid (according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Really). Personal views only.
Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social Economist & author, specializing in the economics of Eastern Europe, especially Russia & Ukraine.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
The Halfway Post @halfwaypost.bsky.social Dadaist graffiti news. Halfway true comedy and satire for your doomscrolling by Dash MacIntyre. I don't report the facts, I improve them.
Check out my Substack: https://substack.com/@thehalfwaycafe
Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social Scientist || Immigrant || Senior Fellow @HarvardChanSPH || Fmr: White House #CancerMoonshot, @CornellBME, @TEDFellow || 🇿🇦 + 🇺🇸.
Still fighting the good fight on X: @DrCatharineY
Ashley Winter MD | Urologist @ashleygwinter.bsky.social Urologist + Sex Med Doc.
Los Angeles, CA
Appointments: 202-888-6731
Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social Status Quo Politics is holding us back. Who will call for a big fight, and big change? The status quo cannot hold.
We must strip SCOTUS to the studs and rebuild it.
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
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios)
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
The best sources and news
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
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
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen.bsky.social Editor of @niemanlab.org / a fun mom in Cambridge, MA
https://illberightback.substack.com/
Ebikes | Mysteries | Baking | Parent gossip | Public schools
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
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.
Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person
I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/
I also post silly things too.
Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social Carpenter and woodworker. Democracy and unions liker. Building and fixing things: capehenlopencarpentry.com. Writing and editing: aaronhuertas.com.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social Political consultant, media critic, and longtime Cassandra.
www.findinggravity.net
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social Economist at the Center for Economic Research. Father to two dogs.
Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social Personal account. Run Revolving Door Project (@revolvingdoordc.bsky.social). https://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com #LUFC
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social Co-host of @onthemedia.bsky.social from WNYC
mloewinger(at)wnyc,org Signal: (646) 753-2373
Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com
Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social Former political director, AFL-CIO. Senior fellow, CAP. My Substack: www.weekendreading.net
Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible
This account surrounds hate and forces it to surrender
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social Broad-minded media for all. Support independent journalism https://www.damemagazine.com/membership/
Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg
& Random Lengths News: https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/author/paul-rosenberg
Election take: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/post/3lajp4jwy2s2n
Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social danbischof.com
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom
mediaanddemocracyproject.org
All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social Ensuring political appointees serve the public interest.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/
Read more of our work at http://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com and http://hackwatch.us
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Harold Feld @haroldfeld.bsky.social
Neil Abrams @neilabrams.bsky.social Corruption, democracy, rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine. Words in WaPo, Slate, Foreign Policy. PhD, political science. He/him.
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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social Wonkette writer & senior editor
I'm just an animal, looking for a home.
Retweets do not imply comprehension.
Born at 318.43 ppm atmospheric carbon.
He/him
In Idaho, but not of Idaho.
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Joshua P. Darr @joshuadarr.bsky.social Associate professor, Newhouse School @ Syracuse.
Senior Researcher, Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship.
New book: Storefront Campaigning https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009443357
I study local media and elections.
Past: LSU, Penn, BC.
Larry Yudelson @yudel.bsky.social Founder and Editorial Director, Ben Yehuda Press. Tangled up in Jews since the 20th century. Considering becoming the jokerman dancing to the nightingale's tune for the remainder of the 21st.
Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born. Here, documenting the mainstream news media's catastrophic dysfunction and total failure to meet the moment.
Anne Nelson @anelsona.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, research scholar at Columbia SIPA.
Maxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University. Researching social change. Opinions my own. A jew against genocide in Gaza (and anywhere else); Israel's far-right government does not speak for me. #CleanAir
Sue Wilson @suewilson.bsky.social Emmy winning investigative journalist turned
Media Democracy advocate https://MediaActionCenter.net
https://SueWilsonReports.com
Docu Film: Broadcast Blues, https://youtu.be/peVN7_LZYPM
Non-partisan.
James in Brooklyn @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social Baby tapir fan account; purveyor of fine posts
Keya Vakil @keyavakil.bsky.social Philly-born, LA-based politics editor. LAFC and BVB fan. Amateur chef.
Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social We are a NONVIOLENT direct action group committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties.
Website: https://www.riseandresist.org/
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social Burned out political writer and podcast/radio host.
I was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and The Nation and a staff writer for Bill Moyers, among others.
Scuba diver and dog guy.
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social A crash-scene investigation at the crossroads of new media & public policy. Against media consolidation; for robust local journalism & actual digital democracy. Still attempting to master a cold take.
www.freepress.net - This Free Press is not for sale.
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social A power network of organizers, activists and donors. We're here to upend politics as usual with research, intelligence and strategic action from across the winning diverse Democratic coalition. Listen to our new podcast, Charting the Way Forward!
Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social Daddo and married to @jenancona. Consultant of Destiny™️, standing athwart history yelling WTF. Research, persuasion, media, and processes for understanding the Dem-left coalition. A lot of my research etc lives here: chartingthewayforward.substack.com
Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social Family’s first HS grad. Runner. Worked in labor/Did policy/Elected Dems/Stint on Cap Hill. Blogged+pieces for WaPo/TNR/etc. Got rare disease, nearly died 5 times. Detroiter in Chicago. Husband. Dad to twins. Gardener. Getting healthy. Wants to run again.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home