Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
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.
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
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
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contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
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katie honan @katiehonan.bsky.social Senior reporter at THE CITY, co-host of FAQ NYC, townie. 🌐 🍕📸
KHonan@thecity.nyc // 9175047505 on Signal
🔗 thecity.nyc
🔗 katiehonan.substack.com
Chris Harvey @chrisharvey.bsky.social film/TV editor | repped by @easterntalent.net | pro-EV | anti-GenAI, anti-crypto | science fiction fan | beach lover | F1, baseball, soccer
“Every film is a puzzle, really, from an editorial point of view.” —Walter Murch
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Eli Lee, Exiled Poster @heyitshamhocks.bsky.social Eli Lee, 30-something wretched sportsboy, they/them. Weights, running, and roller derby 🛼
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social retired yapper. it's been real. ✌🏾
blog: maxineayawrites.com
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Rabbi Jill Jacobs @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, author There Shall Be No Needy & Where Justice Dwells. she/her
Ennui Doofen @ennuidoofen.bsky.social writer of jokes
fighter of life
💌: doof@fuck.it
more doof ⤵️
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
The Progressive Project @progressiveproject.bsky.social We are a team of Anti-Establishment Progressives, Leftists, and Socialists focused on policy over party, and our views differ often. We believe in single payer, ending wars, bank reform, and election reform.
April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social union gal, wife+pre-k mom, political communicator, love da Mets ⚾️, tennis nerd, socialist swiftie⸆⸉, recovering actor + bartender. views mine alone!
https://linktr.ee/aprilglick
📍 ny/west mass 🏔️🏙️
💼 @citizenactionny.org
emily sunshine @threnody.northsky.social fiction writer • roommate to 2 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Miser @misernyc.bsky.social Organized many of the marches for congestion pricing in NYC. Started the daylighting movement, run MicromobilityNYC, and advised Zohran from day 1 of his campaign. (Was also the template for his own video strategy.) We're building a movement here
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social Senior political reporter at the Forward. Email: Kornbluh@forward.com
Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com Let's Create Some Good In the World 🌎💕Community organizer, media strategist, writer. Co-founder @GenderLib.com
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social Jersey til I die. Writer, political consultant, and lawyer for hire. End corruption. Tax the rich. Rahway. primaryschool.ghost.io / buymeacoffee.com/primaryschool
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
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Luis A. Miranda, Jr. @vegalteno.bsky.social Dad to Luz, Lin-Manuel & Miguel, grandad to 6.
💍 to Luz
🎬 "Siempre Luis"
📖 "Relentless"
🎭 “Buena Vista Social Club”
Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me The Boogie Down's own anarchist and creative • Kill your idols before I do it for you • Twitter & Instagram: MoreAndAgain
Tareq Saghie @tareqsaghie.bsky.social 
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social Dirtbag artist and humorless leftist scold. Pronouns: he/him/your lusciousness.
Look at all this shit I’ve done: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2026827/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_abe%20goldfarb
Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social "the Pepsi of Austrian writing." do not be weird at me online. buy bumper stickers, from me, at https://mplwdnoveltycistern.etsy.com/
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics, especially in marginalized communities. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
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
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - Iranian-American - inforezaakbari@gmail.com - I write The Guarded Domains, a Substack newsletter focused on Iran and the broader Middle East region. https://guardeddomains.substack.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social City Hall reporter / New York Playbook co-author @politico.com. From 🇸🇪. Have a tip? DMs are open or reach me at csommerfeldt@politico.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social Fighting disinformation/misinformation. Film/TV producer (The Walking Dead, The Terminator, Aliens, T2, Tremors, Armageddon) and documentaries (The YouTube Effect, Mankiller) & a bunch of stuff you've never heard of. Full-time Gooner. Part-time Cassandra.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social Actor, writer, podcast guest 
They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social Official. Our LP The World is To Dig is here. Multi-night stands right now in Milwaukee Madison Kansas City St Paul Minneapolis Austin Dallas Houston Washington DC / NEW YEARS EVENTS in Montclair and New Haven! www TMBG com for detes and tickets.
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social Never’s just the echo of forever
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
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
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social Writer, Comedian, TV’s Frank
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
J. Smith-Cameron @jsmithcameron.bsky.social Actress and goofball
#Succession #WacoTheAftermath #TheYearBetween
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
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.
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Janet Maslin @janetmaslin.bsky.social Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Brian Koppelman @briankoppelman.bsky.social Billions, Rounders, Computer on The Bear, The Moment, O13. And such. 
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
Sarah Phelps @phelpsiesarah.bsky.social Writer. The Christie Quintet that got on some people’s tits. Dublin Murders. A Very British Scandal. Coming soon: The Sixth Commandment. 
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social These hips don’t lie
Aaron Mahnke @aaronmahnke.com Historian. Author. Hall of Fame podcaster.
Creator of Lore (podcast + TV + book series), Cabinet of Curiosities (podcast + book), & Bridgewater (podcast).
AaronMahnke.com/exhumed