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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in Mad (ex) Scientist (Ph.D, IIT Bombay)
He/Him
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans 
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“Under promise, under deliver”
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Nasser Eledroos @nasser.wiki technologist. human. building futures we want to live in.
founder bigdreams.info
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
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former bank economist
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write and talk about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them in a number of places. Working on a new thing.
Signal: cristianfarias.33
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator
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Working on a graphic novel memoir about generalized anxiety disorder and OCD
Editor of Pulping
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Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats. 
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
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Jessica Pickett @pickettjessica.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based health economist in the vaccine industry. Interested in everything; knowledgeable about demand for medical care & politics of service delivery.
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Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
Orual @nonbinary.computer Person who does electrical, computer, and music things.
Mother of machines.
they/she/it
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
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jor @jormad.bsky.social military history student | unwaveringly follow vo nguyen giap thought | they/them
Ali Trachta @alitrachta.bsky.social Executive Editor at @pghcitypaper.com, East End boomerang, Jane Pratt wannabe, VPR scholar, gaylor ally. she/her. ali@pghcitypaper.com
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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social former bama higher ed faculty / current mn higher ed comms / former egan’s dj / current cool dad / former bad poet-athlete / current bad poet-athlete
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this is my personal account
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Justin Vellucci @jvthetrib.bsky.social News reporter at @TRIBLive. Covering crime and communities in
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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe 23, they/them. PhD student in musicology at Pitt. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo, "Gold Chain Punk." pfp: @ardent-knight.bsky.social
Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster.bsky.social biofilmmaker | assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon | polymicrobial communities & bacterial evolution
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social Dogs' life. Rockstar. Environmental astronaut. Associate prof of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon (she/they; views my own).
Anya Taylor-Joy Division @eggmancat.bsky.social Mythical lighthouse keeper
The Omnislut
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Andrea (unrepentant) @alt.valkyrie.hacker.gf abolish civility perverts
Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social Producer and consumer of the written word. Casual photographer. Liker of cats, cameras, fast cars, and faster apertures.
Radicalized by Basic Decency
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social used to do math
podcast on the production of bigotry at www.odiumsymposium.com and @odiumsymposium.bsky.social, with @homotoptheory.bsky.social
will guest on your podcast
terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run.
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she/they
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Minneapolis forever. Joncollinsjournalism.com
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social @0xMatt on Twitter
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I know how to spell Lego, thanks.
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Dee 📚✨💛. @silchasruinme.bsky.social "Silchas Ruin flew, a white leviathan with murder in its heart. White as bone, with eyes red as death."
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social Studies rhetoric & writing, autobiography, feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | Currently writing a book about Rachel Held Evans
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
Andrew Colunga @andrewcolunga.bsky.social Guy who things. Artist and sci-fi writer for
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& Comics https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ftl-kestrel-adventures-new-life/list?title_no=951797
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.- A @andyhoward777.bsky.social @andyhoward777.bsky.social
Dani Wenner @daniwenner.bsky.social political philosopher, okra & orca lover, nogoodnik
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Ali @ali-online.bsky.social Producer and fated sweetie for @friends-table.bsky.social | r2d2's real life best friend on @morecivilized.bsky.social | she/her | I'm Utena but the prince I'm modeling my life after is Kiryu Kazuma
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