Dan Wagstaff @danwagstaff.bsky.social Books and stuff. Manager of expectations. Toronto. He/him.
www.casualoptimist.com
Iesha @ieshabewriting.blacksky.app I’m just here so I don’t get fined…
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
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
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social Author: Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties (Penn Press)
Otherwise: political science @ Western Connecticut State University
Also: deeply concerned
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc, often for @oaklandreviewofbooks. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social culture goblin. research editor at NYT Magazine. author of Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith (out Aug. 25th!)
patreon + other links: https://solo.to/nobodybrokeyourheart
world’s best cats, except for your cats.
Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US.
Psychology Prof at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.
Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social I bomb atomically. Senior NBA writer, Yahoo Sports. Co-host, THE BIG NUMBER. Member, WGA East. He/him.
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
WashU AAUP @washuaaup.bsky.social The WashU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social Writer (Julia, The Heavens, The Men, How Not to Write a Novel, etc.)
she/they 
Julia Turner @juliaturner.bsky.social Co-Founder & EIC, L.A. Material. Formerly Slate, L.A. Times. Co-host, Slate Culture Gabfest.
Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social reporting, writing, editing climate change stories @thebulletin.org // outdoorsy newsletter: jessicastarmckenzie.com/newsletter // tips: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org, jsmckenzie@protonmail.com, or jessimckenzi.01 on signal
Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social Internet Sub-Sub // she/her
Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social freelance journalist | previously wired, axios, the verge | seen in nyt, 404 media | nyc | signal meganfarokhmanesh.76 | face god and walk backwards into hell
Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social Nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. I put the chic in Chicago Manual of Style.
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live cooler by the lake 🕶️🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
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@the.mazz.zone
Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social Film maker/lover
https://boxd.it/jDAr
Jordan Chariton @jordanchariton.bsky.social Reporter, StatusCoup News | Award-Winning Author: "We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Cover Up" | Support ON THE GROUND JUSTICE JOURNALISM: https://statuscoup.com/join/ | JordanChariton@statuscoup.com
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Kelly Connolly @kellyq.bsky.social senior editor at TV Guide, formerly EW. wakeboarding with Ann Dowd
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.
William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social Award-winning film critic for The Wrap. Co-host of The Critically Acclaimed Network. LAFCA. CCA. GALECA. Ace. He/Him. 🎃
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social Seeker, writer, curious | Midwestern | Patty & Selma in a trench coat | wholesome and horny | "the most fun, overwhelmed person I know" | she gets a long letter, sends back a postcard 💌🏳️🌈
andrew van dam @andrewvandam.bsky.social Data columnist at Washington Sun! formerly the Department of Data at the Washington Post and other things
Justin Horneker @hornekerjustin.bsky.social Curator of CITY SCene newsletter at stlmag.com // Talkin' NWSL, MLS, and St. Louis soccer, among other things, read my newsletter.
www.talkinsoccer.com
Again With This @againwiththispodcast.com The Beverly Hills, 90210/Melrose Place/Dawson's Creek podcast from Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting.
Fannie Bialek @fanniebialek.bsky.social friend, countryman, religion and politics prof @ washu
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal
Tyler DeLuca @tylerdeluca.bsky.social Freelance Creator/Writer/Broadcaster
🏠 @nocapspacewbb.com
✉️ tylerdelucatv@gmail.com
Andrew G. Haubner @aghaubner.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief: @nocapspacewbb.com
CU Buff, native New Yorker, washed up mogul skier.
Talking women's basketball, sports and some other stuff.
Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social ESPN women’s college basketball, WNBA reporter. Posting on here and, for now, X | IG: alexaphilippou_ESPN
Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)
@nancybentley.bsky.social @nancybentley.bsky.social 
Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture.
https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer
Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social I write about college, Olympic and other sports for @wsj.com. Graduate, Minneapolis South High School. I sometimes post about old-timey sports. rachel dot bachman at wsj dot com.
anandi m @anandimish.bsky.social Biweekly blogs about urbanism through popculture, lived experiences, climate change: https://buttondown.com/StreetHaunting/archive/
Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, VQR, The Art Newspaper, Public Books
www.anandimishra.com
Darrell | Building Better Men @buildingbetter.bsky.social Sharing the journey of positive masculinity - being strong enough to be gentle, confident enough to admit mistakes.
Men supporting men. Outdoors, fitness, building things. You don't have to have it all figured out. The work is the point.
Senator Mike Simmons @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social State Senator and Former Congressional Candidate for IL-09. Here for the Fight.
Chicago native. Proudly LGBTQ+, Ethiopian-American. 🏳️🌈🇪🇹
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Emma Sarappo @emmasarappo.bsky.social a books editor at The Atlantic and spreadsheet lady for its union. once described as "friendly" on eBird
Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social Renaissance Bitch. Minority Owner of Minnesota Aurora FC. WNBA, Other Sports Things, Geeky Nerd TV/Movie Things. Music Enthusiast. They/Them if you please.
The Laundry @thelaundry.bsky.social He/him.
"A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't." Tom Waits
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social This is a personal account, and there might not be as many baseball posts as you might expect! This is for the best. For a midlife crisis expressed through record collecting, follow me @mystupidrecords.bsky.social
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Movie enjoyer. Animal lover.
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
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social Usually found (professionally) talking about ageing, loneliness, health, care, ageism etc. Other stuff as the mood takes me 
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
@franciszomes.bsky.social @franciszomes.bsky.social 
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social this is a Star Trek opinions account 
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter.
Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura, Empire, etc. she/her
andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social edits comics
makes soup
won degrassi trivia
Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
www.jenreadsromance.com
Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. I hate board games. Brooklyn, NY.
dominicumile.com
Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social writer, editor. ✍️ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
https://www.nicoleaclark.com/
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social Was: reporter, tv critic, member Television Critics Assoc. Now: living the surf life in Outer Sunset. Lifelong Dem, proud Iowa native. #WeAreNAFO “CIA funded gangster” "cancel culture bully from hell" 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social Screenwriter
Entertainment/tech/IP attorney
Former Sr. Counsel, Motion Picture Association
Occasional journalist
History nerd
Lauri's List of screenwriting fellowships, labs, etc.: https://tinyurl.com/spmfzxfh
Website/blog: https://lauridonahue.com
Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social I teach philosophy, mostly ancient Greek philosophy, at Washington University in St. Louis. I’m here for the zeitgeist. 
Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social 🌟I’m a 73 year old Humboldt hippie, feminist, socialist democrat. Proud mother of two grown men. No grandchildren, 5 cats and 2 dogs plus 3 grand dogs with 1 grand cat. A Sagittarius put on this planet in 1952.
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Aubrey Whelan @aubreywhelan.bsky.social Reporter covering public health, addiction, hospital workforces, and other health stuff for @inquirer.com. Pronouns: she/her. South Philly forever.
Contact me on Signal: aubreywhelan.73
https://www.inquirer.com/author/whelan_aubrey
Matt Rubin @mattirubin.bsky.social i'm a community organizer in pittsurgh, a socialist, jewish, and sometimes i post about things i'm mad about. he/him.
Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social Consulting on audience strategy, audiostrategy.org
Writing a book for @beltpublishing.bsky.social - preorder here! https://tinyurl.com/2nr23yep
Teaching digital sociability and ethics, NYU-Tandon
ACT-UAW Local 7902
Fmr audience data WNYC, NYMag, Megaphone
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
aaronsojourner.org
Be kind. Work hard. Have fun.
@edmuir.bsky.social @edmuir.bsky.social My own thoughts on unions, education and public finance. 
Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social Reuters journalist
he/him
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com Pittsburgh 🤘🏻 Nazis bad, metal good
Once and future City Paper editor 🖤 colinbwilliams.com
Tips colin@pghcitypaper.com or Signal @wimbles.70
Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social Law prof in Las Vegas | Bagel expert, with a sub-specialty in pickles | UNLV Immigration Clinic Director | Private chef to my kids | Mets fan | Speaking for myself only | https://www.michaelgkagan.com | https://behindtheborder.substack.com
Charlie McCrary @mccraryc.bsky.social I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. I work at Eckerd College.
https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/