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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.
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📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social Ensuring political appointees serve the public interest.
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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com Authoritarianism, corruption, rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia. Words in WaPo, Slate, Foreign Policy. PhD, political science. He/him.
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I'm just an animal, looking for a home.
Retweets do not imply comprehension.
Born at 318.43 ppm atmospheric carbon.
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In Idaho, but not of Idaho.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
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neuro: 🧠 /🧪
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.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
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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.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
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Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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