Pirate Wires @piratewires.bsky.social technology, politics, culture
Freezing Cold Takes @oldtakesexposed.bsky.social Fred Segal. Unprophetic (mostly sports) takes, & other fun stuff. No politics! Author of “Freezing Cold Takes: College Football” (Release Date: August 18) Now available for Pre-Order!
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; PhD/JD.
By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport.
24/7: Epistemic humility; posting through the polycrisis; personal account.
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
Chuck Mikolajczak @chuckmik.bsky.social Reuters U.S. markets correspondent/U.S. stocks team leader. http://seedisclaimer.com/
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of The Register
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Matt-Rosoff/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
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Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Max Fisher @max-fisher.bsky.social Co-host of the podcasts OFFLINE and HOW WE GOT HERE on Crooked Media. Author of THE CHAOS MACHINE, an NPR and New Yorker best book of 2022.
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Latin American and Caribbean History @UWMadison. ✍️The Lettered Barriada (DukeUP); Puerto Rico: A National History (PrincetonUP/Planeta); A Counter-Republic of Letters (under contract w/ DukeUP). 🇵🇷
💾: https://linktr.ee/jmelendezbadillo
Bill Browder @billbrowder.bsky.social Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice and Freezing Order
Michela Tindera @mtindera.ft.com 🎧 Host of Behind the Money, a podcast from the Financial Times
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Tortoise @tortoisemedia.bsky.social Slow news, without the noise 🐢
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Jason Shellen @shellen.com Now: Something incredibly cool, I bet
Then: Fable, Slack, Pinterest, Boxer, Brizzly.com, Google Reader, Blogger etc.
shellen.com
Phillygirl @originalphillygirl.bsky.social Okay, sure. Let’s give this a go.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/subscribe
wrote a book by the same name wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polling averages at @fiftyplusone.news
formerly @ 538 & The Economist. email, don't DM, me
Sebastian Murdock @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social Senior Reporter, HuffPost.
Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel-Palestine.
👉 https://linktr.ee/standingtogether.en
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Lauren Kirchner @lkirchner.bsky.social Investigative reporter at Consumer Reports covering safety and health; previously covered tech and criminal justice at The Markup and ProPublica. Signal: @Lkirchner.44
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News. "FOIA terrorist." Subscribe to my newsletter, FOIA Files and my FOIA podcast, Disclosure.
Signal: JasonLeopold.666
http://swap.fm/l/O8A3zzBKsGWpqLtjzLSF
https://www.bloomberg.com/foiafiles
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social New York. Trace amounts of past lives at THE CITY, Human Rights Watch, Mail & Guardian, and Hindustan Times may be present. Slight risk of bicycles and mountains.
The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social A view on politics at home & abroad, while bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably with Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell. Powered by Fuse Energy⚡
https://linktr.ee/RestIsPolitics
Homeschooling Unleashed: The Unapologetically Secular Convention @secularhomeschool.bsky.social Homeschooling Unleashed: The Unapologetically Secular Convention. Aug 1-3, 2025. Raleigh, NC. An inclusive, secular convention for homeschoolers. 
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him 
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
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wydenpress.bsky.social
Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.
Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Critic (she/her)
Words in DIAGRAM, Witness, Fourteen Hills, NOVEL
www.carolinewilkinson.com
💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social editor at rolling stone
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social Parody account. Here to take the piss out of the full time grifter and part time MP who leads Reform UK. Enjoy – and feel free to encourage my coffee habit: ⬇️
https://ko-fi.com/:parody_pm
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social maxy.world/
thehtml.review/
https://10kdrummachines.com/
rae deng @raesdeng.bsky.social fact-checking for snopes, (short) previous life as statehouse reporter covering legislatures in washington, minnesota and ohio (in that order) | they/she
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
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Snopes Guild @snopesguild.bsky.social The workers of Snopes are unionizing because fact-checkers deserve transparency too 🔎💡
Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com A news outlet owned & run by journalists covering NYC: https://hellgatenyc.com
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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social Refugee from Twitter
Repost can mean anything
Really just curious in Brooklyn
Jefferson Fisher @jeffersonfisher.bsky.social trial attorney / communication expert
I help people argue less so they can talk more⚡️
jeffersonfisher.com/book
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Relapsing lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social U.S. Senator for California. Husband & Dad. Former CA Secretary of State. MIT Grad. San Fernando Valley native. Defending the dream.
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social Bot highlighting changes to the New York Times "Top Stories" feed.
original by @j-e-d.bsky.social
Bluesky version by @unchi.org
Source: https://github.com/j-e-d/NYTdiff
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reporter @WIRED.com
caroline_haskins@wired.com
785-813-1084
https://www.wired.com/author/caroline-haskins/
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. Parliamentary candidate for the Clacton By-Election, 2026. Sane.
Promoted by Count Binface, at PO Box 818, Tonbridge, TN9 9YF
Kirsten Grind @kirstengrind.bsky.social NYT tech investigations, former WSJ, mother of two great boys and two great books
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Mike Birbiglia @birbigs.bsky.social comedian, bluesky early adapter
daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social your daily dose of bunnies ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
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The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Lana L. @transtextuality.bsky.social Multimedia Freelance Journalist. Disrupting news frames one beat at a time. Reporting seen in: Assigned, Under the Desk News, Asbury Park Press, LGBTQ Nation, GLAAD
Thoughts are my own. Objectivity is Dead.
Count Sefira @countsefira.bsky.social A new message every evening to help you remember to count Sefirat HaOmer.
Sylvie Mallard @sylviemallard.bsky.social 🎬 Réalisatrice à l’émission Découverte 🌎
Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social www.annie-abrams.com
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Sam Woolfe @samwoolfe.bsky.social Freelance writer & author of Altered Perspectives: Critical Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness (2024). Interested in non-ordinary states, mental health, psychology, ethics, and film.
Editor for https://psychedelics.community/
https://www.samwoolfe.com
Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social German Physicist
Jim Baggott @jimbaggott.bsky.social Science writer based in Cape Town. Author of 'Discordance', 'Atomic', ‘The Quantum Story’, ‘Quantum Drama’ (with John Heilbron), and lots more. Migrant from symbol-formerly-known-as-Twitter. Also on Substack: jimbaggott.substack.com. www.jimbaggott.com.
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social Philosophy professor, University of Warwick. DPVC. Research: political philosophy, moral philosophy, social epistemology. She/they.
https://www.fabiennepeter.org/
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Milena Ivanova @milenaivanova.bsky.social Philosopher of Science
University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Newnham College
Thinks about science, beauty, AI and creativity
milenaivanova.co.uk
Clare Chambers @profclarechambers.bsky.social Professor of Political Philosophy at University of Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College. Author of Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body, Freedom & Equality, Against Marriage, and Sex, Culture, and Justice. 
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📈Journalist 📖 Writer 🎥 Film-maker 🤷🏻♂️ Public Speaker 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social Philosopher @Flinders University in Adelaide. Author- The Emotional Mind (CUP 2018) & The Aesthetic Value of the World (OUP 2021). Lover of sci-fi & jazz piano.
https://sites.google.com/view/tomcochranephilosophy/
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Lee Cronin @leecronin.bsky.social Regius Professor. Scientist, Chemist, Inventor, CEO of Chemify. Fascinated & in a state of confusion & optimism. Trying to digitize chemistry & make alien life.
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
Janne Teller @janneteller.bsky.social Novelist & Essayist (She/her) /Human rights & Ethics for All Beings (talking/or not), Independent & Individual Choice/ Dignity for Everyone, Against Genocides=Free Palestine, Former UN Economist/Peacekeeping
www.janneteller.com , substack.com/@janneteller
Christina Lamb @christinalamb.bsky.social 
Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
Sabrina Little @sabrinablittle.bsky.social Ethics & Moral Psychology. Trail & Ultra Runner. 5x National Champion. World Silver Medalist. Author of The Examined Run (OUP 2024). https://sabrinalittle.com
Susana Martinez-Conde @smartinez-conde.bsky.social Neuroscientist, science communicator, speaker
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social Philosopher and Pro-Rector at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
Bernardo Kastrup @bernardokastrup.bsky.social Author, philosopher, computer scientist. Executive Director of Essentia Foundation (http://essentiafoundation.org). Views are my own, not Essentia Foundation's.
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Diana Urge-Vorsatz @dianaurge.bsky.social Professor, Central European University
@CEU
Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
@IPCC_ch
Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social Philosophy of science, metaphysics (PhD, habilitation).
Space, time and quantum gravity. Assistant Professor. Swiss NSF Starting Grant: http://SpaceQG.com
http://baptistelebihan.org
Martin Cohen @docmartincohen.bsky.social Author, editor & freelancer: philosophy and social science = applying philosophy to everyday life. Best known book "101 Philosophy Problems" Bylines at Guardian, Independent, TES and Higher. Definitely also @ForDummies http:www.martincohenauthor.com No DMs
Carlo Rovelli @rovelli.bsky.social Physicist.
Dominic Walliman @dominicwalliman.com YouTuber at Domain of Science
PhD in Quantum Device Physics
Using animated infographics to explain complex science with a leaning towards quantum computing