Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social Cyber War. Huh. What is it good for?
Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social Taoiseach and Uachtarán Fhianna Fáil. TD for Cork South Central.
Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦
Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. Lobbyist for electric planes.
I also chair Unhack Democracy, write on foreign affairs do green libertarianism with epicenternetwork.eu
My substack: garvanwalshe.org
Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Politics guy @virginmedianews.bsky.social; host of Monday with Gavan Reilly (10pm, Virgin Media One); weekly columnist @thejournal.ie; bestselling author of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞: linktr.ee/gavreilly
Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social Irish Times Investigations Reporter
Author: Is Ireland Neutral? (Gill)
Email: conor.gallagher@irishtimes.com
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/vFjX_wFsoQvTxoBy_ZAqCY0U0axHI36uAuKVPIMx-EIDfetOPixH_J7tuEnJCXkB
TG4 @tg4.bsky.social 💚 Tír gan Teanga - Tír gan Anam
🧿 Súil Eile
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social Writer. Pet-wrangler. MDANT. New novel 'End of a Century' out now. 'How Soon Is Now?' also available on Amazon and from Audible. www.paulcarnahan.com
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social Journalist + feminist. Investigative reporter at The Nerve. Formerly Good Law Project. Other bylines inc The Guardian, CNN, Dazed, TIME Magazine. They/them.
www.alicemccool.com
London Centric @londoncentric.media A modern news outlet for London, covering the city in the old-fashioned way. Edited by @jim.londoncentric.media. Subscribe now for a 25% discount: www.londoncentric.media
Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social Left wing journalist. Dad of Léa, Saoirse and Raven. Book ‘Abolish Westminster’ due out with Faber in November. Pre-order at: https://linktr.ee/abolishwestminster. Also at: www.abolishwestminster.substack.com
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker @officehourslive.bsky.social Office Hours Live is a call-in show with @timheidecker.bsky.social, @vicbergeriv.bsky.social and DJ Douggpound (aka the holy trinity).
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Vic Berger IV @vicbergeriv.bsky.social 
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Ben Quinn @benquinn75.bsky.social Guardian Political Correspondent
UK current affairs (with a fair bit on the Far Right, populism, disinfo)
Irish Londoner
Story? ben.quinn@theguardian.com
Something sensitive? Secure drop: https://www.theguardian.com/tips
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
FarageWatch @faragewatch.bsky.social Britain's community reality-check newsletter. Independent. Fact-reporting. Fully sourced. Print copies crowdfunded and delivered door-to-door by volunteers.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social Old school war reporter: author of 16 books inc Killer In The Kremlin, Murder In The Gulag and novel The Useful Idiot.
Co-host Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime?
Founder: VPDFO! Festivals
johnsweeney.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/c/JohnSweeneyRoar
Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social ProPublica reporter | Email me at joshua.kaplan@propublica.org | Contact info & stories here: propublica.org/people/joshua-kaplan
Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social ⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social Philosopher - ethics, politics, music | Slowly writing a book on Isaiah Berlin | Born in USSR, home is London | Living with ME since 2003.
youtube.com/vladvexler (main channel)
youtube.com/vladvexlerchat (chat channel)
youtube.com/@vladvexlerphilosophy
Dr Henna Karhapää @hennakarhapaa.bsky.social - Executive Director (non-profit)
- Art Historian (political propaganda, British Empire, Revolutionary America)
- Accessibility & inclusivity expert
- Advocate for women’s & children’s rights
- Finnish born 🇫🇮 Scottish heart 🏴
- Opinions my own
- She/ her
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
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https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social Exposing Reform UK.
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Susie Madrak Ω @susiemadrak.bsky.social Art school dropout, former journalist, and one of the original political bloggers. Yellow dog Democrat, Philly born and raised. Blogs at CrooksandLiars.com and Suburban Guerrilla @ www.susiemadrak.com
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social The internet's grim conscience. OG blogger. Blue Blaze Irregular. Coiner of the phrase #DumpsterFire. Also podcast w/ Blue Gal -- @ProLeftPodcast -- https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/
I AM the motherf*cking shore patrol! 
Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social OG Liberal Blogger (BooMan): worked for ACORN, Democracy for America and Washington Monthly. Founded Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Was once internet famous in India. Podcasting the Progress Pondcast. https://martinlongman.substack.com
digby @digby56.bsky.social OG blogger at digbysblog.net
columnist for Salon.com 
@upyernoz.bsky.social @upyernoz.bsky.social First the Earth cooled, then I had lunch.
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.
Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social Made from Maine Wabanakiak, Isles of Shoals fishermen, and Welsh coal miners. Exiled to Oregon. Constitutional law and state/tribal/fed gov't wonk (JD). North Atlantic historian obsessed with wampum, cod fishing, and dual-host pathogens.
Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
Avedon Carol (in that order) @avedonsays.bsky.social Old-school blogger, and grumpy with it.
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social Reporter, DailyKos.com, Previously Media Matters. Subscribe to http://oliverwillis.substack.com
Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA.
PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
Terrance Heath @terrancedc.bsky.social Black. Gay. Father. Progressive. Writer. Buddhist. Vegetarian. Widower.
David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social Former US living in the UK. Retired Sr Fellow, Campaign for America's Future.
Silicon Valley: Atari, Imagic, Working Software, Be, and various executive positions.
seeingtheforest.substack.com
seeingtheforest.com
Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com Political writer, politician haranguer, senior pet caretaker, gardener
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com White boy with some guitar chops. Haole from Hawai'i. Too weird to clank. Uncivil when necessary.
https://littlegreenfootballs.com
Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social Morning guy at Digby's Hullabaloo since 2014.
Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT
Bylines: @crooksandliars @HuffPost @BillMoyers Citizen-Times & more
Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
@avl_sign_guy
Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social Burned out political writer and podcast/radio host.
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.
jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social what if we could have the things we liked, minus the things we didn't like
Sara Robinson @sararobinson.bsky.social Social and political futurist. OG blogger covering emergent US fascist futures in 2006: never been so sorry to be so right about so much. Journalist. Multi-engine pilot. Eastern Sierra kid, Silicon Valley babe, now living the quiet expat life in Canada.
Brendancalling @brendancalling.bsky.social OG blogger, bass player, runner, country boy punk rock-n-roller metal head, writer, podcast host, ordained minister
https://thenogoodcrowd.bandcamp.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-progress-pondcast/id1700009770
FWIW: I hate social media.
Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social Workplace safety & health, & labor. OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary 2009-17. Ran AFSCME's health & safety program 1982-98. Also House Ed & Labor Ctte & Chemical Safety Board
Read my workplace health & safety blog: Confined Space http://jordanbarab.com
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social Village Voice, Reverb Motherfuckers, etc. https://edroso.substack.com 
Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this
Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social ugh, who invited this guy 
The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social Since 2003, your release valve for your liberal rage. Read more: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com.
Become a patron of the rude arts: http://patreon.com/rudepundit
John Aravosis @aravosis.bsky.social “Aravosis Report” TikTok news updates: tiktok.com/@aravosis. G’town JD/MSFS. Past: UNDP/The Economist/US Senate/World Bank #NAFO
Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social Father, writer, political observer, hard-core Democrat. And sorry fake-patriot Trumpers but I'm a Veteran so don't tell me to leave my country. YOU leave.
I prefer presidents who aren't rapists.
#Resist #BlueResister
Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social Formerly: Crank theologian known as pastordan
Now: A nice guy, actually
Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social Mainer in DC. Host “State of the States” on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social
Husband of @carlosonhousing.bsky.social. Dog dad to Oliver
Wannabe wildlifer
Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social Many know me as Iddybud, part of the online convo for 25 years. | Sick of lies & misinformation | Optimist | Honest to a fault | No one's ever paid me for my honest opinion | Independent voter | Well read | Comedy fan | We need #Art #Photography #Music
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG @thebradblog.bsky.social That guy who's run BradBlog.com since 2004 and hosts the nationally syndicated #BradCast on Pacifica Radio and other fine affiliates across the nation and world (https://BradBlog.com/BradCast). Finally dipping into BlueSky...
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social Writer, teacher, ex-hockey player, occasional golfer, drummer, actor. All the opinions here are mine. Mine, I say!
MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social I am a longtime resident of Laniakea.
Galaxy Quest tells us how to fight for progressive social & economic policies: Never give up, never surrender.
#Landback! Restore Native sovereignty over the Black Hills
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
@quellingly.bsky.social @quellingly.bsky.social The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad
hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social Ethics R Us.
Cambridge MA
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social The times have found us.
Photographer.
🏳️🌈
Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social Blogger from the ancient past- R Roger Ailes @rogerailes.bsky.social Not the Former Fat Fox Fuck
Gen. JC Christian @genjcchristian.bsky.social Commander of the Red Guard of the Christian Conservative Cultural Revolution and 2nd Eagle of the Apocalypse. I outrank that sniveling bastard, Michael Flynn. I wear camo and am therefore invisible.
- Alabama side of Washington Cascades
Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Carrier Catapult Advisor @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social I'm a biologist, mad as in angry. Pro-D.C. statehood since 1969.
@mikethemadbiologist@mastodon.online
www.mikethemadbiologist.com
🧪
Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social Podcaster: The Bob Cesca Show, Trek Politics, Stephanie Miller, TME w John Fugelsang. Writer, artist, cyclist, Rush fan, collector of nerdy things.
patreon.com/bobcescashow
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social Writer, talker, author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain.
https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social Unbeliever (political & religious), Wales rugby, #c4news, porridge, tea, #MEcfs
'Obvious but wrong'
Also JTJ on the other place
https://johnthejack.com
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Marianna Spring @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social BBC’s Social Media Investigations Correspondent | Radio 4 podcasts | @BBCPanorama & current affairs | #Americast host | ARIAS & British Podcast best host
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
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)
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social We are beautiful. We are doomed