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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
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all opinions my own.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy at Michigan State. Contributor to The Downballot. I teach, write, and post about state constitutional law, institutional development, and criminal law. I write (infrequently) at guaranteedrepublics.substack.com.
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social Staff writer on science, tech, and health at The Atlantic covering AI. Signal @matteowong.52
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay Host of TRAN GIRLISMO the Real Podcast Simulator,Photographer, Most Reasonable Woman Alive, Pittsburgh Evangelist
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Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social Now: Making Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor for Protocol; reporter for Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com Tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror. Subscribe:
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
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
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com new york comics writer lady & musician. lambda literary 2025 nominee. GIRLMODE, KIM & KIM, ETERNITY GIRL, VAGRANT QUEEN. I make music as DAISY & JANE.
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social Bi, Heat Transferer and Supercritical Fluid Enjoyer
Tech, culture, war, and war by other means
Supplying you with feelings via an efficient band
Ballistic missile maximalist
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org Advancing ideas that rebalance power in our economy and democracy. www.rooseveltinstitute.org
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree. Diva + Professor: Professa.
Adam S. Rust @asrust.bsky.social Lawyer, writes on law things, writings have appeared in Liberal Currents and Balls & Strikes, based in the SF Bay Area.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com Political Science Professor at Marquette University. I write about constitutional history. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com
Website: https://patsobkowski.com/
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social Covering the Supreme Court etc at TPM & co-hosting the TPM Show; Philly-born Mystics diehard 🚴♀️🏃♀️Call me/beep me: kateriga.24/ kate@talkingpointsmemo.com 📸 Leah Miessler, Anna Moneymaker
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social a frightful hobgoblin
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
M Zakharuk @ Read ATTACK DOGS @mzakharuk.bsky.social Emma, she/her/ze/zir. NB lesbian, monster lover, cover designer, co-author and co-host with @taliabhatt.itch.io. Sometimes known as Dolphin Diaries
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com https://drafts.interfluidity.com/
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton 2026) (readsupremacy.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
derek 🔒 @brainedimage.bsky.social locked account
John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social @Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
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Editor. Writer.
Nicole Ashley @handle.invalid Cinematographer, filmmaker, actor. 🏳️⚧️⚢
Auckland, New Zealand
nicole.ashley.kiwi
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan
<Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social Philosophe féministe 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸 Prof @GoetheUni
We Are Not Born Submissive / The Joy of Consent / Living with Men
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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@ffrf.org @ffrf.org The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprophet nonprofit, with 40,000 nonreligious members working to keep state and church separate.
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social the only moral position on immigration is open borders.
she/her. socialist in the liberal tradition. Reconstructionist. Liberal Currents Contributing Editor, i guess???
boycott the New York Times
Pessimismus intellectus, optimismus voluntatis
Tess Scilipoti @scilipoti.bsky.social comic artist • read and contact at tessscilipoti.net
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com A Harrisburg-based nonpartisan, nonprofit news site dedicated to fact-based, nuanced, fair, and transparent coverage focusing on how policies implemented in Harrisburg and Washington D.C. impact you and your community.
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social Acting Co-Director, Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School | all things EU institutional | previously Assistant Prof of EU con law | podcast: EU to go - Der Podcast für Europapolitik
John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University, England. Research in EU constitutional law, especially defence of democracy, and impeachment. Irishman living in Cheshire. Views are my own.
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social 🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺⚖️ Senior Research Coordinator at @democracyreporting.bsky.social, re:constitution programme - rule of law in the EU. Lives on a Berlin-Poznań-Warszawa train. "European Elitist". He/him. Full-time nerd. I'm a fan of bios longer than 160 characters.
Democracy Reporting International @democracyreporting.bsky.social DRI supports local ways of promoting democracy with impartial analysis and best practice examples, bringing international standards of democracy to life.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social I post about politics 🏛️🌹 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇫🇰
My focus is the EU, UK, US and Far Right.
Chair of the Democracy Conference aka DemCon 🌟
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isaac 🫃🏻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social isaac | 28 | usa | marxist | assigned wwi guy at birth
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Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social A podcast about deconstructing the feminist discourses in academia and popular culture.
Hosts:
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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social emma, she/her or ze/zir. detrans NB lesbian, transfeminist. writing about detransition for trans liberation, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.
co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social
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Tran Girlismo: The Real Podcast Simulator @trangirlismo.bsky.social A podcast about car culture, the decline of empire, and motorsports from @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay and @victoriascott.bsky.social, two (former) auto journalists and (current) trans women
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1923-2015
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Stefan Hunglinger @hunglinger.bsky.social Redakteur @taz.de
Sonst SPIEGEL, DLF…
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Erik Peter @retepkire.bsky.social Ressortleiter taz Berlin und zuständig für Krawall und Remmidemmi
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