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@HannahNatanson.2026.
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Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Paul Voosen @voosen.me Dad of two. Earth, climate, and planetary science reporter @Science.org magazine. Mistrusts narratives; still writes them.
https://www.science.org/content/author/paul-voosen
https://sciencemastodon.com/@voooos
voosen@protonmail.com
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
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No substack. No podcast. You're welcome.
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End the Genocide
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wrote some stuff in some places
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New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
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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.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social Giant queer trans sf/game writer who is NOT AMERICAN, typewriter guardian, mind poisoner. Nebula winner, Aurora winner! Assistant Editor at Escape Pod, CW '19. Hamilton, Ontario. Header by @shargrave.bsky.social. She/her. www.phoebebartonsf.com
James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social Reviewer, Essayist, Hugo, Aurora, and Darwin Award finalist.
My hydronyms: turbid/opaque
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Chitty Chitty Headbang @thotchev.cryptoanarchy.network Antifascist they/she 🔞 PDX
Masking! At the Grocery Store
Free Palestine. Free the Prairieland activists. Fuck ICE
Catbus @catbus.phd Your old pal, Catbus from Online
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or it will punish you
Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social Still alive - HA - take *that* body!
Recovering caricaturist.
Gaza, the West Bank & Lebanon are all expressions of Ethnic Cleansing.
iZrael is an unfettered Apartheid state.
DoB: 318.99ppm (CO₂)
Residing currently on Yugara land.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
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LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
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Discovery @discovery111.bsky.social We'll bring the 🌍 to you
Satan @thedevil.bsky.social It's really cute that you're gonna "defeat me with the power of friendship and all," but again, I am the devil from the Bible
fascists not welcome
Better than the one on twitter.
Interesting 💫 @interesting.bsky.social all things interesting
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
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lost sock at the night nurse hospital
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Blizzard of the Month: Shoe leather
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
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