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SleepingGiant @sleepinggiant69.bsky.social "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"
Fighting for a liberal socialism that knows how to fight
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
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Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
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All on a Speck of Dust in the Milky Way @inasilentdream.bsky.social Native. Buddhist. Bisexual. Reverse: 1999 fan account. A useless dream can change everything, just like a distant star changed you. Favorite characters: Voyager, Corvus, Kakania, Flutterpage
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Author - Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being A Woman in America; Losing My Perspicacity (newsletter)
Tips: jdica@protonmail.com
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Occasionally NSFW
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
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Ex-archaeologist turned ex-chef turned museum wench
I post mostly about Tigers baseball
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Democrats @democrats.org We’re fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social Extremely Online medieval archaeologist in the PNW. Dem Tea Party Believer. AOCista. Gerontocracy hater. 🌹DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him. #nomoresenators
Nick Reynolds @iamnickreynolds.bsky.social SC statehouse + politics w/ @postandcourier | Ex-@Newsweek, @WyoFile, @IthacaTimes. @Brockport alum, @UofSC MPA student. | Tips? nreynolds@postandcourier.com.
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Fix your hearts or die
Turn off motion smoothing
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social Pennsylvania Astronomer, writer at Ordinary Times, maker of YouTube videos, caretaker of two kids and two dogs.
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelSiegel14
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me 💜 writer, dev, gamer
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social Proud husband and father. Former Chair of the DNC.
Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social Democratic Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives. Proudly representing the people of #MA5. Defender of women, kids & justice. She/Her
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original by @j-e-d.bsky.social
Bluesky version by @unchi.org
Source: https://github.com/j-e-d/NYTdiff
Robyn Schroeder @reconstitut.bsky.social teacher of places, nostalgic for things, designated remember / public historian
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social Masshole by birth, Arizonan by questionable life choice
Constantly involuntarily angry about politics
twitter was @sayer_of_stuff
been a while since last actual state song thread
Ben Holmen @benholmen.com Big tall anti-entropy machine
Software engineer + general maker
Always curious about everything
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...let's go exploring!
Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social Never’s just the echo of forever
Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social your fuel prices, explained honestly.
data over politics, no tolerance for political BS.
thousands of interviews | trusted by every White House administration.
Integrity matters.
Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social Award-winning author, analog game designer, filmmaker, graphic designer, and video game developer. Anarchist. Unapologetically radical.
Glonzo Ball @groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social not the washed up UCLA men's basketball star slash cavs point guard. semi-retired forums poster and eternal goony fuck (he/him) waiting for elon to go the way of richard lowtax kyanka
Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social Programmer. Trying to enjoy arguing on the Internet less. He/Him.
Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
Behemoth & Leviathan, LP @harkov311.bsky.social At the intersection of industrial music, battleship porn, political takes, gaming, horror, and history. Hard sedan/coupe traditionalist. Filthy Virginia Establishment Shitlib. E-waste connoisseur. He/Him 🌋🇺🇦🇹🇼
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Emmasrandomthoughts 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @countessemilia.bsky.social I'm pretty mercurial.
Reskeets not endorsements
She/her/hers
United Statesperson American
Erie land on Lake Erie
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Free Palestine🇵🇸
Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social A good samurai will parry the blow. Cuban American basketball/tennis/book/Hoosier fan
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Ben Says Abolish ICE @justanotherben.bsky.social Leftist dog
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
Block Me Amadeus @blockmeamadeus.bsky.social Embittered former child prodigy. Weaponsly attacks seeking a noblement.
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Views and bad hot takes are my own, if even that.
Likes & RTs =/= endorsements.
Jeremy Ryan @jeremyryan.bsky.social Software engineer, Vermont resider, writer
Certified 0.5x Developer
Matt Waters @mwwaters.bsky.social 
Tobysaurus @reneponac.bsky.social Interested in Board games and the cultural and social impacts of music, especially 20th century country and folk.
PG-13 Wodehouse @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | should be writing
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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June Blackwell 🏳️⚧️ @junipercapita.bsky.social Higher Ed advising, environmental history & sundry. Trans woman (she/her)
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social Even a crooked regime wants an honest accountant.
EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social Independent journalist focusing on economics and global economy
Our website: en.econreporter.com
Sharon 🪳 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, east asia
words: Foreign Policy/LiberalCurrents
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024). Preorder FIGHTING IN THE DARK (August 4).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
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Editor. Writer.
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Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.
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Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
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Co-author of RCBG!
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing)
I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal.
(He/Him)
https://www.offensive-bias.com/
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com trans potato of socialism
random whimsy, nonsense, ranting about Events leftishly
Used to do IT
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Brad Biggs @bradbiggs.bsky.social Covering the Chicago Bears since 2001.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/brad-biggs/
charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social early 30 something black man in brooklyn. covering NFL in the ether. free palestine. long live rosie.
contact: crmcd94@gmail.com
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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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/ 
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, NBC News and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info