Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
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Contributing editor, The New Republic
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Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c
German Dept #UCBerkeley
Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social 37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler.
RN@dicknixon.com
VoteHub @votehub.com Your hub for elections. 🇺🇸 Detailed maps, live election night coverage, and analysis backed by deeper data.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social President of American Association of University Professors, VP of American Federation of Teachers, Professor at Rutgers University, Dad, Author, Against Fascism! College4All!
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
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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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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social I write about the history and politics of education. I oppose the privatization of public schools. I support democracy, teachers, students, unions, liberal education, freedom to teach and to learn. Born in Houston, live in Brooklyn. Twitter refugee.
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Lis @thewritegame.bsky.social Creative Lead: Disney, 20th Century Games.
Working on cool stuff like Alien, Predator, Simpsons, etc. Fmr Senior Game Writer, Narrative Designer
Opinions are mine. she/her
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social Author of fantasy novels.
Refugee from https://twitter.com/DjangoWexler
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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
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
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social Author, LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE, HOW LUCKY, THE TIME HAS COME. Contributing Editor, New York. Columnist, The Washington Post & The Athletic. Writer, MLB. Critic, Grierson & Leitch. Founder, Deadspin. Illini. Mattoonian. https://williamfleitch.substack.com
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Carmen Prieto Reina @carmenprietoreina.bsky.social Profesora de la Universidad de Huelva, Editora y revisora científica. Doctoranda da Universidade da Coruña.
Proyecto A: Docencia en medios de comunicación audiovisual.
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social Writer at Eunomia, Responsible Statecraft, and Antiwar
daniellarison.substack.com
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social Columns: The Boston Globe, Boston.com. Editor: The Boston Globe Story of Celtics. https://shorturl.at/j7ozz
Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
👉 https://amzn.eu/d/2IHjNWV
Grey ships, black boats
Once a midship, always a midship!
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
The Washington Informer @washingtoninformer.com Top-leading African American woman-owned media company serving the Washington D.C. metro area since 1964. www.WashingtonInformer.com #BlackPressMatters #BeInformed
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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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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social News for the 99%. ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting covering stories the corporate media COVERS UP | https://statuscoup.com/join
Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social Writer
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social Wikipedia expert at @wikieducation.bsky.social.
Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile
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Rhode Island Current @rhodeislandcurrent.com The Rhode Island Current is an independent, nonprofit news outlet covering state government and the impact of public policy decisions in the Ocean State.
Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com Scrappy independent journalism. For you. Come to Source NM for fresh reporting, and insightful opinion and analysis from around the state.
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The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Tyler Parker @tylerparker.bsky.social writer @ ringer // wait a second
Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social Latest novel: THE GREAT AMERICAN BETRAYAL "Best Comedy Books of 2022" —Vulture
English professor, novelist, satirist, editor, father, husband, dog owner, gardener
https://scottsteinonline.com
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @moltisantithots.bsky.social What I'm saying is...
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.