Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social Thoughts on books and culture, plus original fiction and essays.
Emily Mirengoff @emirengoff.bsky.social Half old lady, half baby. Fiction editor at TriQuarterly; stories in STORY, Santa Monica Review, and more. repped by @frecklywench.bsky.social www.emirengoff.com
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. Stoker-nominated author of AMERICAN SCARY; PRESS 1 FOR INVASION for middle-graders from Simon and Schuster OUT NOW!
Socialism Conference @socialismconference.org Socialism Conference 2026 • September 4-7 • Chicago, IL
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
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thedrevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social editor-in-chief BULL, author of the book of rusty, a good ram is hard to find, ina-baby: a love story in reverse, & bend with the knees and other love advice from my father (thedrevlow-olsonshow.com)
molly taft @mollytaft.com disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.99. mollytaft.com
Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social Leaked photo of heaven
She/her NYC
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
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
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, & raising giant isopods in my basement, for fun and profit.
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
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.
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account. past: tfgh, cdc, emory. interests: health policy, law, & politics, global health. big fan of: human rights, vaccines, abiding no hatred. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his/him.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Comics, Music and Podcasts by Katie Freeway Hood
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social Independent journalist at lamplighter.news
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
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
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
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Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social I’ll be posting soon. Jokes and journalism. Slow-walking over here. #nolatwitter
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans 
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social Author of 9 books, translator of 2.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social Write about the environment for the Guardian. Author of the Insect Crisis. Just about able to play Let it Be on the ukulele. LFC always.
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