Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
autonomynews.co
Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social Consulting on audience strategy, audiostrategy.org
Writing a book for @beltpublishing.bsky.social - preorder here! https://tinyurl.com/2nr23yep
Teaching digital sociability and ethics, NYU-Tandon
ACT-UAW Local 7902
Fmr audience data WNYC, NYMag, Megaphone
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
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
Grace Monk @gracemonk.bsky.social I like words.
Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net Stop Big Tech that:
- launders our data
- dehumanises workers
- lobbies for unsafe uses
- pollutes our environment
Short book on how AI corporations destabilise society:
https://artificialbodies.net/artificial-bodies-preface-7042453348de
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, American Studies, and
Ethnicity, Race & Migration @ Yale
(Also two Oscars)
https://www.tkim.graphics
This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
Dr. Ayah Nuriddin @ayahnerd.bsky.social It's me again! **This is my only public social media account**
Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app Christ Aspirant Sabbatarian | Daddy | Husband | AuDHD/Neurodivergent | Student Emeritus | Actively Activist | Cultural Curator | Crate Digger | Dilla Disciple | @thebanterpubfc
he/him/his
Discord: Carnegro#7927
Handle the same across most platforms
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. she/her
linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
get signed/personalized copies of my books: loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social I study social movements and organizing on the Left.
New book on white folx organizing for racial and economic justice:
https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/white-flank
Cloyingly earnest😆
http://crusso.colgate.domains/
Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social 2025-26 Pulliam Fellow exploring intersection of sports, transportation and environmental justice
eyeblack newsletter (readeyeblack.com)
bwdsecrets.43 on Signal for secure tips
holler@bwd.nyc for everything else
Loren Crowe @lorencrowe.com Want to be talking fashion. Probably talking politics because <waves arms at everything>
MFA Fashion Design @ FIT in NYC. Non profit consultant. Columbia. HBS. No AI, ever. he/him
📸 @TheLorenCrowe #AbolishICE
Kathleen Fitzgerald @kathfitz93.bsky.social “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press critic, publisher, head cunt in charge of Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh).
The Original Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
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.
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
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
Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social Climate and sustainability writing and communications; duck monitor.
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app Actor: For Life, Deli Boys, The Chi, SouthSide, Night's End, Block Party. Stand Up: Comedy Central. Father. Husband. Mean. Violent. Be safe.
Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective.
Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social a poetics of the flesh
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
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
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com (gaming)(host + vlogger) + techie = #SharpieVLOG 🐣
over 4️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ days since my last league game 🥹
replies off on most posts bc i said so 😤😊
🎤 • host: @GDoCExpo.com
📻 • podcast: @fgcast.com (on-hiatus)
more about me ➡️ www.sharpiepls.com
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Founder, The Gaia Leadership Project & The Ripple Effect Institute; political/leadership consultant; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights atty; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; NYer 4ever; Host, ResistanceLive on YT https://www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social Scholar of Race, Policing & National Security I 📕: Blackness & the US Nat’l Security Paradigm I Northwestern PhD I NASM I Sassy 💁🏻♀️I http://claudiagarciarojas.com
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Anne @anneyvette.bsky.social 🇨🇦
Love Light Joy Compassion Humanity 😌
True. North. Strong. Free. Elbows Up!
“Kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight”
Shayleesbibi @shayleesbibi.bsky.social Retired RN, Veteran USPHS. VoteVets, Mom, bibi (grandma), amateur photographer, nature, politics, eat the rich, travel, Daughters, granddaughters, democracy, cursing encouraged, ally 🌈 💙✊🏽
Black Lives Matter Every Single Day @fatnewsdaily.bsky.social Town crier! • Word person • comedy person • abolitionist person • balance of power girlie • pro-human • anti-mosquito • Black lives matter always • God is change • DC or nothing • going Full Karen on white supremacy • queer as in f🏴☠ you • 🩷💜💙✡️🇵🇸🖤🤍❤️💚
Theodore R. Johnson @drtedj.bsky.social Writer | Contributing columnist @WashingtonPost | Senior Fellow @NewAmerica | Navy vet | ΩΨΦ | HBCU-educated
@carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social Radical Left Scum
Escapee from X looking to try and hold on to our country in the face of what’s coming. No MAGA. Asking not to be DM’d, unless I know you, doesn’t seem to be enough. Instant DM is an instant block.
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social Global health, medical anthropology, co-design for health equity. @Johns Hopkins U, working in Guatemala and beyond. Loves sightings of the absurd and compassion.
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
Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social Minnesotan trapped in PA. God of Cookies (Biscuits for Izzard fans)
Sociologist, historian and jigsaw puzzle addict.
ManCity and Oranje.
Cooking, eating, and laughing are important.
My dog is cuter than yours and my cats are smarter.
Anne Harden Tindall @anne-tindall.bsky.social Lover of well-assembled words. Lawyer by training. North Carolinian always. I believe in the America we haven’t yet built.
David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social Writer and stuff. Comics and tv and film. The second-best dressed man in #comics.
The Devil doesn't need advocates: advocate for humans, instead. He/him.
All the things: https://linktr.ee/DAvallone
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
https://alex-hanna.com
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
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
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org Rabbi & Executive Director for @ncjews4justice.bsky.social ✊🏽
Musician & Songwriter | Activist |Speaker. ✡️🏳️🌈🌱
👇🏾 Read the newsletter:
RabbiSandra.substack.com
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social Ad astra per aspera | archivist | in unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute territory | settler/trespasser | bitch who reads | higher ed baby| she/her | views are mine
Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social woman in construction working on climate adaptation - magpie - twin mama - Flatbush public school parent - beachlarker - mutual aid welcoming our newest neighbors in Flatbush -
keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social Storytelling strategy 🎥, narrative power, resource mobilization, and program design primarily with displaced and immigrant youth in the US and East Africa. Also ⚽️
Formerly FilmAid, UNICEF, SundanceTV, HRW. Always Barça
Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social Views and speech are mine alone. Might delete.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social writer and culture editor at @indyweek.bsky.social | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | sedwards@indyweek.com | eddysarah.substack.com
Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
Send me your secrets:
Signal: melodyschreiber.06
Email: melodyschreiber@proton.me
Newsletter: notadoctor.news
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.
K (she/her/dr) @kkinsf.bsky.social Leftist Dem who curses often, likes politics (less nowadays), the Warriors, & the Valkyries, appreciates alt text. Anti-ICE. Terfs GFY. Not your therapist. She/her
Moot Dengrich ☠️🎢 @catfishsushi.bsky.social It was a pretty big year for predators
The marketplace was on a roll
And the land of opportunity
Spawned a whole new breed of men without souls
📍Texas
@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social Detroiter. Spartan. Writer. NAACP IMAGE AWARD nominee. Lifetime Achievement Award Romance Fiction. Slayer of Words.
Wat @a-wat.blacksky.app Husband. Father. NC ➡️ D(M)V. Jokes, music, sports. Samara Joy stan account. #GoHeels #Ravens
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver @jennweaver.bsky.social Former mayor of #HillsboroughNC, A better world is possible. Carolina Basketball, Fall, Get me outside. Can we get some buses, trains, and bike lanes up in here?
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social Hello, I’m from the labor movement. I co-founded Coworker and now I work at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. I research working class women and technology.
(She/Her)
Josh Stein @joshsteinnc.bsky.social North Carolina’s #1 fan. Caniac and Tar Heel🏀. Dad, husband, and dog-dad. Governor. Taco/BBQ account.
Text JOSH to 40503 to join our team!
https://linktr.ee/JoshSteinNC
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Disgraced Deputy Undersecretary of Woke 12
William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social History Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Writing a book on the 1960s.
Last book a bio of Roy Benavidez: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
@geauxellessyoo.bsky.social @geauxellessyoo.bsky.social