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same handle on discord
Dad / sentient sandwich / chronic doomscroller / he/him
Trans rights are human rights
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social Staff writer, The New Republic. Law, democracy, and the courts. 49ers/Dodgers stuff too.
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
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Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
Uphold Yang Wenli Thought
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
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Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Willow [4’10.5”] @rockshrimp.bsky.social Cynical idealist, unreliable narrator.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social Cradle to grave: mostly healthcare (some disaster litigation tourism). Housing 1st; medical attendance; and fed. (<--Lower-case.)
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social thinking about infectious diseases, information, and behavior
Postdoc UT Austin 🤘
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Former journalist covering intersection of pharma, health policy & politics.
On Signal at SarahKarlinSmith.34
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
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Eternal Cat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social poster
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
jae holzman @jael.bsky.social hi, i am a woman who writes about climate change and renewable energy. i also play music sometimes. some secret third thing.
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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Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com Journalist: abortion and politics. Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, MSNOW, Jezebel. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Negentropy hunter. Kosmotropophile. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social 
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Gabriela Romero @gdivinetz.bsky.social Background in philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and science. Mom to a cool autistic kid and a dog. Currently studying and learning about the macro and political economy. Argentine American (Minnesota) now living in Toronto.
yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social Questionable taste in winter hats, first-clapper, cheese enthusiast, lamprey stan. 
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social average against the machine
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
John @yukonjohn.bsky.social Critical‐ish thinker
Joel Dongsteen @joeldongsteen.northsky.social Joel Osteen's tweets as they were meant to be.
Carrying the torch for @JoelDongsteen@twitter.com
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
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Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
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Jessica Pickett @pickettjessica.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based health economist in the vaccine industry. Interested in everything; knowledgeable about demand for medical care & politics of service delivery.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
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