Brian Branagan
Retired software test engineer still exploring the systems we live in.
“The end of illusion is the beginning of enlightenment.”
- Gerald Weinberg, author of Becoming a Technical Leader
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@figgityfigs.bsky.social
Father of lots, earnest as shit, 14th amendment truther. He/him.
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Democracy and unions liker, former House staff. Vibes are real. Writing: aaronhuertas.com
@aaronrosspowell.com
Host of the @reimaginingliberty.com podcast. UnPopulist contributor. Writing about political ethics. Radical liberal. He/him. My podcast and blog: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
linguist, discourse/pragmatics bean & bug’s mom podcaster liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/ author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with youtube.com/@arbielle?si=qzzG4mZwgbZWqhRY she/they substantively unserious
@aselrod.bsky.social
President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist, Arc Digital. Contributing Editor, Liberal Currents. Teaching, Arkansas State-Beebe Other words: MSNBC, Foreign Policy, The Bulwark, Salon, UnPopulist He/Him Views mine www.pulaskiinstitution.org/donate
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@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
@epicciuto.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit.
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.
@eliotacohen.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
@dandrezner.bsky.social
Political science professor, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social
Dean of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Obsessed with baseball, basketball, regulation, TV
@patsobkowski.com
Political Science Professor at Marquette. APD, Constitutional Law + history, Administrative Law. Writing a book on the Steel Seizure case. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com https://patsobkowski.com/
@revmagdalen.bsky.social
🌊 Anti-Fascist #Resist #SubGenius Creator of Israel-Hamas War feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmnjia7e5eh3jamsizupx5yc/feed/aaalrzaywm6ls And a US Politics feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmnjia7e5eh3jamsizupx5yc/feed/aaai4nqpmaptk
@nolahaynes.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Georgetown U Senior Foreign Policy Advisor & Media Analysts On Roland Martin every Thursday UCLA, Harvard Divinity, USC
@leninology.bsky.social
Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
@jkuznicki.bsky.social
Rusticated wonk. Now a gay dad cultivating his garden in Puna, Hawaii. 🍍🌴🌱📖🌐☸️ Newsletter: https://pacification.beehiiv.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3319839950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Co-Chief Content Officer at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America
@gothamgirlblue.com
Defiance posting. Vibes: Rancid 🟠 Not a Democrat anymore. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof., author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
@karenattiah.bsky.social
Global. Columnist at Washington Post. Artemis = feline guardian. Rogue Radical Professor at Resistance Summer School resistancesummerschool.com Join the Fall Waitlist for Race, Media and International Affairs 101! https://forms.gle/6LoPuLUUjPT6Tang8
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
@tracinski.bsky.social
The Tracinski Letter and Symposium on Substack. Director of the Executive Watch for ISMA/The UnPopulist. Columnist at Discourse Magazine, senior fellow at The Atlas Society. Sic semper tyrannis, baby. https://www.tracinskiletter.com
@theunpopulist.net
Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world. https://www.theunpopulist.net
@shikhadalmia.bsky.social
President, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. Founder @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Editor, The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Rightwing populism is the threat of our time to liberal democracy.
@jvl.bsky.social
Editor of The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/ Host of a Secret Podcast. Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
What noisy cats are we. Author of THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024). He/him. Author site: armoxon.com Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
@dennycarter.bsky.social
Bad Faith Times CEO/president/unelected dictator for life: BadFaithTimes.com Millennials are the only good generation in human history.
@garyseconomics.bsky.social
Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
@somemorenews.bsky.social
News show. News podcast. Hosted by codyjohnston.bsky.social and katystoll.bsky.social.
@lastweektonight.com
The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
@bernybelvedere.bsky.social
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Writer, political theorist in DC. My book, Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right is forthcoming from Princeton UP. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico. www.lkfield.com American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Niskanen Center.
@jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com
Economics professor at Austin Community College. Associate Editor for Liberal Currents. briggeman.org
@erininthemorning.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking & content: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888 Subscribe to support my journalism and read my reporting at www.erininthemorning.com
@cormacrussell.bsky.social
I animate communities & support professionals/orgs working in citizen space. Books include: The Connected Community, and Rekindlling Democracy. More here: https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/
@plaidula.bsky.social
Himbo, strongman, G L O B E Chapter Lead of the Twin Cities New Liberals. Pro-liberalism, anti-"I'm too good for everything" cynicism.
@cityatlas.bsky.social
Climate info & tools for immersive learning. Everywhere: @CityAtlas #PlayEnergetic Posts: R Reiss https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/energetic/energetic-in-new-york/
@jeffernsthausen.bsky.social
Senior data reporter @propublica. Formerly @ajc, @thenation, @harpers and @federalreserve (are they even on here?). Proud Newsguild member.
@eoinhiggins.bsky.social
Reporter | [email protected] https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/