Maria Bustillos
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All the Flaming Hydras (on bsky)
Contributors to the best and fieriest cooperative newsletter in all the land, read it at https://flaminghydra.com
Fascinating Women of Bluesky
LOLGOP asked for a starter pack of women, so here are twenty-five I enjoy Bluesky lets you do social media algorithm-free. We can build our own feeds and create the vibes we want.
@chrislehmann.bsky.social
DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
@aristofontes.bsky.social
Teacher, Latinist. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
@reclaimuc.bsky.social
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
@ellenychang.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.
@trufflehog.bsky.social
co-host and research centre of @praxiscast, big mountain enthusiast, resident fancylad. Listen early, listen often.
@danteatkins.bsky.social
Fiona's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.
@wartranslated.bsky.social
🇪🇪 Estonian blogger focusing on Russia/Ukraine | 18+ version: https://t.me/wartranslated | Glory to #Ukraine!
@epopppp.bsky.social
Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️⚧️ rights.
@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social
Investigative journalist covering policing, prisons, protests, and surveillance. Documentary photographer. Called an “activist journalist” by LAPD Signal: joeyscott.05 www.joeyscott.xyz
@openlibrary.org
Open Library is a non-profit, open source catalog of every book published, run by the Internet Archive. We help patrons across the globe access millions of digital library books for free.
@mek.fyi
Hi, I'm http://mek.fyi, a country squire no longer young. Neutral Good. 📚 OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive 👨💻 Berkman Klein Center '22, '23 affiliate 🗺️ Let's map the world's knowledge.
@davidhogg.bsky.social
@cashmonger.bsky.social
A Seattle resident with a passion for local history and politics who escapes to Stardew Valley when the real world gets too chaotic, while occasionally helping others learn to code.
@goodlawproject.org
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts. He/him. goodlawproject.org
@inthesedeserts.bsky.social
pitched into the great fires of our times and being a little bit of a baby about it
@kylepope01.bsky.social
Co-founder of @coveringclimatenow.org, helping newsrooms produce more and better climate journalism
@cristianfarias.com
Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them for @vanityfair.com and elsewhere. Hablo y pienso en español. Signal: cristianfarias.33
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
@hleehurley.com
Belfast writer. Media critic. Feminist. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. Owner DailyCannon.com Co-founder transwrites.world. Subscribe to The Trans Agenda hleehurley.com Signal leehurley.75 paypal.me/leehurley
@sky.skymarchini.net
economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
@evankindley.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Chronicle Review. Writing a group biography of the New York School of Poets for Knopf
@mellortone.bsky.social
West coast hermit, author of The Three-Martini Playdate and some other books, painter of paintings for the delirious & discerning, singer of old songs. Yellow Dog Dem, now more than ever. Disinformation will kill us all www.hatmonkeystudio.com
@billthepony.bsky.social
Voters don't swing from Democrat to Republican, They swing from Democrat to couch.
@reecedinsdale.bsky.social
‘Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.’ No DMs… please. ⛔️ Actor/Director represented by https://alexpriestleytalent.com/
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
@adamjentleson.bsky.social
Author, Kill Switch from W.W. Norton + a new 📕 coming soon, “Democrats are good” guy, ex-Fetterman COS and Harry Reid Deputy COS
@aseitzwald.bsky.social
Small town newspaper editor in Midcoast Maine, former national political reporter for NBC News. Dad, Bearded-American, collector of hobbies.
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@50501movement.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement 🚨 Next up: May 1 Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
@karenhao.bsky.social
ai reporter & author. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact. pre-order my book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, 2025: empireofai.com
@secretsandlaws.bsky.social
Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
@methsaxon.bsky.social
Senior editor @slate.bsky.social, @slateunion.bsky.social stan. @sethmaxon on 🐦/🥚.
@amidprivilege.bsky.social
Ran product management and UX. Now I write a blog and attempt fiction. I try not to be a jerk. #WFWA, Princeton Comp Lit/Columbia MBA, happily married. If you repost my comments to incite a dogpile, or DM me without acquaintance, I block you. She/her
@meredithshiner.com
current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a toddler irl. let’s work together! ⬇️ meredithshiner.com
@profwehrman.bsky.social
History professor at CMU and author of "The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" Vaccination is patriotic. New book project(!) tentatively titled: Afterlife and Liberty: New York City’s Doctors’ Riot of 1788
@americaninlisbon.bsky.social
Strategic intelligence analyst, risk evaluator, and security instructor. Basically, I think of every worst-case scenario so you don’t have to. USMC infantry, Army intelligence, American U. & NiagaraU. This is not a dating site!