Starter Packs
Created by Jacob Rubashkin (1)
Elections Reporting and Analysis Starter Pack
A brief list of elections experts, analysts, politicos and reporters who have good and interesting thoughts -
@davidshor.bsky.social
Head of Data Science at Blue Rose Research, based in NYC, originally from Miami. I try to elect Democrats. Views are my own. he/him🌹
@johnlovett.bsky.social
Senior Manager of Media Research and Data Analytics, ex-academic, decent Pokémon Go player, trivia knower.
@kairyssdal.bsky.social
Dad, husband, host @Marketplace. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran. kryssdal@marketplace.org
@ericlevitz.bsky.social
@jduffyrice.bsky.social
i write things and think about prisons. i live in atlanta. i read a lot.
@danpfeiffer.bsky.social
Pod Save America, Obama White House, Message Box, and some books
@emilyctamkin.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
@bethbourdon.bsky.social
public defender doing death penalty/1st degree murder cases. @/bethbourdon on twitter, bbourdon on Insta.
@eoinhiggins.bsky.social
Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
@petersterne.com
Editor at cityandstateny.bsky.social. Previously @nysfocus.bsky.social, @freedom.press and @politico.com. He/him. Email: psterne@cityandstateny.com Signal: petersterne.91 (add me to your national security group chats) https://petersterne.com
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Founding executive editor of Heatmap News. Contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
@jbenmenachem.com
criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
@dhopkins1776.bsky.social
Political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof: http://goo.gl/qAOlH9 538: http://goo.gl/1iwZJs
@demfromct.bsky.social
A retired physician who posts about politics, and whatever strikes me as interesting I post the abbreviated pundit roundup at dailykos.com
@willbunch.bsky.social
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
@pamelacolloff.bsky.social
@propublica.org reporter + @nytimes.com Magazine staff writer. Texas-based criminal justice reporter, storyteller, curious person. At work on a book for Knopf.
@ralstonreports.bsky.social
CEO/Editor, The Nevada Independent. Your State. Your News. Your Voice. ralston@thenvindy.com #WeMatter
@cingraham.bsky.social
Senior reporter, Minnesota Reformer. Formerly Washington Post. Heading to upstate New York and on the job market. If you're hiring, drop me a line: christopher@minnesotareformer.com.
@billsimmons.bsky.social
The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, The Ringer, Spotify, HBO’s Music Box, The Book of Basketball. Formerly: Grantland, 30 for 30, ESPN.
@seanfennessey.bsky.social
Head of Content, The Ringer • Host, The Big Picture • Subscribe: http://spoti.fi/2Iwuk26 • See you at the movies
@akdobbins.bsky.social
@lucasshaw.bsky.social
Oversee business of pop culture coverage at Bloomberg. Views my own. Write a newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/bdh7w838 Host a conference: https://shorturl.at/nuW1F Go Dodgers
@mattbelloni.bsky.social
Founding partner @pucknews, host @ringer The Town, @kcrw; Ex-editor @HollywoodReporter, entertainment lawyer. Get my email: https://puck.news/author/matthew-belloni/
@mckaycoppins.bsky.social
Staff Writer, The Atlantic. Author of NYT bestseller ROMNEY: A RECKONING. MSNBC contributor
@yamiche.bsky.social
White House Correspondent for @NBCNews. Tips? Email: Yamiche.Alcindor@nbcuni.com.
@newyorker.com
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
@sbg1.bsky.social
Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
@samknightwrites.bsky.social
Staff writer at the New Yorker, Letters from the U.K, "The Premonitions Bureau." www.samknight.net https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/sam-knight
@janemayer.bsky.social
New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
@michaelluo.bsky.social
New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America,” forthcoming from Doubleday on 4/29/25.
@shteyngart.bsky.social
Gary Shteyngart is a book writer. garyshteyngart.substack.com http://facebook.com/shteyngart
@michaelschulman.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
@helenshaw.bsky.social
Writing about theater for the New Yorker. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
@readerer.bsky.social
writer on science, culture, and the environment professional allegiances: @newyorker & @newsguild. back in the day @guernicamag
@justincchang.bsky.social
Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
@inkookang.bsky.social
Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
@elizkolbert.bsky.social
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction."
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social
Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.