Virginia Heffernan
Humans make the world. We can remake it anytime
WHAT ROUGH BEAST
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The New Republic, The Guardian, WIRED, Politico, LAT, NYT, Atlantic, &c
@deborahb.bsky.social
Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
@jdcivicscience.bsky.social
Founder and CEO of CivicScience, the largest (>5 billion responses), most dynamic (>700k cross-tabbed questions), and fastest-growing (millions of responses daily) U.S. consumer survey database ever built.
@mayramrvassociates.bsky.social
Financial risk consultant and trainer. Strong advocate of financial reform.
@billbindc.bsky.social
Billbindc in various places. Mostly Ukraine, politics and transportation.
@omarsultan.me
Work hard, stay humble, be nice to people. He/Him. You’re going to get a random mix of thoughts on geeky things, building software, saving democracy, EVs and dogs. Skeets are my own.
@wsj.com
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@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.
@avramg.bsky.social
Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him.
@thetimeline.bsky.social
stay curious. ☎️ CALL CONGRESS (202)224-3121 🔎🧩 FULL TIMELINE OF THIS MESS (v48) — bit.ly/DotConnecting (PDF)
@ashleyreed.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. 19th-century lit, religion, digital humanities. Author of Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America. Buy it or read it for free: https://shorturl.at/Tmavp
@comixace.bsky.social
EiC ComicsBeat.com and KComicsBeat.com. NYC. https://linktr.ee/Comixace
@bookshop.bsky.social
Senior culture writer at Vox. They/them or she/her, etc. Stanning on main — mainly Wang Yibo with a side of Xiao Zhan. http://ajaromano.com
@refrankel.bsky.social
Professor of German History comparing antisemitism in Germany and the US, late 19th, early 20th century. And yes, it’s painfully relevant to the 21st. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. richardefrankel.com
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@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.
@mharvey816.bsky.social
she/her NW MO - > NOVA Bleeding heart liberal. Asthmatic. Bernina sewist. Recovering perfume addict. Married to the personal assistant to two black cats. Deactivated my Twitter on 1/21/25. #KCRoyals #Nats #TCMParty #QuiltSky #GenXElder
@theframelab.bsky.social
FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy. Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
@maryannefranks.bsky.social
Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
@albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor. Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
@chloethurston.bsky.social
Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief.
@curtismilam.bsky.social
Retired USAF colonel, Atlanticist, Europhile, lover of gothic cathedrals.
@100yearsagonews.bsky.social
Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
@gobosox54.bsky.social
Lover of cats, bird watching, TV, movies, music, travel, walking, biking and the beach. Lifelong Democrat from New England🌻
@iddave.bsky.social
Boston sports fan, Science Fiction groupie, Comics nerd, Movie maven, Blue to the core Northeast liberal. Love dogs! Hate MAGA. #RobinHood #euphoric #TrumpsWarOnThePoor
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
@sickofthisbs77.bsky.social
Lover of books, children, science, and the environment; caregiver of medical needs; home chef of blenderized diet for feeding tubes; engaged voter; mask wearer
@swojack.bsky.social
I like rock climbing, the NBA, world traveling and scifi/fantasy media. Made my Twitter exodus and think I might stick around on this life raft for a bit.
@accidntlmystic.bsky.social
Fascism is bad. Vaccines are good. Slaughtering children is always wrong, no matter who does it. Twitter refugee, sick of Nazis, #1 fan of the Oxford comma.
@citizensimpeachment.com
We started as Operation Anti-King, and are now the Citizens' Impeachment. 19 reps have joined us; tracker at citizensimpeachment.com. Read why it matters here https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna200920
@surfingirish.bsky.social
@opinionhaver.bsky.social
Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center. Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@picornell.bsky.social
Forensic linguist researching deception strategies in authorship and faked (con)texts. PhD MCSFS Visiting Research Fellow AIFL (UK) #ForensicLinguistics consultancy #Humanist Resident #Wulferhampton #Linguist 🇪🇺
@mjtoma.bsky.social
Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
@mattweiland.bsky.social
VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis. Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp. www.mattweiland.com
@jonruttenberg.bsky.social
My Signal number is 1-800-MERITOCRACY.
@economist.com
News and analysis with a global perspective. We’re here to help you understand the world around you. Subscribe here: https://econ.st/4fAeu4q
@bcappelbaum.bsky.social
I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
@bookshrike.bsky.social
Birds, books, balls (tennis ones) 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🐈⬛ Seems I’ve reached the singularity here having been named an AI bot and BlueMaga, neither of which will clean my cat’s litter boxes. Do with that what you will, lol.
@freeteslaowners.bsky.social
@tesla-takedown.bsky.social
https://tesla-takedown.com Join a #TeslaTakedown protest, organize your own, grab some protest gear, and help spread the word. Sell your Tesla, dump your stock, and join the #TeslaTakedown. Let's stop Musk!
@jonrauch.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, unlicensed epistemologist. Brookings and The Atlantic. Please be sane, BlueSky.
@bkindivisible.bsky.social
Born in December 2016, fighting fascism from the right and pushing Dems to the left ever since.
@judygraham.bsky.social
Investigative reporter, national correspondent, columnist. Interested in all things having to do with the healthcare system. And aging. Knitter, potter, hiker, daily cook. Chicago-born. Now a Rocky Mountain gal.
@schoenbergvienna.bsky.social
Krimiautor aus Wien, der die dunklen Ecken und skurrilen Geschichten der Stadt zum Leben erweckt. Crime writer based in Vienna, bringing the city's dark corners and quirky tales to life. #slavaukraini🇺🇦 #Pro-Democracy #Resist https://a.co/d/0ye5EL5
@arlainerockey.bsky.social
#ERA Feminist Attorney, LEGAL Case Consultant #Protective Mothers Screenwriter UU. ERA Legal Blog https://arlainerockey.com/equal-rights-for-women “Elizabeth Cady Stanton -The First Suffragist” biopic in pre-production ++ https://attorney-author.com/ecs