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@jemartisby.bsky.social
✍🏽 NYT bestselling author | Historian 📖 Faith, justice, religion ✨ Follow JemarTisby.Substack.com for personal insights & history that matters
@mikesenters.bsky.social
PhD Student at Virginia Tech researching the rhetoric and aesthetics of far-right online subcultures. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen!
@matthew.flux.community
🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast 🟦 Words in Vanity Fair, WaPo, Salon, Bulwark, and elsewhere 🟦 Former right wing media executive Posts about politics, religion, media, and technology with occasional memes https://linktr.ee/mattsheffield
@whatahellofawaytodad.com
Podcaster, retired troop, Left leaning, violently woke
@waitmanwbeorn.com
Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him Host of The Holocaust History Podcast TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers Psalm 109: 7-18
@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social
IU Indianapolis sociologist studying religion, culture, politics, disability | Books on Christian Nationalism http://linktr.ee/andrewwhitehead | Substack: https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/ | Bio: https://tinyurl.com/42wspc8m
@grza.bsky.social
Host of the Did Nothing Wrong Podcast/Politics at the intersection of extremists, propaganda and Cold War 2.0 BJJ Faixa Preta 1 Grau Griff@didnothingwrongpod.com grzabjj on Discord www.didnothingwrongpod.com
@exum.bsky.social
Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
@dbernstein.bsky.social
Journalist. Politics and policy. Contributing editor Boston Magazine, bylines Politico Magazine, Atlantic, many more. Formerly of Boston Phoenix. Substack: https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
@heartlandsignal.bsky.social
Covering politics and policy from the Midwest. Newsroom for WCPT820 Got a tip? Email us: tips@wcpt820.com.
@wellerstein.bsky.social
Historian of science, technology, secrecy, and nukes. Professor. Creator of NUKEMAP. Author of RESTRICTED DATA. New book coming out in 2025 on Truman and the bomb. Working on a video game. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast ~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social
Professor at the Middlebury Institute & host of the Arms Control Wonk Podcast.
@schwarz.bsky.social
☀️ Writer/Complainer/Tulpa/Personal Assistant to Roko's Basilisk ☀️ Old Intercept work here: https://theintercept.com/staff/jonschwarz/ ☀️
@mjgault.bsky.social
Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212
@mckaycoppins.bsky.social
Staff Writer, The Atlantic. Author of NYT bestseller ROMNEY: A RECKONING. MSNBC contributor
@patrickwyman.bsky.social
Pod: Tides of History, currently covering the Iron Age. The Pursuit of Dadliness. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. pwymanusc at gmail.
@dburbach.bsky.social
Prof. International Relations & National Security. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregonian at heart. Posts, RTs are personal ONLY. Teach at NWC but dont represent US Navy | Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
@liamhogan.bsky.social
Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/ hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
@jackjenkins.me
National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
@prchovanec.bsky.social
Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos. Posting on nuclear issues, war, nature, science, and women's issues. Also cats. She/her. Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money Banner: The invincible summer within
@dicknixon.bsky.social
37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler. RN@dicknixon.com
@kkdumez.bsky.social
Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Next up: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
@brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • MSNBC columnist • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • BJJ • Once a soldier Dallas, Texas rakkasantea.com @rakkasantea.bsky.social
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6 Ad astra per aspera
@edburmila.bsky.social
Ex- lots of things. Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social
Author of John Dies at the End, formerly David Wong of Cracked.com fame
@jeetheer.bsky.social
Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
@robertmaguire.bsky.social
VP for Data and Research @crew.bsky.social | Fighting Corruption | Rooting out Dark Money | Petting cats | Booping snoots | Music keeps me sane | 😼 person who loves your 🐶 #CHS ➡️ #France ➡️ #台灣 ➡️ #DC x.com/RobertMaguire_
@mcsweeneys.net
The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books. .
@rauchway.bsky.social
Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird. http://ericrauchway.com pfp by Daniel Mackie
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
Columnist for MSNBC and The Daily Beast. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Host of The Cross Section podcast and author of The Cross Section newsletter: paulwaldman.substack.com
@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. 🚰 🏗
@actioncookbook.com
Louisvillian, Cincinnati Bearcat, Cleveland sports fan, Kentucky Colonel, beloved newsletter author. actioncookbook.substack.com
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
@robertdownen.bsky.social
Texas Monthly reporter covering the far right, Christian nationalism and the billionaires funding them. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. DAEAC#E evangelist. Send me good music.
@brianklaas.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
@rodger.bsky.social
Sports traveler and sports writer Available for freelance/dumb ideas
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
@alexkirshner.com
I record the @splitzoneduo.com college football podcast and I am a contributing writer for Slate (Hang Up and Listen comes out Mondays!) I like to have a good time online with my friends. Email me at askirshner at gmail dotcom
@ruralindexing.bsky.social
Buildings, signs, and symbols indexed by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010. Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@fleerultra.bsky.social
History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
@sarahposner.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, columnist, expert on the Christian right. Working on something new. Author, Unholy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605774/unholy-by-sarah-posner/ More: https://www.sarahposner.com
@nick-martin.bsky.social
I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II. The Informant: https://www.informant.news Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
@eschatonblog.com
I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog. https://eschatonblog.com Currently near Toon
@jasonkirk.fyi
- Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social - Author of The Athletic's Until Saturday newsletter - Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
@hollyanderson.bsky.social
✨ Aquarius ⛰ Appalachian 🛸 ATLien priors: EDSBS, Sports Illustrated, Grantland, MTV, and a million other dead newsrooms now: @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social & @channel6.bsky.social, American Coonhound Rescue volunteer, miscellaneous hellraising
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
@atherton.bsky.social
War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2. Front takes towards enemies.
@kleinman.bsky.social
I like to post and see posts. Director of Research at The States Project, the views expressed here are my own.
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/
@ugarles.bsky.social
dumb laws deserve my thoughts on them https://linktr.ee/ugarles i will do your podcast ALABSeries.com with @helldude.bsky.social @wyattprivilege.bsky.social & @garliccorgi.bsky.social City Saint/Country Saint with @lronmexico.bsky.social
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
@adamweinstein.bsky.social
MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes. Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan. Your affable newsroom curmudgeon. Go Navy. Beat Army.
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate. Author of Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
@joelanderson.bsky.social
aka Joel from Mo City | Senior staff writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box podcast | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988.
@jaywillis.net
I write about courts, democracy, media, and the three raccoons who live in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
@jfallows.bsky.social
Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
@ddayen.bsky.social
Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
@lolgop.bsky.social
Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids. Find a protest you can join or an action you can start now https://www.reddit.com/r/onethingtodo/ THE FARCE covers American fascism and the mass mobilization against it https://www.thefarce.org/
@paleofuture.bsky.social
Tech reporter @Gizmodo.com. I’ve been writing about the history of futurism @Paleofuture.com since 2007. Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com Signal: mattnovak.11
@kairyssdal.bsky.social
Dad, husband, host @Marketplace. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran. kryssdal@marketplace.org
@eladn.bsky.social
Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.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
@mattdpearce.com
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct) https://mattdpearce.substack.com
@dandrezner.bsky.social
Political science professor, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
@brendelbored.bsky.social
Host of all podcasts. Independent Journalist. Top 0.001 Meme Creator and Memeology Influencer. Hollywood’s Ultimate Insider.
@edsbs.bsky.social
Chopper Dave’s on The newsletter: https://channel-6.ghost.io/ The podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4RnuFiR6Q2AJovur2vLTvE?si=_-fvsbYKR-KgjtUF0JPBgw The goal: in a word, chaos
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
Off Message, Politix.fm; Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
@rincewind.run
Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights PFP by @atlastalos.bsky.social
@sykescharlie.bsky.social
Author, Substack newsletter “To the Contrary.” Host, "To the Contrary" podcast. Dog owner, grandfather. MSNBC. Still Never Trump. No regrets. Website: https://charliesykes.substack.com/
@katz.theracket.news
Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | a.k.a. @KatzOnEarth | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
History & Italian Professor, NYU; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author. https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/ http://brightlinewatch.org
@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
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Forthcoming book: The Defenders (Spring 2026) Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
@janecoaston.bsky.social
Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.