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@greg-in-la.bsky.social
@allinwithchris.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social hosts the Emmy Award-winning “All In” Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. ET on MSNBC.
@harrylitman.bsky.social
Host & exec prod, "Talking Feds Pod" and "Talking San Diego." FCA Lawyer. Teach con law at UCSD & UCLA. Senior Fellow USC. Former US Atty, Dep Assis AG. Founding Contributor, The Contrarian
@theappeal.org
We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system. You can support our work here: https://theappeal.org/donate/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://theappeal.org/newsletter-subscribe/
@michaelcohen212.bsky.social
Principal of Crisis-X #1 and #8 NYT Bestseller Author Host of The Mea Culpa Podcast Co-Host of The Political Beatdown Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump and Discharged Felon
@couts.bsky.social
security & investigations editor at @WIRED.com, send tips and/or dog pics Signal: couts.01
@fetterman.senate.gov
United States Senator fighting for the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. www.fetterman.senate.gov
@maile.bsky.social
{My-lee} ☁️ Blue Sky Super User 👩💻 Democrat & Political Activist X.com/MaileOnX 🔗 Affiliate Links: https://msha.ke/shopmailesfavorites
@grantstern.bsky.social
Executive Editor of Occupy Democrats, author, journalist and podcaster newsletter.grantstern.com
@stevebenen.com
Rachel Maddow Show producer, MaddowBlog author, MSNBC contributor, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
@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
@thedailybeast.bsky.social
Independent. Intelligent. Influential. Send tips to tips@thedailybeast.com
@whitehouse.senate.gov
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State. https://linktr.ee/senwhitehouse
@nickknudsenus.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Executive Director DemCast USA 🎙️ Co-Host: #TheDangerousOnes Podcast 🖊️ Writing: HuffPost. Democracy is neat. We have a lot of work to do.
@drericding.bsky.social
Public health warnings & health policy. Epidemiologist & health economist. Chair and Faculty at NECSI. Former 16 years at Harvard. DC & Virginia. Bio & contact: necsi.edu/eric-feigl-ding A story: nym.ag/3olszuo 📝: drericding.substack.com/subscribe
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Deputy editor, Splinter, covering various horrors. Previous: Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Davelevitan{at}gmail.com Signal: @davelevitan.26
@huffpost.com
⚡️Fair and fearless reporting since 2005.⚡️ Got a scoop? Send us news tips here 🔍 https://tips.huffpost.com
@democracynow.org
Independent, daily global news hour. Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate Daily News Digest: http://democracynow.org/subscribe
@alivitali.bsky.social
☀️ Host @waytooearly.bsky.social 📕 Author “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In the White House…Yet.” Read: https://a.co/d/j1ojmjm | Watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDIVi-vBsOEwfv0LML1BGBlPxZsnoa0xM
@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social
Senior National Security & Intelligence Analyst NBC News, MSNBC. Retired FBI Assistant Director. Author, Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers; and, The FBI Way.
@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.
@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Pro-democracy conservatives Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism. https://www.instagram.com/republicansagainsttrump/profilecard/?igsh=MXM4OGZ0cHRiOGdmMg==
@tristansnell.bsky.social
Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify. Substack - tristansnell.com
@oliviaoftroye.com
#Substack: www.livingitwithOliviaTroye.com 🕵🏼♀️Former White House Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Official. Career National Security.📺Media Commentator.🇲🇽🇺🇸from El Paso,TX. 🐶🎶 Lover of dogs & music. Political Centrist. #democracy #nationalsecurity
@dknight10k.bsky.social
Host:🎙Pardon The Insurrection Podcast🎙 YouTube ▶️: https://youtube.com/@pardontheinsurrection 🍎 Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pardon-the-insurrection/id1629782102 🎶 Bad Built 🎶 album on Spotify: https://spotify.link/n7xMlQgTjOb
@tessowen.bsky.social
Words in New Yorker, NY Mag, WIRED, Guardian & more. VICE News alum. Reporting on extremism, disinfo, subcultures etc. more fun than I sound. send tips/ say hello at tessalexandraowen@gmail.com or DM for signal
@natsechobbyist.bsky.social
Wife, mama, sister, friend, suburban woman, & podcaster fighting for democracy. NOT a national security/geopolitical expert but I have a guy for that.
@kyivindependent.com
Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine Become a member: http://kyivindependent.com/membership/ One-time donation: https://kyivindependent.com/membership/?interval=onetime
@mariabustillos.com
Join me at the journalist cooperative @flaminghydra.com maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com mariabustillos.com | thebrick.house
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
@talkingpointsmemo.com
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
@democracydocket.com
Leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts. Find filings, news and analysis: democracydocket.com Sign up for our free newsletters: https://hubs.ly/Q03jcjCC0
@thebulwark.com
Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
@mikeljollett.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author. Former All Things Considered, NPR, LA Times, NME, McSweeney’s, Stanford University. Singer in this one band.
@juliadavisnews.bsky.social
Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia, member of @TheEmmys. I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to. Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨ Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅 SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
@davidpakman.bsky.social
@andreagrimes.com
bitch kraken / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com 📰 newsletter: homewiththearmadillo.blog 📧 email: grimesandrea at proton dot me 🛍️ shop: andreagrimes.threadless.com
@smith.senate.gov
Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
@mjfree.bsky.social
Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist! And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
@avindman.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/WH Staff. Doc of International Affairs. Senior Fellow, FPI SAIS, JHU. NYT Best-selling Author.
@glennkirschner.bsky.social
Former 30-year federal prosecutor. Army vet. Rule of law guy. 100% independent. YouTube.com/glennkirschner2 Patreon.com/glennkirschner
@jenrubin.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, MSNBC contributor, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book recommendations welcomed.
@howardbeck.bsky.social
Senior NBA Writer at TheRinger.com | Co-host, the Real Ones | #NBASky evangelist Previously: SI.com, BleacherReport.com, NYTimes.com, DailyNews.com, VCStar.com, DavisEnterprise.com https://www.theringer.com/authors/howard-beck authory.com/howardbeck
@keithedwards.bsky.social
Democracy enjoyer. YouTuber. Always cold. ✉️: keithsdebateclub@gmail.com Subscribe: keithedwards.substack.com Other sites: linktr.ee/keithedwards
@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.
@katelynburns.com
Freelance journalist. MSNBC and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host. Formerly: Vox For story leads, my signal is kab.80
@brianfung.me
Tech policy reporter. Previously CNN, The Washington Post, The Atlantic & National Journal. A few things I enjoy: 🎮 🚴🏕️🍳🖖 Streaming Mon-Wed-Fri mornings US Eastern time on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/brainfungi
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC and North Fork. Francophile fan of Sondheim and Venice. Aspiring watercolorist. (Paintings now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) Hoping sarcasm works out better over here.
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Co-editor-in-chief at Just Security (https://bsky.app/profile/justsecurity.org). Chaired Professor at NYU Law. Former Chaired Professor at Harvard Law. Former Special Counsel Department of Defense. https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan/
@weissmann.substack.com
NYU Law, MSNBC legal analyst, podcast cohost "Main Justice" (previously "Prosecuting Donald Trump"); NYT bestselling author. Substack "Behind The Headlines" https://weissmann.substack.com Offering legal analysis & opinion
@robertgarcia.bsky.social
Congressman, former Mayor of Long Beach, educator, comic nerd, urbanist, progressive & proud American 🏳️🌈
@ynb.bsky.social
Caregiver. 💖💚 Emmy nominated💫 Spoutible: @YNB Post: @TheYNB IG & Threads: @yvettenicolebrown
@meiselasb.bsky.social
Co-Founder of MeidasTouch Network; USC Law Professor; Engine Vision Co-Founder; Former Litigator
@edmarkey.bsky.social
U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
@morgfair.bsky.social
Actress. Politics, Foreign Policy, Science & RockNRoll. Love animals
@tribelaw.bsky.social
After teaching constitutional law at Harvard for 50 yrs, I decided it was time to teach in a classroom without walls — helping people understand the rapidly unfolding threat to our democracy’s survival and joining the struggle to preserve the rule of law
@dworkin.bsky.social
Dworkin Report. Journalist. Investigator. Author. Musician. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
@mjsdc.bsky.social
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Dad to one toddler and several other animals.
@weisenthal.bsky.social
Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Dem Strategist. Dad to Cameron and Paxton. https://TheAltMedia.com https://youtube.com/@adamparkhomenkoshow
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
Founded to stand up to Trump and the GOP. Legal analysis & news the media is missing.
@repjasmine.bsky.social
Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾
@jimacosta.bsky.social
Independent Journalist. Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
@joncooper-us.bsky.social
Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of “Echoes of the Unknown” podcast. Coffee addict. New York/Florida.
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@bmeiselas.bsky.social
Co-founded MeidasTouch with my brothers. Co-host of the MeidasTouch Podcast. Video guy. Not very good at writing bios.
@barbmcquade.bsky.social
Wife, Mom, UMich Law School Professor from Practice, NBC/MSNBC legal analyst, The Contrarian contributor, former U.S. Attorney, EDMI
@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
@patriottakes.bsky.social
Dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social
writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe inbox: oliver@status.news
@fpwellman.bsky.social
Host of 'On Democracy with FPWellman' on MeidasTouch and the ‘On Democracy Channel’, 'On the Line with VoteVets,' and 'Too Late to Cancel' every Sunday. Army Iraq veteran. Pro-Democracy Advocate. "Vladimir STOP!"
@therickwilson.bsky.social
Lincoln Project and Resolute Square founder. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated pilot. Beechcraft driver. TheRickWilson.Substack.com
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social
UALawSchool |MSNBC & NBCNews |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
@polgreen.bsky.social
New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff.
@kateconger.com
tech reporter for the NYT! co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT! signal: kateconger.11 buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
@jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Hey, it’s me… JoJoFromJerz! (My real name is Jo Carducci btw). I’m a mom, a podcaster, a writer, a lover of politics and puns and a true Jersey girl through and through. Check out my Substack (my baby) on my Linktree https://linktr.ee/jojofromjerz https://
@mattgertz.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
@brianstelter.bsky.social
Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social
J.D. from GW Law ⚖️ | Attorney | Your go-to news source | Strategist | Views are my own | Retweets ≠ endorsements All other platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronparnas
@mmpadellan.bsky.social
Proud papa. Perpetually pissed. #BlueWave2026, #Feminist. Author of The Bigliest Loser and The Liddle'est President. Check out my AMAZING Substack here: https://linktr.ee/mmpadellan 👉Sr. Advisor, @reallyamerican.bsky.social👈👀
@just-jack-1.bsky.social
"Our capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but our inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." https://buymeacoffee.com/justjack1
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@godpod.bsky.social
Creator of the Universe. Daily free newsletter & animated podcast here: https://www.thegodpodcast.com