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@bloomberg.com
The first word in business news. Newsletters: http://bloom.bg/newsletters Podcasts: http://bloom.bg/podcasts The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@financialtimes.com
The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis. https://www.ft.com The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
@yasharali.bsky.social
Elephant Lover Yashar.substack.com Twitter: @yashar IG/Threads @yasharali
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com — On 👨👶 leave until July — 📝 ft.com/jbm
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@shayan86.bsky.social
BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
@jim.londoncentric.media
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
@carolvorders.bsky.social
Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙 Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂 It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@pippacrerar.bsky.social
Political Editor, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
@adambienkov.bsky.social
Editor of BylineTimes.com Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️ https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jack of like six to seven trades (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
An unofficial bot of BBC News (World). RSS: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots maintainer: @tmaehara.bsky.social
@barristersecret.bsky.social
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@drjennings.bsky.social
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
@stephenfry.bsky.social
Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@annettedittert.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent ARD German TV London • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
@peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Political columnist, The Guardian Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@nigella.bsky.social
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