# 2 Woke Brigade April 23, 2025

@jonathanslaght.com

RegionalDirector, Temperate Asia, WCS (China/Mongolia/Russia/CentAsia/Afghanistan). Wrote Owls of the Eastern Ice (FSG, 2020): Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PENAmerica winner, Nat.BookAward longlist. New book: TIGERS (11/25). Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght

@rjsummers.bsky.social

Professor and Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning. University of Alberta. Also Director of the Sustainability Council at U of A. @rjscity on Twitter. Fun fact - I have the most popular comment in the history of the New York Times.

@deniseshrivell.bsky.social

Australian political campaigner, commentator & SpinProof podcaster. Frequently makes good & necessary trouble. TrueNorth weekday substack #auspol

@joshscampbell.bsky.social

National security and law enforcement @CNN.com, senior adj national security fellow @CNAS.bsky.social, writer | Past: law enforcement, diplomacy, defense

@jeffschultzatl.bsky.social

Wrote a bunch of words. Spelled most of them right. Exit ramp: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5162555/2023/12/27/atlanta-braves-falcons-hawks-georgia-jeff-schultz/ "When you're going through hell, keep going." WilliamsHouse.org, FamiliesAnonymous.org

@lauraphillips.bsky.social

Campaigner to support the BBC, (not a BBC employee).It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs <48 pence/around 62 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.

@czedwards.bsky.social

Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/her/they/them I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.com, in pinned post. https://linktr.ee/czedwards discord: czedwards Proud Alt-text scold

@amyb8888.bsky.social

Legal editor. Amateur 🍄photographer, photos taken on my 2020 iPhoneSE. Obsessed w/nature/dogs/science/sci-fi/music/movies/books Hometown: Pittsburgh, living in PNW. #Vegan 💙💙 She/her Owned by a rescue dog #AdoptDontShop No DMs unless I know you.

@gailhelt.bsky.social

CIA analyst, 2003-14. Close Guantanamo. Human Rights. China. My posts reflect only my views.

@bobchipman.bsky.social

Updates for Bob Chipman + MovieBob Productions - THE BIG PICTURE, MOVIEBOB REVIEWS & more! Joined March 2011 http://patreon.com/moviebob1

@markoconnell.bsky.social

Writer. Author. Bond Fan. CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN (Prelude by Barbara Broccoli) WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG AND US Rep'd by Vivienne Clore #JamesBond #CatchingBullets #WatchingSkies #Bond26 www.markoconnell.co.uk

@melissared.bsky.social

Illustrator, Comics artist, Art Director, (former)Karate teacher, tea lover, since 1991, chocolate obssessed Prints shop https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/melissareddraws/ work inquiries at reddraws@gmail.com

@legialerts.org

🚨Alerts for LGBTQ+ Legislation 🏳️‍⚧️Team @alli.gay @esqueer.net @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @thefreeradical.org @lizsaila.bsky.social ❓Have an Issue? Tag @alli.gay

@laurby.bsky.social

Journalist in 🐀-free Alberta reporting on municipal politics at Edmonton city hall for the Edmonton Journal & Edmonton Sun.

@davidakin.bsky.social

Global News Chief Political Correspondent. My bio and disclosure statement is at www.davidakin.com. I'm usually in Ottawa 🇨🇦 but I work wherever.

@erika-d-smith.bsky.social

Politics & Policy Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Past: Los Angeles Times🦅, Sacramento Bee, IndyStar, Akron Beacon Journal. Ohioan by birth. Proud Californian by choice. ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

@ironstache.bsky.social

Dad,Disabled Veteran,Union IronWorker, Populist | 1st Union political campaign in U.S. History | Helped Paul Ryan retire | My views here "The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed." — Simone de Beauvoir

@admiralstav.bsky.social

Vice Chair,The Carlyle Group; Chair, Rockefeller Foundation Board; PhD; ADM, USN(Ret.) fmr Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Website: AdmiralStav.com

@farronbalanced.bsky.social

Host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire on YouTube.

@carrietait.bsky.social

Reporter in The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Loves: The Riders, the Oilers, the farm, mountains, snow. Dislikes: Daylight Saving(s) Time, raccoons, gophers, the search for New Twitter

@scherville.com

freelance illustrator and painter, digital and traditional media ✨ #art | #sketch | #commissions art feed in tab commissions open! visit my website for details. scherville.com | igascherville@gmail.com

@tomsugrue.bsky.social

Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.

@purelyrick.bsky.social

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Democrat | Ruthlessly Pragmatic | Make Every Day A Civics Lesson Because the Cavalry is not Coming.

@ssteingraber1.bsky.social

PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network Reminder: Nobody’s coming.

@ladypaprika.bsky.social

『 sapphic, dark, erotic art 🔞 』 ❌️ Patreon: patreon.com/Lady_Paprika ❌️ Comics & Other Links: linktr.ee/ladypaprika

@jimmusilpainter.bsky.social

Modern Landscape Painter JimMusil.com

@dak.bsky.social

I’m here to escape from reality Feeder: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:piswk46uuf4lsb2ms7lu2b76/feed/aaaihct52zljg

@liamkerr.bsky.social

Co-founder of WelcomePAC, strengthening the center-left by putting Democrats on offense in winnable center-right districts Former: beat the IOC as co-founder of No Boston Olympics, served through AmeriCorps

@tillybridges.bsky.social

Writer without a pithy bio. Wife. Mom. She/her. 🩷🏳️‍⚧️ Monster High, Star Trek, writing credits: http://birdguest.com Trans Tuesdays: http://tillystranstuesdays.com Contact tillysbridges@gmail.com. REP: Noah Jones | FWRD MGMT. https://ko-fi.com/tillybridges

@kristenmiller.bsky.social

Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller

@dirtroaddemocrats.bsky.social

Fighting to build a stronger Democratic party by investing everywhere and listening to everyone.

@geezmarty.bsky.social

🇮🇹 in 🇬🇧, they/she, 30, lesbian. call me marty! illustrator & comic artist / martygee.art@gmail.com / martygart.weebly.com

@tify330.bsky.social

MD Resident | Born & Raised in Brooklyn | 🇧🇿🇵🇷| Threads, TikTok, IG: candidly_tiff | 2024 DNC Delegate

@seanfraser.bsky.social

MP / Deputé, Central Nova 🇨🇦 Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship / Ministre de l'Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la Citoyenneté

@jeffgoodell.bsky.social

Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | 2020 Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE

@robsonfletcher.com

Data journalist with CBC Calgary. Views my own and subject to change, especially in light of new evidence. 📧 robson.fletcher@cbc.ca

@markusoff.bsky.social

I write and yak for CBC in Calgary. DMs open, Signal, WhatsApp, and such jason.markusoff@cbc.ca

@donwinslow.bsky.social

@interfluidity.com

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/ https://www.interfluidity.com/ https://tech.interfluidity.com/ https://zirk.us/@interfluidity

@jefftimmer.bsky.social

Strategist. Michigan. Erstwhile GOPer. Senior Advisor @ProjectLincoln, Co-Host A Republic, If You Can Keep It. Skilled in smartassery.

@owldaily.bsky.social

Mission is share daily Owls post 🦉. 🚫 There is No AI Image. All credit goes to Photographers.

@mayaonstage.bsky.social

Life’s hard. Laugh harder. I fight f*ckery with a smile. Democracy👍🏾 Voting 🎉 Civil rights, yes please! The Breakdown @ The Lincoln Project Punching Up @ Resolute Square

@captainacab.airbud.website

not really a dog. reposts = official CDC recommendations. he/him CDC style guide: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaamfdxuzasv6

@aselrod.bsky.social

President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist, Arc Digital. Contributing Editor, Liberal Currents. Teaching, Arkansas State-Beebe Other words: MSNBC, Foreign Policy, The Bulwark, Salon, UnPopulist He/Him Views mine www.pulaskiinstitution.org/donate

@luvvie.bsky.social

NYT bestselling author (4x) 📚 Noted speaker. Book coach (Founder of The Book Academy). Latest book: LITTLE DEFENDS HER NAME (out 5/6/25). Preorder: http://LittleTroublemakerBook.com

@maxfawcett.bsky.social

Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer, winner of both a National Newspaper Award (2023) and National Magazine Award (2021) for column writing. Other: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic, and direct descendant of Canada's worst prime minister

@vanbadham.bsky.social

Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.

@bsky.cafe

Be Kind 🫶 Politics, comedy, games, books, culture and sports.

@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Texas Medical Center (TMC) Pediatrics Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas "the oldest learned society in Texas established in 1837," TAMEST, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

@dollemore.com

U.S. Marine, host of Dollemore Daily on YouTube & I Doubt It Podcast - Voicemail Line - (714) 576-4054 https://linktr.ee/dollemore 📍Washington, DC

@tbonier.bsky.social

CEO @ The TARA Group, Senior Advisor @ TargetSmart, Former @ Howard University, Clarity Campaign Labs, NCEC https://tombonier.substack.com/

@starstrickensf.bsky.social

Astrophysicist. Author of STARSTRUCK (PEN/E.O. Wilson Longlist, NCBA finalist, a Penguin Random House Common Read). 🧿🇪🇬 BRCA+ occasional model, fervent activist.

@paulkarp.bsky.social

Journalist. NSW political correspondent for Australian Financial Review. Ex Guardian Australia. He/him

@karlovycross.bsky.social

✷ Sapphic Illustrator (she/her) ll Indigenous Quechua-Hungarian ✷ ✉️ karlovycross@gmail.com & other links: https://karlovycross.carrd.co/

@aleach.ca

Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Alberta. Interested in climate change, constitutional law, and energy infrastructure. Find me here or on the web at aleach.ca.

@rolandsmartin.bsky.social

@ejdionne.bsky.social

Prof. @ McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, senior fellow @ The Brookings Institution, columnist @ Washington Post. Passionate Celtics fan. Opinions here are my own.

@1111anim.bsky.social

storyboardist | independent animator | #EnceladusV 🚀✨ https://linktr.ee/1111anim

@hattersarts.bsky.social

Harriet ° 30 ° she/her ° UK ° lesbian illustrator and comic artist ° DO NOT REPOST ° (this account posts 🔞 art sometimes) ° hattersarts.com

@shannonbond.bsky.social

🎙️NPR correspondent currently covering federal government restructuring efforts & all things DOGE send tips on Signal to shannonbond.01 https://www.npr.org/people/763523701/shannon-bond

@brianlarossa.com

Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture & Chapter Books). Adjunct at The City College of New York (Design Criticism). Writer (Fiction). Speaker (SCBWI et al). Born ATL. Live NYC. He/Him. 💙❤️ www.brianlarossa.com The 523rd person to join Bluesky.

@itsafronomics.bsky.social

GOOD TROUBLE ☀️ #GodsPlan Pre-order #TheDoubleTax: tinyurl.com/doubletax-order Learn more: annagifty.com/thedoubletax Taylor Thee Publicist: tinyurl.com/doubletax-pr

@stuartpstevens.bsky.social

Former Republican media consultant. Worked in 5 presidential races. Senior advisor to Lincoln Project. Author of 9 books. I am obsessed with doing endurance sports badly.

@denimcatfish.bsky.social

Kat here~ 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇭 She/They * Character Layout Artist - Castlevania Nocturne, The Line *🚫NFT/AI/TERFs https://www.patreon.com/denimcatfish denimcatfishart@gmail.com 🍉

@rennerei.bsky.social

small lizard that draws for valve and also herself 🔞works: https://www.patreon.com/reiterei

@mspackyetti.bsky.social

the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration. writer. talker. strategist. activist. Black. loved. grateful. free. subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.

@maragay.bsky.social

American. Journalist at the New York Times editorial board. MSNBC political analyst.

@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats

@palumboliu.bsky.social

Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.

@mammalssuck.bsky.social

EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health I study mothers, milk, & babies Associate Prof at ASU Cheddar Superfan. "Scarier than a badger" Opinions my own

@sarahmillican.bsky.social

ON TOUR NOW! Www.sarahmillican.co.uk Comedian, Standard Issue podcaster, writer, feminist. Posts ending TSM are by my team.

@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.

@danliimatta.bsky.social

illustrations /concepts Senior concept artist, old texture artist.

@mbrleigh.bsky.social

❤️storyboard/development @ disneytva 🧡inprnt: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mbrleigh/ 🤍31 | 🇷🇸🇨🇱 | 🏳️‍🌈 | she/her 💕💜

@theurbanist.org

Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩‍🦽👨‍🦯🚶🚴‍♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️ Based in the Seattle metro area. Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰

@bevsi.bsky.social

💌 character designer & illustrator 💌 http://linktr.ee/bevjohnsonart 💌 me & my wife’s comic: http://heartstringscomic.com 💌 work inquiries beverly.blue88@gmail.com ( beverlylove on 🐦 & 📷 )

@genmhayden.bsky.social

Personal account. Retired USAF, former Director of CIA & NSA, author, husband, father, granddad. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.

@caulfieldtim.bsky.social

Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and commentator. #ScienceUpFirst Linktree: https://linktr.ee/caulfieldtim

@bendreyfuss.bsky.social

You don’t need to follow me just because we were mutuals on Twitter. I won’t be offended. Seems like this account is mostly me getting in dumb arguments which I wouldn’t want to read either. CalmDownBen.com

@humantransit.bsky.social

Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.

@carlbovisnature.bsky.social

Bird loving nature photographer from Somerset, UK. 🐦 Here are all my links; https://linktr.ee/carlbovis 😊

@markhertling.bsky.social

Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security. Now a teacher, author, speaker & analyst. Always looking for civility…and new adventures. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hertling-dba-57987066

@jvp.bsky.social

Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism

@knguyen.bsky.social

features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://mydocuments.cargo.site/

@profbriancox.bsky.social

Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science

@soozuk.bsky.social

"Comedian". DOOM in @bbcdoctorwho. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social Acting: The Foundry Management Comedy: Gag Reflex VO: The Joneses she/her www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs

@luketryl.bsky.social

Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

NBC News Political and National Correspondent. Author of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy. Executive Producer of Separated, a film by Errol Morris.

@joshsternberg.com

Executive Editor at Morning Brew Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Mashable, etc etc etc Failed musician. YMMV. Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social

Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea

@criminalerin.bsky.social

This is a Twin Peaks stan and police hating account and reconciling that contradiction is your own problem. She/guy

@hugogloss.com

Brazilian Entertainment Website Site: https://hugogloss.uol.com.br/ Facebook.com/hugogloss 📩 gloss@hugogloss.com 📲Jobs: jupedrosa@jupedrosa.com.br

@garymarcus.bsky.social

AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley. Newsletter (50k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com

@eli.bsky.social

New_ Public cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human

@ubiquity75.xyz

Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”

@skyspaces.bsky.social

Social Audio, Video, & Chat for BlueSky Web: https://skyspaces.io iOS TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/lojfUai9 Android: Waiting on Google

@jillkrajewski.bsky.social

culture writer in film, vulture, etc bifurious jillkrajewski.com

@dpcarrington.bsky.social

Environment editor at The Guardian Send info confidentially via Signal: dpcarrington.35 Or via this link👇 https://t.co/sSyh2w8LHj

@safiyanoble.bsky.social

Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com