Diverse American opinions
People who write about history, law, politics, current events and culture. Writers, activists, academics, lawyers, and generally smart people. Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement of everything they write.
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@kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social
@lorenaoneil.com
NOLA freelancer reporting on repro health, politics, culture, tech Contributing writer at Rolling Stone & nonprofit newsroom @lailluminator.bsky.social Bylines: The GuardianUS, Elle, The LA Times, Marie Claire, Jezebel https://www.lorenaoneil.com
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis
@gwensnyder.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member. She/they.
@tonyasong.bsky.social
Singer, Pianist, Songwriter, Composer for hire 🎶 ❤️ | American Indian - Tohono O'odham & Cheyenne; Mexican | Trans-femme (she/they) | Autistic | Arizona/South Dakota | Icon: Lulu (FA)
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better. She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
@mc2x.bsky.social
Open Source Investigator @ Lighthouse Reports. Jack of all trades. She/her.
@lammatic.hellthread.vet
I'm Tyrone Native they/them, 40. Loves nerdy shit(ygo, indie rpgs, FFXIV, 40k), hates fandoms, retired social media activist, here for a good time, cursepost extraordinaire, omnigender apex predator,
@francesdanger.bsky.social
Mvskoke/Semvnole. Daughter of Kaccvlke. Native Rights Advocate. Journalist. She/They I thrive in chaos which is why I don't mind creating a bit of it every once in awhile. Personal Account
@felipedlh.bsky.social
Life’s a bitch and then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
@vasabjit.bsky.social
Comparative civil-military relations, defense manufacturing, political violence, electoral politics, and foreign policy. Regional foci on South Asia and Latin America, but also the "global south."
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Democracy and unions liker, former House staff. Vibes are real. Writing: aaronhuertas.com
@jcsalterego.bsky.social
1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆 • Goodfeeds https://goodfeeds.co/ • @skyapp.bsky.social thanked by darth july 20, 2023 📍Austin, TX
@brunojnavarro.bsky.social
newsroom veteran, fledgling cellist, former emt | he/they | ally 🏳️🌈 | RT ≠ endorsement | ex CNBC, WWD, TODAY show, NBCNews, Associated Press, Arizona Republic etc
@tadethompson.bsky.social
Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw, shorts, screenplays. Arthur C. Clarke Award winner. Hugo nominated. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Etcetera Opinions mine. He/him
@historleans.bsky.social
| Historian | 📖 "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood" | Heart in New Orleans |
@chadloder.bsky.social
Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
@sorayanadiamcdonald.com
I write about culture, history, and power. Pulitzer finalist for criticism. currently: working on a book previously: The Undefeated, WaPo (Pre-Bezos, mostly) she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
@blackazizanansi.bsky.social
@gregpak.net
Rhymes with "rock." Call your reps (reps.fyi) & help your neighbor. #DidThisToday Comics writer, filmmaker, photographer. PLANET HULK, MECH CADET YU, LAWFUL. He/him. gregpak.fyi (this account is me in sweatpants. @gregpak.com is me in chinos lol)
@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
@farhanasultana.com
Professor, author, speaker Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University Past: King’s College London; UNDP ✍🏼 Climate, water, politics, justice 📕 Confronting Climate Coloniality 🔗farhanasultana.com #GeoSky feed: https://tinyurl.com/a6mdyuvd
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
@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
@avishaybsg.bsky.social
Normative Theory of Civ-Mil especially under democratic backsliding | Liberalism Rekindled Postdoctoral Fellow @Hebrew U | Ruderman Scholar in Residence and Senior Researcher at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
@msignorile.bsky.social
journalist, host of "The Michelangelo Signorile Show" on SiriusXM, channel 127, 3-6 ET weekdays @SiriusXMProg.bsky.social #breadsky Newsletter, subscribe: www.Signorile.com 🏳️🌈 email: mike at [my last name] .com New York City!
@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
@ironspike.bsky.social
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics. Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation. https://ironcircus.com Executive Producer, Lackadaisy. Writer, Cartoonist. webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@jelaniya.bsky.social
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
@sesmith.lol
that person with the peaches national magazine award-winning culture critic and journalist seen in bitch (rip), the nation, the verge, rolling stone, etc @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder, @scarleteen.bsky.social coconspirator, & much more! realsesmith.com
@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.”
@brynntannehill.bsky.social
Parent, husky-mom, doomsayer, aviator, general PITA. Views are my own.
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Writer, host of podcasts: sci-fi deep dive "Space the Nation" & mental health convos at "Another Day." Leading The Third Story Workshop. More at anamariecox.com
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Oh God, I should probably be doing one of my jobs right now.
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@meakoopa.bsky.social
international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe. DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Editor-at-Large at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America.
@edidin.bsky.social
writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
@petridishes.bsky.social
I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching unbreaking.org
@jesszimmerman.com
Brief elaboration of a tube. Submission wishlist: http://bit.ly/3Bd1Fbw Women and Other Monsters: http://bit.ly/3BgxyQo
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
@emptywheel.bsky.social
Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Senior politics writer at Salon.com. Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
@zackford.bsky.social
Press/Editorial: AFJustice Formerly: ThinkProgress (RIP). Queer/cis, atheist, SJW, pianist, gaymer, IC alumni, union member. https://linktr.ee/zackford Opinions my own. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈🖖
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Sociologist studying race, class, & the environment. Author of The Business of Racism: Revaluation & Reaction in Brazil's Racial Capitalism (under contract with Duke University Press). PhD from UW-Madison. Former NSF SPRF Postdoc at UCSB. He/Him/His.
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Committed to the bit. Signal: daralind.18
@nobodyinteresting.bsky.social
I represent people who are charged or convicted with crimes.
@clairewillett.bsky.social
Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Covering arts philanthropy at orartswatch.org. Writing books and plays at clairewillettwrites.com. Mentoring lefty grantwriters at tinyurl.com/8thHousePDX. Just a Virgo who can’t drive.
@diplomatofnight.com
"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare." Unfortunately I try to write sometimes
@willpjones.bsky.social
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
@juliaserano.bsky.social
author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
@datadrivenmd.social
Responsible for covid data + analytics that touched 200+ million American lives. Partner. Dad. Retired doctor. Longtime techie. Lifelong learner. Twitter + Threads expat (@DataDrivenMD)
@mariabustillos.com
Join me at the journalist cooperative @flaminghydra.com maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com mariabustillos.com | thebrick.house
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist and professional nerd. Asst Prof, University of Alaska Anchorage. queer af, they/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️ jfmclaughlin.org
@normative.bsky.social
He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
@aedwardslevy.bsky.social
Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
@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
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
@jessdkant.bsky.social
Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@rahaeli.bsky.social
Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
@waleedshahid.bsky.social
Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Former Spokesperson, Justice Democrats. Formerly @ Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, YNWA.
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
Cofounder of The Flytrap (@theflytrapmedia.bsky.social). Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches. Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy. Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum. Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
@jayasaxena.com
Correspondent at Eater.com // Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing // Vox Media Union committee // she/her
@kathryntewson.bsky.social
Good in a crisis and at no other time First initial last name at gmail dot com Signal:@KathrynTewson.06
@courtneymilan.com
She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm. This biography should not be taken as a complete description. courtneymilan.com
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
@espiers.bsky.social
NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, NYU prof, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill. https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
@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
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@danhon.com
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc me: https://about.danhon.com i make: https://donotreply.cards work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/ my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallway-track DM or Signal danhon.1701
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | DM for media inquiries | Check out @waterways-project.bsky.social | he/him
@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social
Author of the upcoming book, "How I'm Jewish". לאָזט ייִדישקייט בלײַבן מאָדנע! "Keep Judaism weird!" מײַנע פּראָנאָמען זענען (ער/אים)
@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"
@omrimarian.bsky.social
Family guy. Acting dad. Novice dog person. Tax law professor. Backpacker. Beer snob. Weekend guitarist. Israeli expat in SoCal.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@swin24.bsky.social
senior politics reporter @ Rolling Stone magazine // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati (go Bearcats 🐻 🐱) // volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati // Rolling Stones obsessive
@charlicarpenter.bsky.social
only-slightly-mad scientist, int’l law prof, author of books on civilians & war. fears tyrants & nukes; welcomes spiders & refugee children. loves whitewater.
@anjalikdayal.bsky.social
UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, joy, screwball comedy, international relations, custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
@costasamaras.com
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
@szreich.bsky.social
Dallas-based lawyer. Supervising attorney for a nonprofit law firm providing immigration services and removal defense to indigent people. Any opinions I express here are my own. NOTHING I WRITE HERE IS LEGAL ADVICE.
@kashhill.bsky.social
Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology & people done wrong by A.I. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
@astrokatie.com
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.