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@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Independent journalist. Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268. Join my newsletter 👇👇👇 kenklippenstein.substack.com
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.bsky.social / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
@internethippo.bsky.social
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast / i am probably not asking for cooking advice
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@notalawyer.bsky.social
No longer in good standing with the New York State bar My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS, Trump, LGBTQ, criminal justice, and other legal news. / Email: lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. / He/him.
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@phillewis.bsky.social
detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
@mobute.bsky.social
Need a content writer? Seen in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Nation, NBC, TNR, TruthDig, Esquire, etc. Host the "It's Christmastown" Hallmark movies podcast with David Roth & "Quaid in Full" with Sarah Bunting. He/Him. Tampa. https://linktr.ee/mobute
@cait.bsky.social
big famous microblogger [she/her] texan in ma. Adonis' mom https://ko-fi.com/O5O2SN6KI
@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
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: MKwrites4000@proton.me signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@electricalwsop.bsky.social
Recording engineer who plays poker and billiards and eats like a Viking
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@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)
@katmabu.bsky.social
Running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
@drewmagary.bsky.social
Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I'm just here for a good time.
@annamerlan.bsky.social
Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
@mollyknight.bsky.social
Journalist and author. My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com. My dog is named Canelo. His middle name is Beyonce.
@chadloder.bsky.social
Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
@swolecialism.bsky.social
i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com Book: A Creature Wanting Form www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form Music: www.nohopenoharm.bandcamp.com Massachusetts
@jaredlholt.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, US Hate & Extremism @ Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) • [Views expressed here are my own] 🎙️Find “Posting Through It” on your favorite podcast player and here: https://postthroughit.substack.com/
@samthielman.com
Sam Thielman | Seen NYT Book Review, New Yorker, Slate, Flaming Hydra foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | 741.5 (Comic books, strips, etc.) | NC>Brooklyn | cat subordinate | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE with Sean Howe forthcoming from HarperOne
@mauraquint.bsky.social
she/her Join the tax fight: Families Over Billionaires, Fair Share America https://www.fairshareusa.org/join-our-email-list Comedy writer, Onion contributor, mcsweeneys column, etc Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-finalist authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Judeo-Tranarchist exile. She/her. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Avatar by Leela Corman. https://neokayfabe.com/ מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק
@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
@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
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@mattielubchansky.com
award-winning transsexual comics idiot, beautiful giantess // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // she/they
@varizey.bsky.social
I overheard a student say “only old people have those lists in their profiles” and I’ve been terrified to write one ever since.