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I teach students at Pomona College about US politics & public policy, and do research on the politics of K-12. Trying to help younger people take over the world.

Strong Democrat. NAFO. #LoveIsStrong #OnlyAWeaklingBelievesThatStrengthIsTheHatredOfWeakness

He/Him. Author of The Brexit Tapes. Historian. Strategy streamer. Tech/Transport Strategist. Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Made Neil Gaiman cry (in a good way). Business: [email protected].

The "Henry Kissinger of transport". Apparently. 😬😆

L-A-T-E-R that week

Writer/Prof•Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
http://bit.ly/43i2Q7n

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❤️ BLUESKY
J6 failed so Putin is trying again.
Elon wants government ID for his Twitter audience.
He can keep it.

Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.

Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g

Political analyst focused on global conflict and security, Afghanistan, the Middle East and US politics. Purveyor of quality nonsense. Rare Afghan with two names.

Education professor. School Law. Ed tech. Pickleball doer.

Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
National Geographic, BBC, Scientific American, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.

I mostly post about Jewish stuff, disability, social justice, and Star Trek.

she/her

Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist

Opiner for Financial Times/associate fellow at Chatham House. Globalisation, econ, snark. RT≠👍. Views own. [email protected]. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter http://tdy.lol/NZKfpz.

Senior National Political Reporter for NBC News covering Capitol Hill and elections

Professor of Economics at INSEAD.

Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant.
לפעמים אני כותבת בעברית כי אני לומדת עברית ורוצה להשתפר. תיקונים מדוברי עברית תמיד מוערכים.
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Newsletter: The Looking Glass
https://the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io

Author, Unholy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605774/unholy-by-sarah-posner/

MSNBC columnist. TPM contributor. Moment columnist.

More: https://www.sarahposner.com

Ethics R Us. Baltimore.

Refugee from Twitter, blogging, and who knows what else.

Writer. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Mom of 3, including 1 with Cri du Chat Syndrome.

Off Message; Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, Salon, TPM; Instagram: @babeutler; facebook.com/beutlerbrian

http://www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin 2023). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554

Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress. Formerly: OMB46, Transition46, Senate Budget Committee (Murray & Sanders). CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.

Good Politics/Bad Politics - Subscribe! Also I root for the Giants. The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024.

Econ/data/etc for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him
📸: Earl Wilson/NYT

Healthcare data analysis, advocacy & snark.
https://ACASignups.net
https://Mastodon.social/@charlesgaba
https://Spoutible.com/charlesgaba
https://Threads.net/@charlesgaba2

Political science professor, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.

Advancing ideas that rebalance power in our economy and democracy. www.rooseveltinstitute.org

Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.

Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.

Davekarpf.substack.com

Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️‍🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍

Astronomy postdoc in Heidelberg, 🇩🇪. Works with machine learning & star clusters. Maintains the Astronomy feeds (https://signup.astronomy.blue).

Bi 🏳️‍🌈, trans (she/her), Ⓥ

Website: https://emily.space
GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt

Animal dork, oceans, science, space, photography, LIBERAL, American living in Canada, eh? Severely chronically ill, migraines, fibro, etc, recovering from cancer.

Historian of science & tech, often about early America (https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin)

Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org

Editor at Semafor

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Aging enfant terrible.

Professor of Political Science & Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Director of Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality / Home to the US Office of LIS

Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-25) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.

Astronomer and Astrophotographer. Pictures of space appearing in posts, magazines and on the telly.

Collector of social media sites. Definitely not a memelord. Sometimes scienceing (infectious diseases and shit. Occasionally literally). Also writes about vaccine hesitancy & science misinformation. Probably somewhere on a trail. She/her

Historian. Postdoc @Yale Center for Study of Antisemitism. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // Spring 2024

Sam Thielman | samthielman.52 on Signal | Seen NYT Book Review, New Yorker, Slate, Atlantic, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | 741.5 (Comic books, strips, etc.) | NC born and raised, in Brooklyn for the duration | I’m just going out to commit certain deeds.

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

autonomy.substack.com

Former journalist, forever immigration explainer.

Journalist. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.

Substack: radleybalko.substack.com

Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy

Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Under contract w/ @OUPPolitics: The Politics of Mobility: Voluntary & Involuntary Migrations, 1619-1882. 1st book: The Immigration Battle in American Courts. Home cook, eater, wine drinker, foodie

Stats PhD student @ Harvard • I tweet about data science: what it is, how to do it better, why it matters for the rest of society.

Historian @UNC-Chapel Hill. Works on culture and politics of business, especially in modern U.S.
New book out in January: One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America