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Joan Walsh
Joan Walsh
@joanwalsh.bsky.social
National correspondent, The Nation. Co-producer of "The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show." Author: "What's The Matter With White People." Proud mom of Sadie and NoraWD.
derek guy
derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The Washington Post, Esquire, Mr. Porter, Business of Fashion, and Vulture.
Robert Blaszkiewicz
Robert Blaszkiewicz
@robertblaszk.bsky.social
Marketing and communications at Franciscan Health, formerly of Chicago Tribune and Times of Northwest Indiana, indie music fan, Disney vacation planner, husband, dad, opinions are my own.
Carol Kroeger
Carol Kroeger
@carolkroeger.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Maker of Meals, Ex-American, Current Canadian, Newfie roots, ABC voter, HoH, Cat Caretaker, Garden Mismanager, She/Her
Rita Melinda Red
Rita Melinda Red
@ritamelindared.bsky.social
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
"O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Anna Phylaxis
Anna Phylaxis
@quatoria.bsky.social
hi, i'm anna phylaxis;
organizer, activist,
Board Member, Boston Dyke March;
founder of Boston Dyke Patrol
She / They ⚧ 🏴🔞
p&h by @dataerase
Persisting
Persisting
@persistingiam.bsky.social
Progressive killjoy against genocide everywhere. She/her. Pay attention to deeds not words. Let’s not destroy the planet, ok?
Coach Finstock
Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
Football. Basketball. Democracy. Cream cheese.

Editor: Eater, The Feast (RIP), Citypaper (RIP) Writer: LA Weekly, Inky, Ranker, Zagat
PeopleDied2Vote
PeopleDied2Vote
@peopledied2vote.bsky.social
Americans live in a system of government that only works if people vote.
Psychologist, Gardener, Museum patron, Gym rat.
I enjoy a laugh. I'll follow you.
Liza Mazel
Liza Mazel
@lizamazel.bsky.social
Therapist, writer type, armchair activist, kvetch. Raised from early adulthood by Internet wolves. Warning: squees at cats.

I also ramble currently on Daily Kos https://www.dailykos.com/users/ElizaMazel
Kaitlin Has Had Enough
Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
I just say shit until something smart pops out. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Probably eating carbs. gothamgirlblue.com: has it all
Holly Brewer
Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Opinions my own
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Mezentine
Mezentine
@mezentine.bsky.social
Making cool things. Industrial designer and engineer in Chicago
Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Jennifer Mach (she/they)
@jennifermach.bsky.social
Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Melissa Ingle
Melissa Ingle
@m1ngle.bsky.social
Chief Data Scientist. Doctoral candidate in data science. Teacher. Transgender mom of two kids. “The San Fran Code Tran” - some bigot on Twitter.
Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
Sarah J. Jackson
Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
Professor studying the role of Media & Tech in Movements for Justice | Co-director Media, Inequality & Change Center | Currently Writing a Cultural History of African American Mediamakers

Opinions definitely my own.
Mario Bruzzone
Mario Bruzzone
@bruzzone.bsky.social
Senior Policy Advisor at the Women’s Refugee Commission, doing policy work on unaccompanied kids, child labor, and family separation
Jacqueline Antonovich
Jacqueline Antonovich
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita,
@nursingclio.
She/Her/Hers
Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer, science nerd; ex-Clevelander; embarrassingly sincere. Too big to hang out; slowly lurching toward your favorite city. I’m really just here to chat with friends. She/her.
Walter Shapiro
Walter Shapiro
@mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social
Covering my 12th presidential campaign for the New Republic. Columnist for Roll Call and teach at Yale. New Yorker whose idea of adventure travel is crossing West 86th Street against the light. And Twitter refugee.
Martha Bayne
Martha Bayne
@marthabayne.bsky.social
Writer, editor, duckling enthusiast, circus freak. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com.
Robert Loerzel
Robert Loerzel
@robertloerzel.bsky.social
Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Sarah Aronson
Sarah Aronson
@saraharonson.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Bike Rider. My books include Just Like Rube Goldberg, Brand New Bubbe, and soon: Abzuglutely: Battling Bellowing Bella Abzug! Are you writing a book? Subscribe to my weekly newsletter or work with me at Highlights!
Space Karen is Sensitive
Space Karen is Sensitive
@suesantoro.bsky.social
Oncology RN, proud nerd, real live person #UCFTwitterMafia #BLM #StopAsianHate - no fb/threads/insta - Happy to be here 🙂
Mike Fragassi
Mike Fragassi
@refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.

I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many typos.

@refrag on the Twitanic
@[email protected] but barely active
Loredena Frisealach
Loredena Frisealach
@loredena.bsky.social
Arab USian. Gamer (currently ESO), reader, fuser of glass, weaver, spinner. I read, comment, and repost, more than post directly myself. Lifelong Democrat. Episcopal Christian tired of the evangelists controlling the narrative. she/her #voteblue
Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
Politics, politics, politics
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
@boingboing.bsky.social
Happy mutant strange attractor since 1987.
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@cafenitz.bsky.social
Kate Starbird
Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Professor at University of Washington, HCDE. Cofounder and Director of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Researcher of online rumors and disinformation. Also, former basketball player (Stanford, ABL, WNBA).
Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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
Joseph Howley
Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed
@agr.bsky.social
Rebecca Schoenkopf
Rebecca Schoenkopf
@wonkette.bsky.social
It's a me! Rebecca!
Dispatches from the End of The World
Dispatches from the End of The World
@treewarrior.bsky.social
Tree Hugger, Lovers of List, Anti Fascists, Radical, Left Wing, Green Party, Free Gaza
Invisible Institute
Invisible Institute
@invisibleinstitute.bsky.social
A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more.
Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan M. Katz
@katzonearth.bsky.social
Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Newsletter: http://theracket.news Signal: 1-540-999-8238 Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Francine McKenna
Francine McKenna
@fmckenna.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, speaker, reader. I use tools so tools can’t use me. She/her “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.” The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera https://TheDig.Substack.com Formerly @retheauditors
Megan Greenwell
Megan Greenwell
@greenwell.bsky.social
journalist formerly of WIRED and Deadspin (RIP) and a bunch of other places. writing a narrative nonfiction book about how private equity affects workers and communities.
Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers
@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. Newsletter: buttondown.email/spiers
@shimaoliaee.bsky.social
Gillian Frank
Gillian Frank
@gillianfrank.bsky.social
Historian of sexuality & religion. Co-host of Sexing History, a podcast about how the history of sexuality shapes our present. Writing a book about liberal religion & abortion before Roe v Wade (Forthcoming UNC Press).
www.gillianfrank.com
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈
@drkarenlcox.bsky.social
Award-winning historian. Professor Emerita living in the Queen City. I’ve written four books & my share of op-eds. I’m working on a book about the Rhythm Club fire of 1940. I ❤️ jazz.
Claire Bond Potter
Claire Bond Potter
@clairepotter01.bsky.social
Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | Host of Why Now? podcast | http://clairepotter.substack.com | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency
The Cut
The Cut
@thecut.bsky.social
Style. Self. Culture. Power.
Subscribe to the Cut newsletter: http://thecut.io/3Fo5AaU
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Four Years Ago Today
Four Years Ago Today
@fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social
This account was born on March 6, 2024 when Elise Stefanik asked, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”)


Send complaints to @helenkennedy.bsky.social
Bryce Covert
Bryce Covert
@brycecovert.bsky.social
Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at The Nation, member of the Freelance Solidarity Project. she/her