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Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz.
CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
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.
VAP in English at the University of Iowa. Writer. https://www.spencerljones.com/
He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
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Prof and researcher. Media, race, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social
Preorder my latest: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-second-sight-sarah-j-jackson
Opinions definitely my own
We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
she/her, VCFA grad, rep: Patrica Nelson at Looking Glass Lit 📚🌈
Upcoming: WHEN YOU'RE BRAVE ENOUGH (2026), HOW TO TAKE A RISK (2027) from Viking/Penguin Young Readers
Close talker. Story teller. Co-Founder of Texas Freedom to Read Project. Wife to a very tall man. Mom to 4. Fighting the far-right in Tarrant County, Texas. Known on Twitter as: “Not just a mom, but a mouthy activist.”
Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher.
I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
CEO of a major media company
Longtime journalist
WHAT ROUGH BEAST
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-rough-beast/id1787176282
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, premiering on AMC soon.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
http://mitchnobis.com
Writer (poetry & fiction). Doofus. Old man hooper. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, or dog.
Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
Dallas-based freelance writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
Retired teacher but not retired from the world of life, learning, and education
She/her
"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Fan of health law, religious liberty, and reproductive rights
Seattle native but Angeleno to the core. Teacher, writer, story-coach, failed iconoclast
https://linktr.ee/cjsingerwrites
Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
Lucy Calkins' #2 hater
Play it fucking loud.
Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Guitarist w/ George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Al Jarreau & more. Founder, programmer, and janitor of Little Green Footballs. Scientist of love. Haole from Hawai'i. Not a clanker. Just a weirdo. The good kind.
https://littlegreenfootballs.com
Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
author of Solidarity with Children, Fag/Hag, and Comedy Against Work
editor of The Return of the 90s (forthcoming: Pluto, 2026)
adjunct at universities that don’t pay me for research
teacher, writer, dad, hobbyist, snark
My opinions are only my own.
Scholar of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, education. Author of "What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform" and "Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America." Website: https://johannneem.com
“Survival is insufficient.”
Station Eleven
Journalist covering prisons and harsh sentencing. More fun than I sound.
https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/
Signal: @lilianasegura.56
I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Assoc professor @Baylor. Studies: digitalization of/in education; how science/tech shape the ways we practice, teach, and talk about literacy. [he/him]
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Probably browsing BaT
MotorWeek Evangelist
Pennsylvania Nationalist
Catholic Worker Movement Respecter
AACA, SCCA, & BCA Member
“So come drive with us!”
Tom Mullaney (he/him) helps teachers design creative, inclusive lessons and think critically about generative AI, EdTech, and pedagogy.
🌐 tommullaney.com
📰 criticalinkling.com
No MAGA, Bitcoin, Crypto, or AI hype.
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
Journalist. Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse.
christopherdhooks@gmail.com
John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College. Author of “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Contributor: @theonion.com
@sorrowscopes.bsky.social, @riversidecasino.bsky.social, @greenevillezoo.bsky.social
Creator: @sorrowscopes.bsky.social
Educator, intellectual freedom advocate, scholar, reader, writer, and lyricist. I knit, garden, and cook for instant gratification. Professor in title. Michigan expat in Texas. Typos make it bespoke. (Skeets my own.)
Welcome to Willerby, where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. More than fifty free short stories about the weird events that happen in our village on our website. No AI here ever.
https://willerby.substack.com
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Social Worker, Mom, former Milspo, mostly former endurance athlete, avid reader. I care deeply about things. She/her
Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member
She/Her
Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival
Chapel Hill, NC
Author of seven pop history books. Married to @kibblesmith.com. Mom to a toddler. ‘Glitz Glam & A Damn Good Time’ Biography of Mamie Fish On Sale Now from Hachette.
high school teacher, horror-lover, poet, Bright Wall/Dark Room editor, parent, person
Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Author, LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE, HOW LUCKY, THE TIME HAS COME. Contributing Editor, New York. Columnist, The Washington Post & The Athletic. Writer, MLB. Critic, Grierson & Leitch. Founder, Deadspin. Illini. Mattoonian. https://williamfleitch.substack.com
Farmer. Organizer. Running for TX Ag Commissioner to make food/farming affordable by busting monopolies & protecting our water from AI Data Centers.
https://linktr.ee/claytontuckertx
your favorite poster's favorite poster. pain in the ass but a delight. i like plants and sports a lot. He/him
they gon judge me anyway, so whatever
do what you can
How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Texas State Rep, mom, attorney, and advocate, running for governor to fight back against the corruption that’s robbing working families of the Texas we deserve.
Texans first.
🔗 ginafortexas.com
Writer: NY Mag, Esquire, The Atlantic, Vogue, etc. Head of Social Media @ tech job. Mostly posting about dogs & books. Opinions all mine. vershbowiswriting@gmail.com
https://www.sophievershbow.com/writing
Mom, wife, life-long learner. Coach, English/Speech Teacher, Adjunct, #NBCT, and #GoogleIE. #chi24 #edusky. #engsschat
Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Former school librarian and advocate for public education. Writer of op-eds and letters to the editor.
Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
#Notacourt but yes a law prof
Men Yell at Me. I write books.
English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Social media is not my classroom. Posts represent me only and no organization linktr.ee/plthomas
Literacy (reading and composition) and education policy, comic book scholarship
Your wife and mother
Podcasting: Hysteria (from @crookedmedia)
YouTubing: This Fuckin' Guy
Writing: MSNBC, Esquire, The Daily Beast, TV, et al
erinryan.substack.com
Literacy Consultant | Growing Researchers of Environment Equity Network (G.R.E.E.N.) Co-Founder | Former ELA Department Chair, Writing Center Director, Instructional Coach + Humanities Teacher | Views are my own | Pronouns: He/Him
Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Wisconsinite. Dad. Former Chair, @wisdems.org
Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
computer security person. former helpdesk
Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
writer and musicker //
SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS out now from @splitlippress.com //
A HARVEST OF FURIES coming oct '25 from @lfpbooks.bsky.social //
music everywhere //
linktr.ee/haydencasey //
Marine Veteran. Writer. Talking democracy, civmil, veterans, gun violence, war stories.
War is bad. Books are good. He/him. STL. Go Cards. LGB. AllForCity
Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Author, very professional. Buy my extremely good book at www.mammybook.com
Teacher, parent, school governor. Occasional blogger.
"A million different people from one day to the next, I can change."
https://bennewmark.wordpress.com/
Trying it over here. Disabled and queer. Word tinkerer (in schools) and word tinkerer (not in schools). Never not thinking about Plastic Man.
Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
📰 homewiththearmadillo.blog
📧 (secure) grimesandrea at proton dot me
🛍️ andreagrimes.threadless.com
Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
National Security Attorney, Comic Book Historian, University of Rochester Alum
Teacher. Publisher of the Book-Loving Texan’s Guides to School Board Elections. Co-founder of Texas Freedom to Read Project.
Patriotic American. Former US Attorney, SDNY. Banned by Putin. Fired by Trump.
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