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Account age
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💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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586 views
1/ Less than 24 hours before broadcast, the BBC called me and said: we're editing a line out of your lecture. The line? That Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
472 views
Over 80% of people want a wealth tax for billionaires. Of course they’re resisting with their army of lawyers and lobbyists, but we’re building ours.
I’m so excited to be teaming up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 👉
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INSANELY powerful speech about one of the most evil, legal industries: Big Tobacco.
This industry kills 8+ million people/year. More than HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria combined. The #1 cause of preventable death on earth.
Yet the fight against it gets just 0.1% of global health funding. 🧵
211 views
Sam Altman is the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley right now. The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced.
📊 Post engagement
227
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: 1/ Less than 24 hours before broadcast, the BBC called me and sa · 586 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly video
Recent: 4 text · 0 image · 8 video.
Follower / following
1.5K×
Follows 16 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
1/ Less than 24 hours before broadcast, the BBC called me and said: we're editing a line out of your lecture. The line? That Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
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1/ The biggest problem in today's world? It's not climate change, pandemics, or democratic collapse. It's that too many brilliant minds are stuck in boring corporate jobs, instead of working on those problems.
Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left, and the consequences could be even more disastrous.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpTZ...
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I've finally caved, I'm starting a Substack. Field notes from inside my new career!
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Billionaires pay about half as much in taxes as everyone else. Why? Better lobbyists.
But history shows we can win this fight. Same arguments were made against income tax, democracy still prevailed.
It can again. Excited to team up with …
This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.
When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to g…
True. 2 × $0 still = $0.
Just joined Substack! rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/the-uncomf...
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Last year, 52% of Harvard graduates went into finance, consulting or (big) tech. I was invited by students to talk about this waste of talent, and what we can do about it. Link in next tweet →
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INSANELY powerful speech about one of the most evil, legal industries: Big Tobacco.
This industry kills 8+ million people/year. More than HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria combined. The #1 cause of preventable death on earth.
Yet the fight aga…
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Over 80% of people want a wealth tax for billionaires. Of course they’re resisting with their army of lawyers and lobbyists, but we’re building ours.
I’m so excited to be teaming up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 👉
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Sam Altman is the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley right now. The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restru…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@rutgerbregman.com
The handle is the domain rutgerbregman.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real rutgerbregman.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Feb 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 227 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.2× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
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