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Dan Rather

Dan Rather

@DanRather

algonquin.com/whatunitesus

Journalist, storyteller, lifelong reader. Texan by birth and by choice. Author of STEADY steady.substack.com and WHAT UNITES US #WhatUnitesUs

2136507 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#137 0.001056 Environmental Journalists
#223 0.000655 Sierra Clib
#471 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#520 0.000003 Fair Vote
#534 0.000131 Environmental Defense Fund
#562 0.000156 350.org
#651 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#669 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#707 0.000003 Existential Risks
#767 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#788 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#924 0.000135 The Long Now Foundation
#1223 0.000117 Black Lives Matter
#1349 0.000111 Social Epistemology
#1736 0.000072 Moderate Conservatism
#2113 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2134 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#3116 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3199 0.000021 Harper's Open Letter
#3403 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3429 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3776 0.000016 Degrowth
#3851 0.000002 Works in Progress
#3955 0.000025 Ecomodernists
#4163 0.000028 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4170 0.000016 Persuasion Community
#4263 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4981 0.000002 EFF
#5202 0.000002 Anarachists
#6834 0.000007 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6909 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7329 0.000002 Rationality
#7362 0.000002 Progress Studies

Journalism

#484 0.000341 The Los Angeles Times
#901 0.000003 The Information
#921 0.000110 The New York Post
#1171 0.000077 Washington Post
#1338 0.000002 Newsmax
#1346 0.000002 OANN
#1443 0.000003 Stat News
#1828 0.000003 The Verge
#2005 0.000061 New Yorker
#2254 0.000059 The Atlantic
#2399 0.000003 The Economist
#2788 0.000054 The New York Times
#2893 0.000005 Reuters
#3007 0.000003 CNBC
#3168 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4072 0.000003 Wired
#4298 0.000003 Financial Times
#4299 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4411 0.000002 The Intercept
#4500 0.000017 The Dispatch
#4534 0.000027 Bloomberg Opinion
#4543 0.000004 Foreign Policy
#4987 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#4997 0.000017 Wall Street Journal
#5332 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#6484 0.000003 VICE
#8478 0.000002 Recode
#8600 0.000007 Ars Technica

Think Tanks

#514 0.000152 Urban Institute
#533 0.000323 Earth Institute
#552 0.000246 Brookings
#722 0.000185 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#854 0.000181 Center for American Progress
#942 0.000080 Asia Society Policy Institute
#943 0.000122 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#954 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1014 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1075 0.000073 Adam Smith Institute
#1406 0.000087 Council on Foreign Relations
#1427 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1920 0.000003 Cato Institute
#1942 0.000033 Atlantic Council
#2292 0.000025 Eurasia Group
#2932 0.000048 American Enterprise Institute
#2932 0.000048 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3911 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4543 0.000004 Niskanen Center
#6347 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8964 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Venture Capital

#506 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#585 0.000003 Founders Fund
#605 0.000307 My Climate Journey
#725 0.000179 Khosla Ventures
#1038 0.000003 Accel
#1454 0.000003 Sequioa
#1976 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2115 0.000002 Bessemer
#2206 0.000047 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2321 0.000050 Homebrew
#2644 0.000002 Index Ventures
#3187 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3787 0.000003 Village Global
#3798 0.000015 Initialized Capital
#5079 0.000019 A16Z

Science

#520 0.000220 Biotech
#1086 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1302 0.000138 ClimateTwitter
#1430 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1755 0.000041 Epidimiology Twitter
#2500 0.000067 Epidemiology Journalism
#4100 0.000019 EconTwitter

Crypto

#518 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#668 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#710 0.000003 Polkadot
#1138 0.000111 Crypto Journalists
#1680 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2456 0.000031 Crypto Infrastructure
#2679 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2857 0.000002 Cosmos
#3319 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3532 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4612 0.000002 Ethereum
#4972 0.000013 Crypto VC
#5027 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5611 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7678 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#1922 0.000073 Think Tanks
#4171 0.000088 Baseline
#8308 0.000062 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#2161 0.000064 Founders

Software Engineering

#652 0.000003 Rust
#1506 0.000002 Zig

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