Ali Sapirman @alisapirman.bsky.social • Trans/Non Binary (They/Them) • #Yimby • Friendly Neighborhood Sapirman • Affordable Housing Advocate @Hacdotorg • Opinions are my own •
Doug King in San Jose @dekgreen.bsky.social Green building / policy professional. Also post on: affordable housing, sustainability, urban development, San Jose / Bay, interesting science content.
PhD @CMU EPP 2006
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social Pedestrian
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
📍Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
Global Policy Leadership Academy @gpla4leaders.bsky.social Supporting established and emerging leaders in forging solutions to intractable global challenges through transformative educational opportunities, partnership facilitation, and research.
🔗gpla.co 
Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social YIMBY, cyclist
was Krampus Snail on the old site, still a snail when I ride my Krampus
Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social Mom, organizer, Lt. Gov. of MN. My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe = Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.
Running for U.S. Senate to fight for Minnesotans
Grant Henninger @granthenninger.com Founding Principal, Mobius Planning || Dad
Working to build verdant cities that provide community, happiness, and prosperity for all residents.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social I do housing policy stuff and it’s ruining my life. CADA, SMUD, and SOE fanboy. House Sacramento’s most annoying member.
Urban Land Rent Foundation’s official letterboxd: boxd.it/cUU0R
Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us A network of local organizations working to fix the US housing shortage. Our members win pro-housing policy change. We can help you do the same. welcomingneighbors.us.
the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social Extremely Online medieval archaeologist and aspiring politico in the PNW. Dem Tea Party Believer. AOCista. Gerontocracy hater. 2ndGen 🇨🇺🇺🇸 🌹DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Sightline Institute @sightline.org Think tank cooking up nonpartisan policy research on housing, energy, climate, and democracy in Cascadia. 🧠🍳 Likes/follows ≠ endorsements.
Newsletters: sightline.org/signup
Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley @ternerhousing.bsky.social The Terner Center formulates bold strategies to house families from all walks of life in vibrant, sustainable, and affordable homes and communities.
Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social Housing guy. Researcher at UCLA Lewis Center, host of UCLA Housing Voice Podcast, author of The Affordable City, resident of Los Angeles.
Jason Cox @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social Real estate development, urbanism. Fire trucks are too big, streets are too wide, and the IBC kills good development. Tree canopy aficionado. Sometime restaurateur.
Parker Welch @parkerwelch.bsky.social Transportation engineer, urbanist, Austinite, liberal patriot
Board Secretary @aura-atx.org
Poems & Essays: https://thisfaintfire.substack.com/
Muhammad Alameldin @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social Director of Growth, California YIMBY.
Boardmember: Casita Coalition & First Congregational Memorial Tower.
Advisor to Student Homes.
They call me "The Condo Guy"
Oren Hadar @futureis.la LA has the best bones of any city in the world. It can become a true world capital if we only let it. I write at https://futureis.la
Conrad Speckert @conradspeckert.bsky.social Building code, multiplexes, missing middle and mid-rise housing <www.singlestair.ca>
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
andymasley.com
Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social Patent attorney, astrophysicist, & Stack-and-Packist 🏙️🥑🔋⛷️. Ready to help enforce state housing law.
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Payton Chung @westnorth.com Card-carrying urbanist since 1998; housing developer, author, museum docent, board member, #climate voter. Opine solely for myself. Ex-CHI, BOS, RDU 🚄🚋🚴♂️🌇🏗️🏳️🌈
Words @ggwash.org @citybuilder.bsky.social
BT @barrett-t.bsky.social Climate and catastrophe modeling; faith-based climate action; lets build more housing; go Lakers
tschuy 🏳️🌈 @tsch.uy Bikes 🚴 trains 🚆 and public land 🖼️.
Get outdoors carfree! https://hikingbytransit.com
Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz Transportation planner and economist. Founder, Siegman & Associates. Formerly Principal & Shareholder at Nelson\Nygaard. LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/5cekhrjh
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
Uphold Yang Wenli Thought
He/him
https://www.eveningconstitutional.net
Lori Droste @loridroste.bsky.social I’m into the the 3 Ps—progress, politics, and policy 😉
Happily retired former Berkeley politician
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social Architect, housing advocate, and Emergent Ventures grant recipient
Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social Housing reporter @calmatters.org. Occasional dad tweets. Tell me things: Ben@calmatters.org / signal: BenC.2017
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
YIMBY Democrats for America 🇺🇸🗽 @yimbydems.bsky.social The Voice of Progressive Abundance. Build America. Defeat Fascism. Join us at The Festival of Progressive Abundance in Los Angeles from Friday January 30th to Sunday February 1st, 2026! https://progressiveabundance.com/
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
Cedric Vu @cedvu.bsky.social artist (ง ^u^)ง
📍san jose, ca, usa
http://bio.site/cedvu
Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social Notorious GIS reply guy
YIMBY
I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician
Vuvuzela owner
Father
@jeffinatorator on certain bird sites
chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social Iowan in NYC, Washingtonian at heart. Born this side of the millennium. Italianate architecture lover.
Iowa --> DC --> NYC
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com A beautiful home,
in a healthy city,
on a thriving planet
Lanefab Design / Build
Oori Architecture
B.Eng M.Arch
www.Lanefab.com
Vancouver BC
#ThickWallsAreSexy / #SingleStair / #ElectrifyEverything / #Passivhaus
Center for Public Enterprise @publicenterprise.bsky.social Equipping the public sector with tools to deliver more inclusive economic development.
https://www.publicenterprise.org/
Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social Posting thoughts on plumbing/building codes, engineering design guides, water and nutrient cycles, often with regional and historical insights (personal account)
Director of Plumbing Standards Research and Development
john.lansing@centerforbuilding.org
D Fletcher Dunham @dfdunham.bsky.social architecture, social housing, & posts about bldgs 🏢📚🌈 Los Angeles
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Pre-order my book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/build-or-die-how-america-is-suffocating-its-cities-and-what-to-do-about-it-ned-resnikoff/8ae5ebca259e570a?ean=9781642834260
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
https://linktr.ee/premthakker
Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times, host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast. 
David Turnbull @dturnbull.bsky.social Supporting strategic communications to win the climate fight. Board member, @joindayenu.bsky.social & @BreachCollectiv.bsky.social
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
The_Fair_Ground @cheeserush.bsky.social Seattle area land use writer.
Overturn Euclid vs Ambler.
Building a future where cities do not have the legal authority to say no to safe housing.
Georgist - YIMBY - Anti-Local Control
Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social More housing, bikes, and transit.
https://youtube.com/@ohtheurbanity
📍 Montreal, Quebec
Kevin V. Nguyen @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social Writer at The San Francisco Standard 🟡
Business | Policy | Sports 🗒️
sfstandard.com/author/kevin-v-nguyen/
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social Sumo citrus influencer, bellwether of good music
Want to see a show soon? I got suggestions https://janes-going-out-guide.beehiiv.com/
Jake Berman @lostsubways.com Lawyer, historian, mapmaker. Transport + housing nerd. Californian living in New York.
Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning @ Columbia. Wrote "The Lost Subways of North America". Get the book at http://lostsubways.com.
Personal account.
Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social Principal at CAST architecture, urbanist advocating for housing options, 15-minute cities and sustainable construction. Passivhaus proponent. Former AIA Seattle President and Seattle Planning Commission Co-Chair
Netroots Nation @netrootsnation.bsky.social The largest progressive gathering in the U.S. 🔥
📍 #NN27 will be in Denver: July 8-10, 2027
NetrootsNation.org
Zennon Ulyate-Crow @zennonuc.bsky.social A new leader California deserves.
Fmr. Candidate for State Senate to be CA’s First Gen Z Legislator
Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social Social media host and reporter for @kpbssandiego.bsky.social
@jakegotta on IG
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Chris Elmendorf @cselmendorf.bsky.social The law prof at UC Davis. Dad. Denizen of San Francisco. Patron of Amtrak. Tweets are my own, not statements of UC. (he/him)
Harry! @harry-n.bsky.social 24yr old transit advocate and college student. Member of VTA's Citizens Advisory Committee. Opinions are my own.
Justice for all people and nothing less.
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social California YIMBY is a statewide advocacy organization working to pass legislation to end California's housing shortage by empowering and growing the YIMBY movement. Learn more at https://cayimby.org.
Jack Hanson @jack-hanson.bsky.social Climate changemaker, ED @runonclimate, former City Councilor, musician
Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) @boldprogressives.org Nearly one million member grassroots organization working to elect Democrats and build power for economic populist priorities.
Nikki Fortunato Bas, Supervisor @sup-nikkifbas.bsky.social Supervisor, Alameda County, District 5, serving Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont & Oakland including West Oakland, North Oakland & Grand Lake.
https://linktr.ee/nikkifortunatobas
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
BART x Muni defender 🏳️🌈 @shegabme.bsky.social Gab (he/him)
transit. languages. kpop, taylor swift, and esc. bay area. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈
languages: 🇵🇭🇪🇸🇫🇷🇧🇷🇮🇹🇯🇵🇩🇪🇳🇱🇰🇷
Michael Purtell @michaelpurtell.bsky.social Democratic activist in San Jose, originally from upstate NY. Interested in Python, data science, music, sports. DMs welcome on relevant (to me) topics, friendly conversation or questions of mutual interest.
Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
David Fenn @dcfenn.bsky.social Queer LA Urbanist. Wanderlust.
🚲🚇🌆🏕️✈️⛷️🐈🏳️🌈 (He/Him)
All opinions are my own.
Rob Parolek 🍉🐳 @robparolek.bsky.social Politically active YIMBY, New Urbanist, StrongTowns, Historic Preservationists, MCM lover, Climate Warrior, rabid pro density, transit & housing in turn. Electrification & Heat pump evangelical.
TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗️ @theomnizaddy.bsky.social Social democrat in the streets, liberal Georgist in the sheets. Mariah Carey stan & Marie Kondo enthusiast. YIMBY, NUMTOT, aspiring DILF.
Brooklyn, NY | Zillennial (27) | Bi🏳️🌈| he/him
omniaz.substack.com
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @urbancourtyard.bsky.social Launching the CIMBY (Courtyard In My Backyard) movement in North America, starting in Chicago.
ansel @ansel.lundberg.com YIMBY in Sacramento.
professional electric grid understander.
sharks 🦈🏒 and kings 💜🏀 fan.
we live in a society.
he/him
TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
brianpcf @brianpcf.bsky.social IceOut.org
Former USMC
USNA Grad
St. John’s College Grad
Pod host: Combat & Classics
mcg @upyourzone.bsky.social I like public transportation, bikes, fun cities, travel, and ecology | I follow politics and tech | 🌈 she/they
@kbehroozi.bsky.social @kbehroozi.bsky.social Mostly housing and transportation policy. Local elections matter!
Toby Muresianu @tobyhardtospell.bsky.social Housing advocate in LA, content creator, digital comms guy. I did a lot of comedy before covid (and still do sometimes)
Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social Product guy. Ad tech. I ❤️ shipping the right products.
Former LIRR commuter. Current Caltrain commuter.
Views not representative of my employer.
Rob Moore @rob-moore.bsky.social Vice Mayor of Los Gatos, CA. Working to build a stronger, more resilient community.
Michael Pimentel @mvpimentel.bsky.social mostly transit talk // executive director @caltransit // alum of @goldmanschool @berkeleyecon // former @jerrybrowngov @cahsra // LA native living in NorCal 🇲🇽
// opinions = my own
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social I like bicycles and coffee. Active transportation policy nerd mostly in a California context. Movement by bike, on foot, on buses and trains. I've been around. Old GenX guy who respects pronouns. He / him.
Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social Transport nerd. Recovering city bureaucrat. Introvert. Working to cut CO₂, eliminate traffic violence, advance equity, and strengthen local economies. Former SFMTA, OakDOT, Nelson/Nygaard. SF.
Ryan Globus @ryanglobus.bsky.social San José, CA. 🥑 🚊 🚌 🚲 🏳️🌈 💻
Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social Founder 8 80 Cities • Worked in over 350 cities • NEW keynotes & workshops on how CITIES can make HEALTHY & HAPPY LIVING the easy choice • Book Gil • Infra + Policy + Programs • Children • Olders • Top 100 urbanist (13).
Richard Mehlinger 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social Sunnyvale Councilmember, unofficial account.
Houser, liberal, democrat, Democrat, bicycling bisexual, unicameralist fanatic.
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. —Terry Pratchet