Royce Webb @roycewebb.bsky.social 
Aaron Salmon @aaronsalmon.com A jovial lad, UX leader, Coffee/bike shop owner, Dad, gamer, Lover, horror fan, pool player in Eau Claire, Wi. (forever Chicagoan) Alumni: Defense Digital Service @ DoD, Northwestern KnightLab, Public Good, Obama‘12 HQ, TechStars, ORDCamp.
aaronsalmon.com
🎱 Josh Branchaud ✨ @jbranchaud.bsky.social Free-Range Software Dev and Consultant ✨ PostgreSQL • Ruby on Rails • TypeScript • React ✨ 🏃🐈🍹🎱 (he/him) | Chicago | Work with me: visualmode.dev
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon. 
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social 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.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
CivicActions @civicactions.com We help government deliver better public services through modern technology and design. civicactions.com
Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social Software Cyber Shepherd.
Web platform engineer. Participant: WHATWG, CSSWG, ARIAWG, OpenUICG, WebComponents CG
Website: https://keithcirkel.co.uk/
GitHub: https://github.com/keithamus
Mastodon: https://indieweb.social/@keithamus
KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com Rector Trinity Episcopal, Oshkosh | Coleridge | editor-in-chief Earth & Altar | he/him | Sewer Socialist | orgulloso floridiano | Drawings at theodramatist.com/saints | blog at theodramatist.com/warmthlight-blog
Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (SAIS & Carey Business School), Johns Hopkins University. Political economy, Brazil, and a little bit of futebol.
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner @buttly.bsky.social They can still see his headless body
Stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash
Of Roland's Thompson gun
Alberta
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing)—@ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her.
Words here = mine alone.
Cat Meng @queviva.bsky.social reader, poet,
enthusiastic eater, music snob,
knitter, & malcontent
high desert woo-woo
is this what Deaner was talking about?
catherinemeng.net
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Mike Gifford, CPWA @ UN Open Source Week #UNOSW @ox.ca Open Standards & Practices lead at @CivicActions.com | #Drupal #Accessibility | Digital Services Coalition Board | @w3c Invited Expert #SustainableWeb #ARRM | http://ox.ca | #SolarPunk #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian #WebAlmanac #IAAPCPWA
#UNOpenSourceWeek
Jared Cunha @jaredcunha.com Civic technologist, engineering manager, amateur photographer, lover of food, designer turned engineer, accessibility person, Shiba Inu fan
https://jaredcunha.com/
Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net I speak only for myself.
Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social Investigative reporter, Institute for Justice. Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.
Chris Given @cmgiven.bsky.social Public policy + technology + data. I used to lead the team designing and building IRS Direct File.
REASON FOR TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE SMARTER INFORMATION
https://chrisgiven.com
Tim Reynolds @bytimreynolds.bsky.social NBA writer for The Associated Press. Other beats: Miami Hurricanes, USA Basketball, your Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers and more. Give Jim Boeheim his wins back.
Tim Bontemps @timbontemps.bsky.social Senior NBA writer for ESPN. Prior stops: Washington Post, New York Post. Proud St. Bonaventure alum.
James @jjnba.bsky.social Hoops and food, typically.
Christian Clark @christianclark3.bsky.social NBA reporter for The Athletic. Texan back in Texas. It's all in the game.
Tania Ganguli @taniaganguli.bsky.social I love tacos and dogs. I cover the business of sports, especially basketball, for the New York Times. Hello!
J.A. Adande @jadande.bsky.social Same as the other social media sites
Ramona Shelburne @ramonaespn.bsky.social Senior NBA Writer ESPN
Jeremy Woo @jeremywoo.bsky.social ESPN NBA draft analyst
Kate Scott @katetscott.bsky.social Sixers PxP announcer and WNBA on USA and NWSL on CBS and NFL on Westwood One and Seahawks preseason and Madden and ... who loves naps, whiskey, rescue pitties, and the SPORTS! Big fan of treating others with kindness and compassion too. #TogetherWeRise
BBALLBREAKDOWN @bballbreakdown.bsky.social Hey Sports Fans! Coach Nick here. Live Game Analysis and NBA video breakdowns.
It's Not A Feed, It's A Conversation. You In? YouTube.com/bballbreakdown
Anthony Slater @anthonyvslater.bsky.social NBA writer for ESPN
Joel Lorenzi @jxlorenzi.bsky.social Chicago-based NBA writer for The Athletic. Joe-L. Past: Thunder for The Oklahoman. Mizzou alum. Out West forever. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/joel-lorenzi/
biftechnoir @kenmegalopsuxos.bsky.social Liminal trickster figure. Everything to everyone and nothing to no one. By all means, please be weird.
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social Vice-president of the World Liberty Congress. Founder & Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative. Board of the Human Rights Foundation. Father, activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion.
Matt Johansen @mattjay.com Friendly neighborhood cybersecurity guy | expect infosec news, appsec, cloud, dfir. | Long Island elder emo in ATX.
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social Jack and Charlie’s dad, Alana’s husband. Cincy native. Running for Lieutenant Governor alongside @amyactonoh to fight for Ohioans and lower costs.
anjali taneja @losanjalis.bsky.social DJ and doc 🎧. Executive Director @CasaDeSaludNM. Health is political. I ran for NM House @anjalifornm & now post there about health & community ✨🌈🐢
https://linktr.ee/losanjalis
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social Working on solutions as big as the problems we face.
Jimmy Butlerian Jihad @nbacouchside.bsky.social #rstats #NBASky | Chicago Bulls and Sky partisan, unfortunately | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
nbacouchside.net
NBA @nba.com Join us as we recap the best plays, performances and moments of the 2025-26 NBA season 🍿
The official account for the NBA
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social White House correspondent, @reuters.com. Ex-Washington Post. Bad golfer. Signal: jacobbogage.87. The newsletter: jacobbogage.com.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04- J James Risen @jamesrisen.bsky.social Author and Reporter
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Merici @merici.bsky.social there’s no rule that says you can’t rewrite all the rules
Currently: Fellow. Ex: US Digital Service, CFPB, Ideo. co-founder Ada’s List
DC via London, Boulder, and the Sandhills of Nebraska
Direct File fan account
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Relapsing lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
Read my stuff: http://ryanjreilly.com/
Order my book: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-j-reilly/sedition-hunters/9781541701809/
Message me on Signal: @ryanjreilly.62
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Dem Strategist. Dad to Cameron, Paxton & Brooks. https://TheAltMedia.com
https://youtube.com/@adamparkhomenkoshow
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/subscribe
wrote a book by the same name wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polling averages at @fiftyplusone.news
formerly @ 538 & The Economist. email, don't DM, me
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.