JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social A 🔥 podcast about who gets what and why in the economy with zillionaire class traitor Nick Hanauer. Listen (ad-free) wherever you get your podcasts.
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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social VP, Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Opinions are mine unless they're actually David Byrne lyrics.
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social Senior national political reporter, NBC News
Capitol Hill, elections, Formula 1 🏛️🗳️🏁
Signal: sahilkapur.30
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The Hamilton Project @hamiltonproject.org The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu produces research and policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans. www.hamiltonproject.org
Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social Berkeley law prof guy, erstwhile Georgetown, DOJ, & points in between. Mostly boring tax stuff; occasional dollops of nonprofits, law & econ, etc. Could be arguing in my spare time.
Shift Work Forward @shiftworkforward.org Redesigning work. Expanding opportunity.
https://shiftworkforward.org/
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social Policy/writer. @thenation @TheProspect @slate @DissentMag @monthly @nydailynews @theweek
Teach crim justice/sociology CUNY and other places
Writing at https://nathannewman.substack.com/
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Zach Everson @zacheverson.com Research director
Trump accountability
Public Citizen
Mobile/Signal 202.804.2744, z_everson@protonmail.com
Although I post selected content from my employer, I do so independently and not at its direction. Views do not necessarily reflect my employer's.
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
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Zach Dickson @zachdickson.bsky.social Postdoc at LSE researching climate politics and party competition
https://z-dickson.github.io/
Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social Non-profit research & grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas & policies that promote strong, stable & broad-based economic growth
equitablegrowth.org
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish. typeos.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. Reposts ≠ Endorsement. https://linkin.bio/jodemocracy
Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Researching dictatorships and the dark side of politics | https://www.adamscharpf.net/
Author of "Making a Career in Dictatorship", OUP | https://tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
Austin Clemens @austinclemens2.bsky.social Formerly Washington Center for Equitable Growth, now freelance visualizing the economy
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social Comparative civil-military relations, defense manufacturing, political violence, electoral politics, and foreign policy. Regional foci on South Asia and Latin America, but also the "global south."
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social Law professor at the American University Washington College of Law (but all views expressed here are my own); author of Fintech Dystopia and Driverless Finance; mythbusting crypto, AI, and other fintech
Internet serial: fintechdystopia.com
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social Director of the Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program at CSIS. Podcasts EuroFile and Russian Roulette. Fmr State Department official. DC sports, Tottenham
Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at The Washington Sun. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
tips - signal at nalms.41 and nataliealms@notus.com
Alix Gould-Werth @alixgouldwerth.bsky.social Chief of Programs and Strategy working to increase economic and political power for Black and brown communities @demosorg.bsky.social but opinions here are my own and retweets are things I hope to read, not things I endorse.
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Julie A. Su @juliesulabor.bsky.social NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice.
Former acting U.S. Labor Secretary & CA Labor Secretary. Lifelong civil rights & workers rights advocate.
Carrie A Lee @carriealee.bsky.social Former public servant: Democracy, Civ-Mil, NatSec & Strategy. Senior Fellow @gmfus.bsky.social, Visiting Scholar @perryworldhouse.bsky.social, Member @cfr.org, Truman Project. Running enthusiast.
Aditya Dasgupta @adasgupta.bsky.social Read, teach and write about comparative politics, political economy, and social science at UC-Merced: https://aditya-dasgupta.com
Sean Gailmard @sean-gailmard.bsky.social University of California, Berkeley
Adam Zelizer @adamzelizer.bsky.social Assistant professor of Political Economy at Chicago Harris interested in legislatures, RCTs, and locked room mysteries.
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, University of Chicago
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
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.
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Democratic Theory. Book: The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy. Bylines Dissent, Boston Review, etc
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree. Diva + Professor: Professa.
Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social Sociologist studying the political workforce, lobbying, regulation, trade policy, and democracy. Postdoc at SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Based in DC. Philly at heart.
www.wendyyli.com
Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social Union Flight Attendant since 1996 and president of the Flight Attendant Union, @afacwa.org, 55k at 20 airlines. Sanders Institute fellow. @unionnow.org founder. (she/her)
Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
jgreen4919.github.io
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.- D David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/people/david-wessel/
Shayna Strom @shaynalstrom.bsky.social President & CEO @equitablegrowth.bsky.social. @ACLU.org & White House Office of Management and Budget alum. She/Her. Views are my own. Retweets ≠ Endorsements.
Beth Truesdale @truesdale.bsky.social Sociologist studying work, aging, and inequality at @upjohninstitute. Opinions mine.
Editor of Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer.
bethtruesdale.org
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Dan Barron @dvbarron.bsky.social Associate professor of Strategy at Northwestern Kellogg. He/him. Economist that studies cooperation. Climber. Nerd. Chicagoan. 🏳️🌈
Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (SAIS & Carey Business School), Johns Hopkins University. Political economy, Brazil, and a little bit of futebol.
Peter Sterne @petersterne.com State Editor at cityandstateny.bsky.social. Previously @nysfocus.bsky.social, @freedom.press and @politico.com. He/him.
Email: psterne@cityandstateny.com
Signal: petersterne.91
https://petersterne.com
Hilary Wething @hilwething.bsky.social Economist at EPI. Former Asst Prof at Penn State's School of Public Policy. I research labor policy, women's employment, and education policy. https://www.epi.org/people/hilary-wething/
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Jody Calemine @guerino.bsky.social Director of Advocacy, AFL-CIO
Work wise: Fighting for a government that’s responsive to working people
Also: Waiting impatiently for the next great vowel shift
Views my own
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social National Security Attorney, Comic Book Historian, University of Rochester Alum
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal- M Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof: http://goo.gl/qAOlH9 538: http://goo.gl/1iwZJs
Mallory SoRelle @profsorelle.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Duke Sanford | Author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection | Aspiring Renaissance woman
Angie Jo @angiehjo.bsky.social PhD candidate in political economy @ MIT. I study how crisis response is shaped by the everyday welfare state and when/if short‑term relief becomes long‑term reform. angiehjo.com/
John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education @UVA.
I share social science.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
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
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
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
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Olatunde Johnson @olatij.bsky.social Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘59 Professor, Columbia Law School; scholar of democracy and democratic futures, pluralism, race, gender, economic justice, and housing. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=443245
Erica Groshen @ericagroshen.bsky.social Economist, Sr. Econ Advisor at Cornell -ILR.
14th Commissioner of BLS.
Formerly at NY & Cleveland Federal Reserve Banks. Now in Seattle!
Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social Former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ex-Council of Economic Advisers, Census, and Treasury. Bay Area/DC dual citizen. Personal account, all opinions my own
Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social Co-Author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (Oct. 2026)
Author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling
Co-Editor of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 1 & 2
Bio/Foster/Adoptive Parent
Boycott "a.i."
Opinions my own (not my employer's)
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