@voteshekar.bsky.social @voteshekar.bsky.social 
State Futures @state-futures.bsky.social Building state capacity to govern boldly in the public interest.
https://www.statefutures.org/
Sen. Jabari Brisport @jabaribrisport.bsky.social New York State Senator in District 25. Chair of Committee on Children and Families. Former public school teacher. Socialist. 🌹
Dr. Katie Clark @altadenakatie.bsky.social Public libraries, nonprofits, history. Local elected official for Altadena & organizer @ Altadena Tenants Union. 🏳️🌈 Writing occasionally at The New Dark Ages on Substack: https://newdarkages.substack.com/
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social Senior Supreme Court Reporter, NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/author/lawrence-hurley-ncpn1298564
Signal: @lawrencehurley.25
Diane Yentel @dianeyentel.bsky.social President and CEO, National Council of Nonprofits
Former President and CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition (2016-2025)
Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Marta Schaaf ❌ 👑 @martaschaaf.bsky.social DrPH; Director of the Program on Climate, Economic & Social Justice & Corporate Accountability at Amnesty International; former Mailman School at Columbia University; Organize w/ClimateFamiliesNYC.org; not going into ‘internal exile.’ All views my own.
Kathleen @knichols5707.bsky.social Loves: cats, books, good bread, mass transit, my kids, the seaside, Brooklyn. Not necessarily in that order.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Annie McDonough @anniemcdonough.bsky.social Reporter @cityandstateny.bsky.social • Write me/send tips at amcdonough (at) cityandstateny (dot com) • DM for Signal • She/her
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
@trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social Advocate for transit infrastructure in every neighborhood 🚊🚃🚅 No one should have to live more than a 1/2 mile from a train station
Queens, NY 🌐
@adamnyc.bsky.social @adamnyc.bsky.social Passionate about public reason. Averse to social media. Willing to compromise to advance human rights, but not to undermine them.
@andreashapirobk.bsky.social @andreashapirobk.bsky.social 
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
Hari Kondabolu @harikondabolu.bsky.social Comedian
Liz Miele @lizmiele.bsky.social NYC comedian. Newest special “Space Camp” out now on http://YouTube.com/lizmiele • All tour info at lizmiele.com
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.
Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social Climate and disaster scientist, famed government whistleblower, and former candidate for Congress. Expertise includes climate science, natural disasters, politics, and media.
www.MESOSCALENEWS.com
https://linktr.ee/georebekah
Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
ibramxkendi.com
Sarah Dohl ❌👑 @sarahdohl.bsky.social Co-founder, Chief Campaigns Officer at Indivisible. Storyteller. Former congressional speechwriter. Alden’s mom.
Liat @liatro.bsky.social Educator, climate organizer w/ @climatefamsnyc
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social media reporter @semafor
Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics, especially in marginalized communities. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
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.)
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Aries Dela Cruz - NYC Emergency Management @ariesnycem.bsky.social Exec. Director, Public Information. Just one of New York’s Most Anxious. Not monitored 24/7, 📞 911 for emergencies.
Shana Knizhnik @shanakn.bsky.social Lawyer at ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. Former public defender & public school kid. Queer & intersex. Seeking justice. Standard disclaimers apply. she/her 🌈
pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social Attorney. Posting about criminal legal issues, immigration, and protests.
@pdxlawgrrrl on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/pdxlawgrrrl
Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com Queens mom 🌐 Immigrant New Yorker 🇪🇨 Democratic socialist 🌹 State Assemblymember for District 36 (Astoria & Long Island City) ✊🏽 Join @socialists.nyc!
Malik 🇩🇲 @maliknyc.bsky.social SEQ 🗽♉ | Venusian motorcyclist 🏍️💨
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Laura Packard @laurapackard.com Health policy and health justice advocate, cancer survivor & founder @healthcarevoices.org @voicesofhealthcare.org, progressive small biz owner PowerThru, host weekly streaming health care call-in show & podcast #CareTalk, she/her
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
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social @littlelobbyists.com Executive Director & Co-founder advocating for children with complex medical needs and disabilities. I ❤️ Medicaid.
Fighting for disability justice, health equity, and tater tots for all.
Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social Saint Paul City Council Member for Ward Four.
Executive Director, People’s Parity Project & PPP Action.
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Carolina Malagon @cimalagon.bsky.social Political organizer, avid reader, Germanistin, Brooklynite
Sarahana @sarahana.bsky.social NYS Assemblymember District 103, Mid-Hudson Valley 🌹
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Zohaib “Zo” Qadri @zoforaustin.bsky.social Proudly Representing Austin City Council, D9. Progressive Democrat fighting for Austinites. Child of immigrants. 🇺🇸 🇵🇰 Proud Texas Ex.
zoforaustin.com
Alex Beauchamp @alexatfww.bsky.social Northern Region Director Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action. Fighting to move US off fossil fuels.
Opinions are my own. Grosse Pointe, MI
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
Emily Mayer @emilymayersc.bsky.social She/her. #scpol strategy is my thing; trying to make it everyone else’s 🥴. Unapologetically opinionated and outspoken. Recovering people pleaser, former candidate, forever educator.
Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
Alex McCoy @alexandermccoy.bsky.social Organizing workers against the harms of AI.
USMC veteran, Columbia alum, girldad, wifeguy. Orlando, FL.
Former: Irreplaceable, Public Citizen, NextGen America, Common Defense
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)
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social Cancelling student debt and other fun.
Bernie alum. 
Mikey Sandmel @mikeysandmel.bsky.social Worker cooperative developer. Union member. Former state and local economic justice policy guy. Basketball, Sci-Fi, NYC beaches.
Shahana Hanif @shahanafrombk.bsky.social Brooklyn elected official getting things done. Working Families Party endorsed.
Katie Way @k80way.bsky.social Hard act to follow / consummate professional / writer-editor at Hell Gate
Persist Brooklyn 🗽💙🇺🇸 #DefendDemocracy @persistbrooklyn.bsky.social Were: Brooklyn4Warren🗽💙 4Eva: @warren.senate.gov #ElizabethWarren #SenatorWarren #DreamBigFightHard #WarrenDemocrats🩸🦷
Follow the inspiring 🇺🇸 @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social and @fixmedianow.bsky.social #FixMediaNow 📲 http://tiny.cc/pbk-announcement
Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social Born in December 2016, fighting fascism from the right and pushing Dems to the left ever since.
Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social Comms & campaigns @homeless_law. Jewish justice seeker. Howard MSW, guitarist, veggie lover. Tweets, mine. Alum:
@miriamskitchen @weareavodah @ajws. He/him
Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social Senior correspondent at New York magazine. Author of the recent book UNBEARABLE: FIVE WOMEN AND THE PERILS OF PREGNANCY IN AMERICA (2025). Two kids and not a night of decent sleep since 2020. Here for that old magic time suck.
Lacey Tauber @ltaubs.bsky.social Policy for Brooklyn, Pratt GCPE, other stuff. I don't post much, but when I do, all opinions are my own. 
Katie Herman @katiehh.bsky.social Independent book editor at www.katieherman.net. Sometime poet. Lefty. Brooklyn, NY.
"Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire."
—Ayisha Siddiqa
Jesse Conrad @jesseconrad.bsky.social My life consists of North American Politics & Real Housewives 🏳️🌈
Currently: Brooklyn Museum
Prior: Berger Hirschberg Strategies, The Advance Group, Freedom House, The Netherland-America Foundation
Reading, PA → Brooklyn, NY
Views & opinions are my own
Elizabeth Adams @elizabethadamsbk.bsky.social 
Joo-Hyun Kang @joohyunkang.bsky.social 
Rabbi Jill Jacobs @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, author There Shall Be No Needy & Where Justice Dwells. she/her
Phara Souffrant Forrest @phara4assembly.bsky.social Nurse, activist, David’s mama, and NY State Assemblymember representing the 57th District. Chair of @TFNA_NYSA🌹
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
maya kosoff @mayakosoff.bsky.social writer and editor; small business owner
18olives.com // maya.substack.com
NYC Council Member Alexa Avilés @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social Council Member representing District 38: Red Hook and portions of Gowanus, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach 🗽
Jay Brown @jaybrown.bsky.social Concerned NYer, dad, Mets fan; CEC21 President; PDANorthAmerica.org Board of Directors; Lifelong BKLYN-ite; Posts = my POV; jaybrown.nyc
Andrew Sloat @sloat.bsky.social interests include Brooklyn politics, nice photos, and social media avoidance
Brooklyn, NY 🏳️🌈
Bk Voter Guide: www.sloat.vote
Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social Comms and policy. Work for racial justice, social justice, economic justice. Former journo. Current Dad. Personal account, personal views.
Signal: @djlavoie.99
@brandonsmith1.bsky.social @brandonsmith1.bsky.social 
@tonymelone.bsky.social @tonymelone.bsky.social 
whitney @whitney.bsky.social a (dinner) party girl, organizer, abolitionist
Nomes R :) @nomesr.bsky.social Arab and European Jew, political activist, nonprofit employee, parent, spouse. She/her.
Yoav Gonen @yoavgonen.bsky.social Communications Director for City Council Speaker Menin. Former reporter @ THE CITY. Will RT anything, even if it's true. #GoBlue
Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social America's Sweetheart
Erica Vladimer @ericaforny.bsky.social Tax Justice by day. Founding Director of Harassment-Free New York (@hfny.bsky.social) & NYS Dem Committee Member (AD76) in my free time. Always a UConn Husky.
Jewish, She/her
Opinions my own blah blah blah
Craig McCarthy @craigmccarthynyc.bsky.social "A f—ing scumbag"
From Shack to Room 9
Current: City Hall Bureau Chief @nypost
Prior: Deputy Police Bureau Chief
cmccarthy@nypost.com, DMs open
@gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social Reporter at non-profit news site THE CITY, author of "Made Men: The True Story of the Rise and Fall of a New Jersey Crime Family"
Brigid Bergin @brigidbergin.bsky.social Senior NYC politics reporter & Host, Mother, Wife, Friend, Loyal to a fault. Working hard to tell people’s stories.
Sophie Krichevsky @sophiekrichevsky.bsky.social State editor @cityandstateny.bsky.social. Past: editor @ Queens Chronicle, contrib. @ The Fine Print, intern @ Pub Lunch, managing ed/features ed @ Kenyon Collegian. Thoughts my own. (She/her)
(Kri-SHEV-skee)
Rosie Goldensohn @rosagoldensohn.bsky.social journalist
Ben Kochman @benkochman.bsky.social Senior courts reporter for the New York Post.
Ping me on Signal from a non-work device: courttalk.99
https://nypost.com/author/ben-kochman/