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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social Charismatic, NAR and Extremism researcher
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
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Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social Nothing much to say that hasn’t been said long ago: I’m a doofus and a terrible follow
Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social 37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler.
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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
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.
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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
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
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Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at NOTUS. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social Senior Advisor on Labor Markets at Access/Macro; Workforce Economist in Residence at Guild; Senior Fellow at the Burning Glass Institute. I tweet a lot about labor markets, macro, and (sorry) music! Tweets represent my own views.
Heather Sullivan @hsulli.bsky.social Political scientist, photography futzer, would rather be climbing
Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social Resigned under T before it was cool. Head of ICE policy, 2023-25. Before: KIND, DHS, litigator. It really was better in the Before Times. shuchartlaw.com, scottshuchart.com
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social Volunteer Immigration. Former tracker of ICE Air flights. Retired J.P. Morgan
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Lisa Rubin @lawofruby.bsky.social @ms.now senior legal reporter & recovering litigator; former off-air legal analyst @maddow.msnbc.com.
Don’t let the pearls fool ya.
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social D.C.-based criminal justice writer and socio-political critic who spends a lot of time at the library.
Hoosier by birth and college education.
Some would call me a libertarian. I would not.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net Husband. Lawyer. Hunter. Fisherman. Swordsman. Warrior poet. Philosopher king. Legend.
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social Trial, Transactional, and Appellate Lawyer.
Computer Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Crypto Law
torekeland.com
Josh @joshnorthsouth.bsky.social Wealthy and handsome
David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social NYT Columnist, visiting professor at Lipscomb University. Married to @nancyfrench.bsky.social.
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The Gargle @thegargle.bsky.social Weekly satirical news podcast with strictly no politics! Hosted by Alice Fraser, we are the sonic glossy magazine to The Bugle.
Alice is joined by two brilliant comedians every week to cover everything from crypto crashes to evil tech and weird nature.
Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com Lawyer, writer, boardgamer, cyclist, tries-not-to-be-a-dickhead-ist.
T-dot 4 life (or until something better comes along).
Likes are "I need to check this out later" and nothing else
Email: mgk (at) (BS handle)
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?
Look... I'm a lot of guys
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social Creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks, co creator of Solar Opposites and Golden Axe and Odd Jobs. My mom tells people I still write Rick & Morty.
Althea May Atherton 🚌🚏⛅️ @alymay.bsky.social Bus rider, civic duty cutie, mother of 2 littles, spouse of @atherton.bsky.social. Masshole by origin, ABQ by choice.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.
Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
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David Bayne @davebayne.bsky.social He/Him
becoming human :: living the questions
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” Rumi
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
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Former, future.
Rosa Brooks @rosabrooks.bsky.social Writer, law prof at Georgetown, Democracy Futures Project
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Clint Watts @clintwatts.bsky.social Current: Microsoft
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.