Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
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Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social Political Scientist at the University of Wyoming
Congress, elections, baking, and dogs
Former think-tanker and Hill staffer
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Matt (Marty) Girardi @girardimatt.bsky.social Fighting for an even greater DC for everyone with @ggwash.org 🚇🚌🏙️| prev: @atulocal689.bsky.social | GWU alum | He/Him | Union thug, urbanist, DC nationalist, very 🇦🇲, opinions very much own
Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com Climate hawk. DC-based journalist. Registered Parliamentarian. FSP. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://Hillheat.news/subscribe
Jeremy Merrill @jeremybmerrill.com dad, a reporter, data reporter (writing about tech at The Washington Post)
I don't have digital; I don't have diddly squat.
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BeyondDC @beyonddc.bsky.social Urbanism & transportation, WashDC.
Planner, professor, longtime GGWash.
Trying for joy rather than doom & dunks; not always succeeding.
Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
Greg Jackson @gregoryjacksonjr.bsky.social Running for DC Council At-Large
Former Biden White House Special Assistant
White House of Gun Violence Prevention
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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
Rashida Brown @rashidaforward1.bsky.social Leads. Listens. Delivers.
Running to represent Ward 1 on the D.C. Council.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
Helder Gil @hgil.bsky.social Same guy, new app.
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Nazita Lajevardi @nazita.bsky.social Political scientist. Scholar of race, religion, and American politics.
535 News @535news.bsky.social We ask unanimous consent on a motion to reconsider everything we know about how Congress is covered.
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Noam Lupu @noamlupu.bsky.social Vanderbilt political scientist • Director of CGD and LAPOP Lab • author http://amzn.to/2x5DuN5
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
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Boycott "a.i."
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him.
Email: ben.casselman@nytimes.com
Signal: @bencasselman.96
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social Fading lawprof. Scholar of WWII Japanese American incarceration. Quasi-intermediate bassist. Squeeze, XTC, Fountains of Wayne. Lover of small dogs--yes, all of them.- D Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social Cornell constitutional law professor and dilettante in many other fields. Vegan. Cyclist. Knicks fan. I mostly provide links to my work, especially my Verdict columns & blog posts (as well as those of my co-bloggers). I also occasionally post snark.
AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
Brendan Benedict @brendanbenedict.bsky.social Lawyer. Principal, Benedict Law Group PLLC. DC/NY. Antitrust & commercial litigation. (Attorney Advertising - Prior Results Do Not Guarantee Outcomes) benedictlawgroup.com
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com Professor of Empirical Economics & Data Science at TU Munich | Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC) | Co-founder of causalscience.org
http://www.p-hunermund.com
Jonathan M. Eisenberg @jonathaneisenberg.bsky.social Lawyer; Jew; Nerd; Left Populist
Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at LSE. Posting mostly about energy/enviro research. https://stephenjarvis.github.io/
Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
Paul Kane @pkcapitol.bsky.social Covering the Capitol & its occupants for decades. Love all things Philly sports, Springsteen & Delaware Blue Hens.
Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
Aaron Carr @aaronacarr.bsky.social Dogs, data, and new inventions. Founder and Executive of HRI. Personal account/opinions my own. On Bluesky to learn, on Twitter to laugh: @aaronAcarr
Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradyunited.org We are uniting Americans from coast to coast, red and blue and every color, to end gun violence. Led by @KrisBrown.bradyunited.org.
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
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Thomas Berry @thomasberry.bsky.social Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review.
https://www.cato.org/people/thomas-berry
Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social Artisanal line drawing. Believer in imaginary things. Personal capacity.
YNWA. 🌭🐕🍺🚲
Jeff @themiddlewest.bsky.social NE -> DC. Progressive politics and college football. Onetime punk, forever a Nebraskan.
Verasight @verasight.io Highest-quality survey data: multi-mode recruitment / ABS, respondent verification, & focus on respondent experience.
#1 ranked Survey Panel on Trustpilot
Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social Assistant Professor, TAMU School of Law. Interested in administrative law, bureaucracy, civil procedure. Fairweather Jets fan. Opinions my own.
SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2879963
Michael Waldman @mawaldman.bsky.social President & CEO, @BrennanCenter. Author, The Supermajority, The Fight to Vote, etc. etc. Ex-speechwriter. 
Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
Keya Chatterjee @keyachatterjee.bsky.social Mom, Climate and Democracy Activist, Fmr ANC 6A01, #FreeDC. Author of THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE RATED G-- coming out October 2025-- It's speculative cli-fi-- a spicy romp through fascism that ends with a successful general strike!
Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social Fiscal policy wonk at Center on Budget & Policy Priorities| Former Biden-Harris White House National Economic Council | Former Senate Aide | CAP/JEC Alum | Brock Purdy Fan Club Founder
https://linktr.ee/pthe.queer.oasis
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods @phdcn-study.bsky.social A multi-cohort study of children coming of age, 1995 to the present. https://sites.harvard.edu/phdcn/
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Latin American and Caribbean History @UWMadison. ✍️The Lettered Barriada (DukeUP); Puerto Rico: A National History (PrincetonUP/Planeta); A Counter-Republic of Letters (under contract w/ DukeUP). 🇵🇷
💾: https://linktr.ee/jmelendezbadillo
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
Danilo Pelletiere @dcpelletiere.bsky.social Fresh start, same baggage
Santi(ago) @santi4dc.bsky.social “retired” local govt commissioner | digital investigations | personal account
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social Civil rights attorney fighting for a more just and fair Los Angeles.
Former: ED @ Center for Human Rights, Inspector General @ Several Places, & Trial Attorney for Civil Rights Div. @ US DOJ.
Views are mine.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergioperez23/
gare bear @gtherk.bsky.social he/him. baltimore. anti-fascist. cats. cars. toy soldiers. trying to take your guns away.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social research on the UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, and international relations. interested in joy, screwball comedy. custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social Political Scientist. Professor. Author of “Political Choice in a Polarized America” @OUP. Dad. Sauna enthusiast. Crossword solver. Powerlifter. Cyclist. ✡️ ∞
Website: https://fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/
Views are mine alone. RT!=endorsement
Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social Asst. prof at the Penn State School of International Affairs. Writing/reading/thinking about finance, global governance, and climate politics.
www.christianmorinelliott.com
Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com Data & Storytelling Strategist. Views my own and subject to change, especially in light of new evidence. 🌐 robsonfletcher.com
Jae @heyjaeee.bsky.social tired, gay & silly 🩵
Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social CBS News senior White House reporter. Reporting what I know, not what I think. @Bloomberg and @DMRegister alum. Email me: jennifer.jacobs@cbsnews.com 💕Iowa
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social A student in the economics PhD program at UMass Amherst.
Recreationally reading: ???
Most bylines in @alreporter.com and @liberalcurrents.com
Substack: someconvenienttree.com
Kristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social Co-Founder & Executive Producer, 535 News.
We ask unanimous consent on a motion to reconsider everything we know about how Congress is covered.
www.535.news
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social Responsible for covid data + analytics that touched 200+ million American lives. Husband. Dad. Doctor. Longtime techie. Lifelong learner. Twitter + Threads expat (@DataDrivenMD)
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com Healthcare data analysis, advocacy & snark.
I also raise money for Dems.
🏥 https://ACASignups.net
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social Civil Rights Lawyer
“Crusading against government officials and the immunity doctrines that protect them." -St. Tammany Parrish Sheriff's Office
Contractually obligated to say that my opinions are my own
Kabir K. @kabirkhanna.bsky.social Director, Elections & Analytics, MS NOW | Princeton political science PhD
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Steve Benen @stevebenen.com Rachel Maddow Show producer, MaddowBlog author, MS NOW contributor, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University College of Law. Previously Chicago-Kent; Yale Law & ISP. Working primarily on the First Amendment, constitutional law, and constitutional / democratic theory.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy (Jed Purdy) @jedpurdy.bsky.social Raphael Lemkin Professor, Duke Law School. Most recent book: Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy is Flawed, Frightening, and Our Best Hope.
Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social Washington Post Polling Director. Writes The Pollwatcher newsletter https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/polling/the-pollwatcher/
Email scott.clement@washpost.com
Post poll results archive: wapo.st/pollarchive
Adam Hilton @adhilt.bsky.social Prof of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. APD, parties, and data. Author of True Blues — https://www.pennpress.org/9780812252996/true-blues/ — and coeditor of Parties, Power, and Change — https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828092/parties-power-and-change/
Warren Snead @wsnead.bsky.social Asst Prof of Political Science @ Swarthmore
Law & Courts, APD, APE, Public Policy
warrensnead.com
Kumar Ramanathan @kumar.fyi Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study the politics of law, public policy, and cities in the United States. All views are my own. Timeline may include stray 🎬/🏀 content. More at www.kumar.fyi.
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social Political scientist (at Johns Hopkins) and political button collector.
Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University. Author of "The Polarizers": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24660595.html
Boris Heersink @borisheersink.bsky.social Political scientist at Fordham. Author of National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics (Oxford University Press) and Republican Party Politics and the American South (Cambridge University Press). Cat liker.
www.borisheersink.com
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
tprweaver.com
Elliot Mamet @emamet.bsky.social Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
“Hope is a song in a weary throat”—Pauli Murray.
https://spia.princeton.edu/faculty/em1886
Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social Retired political scientist in NH & Boston who still scholars. Also making believe I'm a historian, farmer, cook, baker. I do love democracy, knowing stuff, looking at art, listening to music. Current research: history of higher education in the U.S.
Susan R Burgess @srburgess.bsky.social Distinguished Prof. Emerita, Ohio University, law/courts, LGBTQ politics, social movements, radicals, pop culture. I edit a book series in LGBTQ politics at NYU Press - contact me re your project. Also a fan of music, animals, nature. Chicago. Dublin.
Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--published by @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
Kashia Amber Arnold, PhD @kashiaarnold.bsky.social Asst Director UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, & Democracy @ucsbblumcenter.bsky.social. Historian. Writing a book on US trade interdependence w/ Asia. I focus on US & World, Public Policy, History of Capitalism, Consumption, & Global Commodities
Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Public Health at CSU East Bay. Political Scientist studying and teaching health policy. Editorial Board Member/Book Review Editor at the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Go O’s.