Jess Esplin @jessesplin.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in American Politics @ UW-Madison. From SLC, UT. RQs in election law/policy & admin, state pol, & representation. Cat mom, podcast junkie, & volleyballer.
John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency
Https://www.johndickerson.com
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Kari Debbink @karidebbink.bsky.social Virologist, Director of Graduate Studies at JHU MMI, feminist, BLM, supports equality for LGBTQ+ people, New College alum, obsessed with big dogs, cake artist, bubble tea enthusiast (she/her), views my own-not my employer’s
Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social Law, movements, & bureaucracy of the Anthropocene. Fan of Octavia Butler and Aldo Leopold. he/him
https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/devin-judge-lord
Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech. Design patent scholar. Also writing about #ScheduleA litigation.
Scholarship: https://ssrn.com/author=1616651
Courtney Van Houtven @chvanhoutven.bsky.social Health economist, health services and health policy researcher, long-term care, family caregiving. Department of Population Health Sciences Duke University and Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com soft scientist (american university), church attendee, monoglot, datum scientist, chess grandnonmaster, etc. stata, r, javascript, quickbasic. #lifelonglearner
nathanfavero.com
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Bert Fraussen @bertfraussen.bsky.social Associate Prof Leiden University| Interest Representation, Stakeholder Engagement & Lobbying | Co-Founder Policy Advocacy Lab| #LobbyQuotes | Jazz | Football | bertfraussen.com
Steph Machado @stephmachado.bsky.social Reporter for Boston Globe Rhode Island covering education, politics and the city of Providence. Email me: Steph.Machado@globe.com
@erinrossiter.bsky.social @erinrossiter.bsky.social 
Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social librarian; lawyer; professor; obsessed with trying to teach information literacy in a world that barely seems to care; lover of dogs, tennis, beaches, swimming, long hikes that cause my muscles to ache, the search for a perfect book, and my two boys.
Amanda Milkovits @amandamilkovits.bsky.social Journalist in ⚓️ Rhode Island for
@bostonglobe Member of @FiveFreedoms
@IRE_NICAR
Tips? Find me here: amanda.milkovits@globe.com or DM for Signal
Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social Ph.D. in Political Science
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University [Fall 2026]
Representation | State Legislators | Political Communication | Social Media
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.
Sarah Brierley @sarahbrierley.bsky.social Associate Professor LSE Government | Bureaucracy, Corruption, Elections, Campaigns, African politics | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow| www.sarahbrierley.com
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
Metro @wmata.com Official Bluesky page for WMATA, aka Metro, the major public transit provider in the National Capital Region, serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
wmata.com
Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social Legislative attorney at CRS. NatSec, IHL, international law, etc. Army Intelligence officer in previous life. Opinions mine. No skeets from this account are attributable to CRS.
Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social Professor at @washu.edu researching gender and politics and women’s political representation. More info at: www.dianaobrien.com
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
Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com Reporter at Democracy Docket. Formerly: Roll Call, WHYY, Philly City Paper, Big Law attorney. DC is my residence but Philly is my home.
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/mIicLoRfHtXzNhg1AFxApfhAIErtSNegujNmob8e3mtnivM_XjJEQIQJ3JPuH6WB
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
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
CREW @citizensforethics.org CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) fights for the democracy Americans deserve and aims to build a government that is accountable, transparent and ethical.
citizensforethics.org
Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social We are America’s Official Frogtifa Organization. Designated as a terrorist organization by deer flies and the United States DOJ. #keepportlandweird #amphibiansfordignity #portlandfrog #frogtifa
Meredith McLain @meredithmclain.bsky.social Assistant professor at Tufts University researching presidential power. Film enthusiast, romance reader, and (always suffering) Ferrari fan. | Vandy PhD & UNCA BA
Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social 
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
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social I work at the Philadelphia DA’s Office, and I’m the Third Circuit Bar Association president.
Views here: just mine.
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy:
https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social Social scientist @uc3m @ic3jm.bsky.social & http://pimlab.org | political behavior, misinfo., identity (PI ERC POLARCHATS) | Before: Dartmouth, SIPA, Leiden | Works on 🇮🇳🇧🇷
www.pimlab.org
www.simonchauchard.com
TS UPDATES @ts-updates.swifties.social Your N1 source to everything Taylor!
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University. 
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social AV Club writer with 200+ Random Roles to my name. Onetime senior editor/writer, Q Magazine. Helped ZAZ write a book about Airplane! (Surely You Can't Be Serious). Happily married w/ child. Venmo: @WillHarrisInVA
Verasight @verasight.io Highest-quality survey data: multi-mode recruitment / ABS, respondent verification, & focus on respondent experience.
#1 ranked Survey Panel on Trustpilot
Kathleen Searles @kesearles.bsky.social usually thinking about news, politics, technology, and other things i don’t want to talk to you about on an airplane. - C Chris Wlezien @cbwlezien.bsky.social Student of politics, first gen, Chicagoan, Austinite, Longhorn...
Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. Go birds.
www.tomclarkphd.com
https://tomsclark.substack.com
Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social Political Columnist, Bloomberg.
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Chuck Finocchiaro @cjfinocchiaro.bsky.social Associate Director, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma // Political Scientist // Student of Congress
Tabitha Bonilla @tabithabonilla.bsky.social Political Scientist st NU's SESP, IPR, and CSDD. Research: communication around politics and policy, examining identity and representation.
MT native finding my way in the Midwest.
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social The only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest.
Anne Joseph O’Connell @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social Administrative law & bureaucracy obsessed Stanford Law School professor; former ACUS council member (fired by Trump); writing book, Stand-Ins (on temporary leaders in government, business, & religion); mom of two
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. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social Assoc prof @UDelaware | social neuroscientist interested "us vs them" and "human vs AI" | Mexican, Indigenous, Japanese First Gen | #UDPBS | @UDPOSCIR | 🧠
https://www.ifsnlab.org/
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social Political Science PhD (UCSD ‘13), Data Science Bureaucrat (Oregon DHS), Union Member (SEIU), Mediocre Golfer (16 Handicap), Dad (‘25)
Arica Schuett @aricaschuett.bsky.social Moreau Post Doctoral Fellow at Notre Dame
www.aricaschuett.com
Yotam Shmargad @yotam.bsky.social Computational social scientist and associate professor in the School of Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona. I research online influence and social norms. Website: www.yotamshmargad.com
Mischiefs of Faction @misofact.bsky.social A political science community blog, started in 2012, now in its Substack era. Subscribe! https://open.substack.com/pub/misofact
Meghan Leonard @meghanleonard.bsky.social Professor - Political Science @ Illinois State University: judicial politics & state supreme courts. cats. women's sports. basketball. she/her
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Baxter Oliphant @baxteroliphant.bsky.social Researcher at Pew Research Center; Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. Husband, father, bike commuter, gamer, inline skater, car camper and hiker. Spends way too much time reading the news and nonfiction books. RTs & likes do not equal endorsements.
Quentin Cochran @quentincochran.bsky.social 
Katie Dunn Tenpas @kdunntenpas.bsky.social Political Scientist studying the presidency
Florian Gawehns @fgawehns.bsky.social 2025/26 APSA Congressional Fellow. PhD @ University of Maryland 2025. Researching Congress and foreign policy.
Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social Political Scientist - Texas Tech University (From Here It's Possible), MN Sports Fan, Lover of Music/The Replacements, Player of Golf. Dogs and cats. Opinions my own.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer. Musician.
Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Rachel Blaifeder @rblaifeder.bsky.social Publisher at Cambridge University Press, acquiring in political science and sociology.
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists
Current Status: Tariff & Human Free
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Stewart Ulrich @stewulrich.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Presidential nerd. News Junkie. Travel fan. Transportation nut.
Opinions are my own, because who else’s would they be?
https://www.stewart-ulrich.com
Tabitha Lamberth @tabithaanne.bsky.social Political Science PhD candidate at UGA • M.S. in Experimental Psychology • Political Psychology is main focus • Big football, hockey, and rugby gal •
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social Host of the Bulwark Podcast
MSNBC political analyst.
Punching bag on FYPod with Cameron Kasky.
Church of Jokic.
Nola Dad.
Weak and Gay.
eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social Personal account. I study and teach racial and ethnic politics for work. Re-posting election twitter stuff. https://goodauthority.org/people/eric-gonzalez-juenke/
Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
@jmerolla.bsky.social @jmerolla.bsky.social 
Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social Prof of Ed Psych & Learning Sciences at UNC-CH | Scholar, speaker, consultant studying how people learn in the digital world | APA & AERA Fellow | Journal & Handbook Editor | Book Author | Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/jeffgreene
Alison Merrill @alisonhmerrill.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Political Science, judicial decision-making, separation of powers, agenda-setting at SCOTUS, 👧🏼👦🏼🐶
Brian Hamel @brianhamel.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UNT. Public policy, representation, and elections. Swiftie. 🏳️🌈
Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social Law prof. State and local immigration law, trans rights, legal discourse. Proud to be trans. Personal page, views my own. https://linktr.ee/avaayers Move slowly and put things together.
Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov United States Senator for Maryland.
Patrick Wu @patrickwu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at American University | Computational Politics, NLP, ML/AI | patrickywu.com
E.J. Graff @ejgraff.bsky.social Editorial coaching & communications consulting. Journalist, author, loudmouth. Substack at https://howtobeamerican.substack.com. Website at ejgraff.com.
Seb Jilke @sebjilke.bsky.social Assoc Prof at Georgetown McCourt & Co-director Better Government Lab \\ Evidence-based Policy Implementation, Behavioral Public Administration \\ Otherwise mediocre whitewater gnar 🌊🛶
http://www.sebastianjilke.net
https://www.bettergovernmentlab.org
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
Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social Political Science Prof at University of Southampton. I study misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American in the UK. he/his (y'all whenever possible). Spurs #COYS. 
Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social busy writing sketches about problems I can’t solve
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.
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
Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Houston researching media and politics.
allisonarcher.com