Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social Author, journalist, old guy.
Science, climate, space, transportation, energy, and how human selection drives the evolution of all of the above.
www.unchartedblue.com
Joanna @joannamtx2011.bsky.social Christian. Politically center left and very concerned about our country. I'm likely to comment on political posts, all things football, books, and beautiful photography. More likely to comment than post.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), @emtrap.bsky.social enthusiast, ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social Co-founder, Survey 160. Loves survey and voter participation. Researcher. Democrat. YIMBY. Husband and Dad. Opinion haver and measurer. Outdoors and cooking enthusiast. He/Him
billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Public Record Sourcerer @publicrecdsource.bsky.social Public Records Geek ; Born in '68; Muckraking Gadlfy ; [ REDACTED ]; Pivot Table Slinger; Lives in a Fascist Country with an illegitimate Government
Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social Contributor @the-downballot.com.
Elections, voting rights, redistricting, and maps.
Gosh @historygosh.bsky.social Congressional Historian, Should Probably Log Off
Civics Handbook @americanabook.bsky.social A wealth of information/school tool. Civics/Citizenship study. Learn US History, Gov't, Constitution, Historic Sites, National Parks + More. Children/Adults. Then keep reading & learn even more. Asheville, North Carolina www.civicshandbook.com
Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social Former WaPo. Former CNN. Now: Independent political journalist writing at Substack (chriscillizza.substack.com) and making daily videos on YouTube (youtube.com/chriscillizza)
@svateboje.bsky.social @svateboje.bsky.social My take: Using Berger & Luckmann we can helpfully synthesize poli sci results on affect polarization + partisan media/internet/social-media.
also, i tend to talk too much re folks like Voegelin & Ricoeur
or, notes to self from another planet
@williamfergie.bsky.social @williamfergie.bsky.social
cal newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown · Author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Slow Productivity · Writing about focus, technology & meaningful work.
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
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Gregg McLennan @strayarc.bsky.social Union guy, politics guy, welding guy, wife guy. #Cdnpoli #BCpoli labour activist, pompous ass, pretty good cook, pretty good shitposter, animal lover, coffee morning noon and night.
When in doubt, just outwork everyone.
US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social Civil society, let's reduce the US Senate portion of the Electoral College by adding House seats using Wyoming, Cube Root or WYx2 rules. #uncapthehouse & check my state lists for resources. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Drag Race, my dogs, #🎶⁴ohmmakers. nostalgia is a weapon.
Teri G @terilg.bsky.social Info junkie, native Chicagoan. Music, dogs, progressive politics. Still Berning. Worried about what’s left of democracy. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 ☮️ Married. Will block m@g@, crypto, creepy internet suitors, fake profiles & uninvited DMs. Xitter refugee. Can be salty.
Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social Artisanal line drawing. Personal capacity.
YNWA. 🌭🐕🍺🚲
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
Wendell Jenkins @gothamdc.bsky.social News, politics, and sports junkie. Once upon a time, I worked on Capitol Hill. Also, I worked in professional sports. Doing my part with my renewable fuels company. Also, a member of the Hoboken, NJ Democratic. Keep the Faith!
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.
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social Political Scientist at the University of Wyoming
Congress, elections, baking, and dogs
Former think-tanker and Hill staffer
ryandwilliamson.blogspot.com
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
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.
Dave @daveamp.bsky.social Political Scientist. Minnesotan/Iowan. My posts really don't reflect the opinions of my employer.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social I’m a comedian!
New special “Rini” on YouTube 11/19/25:
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com NYC journalist and other words; co-owner of The New York Groove. (Subscribe today! https://nygroove.nyc).
Co-founder of Vocabaret.
Formerly NY Post, Lifehacker, Brokelyn and so forth.
On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social A climate action advocate running on a drained battery.
Decarbonization is a crucial thing for everyone to do. It's also important to offset the carbon pollution you can't avoid like from air travel. I recommend biochar for Carbon Dioxide Removal. #CDR
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
Maurits van der Veen @amauritsvdv.bsky.social Political scientist. Teaching Government & Data science @ William & Mary. Eppur si muove. Opinions, reposts, etc. are my own, _not_ those of my employer.
Will Fertman @willfertman.com Father and author of The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual, available now from Bloomsbury Academic: https://is.gd/0FoT5z
All opinions are my own. More opinions at:
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social Political scientist. Political behavior + methods. Spatial analysis.
Speaking in a personal capacity. Opinions expressed are my own.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
polling/strategy: https://morrispredictive.com
formerly 538 & The Economist
Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social The Trump DOJ called me a 'dope.' I write the 'Regular Order' newsletter and have covered Congress since the Reagan Administration. Sign up for more at http://jamiedupree.substack.com
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social CEO of Center for Employment Justice, former Dem Congressional Nominee, Former JAG, all the way liberal, AKA.
Chris Casey @casey.life Proud progressive Dad & Papa, former politico geek, current coastal advocate and friend of the ocean, imbiber of fine beers, wines, and other concoctions, dreamer of travel adventures, who will never understand how so many fellow citizens could be dumb AF.
andrew van dam @andrewvandam.bsky.social data columnist washington post
El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, commentator, philosopher, podcaster and poet; I like soccer & literature too....AV Editor & Contributing Editor for @LiberalCurrents.com & contributing writer all over.
Signal: TRN.42
https://linktr.ee/T.Richard.Nelson
Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social Democracy defender. Civic storyteller. Coloradan. Connecting current events, history, and the human stories behind them.
paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social I’m fabulous. I’m an incredible dresser, I’ve got buckets of money, I’m a hoot-and-a-half and I’ve got a killer rack.
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
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Chase Smith @thechasesmith.bsky.social I'm a full-time pastor at Grove City Vineyard and an all-the-time podcaster (Founder/CEO) with Press Play Podcasts. Cavs and Guardians fan.
rep: Sigal Models
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
VoteHub @votehub.com Your hub for elections. 🇺🇸 Detailed maps, live election night coverage, and analysis backed by deeper data.
votehub.com
Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
jgreen4919.github.io
Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social Pro-labor, liberalish, leftish, semi-normie antifascist
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social I'm an associate director at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. Follow us: @pewresearch.org. Learn more: https://www.pewresearch.org/
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social Commentary • Satirical Emeritus
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social Reporter, DailyKos.com, Previously Media Matters. Subscribe to http://oliverwillis.substack.com
Chris Thomas @killfile.bsky.social Father, ally, nerd, political writer, software engineer, cook, photographer, gamer, river-rat, and cancer survivor. Sometimes I even have time for sleep.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social Lapsed geologist, Chief Scientist at @oceana.bsky.social, dog mom. DC born and raised. Philly is my 2nd home.🖖
Skeets my own, *not* my employer’s. Mostly oceans + science + climate + policy. A little politics (sorry) and Phillies (not sorry).
@thatjayhawk.bsky.social @thatjayhawk.bsky.social Another person trying to inspire more people for some good trouble. This hawk fights fascists. Kansas proud!
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social studying why we get fooled online, and what to do about it. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
https://matthewfacciani.github.io/tools/
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social Author, Substack newsletter “To the Contrary.” Host, "To the Contrary" podcast. Dog owner, grandfather. Still Never Trump. No regrets. Website: https://charliesykes.substack.com/
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Jason Abbruzzese @jasonabbruzzese.bsky.social Assistant managing editor at NBC News Digital: Tech, science, climate, health, business and digital culture. Signal:JasonAbb.78
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
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
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)
Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc
https://kevinreuning.com/
https://unionelections.org/
https://voterperceptions.org/
All opinions, views, thoughts, and takes are strictly my own.
Patrick McSweeney @pmcsweenz.bsky.social Research Specialist @ Civic Education Research Lab - @GUGovt PhD - American Government - Young people and political parties - #YNWA - 🇳🇿🇺🇸 patrickmcsweeney.com
Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social Recovering politician. Afghanistan Veteran. Bestselling Author. Podcaster. Founder of Let America Vote & American Rescue Project. Baseball player. Advisor, Veterans Community Project. Diana’s dude. True & Bella’s driver. JasonKander.com
Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social Professor @au-spa.bsky.social
Pol Violence | Pol Psychology
New Book: “NO OPTION BUT SABOTAGE”
Substack: https://zeitzoff.substack.com
1st Book: "Nasty Politics"
Website: www.zeitzoff.com
Sean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social Emeritus Prof of Cultural Studies, Chicago dad: writing against fascism, parenting against cisness. Check out my Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/breakingculture
Michael Heseltine @michaelheseltine.bsky.social Post-Doc at University of Oxford. Congress, text-as-data, and political communications.
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
Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages.
Fred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social Journalism professor, longtime rimrat. Tar Heel by way of Mizzou. Framing, news practice, securitization theory, editing, cats, beer, banjos. Not all those who wander are lost, but TBF quite a few of them are really, really lost.
Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social Pod Save America, Obama White House, Message Box, and some books
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Michael Flynn @flynnpolsci.bsky.social Troop deployments. Security cooperation. New Yorker in the Midwest. Semi-competent Bayesian stats enthusiast. Slowly becoming less bad at jiu jitsu. Impatient woodworker.
#polisky #rstats #dataviz
Barbara Rybolt 🐸 @barbararybolt.bsky.social Retired reporter/editor. Grandma of 4. Political junkie. Lover of road trips, gardening, birds, photography & sumo! 🚫DMs, no profile, no posts = immediate block!
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.
Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social Environmental Reporter for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley. (https://highlandscurrent.org/author/bcronin/) Also teaching journalism at Marist University. He/Him.
dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social linguist, discourse/pragmatics
podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social
author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com
singer with the Wild Lilacs
https://www.instagram.com/thewildlilacs?igsh=MXJqOXZ6NHpoOXRrYg==
she/they
substantively unserious
Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social Professor of Psychology; Rider of Bicycles; Seeker of Justice. Applied cognitive psychologist, studying attention & memory, some disinfo too. (He/him; 1st gen college student). With maybe some pictures of Cookie the bernedoodle.
The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com Data, charts, analysis and games from The New York Times: nytimes.com/upshot
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
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Blog:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social Research on the right-wing and religion.
Podcast: Fifteen Minutes of Fascism:
https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964
Author, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism: https://shorturl.at/jjwZz
Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/dINAA
DMs open. Opinions my own.
Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social Teaches (law and society, political theory at SLAC in New England) and bakes. Occasionally writes on all things related to conservative movement.
Chris Karpowitz @profkarpo.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Political Behavior
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
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https://www.npr.org/people/763523701/shannon-bond
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
Our site: http://the-downballot.com/
Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social Posting a relevant data point each day
Passionate about politics. Background in science.
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