Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social 
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Martin O'Malley @martinomalley.bsky.social 61st Governor of Maryland, former Mayor of Baltimore. Katie O'Malley fan. Celtic rock Singer/Songwriter.
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.
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social Burkburnett to the Bronx to Buffalo.
Preserve democracy.
Patriot. Retired microelectronics engineer. Grandmother x 2. USAF Brat.
Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social AI can't throw things at billionaires, but you have free will.
WV/AZ. Bird enthusiast, pigeon defender, servant of cats and two dogs. He/Him
Angry a lot but I think at the right people.
Have a great blog community: https://www.balloon-juice.com
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social average against the machine
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’ 
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social Sometime writer and (mostly) analog photography | Award winning chili maker | Baltimore via Jersey City, Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, and Ohio | Friend to cats | He/him | No Grace for Doom
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
Marillion @marillion.com This is the official Bluesky account of the British Band Marillion
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social Mainer by birth. Logger by trade. With your help, Senator for the people.
http://www.JacksonForMaine.com
Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social Politics & Public Affairs Editor for the Lexington @kentucky.com & @bluegrasspolitics.bsky.social.
Kentuckian. Hilltopper. Parks & Rec aficionado. Pen snob. Aspiring adult.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social Excel Jockey and Aspiring Quirky Suburban Dad. GrillCath Supremacist. Mostly here for well-read snark & football. Token American fan of the Winnipeg Jets. RT = Regrettable Tumescence
@internettheo2.bsky.social @internettheo2.bsky.social 
Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social I share about walking, biking, great cities, & progressive politics.
I work for @streetsalliance.bsky.social (Seattle's walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit), but these are my personal opinions.
Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social Director, Program on Law & Public Policy, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs. Still teaching Con law, still aiming to get out of the new social media market.
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social host of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. weekends 10AM ET on @ms.now. author of NYT bestsellers Firestorm and Separated.
jacobsoboroff.com
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.
maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social Politics Editor for @washingtonmonthly.com
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov Congressman representing Central Florida / Orlando (FL-10)
Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social Congressman for California's 36th District. Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Air Force Vet.
Rep. Seth Moulton @moulton.house.gov Official account for Rep. Moulton's press office. Member of House Armed Services Committee, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Select Committee on the CCP
Know Your Rights https://moulton.house.gov/immigration-rights
Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social Lisa's husband. Patrick and Molly's dad. Proud to serve the 2nd Congressional District of MA. Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. Top Democrat on the House Rules Committee. Hunger is a political condition.
Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social Who wants to grab a beer and talk about land-use regulations and building codes?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieltrubman/
https://muckrack.com/daniel-trubman-1/portfolio
Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Gambit Weekly. Formerly BuzzFeed, Roll Call, Nat Journal, Your Mom’s House. John Fetterman bit my style. Basically a DC bama livin in New Orleans 
Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
Upstate New Yorker, emergency backup hockey writer. FR/EN 🇫🇷
jakelahut.com
(Signal: Leak2Lahut.26)
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social Conspiracy theory journalist, expert witness, TPM contributor, Eaton Fire survivor. Wrote JEWISH SPACE LASERS, THE STORM IS UPON US, and ZERO CONTAINMENT (Fall 2027). rothschildmd@protonmail.com for tips, interviews, collaborations. Not A Rothschild.
LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social law professor. dad. democracy & the constitution. hoops.
my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition.
ssrn: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=6381985
Josh Douglas @joshuaadouglas.bsky.social Election law and voting rights professor at the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law (views are my own). Associate Dean for Research. The Court v The Voters, published in May 2024! Award winning podcast: Democracy Optimist. Taco lover.
Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social If you're eligible & want to vote, making sure you can, it's meaningful, and it sticks. Pro-democracy, pro-republic. He/his. Loyola law prof, former WH, former DOJ, former Natl Voter Protection Dir, forever NJDevils fan
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social Pixel botherer and waveform worrier. Keen TTRPG player and GM. Plays guitar and synths.
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social Policy & Planning Dir. @marinbike.org • UCLA Urban Planning • AICP Planner • Baltimore ➡️ LA ➡️ East Bay • 🚫🚗Car-free commuting since 2015 • Missing middle renter.
📍Berkeley, CA
Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social your fuel prices, explained honestly.
data over politics, no tolerance for political BS.
thousands of interviews | trusted by every White House administration.
Integrity matters.
Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social 🏛️Santa Monica Planning Commissioner
🛠️ Backend Platform Engineer
🎛️ Electronic Noise Producer
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🌌 Astro Enthusiast
Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
Uphold Yang Wenli Thought
He/him
https://www.eveningconstitutional.net
Analilia Mejia for New Jersey @analiliafornj.bsky.social Jersey girl | Organizer | Mom
Fighting for working families & a stronger democracy.
Unbossed. Unbought. Unafraid.
🌟 #TeamMejia
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social Found Canadian. Yankee. New Yorker. Upzone everything.
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov Senior U.S. Senator from MN | Snow enthusiast ❄️
Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Arizona.
Husband. Dad. Veteran.
Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online Three-time Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Man Utd and Red Sox fan, cis man, he/him/his, 83 protons, not a werelabradoodle, in spite of my appearance
Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com Fisherman. Alaskan. Running for U.S. Senate to unrig the system and put Alaska first.
Fish, Family, Freedom. 🐟❤️🇺🇸
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.
David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social Airman + consultant + aero engineer interested in national strategy, domestic policy, environmentalism, good food, and all things aviation. Views = mine alone and not representative of anyone I work for. #airpower
YIMBY Democrats for America 🇺🇸🗽 @yimbydems.bsky.social The Voice of Progressive Abundance. Build America. Defeat Fascism. Join us at The Festival of Progressive Abundance in Los Angeles from Friday January 30th to Sunday February 1st, 2026! https://progressiveabundance.com/
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
David Nir @davidnir.com Publisher, @the-downballot.com. davidnir (at) the-downballot (dot) com
Our site: https://the-downballot.com
Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social Skull astronaut
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️🌈 ✡️
Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓
Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙
Vote Nov. 3, 2026 🗳️
Get involved ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/scottwiener
cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social wlg fan club 🐈 email for submissions, credit and partnerships: weirdlilguys at gmail • IG: @ catsbeingweirdlittleguys • meme-inspired tees + stickers: weirdlilguys.com 🐱
Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social I write Cup of Coffee, a daily baseball, politics, entertainment, and nonsense newsletter: https://www.cupofcoffeenews.com/
Governor Phil Murphy @govmurphy.bsky.social Former Governor of the Garden State. Husband to Tammy.
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social Lawfare Senior Editor - MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst - Former FBI Special Agent
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social Ditch Daylight Saving Time. Permanent Standard Time lets us sleep later for health, mood, safety, education, economy, and environment. We’re a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org (x2)
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Evan Jenkins @ejenk.com 🌐neoliberal 🏙️yimby 🚫🚗bancars 👧🏼👧🏼👧🏼👧🏼👶🏻dad ⛵️sailing
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Upzone New Jersey 🏗️ @upzonenj.bsky.social 
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
@CharlesPPierce @theshebeen.bsky.social Keeper of the Esquire shebeen since 2011. Grand-Da to John Victor. Da to AD, BDP, and Molly Two Names. Aging epee hack, Ringsend Cowboy. "For man is a giddy thing, and that is my conclusion."...A pint of plain is your only man
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social writer // guitar teacher at sarah jane’s music school // guitarist for big trouble, 120 mins band // nice cooker // picking the wrong line since 1976 // that's just unconscious knowledge
getinbigtrouble.com
Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social Educator. Trumbull Town Council D5. CT Parking Reform Co-founder. UConn alum. Personal account.
Pro: homes, safe streets, utility regulation, hiking, local beer
Anti: parking mandates, snob zoning, gestapo shit
CT’s a beautiful place: let’s share it.
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social macro, fiscal, Fed. creator of the Sahm rule recession indicator. Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM) Substack.
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.