George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Brendan Bartanen @brendanbartanen.bsky.social Associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. Stumbling my way through the AI revolution at https://brendanbartanen.substack.com/
Maurice Roberts @mauriceroberts90.bsky.social Building multiracial working-class power. For defunding militarized police, investing in communities, and true public safety for all.
Partnership for America's Children @4americaschildren.bsky.social We advance public policies that enhance the health, education, financial security, and well-being of our nation’s children and their families.
https://foramericaschildren.org/
An Arm and a Leg @armandalegshow.bsky.social A podcast about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can (maybe) do about it, in partnership with @kffhealthnews.org and @kuow.org
Hosted by @danweissmann.bsky.social
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Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social Asst Prof. Anthropologist & engineer. Celiac. Feminist. Studies bone health, physical activity, & menses. she/her
My views should not be construed to reflect those of my employer.
Wendym @wendymnj.bsky.social Mental health counselor, mom, grandma and liberal. I love reading, good discussions, the beach, and hanging with friends and family. Trying to do good in my corner of the world. Not interested in dating. DM’s discouraged, unless I know you already.
Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social ProPublica AME.
Working: “Make Them Pay: The 250-year Fight to Tax the Rich”: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Make-Them-Pay/Jesse-Eisinger/9781668072202
@sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Pulitzer-winner. Green Bay Packers.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
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@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
Chairman of the ESC Task Force Environment and Cardiologist @tmuenzel28.bsky.social Thomas Münzel is a senior cardiologist and vascular biologist whose work reveals how noise, air pollution and other environmental stressors damage the heart. A global leader in environmental cardiology with 1300 publications +h-index, google scholar: 165
The People's Lobby @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social We’re leading the fight to win real victories for people and the planet.
✊ People Over Profit.
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👇 We Train. We Organize. We Educate.
Roger Figueroa, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. @rogerfigphd.bsky.social Assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Science in Nutrition at Cornell University.
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
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Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social Lifelong bitch. Ruining your workplaces since the early 1990s. Former journalist. Current data scientist. For fun I write books about Cajun werewolves https://www.gothhouse.org/tales-of-the-rougarou/
I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social Nerdy, blerdy student of society (for better or worse). Lover of comics and cardigans and the occasional cocktail. Watch this corner of sky.
Some of my self published work here: https://medium.com/@gwhiz07
Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social Philosopher & Clinical Ethicist | she/her | peds ethics, repro ethics, TIC, narrative med, feminist philosophy | Cincinnati (it’s cool despite Ohio) | Thoughts my own unless I am re-posting yours
Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social Policy researcher fighting for thriving babies and caregivers with science and stories | Views mine only | she/her- R @rahanks.bsky.social @rahanks.bsky.social
Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social Law professor (personal account/views only). International law, foreign relations law, contracts, etc. Formerly DoJ, State Dep't, private practice.
Either joking or quite serious. Posts deleted due to age, typos, irrelevance.
Trump Must Be Impeached @lizdylan.bsky.social Proud Democrat. Pro-Democracy. Vegan. Animal Rights. Fuck Trump
InMyMedusaEra @tasiaf.bsky.social trans rights are human rights | military brat | abortion is healthcare | genX feral creature | she/her
cover photo: aileen taking no shit and baring her teeth
prof photo: aileen wuornos, fixer of some problems
Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social Public health, reproductive justice, big nerd about tv as health education. Fighting depression and anxiety with cats, bunnies, and raccoons. And being clever never got me very far. she/her
Erika Edwards @erikamedwards.bsky.social Perinatal epidemiologist. Chief Scientific Officer, Vermont Oxford Network. Research Professor, University of Vermont. Fan of public health, penguins, and Fulham Football Club. Up the Green!
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
David Machledt @machledtdc.bsky.social Give me a bike, time to adventure, and family and friends to share it with. Also, a lot of health policy, but the views here are my own.
Scott Hulver @scotthulver.bsky.social Health policy analyst @KFF.org focusing on hospital access, affordability, and costs. Paw-rent 🐶, nature lover, board game enthusiast. They/them
Whitney Zahnd @whitneyzahnd.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at UIowa| UIUC alumna | Posts about rural health, cancer disparities, access to care, faith, cats, and women’s basketball| Opinions are mine, not my employer’s | Website: https://www.acre-lab.org
Dr. Avenel Joseph @draveneljoseph.bsky.social Bringing data and heart to #HealthEquity. Vice President of Policy @rwjf.org, Mom, traveler, foodie. (she/her)
Dustin Pugel @dustinpugel.bsky.social Husband, dad, wonk with @kypolicy.bsky.social & runner (preferably on trails). Trying to bring Shalom to the commonwealth. The plural of anecdote is not data.
descendant @alstarkey.bsky.social I read, therefore I am.
@dlsmdsocial.bsky.social @dlsmdsocial.bsky.social Hospitalist, hospice and palliative medicine
#LFC #YNWA
Kate @onethousandone.bsky.social mostly rocks & bikes | nyc
James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social Maine-based economic policy analyst. British-American, recovering historian.
Posts are my own views, not my organization's.
Patty Cole @pattycole.bsky.social Children and family policy expert, fierce advocate for infants and toddlers, along with office assistant #Stretch_Basset. Mom and grandma.
Natalie Kean @nataliekean.bsky.social I ❤️ Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA and Obamacare. This and other opinions are my own.
Director of Federal Health Advocacy at Justice in Aging
https://justiceinaging.org/cutting-medicaid-harms-older-adults/
@healthpolicy.stanford.edu @healthpolicy.stanford.edu Stanford Health Policy: Interdisciplinary innovation, discovery and education to improve health policy here at home and around the world.
Kris Cox @krisycox.bsky.social Director of Federal Tax Policy @centeronbudget.bsky.social
Tax, budget, policy, racial and economic justice | Views are my own
she/her
@colin-seeberger.bsky.social @colin-seeberger.bsky.social
Keith White @keithwhite832.bsky.social HTX Age 44, a huge sports fan, political nerd, Anti Trump, Anti Racist, pro freedom, pro women's rights and pro porn at times. #BLM #BIPOC African American, Native American and Afro Latino. x.com/keithwhite346
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
Melanie Johnson @eyeswideopengrl.bsky.social pediatric psychologist, dog and book lover, wannabe writer
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
This is the only account . 👈 If I share something it doesn’t necessarily mean I agree
Founding board member
@Freedom.press please follow https://linktr.ee/freedomofpress
@johncusack on twiiter
Jenny Gold @jennyagold.bsky.social Reporter @latimes covering early childhood education and development. Mom, book-lover, and cat lady. Jenny.Gold@latimes.com or DM for Signal.
Anne Discher @adischer.bsky.social Policy wonk trying to be less wonky. Also, dogs. Iowa captive.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Tax War Room @taxwarroom.bsky.social We’re fighting to put hardworking families first, standing against tax giveaways to the rich and corporations, and holding our leaders accountable.
Join us: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Senator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social Independent State Senator in Omaha's District 8, shopgirl, mother, big Taurus energy. meganhunt.net.
Hailey Ryan @haileyryan.bsky.social
Susan East Nelson @avocatbtr.bsky.social Fierce. Passionate. Inappropriately funny at times. An advocate for children's policy, but also a childless cat lady. Attorney. Lobbyist. Sometimes political operative. Oh, and I am quite the baker too. Louisiana born and live there now.
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Kathy Hursen, RN, MS @67rn.bsky.social grandparentsforvaccines.com - A storytelling movement to protect every child's tomorrow
www.defendpublichealth.org
“There’s always light if only we are brave enough to see it; if only we are brave enough to be it.”~Amanda Gorman
Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social I wrote EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE (SMP ‘16) and EPIC AND LOVELY (WVU Press '25). Bookseller. Elder Marfanoid. Indie kid forever. bravebookstore.substack.com
Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
I'm also @steventdennis on the other places. Opinions mine. Email: sdennis17@bloomberg.net
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social California’s Health Care Consumer Advocacy Coalition. https://linktr.ee/healthaccessca
#Health4All #Care4AllCA #FightForOurHealth #ACA #CALeg #CABudget
Lara HB @ejm-mamam.bsky.social Mom, passionate MCH, committed to impactful international development
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social First Amendment attorney at FIRE. Opinions are my own.
Katy Backes Kozhimannil @katybkoz.bsky.social I’ve been told I’m a little bit much. Professor. Birder. Willful. Reverent. Feminist killjoy. Anishinaabekwe on Dakota land. katybkoz.com
Dr. Olivia Zarella @epidemiocracy.bsky.social Epidemiologist, 🦠 infectious disease expert & public health communicator. Doctor & MPH. Justice-driven ⚖️. Bylines: The Scientist, Colorado Sun. Views are my own.
Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com Husband & dad / Director of SafeSpot Overdose Hotline/ Paramedic from This American Life Ep809 The Call / Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor Boston University School of Public Health / VIEWS MINE!
http://stephen-murray.com
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis __ ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires
Scott Graves @shg29.bsky.social Budget Director @ calbudgetcenter.org
#CABudget | #CALeg | #Medicaid | #HealthPolicy | Justice System
♠️Doc Jen♠️ @jennylehman121.bsky.social Lvl 36 (she/her) 🏳️🌈✖️5/6/14 7/7/14 9/15/14 9/15/15✖️ ➗7/1/17 10/20/18➗ 🟰10/31/21🟰 ➖8/11/23 8/12/23➖
Cristina Barrera @cristinazul.bsky.social Just exploring the Bluesky! Sharing my thoughts and discoveries. ✨
Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) @hprscholars.bsky.social HPRS is a training program for doctoral students led and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation @rwjf.bsky.social
https://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/
Nephrology Nursing Journal @nnjonline.bsky.social The Official Journal of the American Nephrology Nurses Association -- Published for more than 50 years
Annet Kirabo D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.A.H.A. @annetkiraboc1.bsky.social Professor @VanderbiltHealth #Hypertension, #kidney, #immunology #HostMicrobiotaInteraction. Mother of 2, wife. Associate Editor @CircRes
Emma Golub @emmagolub.bsky.social Maternal-child health policy analyst in Philly. Protected bike lane lover, Tolkien fanatic, another Jew for a free Palestine. Opinions are mine only. She/Her
Mollyann Brodie @mollybrodie.bsky.social @KFF.org EVP, COO & Exec Director, Public Opinion & Survey Research
Grant Beebe, DrPH, MBA, LNHA, FACHE @sgbeebedrph.bsky.social R/T & ❤️ DNE Endorsement & All Opinions Expressed Are Mine | @MilbankFund ELP '23 @SamfordU SoPH @OleMiss Alum
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
NJ Department of Human Services @njhumanservices.bsky.social We serve older New Jerseyans; individuals and families with low incomes; people with developmental disabilities, or late-onset disabilities; people who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind; & parents needing child care.
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Mona Westen @mona-westen.bsky.social #VoteBlue 🌊🌊🌊 #EndCitizensUnited - Hate & Division Have No Place In Healthy Society!
#BlueResisters #𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧
Ashley Kirzinger @ashleykirzinger.bsky.social Pollster for KFF, Dog mom to Lemon and Poppy, Chicken mom to the Golden Girls
Women also poll feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nd3beschhh3zzxsdoxxnntcb/feed/aaaeruj3mm6ew
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
Center for Health Care Strategies @chcshealth.bsky.social CHCS is a policy design and implementation partner devoted to improving outcomes for people enrolled in #Medicaid.
Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social Chicago-based health & science columnist for Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bsky.social. Writing about public health, medicine, emerging technologies (Crispr!), biotech & pharma. opinions=mine, She/her. Signal: lisajarvis.77
BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social He/him, bi,💙. I don't normally do social media, but this place seems less aggressive than most of the internet.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social Wife, mama, sister, friend, suburban woman fighting for democracy. NOT a national security/geopolitical expert but I have a guy for that.
Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social Welcome to my rage journal.
teacher, political scientist, aged millennial. Feminist overlord. Pronoun Queen. Reluctant TikTok enthusiast. AuDHD. Spoonie. Reformers. Momsky.
Alina Salganicoff @alinas-kff.bsky.social Senior VP @KFF
Director, Women’s Health Policy
https://www.kff.org/person/alina-salganicoff/
Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH @stephenwpatrick.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Health Policy & Management at Rollins School of Public Health | Neonatologist at Children's Hospital of Atlanta | Emory University | Former White House Senior Policy Advisor | Child Policy/Medicaid/Opioid Crisis | Views my own
Nell Moore @nellishordeal.bsky.social 🌈 Finding ways to follow my dreams! ⭐️
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Sian Reece @sianreece.bsky.social Public Health Doctor & Researcher | PhD | BMJ Leader Editorial Fellow | Mother | Surviving stillbirth
Interests in inequalities in maternal and child health | Global health | Leadership | Kindness and human connection | Creative and participatory methods
Shannon Schumacher, PhD @shannonschumacher.bsky.social Senior Survey Analyst @KFF.org polling the public about experiences in health care
@keep-ur-chinup53.bsky.social @keep-ur-chinup53.bsky.social We must therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate intolerance -- Karl Popper
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. -- James Baldwin