Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
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Sarah Thompson @sarahthompson.bsky.social Assistant professor at Cornell Government. I'm interested in the relationship between traditional and state governance, strategies to improve women's participation in politics, & South Asian politics
Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy (MEDIATED) @penn-mediated.bsky.social At Penn MEDIATED, we use cutting-edge science to understand the information ecosystem and leverage that research to strengthen democracy.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Peter Lorentzen @lorentzen.bsky.social Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com He/Him. I work on security, borders, and migration at the Washington Office on Latin America (my views, not necessarily theirs). I'm also at wola.org, adamisacson.com, borderoversight.org, Mastodon elefanti.co/@adam
LIA 福振凡 🇺🇳🇨🇳🇺🇸 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago alum
United Nations contractor
Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections contributor, etc.
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
Akshay Dixit @akshaydixit.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Dartmouth. Studies political economy and identity in South Asia.
Carolina Torreblanca @carotorreblanca.bsky.social PhD in Politics (NYU) || Postdoc, PDRI-DevLab @ UPenn || Letterboxd fanatic
European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
@clals-upenn.bsky.social @clals-upenn.bsky.social 
Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Allison Hartnett @ashartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor at USC POIR. Authoritarianism past and present, redistribution & inequality, land, elites. Mostly MENA. www.allisonhartnett.io
Bart Thijssen @bartthijssen.bsky.social Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Xu Xu @xuxupolitics.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University http://xu-xu.net
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social average against the machine
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social Mrs. Doubtfire and some other stuff. Screenwriter, creator, complainer. Politics obsessor.
imdb.me/randimayemsinger
Mr. Autumn Man @timhodgson.bsky.social gentleman
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social Lecturer @umassamherst.bsky.social US presidential power & authoritarian dangers; speaking only for me. New book on emergency presidential power March 2026: https://www.rienner.com/title/Above_the_Law_The_Evolution_of_Emergency_Presidential_Power
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social Lawyer for people at Kline & Specter. Teach @Duqklinelaw, “Faith and Democracy.” Former representative, Marine, prosecutor. Town hall participant.
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
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”
Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social Jersey til I die. Writer, political consultant, and lawyer for hire. End corruption. Tax the rich. Rahway. primaryschool.ghost.io / buymeacoffee.com/primaryschool
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
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.
Kyle Foley @kylefoleywrites.com Orlando City/Orlando Pride Correspondent for the Orlando Sentinel and co-host of the @orlandosoccershow.bsky.social
Games/Anime @butwhytho.net
Percussion Director
Book nerd
30, He/Him
Email: kylefoleywrites@gmail.com
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
Escape the algorithm
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
Dan Carlin @dancarlin.bsky.social Host of Hardcore History. I do other stuff too. Find our (free) irregularity updated newsletter at https://dancarlin.substack.com
Website: www.dancarlin.com
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Pat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social Dad & Husband | Veteran | Proudly Representing NY-18 in Congress
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app In progress. Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social Political Scientist (all views are own, not employers’). Visiting Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
Brian Folt @folt.bsky.social wildlife management, population ecology, decision analysis | US Geological Survey, Nevada Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit | University of Nevada, Reno | https://wilddecisions.github.io/
Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead, Unlicensed, also several books. #1 AI hater.
All you fascists bound to lose
Democrats @democrats.org We’re fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American.
Chair: @kenmartin.bsky.social
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
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
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social director of politics and science @wired.com, co-host of Uncanny Valley (available wherever you get your podcasts!) -- signal leahfeiger.86 with tips
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
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• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social Longtime FEC Commissioner, 4-time Chair, lawyer, mom, wife, believer in democracy and rule of law
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
@jpadial.bsky.social @jpadial.bsky.social 
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
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
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Matias Giannoni @matigiannoni.bsky.social Associate Researcher at UTDT - PhD at @mitofficial.bsky.social
- Political Economy & Statistical Methods: Firms, labor markets & politics.
https://www.matiasgiannoni.com
Eugenia Nazrullaeva @eugenian.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ UCL | PhD UCLA
Comparative Politics, (Historical) Political Economy, Economic History
https://enazrullaeva.github.io/
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Katerina Tertytchnaya @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism. https://katerinatertytchnaya.com
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social Not A. Doctor, M.D.
Underwhelming: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zsyhg6acyhoeidjrth7fyxhe/feed/aaabuczkgyc4i
Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social Polisci, political econ. of redistribution, membership politics, measurement, insurance, free riding perceptions, in no special order. Looking for a book titled "Fair Enough?" ? Here it is 👇
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366038
https://a.co/d/b6yL5d3
Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social Quality, Speed, Openness: Research & Politics is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, which focusses on research in political science and related fields.
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/RAP
Scott MacKenzie @henrythe5thelement.bsky.social He/him. UMiss Prof. 18th-Century literature, political economy, scarcity, & porridge
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
Orçun Selçuk @orcunselcuk.bsky.social Author of The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization (University of Notre Dame Press) 🇹🇷🇻🇪🇪🇨
Researching polarizing populist leaders and their opponents around the world.
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.
Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
latimesphotos @latimesphotos.bsky.social Photography staff of the Los Angeles Times
bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social national security adviser at popeyes louisiana kitchen | aka revrrlewis | he/him/🏳️🌈 |📍nyc
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social Announcing posts for our blog.
This account is seldom monitored.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
noam @noamchompers.bsky.social lecturer. soon to be lecturer (weirdly an important difference)
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
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contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Lia Merivaki_Ph.D. @liamerivaki.bsky.social Election science, info integrity, AI & Democracy, Public Policy. Director of Foley Institute @ Wazzu.
US Elections team @ The Carter Center.
Non-resident fellow @ Center for Democracy & Technology.
Team #voteredu 🗳️😷🇬🇷 🇺🇲