Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
Ask a Manager @askamanager.org Creator of Ask a Manager – home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests in US, politics
(he/him)
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Votebeat @votebeat.org We're a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to local, nonpartisan coverage of election admin and voting access. Signal 201.430.5217. Support us: http://votebe.at/donate.
Shatema Threadcraft @profcraft.bsky.social Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University. Author: The Labors of Resurrection (OUP 2025) and Intimate Justice (OUP 2016).
Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social Nonprofit executive director. Views are mine alone. Historian. Writer. Army veteran. Adjunct history instructor. Author of “The Last Lincoln Republican” (UniversityPress of Kansas, 2020). #ParkChat Hall of Famer. Pittsburgh sports fan.- N Nathan A Burroughs @naburroughs.bsky.social
Richard Miller @therellimr.bsky.social Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, UNLV
Music, history, teaching and teacher education.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires and AI bros. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him.
Seth Trueger @mdaware.org ER doc at Northwestern & @BedsideMedNU.bsky.social
interests include social media for medical journals and medical education, health policy, and airway management
amateur guitar gear nerd
opinions are mine, arent medical advice
ja.ma/seth
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
JLRay @jlray.bsky.social Texas. Senior director of polling at YouGov. Adviser to Young Men Research Initiative.
johnlray.github.io
Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social Musicology PhD turned classical radio host in Wisconsin.
The Weekdy @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social Co-host of @onthemedia.bsky.social from WNYC
mloewinger(at)wnyc,org Signal: (646) 753-2373
Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social Communicator. Wisconsin Sports Fan. Jeopardy Third Place Finisher.
Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social Mostly retired #journalist (ex-CBS News, ex-AP, etc). Master’s degree in #philosophy. Friend to #animals. Usually annoyed about something.
My audio obituary for CBS News Radio:
https://on.soundcloud.com/6tMcY2ZIjYbefssAwm
https://www.samlitzinger.com/
Mike Habegger @mikehabegger.com Ph.D. Political Scientist. College of Liberal Arts, Louisiana Tech University. Social media, democracy, IR&Comp, and global security scholar. #EverLoyalBe Views my own.
Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social Bayesian Zooarchaeologist, studying animal domestication and philosophical questions like "how many cows were in this pit?"
GitHub: https://github.com/wolfhagenj
OSF: https://osf.io/va7ye/
Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of West Florida
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
@stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Rachel Blaifeder @rblaifeder.bsky.social Publisher at Cambridge University Press, acquiring in political science and sociology.
John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social They said I am ignorant and apathetic, I said "I don't know and I don't care."
(PfP stick figure man with claw hand "Stop for me it's the claw." Banner is early ARPA map.)
He/him
Micah Warren @micahwarren.bsky.social Publicist, TV/Film producer, AI image/video creation/editing, writer, comedy, musician, history nerd, politics/news junkie, Nellie Bly's dad, NFL historian. Opinions are my own. #FlyEaglesFly
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton 2026) (readsupremacy.com)
Jonah Goldberg @jonahg.bsky.social I'm the co-founder of The Dispatch, a columnist for the LA Times, and a CNN Contributor. I am kicking the tires on this thing for all the obvious reasons. I provide a lot of quadruped content.
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Eric Aspengren @ericaspen.bsky.social Political strategist and data analyst. Organizer at heart.
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics @journalrep.bsky.social The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics is the official journal of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, published by @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social MA LING, MS SLP, mad scientist. A couple mid CES awards in a storage unit. Clinical director for the first FDA approved BCI, where’s my money Elon
Politics, data art, mental health, accessibility, bad jokes
datapoems.io • lukesteuber.com • bipolarsky
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Melissa Deckman @melissadeckman.bsky.social CEO at PRRI, I write about American politics, religion, and gender. https://melissadeckman.com; https://www.prri.org/
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social I study social movements and organizing on the Left.
New book on white folx organizing for racial and economic justice:
https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/white-flank
Cloyingly earnest😆
http://crusso.colgate.domains/
Christine Kexel Chabot @kexelchabot.bsky.social Professor of Law @ Marquette. Is the administrative state history?
Mark Bell @marksbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minneota, mostly studying nuclear weapons, international security, and US foreign policy. Opinions mine. www.markbell.org
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Bill Harder, PhD @wlharder.bsky.social Director of #FacultyDev & Teaching Excellence & Political Science Prof. at Goucher College | critical & inclusive pedagogies | presidential/executive politics #highered #Faculty #EduSky #woodworking #cats | he/him
@jessicaajrich.bsky.social @jessicaajrich.bsky.social
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UNC School of Law. Teaching and writing about financial and corporate law.
Former Assistant Secretary, US Treasury Department & Democratic chief counsel, Senate Banking Committee.
https://law.unc.edu/people/graham-steele/
Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com Asst. Prof. of poli sci at UW-Eau Claire | PhD at UC Davis, JD at GWU Law | political theorist | cult watcher | apatheist | ex-Mormon | father | 13th-level warlock
www.adamkunz.com
https://www.uwec.edu/profiles/kunzas
https://www.lalichcenter.org/
Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social College professor, cognitive psychologist, textbook author. Also interested in science writing, social justice, politics and anti-racism. Proud member of AAUP & AFT Local 6741. Personal account. Views are my own and do not represent RMC.
Chris Pickett @chrispickett5.bsky.social Author of THE PEOPLE UNITED: A MEMOIR OF HOPE AND RESISTANCE DURING TRUMP’S FIRST TERM. Visit chrispickettauthor.com for more.
R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social “Mr. Scott Rogers is correct.” - BBC World Service. Resident on the historic lands of the Kiikaapoi & Ho-Chunk peoples. Jeopardy! champion. “Turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain.” ⚽️🦩🏏🥌
Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social Accidental military historian
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
MP Broache @mbroache.bsky.social Political science associate professor (very undeserved); mediocre runner, very slow swimmer, OK-ish parent; inveterate Baltimore sports fan living in NC
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip.
Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at CU Boulder. Director of the Barney Ford Lab. UC Riverside PhD. Princeton Postdoc. Dodgers fan. ⚾
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
The Forum - De Gruyter @theforum-degruyter.bsky.social A journal of applied research in contemporary politics
Editors-in-chief: Sara Chatfield and Seth Masket
Book editor: Phil Chen
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/for/html
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
Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dartmouth. Director Polarization Research Lab. According to Nate Silver: "Boring. Can't model for shit."
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.”
Emmanuel Felton @efelton.bsky.social New Orleans native now living in New York and working as the race and ethnicity reporter at @washingtonpost.com, I’m also writing The Search for Black Mecca for Harper Collins. Proud alum of BuzzFeed News and @hechingerreport.org- D Dorian Warren @dorianwarren.bsky.social
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.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Traci Thomas @bitracial.bsky.social Book person. Creator and host of The Stacks. Also sports and snacks.
Government Affairs Institute @gaiatgeorgetown.bsky.social The Government Affairs Institute (GAI) at Georgetown University provides education and training about congressional processes, organization, culture and practices.
gai.georgetown.edu
Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz @atlantakademie.bsky.social Politische Bildung zum Thema #USA | Education, Encounters, Expertise on U.S. Politics & Transatlantic Relations | Kaiserslautern, Germany | https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/
Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Political Science & Fulbright Program Adviser, Adrian College; frmr Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) & Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Reskeet≠agree.- P Matt Krause @prokraustinator.bsky.social Brains, Machines
@jkrimbel.bsky.social @jkrimbel.bsky.social
Pat McDermott @twinsetpat.bsky.social knitter, museum goer, jazz lover, gardener, pesto maker
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social John Stoehr (he/him). The Editorial Board. Subscribe! http://editorialboard.com.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social Shareholder value = 3 eggs
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
Lizzie.oleary@slate.com
Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Lindsay M. Chervinsky @lmchervinsky.bsky.social Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library @mount_vernon. 🖊️ MAKING THE PRESIDENCY & THE CABINET. 🐶 mom. Views my own.
Ken Kwan 🧠🔬🧬💻 @kwanlab.bsky.social The Kwan lab at Univ of Michigan studies neural circuit development, chromatin regulation, & brain disorders using genetics & genomics.
kwanlab.org
Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own.
Book learnin' –– OSU, GU, KCL
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
Mark Schmitt @mschmitt9.bsky.social Political Reform Program, @NewAmerica. Previously, @rooseveltinst; @theprospect; @OpenSociety; US Senate for Bill Bradley, D-NJ.
Jeremy Davis @jeremydavis.bsky.social philosopher in the peach state. research in ethics of war, bioethics, ethics of tech/AI, ethics of travel, etc. my own views.
Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social Antifascist. Abolitionist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave. https://boxd.it/6oFrP
Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
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/
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
Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in DC. Author of Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico, NYT, The Atlantic.
www.lkfield.com
Also with American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW.
Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social Pro-labor, liberalish, leftish, semi-normie antifascist
Evan Axelbank @evanaxelbank.bsky.social News reporter in Tampa, history podcaster, book lover, Mets and Rangers fan, NYC born and raised
Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they
I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008
Jess Hejny @jesshejny.bsky.social Political scientist. Environmental policy, parties, democratic theory, policing. U.S. environmental political development is my jam. Gardens, cats, herbalism, and art in my spare time. Baltimoron in Burque. 🏜🌵🐍🦀
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
Paul Fritz @pbfritz.bsky.social Political scientist studying & teaching mostly international relations. Likes democracy.
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Kudzu Vine Politics @kudzuvine.bsky.social Listen to our podcast at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/kudzu-vine--6403578
New episodes drop every Sunday evening
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)
David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social Studies comparative political economy (mostly legislatures in Europe and the US).
Proud Nutmegger and Hurricane.
Loves the Knicks, Giants, and Yankees.
http://www.davidfortunato.com/
First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social Rust Belt Wordcel, he/him
Altar Boy Emeritus, TurboLib, Anti-Populist, Civic Virtue Enthusiast
Also post about cat stuff, haunting melancholy songs, Midwestern baseball, videogames that are too hard for me. Sometimes I read books.