Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
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.
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
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
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
chizo nwagwu @cnwagwu.bsky.social public interest technologist. gardner in training. arts lover. dc based.
Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at NOTUS. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
tips - signal at nalms.41 and nataliealms@notus.com
industry cat’s hot takes @cat98793489.bsky.social if you can’t take the heat, get out of the sunny patch on the carpet
arseblog @arseblog.com Arsenal blogger, podcaster. Fan of Bourbon, Bowie, German Shepherds, and Pires (not in that order). Creating Arsenal content with real people.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
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Technologists for the Public Good @publicgood.tech A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good.
https://www.publicgood.tech/
Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Former Guardian, Village Voice & SciAm. He/him
Erin @biscuit.quest Gay they living in Rhode Island by way of the South. Former digital librarian and civic tech person now working in corporate. PVD, bikes, UX, a11y, etc. War Eagle/Go Dawgs.
Darin Balaban @madebydarin.bsky.social 🎨Fine Artist & Muralist
📍Based in Los Angeles
@darinbalaban
RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info A couple folks resisting harmful policies, fighting disinfo & defending FEMA.
Not official FEMA. Views are our own and expressed in a personal capacity.
Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com Covering housing in Los Angeles and California for POLITICO.
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Matt Cohen @mattdcohen.bsky.social Senior Reporter @DemocracyDocket.com, covering voting rights, far-right extremism and threats to democracy (lol). Collector of records, plants, tattoos, horror movies.
Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info Sharing news from the Coast Guard, the Federal Government, and beyond.
Semper Paratus, Semper Pro Populus (Always Ready, Always for the People).
Not affiliated with Official USCG. Views are solely my own opinions. #AltGov 🥄
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine.
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social Former Chief Technologist at cfpb
Suede @suedehq.bsky.social #ComingUp30 out 25 September. Suede & Manic Street Preachers UK co-headline tour tickets on sale now.
https://linktr.ee/SuedeHQ
The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social The home of all things Women’s Football - from @sammymewy.bsky.social and the @meninblazers.bsky.social Media Network // Sammy Banana Phone 🍌☎️ 855-611-4050
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Farran Golding @farrangolding.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Correspondent for @quartersnacks.bsky.social, associate editor at Closer Skateboarding, copyboy-in-chief, @skatebylines.bsky.social
www.farrangolding.co.uk
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
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WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social Senior reporter, The 51st. Pittsburgh born and forever a Hokie. Send story ideas or spam to alexkoma(at)51st.news.
George C @georgecutright.bsky.social Skating, animals, photos, and bikes. 
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is design at flora.ai
brooklyn
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social Associate Professor, Astrophysicist. Founder, Publisher
@astronomerstel. Opinions here are my own. @rerutled@mastodon.online @rerutled at Threads. he/him
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
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heathcliff guy @heat1995viewer.bsky.social 
Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social she/her feminist author
Books: The seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
(And others)
Newsletter https://www.feministgiant.com/
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social Film critic at Washington City Paper
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social Economist, bike commuter, ultimate frisbee player. Studying wages, jobs, and economic inequality. Striving to be part of the solution.
https://www.epi.org/people/elise-gould/
Merici @merici.bsky.social there’s no rule that says you can’t rewrite all the rules
Currently: Fellow. Ex: US Digital Service, CFPB, Ideo. co-founder Ada’s List
DC via London, Boulder, and the Sandhills of Nebraska
Direct File fan account
JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social The investigative football journal
Tips? Josimar1986@protonmail.com
JMUNDO @jokamundo.bsky.social 
@daveziggy.bsky.social @daveziggy.bsky.social probably dreaming about Wakanda丨dad丨
Asst Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech | former White House & Pentagon丨@harvard @princeton丨 #blacklivesmatter 丨Opinions mine
Scott Ahler @scotchsailor.bsky.social Middle-aged skater and graphic designer.
Mark Hopson aka the Procuremancer @procuremancer.bsky.social I am an enchanter of enterprises, to some the sorcerer of strategic sourcing, for industry the baba yaga of buying, in technical meetings I am can be a warlock of work breakdown structures, I am the Acquisition Alchemist. There are some who call me...Tim?
Pat Walsh @ptrq.bsky.social General Enthusiast/Chill Wizard/Friend of Tom. We're all Frankies, we're all lying in hell. FULL POWER TO THE VOID. Hydrate or Die. He/him.
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info Promoting health and science and resistance against pseudoscience, disinformation, and fascism.
AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info OG AltGov. that’s now here. ANTIFA General.
AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info #AltGov
State Government Worker (not state dept)
Covering all the ways the actions of the Regime are impacting the work of state governments.
DMs open to reporting impacts you're seeing relating to program funding cuts.
Be an #AltCitizen.
Mikkel (The Foreign Resort) @mikkelbjak.bsky.social Singer, bassist & guitarist in THE FOREIGN RESORT - post-punk / new-wave from Denmark:
@theforeignresort.com +
www.theforeignresort.com
Also Danish teacher for ex-pats living in Denmark.
Greyson Peltier @greysonpeltier.bsky.social Keep Wrestling Weird. Change The World. USC Political Science grad. 
altScalesOfJustice @altscalesofjustice.altgov.info Retired 20+ year DOJ executive providing honest commentary on American politics. Opinions are my own. “Morgan” in the book “We Are #AltGov” by Dr. Amanda Sturgill. (I have NO financial ties to the book)
Twitter: @altScalesOfJust
🎼🎶 Laurie MacNamara @lauriedelray.bsky.social “It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.” - Mary Oliver
Ann Lewis @ann-lewis.bsky.social Tech exec, former TTS Director at GSA, former @moveon.org CTO, @scsatcmu.bsky.social grad, bio/pics: https://annlewis.tech/ (Personal account)
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
Kate F @k8080.bsky.social Service Design and Civic Tech /// Former 18F, Lab at OPM, IRS Direct File
Nat @nachyocheese.bsky.social Safety lights are for dudes.
San Jose, CA
Code for America @codeforamerica.org Government can work for the people, by the people, in the new digital age. Let’s make it work for everyone.
codeforamerica.org
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Meanwhile @meanwhilebeats.bsky.social A different bio from Twitter. I make beats and skate a board. My knees hurt. Also this: https://www.instagram.com/meanwhilebeats
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic ⚾️ Jew. Falo Português e Pittsburghese. Melk@PaydayReport.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
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Christopher @coffeeandbagels.bsky.social It’s so fucking beautiful
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social the lovechild of Dolly & Elvira
actor who writes & podcasts
roll tide
https://linktr.ee/glitterburrito
AC @salty-af.bsky.social service/experience designer, civic tech; 18F alum
stl stuff
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation
AltDOI @altdoi.altgov.info We are dedicated DOI employees who swore an oath to the constitution to protect the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage. Officially *unofficial* account.
Do not approach the wildlife. This bison bites back. #AltGov 🦬
AltAirForce @altairforce.altgov.info Loyal to our Constitution, not a politician, god or person. Not an official Air Force acct. Professional critical thinker, fed, vet & mil spouse here to communicate, share information and more importantly, offer support.
Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info Alt Library of Congress #TheResistance 🇺🇸&🌏Political commentary. "Science is vital for progressive society." Verified by @snopes 👍🏼MLS📚 #AltGov cartoonist, doctoral candidate.
I stand in support of those under siege or occupied by the same regime. 🇺🇸 🇬🇪 🇺🇦
@altpbs.altgov.info @altpbs.altgov.info 
Rogue SSA @alt-ssa.altgov.info One of two (2!!) official #altgov accounts for your friendly neighborhood SSA.
Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info The resistance team for the U.S. Department of Labor. Not an official government account. #resist #AltGov #NoKings ❌👑
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social Bureaucromancer. I enjoy filling out forms because it feels like taking a test where I know all the answers. MSP, she/her.
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. Web optimist. I build design systems for governments. This is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
Portland Digital Corps @pdxdigitalcorps.bsky.social Short term cohort, all volunteer civic tech sprint helping non-profits build digital tools. digitalcorpspdx.org.
Cohort 1 ran from March-July 2025
Michelle Partogi @mitogi.bsky.social 
Rebecca Refoy @bexiez.bsky.social Opinionated loud mouth.
🥄 Former 18F, Peace Corps Guinea 🇬🇳
📍Washington, DC (she/her)