Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
OldSchool @blueskyoldschool.bsky.social Unlocking memories through music ๐ถ
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools. Dirt Road Democrat.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Erica L. Chenoweth @echennylamb.bsky.social Biologist/Interdisciplinary researcher, educator, writer in Alaska...aspiring polymath....and..and...and...(artwork: the great Katie Sevigny)
Saganism @sagan.bsky.social Science. Philosophy. The cosmic perspective.
Silence Dogood @silencedogoodbos.bsky.social Bringing light to Bostonโs enduring revolutionary spirit
https://www.silencedogoodboston.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
David Bowman @dlbowman76.com Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social ๐ Terrible Writer
๐ก Idea Guy
๐ข Proud New Jersey Resident
The Gaf @gaf.nyc You're either for all people, or you aren't.
Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
Ally to Democracy @allyhartwell.bsky.social Just a Mom who believes in equality, social justice, healthy democracy & the power of science to change humanity
The Amur Leopard is the rarest cat on earth, found in a small area within Russia and China, the world's largest autocracies. For now.
Joel Montfort @montfort.me #TX politics. Political Scientist. Democrat. #ODAT #texasdemocrat, #txlege
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/
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Dona Ann McAdams @donaannmcadams.bsky.social 
Kathleen McLaughlin @kathleenmclaughlin.bsky.social 
John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social fan of Calibri and Tylenol, pro-algae. https://linktr.ee/jghoakes
@redboat29.bsky.social @redboat29.bsky.social 
D.G. Barthรฉ, Jr. @dgbphd.bsky.social Author, historian, Trad-skin, jiujiteiro (blue belt), and nak muay (20+ years).
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...๐
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@alinaleesings.bsky.social @alinaleesings.bsky.social 
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
Glenn Beltz @gb0n.bsky.social Professor of Mechanical Engineering, & Associate Dean, at UC Santa Barbara - where we make engineers, not tech bros. Iโm fascinated by airplanes and analog photography, and Iโve been known to take photos of aircraft at the Santa Barbara airport (SBA).
George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social Santa Barbara Poet Laureate 2025-27
Write, read, interview, eat, drink, cook, repeat
georgeeats.com
georgeyatchisin.com
@cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social A blue dot in the red state of Oklahoma. If you denied rights to one group you donโt deserve rights. And donโt hide behind your religion to justify your bigotry. Fascism is bad. Nazis are bad. tRump is really bad for democracy
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No DMs
UCSF Matthew @ucsfmatthew.bsky.social Lapsed academic, policy wonk, non-bro tech worker, and activist doing my part to stop fascism in America and the world.
Chris Chin Fong @nybingbong.bsky.social 
@rebjreed.bsky.social @rebjreed.bsky.social 
Kendra Stoen @kevvs.bsky.social 
@mbchat.bsky.social @mbchat.bsky.social 
@amydunc20.bsky.social @amydunc20.bsky.social 
Jed McClure @jedmc.bsky.social Northern NJ based Product/UX Designer who likes to fiddle with TTRPGs, printing presses, cassette players and other examples of technology from the 1900s.
Author/designer of ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ป๐ป'๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ and a few other bits and bobs.
@pbwerner.bsky.social @pbwerner.bsky.social 
@genesisjim.bsky.social @genesisjim.bsky.social 
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Dizzy Zaba @dizzy.gay organizer, campaigner, writer. fellow at future currents & democracy revival center. labor movement forever. portland ๐ง๏ธ
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social ๐จ๐ผโ๐ Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University
๐ Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD
โ๏ธ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics
๐ชถ #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
Robert Vidaure @robertvidaure.bsky.social Creative director and designer for the public sector.
๐Southern California
๐ vidaure.design
โ๏ธ newsletter.thecivicdesigner.org
Amanda Daflos @amandadaflos.bsky.social Deputy Mayor @ City of Los Angeles. Former ED @ Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at JHU. Believer in government and democracy. Lover of family, friends, nature, photography and dogs. 
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Data-Smart City Solutions @datasmartcities.bsky.social Highlighting cities solving problems and engaging communities with data. Directed by Stephen Goldsmith @goldsmithongov.bsky.social at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Listen: #DataSmartCityPod
https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/
DorothyBendel @dorothybendel.bsky.social Writer. Essays in The Believer, Threepenny Review, Lithub, Catapult, NYTimes, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and more. dorothybendel.com
Andrew Hinton ๐ท๐งก @andrewhinton.bsky.social โLacks self controlโ
- Mrs Duncan (2nd grade)
Product Design + IA + UX etc
ATL / PHL
Love your neighbor as you want to be loved.
Everyone is your neighbor.
๐ธ๏ธ: andrewhinton.com
๐: contextbook.com
๐ฆฃ: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton
#ND #ADHD
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Design & its discontents. Critical tech x speculative civics.
State champion HS ๐พ coach. Loose-leaf tea sommelier. Radio host. speculative civics. asst. prof of practice, UMich. 18F.gov alum. ronbronson.com
Gordon Ross ๐จ๐ฆ @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. ๐จ๐ฆ Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope. 
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
Itโs time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Noel Hidalgo ๐ฝโค๏ธ๐ฒ @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; ๐ต๐ท; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary ๐ they/he
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com 
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
๐NYC
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social ๐พ Urban planner for the internet
โก๏ธ Managing Director @newpublic.org
๐ฒ Seattle is always home
Aaron Ogle @atogle.com Just trying to leave this place better than I found it.
Working for social impact with tech at Google.org. The outdoors are my happy place.
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
Alberto @albertico.bsky.social Civic technologist transforming US healthcare. Ruby enthusiast. Personal account.
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
Whitney Q @whitneyq.bsky.social Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls ๐). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Jorge Valens ๐ @jorgevalens.com Government Geek ๐ค | Avid Indoorsman | Innovation & AI Manager, Miami-Dade County CITD ๐ดโ๏ธ | All about product management, policy development, and gov innovation. | Opinions = Mine (and can be discussed over brunch).
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social Iโm a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
mx cordelia yu @thebestsophist.bsky.social Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
Mike Sarasti @sarasti.bsky.social Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government.
Half of RAKER - @rakermusic.bsky.social
Josh Gee @jgee.bsky.social You can save the world, but first, lunch! He/him. At Work for America getting the best people into State and Local Government. Former digital services at MTA, City of Boston. Politics before that. Mass Oyster Project. Write about food and tech.
Krista Canellakis @kristallakis.bsky.social Serving public servants. Currently at U.S. Digital Response. Former Deputy Secretary in CA Govt Operations Agency & City of SF Chief Innovation Officer. Firm believer the world would be better with more pink. ๐
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Tyler Gindraux ๐ป @tylergindraux.bsky.social I'm a researcher and designer of public services. I live in Brooklyn, NY.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution โข charities โข change โข digital strategy โข tech for good โข fixing the plumbing โข responsible AI โข Scotland โข feed may contain bikes and sailing
Ryan @ryan-powers.bsky.social Climber. Trail Runner. Weekend side project enthusiast.
Views my own.
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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
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.
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesnโt like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, โWin Every Argumentโ
British-American