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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
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social City Hall reporter / New York Playbook co-author @politico.com. From 🇸🇪. Have a tip? DMs are open or reach me at csommerfeldt@politico.com
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social Pedestrian
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(they-them)
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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social Researcher-led working group at European University Institute, based in Florence, Italy. Email contact: queerwg@eui.eu 
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.
Jake Blumgart @jblumgart.bsky.social Reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer https://www.inquirer.com/author/blumgart_jake/
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Daniel Chandross @danchan.bsky.social Here's to the Future. | 〽️➡️Google ☁️ | Seattle ➡️NYC|✡️|Build Everything Everywhere All At Once
Austin Wu @austwu.bsky.social (vague lyrics about history or economics) 🚰
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊
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@skarksen.bsky.social @skarksen.bsky.social 
QueensLink @queenslink.org Connecting Communities with Rails & Trails!!
A grass-roots led campaign to create a new subway and parkway corridor along the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch!
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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social Nothing is written…
Ben May @benmay.bsky.social Sr. Research Analyst, Columbia University Cancer Center
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social Dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.
Christopher @heychristofur.bsky.social toronto things • architecture + imagery • niche • he/him • 6’2” • southern ontario • 🏳️🌈
Marc Ebuña @marcebuna.info 🇵🇭🇺🇸🏳️🌈 Transit wonk from Queens/LI working on digital passenger info systems
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David ᵒᴥᵒ @boyishcharms.bsky.social Illustrator
I think we just became best friends
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
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Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️🌈 ✡️
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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social Associate Professor, IU Computer Science ·
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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social Congressman for New York's 10th District in the House of Representatives
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Alex Lee @votealexlee.bsky.social CA Assemblymember District 24. Chair CA Legislative Progressive Caucus. Corporate-Free, NUMTOT from the South Bay 🏳️🌈🌹
Shenna Bellows @shennabellows.bsky.social Bio: Maine Secretary of State Prev: State Senator, Executive Director of HHRC Maine + ACLU of Maine
Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social Now: Comms strategist. Writer. Head talks. Fmr: Mayor of LA. Harris-Walz; Host, iGen Politics, DNC, SKDK, White House, campaigns. Chicagoan. UCLA alum
Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social Planetary scientist by day 🪐 podcaster by night 🎙 photographer at all times 📷 philosopher in my dreams 💭 https://miquai.myportfolio.com/
Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social managing editor at The City Reporter (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • tell me something good: rsmith@thecityreporter.nyc // @rachelholliday.77 on Signal
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
Zellnor Myrie @zellnor.bsky.social NY State Senator, running for NYC Mayor in 2025. Son/attorney/recovering sneaker addict.
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alex nguyen @alexjn.bsky.social breaking news reporter @motherjones.com | writing on labor and politics, fact checker | posts on good art sometimes
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Brian Fung @brianfung.me Googler and former tech policy reporter for CNN, The Washington Post, The Atlantic & National Journal. A few things I enjoy: 🎮 🚴🏕️🍳🖖
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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social Stay-at-home mother of none
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social Editor of Streetsblog NYC and a New Yorker who bikes. First, Fourth and 21st Amendment absolutist. And from the lawyers: “Organizational affiliation is for identification purposes only.”
@scullyview.bsky.social @scullyview.bsky.social 
Phevos Kallitsis @drcinemarch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Architecture
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Christof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social Director of Transportation, Madison, WI; Author of “Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit,” Island Press, 2021, “Transportation and the Shape of Cities,” Island Press, 2026. (he/him) PE/AICP/LEED AP (Views are my own.)
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗️ @theomnizaddy.bsky.social Social democrat in the streets, liberal Georgist in the sheets. Mariah Carey stan & Marie Kondo enthusiast. YIMBY, NUMTOT, aspiring DILF.
Brooklyn, NY | Zillennial (27) | Bi🏳️🌈| he/him
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.
Stefanos Chen @stefanoschen.bsky.social NYT reporter covering New York's transit systems. I snoop on Greek convos.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
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Payton Chung 🏳️🌈 @westnorth.com Card-carrying urbanist since 1998; housing developer, author, museum docent, board member, #climate voter. Opine solely for myself. Ex-CHI, BOS, RDU 🚄🚋🚴♂️🌇🏗️🚰🏳️🌈
Words @ggwash.org @citybuilder.bsky.social
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social Who wants to grab a beer and talk about land-use regulations and building codes?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieltrubman/
https://muckrack.com/daniel-trubman-1/portfolio
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John J. Bauters @johnbauters.bsky.social America’s Bike Mayor / #GoOutside / 🌿🐺
Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org The only website devoted to covering all the livable streets and public space news you need. Visit us at http://nyc.streetsblog.org. Retweets/posts are NOT endorsements.
Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org Covering the movement to end car dependency and make America better for walking, biking, transit and more. 
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Harry Gray @harryhamishgray.bsky.social Dense housing, cycle lanes, walkable cities and green public realm. 🌳🚴🛴🏙️🚶♀️🌳
Steering @walkridegm.org.uk. Co-host Moving Up North Podcast
Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social Born, raised and reside in Brooklyn.🗽CEO of Oonee. Working to make our cities better places to live. 🚲🛴👷🏾Unapologetically Woke. 📣✊🏾🫶🏾
🇺🇸🇧🇧 📍Brooklyn
Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon.bsky.social National Chapter Manager at YIMBY Action 🏘️
Richmonder working to make housing abundant and affordable. 🏗️🏢
Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com Transport Planner & Researcher
Creative Director | cityux.com
Research Lead | infrastoryinsights.com
https://youtu.be/vAygH6SZg28?si=lY-5xtbZl6yPv823
Jess Coleman @jesskcoleman.bsky.social Lifelong NYer | Attorney | Community Activist | Fighting for Lower Manhattan with bold, progressive vision 🔭
📍Democratic Candidate for City Council D1
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social Urban economist from Aotearoa living in Seattle. Share rents. Build homes.
Nilo @nilo.bsky.social Mentally I’m on the beach.
Railway Electrification
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
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/
Toxoplasmosis patient 0 @steamyporkbuns.bsky.social 
Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social 🎙️🚌 Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast
🚊🚲 Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca
Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
Nicola (Nick) Mai @nickmai.bsky.social I am a sociologist, ethnographer and filmmaker working with marginalised migrant groups and communities affected by environmental change through co-creative and participative collaborations.
https://nicolamai.org/
https://le.ac.uk/people/nick-mai
Tyler Dinucci @tylerdinucci.bsky.social worse in person
Ben Max @benmax.bsky.social Journalist @ New York Law School's Center for New York City and State Law and the Max Politics podcast.
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
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Stormy Daniels @thestormydaniels.bsky.social Writer, Director, TV host, comic, equestrian, mom, wife and many other things. All my sfw/mainstream movies&comedy series on StormyTV.net
Brooke Gladstone @brookegladstone.bsky.social Co-host of On the Media. Author of The Influencing Machine and The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.
Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/