Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Jodi Kantor @jodikantor.bsky.social NY Times investigative reporter. Co-author of SHE SAID, about how Megan Twohey and I broke the Weinstein story. Now focused on illuminating the Supreme Court.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Free Press @freepress.bsky.social We’re a nonpartisan organization fighting for your rights to connect and communicate.
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@alsoranspod.com @alsoranspod.com
LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv The Big Bird at LegalEagle. Believer in the rule of law.
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social Yo, this my corner
I ain’t running nowhere
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social Interfaith cis Jew, never posts on behalf of his employer, he/his
Seriously, people, stop following me over my rather basic takes on politics alone, I really do want to post more about stupid shit.
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social Mainer by birth. Logger by trade. With your help, Senator for the people.
http://www.JacksonForMaine.com
BadToss @badtoss.bsky.social Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita. Working on a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social John Stoehr (he/him). The Editorial Board. Subscribe! http://editorialboard.com.
Atiba Ellis @atibaellis.bsky.social Shanker Prof. of Law and at Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Law. Fond of democracy, voting rights, racial justice, and sci-fi.
Ethan Embry @ethanembry.bsky.social Kid from Dutch
Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social Cartoonist/Kentucky Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee. Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. Hopkins County, KY. He/him
schweizercomics.com
outlawsapprentice.com
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social Partner with Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Appellate group. Banner image by Art Lien. My GC wants you to know that my postings are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my firm, clients, or personnel.
Jonathan Shorman @jonshorman.bsky.social Democracy Reporter, States Newsroom.
Past: The Kansas City Star
Kansan. KU graduate.
jshorman@statesnewsroom.com
Somil Trivedi @somilbtrivedi.bsky.social Advocacy Director & Senior Counsel, Court Accountability | Sometime Host, Legal AF | Exes: ACLU, Democracy Forward, MD Legal Aid, DOJ, WilmerHale, Innocence Texas | Dad, jokes | Views are my own, etc.
Substack: @courtaccountability
YouTube: @legalafmtn
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Britt P. Tevis @britttevis.bsky.social Historian of US law, American Jewry, and antisemitism. JD/PhD, #T1D.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300282542/sanctioned-bigotry/
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social Exec. Director, Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice, @OleMiss.bsky.social;
Board: @npcinstitute.bsky.social; @juristnews.bsky.social; Ex VOA White House bureau chief; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7DQ on ham radio
Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @gershomg.bsky.social Jerusalemite. Journalist.
Author, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East"
Lecture contact info at http://tinyurl.com/ggersh
Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social Family guy. Acting dad. Dog dad. Tax law professor. Backpacker. Beer snob. Weekend guitarist. Israeli expat in SoCal. Founder of @glowlaw.org.
Danielle Lang @danilang-votes.bsky.social Sr Dir., Voting, Campaign Legal Center. Former legal aid lawyer. You can also find me on Substack: https://theonlypollsthatcount.substack.com/
Jamie Piscitelli @jamie-piscitelli.bsky.social Father. Husband. Son. Friend. Laid-off IT engineer. Unemployable former DoD employee. Aspiring middle-aged something or other. Writer. Reader. History and Film Geek. Heavy Thinker and Occasional Drinker. Great Society Democrat, atheist, and hopeful.
Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social Lead Counsel, In Re Ea-Nasir MDL. Promote Frederick Douglass Thought
Obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise
Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social HuffPost labor reporter. dave.jamieson@huffpost.com. Signal: davejamieson.99
Joseph Mead @josephwmead.bsky.social Principal and Deputy General Counsel at Washington Litigation Group. Former law professor, DOJ, etc. Views are my own. https://washingtonlitigationgroup.org/.
Noah Feldman @noahfeldman.bsky.social Felix Frankfurter Professor, Chair of Society of Fellows @Harvard, Columnist @opinion.bsky.social
Ethics of Power
Will Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com I'm a journalist and in my spare time media bothers me
model courage. make art. bear witness.
contributor to TrumpFile.org. storyteller working in words/fotos/music & more. Skeeting dad jokes & ample snark #StephHead #GayDad
https://bio.site/willpollock
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
Thomas Smith @seriouspod.bsky.social Caster of too many pods: Opening Arguments, Where There’s Woke, Serious Inquiries Only, Dear Old Dads, and Gavel Gavel.
Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social Explaining law in the news to non-lawyers every Mon/Fri and responding to the right's worst legal takes on video every Weds. Join the community at patreon.com/law!
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social Eldest Sister. Childless Cat Lady. Italian Jew. Witchy Woman.
I’m from N-E-W Jerz
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog @glowlaw.org GLOW is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization defending the rule of law by holding executive branch lawyers accountable to the ethical standards that keep power in check. glowlaw.org
Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org We're fighting to address the retirement income crisis by protecting and expanding our Social Security system.
stopthedemolition.org
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En Español: @segurosocial.bsky.social
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
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Tyrell Corp Testing Lead @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social Senior reporter at @bloomberglaw.com covering the Supreme Court. Previously, courts & investigations at WUSA. Hot sauce enthusiast. Opinions my own.
chip goines @chip.bsky.social Turned out the vote for Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's historic 2018 campaign. Progressive movement builder. Cat lady. Bylines: Washington Post, Newsweek, Reuters, gbhnews.
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
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social Editorial Cartoonist. Pulitzer Prize - 2005
NickAnderson.substack.com
Editor of @counterpointtoons.bsky.social
Please tag me when you use my work.
Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social Prof @PittLaw, writing about abortion rights, pregnancy loss & other repro issues. Views my own. Bylines @NYT @Atlantic & more
Rachel Rebouche @rebouche.bsky.social Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Joe Goldman @joegoldman.bsky.social I run a foundation and work to create a more inclusive democracy. You can learn about what I do at work at www.democracyfund.org, but my posts here only reflect my personal views.
Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social “Hilarious” — Eric Idle
“Amazing” — Patton Oswalt
“Absolutely killed” — Rolling Stone (Carnegie Hall review)
2026 thru 2079 tour schedule: www.emophilips.com/events
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader
big famous microblogger
pet account reactionary
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goddess of uselessness
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[she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/
Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social Status Quo Politics is holding us back. Who will call for a big fight, and big change? The status quo cannot hold.
The Old Ways of Congress are gone. A New Congress is needed.
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), @emtrap.bsky.social enthusiast, ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social Covering RFK Jr., MAHA, health policy & politics for @nytimes. Former Congress & White House Correspondent (Bush & Obama). Peloton aficionado, amateur painter, dog lover, mom. Tips: stolberg@nytimes.com
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social Droppin' mics then bringin' them to be fixed 'cause I'm nice and whatnot. Look for "Clean Slate" on Prime Video February 6th.
End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social We're on a mission to get Big Money out of politics, return power to the people, and defend our democracy.
endcitizensunited.org
Todd Beeton @toddbeeton.bsky.social Writer of The Big Picture Substack #52 in U.S. politics • former digital for Kirsten Gillibrand and George Takei
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social Columnist and editor at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC). WGAE member. Ex-Washington Post Opinions. DC born and raised. D.C. United and Montreal Canadiens fan.
Email: jim.downie at versantmedia.com; jdow.92 on Signal
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
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
Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social Father, husband, teacher, writer, volunteer. He/Him.
Candidate for US Senate in MA.
AlexRikleen.us
Fight. For Everyone.
instagram.com/rikleenalex/
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social Adding justice and equality to the judiciary one judge at a time. Dad & husband. YIMBY and former DC elected. Making good trouble @AFJustice. @WeDemandJustice @Amprog @ACSLaw & @NewYorkStateAG alum. He/his views only.
Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social Washington correspondent at Haaretz. Signal: @arnorosenfeld.08
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social https://christineyzhang.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christine-zhang
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social Executive Director + Adjunct Prof. Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety.
Policing, community safety, food. COYG. He/him.
L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot) @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot President Pro tempore, Senate of Virginia | Representing the 18th District | Chairman of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
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Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social Ethics R Us.
Cambridge MA
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social A civil courts reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. PACER obsessed docket sleuth. Send me gossip to agutman(at)inquirer.com and Agutman.96 on Signal.
Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social Screenwriter // Emmy Award winner // Author // Product Operations Manager @SBNation // Formerly @FOXSports // baseball fan
sundownmotel.ghost.io
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/we-promised-you-a-great-main-event-bill-hanstock
Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.
📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
The Steady State @thesteadystate.org 440+ former national security officials who remain committed to their oaths to “defend the Constitution."
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Substack: https://steadystate1.substack.com/
Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social Episcopalian | North Carolinian | father | husband | English teacher | liberal | lost on Jeopardy! | 🏳️🌈 | IG: @aubreygilleran
Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social Press freedom is your freedom 🗞️
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social Nuclear Fellow @ Pax Sapiens, former Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and State Department International Sec Advisory Board, CNAS Sr. Fellow, former National Security Council. No #manels, Yankees/Gunners.
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
Eric P. Marmon @ericmarmon.bsky.social New Castle Town Councilman. (D)
EricMarmon.com
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471