Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law
Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social Milwaukeean by birth, Kiwi by choice, progressive always. Believer in the power of the editorial cartoon. I used to chef. Now I hang out with my wife, play punk rock guitar, umpire New Zealand baseball, and play with my deaf dog.
Michael Dannenberg @mdannenberg1.bsky.social Deputy Commissioner for Policy, MA Dept of Higher Ed; former aide Sec. Arne Duncan (Obama Admin), Sen. Kennedy (D-MA), & Sen. Pell (D-RI). Posts my own.
Anne-Marie Slaughter @slaughteram.bsky.social Patriot. Entrepreneur. Mother. Mentor. Thinker. Writer. Feminist. CEO
@newamerica. Former @Harvard_Law Prof, @Princeton @SPIA
Dean, Director of Policy Planning, @StateDept
@elenasilva.bsky.social @elenasilva.bsky.social 
Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social Science, Workforce, & AI Policy + Implementation. Founding Director Future of Work & Innovation Economy @New America Writer @Forbes. Visiting Scholar @ASU. Occasional musician.
#SciPol #EduSky #STS #EconSky
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Tia Caldwell @tiacaldwell.bsky.social Work on #highered policy at New America | opinions are my own
Lisa Guernsey @lisaguernsey.bsky.social Senior director, Ed Policy; co-founder of the Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX) @NewAmerica; writing on literacy, media, tech, libraries, schools, equity, kids and families. Live in Alexandria VA, mom of two. Fan of soccer, kayaking, getting outside
Steve Burd @stephenburd.bsky.social Senior Writer and Editor in New America's Education Policy Program. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Education & Work @educationwork.newamerica.org Every child in every community deserves access to the education and workforce training needed to achieve a future without limits.
In this program at New America, we develop the ideas and communicate the policy changes needed to make it possible.
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social Senior Advisor @courtacctability.bsky.social. Democracy advocate. Former political-legal journalist. Retired competitive air guitarist. Former Congressional Candidate. Second-Best dad ever.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social 
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social Co-Author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (Oct. 2026)
Author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling
Co-Editor of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 1 & 2
Bio/Foster/Adoptive Parent
Boycott "a.i."
Opinions my own (not my employer's)
Ruth Marcus @ruthmarcus.bsky.social Washington Post columnist, mom of two grown women and one adorable Bernedoodle stuck in mischievous adolescence. Knitting, cooking, hiking, Wyoming.
Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social Reporter at Mother Jones. Previously
@washingtonian and freelancing from Mexico City. Now New York.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com Professor of Empirical Economics & Data Science at TU Munich | Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC) | Co-founder of causalscience.org
http://www.p-hunermund.com
Sean Hurd @seanahurd.bsky.social women's basketball writer for ESPN's Andscape
📝 https://andscape.com/contributors/sean-hurd/
Email: sean.a.hurd@espn.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
Neera Tanden @neeratanden.bsky.social Policy wonk, public servant, liberal, Indian American, mom, wife. Not in that order.
Feel lucky to serve Pres Biden and VP Harris.
kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering corruption, government, and public accountability. Reach me at kali.bomeli.reporting@gmail.com
Zanny Minton Beddoes @zannymb.economist.com Editor-in-chief at The Economist
Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social Matthew Russell Lee for/as Inner City Press covers SDNY, UN Gate, banks & IMF. books http://tinyurl.com/bdhp2j5u http://patreon.com/MatthewRussellLee
Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social 
Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Leah Douglas @leahjdouglas.bsky.social Reuters journalist covering food/ag policy, fed agencies, more.
email: leah.douglas@tr.com
signal: leahjdouglas.01
they/them
https://reuters.com/authors/leah-douglas | www.leahjdouglas.com
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
Laura Packard @laurapackard.com Health policy and health justice advocate, cancer survivor & founder @healthcarevoices.org @voicesofhealthcare.org, progressive small biz owner PowerThru, host weekly streaming health care call-in show & podcast #CareTalk, she/her
Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social Journalist. Bylines: Sports Illustrated. Citations: New York Times, NBC News | No. 1 ESG Influencer on Twitter (Commetric 2020) | Retired exec recruiter | Author, The Tao of Pug series (Penguin, Skyhorse)
Svante Myrick @svantemyrick.bsky.social President and CEO of People For the American Way.
Youngest Mayor in New York History.
Longest serving Mayor in Ithaca's History.
But somehow, posts mostly about sports. 
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com We provide free news and commentary on critical issues facing the state. We seek to serve the public interest with accuracy, fairness, insight and civility.
Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social Polls, Data, Shitposts, Opinions, Personal Account // Email or DM About Promotions // Support Me: http://ko-fi.com/polling 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
NonDoc @nondocmedia.bsky.social NonDoc’s mission is to produce and distribute quality #journalism with context. (Reposts and likes are not endorsements.) | Donate: http://nondoc.com/writers-fund/
jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social engineer at anthropic
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social I teach religion & ethics @ UVa
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social Historian. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC, 2023); Dollars for Dixie (Cambridge, 2017). In progress books: educational radio on the ground and a history of alternative music in 10 bands.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Caitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social Econ prof @Middlebury. Applied micro, causal inference, health, public, labor, fertility, economics of abortion. Widow. Wife. Mom of 4.
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com Writer, cathyreisenwitz.substack.com
Center-leftish takes on gender and politics
OF creator: /cathyreisenwitz, spicy art
Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Alex Freidus @alexfreidus.bsky.social schools, race, & inequality | author of "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" | momming & cooking & running & reading romance & mystery | she/her | personal account
www.alexandrafreidus.com
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social Founder of The Difference Engine. Researcher, strategist, truth-teller. Host of Cross Tabs. Asking better questions since forever. Also: https://mastodon.social/@Bosticf
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
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
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org Connecting you with America’s top scholars to improve policy and strengthen democracy. Scholars' views are their own. Learn more at https://scholars.org/. 
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D.M.Trott [Author: The Drug Users Bible] @dmtrott.bsky.social This is the official BlueSky account of DM Trott, the author of The Drug Users Bible. Ignorance kills education saves lives.
Information: www.DrugUsersBible.com
Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social Policy/writer. @thenation @TheProspect @slate @DissentMag @monthly @nydailynews @theweek
Teach crim justice/sociology CUNY and other places
Writing at https://nathannewman.substack.com/
Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz Tech policy and government affairs guy. Ex-Block, Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles / Iowa City
Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com Political Science Professor at Marquette University. I write about constitutional history. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com
Website: https://patsobkowski.com/
SSRN: https://tinyurl.com/3za4hf8f
Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social Political scientist @ Notre Dame. Gender, parties, suffrage, role models. New: See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People. https://bookshop.org/p/books/see-jane-run-how-women-politicians-matter-for-young-people-david-e-campbell/21729443
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea junkie
Maureenogle.com
Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social Advocate, mom, cofounder of Lift Our Voices, cofounder of @themaydaynetwork.com, author of Saltypolitics.substack.com- D David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/people/david-wessel/
Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her
Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com Executive Director @ votersoftomorrow.org | Immigrant 🇲🇽 | Views my own
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit. #3A
Jess Marsden @jessmarsden.bsky.social Director of Impact Programs & Counsel @protectdemocracy.org. Opinions my own.
Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
andreaformaine.com
PFP: Andrea wearing an orange and blue plaid shirt and smiling
Header: “Together we lead” + chickadee logo
Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer)
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
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
Donald Rigby @donaldrigby.bsky.social Portland, Oregon
Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com journalist, author, internet participant
writing and reporting on space, AI, and public policy, at TechCrunch and elsewhere
I always want to hear your tips and ideas on signal: tim_fernholz.21
timfernholz.substack.com | www.timfernholz.com
Oakland, CA
Marc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social I'm here for a long time, not a good time
The Partnership @ourpublicservice.bsky.social Building a better government and a stronger democracy.
https://ourpublicservice.org/
Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com Founder, @euphonos.studio. Stop doomscrolling with @sill.social. Watch good NBA games with heatcheck.site. Used to work for a bunch of news orgs.
Lapsed Philadelphian in 🇳🇱.
Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
https://robertkelchen.com/
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, amzn.to/45LFzNg, PRACTICAL EQUALITY, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS, ELOQUENCE & REASON | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY | Prof @ BostonU | constitutionalism, legal history | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai
Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own. 
Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social Senator: VA-30 (Elected ‘23)
Former Delegate: VA-13 (Elected ‘17, ‘19, ‘21)
Chair: Virginia Commission to End Hunger
Author: "Burn the Page"
Class of '06: St. Bonaventure University
Manassas Park | Manassas | Western PWC
#Virginia #valeg 🇺🇸 🏳️⚧️🤘🫏
Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social Sociologist. 
Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com A Harrisburg-based nonpartisan, nonprofit news site dedicated to fact-based, nuanced, fair, and transparent coverage focusing on how policies implemented in Harrisburg and Washington D.C. impact you and your community.
info@penncapital-star.com
Josh Stein @joshsteinnc.bsky.social North Carolina’s #1 fan. Caniac and Tar Heel🏀. Dad, husband, and dog-dad. Governor. Taco/BBQ account.
Text JOSH to 40503 to join our team!
https://linktr.ee/JoshSteinNC
Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social #Notacourt but yes a law prof
Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/rebecca-ingber