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.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social Co-founder & Executive Director, Court Accountability. Contributor, MeidasTouch Legal AF.
Former U.S. Senate/Justice Department. Views my own.
https://courtaccountability.substack.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/courtacctability.bsky.social
NERV IRB Coordinator @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Verasight @verasight.io Highest-quality survey data: multi-mode recruitment / ABS, respondent verification, & focus on respondent experience.
#1 ranked Survey Panel on Trustpilot
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Je Hoon Chae @jhchae.bsky.social PhD Student @UCLA
Website: https://jehoonchae.github.io (visit freely; no visitor tracking)
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Dhavan Shah @dvshah.bsky.social Dhavan is Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research, Maier-Bascom Chair, and Director of the Mass Communication Research Center at the UW-Madison.
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater. - S Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social COYG
*Not really active on here anymore.*
- C Chris Wlezien @cbwlezien.bsky.social Student of politics, first gen, Chicagoan, Austinite, Longhorn...
Nick Valentino @nickvalentino.bsky.social Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
Jesper Stromback @jesperstromback.bsky.social Professor in journalism and political communication at the U of Gothenburg. Believer in liberal democracy, universal human rights, and evidence-based decision making. Other interests: fishing, music, craft beer and single malts.
www.jesperstromback.org
Seonhye Noh @shnoh.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in Communication @ UCLA
Political communication | Digital news engagement | Algorithmic media environments | Digital trace data, LLMs & network analysis
www.seonhyenoh.com
Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social Assistant professor at https://si.umich.edu/ working in computational social science, machine learning, and NLP | https://dallascard.github.io
Jill Laufer @jilllaufer.bsky.social Upcoming: Postdoc @ Stanford GSE
Current: Public Policy Prof UCCS
Youth Politics | Ed. Policy & Politics
Media & Framing | AI & Tech | Art & Space
UC Davis PhD
BKLYN in OAK 🖖 | https://ps.ucdavis.edu/people/jill-laufer
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Theo Araujo @theoaraujo.bsky.social Professor of Media, Organizations, and Society
@ University of Amsterdam | Scientific Director of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Carlisle Rainey 👨💻📊📚 @carlislerainey.bsky.social political scientist at FSU; experimental design, inference (frequentist and Bayesian), metascience
Web: https://www.carlislerainey.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=otXLf3
Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social Author of John Dies at the End, formerly David Wong of Cracked.com fame 
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net 
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social data & politics @washingtonpost.com
texan in dc 🕯️
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Kathleen Searles @kesearles.bsky.social usually thinking about news, politics, technology, and other things i don’t want to talk to you about on an airplane. 
Stuart Soroka @snsoroka.bsky.social Professor, Departments of Communication and Political Science, UCLA. snsoroka.com
Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org Advancing ideas that rebalance power in our economy and democracy. www.rooseveltinstitute.org
Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning editor and data journalist. Now: Data Editor at @statnews.bsky.social
✉️ emory.parker@statnews.com 📸 jemoryparker 🐘 @jaspar@mastodon.online | Signal: jaspar.01
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins, author of Uncivil Agreement and co-author of Radical American Partisanship
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸 🌩️👀 rJgnW3igNgz7
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Mike Sarasti @sarasti.bsky.social Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government.
Half of RAKER - @rakermusic.bsky.social
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social The hub of the Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain
Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social Editor-at-Large, Esquire. Here’s a funky introduction of how nice I am. 
Michael Bellavia @mrbellavia.bsky.social Dad, CEO of helpgood.com, all-in on Elphaba.
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
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
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:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/utcountydems
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
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
Desi Lydic @desilydic.bsky.social NYC 🍎 The Daily Show Hostess
Eric Moneypenny @ericmoneypenny.bsky.social I write scripts and stuff. Wrote for FOXADHD, AOK, Eric Andre Show, other TV things, The Midnight Show forever, repped at Brillstein. I do BITHOLE at Pack Theater and sometimes Pilot Dump on Twitch.
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social NASA/GSFC scientist running a global ozone network who was also wrongfully stripped of my 2025 JD Power Virtual Storm Chaser Championship
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Erin C. @erincikanek.bsky.social Political Scientist. Rhymes with mechanic. Emotions, media, measurement, food, coffee, rowing, and dogs.
She/her
Personal account
Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com Assistant Professor @GWU | Formerly: PostDoc @Stanford Polarization Research Lab | PoliSci PhD @UCLA | Local Politics/Representation | #rstats | Trail Runner | PNW Expat | #YNWA | #SeaUsRise
www.derekholliday.com
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Kevin Coe @kcoe.bsky.social Professor of Communication | Political communication, media, identity, democracy | Book: "The Ubiquitous Presidency" | Product of public schools
Ryan Baxter-King @ryanbk.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno | PhD from UCLA and former predoc with CSDI at Vanderbilt | Previously worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center the AIDS Institute (New York Stare Department of Health)
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Erin Whitehead @girlwithatail.bsky.social This *is* my backup plan; I wanted to be a horse.
•Co-host of College Town podcast with Seth Morris on CBB World
•Writer, actor, pod(cast) person
•Hire me to write, act, host my own morning show
Ian Vandewalker @ianvan.bsky.social Policy advocacy and research on money in politics and disinformation. Senior Counsel & Manager, Brennan Center.
Michael Waldman @mawaldman.bsky.social President & CEO, @BrennanCenter. Author, The Supermajority, The Fight to Vote, etc. etc. Ex-speechwriter. 
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
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. 
Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social Official account of the @APSAtweets & @icahdq #PolComm Divisions | posts by @igoncalves.com | https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalcommunication.org | @polcomm@mastodon.social | https://politicalcommunication.org/
Michael Tesler @tesler.bsky.social Professor of Political Science | UC-Irvine
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
Greg Worswick @worswick.bsky.social Writer/actor/illustrator
IG: gregworswick
Mitch Silpa @mitchsilpa.bsky.social Actor/Writer/Sheer delight
Ricky Schroeder/Ricky Asch @rickyaschroeder.bsky.social 2 time TONY awards attendee. Clarence 📣 in Boop! On Broadway!! Search Ricky Asch for music. Stream Come With Me 🪩🌈🎶
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.