John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usually for @CambridgeDay.
MIT; public recs; data; legal news
Lately: immigration.
jhawk@alum.mit.edu
617.797.0250
Whitley Strieber @whitleystrieber.bsky.social Author of Communion and a number of other books...
Gayle Ramage @mealygarage.bsky.social Scottish writer of darkly comic speculative fiction. Music obsessive. Fan of The Beatles, XTC, Squeeze, Inside No.9, and Discworld.
JOCKULA (New Book Out Now!) https://books2read.com/jockula or https://ko-fi.com/s/02d085b943
New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of New York Attorney General Letitia James' Office
Tony Robinson @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social Actor. Writer. TV Presenter
https://linktr.ee/TheHouseOfWolf
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.
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Fay Roberts @fayroberts.bsky.social Queer, disabled, Welsh(ish), progressive performance poet/ musician/ data (and project) manager/ event host/ musician/ award-winning voice actor. Lover of spreadsheets and creative writing. ze/zir or they/them/their https://linktr.ee/fayroberts
Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc.
https://linktr.ee/cari.luna
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social Home of Truth
Free newsletter subscription: BorowitzReport.com
Simon Bond @bondytech.uk Ealing. Computer stuff. #RetroComputing to #EndUserComputing and #Cloud. #BBCMicro #RetroGames #ASM #Powershell #Azure #Intune #SCCM #ConfigMgr.
Also... #Poker, #Techno, #BrentfordFC. #BMX. #TheCure. Usually follow back.
Web: https://bondytech.uk
Snuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social 6502 retro coder (some BBC Micro, mostly Acorn Electron !), amateur musician and model maker. In need of even more holidays !
NO AI !
http://github.com/Snuggsy187
https://ko-fi.com/snuggsy187
Tom Gidden @gid.cx Geek. Generalist / multi-discipline coder. Edits @dingbats.net
https://gidden.net
Cambridge, UK
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.
Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social Girl dad. Hip-Hop lover. Fmr Capitol Police Officer. Making good trouble.
https://www.standingourground.us/
Anna Megill @annamegill.com Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social 🧊✈️ I forecast & track ICE Air flights
👉 Check out Habeas Flight Watch:
https://lexingtonalarm.org/hfw-dashboard/index.php
More projects coming soon!
Contact ⤵️
📱Signal: feddrop.43
✉️ feddrop.43@proton.me
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
R. Talsorian Games @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social Creators of Cyberpunk 2020/RED, The Witcher TRPG, Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, and Teenagers from Outer Space!
https://www.talsorianstore.com
David Buchanan @retr0.id reverse engineering, cryptography, exploits, hardware, file formats, and generally giving computers a hard time
Fedi: @retr0id@retr0.id
Macroblog: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/
The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social Official account of the C Programming Language, invented by Immanuel Kant in 1799 at Bell Labs Königsberg
Wesley Yin-Poole @wyp.bsky.social Husband, father, IGN UK News Editor. wesley_yinpoole@ign.com for tips, DM for Signal
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy. Frazzled mom. Owner of 2 🐕🦺
The Hidden Room @hiddenroomtheatre.bsky.social Theatrical Curiosity Shop in Austin, Texas. We make time machines.
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Rachel the Research Midwife @racheln76.bsky.social Research Midwife and SEND Mum. Working in cancer research at the moment.
I like cats, crochet, cross stitch, and knitting.
I battle daily with the education system for our SEN kids. 
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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.
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social CBS News senior White House reporter. Reporting what I know, not what I think. @Bloomberg and @DMRegister alum. Email me: jennifer.jacobs@cbsnews.com 💕Iowa
Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social
Investigative reporter
@TPM.bsky.social
Get in touch at joshk@talkingpointsmemo.com or via Signal JoshKovensky.04
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.
Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social Not an MP.
I’m going on tour: https://www.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-holt
Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social Contributing writer, TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarahposner
Host, Reign of Error podcast: https://www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-error
Author, Unholy
More: https://www.sarahposner.com
Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social Former United States Court of Appeals Judge (1991-2006)
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social 📚 Author
👻 Ghostwriter
Find me at
📺 youtube.com/@JohnGVibes
🔖 johnvibes.substack.com (no paywalls)
📖 raveoutlaw.com
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
@happyf1sh.bsky.social @happyf1sh.bsky.social Slightly left of centre.
Alex Pelling @alexpelling.bsky.social English Literature Student @ University of York
Used to be a fan of dystopias, now I'm not so sure :/
davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com Lawyer, and occasional writer about the law and related matters. Nothing I say here is legal advice.
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Björkus "No time_t to Die" Dorkus @thephd.dev 💀 The C Standard Cannot Be Replaced And Will Never Be Destroyed. 💀
✍ Writing: http://thephd.dev
📷 Avatar KIINGKISMET (https://kiingkiismet.com/)
🖼 Banner WusdisWusdat (https://wusdiswusdat.crd.co/)
Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social Public Historian, NYT Bestselling Author
A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (2026)
Media requests: anne@miracleworkerpr.com
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social Wife, Mom, UMich Law School Professor from Practice, MSNOW legal analyst, The Contrarian contributor, former U.S. Attorney, EDMI
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
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.
Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social President, Kyiv School of Economics; Minister of economy, Ukraine, 2019-2020; Associate professor, University of Pittsburgh
Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of Kate Mulgrew, actress and author.
DARPA @darpa.mil Creating breakthrough technologies for national security.
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social Chief Economist, KPMG, opinions my own
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/
James Munns @jamesmunns.com Notable Protocol Enjoyer.
Doing stuff, mostly in Rust and on Embedded systems.
Co-host @sdr-podcast.com
DMs (matrix): @jamesmunns:beeper.com
DMs (signal): jamesmunns.255
he/him
Kein Ort für Nazis
George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social Journalist for The Guardian (and occasionally Rolling Stone) in Atlanta, covering politics and the odd Young Thug tidbit. Massive D&D nerd. Veteran. #AddToBlackSky Signal: George_Chidi.80
Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com My new book Liar’s Kingdom can be ordered here: https://linktr.ee/LiarsKingdomBook; NYU Law; MSNOW legal analyst & podcast cohost "Main Justice »;
Substack "Behind The Headlines" https://weissmann.substack.com
Offering legal analysis & opinion
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures.
https://www.markhertling.com
Rob Stone @rasto1968.bsky.social Programing computers since the early 80s!
Surrey, UK
Day job - all things web, especially web components
Fun job - retro 8 bit development for the Acorn Electron
My games
https://github.com/rasto68/apache-canyon
Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social Actor, collectible, Planetary Society Board Member and AI since the 90s .
Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.
Mark Pitt @markpitt.bsky.social #Cornwall based BI, Cloud and ARM firmware developer.
Designer of PITT CC FLWR MIDI controller/sequencer.
Noisy musician.
Collector of #vinyl records and occasional #DJ.
Retro computer collector and restorer.
Stanley’s dad!
He/Him
#UTV
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
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
@loudjessica.bsky.social @loudjessica.bsky.social Former newspaper reporter, Democratic strategist
Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr.bsky.social President
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Adrian Brightmoore / The World Foundry @theworldfoundry.com #Gamedev
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social Actor & Comedian | he/him | http://patreon.com/wsebag