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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.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social I share about walking, biking, great cities, & progressive politics.
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Policy Wonk, Gardener, Seattleite and Native Texan
Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social I make things, including bike rides, state housing laws, bread, and trouble. Quality varies with rainfall, political winds, and tire pressure. Run comms at @cayimby for the love of cities.
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Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
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Evan Sexton @esexto.bsky.social Graduate student at @brownuniversity, occasional writer. Made in the Pacific Northwest.
Cliff Cawthon @cliffcawthon89.bsky.social Politico. Teacher. Activist. Film & Comic Book nerd, and just trying to be a good husband, friend, person and public servant. I'll write and publish things, on occasion. All views expressed here are my own- unless noted otherwise.
Asher @asher755.bsky.social housing + trains + bikes + planes + cities + politics… alert citizen
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G Cordova @gncordova.bsky.social Award-winning writer. I spend most of my time trying to secure funding for grassroots community programs.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social Seattle urbanista, interested in education, safe streets, and housing. Grew up in Baltimore. Hampshire College grad. GIS graduate student and bike mom. Former wetland biologist. I follow Seattle School Board meetings and yell at cars.
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Eric Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social Future former idiot
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If it seems like I’m trying to argue, I said it wrong
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Just Sarah @sarahchadd.bsky.social As of Fall 2026: Horticulture student! She/her. Seattle environmentally-conscious urbanist (not a Treeactionary, though trees are cool!). Enemy of NIMBYs 💅
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
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F. Baum @fbaum.bsky.social Clawing back a safe, green life on this planet.
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Alex Hudson @blacksandpaper.bsky.social 
Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social American. Journalist. New York Times Opinion writer and MS Now political analyst.
Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary; board member TransitMatters; MIT DUSP & Mobility Initiative. I write, teach & advocate for a sustainable & justice based transportation system.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
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
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Lex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com Founder & Editor of @theneedling.com, Seattle's Only Real Fake News. Pulitzer Prize-winning real real news reporter.
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline. Hot takes are my own.
Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social politologue // yinzer // co-editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism // author of "Counting Like a State" https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638758/counting-like-a-state/
Most posts are first drafts, comments welcome.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social Architect, planner, and Executive Director of Environmental Works Community Design Center in Seattle. Adjunct faculty at UW. Also: cheese, parrots, travel, music, housing, transit, maps, books, dogs, politics.
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Kevin Nichols @kevinnichols.org Issaquah City Councilmember. PhD scientist and data nerd who e-bikes to meetings to try and build a more affordable future. Previously: COVID tests, global health, bubble physics. Personal account.
Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social You may remember me from Twitter. Still talking about UX stuff. Funemployed. @khuh.bsky.social Mondays @ noon Pacific. Defend trans kids.
Chris Reykdal @chrisreykdal.bsky.social State Superintendent, Washington State. Public education and public educators are the foundation of our democracy, and they are worth our investment and total defense!
Chris Daniels @chrisdaniels.bsky.social Sr. Reporter KOMO News
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Jams @jams.bsky.social Former Bungie and teamLFG Studio Counsel @ SIE Studio Business Group, Patent Attorney, Litigation Strategist, actual AI Attorney, Warlock, GM, Proud Advocate for Millenial Judicial Challengers, in awe of PD's a.k.a. Real Lawyers. D2 as JAMS#8441
Kirk Hovenkotter @kirkhovenkotter.com Director of Transportation Choices Coalition | Not short for Kirkleton
Alex Garland @alexgarland.bsky.social Photographer, journalist, writer, artist. Lover of couches, burritos, human rights, and nice views. If you've got a story that needs telling or photos that need creating, send me a message.
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Marc Auerbach @pugetopia.bsky.social Pizza lover. Union guy. Brooklyn kid living in Seattle. Crabby AF. Bella, ciao!
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
Claudia Balducci @kccclaudia.bsky.social King County Councilmember, Sound Transit Board vice chair, Puget Sound Region past president, bus rider, bike rider, wife, and mom. Official account. She/her. https://linktr.ee/KccClaudia
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social Seattle, WA
Software engineer, safe streets advocate, and occasional Seattle Transit Blog contributor
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
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Futurewise @futurewise.bsky.social We work across Washington to create livable communities, ensure clean healthy waterways, and protect farms, forests & habitat for this & future generations.
Scott Berkley @scott-berkley.bsky.social Tech 4 Housing organizer. Trying to make Seattle a livable and welcoming place for all.
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Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
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Harper @harlander.bsky.social I read transit budget documents for fun
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Noah Riffe @ijusttake.photos “[the] most factually correct soccer commentator.”
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy alon@pedestrianobservations.com @alon@mastodon.social
A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social Author, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
low vision (#nystagmus), bus lover, bike rider
annazivarts.com
#WeekWithoutDriving weekwithoutdriving.org
Nondrivers Alliance nondrivers.org (c3)
Nondriver Action ndaction.org (c4)
driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social The internet's grim conscience. OG blogger. Blue Blaze Irregular. Coiner of the phrase #DumpsterFire. Also podcast w/ Blue Gal -- @ProLeftPodcast -- https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/
I AM the motherf*cking shore patrol!