Emily Phelps @epindc.bsky.social Freelance progressive communicator. Prev: National Press Secretary, Indivisible. Hill alum and fangirl of movements and journalism. Tá cúpla focal agam
Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at The Washington Sun. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
tips - signal at nalms.41 and nataliealms@notus.com
Josh Goodman @josh-s-goodman.bsky.social State fiscal policy researcher with the Pew Charitable Trusts. Sharing state government news that I find interesting and you might too!
David Thacher @dtha15.bsky.social Professor studying police history, police reform, policy responses to serious mental illness, ethics. Richard Olney & John Dewey stan. Dad to a danseur and a goalie; married to a historic preservationist
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dthacher/index.html
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social stop your cryin' it's alright
texas culture reporter for @chron.com
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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)
The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com Data, charts, analysis and games from The New York Times: nytimes.com/upshot
Jessica Clarke @jessicaclarke.bsky.social Chaired Professor at USC Gould School of Law
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Drafts: www.ssrn.com/author=1325345
Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social Biz investigations reporter @nytimes.com. Growing up, I wanted to be Harriet the Spy. Send tips and story ideas.
Signal: 347-843-9767, Jessica.silvergreenberg@nytimes.com
Barbara Samuels @bsamuels72.bsky.social Unleashed, not retired. Fair Housing & Affordable Housing attorney. Orioles, Ravens true believer. WV mountains, Cape waters, but Baltimore is still home. Repost is not endorsement etc
sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social Dad, veteran, author, "The Paradox of Democracy," host of Vox’s The Gray Area https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gray-area-with-sean-illing/id1081584611
Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com Personal account, historian of education policy
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Mitch Ryals @mitchryals.bsky.social Editor of the Banner in Prince George’s County. Former managing editor of Washington City Paper.
Patrick Wall @patrick-wall.bsky.social Education editor & reporter at @nolanews @theadvocatebr | 🏳️🌈 | Formerly @Chalkbeat | DMs open | Email: patrick.wall at theadvocate.com
Brandon Tensley @brandontensley.bsky.social Now: National Politics Reporter, Capital B, a Black-focused nonprofit newsroom. Before: National Political Writer, CNN. Writing a book about Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight for 33 1/3.
Email: brandon.tensley@capitalbnews.org | Signal: btensley.53
Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social Editor/journalist most recently at @vox.com. Edited politics and sports at @slate.com for a long time. Friend of @flaminghydra.com. @seth.maxon on 🐦/🥚.
Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social Covering politics, policy and power in health care for POLITICO New York
Tips: mkaufman@politico.com or mayakaufman.11 on Signal
Sarah Holder @sarahholder.bsky.social co-hosting the big take podcast + reporting for
@citylab / @business on urban policy. write me sholder6@bloomberg.net
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish. typeos.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
John Schmitt @jschmittwdc.bsky.social Economist, Washington DC
Labor, social policy
Formerly: @epi.org, @ceprdc.bsky.social, @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, @cep-lse.bsky.social, UN Peacekeeping
(Very old picture.)
Anney Bolgiano @mrratburn.bsky.social It's Anney, from twitter. Writer and professor. Buy Flat-Pack: https://thediagram.com/merch/product/ryan-mihaly-b-flat-clarinet-fingering-chart/
Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social writing THE END OF THE WEST for Random House / enterprise editor @sfstandard.com / Signal: susiecagle.24
Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen
lindsey @lindseywoho.bsky.social Come at me with compassion bro
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
autonomynews.co
Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social Class Politics reporter at The New Republic. Tips on Signal at monicabpotts.57. Past: 538, The American Prospect. BUY: The Forgotten Girls monicapotts.com
Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social Historian of social insurance and feminism. VP Think Tank @rooseveltinstitute.org & Roosevelt Forward. Previously @32bjseiu.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social History Dept
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Nicole Flatow @nicflatow.bsky.social Managing Editor at Bloomberg CityLab.
Stories and justice for all.
Views are my own.
Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social National reproductive rights reporter at Stateline, based in Idaho.
Email me at kmoseley@stateline.org
Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social Architect, housing advocate, and Emergent Ventures grant recipient
Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social Senior reporter @HuffPost covering gender + politics, focused on repro justice & gender-based violence.
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https://www.huffpost.com/author/alanna-vagianos
Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social Executive Vice President for Health Policy, KFF. Cal Bear.
https://www.kff.org/person/larry-levitt/
Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social Living + gardening just west of Chicago. PhD sociologist doing research + transformation in a large suburban public school district. 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨🏫
andrew van dam @andrewvandam.bsky.social Data columnist at Washington Sun! formerly the Department of Data at the Washington Post and other things
Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111 • https://www.corememory.com/p/kylie-robison
Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social Senior correspondent @sherwood.news. Tech and charts. https://sherwood.news/author/rani-molla/
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Bob Greenstein @bobgreensteindc.bsky.social Visiting Fellow, @brookings.edu & @hamiltonproject.org; founder and president @centeronbudget.bsky.social 1981-2020
dass @notaliveirl.bsky.social The day will come when I reduce myself to diagrams, I’ll become a perforated tape and you won’t find me anymore.
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Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social Appalachian expat in Philly doing what I can to stop school inequality. Ed leadership/policy assistant prof studying tracking and detracking. Blue skies are mine.
Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Law School. Also developer of @CaseViewerApp.bsky.social
https://faculty.law.harvard.edu/eidelson
My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (6) and Boogie (4). Wife guy.
He/him
It is ok to want special and delicious things
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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social My job is to scroll through this spreadsheet and look for numbers that are scary?
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Sigal Samuel @sigalsamuel.bsky.social I write about the future of consciousness for Vox
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Author of the children's book OSNAT AND HER DOVE and the novel THE MYSTICS OF MILE END
Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social Reporter. I write about energy, climate, and geopolitics. I'm especially into nuclear power, minerals, geothermal, the grid, and Puerto Rico. Contact: www.alexanderckaufman.com | kaufman.nyc | Signal: Kaufman.11
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social climate adaptive social housing developer
architect for car-light climate forward cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
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.”
Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
Elisha Brown @elishabrown.bsky.social Staff writer + newsletter author @stateline.org, part of @statesnewsroom.com.
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Sara Rankin @profsararankin.bsky.social Law professor, social justice warrior, homeless rights and housing advocate, rescue dog fanatic. Posts mine, not my employer’s, but my work matters to me: t.co/1cWHLWyao2 and http://ssrn.com/author=1572922
David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy | George Mason University | Public Education and American Democracy
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social
Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social National Correspondent, The 74 Million. I think a lot about great journalism, better schools, disrupting inequity, neurodiversity and all things LGBTQ. Tacos & craft cider.
Half my heart moved to Wisconsin, so also secret shopping creameries.
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
Signal: jeaton.04
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
Claas Ehlers @claasehlers.bsky.social 20+ years in nonprofit organizational development. Pronounced like saying "class" with a British accent. Skeets IMO. he/him
Salim Furth @salimfurth.bsky.social Mostly on LinkedIn. Housing nerd. Personal views only. It's a free country.
Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham @roshanabraham.bsky.social journalist covering land and housing | bylines at WIRED, New York Times, Baffler, etc I Contributing Editor Next City | member @fspnwu.bsky.social
RoshanAbraham.beehiiv.com
https://ko-fi.com/roshanabraham
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RoshanAbraham.net
Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social senior editor at Guardian US
Lisa Halverstadt @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social @voiceofsandiego.org senior investigative reporter digging into San Diego County government & our homelessness, housing & behavioral health crises. 📧Lisa@vosd.org
Patrick Sisson @patrickcsisson.bsky.social Writer. Trends, tech, economics & policy shaping cities. Bylines: New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, MIT Tech Review, Bisnow, Fast Company. patsisson at gmail dot com.
Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social ProPublica AME.
Working: “Make Them Pay: The 250-year Fight to Tax the Rich”: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Make-Them-Pay/Jesse-Eisinger/9781668072202
@sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Pulitzer-winner. Green Bay Packers.
Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social Writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box & Ringer Tailgate | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988 | Dez & Lani’s dad.
Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social OG Liberal Blogger (BooMan): worked for ACORN, Democracy for America and Washington Monthly. Founded Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Was once internet famous in India. Podcasting the Progress Pondcast. https://martinlongman.substack.com
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Kevin Werner @kevinwerner.bsky.social Crystal Palace and St Louis Cardinals fan; Arlington, VA resident
Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social Washington Post tech journalist writing a lot about Elon Musk, Twitter, Tesla. My book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk (St. Martin’s) is in stores NOW! How to buy: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/hubris-maximus-9781250327178/
Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
Bee @bitsybee17.bsky.social
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Alex Jacquez @alexsjacquez.bsky.social chief of policy & advocacy @groundwork. before: @whitehouse46, @berniesanders, @senatedems, @obamawhitehouse. washed up @lehighbaseball.
izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social freelance reporter, editor, designer // formerly deputy editor @ vox’s future perfect // i write about consumerism, food, sports, pop culture, science, AI, and design // whatever!!! // reach me: izziermrz@gmail.com
Mark Weber @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social Education policy analyst, teacher, musician. Lecturer, Rutgers University Grad School of Education. @njpolicy.bsky.social @shankerinst.bsky.social NEPC Fellow. Jazz pianist and composer. Music educator.
Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social Assistant professor of education leadership and policy at University of Michigan-Flint @umflintcase.bsky.social. Views are my own. Please excuse typos.
Ella Nilsen @ellanilsen.bsky.social VP, Echo Communications Advisors. Former CNN senior climate/energy reporter. Granite stater, forever missing the mountains.
Email me: ella@echocomms.com
Umair Irfan @umairfan.bsky.social Reporter. Created an account here just to stake mine. I don't expect to post here much even as the other site withers, but feel free to DM me.
Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social ProPublica reporter
Get in touch: jesse.coburn@propublica.org + https://signal.me/#eu/xwbuF7II5GLbAxTDMR4tpqByg3GA7Q5Bp1jGBKV-xaSoy4OtSmZP_4dIYV9pjwC8
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social Senior Supreme Court Reporter, NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/author/lawrence-hurley-ncpn1298564
Signal: @lawrencehurley.25
Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social Immigration and labor reporter @bloomberglaw.com. Covering the legal and policy landscape affecting immigrant workers in the US.
Member of @wbng.org
Email: akreighbaum@bloombergindustry.com
Signal: kreighbaum.85
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Emmanuel Felton @efelton.bsky.social New Orleans native now living in New York and working as the race and ethnicity reporter at @washingtonpost.com, I’m also writing The Search for Black Mecca for Harper Collins. Proud alum of BuzzFeed News and @hechingerreport.org
Jake Rosenfeld @jakerosenfeld.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Washington University-St. Louis
Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Adrian Carrasquillo @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social Author, Huddled Masses for The Bulwark. The guy who told you Latino voters mattered before it was cool. ✍🏽 in Vanity Fair, POLITICO Mag, Rolling Stone, The Guardian
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Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
@lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social Sociologist @ UMN. I study public media, race, voice, and orgs.
Order “Listeners Like Who?” here: https://press.Princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257426/listeners-like-who with discount code P327
Liam Kerr @liamkerr.bsky.social Co-founder of WelcomePAC, strengthening the center-left by putting Democrats on offense in winnable center-right districts
Former: beat the IOC as co-founder of No Boston Olympics, served through AmeriCorps