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.
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social Fellow | Economic Studies | @brookings.edu
Associate Director | @hamiltonproject.org
Board | @mazonusa.bsky.social
www.hamiltonproject.org
Working to end hunger in America
laurenhlb.01
LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social Environmental lawyer, middleaged and tired
Luke Farrell @lukef.bsky.social Building for working people in @NYC | Solved crises @WhiteHouse @USDS 🚀 writing about it occasionally itslukefarrell.substack.com
Dave Shapiro @daveshaps.bsky.social At the intersection of product management, parenting, over eating and cosmic horror.
Acting President, Ivo Shandor fan club.
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Mark Hopson aka the Procuremancer @procuremancer.bsky.social I am an enchanter of enterprises, to some the sorcerer of strategic sourcing, for industry the baba yaga of buying, in technical meetings I am can be a warlock of work breakdown structures, I am the Acquisition Alchemist. There are some who call me...Tim?
Tim Chinenov 🇺🇸🪧 @timchinenov.bsky.social Engineer and Policy Advisor. Previously FTC under Chair Khan. Also interested in history and urban planning.
Substack: https://timyc.substack.com
Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social Tirelessly. In anonymity. Against all odds.
For the people.
All opinions my own and do not reflect the opinions of @cpsc.gov. Personal account for talking about animation, pop culture, injury prevention, and public health.
Robert Gordon @robertgo.bsky.social Distinguished Visiting Fellow, McCourt School, Georgetown U. Former White House Domestic Policy Council, HHS, OMB, Michigan DHHS, etc. Government should work for everybody. 
@drmeelee.bsky.social @drmeelee.bsky.social 
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Becky Sweger @bendystraw.bsky.social Principal skeeball shit talker, data engineer, current research fellow @ UMass biostatistics. Formerly Trello/Atlassian & 18F. Philadelphian turned Masshole. She/her.
Sneha Pai @snehapie.bsky.social Director of Design at Nava PBC
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social Nerding out and helping governments deliver better. 
Patrick Kigongo @kigongo.bsky.social A New Yorker in LA. Skateboarding. (Casual) football. Fitchecks. ex-18F. #CivicTech. This is a personal account. R/T’s ≠ endorsements
Edwin 🇵🇷 @edtorr.bsky.social Civic Tech | Puerto Rico | 18F Alumni
https://edtorr.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@edtorr
@phaedrachrousos.bsky.social @phaedrachrousos.bsky.social 
Julia @juliasolorzano.bsky.social I like rocks, mapping, baking, and technology. More nerdy stuff here: https://juliasolorzano.com/
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social “King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. Ava’s dad. OG web designer. Automattician. Composer. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Author “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog. Taught MFA IXD @ SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).
Laura M Williams @williamslauram.bsky.social Software documentation is a team sport. MSFT employee. Opinions mine. || Past life: Victorian Poetry & theory of the lyric. || Buffalo girl in Seattle. She/her. #BLM #GoBills #Swiftie
Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.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
Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev web dev, pet lover, humanist. gonna post some dog pics. tech now and then.
Meghana Khandekar @mkhandekar.bsky.social ⚖️ design & research leader committed to creating access, opportunity & community · ✏️ now @ Nava, previously 18F (login.gov), Mozilla, Grammarly · 🏳️🌈 she/her
Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social I think and know about open government and freedom of information. All posts in a personal capacity, RTs ≠ endorsement.
Born at 323 ppm 
Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social Also known as Misha. UX design leader (frog, CFPB, startups, Salesforce), currently on sabbatical. Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend
Matthew Bradley @machination.org Dad, product-minded tech mgr, photog. Veteran of DC machinations. I care about climate, civil liberties, pluralism.
Amanda Graham @amanda-in-idaho.bsky.social Sociology. Civic tech. GovTech. Cute pets.
#bartletforamerica
Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Mollie @mebates.bsky.social Designer at Google Chrome. NE DC resident/parent/cyclist desperate for cars to stop at stop signs.
Eric Maland @emaland.me I am the greatest
Mike Osswald ✳️ @mikeosswald.bsky.social Naturally curious digital strategist, inspector of UX nuisance, ignoring most previous instructions, I used to call this “new media,” southpaw
Meag D @meagdoh.bsky.social Building a design studio and reimagining bioethics @ bothandneither.co
Here for art/nature/culture/poetry/tech/bioethics/science policy ..- A @anniewalsh.bsky.social @anniewalsh.bsky.social
Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms
🔥 🏡 Ex: Fire Aside
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
🖖 Friend of DeSoto
😎 Nice dude
🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA
📥 cyrus@farivar.media
📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
🎼🎶 Laurie MacNamara @lauriedelray.bsky.social “It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.” - Mary Oliver
Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me #civictech #agile #product and #tech wrangler
Recently in the #WhiteHouse #CEQ and now speeding up #Permitting
... while still in the #US #GSA […]
🌉 bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@mogul on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social Boston-based robotics nerd whose opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the cringe. It’s pronounced “Michael”.
Sarah G. @sglassmeyer.bsky.social Social Media Inflawencer. World's Okayest Legal Technologist. Daughter of Appalachia. Farm kid. Now Live, Laughs and Loves in Silicorn 🌽 Valley.
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social Bureaucromancer. I enjoy filling out forms because it feels like taking a test where I know all the answers. MSP, she/her.
Boon Sheridan v2.6 @boonsheridan.com Boonerang™ is self-cleaning and features a safety lock, lower storage drawers, manual clock, countdown timer, ignition, and warming controls.
Past lives at 18F, Automattic, NASDAQ, Digitas, etc.
Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social Reporter covering gender and politics at @motherjones.com, part of the Center for Investigative Reporting
Tips to mpauly at motherjones dot com
Signal: madisonpauly.15
https://www.motherjones.com/author/madison-pauly/
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
bat 🦇🌻 @mzbat.bsky.social Security Consultant & Founder, Sonar Security | Red Siege, VMware Tanzu, NASA GSFC, Apple, 18F | art, lego, board games, comics, cute animals |🧛🏻♀️⛵️
Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social Posts when a Federal US .gov domain is added or removed. The Wayback machine can help you browse deleted sites: https://web.archive.org/
NOTE: A website can be unresponsive or show a 404, but this bot will only trigger when the domain itself is removed.
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social BA, PPE @warwickuni / MPhil, Comparative Government @UniofOxford / DPhil student in Politics @NuffieldCollege & @Politics_Oxford
Link to my blog “Often wrong, but sometimes useful”: https://jacobedenhofer.substack.com/
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Andre Francisco @andre-francisco.bsky.social Content and comms for #civictech organizations. Director of Comms at Civilla. Formerly Ad Hoc, 18F, POGO.
AC @salty-af.bsky.social service/experience designer, civic tech; 18F alum
stl stuff
Awesomesteph @awesomesteph.bsky.social Product Manager who is naively trying to do good in software
Egalitarian * Slice of life* Doing my best*
Beau W @beaumw.bsky.social Product experience through trial and error.
May Likes Product @productnerd.bsky.social Product Ops Evangelist. Toronto. Any Pronouns. Community Builder.
Scaling great product orgs. Loves complexity and healthy teams.
Coping with memes. Supporting ODLAN.ca.
Find my stuff: https://linktr.ee/productnerd
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Civic Data Alliance @civicdata.bsky.social Know us, love us or hate us. We are the Civic Data Alliance.
Will Sullivan @will-sullivan.com Here for the memes.
Nikki Lee @therealnkkl.bsky.social Product manager working at the intersection of technology and public good. Currently leading product at New America's New Practice Lab.
Mostly documenting funny things my family says.
Peter K’s Wife Broke Her Arm @pjkaz.bsky.social Lead singer & Product Manager. Lives in #Seattle, #SanJose grown. Husband, 2x dad, lefty Christian. Boglehead/YIMBY. PC gaming, Star Trek, Anime, other stuff. Grillpilled on pellets and propane. My Opins and no one else’s
Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network "Ok. Not good. Probably bad." Disabled, queer, Jewish, cyborg, astrophysicist, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches. Building joy with a side of chaos. "..a wizardess is never late. Nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to."
Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social DMV cat lady. Into human rights. Lots of other stuff too, but that’s a big one.
Molly Springfield @mollyspringfield.bsky.social Text-Based Visual Artist
Graphite Drawings
mollyspringfield.com
Tom Lee @tjl.bsky.social I leave message here on service but you do not call
tomlee.wtf
Tosin [Tohsin] @tonibono.bsky.social Product Director. #Leadership with #Kindness. Humanising the workplace. FS, Tech. #ND. Inspired by #lewishamilton Love #issarae #bollywood #travel 🇬🇧🇳🇬
Marcus Leung @leungmarcus.bsky.social Head of Product @basecamp-research.bsky.social Protein | AI | Machine Learning | Metagenomics | Microbiome science
@casssunstein.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social 
amac @amac0.bsky.social Lawyer, coder, baker.
Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter).
Curious tinkerer.
@amac on the other thing.
Now in London.
@ezoehunt.bsky.social @ezoehunt.bsky.social Making things and thinking about them. Student of people + words. Ph.D. English Lit. Ex: @IAEAorg, @USDS, @Mozilla, @codeforamerica.
Karley Thurston @kdthurston.bsky.social 
JK @kazilico.bsky.social Complexity science, AI/ML, Python
JennafootBasil @jennafootbasil.bsky.social Scientist, Rudegrrrl, New Deal Progressive.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Gail Swanson @joyinthecenter.bsky.social Trauma-informed technologist | Writer | Artist | Motorcyclist
I ask a lot of questions.
I think a LOT.
I make things.
@romked.bsky.social @romked.bsky.social 
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Natalia Reyes @nataliareyes.bsky.social PhD candidate at Penn. Writer of fictions, studying brownness.
Annie Palmer @anniepalmer.bsky.social tech reporter @ cnbc
Carter Baxter @another.rodeo Endorsed for banter and dolphin facts. Has worn many hats, and was never told there would be so many rodeos. Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say, and never assume anything I say here is correct.
Rachel @rachelbalsham.bsky.social ceci n'est pas une tweet
[Based in Nairobi. Work on payments tech in Africa. Think about payments tech in Africa and many other things.]
Wesley Lindamood @lindamood.bsky.social A designer interested in civic technology, libraries, documentaries, and music.
Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Idaho, writing about money (and sometimes Anscombe). Free estimates
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social Dad, author, teacher, macaroni and cheese maker. PAPA’S COMING HOME is an instant NYT bestseller and on shelves now!