Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Holly Dagres @hdagres.bsky.social Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social Chaos Muppet, Order Rising. CEO, ResearchCollaborative.org. Young(ish) Leader, Munich Security Conference + Friends of Europe. Former head of GlobalZero.org. Radicalized by basic decency. Made in #Iowa with parts from #Iran. he/him 🇦🇲
Natalie Amiri @natalieamiri.bsky.social Int. Correspondent - 2015-20 Iran/Tehran ARD @DasErste German Television bureau chief - Anchorwoman @Weltspiegel_ARD, Autorin: "Zwischen den Welten"
Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social Founder, The Counteroffensive Media Group.
Compelling reporting on human stories to illustrate the news. Fmr US Army medic.
https://linktr.ee/counteroffensivenews
Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh.bsky.social Paris-based journalist for AFP and video storyteller.
Reported from Iran, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo, most of Latin America, Western Europe, Australia and the Cannes film festival.
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social A Middle East-based journalist and geopolitical analyst in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency
Https://www.johndickerson.com
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com Reporter at Democracy Docket. Formerly: Roll Call, WHYY, Philly City Paper, Big Law attorney. DC is my residence but Philly is my home.
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/mIicLoRfHtXzNhg1AFxApfhAIErtSNegujNmob8e3mtnivM_XjJEQIQJ3JPuH6WB
Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University. Author of "The Polarizers": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24660595.html
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
Mike Pesca @milkepescs.bsky.social Host of The Gist
Caitlin Reilly @caitlinreilly.bsky.social I cover Congress with focus on tax and fiscal policy for Bloomberg News.
Opinions are my own. Reposts are not endorsements.
Reach out at creilly106@bloomberg.net
@justinjpapp.bsky.social @justinjpapp.bsky.social Politics reporter at CNBC
Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewski.bsky.social Author of CQ Senate, contributor to Roll Call's At the Races.
Chief correspondent at CQ & Roll Call.
Currently working while you should be asleep.
Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble.bsky.social Congress reporter for @law360.bsky.social & runner
Courtney.buble@law360.com
Signal- Courtneybuble.13
Matthew Green @mattngreen.bsky.social Political scientist at Catholic University. Congress, federalism, elections, state (legislative) politics. Contributor to Mischiefs of Faction newsletter: https://substack.com/@misofact
Chris Cioffi @reportercioffi.bsky.social I’m a Congressional reporter for Bloomberg Tax
Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookings.edu. Still not the Senate Parliamentarian.
Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social editor, migrantinsider.com
Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Bill Clark @billclarkphotos.bsky.social Photojournalist covering Congress for Roll Call
Azi Paybarah @azipaybarah.bsky.social 🗳️ I’m a senior politics reporter with Straight Arrow News, covering how politics stories get built, framed and sold ⚡️Send tips and Leaks: APaybarah @ Straight Arrow News dotcom
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social Senior AI & Government Reporter @bgov.com. Former WaPo, Politico. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Tips/Signal: Cristiano.01
tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social economic policy correspondent at the new york times
tips? signal: tonyromm.62
https://www.nytimes.com/by/tony-romm
Nick Eskow @nickeskow.bsky.social Reporting on members of Congress for CQ and Roll Call. In my heart of hearts I still work at a video/record store. I don't post very much
Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social White House correspondent, @reuters.com. Ex-Washington Post. Bad golfer. Signal: jacobbogage.87. The newsletter: jacobbogage.com.
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
Claudia Grisales @cgrisales.bsky.social NPR Congressional Correspondent
Kelsey Snell @kelseysnell.bsky.social NPR political Correspondent. Formers: Congress for NPR, Washington Post, Politico, National Journal. Forever Chicagoan.
Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social Political scientist.
- Substack: https://leedrutman.substack.com
- Podcast: http://politicsinquestion.com
- Senior Fellow: New America
- Co-Founder: https://www.fixourhouse.org
- Washington Post Next 50 (2026): https://tinyurl.com/4m95978c
Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social Managing editor @votebeat.org. Previously senior editor and senior elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight. Email, don't DM: nrakich at votebeat dot org
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"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Nick Gourevitch @nickgourevitch.bsky.social Democratic Pollster and Public Opinion Researcher. Partner at Global Strategy Group. Dad to three.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Brian Rosenwald @brianros1.bsky.social Scholar, Editor, Commentator. Lots of politics, lots of sports, & some dog pics too. brianrosenwald.com
David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social NYT Columnist, visiting professor at Lipscomb University. Married to @nancyfrench.bsky.social.
Iraq vet, Grizzlies fan, born in War Eagle Country and raised in Big Blue Nation.
@davidplotz.bsky.social @davidplotz.bsky.social 
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Carrie A Lee @carriealee.bsky.social Former public servant: Democracy, Civ-Mil, NatSec & Strategy. Senior Fellow @gmfus.bsky.social, Visiting Scholar @perryworldhouse.bsky.social, Member @cfr.org, Truman Project. Running enthusiast.
Matt Grossman @mattgrossman.bsky.social Financial Services Government Affairs Professional • Proud Jew ✡︎🎗️
https://www.instagram.com/matt.grossman/
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own. 
Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social Author The Complete Francis of Assisi, Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart…etc. Coming Dec. 1, A Year with the Classics. Vermonter. Dad. Cat and dog lover. Catholic married to a rabbi.
Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social Enterprise News - 365 days a year
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https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacFarlaneNews
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
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
Alt WASO NPS @altwasonps.bsky.social #AltNPS Unofficial Washington D.C. Office #Resistance Team. Protect & preserve the US from fascism #AltGov #WeAreAltGov
I study everything and know nothing.
Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social International assignment editor, Washington Post // Journalism instructor, Harvard // New Englander. Potential Ukrainian. Literally Irish. Now more Canadian!™
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
CBS Evening News @cbseveningnews.bsky.social The official account of CBS Evening News, the longest-running evening newscast. Watch weekdays at 6:30 p.m. ET. 
Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61
William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor, University of Chicago Law School. Podcaster and Blogger at Divided Argument.
John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social journalist. alum: WSJ/NYT/NBC/CNN.
public speaker. requests: https://www.wsb.com/speakers/john-harwood/
advocate of decency in government and elsewhere
Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social Executive Producer, Last Week Tonight. Friend to nearly all the animals. 
The Democratic Difference @demdifference.bsky.social An account focused on highlighting the differences in economic outcomes under Democratic and Republican policies, often with charts.
Ali Velshi @velshi.com Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
Ryan Reynolds @vancityreynolds.bsky.social owner: Aviation Gin - Mint Mobile - Maximum Effort - Wrexham AFC
Jon Lovett @jonlovett.bsky.social Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Vote Save America, Crooked Media, mostly water.
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social Four star Ret US Army General. MS NOW Nat Sec analyst. Council Foreign Relations. Joint Commander Latin America. JCS strategic plans. NATO Brussels. 4 combat tours. 3 Purple Hearts. 14 years overseas. West Point. MA Pol Sci. Army Brat.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social Justice and Intelligence Correspondent, NBC News. Reach me at DilanianNBC@proton.me
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.
Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social Deputy Executive Editor, The Atlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/stuck-by-yoni-appelbaum/
All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social hosts the Emmy Award-winning “All In” Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. ET on MS NOW.
Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social SCOTUS podcast (Crooked Media)
Hosted by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, & Kate Shaw
Produced by Melody Rowell
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh).
The Original Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
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.
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Jonathan Kopp @jonathankopp.bsky.social Husband & dad. Jewish Bklyn Dem. FGS Global. J Street. Mind of State podcast & book.
Jewish Dems @jewishdems.bsky.social The political home and voice of Jewish voters, advocating for policies and supporting Democrats who share our core values.
https://jewishdems.org/
Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov Official Account of Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader.
schumer.senate.gov
Richard Blumenthal @blumenthal.senate.gov Official account of U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, proudly working for the people of Connecticut.
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov Proudly serving Maryland's beautiful Eighth Congressional District and leading House Judiciary Committee Democrats in Congress.
Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social the man, the legend....
Rabbi Jill Jacobs @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, author There Shall Be No Needy & Where Justice Dwells. she/her