Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Crude Marxist and bitter culchie
Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social Mostly enviro, law, music, PNW, that kind of thing.
Dan Amira @danamira.bsky.social Head writer for The Daily Show
Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social Seattle, WA
Software engineer, safe streets advocate, and occasional Seattle Transit Blog contributor
Check out the ridership data for your favorite route at https://seattletransitridership.com.
He/him
Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 trains, bikes, etc.
Co-lead FixTheL8.com and @centralseattlestreetsforall.org
Seattle
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com Building: www.journalismatlas.com
Formers: WaPo, NPR, NYTimes, Factcheck.org
Kyle Jacobson @ks-jacobson.bsky.social Privacy professional. Co-lead @centralseattlestreetsforall.org. Can we ban cars just a little bit?
Central Seattle Streets for All @centralseattlestreetsforall.org Advocating for safe, comfortable, and enjoyable places to walk and ride in the Central District and Capitol Hill. Formerly known as Central Seattle Greenways. Member of the Seattle Streets Alliance coalition. https://centralseattlestreetsforall.org
Heath Ryan @heathryan16.bsky.social Writer and journalist holding the powerful to account. Also father, cyclist and supporter of Ukraine. Слава України
Currently riding Return2Ukraine from Tallinn to Kyiv via Krakow.
https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/return2ukraine/
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social Allison's & Sammy’s dad.
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design
Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social Swears on the Internet, sometimes. Mostly at horsesass.org these days (he/him).
Ethan C. Campbell @ethan2sea.bsky.social Postdoc fellow at University of Washington. Antarctic sea ice enthusiast (https://ethan-campbell.github.io).
Also: bike/walk advocate @centralseattlestreetsforall.org. Board member @realchangenews.org. He/him.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Miles @milorad.bsky.social Only good vibes, please.
Tar Heel in the PNW.
Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov Official site of the Washington Emergency Management Division. Content Guidelines: https://mil.wa.gov/social Not here 24/7 #wawx #EMGchat
Preparedness tips: https://mil.wa.gov/preparedness
Alerts: https://mil.wa.gov/alerts
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social The Regional Seismic Network for Washington and Oregon. We operate almost 700 seismic stations and are the authoritative source for information about earthquakes in both states.
Washington State Department of Commerce @wastatecommerce.bsky.social Washington State Department of Commerce official news and information. Our mission is to strengthen communities in our state.
www.commerce.wa.gov
Puget Sound Partnership @pspartnership.bsky.social The Puget Sound Partnership is the state agency formed to lead the region’s collective effort to restore and protect Puget Sound.
www.psp.wa.gov
SR 520 @sr520.wsdot.wa.gov Built the world's longest floating bridge & we're heading west. Closure info: http://sr520construction.com. Vintage cover by SeatownNative (on X). Official WSDOT BlueSky account for SR 520.
Recreation and Conservation Office @rcowashington.bsky.social Official Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office account. Agency manages grants to protect and improve Washington’s natural and outdoor recreation resources.
www.rco.wa.gov
Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
Find me at Dodger Stadium, Disneyland or hiking in the mountains.
Linda @lindalebrun.bsky.team Partnerships Team @ Bluesky
Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
John J. Bauters @johnbauters.bsky.social America’s Bike Mayor / #GoOutside / 🌿🐺
Nat M. Zorach, aicp @nzorach.bsky.social Better buildings @ Michigan State. Dogs, bikes, tacos. Aspiring Jew. Lanstronaut & Detroiter. Liberation for all or liberation for none. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇩🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS. Academic, author, broadcaster. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey,
https://jimal-khalili.com
https://www.youtube.com/@UnbaffledScience
Grant Peltier @grant-peltier.bsky.social Runner, Urbanist, Engineer, Beer-lover, and wishing I was traveling (He/Him)
Active Travel Please! #MobilityIsEquity @activetraveltt.bsky.social As with most places, we've allowed cars to crush our tiny islands of Trinidad & Tobago. We don't expect everyone to ride a bicycle for transport, but we would like the population to have viable alternatives when it comes to travelling around a tiny place.
NABSA @go-nabsa.bsky.social The North American Bikeshare & Scootershare Association (NABSA) collaborates across sectors to grow shared micromobility and its benefits to communities, creating a more equitable and sustainable transportation ecosystem.
Mark B @apartmentfinch.bsky.social I like cities and transit. I want more housing and an end to car dependency. STL -> SF -> SEA
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.
Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer numlock.com. Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.
User Input @userinput.app Community feedback on AT Protocol
See what it's about: userinput.app
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Streets Ahead Podcast @podstreetsahead.bsky.social Streets Ahead is a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveable streets and urban design. Hosts: @nedboulting.bsky.social @adamtranter.bsky.social @lauralaker.bsky.social
Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StreetsAheadPodcast
Joyful Riders Club @joyfulridersclub.bsky.social 
Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social Redefining financial empowerment for women & nonbinary people. More and join at WPF.myflodesk.com by @frugalpharm.bsky.social & Angela
Streets.mn @streets.mn Streets.mn fosters positive connections and inclusive conversations about better places in Minnesota.
Rainier Valley Safe Streets @rvgreenways.bsky.social Neighbors like you who are working together to make their streets safer and more comfortable for everybody in Seattle's Rainier Valley, part of @streetsalliance.bsky.social
Get involved with our advocacy here: https://www.seattlegreenways.org/get-involved/
Jason @jrock08.bsky.social He/him. Seattle. People should be able to walk and roll without dying.
Washington State Ferries @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov Official WSDOT Bluesky account for Washington State Ferries information. Monitored 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Mobycon @mobycon.bsky.social Mobycon is an independent consultancy and research firm specializing in mobility solutions. We take an integrated approach to sustainable mobility to make the world less dependent on cars.
www.mobycon.com
Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET
Do you really think work wants my social media opinions?
Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 
Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
🚴♂️ strava.com/athletes/106905687
📸 instagram.com/bikeseattle
📚 blog.jcole.us
Kirk Hovenkotter @kirkhovenkotter.com Director of Transportation Choices Coalition | Not short for Kirkleton
Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social Geographer, Bike Rider, Open Source Advocate, Gamer, Senior Data Monkey
he/him
Caroline Gomez @carolinecgomez.bsky.social Editor of KUOW’s daily news podcast Seattle Now
Bookworm, UX nerd, Mariners fan
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social PE. Dengineer. Safe network builder for people walking, in wheelchairs, cycling & driving. Train lover. Views my own - not speaking for any employer/board. Public sources only.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com Physicist and writer Dr Francis Sedgemore.
Science; judaism; natural and social ecology; traditional and fine arts; philosophy of mind; ethics; folk and land lore.
הולך רגל בים סוף
www.hesgen.com
Roysia | Anglia | Europa | Terra
Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social Aspiring gadfly.
Science journalist | Editor | Storytelling specialist
contact me @ clnschltz@proton.me
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Transit Trekker @transittrekker.bsky.social Tread much lighter.
Car-free recreation for everyone.
Sign up to learn when The Transit Trekker Manual is available: transittrekker.com
Skeets by @sheridesabike.bsky.social
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/ 
Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com Healthcare data analysis, advocacy & snark.
I also raise money for Dems.
🏥 https://ACASignups.net
🔵 https://Blue26.org
Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social Community geographer, cartographer, pedestrian, cyclist. Author of "The New American Small Town: Lessons for sustainable urban futures" (West Virginia University Press, June 2025). https://communitygeography.kent.edu/
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social Currently on partial medical leave and Associate professor, Dept of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary; co-director Electricity Centre; energy/mid-transition/carbon/innovation policy + bikes.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Dave Winer @scripting.com OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
Kate Muller @katemuller.bsky.social Seattleite, science communicator, semi-professional doomscroller. Obsessed with: the Mariners, west coast IPAs, french fries, dogs.
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
CalBike @calbike.bsky.social We are the California Bicycle Coalition, or CalBike. Advocating for a California where every community flourishes—equitable, inclusive, and prosperous, with bicycling as a joyful, health-enhancing thread connecting us all.
Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇻🇦🕊️ @safesler.bsky.social Dad x2. Full-time cat herder. Elderly urban planner. Some SimCity brah. Pavers and cobbles stan. Pro bono @theurbanist.org. Probably far from home. AMDG. Pax.
Brooks Bolsinger @bolsingerbrooks.bsky.social He/him. I work in climate policy and get snarky about soccer and bikes. Opinions my own. EBFG.
Joe Inglish @jinglish.bsky.social Cyclist, stagehand, (former?) software engineer, Seattle-dwelling Oregonian. Scissor lift certified. He/him
Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social Lover of walking and biking, the Northwest, thoughtful policy, parking reform, climate action, and gueuze. Dad. Opinions are my own.
Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social Author of FUTURE OF DENIAL: The Ideologies of Climate Change (Verso 2024) plus several others on religion and psychoanalysis | philosophy prof
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Views don’t represent employer
taddelay.com
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.
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
Sarah Schacht @sarahschacht.bsky.social Government data, standards, the future of the gov’t innovation workforce, Seattle, surfing, murals, public health.
William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social Writer (2026 publications include Asimov’s, Analog, and F&SF; story arc A Work of Human Hands in paperback via Amazon), former teacher, parent to three grown women. Interests include film, religion, history, many sciences.
he/him ho-hum
Reuven Blau @reuvenblau.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ The City Reporter. Co-author: "Rikers: An Oral History." Denver native.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social “Lesbian consultant.” “Your favorite poster’s favorite poster.” “A good argument, just miles outside the scope.” Union girlie powered by iced tea and Carly Rae. I will never watch a video. Please be normal in my mentions.
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Dr. Nina E. Harkrader @nehbuildings.bsky.social Historian, 19thC Architecture of England and USA. Social Housing, Women's History, History of Medicine.
Books, Bicycles, Beaches, Bunnies, and Gardens.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social Even a crooked regime wants an honest accountant.
Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social Playing Shellac for the baby
Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social Next round's on me
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social History Prof. (Israel/Palestine, Jewish history, Middle East), urbanist, map-lover, punster, ebike and public library enthusiast. Seattle, WA
Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social State Rep for the 36th LD. Chair of the rabble rouser caucus (see: @staterepjuliareed). Seattle native. Bike nerd. Theater nerd. Regular nerd. My cat loves me. My husband too.
Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov Official Washington state Department of Ecology account. Protecting, preserving and enhancing Washington's environment for current and future generations. ecology.wa.gov
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social Managing Editor at @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social. Words in @racketmn.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, others. Ex-MFA person. She/her. All views my own!
Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-last-straight-woman-by-phoebe-maltz-bovy/ Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social idiot savant
instagram.com/lahlahlindsey
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store Aperiodical.net
Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social www.annie-abrams.com