The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com Non-partisan analysis featuring the trusted voices of Amy Walter, David Wasserman, Carrie Dann, Jessica Taylor, and Erin Covey. The right analysis for getting it right. Learn more: cookpolitical.com/subscribe
Nate Cohn @natecohn.bsky.social The New York Times
KFF @kff.org The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.
Reuters @reuters.com
Reema Patel @reemaspatel.bsky.social Inclusive policy, research, design and practice, using participatory and deliberative methods. I work with @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social on including public voices in AI, and @iswe-foundation.bsky.social on a permanent global climate assembly.
Shared Future @sharedfuture.bsky.social Committed to community empowerment, the social economy and democratic participation.
We design and deliver citizens' juries and assemblies and participatory budgeting processes.
Find out more: 🔗 sharedfuturecic.org.uk
Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social Democracy Action Network is a citizen-led organization protecting American democracy through collective action.
https://democracyactionnetwork.com/
https://secure.everyaction.com/LBU7km7T7kaMbUnC9XqpUw2
https://democracyactionnetwork.substack.com/
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Innovate for Vegas Foundation @innovateforvegas.bsky.social NV Nonprofit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
Our purpose, “To enable and encourage ideation, innovation, and implementation to make our communities better.”
🌐 https://innovateforvegas.org
🔉 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lets-innovate-for-vegas
Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com Local news you can trust. We report stories that make Maryland better.
Follow @sports.thebaltimorebanner.com for Orioles and Ravens coverage.
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TheBanner.com
Matt Abrams @mattabrams.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattabrams
Advisor, Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member cursed (and blessed) with curiosity and a drive to #leaveitbetter
Focused on intersection of quality information, deliberative dialogue (citizens’ assemblies), and trust
Luigi Ray-Montañez @luigi.land A world class expert in all domains. My intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos.
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org.
Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at NOTUS. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
tips - signal at nalms.41 and nataliealms@notus.com
Dan Munz @danmunz.bsky.social Homophone. Portmanteau. Iamb. Synecdoche.
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
mx cordelia yu @thebestsophist.bsky.social Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown's Beeck Center, VoProPartners. 216 for life, unlikely to shut up about the Cavs. The dadjokes don't stop just b/c they've grown & gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
Will Slack @wslack.bsky.social
Decatur GA native, prev USDS/18F & hospital tech around the US. Opinions mine; RTs/likes/follows ≠ endorsements. 🆇: @wslack 🐘: wslack@infosec.exchange
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Danny Mintz @dannymintz.bsky.social Safety-net policy, New Orleans stuff, etc.
Views are my own.
Eric Giannella @giannella.bsky.social Associate Research Professor at Georgetown Better Gov Lab & Massive Data Institute: 1) Evidence-based implementation for safety net programs 2) Open source tools for data sharing in public services. Founded and led Data Science team at Code for America.
Ryan Koch @ryanakoch.com Host of Civic Tech Chat https://civictech.chat
Nerdy for all things tech, political science, and public policy
Alliance of Civic Technologists @civictechallies.bsky.social A community dedicated to connecting and supporting all #volunteer #civictech efforts across the nation!
🌐 civictechnologists.org
Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
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.
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
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.
Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
werkstatte @werkstatte.bsky.social In short, life goes on, and life is known to be very difficult and very complicated, and as we say in Vienna, many roads lead to the Central Cemetery.
Laurel Eckhouse @eckhouse.bsky.social Recovering academic, current data scientist. Current enthusiasms: e bikes, botanical printing, backpacking, talking to insurance companies on the phone.
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
jpmarindiaz @jpmarindiaz.bsky.social #smalldata #rstats #dataviz #ai #policy #duckdb
Founder @datasketch.bsky.social
Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart.
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine.
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England.
Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social LA / 台北
shayna @shaynacummings.bsky.social she/her | computers, social justice, finding the edge cases
Sawyer @coughsonwombats.bsky.social Kinda hoping Twitter rallies, but just in case...
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social Feel like dancin' on my own, to a record that I do not own, in a place I've never seen before
auntie cistamine @laurenancona.bsky.social here
Lane Becker @lanebecker.bsky.social Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @ Wikimedia/Wikipedia. Previously @ IFTF, 18F, Code for America.
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com
Civic Tech Field Guide @civictechguide.bsky.social Your place to find and be found
https://civictech.guide/
BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc We help New Yorkers access information & use technology. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era. #civictech #opendata #pitech
beta.nyc/links
Eddie A Tejeda @eddietejeda.com VP of Engineering at Mode Analytics #civictech eddietejeda.com- E Elizabeth Ayer @elizayer.bsky.social Tacoma, WA, USA
Civil servant, independent product and organizational consultant
Powered by problematic levels of curiosity
Primary lens on life: we’re in this together
#ProductLeadership #Leadership #SystemsThinking #TeamTopologies
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
tsky @thadk.bsky.social
Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social Civic technologist, musician & aspiring adobero. NM | TX . Here for 🌎 climate action, 🏛️ public interest tech, 🧱 earthen building + architecture, ⚽ fútbol y más.
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC, and often DC
Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social civictech.ca
We are a community of tech-minded folk making civic life better in Toronto.
Come and join our weekly online and in-person events with speakers, discussions and project breakouts!
Upcoming events: https://guild.host/civic-tech-toronto
Digital Benefits Network @digitalbenefits.bsky.social The Digital Benefits Network supports government in delivering public benefits services and technology that are accessible, effective, and equitable in order to ultimately increase economic opportunity.
Part of the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Scott Shepard, AICP, LEED®AP, PMP 🚲🛴🛵🚌🚉🚅 @scottcities1st.bsky.social Founder & CEO @The #CitiesFirst Advisors + Podcast🎙| Author @"#CitiesFirst: Urbanism & Mobility in the Post-COVID City" | Board @Green Mobility Magazine & Intermobility | Advisor @Urban AI | Top Urban Planning Voice 📢
Code for Boston @codeforboston.bsky.social Civic tech volunteer group serving Greater Boston since 2012. Connect with us at www.codeforboston.org
Patrick Collins @anotherpatrick.bsky.social Portland, OR. Civic Tech.
Ernie Hsiung @ernieatlyd.bsky.social
Princess Ojiaku @artfulaction.bsky.social 👸🏾 Data, design, strategy.
✍🏾 Science & data journo as one of my past lives.
🎙️ Purveyor of 🎵 & emotions.
💓 Science, art, the public.
Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com Senior Researcher @ CIRCLE
{ civic engagement, critical consciousness, youth vote, QuantCrit, movement building }
Building a more just democracy through co-creating knowledge and power with young people
https://sara-suzuki.com
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Democracy Fund @democracyfund.bsky.social Democracy Fund is a foundation working to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy that is open, just, resilient, and trustworthy.
Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
Follow us on other platforms ➡️ https://protdem.org/m/stay-connected
Vote.org @votedotorg.bsky.social Vote.org uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy.
Voter Participation Center (VPC) @votercenter.bsky.social The Voter Participation Center (VPC) is dedicated to helping underrepresented communities register, vote, and make their voices heard in our elections
Voter Formation Project @voterformation.bsky.social not your ordinary voting rights org ✨ bringing you civic education, culture, and more
Common Cause @commoncause.org We are the People's Lobby. Holding power accountable for 55+ years.
Join us - https://www.commoncause.org/
UCLA Voting Rights Project @uclavrp.bsky.social Ensuring the right to vote for all through education, litigation, and research.
Housed in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Director of Litigation: Chad W. Dunn
Faculty Director: Matt Barreto
California Common Cause @cacommoncause.bsky.social We are a nonpartisan policy and advocacy organization working to build a California democracy that includes everyone. ⚖️🗳
commoncause.org/california
Common Cause North Carolina @commoncausenc.bsky.social We're a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy for all in North Carolina. Join us at https://CommonCauseNC.org
Common Cause Texas @commoncausetexas.bsky.social Protecting and advancing democracy in the Lone Star State #LetTexasVote
Common Cause Ohio @commoncauseohio.bsky.social Ordinary Ohioans working together to build a democracy that works for all of us.
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
New America @newamerica.org We are generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America.
Fair and Just Prosecution @fjporg.bsky.social Transforming justice by supporting elected prosecutors committed to a more equitable, humane, and fiscally responsible criminal legal system.
American Constitution Society @acslaw.bsky.social ACS is the foremost progressive legal organization in the country with 250 student and lawyer chapters nationwide.
Join us! www.acslaw.org/join
Michigan United @michiganunited.bsky.social Fighting for our families on #Labor, #Immigration, #Environment & #Justice. Fighting against #Racism, #Inequality & #Greed in #Michigan miunited.org
Detroit, MI