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Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
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I did a TED talk once
Keya Chatterjee @keyachatterjee.bsky.social Mom, Climate and Democracy Activist, Fmr ANC 6A01, #FreeDC. Author of THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE RATED G-- coming out October 2025-- It's speculative cli-fi-- a spicy romp through fascism that ends with a successful general strike!
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social https://www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWprotestors
Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social Formerly in international development and in local government. Soon studying Eastern European Studies at LMU in Munich. Following news from Europe and especially the Balkans in German, BCMS, Turkish, English.
Laura Thornton @laurathornton.bsky.social Democracy hack
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social CEO Open Knowledge Foundation - Lawyer - Internationalist 
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Leandro Ucciferri @leandro.im Tech Policy & Human Rights advocate. Holding the tech industry accountable @ RankingDigitalRights.org
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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️
Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
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
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.”
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Alexander Cooley @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. Global authoritarianism, Kleptocracy, Eurasia, International Order, and Geopolitics & the Academy.
Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social National Advocacy Director @indivisible.org. Former Congressional staffer. Thrower of frisbees. Dog dad. he/him
Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social ISMA @ismapolicy.bsky.social. The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Views personal, not institutional.
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
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Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com Hong Kong's impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper: https://hongkongfp.com/about/ 100% independent, backed by an Ethics code and reader-funded: https://support.hongkongfp.com/
The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social International news organization covering global and local headlines. Founded in 1908. Winner of 7 Pulitzers & 14 Overseas Press Awards.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org Welcoming our new neighbors in DC metro (DMV) area through solidarity, not charity.
☎️ ICE Emergency hotline: 202-335-1183
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Alex Gladstein @gladstein.bsky.social Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation
Author: Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression
Craig Vachon @gcvachon.bsky.social Focused on ensuring dissidents have AI tools to fight tyranny. Author of entertaining novels. Dog dad. Entropic warrior. Ballerina
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
Matthew Cebul @matthewcebul.bsky.social Political scientist studying civil resistance, democratic erosion, and US foreign policy in MENA. Lead Research Fellow at HKS Nonviolent Action Lab; formerly USIP. Manservant to Korra the cat.
Lives for Alcaraz highlights, epic fantasy, and "draw a card."
Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social President @TechFreedom.org | 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺🗽 | Lawyer: tech, free speech, FTC, FCC, admin | “Resident Antagonist”—Politico | “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right” | 🇫🇷🏳️🌈📚⛰️🥾🚣🎼 | doing PhD in 🇪🇺/🇺🇸 platform law @ Dublin City U
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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Sarah Cook @sarahgcook.bsky.social Independent researcher & consultant; author of UnderReported China newsletter; fmr Freedom House China research director, views my own; underreportedchina.substack.com
Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social We are America’s Official Frogtifa Organization. Designated as a terrorist organization by deer flies and the United States DOJ. #keepportlandweird #amphibiansfordignity #portlandfrog #frogtifa
Marcus Michaelsen @mmichae1sen.bsky.social Researching digital tech, human rights & authoritarian politics @citizenlab.ca. https://marcusmichaelsen.eu/ 
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Jacob Mchangama @mchangama.bsky.social Executive Director at @futurefreespeech.org, Research professor Vanderbilt University, Senior Fellow at FIRE, author of "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media"
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info A couple folks resisting harmful policies, fighting disinfo & defending FEMA.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social AUTHLIB - Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response.
Research project led by CEU Democracy Institute, co-funded by the European Union.
Web: https://www.authlib.eu/
#AuthlibEU
Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇭🇰 foreign policy & s+t policy researcher @ Stanford. Out in National Security New Voice + Foreign Policy for America NextGen.📍old gold mountain. 混血, 🏳️🌈 menace, new yorker.
Alt U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) @altusip.bsky.social 
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social Lead Counsel, In Re Ea-Nasir MDL. Promote Frederick Douglass Thought
Obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise
Surveillance in the Majority World Network @surveillancemw.bsky.social Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
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Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Brian Whitmore @powervertical.bsky.social A blog and podcast about Russian and post-Soviet politics.
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
Prof. Carl LeVan @democracyprofdc.bsky.social Professor at American University. Defender of democracy. Lover of decency. Seeker of truth. Author/co-editor of books on Nigeria, constitution-making, and the American national security state. Editorial boards: Governance, Journal of Modern African Studies
Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
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Principal, Public Circle Research & Consulting
Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press
Senior Fellow, UPitt CTRL
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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression @thefireorg.bsky.social We defend and promote free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture.
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.
Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
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
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov Proudly representing CA’s 37th District | @democrats-judiciary.house.gov, @houseforeign.bsky.social, Congressional Black Caucus, @usprogressives.bsky.social | Account maintained by federal staff.
https://kamlager-dove.house.gov
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com. Author of When Rebels Win https://tinyurl.com/whenrebelswin
Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov Proudly serving Maryland's beautiful Eighth Congressional District and leading House Judiciary Committee Democrats in Congress.
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov Representing Northern Virginia in the U.S. House.
Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were seeds.
@larrydiamond.bsky.social @larrydiamond.bsky.social 
Andréa Worden @andreaworden.bsky.social Human rights activist/lawyer, #joyfulwarrior focused on China /Asia. Former CECC general counsel, Intl Campaign for Tibet, Asia Catalyst; ex-adjunct at AU WCL and JHU Krieger School. Writer. Translator. Still asking: #WhereIsPengShuai
Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social CNN investigative reporter. Kfile founder. Co- founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. The New York Times once called me a “wunderkind.”
Sam Lisker @slisker.com Senior Congressional Producer @scrippsnews.bsky.social, usually listening to Yacht Rock.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us Reports from the Nation’s Capital in the voices of the people. 
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social The Trump DOJ called me a 'dope.' I write the 'Regular Order' newsletter and have covered Congress since the Reagan Administration. Sign up for more at http://jamiedupree.substack.com
Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social Proud rodeo mom, soccer mom, baseball mom, hockey mom, constitutional conservative.
Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social Senior resident fellow, the Renew Democracy Initiative. Music critic, The New Criterion. Substack: Onward and Upward.
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social Senior politics reporter for HuffPost.
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social Longtime FEC Commissioner, 4-time Chair, lawyer, mom, wife, believer in democracy and rule of law
Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social United States Senator for Hawaii. Climate hawk. Chief Deputy Whip.