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.”
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
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.
Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social Current political reporter at TPM | past economic equity reporter @ the Philadelphia Inquirer; Knight-Bagehot Fellow @ Columbia; Billy Penn & WHYY; Philadelphia City Council; The Philadelphia Tribune
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
Carol Leonnig @carolleonnig.bsky.social @washingtonpost investigative reporter
@MSNBC contributor
finder of fact
best-selling author "Zero Fail", "A Very Stable Genius", "I Alone Can Fix It".
Story tip? carol.leonnig@washpost.com
Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social Political economist @ LSE, currently visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study | benjaminbraun.org
Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Sr. Advisor @econliberties.bsky.social. Co-host @thefairfightpod.bsky.social.
Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer)
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/SAN
https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear
14850 Magazine @14850.com News and info for Ithaca, New York from 14850 Magazine, locally owned and published since 1992. 
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social ML prof @ Yale, mischief executive officer
https://attention-is-not-all-you-need.github.io
John Palfrey @palfrey.org President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social If you're eligible & want to vote, making sure you can, it's meaningful, and it sticks. Pro-democracy, pro-republic. He/his. Loyola law prof, former WH, former DOJ, former Natl Voter Protection Dir, forever NJDevils fan
USA Disappeared Tracker @disappearedtracker.bsky.social Alt-Account of @cripdyke.bsky.social
Tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025.
Yosi Sergant @a35mmlife.bsky.social i've been known to figure skate on thin ice. cultural strategist & movement entrepreneur. your fear doesn’t scare me. unabashedly anti-golf and fascism alike. 
Sarah Cooley @co2ley.bsky.social Ocean advocate, community builder, climate scientist. I make sure the ocean interior is healthy so you don't have to. 
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
@julieecohen.bsky.social @julieecohen.bsky.social 
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
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social RIF’d 18F ACQStacker
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research
cospr.net
Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
James Mercé Edwards @james-m-edwards.bsky.social Observer-designer-educator-animist. Building futures we can live in.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social Assistant research prof at Cornell, interested in bridging responsible and robust algorithm design and practice.
I'm currently working with Nikhil Garg and danah boyd; my PhD in CS was advised by Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social Personal account. Former ACLU lawyer. From New Jersey. Living in San Francisco. New College of Florida alum. Newfie owner.
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com Since 1984, 2600 Magazine has published the hacker perspective and documented the development of the hacking community. In addition to the magazine, we have a weekly radio show ("Off The Hook") and a biennial conference (Hackers On Planet Earth - HOPE).
The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com www.cultdeadcow.com
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Lynn Overmann @lynnovermann.bsky.social Tech & policy nerd, recovering public defender, DC native, #ALLCAPS fan. Executive Director @beeckcenter.bsky.social Georgetown. May the force be with you, always. Views my own.
beeckcenter.georgetown.edu
Noah Kunin @noahkunin.bsky.social Digital factotum. Co-host of the new DOGE watchdog podcast watchcatsshow.bsky.social!
Co-founder of two different departments that DOGE deleted! (CFPB + 18F)
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
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
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
R. Daniel Kelemen @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy @Georgetown University. Non-resident Senior Associate @CSIS. EU politics, policy & law.
https://www.rdanielkelemen.com
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
Chloe Thurston @chloethurston.bsky.social Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief. 
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
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.
watson Ξ @watsonix.bsky.social Founder @ Arboreal AI 🌳✨
Rooting well-being through small, gentle changes in physiology, emotion, and behavior.
Previously ran AI/ML for Headspace & Ginger.
Cacao enthusiast, lover of nature and dance.
http://watsonxi.org
Arboreal.ai
🏡 Oakland, Bay Area
Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social Filmmaker and consumer activist. Life‘s work archived by US Library of Congress. transgendermap.com / andreajames.com- S Sandy Stone @sandystone.bsky.social Everything a theoretician should be, in a low-fat, biodegradable package
Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social Professor of astronomy 🔭 at Ohio State. Co-chair of @aascsma.bsky.social. Alum of UCSC and MIT. She/her 🇲🇽
National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social Since 1977, we’ve been the lawyers and advocates behind some of our nation’s most significant LGBTQ+ civil rights victories.
Based in San Francisco, CA
Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org We’re America’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. We proudly fight for a world where equality wins at home, school, work, and every community.
PFLAG National @pflag.org Founded in 1973, we are an organization of hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ+ people, parents, families, and allies—and hundreds of chapters—leading with love to support families, educate allies, and advocate for just legislation and policies. pflag.org
Planned Parenthood @ppfa.org Hi! We’re America’s most trusted provider of sexual and reproductive health care education, and we think we look pretty good for over 100 years old.
www.plannedparenthood.org & linktr.ee/PlannedParenthood
Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org We’re the oldest and largest legal organization fighting for #LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with #HIV. Learn more: lambdalegal.org
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social 
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social We are a leading legal rights organization dedicated to justice and equality for LGBTQ+ people and people with HIV 🌈💪
Learn more and join the fight for justice: gladlaw.org
ERIN MCKEOWN @erinxmckeown.bsky.social musician, writer, producer
peri-crone. wild. don’t fence me in. www.erinmckeown.com
Jenn Steinfeld @jennsteinfeld.bsky.social Coach and system builder. Raconteur and rabble-rouser. Liberationist. Knitter. Gardener. Aspiring public intellectual. They/them. TheWoolverine on Ravelry.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
@dkmulligan.bsky.social @dkmulligan.bsky.social 
🌲 kd 🌲 @driscoll.bsky.social Computer user 👤
🤳 https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll
🌉 or, I guess, @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy
Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social Internet Researcher, Producer for hbomberguy
Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, Trust & Safety, mental health, social media reporting/escalation channels. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social PhD student at UNC. CITAP affiliate.
Studying online political culture - prediction markets, humor, influencers, and more.
Arguably too much hair.
www.parkerbach.com
william partin @partin.bsky.social phd | policy @youtube | esports grouch. all opinions my own!
Colten Meisner @coltenmeisner.bsky.social Ann Arbor, MI
more: coltenmeisner.com
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit, technical lead for quarto.org
Touching grass by learning Brazilian music. feet in Minneapolis, heart in some random Brazil beach town I don't even know yet
On hiatus because 2026. DMs open but do please try to be normal out there
Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social Director, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center. More here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/steven-romalewski Some posts are work-related, some are personal.
Photo credit: Alex Irklievski
Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. pop.umn.edu
Abraham D. Flaxman @healthyalgo.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of global health metrics, epidemiology, and data science. Bridging the gap between methods and practice to better measure and improve population health worldwide.
Sarita @saritas.bsky.social 
Chris Krebs @thekrebscycle.bsky.social Aka @c_c_krebs over there 
Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social Tech Columnist at The Washington Post. Geoffrey.Fowler@washpost.com
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Harry Heymann @harryh.bsky.social I turn beer into software.
Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Megan Squire @megansquire.bsky.social Cyber threat intelligence, investigations. CompSci PhD. Currently at F-Secure. Former @elonuniversity @splcenter
Aiha @aihathing.bsky.social activist. labor. tech. ethics
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social U.Miami Lawprof. Techie. Teach AI, AdLaw, https://tinyurl.com/concrisis, Jurisprudence & Privacy. EIC of Jotwell.com. Home@ https://law.tm. Survivor of many medical things that should have killed me but didn't. Remains to be seen if I'm stronger.
Mike Schneider @mikeysid.bsky.social Author and journalist, formerly for Associated Press, covering census, demographics & Florida. Author of "Mickey and the Teamsters." https://countofcounting.substack.com/publish/posts/published
Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social Prez & CEO @civilrightsorg. Cat Mom. Former @msnbc. Ran 4 Mayor of NYC; IG @Maya4CivilRights Views & typos are mine. She/Her
Michael Brennan @michaelbrennan.bsky.social Supporting people and organizations building a more equitable internet. Views expressed are my own. Philadelphia.
Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social researcher @ Data & Society
anthropologist, etc.
she/her
https://datasociety.net/people/garofalo-livia/
views, at least those, my own
Michele Gilman @michelegilman.bsky.social Clinical law professor fighting for and writing about algorithmic justice, data privacy, economic equality, and gender equity. Find me at: https://sites.google.com/view/michele-gilman/home 
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse