Tess Vrbin @tessmvrbin.bsky.social watching libraries, maternal health, other state policy issues
@arkansasadvocate.com. she/her. send tips and cat photos to tvrbin@arkansasadvocate.com. #MizzouMade #LetsGoBucs
CJ @noburdenbutjoy.bsky.social Washing road-sore hearts: no burden, but joy.
Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social Truth Teller
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social Arkansas's source for news, politics & entertainment. Visit arktimes.com for more.
The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social Digital raconteur posting about politics, news & media. Educator, author, scholar.
Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social Host @indyamericans.bsky.social Founder @indyvetsofamerica.bsky.social, Righteous, @amvets4ukraine.bsky.social, IAVA, Operation Liberty. Speaking truth to power. https://linktr.ee/paulrieckhoff
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
🌻Liza @lizayes.bsky.social Retired clinical psychologist, Grammy, Army brat: I love the Ozarks, family, grandkids, our cuddly puggle, and the gentle #Quakers whose actions speak louder than words.
FOR:
#Democracy #Integrity #HumanRights #AltGov
#Ukraine #NWArkansas
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social Keeping an eye on "Alt" US Govt. accounts, and one account in particular.
For more of my writing on this subject:
https://dispatchesfromtheonlinevoid.wordpress.com/
My main account: @jjoycelynch.bsky.social
Visit altnationalparks.com to learn more!
Aden Ng @adenng.com Author of "The Chronicles of Tearha" fantasy novels.
YouTube video essayist and documentarian of niche terrible stories @aden_ng.
Not a journalist, just play one on TV.
Find my stuff at: https://bio.link/aden_ng
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO VANQUISH YOUR ENEMIES. I WILL HELP. (by @nora.zone, icon by Delapouite at https://game-icons.net)
Alternative View, Pacific Northwest @alt-pnw.bsky.social Nightly 9 o’clock photo formerly for the birds, but relocated here.
he/him
Generally Pacific Northwest centric in many of my posts, but anti-authoritarian in focus now.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com Fascism walks in through bureaucratic channels masquerading as governance. Small person, large chip on my shoulder: Jalapeño flavor.
Takes orders from @feistytheecat.bsky.social • Owns the @shaggin-wagon.bsky.social vending machine.
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!!
Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
Becca Petunia 🏳️⚧️ @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social She/her. 35. Used to be different, now I'm the same. Host of A Prairie Dawn Companion for @toughpigs.com and co-host of @herecomestomorrow.net. Teacher. Advocate. All opinions my own. Watch out for each other. 🏳️⚧️
PBS News @pbsnews.org We are home to the PBS News Hour and @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social.
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://to.pbs.org/47dcMEJ
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GBH @wgbh.org GBH produces digital and broadcast programming that engages, illuminates and inspires, through drama and science, history, arts, culture and journalism.
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info Science geek who believes science is for everyone! ALL should be included in the scientific process! All views shared are personal.
Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social Journalist working for NPR. Live in NY's Adirondack Mountains. Often elsewhere.
Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info The resistance team for the U.S. Department of Labor. Not an official government account. #resist #AltGov #NoKings ❌👑
Mad Houser/AltHUD @madhouser.altgov.info Retrofitting reality and rebuilding community from the brutal bunker in SW. Opinionated Fed. Huddie. Not associated with AltNPS.
#AltGov #Bandofothers #Altpoetsociety
Mad Houser Haiku:
Mad about housing
Mad at the state of the world
Mad as a hatter
Chris Mirasola @chrismirasola.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social She/Her 🍉
Bsky is my spam acct basically
Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.
Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him.
Linktree.com/joekatz45.
RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info A couple folks resisting harmful policies, fighting disinfo & defending FEMA.
Not official FEMA. Views are our own and expressed in a personal capacity.
pax culina ☮️ peace kitchen @paxculina.bsky.social Welcome friend! Care to cook up some peace with us?
🍜
Recipes and bite-sized civic action to help ease your burnout.
🥗
“There’s nothing more political than food,” Anthony Bourdain
🥘
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
💡 Helping you make informed health decisions
🎓 MPH, PhD
👇🏻 Get weekly science-backed updates
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Oligarch Watch @muskwatch.bsky.social Accountability journalism for the world's wealthiest people.
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
linktr.ee/mychalthreets
Blair Imani Ali @handle.invalid Los Angeles based • Let’s get Smarter one post at a time! Creator of Smarter in Seconds • Author of LA Times bestseller Read This to Get Smarter
Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social A volunteer effort to support Acadia and the National Park System. We are not park employees, only supporters who care a whole awful lot.
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
WonderWomanLulu @wonderwomanlulu.bsky.social Just a blue veteran “wondering” thru life in a red state. Rockin out to LP on my runs.
RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social I've been told sarcasm is part of my charm. Animal lover, wrangler of yarn.
#AltFam
#TheResistance
AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info #AltGov
State Government Worker (not state dept)
Covering all the ways the actions of the Regime are impacting the work of state governments.
DMs open to reporting impacts you're seeing relating to program funding cuts.
Be an #AltCitizen.
awkword @awkword.bsky.social Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Journalist • @tendemands.bsky.social Co-Founder | @crushcolonialism.bsky.social Board | @joindayenu.bsky.social Comms | @unicornriot.bsky.social Writer • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com
Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social author of THE VEILED PROPHET — writing in The Nation, The Intercept, Slate, Jacobin, Boulevard — he/him — rep Erik Hane, Headwater Literary
https://linktr.ee/devintoshea
Jenna Taylor ♀️ @jennajacobin.bsky.social Political Scientist | Feminist Studies & Public Policy | Communications, Social and Political Psychology | Intersectional Existentialist Feminist
Trevor Aaronson @trevoraaronson.bsky.social Journalist writing a book about the FBI | Peabody winner | Pulse and Into the Madness now on Audible | Signal: taa.10 | linktr.ee/trevoraaronson
Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social Award-winning 🇨🇦 Journalist, Analyst, Producer Creator+ Host @thestateofthings.bsky.social National security, extremism, global affairs, mis/dis-information | OSINT | DM for Signal |
christysomos.com
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Pro-library socialism. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
Archives: https://eliaayoub.com
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social investigative journalist @ CORRECTIVㅣDowJones & WSJ alumㅣprevious work Lighthouse Reports, DW, Guardian, Wired and othersㅣOSINT, Tech, AI
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social Journalist @DerSpiegel
Will Potter @willpotter.bsky.social Author & TED Senior Fellow.
📕 LITTLE RED BARNS out now! https://willpotter.com/littleredbarns
Will Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com I'm a journalist and in my spare time media bothers me
model courage. make art. bear witness.
contributor to TrumpFile.org. storyteller working in words/fotos/music & more. Skeeting dad jokes & ample snark #StephHead #GayDad
https://bio.site/willpollock
Maja Sever @majasever.bsky.social Journalist, trade unionist, president of the European Federation of Journalists.
Sam Carliner @saminthecan.bsky.social Journalist | @leftvoice.bsky.social editor | I mostly write about U.S. foreign policy, immigration policy, and social movements | Newsletter below:
https://substack.com/@saminthecan?r=9ktav&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page
Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social Writing about culture, health, tech, bats, & anything else people will answer my questions about. Working alongside @madysen.bsky.social to report on the experiences of children of disabled parents. she/her
lindsaylwallace at gmail dot com & Signal llw.56
Cory Elia @coryelia.bsky.social Journalist and Editor from Portland, Oregon.
EIC Village Portland,
Podcaster at KBOO, &
Executive Producer/Director at All Cameras Are Busy Productions.
PSU & UO alumni.
Housing & Outreach Coordinator for Groundscore Association
https://linktr.ee/c
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social Reporter, most recently with @huffpost.com and @talkingpointsmemo.com.
Reach me: mattshuham.01 on Signal (don’t use a work device or network) ❁ 646-397-4678 ❁ mattshuham@protonmail.com. Read past work at mattshuham.com/clips.
📷 Rhiannon Adam
Beth Schwartzapfel @journo-beth.bsky.social Writer, reader, nerd. Reporter for The Marshall Project covering criminal (in)justice, esp LGBTQ+, parole, addiction, health. Host of VIOLATION. It's not on us to complete the work—but neither can we stop doing it.
Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social writing at the speed of trust
words in HuffPost, Mother Jones, LAT and more
levikalish@proton.me
Signal @levikalish.01
https://tips.hushline.app/to/LKalish
John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social Journalist and Translator.
Reporting for @lookoutnews.bsky.social
Newsletter, short essays on books and politics: https://johnwashington.substack.com/
Latest book, The Case for Open Borders: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2199-the
Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive"
signal: sandhya_.96
Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
Kevin Hirten @kdhirten.bsky.social @AJIunit Senior Producer.
Podcast host, ‘Al Jazeera Investigates’
& ‘The Take’ BAFTA-nominated.
Sometimes just posts travel photos. Opinions are my own.
Farrah Fazal @farrahfazal.bsky.social 📺Doc Producer/Director | EP
🎤Journalist: former war correspondent, fascism, race, politics, disinfo, extremism, cults, immigration, US-MX border
♥️Radical Love
🕊️”Truthful not neutral”
🌍US| AFRICA|UK|CAN|MIDDLE EAST
✊🏽SAG-AFTRA | 9 EMMYS
🦠Lyme warrior
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com Special Investigative Correspondent covering climate & movements @texasobserver.org • bernd@texasobserver.org • Signal: Candice.49
Preorder my new book:
“Blood, Soil & Oil” @haymarketbooks.org
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2860-blood-soil-and-oil
farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social Information operations, spinstorms & latent contradictions. #Drupal too! @unicorn.riot producer/reporter/thing doer
tinker poster mailer spry
Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social Writer @alternet.org some at RawStory ex: @salon
*opinions might be jokes*
Threads: @sarahburris
Spoutable: @sarahburris
Email: sarah at alternet.org
Oklahomie in Washington, D.C.
Animal lover
Recovering social media expert
Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books, including I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE and JEHANNE DARC. #Disabled from 40 yrs of MS.
Darlena Cunha @darlenacunha.bsky.social Journalist, (NYT, Washington Post, TIME), against fascism.
Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social journalist, podcast producer, illustrator | 1robgunther at gmail
Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
*Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (Substack + graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK
*Founder: Women In Media & News
*Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops
*Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE
*Comedy nerd
She/Her
The Right Podcast @therightpodcast.bsky.social I research and explain far-right politics, authoritarian movements, and ideological convergence. My work connects history, theory, and current events through long-form analysis. Site: therightpodcast.org Email: therightpodcast@proton.me
Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com 🏳️🌈⭐👏Newsletter Writer & Contributor @The Barbed Wire, formerly Digital Editor @Texas Observer, bylines in Teen Vogue, etc. Austin, Texas. They/Them.
Home: https://kitoconnell.com/
Get Big & Bright: https://thebarbedwire.com/subscribe/
Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social writer/photojournalist/loves movies
Writing: Visu.News
Portfolio: ZDRoberts.com
Movie Talk: ECVPodcast.com
Signal: @ZDRoberts.81
Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social reporter and whatnot
email: RASilverman@protonmail.com
Signal: RobertSilverman.71
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social Reporting on conspiracy theorists and the far-right.
Substack: https://thedayofreckoning.substack.com
Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/muuf3tk
Go Bills.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social Writing for @GlobeOpinion.bsky.social, speaking on @ms.now and #SistersInLaw. Snickers's scheduler. Believer in democracy, science and the rule of law. Upcycler. Expert thrifter. Typos are my love language. From Detroit, in Washington, of Boston.
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social Charismatic, NAR and Extremism researcher
Fluent in Sean Feucht
Breast cancer community organizer and survivor.
Taungurung [-o-]
📍LA
✍🏼
https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/authors/kate-burns/
More
https://linktr.ee/kateburnschad
carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social hijo del caribe & freelance journalist keeping tabs on collapse. (él/he)
support/subscribe: https://heavyweather.media/#/portal/signup
tips: carlosBP @ protonmail dot com
signal: @vaquero2XL.99
Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social USC Whistleblower. Independent Journalist: Politics, Investigations, Media. Barack Obama's 2008 Campaign One-Millionth Online Donor.
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://the-end.ghost.io/
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Noelle Cook @noellecook.com Author of THE CONSPIRACISTS: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, THE CONSPIRACISTS (2024) noellecook.com
https://linktr.ee/NoelleCook
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu