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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social Covering the moments you might have missed
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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social Exvangelical, atheist, DiY religious studies, cult studies, failed-apocalypse cringe-posting, weird shit, counter-extremism
School of Making Poor Life Choices
Only Slightly Doomed
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
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contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Travis View @travisview.bsky.social Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host.
QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia.
Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi - Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social
- Author of The Athletic's Until Saturday newsletter
- Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
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software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social Conspiracy theory journalist, expert witness, TPM contributor, author of JEWISH SPACE LASERS, THE STORM IS UPON US, and ZERO CONTAINMENT (Fall 2027). rothschildmd@protonmail.com for tips, speaking opportunities. Not related to the Rothschilds of Frankfurt.
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social 
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
Vacation Bible School Podcast 🏳️🌈 @vbs.bsky.social Crash-coursing the Bible, a book we were poorly taught as church kids. For believers/non-believers/whoever! By @jasonkirk.fyi and @its-mle.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vacation-bible-school-podcast/id1511438277
Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga.bsky.social skillet’s wario | youtube.com/masonmennenga | he/him
jessica @jessduit.bsky.social creativity, culture, care. homeschool reform and children’s rights champion. views are mine. fka hullojess.
Blake Chastain @brchastain.social Author, Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back. Host: Exvangelical. Words: RNS, Religion Dispatches. Yes I have a newsletter. www.blakechastain.com
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.
R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social Child liberation theologian, child and survivor advocate. Learn more about my work: www.rlstollar.com. He/him.
Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com Artist/writer/podcaster/organizer from Oakland, living in Berlin. #ShinyHappyPeople season 2. Co-hosted @kitchentablecult.com
https://darkwaterprojects.com/
Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social RGG Studios please notice me
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-Creator of Ok2BeFat
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-Bisexual 💗 AuDHD 🕺 -Exvangelical 😱
Watch me on Twitch-
https://twitch.tv/artists_ali
The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social aka the Rabbit Hole Cartographer.
Mapping the folklore and history of the borderland sciences.
Conspiracism Taxonomist.
I study horrible people who believe weird things.
patreon.com/QuacksAnonymous
Qt @qtalk.bsky.social I’m probably submerged in an adrenochrome fountain or back in gitmo
Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social Former conspiracy theorist. Head of DOUBT - Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together support group for formers.HONR Network volunteer. Freelance writer pub in Skeptical Inquirer & AIPT. tinyurl.com/StephKemmerer DOUBTIsTheWayOut@proton.me
Sims 4 CC creator
Potty-Mouthed Ex-Pastor’s Wife @jennywood.bsky.social XChristian, Dabbler, Creatrix
I want to know more about IFS, Jung, Archetypes, Tarot, gardening, herbs, hearth magic
I write here woodcarver.substack.com w/ @thismicahcarver.bsky.social
Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com The Conspiracy is Real. A podcast by @eveettinger.com and @mxdarkwater.com connecting the dots between the Christian Nationalism they grew up in and the current state of politics in the US.
https://kitchentablecult.com 
DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social He/Him. Raised in Oathkeepers and the Militia Right, rural Montana delegate to the crash and burn DNC of '24 and fighting mad State Legislature candidate in 2026. Sometimes a writer, known local troublemaker, subject of a documentary, Aquarius ♒️.
Teddy Hose @teddyhose.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Humorist
Cult survivor on A&E's Cults & Extreme Belief
+ Netflix's Explained & How to Become a Cult Leader
CV: HuffPost, Laughing Squid, McSweeney’s
TikTok:@2dhose | IG:@teddyhose
https://linktr.ee/teddyhose
Shan Buncha Lastnames @parasocialmomma.bsky.social US Home of Caffeinated Nerds Clusters
Subject matter expert: Prevention & Disengagement/Rehabilitation violence-based extremism
"No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars."~Ursula K. Le Guin
https://patreon.com/shannonfoleymartinez?utm
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Cultish @cultish.skyfleet.blue All things related sects
News & podcasts about High Control/Coercive Group / Sects / Cults / NRM's
🆘 @skyfleet.blue 
Alexandra Stein @alexandrastein.bsky.social Social psychologist specialising in cults and totalitarian systems. My books: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in cults and totalitarian systems & Inside Out: A memoir of entering into and breaking out of a political cult. www.alexandrastein.com
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Leah Remini @leahremini.bsky.social Mother. Wife. Actress. Author. Advocate. Student. 
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Sarah Steel @letstalkaboutsects.bsky.social Podcaster: Let’s Talk About Sects | Author: Do As I Say
https://linktr.ee/letstalkaboutsects
Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social Cohost at http://conspirituality.net.
DM for Signal. Antifascist Dad forthcoming from North Atlantic: Spring 2026: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/
Mike Rinder @mikerinder.bsky.social Blogging at mikerindersblog.org.
Author: A Billion Years My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Exposing abuses of Scientology on YouTube @MikeRinderSP
Erika Bornman @erikabornman.bsky.social Award-winning author of ‘Mission of Malice’. A whistleblower and storyteller working to make the world safe for children.
Tony Ortega @tonyortega.bsky.social On sale: 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely' https://amzn.to/3nciFKa; in the movie 'Going Clear'; Blog: http://tonyortega.substack.com
M @munira.bsky.social Founder and CEO of @chasseur.group. Conflict, CT, and emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social The dapperest of ducks.
I mock and I know things.
QAnon analysis featured in Vice, Newsweek, Daily Mail, CBS News.
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
pitch me! https://tinyurl.com/mpgphd
Martin Geoffroy (il/lui) @geoffroysociologue.bsky.social Professeur-chercheur en sociologie au Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. Fondateur du CEFIR. Processus sectaires, complotisme et radicalisation. Cults and the Far-right in Quebec. 
Anarcho-Sunni Aqidah Rizz @anarchosunni.bsky.social In the cut. Tipping on four fours. Research, analysis and who is Mike Jones. Author of "Hadith on Lean." Expert of expertise. Rolling in a slab for @ISDglobal
Μ (Μέλι) @malikacoexist.bsky.social Researching online extremist communities (Islamic State, AQ, white supremacy) | @GNET_research contributor
André Gagné 🇨🇦 @profgagne.bsky.social Full Professor & Chair, Dept. of Theological Studies, Concordia University (Montréal) | Research: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity; Religion and Politics; Evangelicalism; Reception of the Bible
• Faculty page: https://shorturl.at/Riclq
Brandon Grafius @bgrafius.bsky.social Bible and horror scholar, associate professor and dean. Recent book: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506481623/Lurking-Under-the-Surface. Words at Salon, Sojourners, and Tor.com.
Michael E. Heyes @thedemonologist.bsky.social I am a professor of religion who teaches elements of popular culture, monstrosity, and medieval studies. My writings are primarily about demons and the demonic, currently present-day American demonology and politics: https://linktr.ee/mheyes
Apostate Alex - Scientology activist @apostatealex.bsky.social Alexander 'Apostate Alex' Barnes-Ross is an activist calling for an end to Scientology's abusive practices.
Blog: https://scientologybusiness.com
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@apostatealex
@cultnews.bsky.social @cultnews.bsky.social 
Janja Lalich @jlalich.bsky.social 
Jill Aebi-Mytton @jilla-m.bsky.social Raised in the Exclusive Brethren, my family left when I was 16. I now research the psychology of cults & the well-being of those who leave. Other interests- space, auroras, travel, books, classical music mostly NO CHAT UP LINES - so creepy US men take note
Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
Julie Anne Smith @defendthesheep.bsky.social I have 2 gigs:
1) I am one of the #DisobedientWomen and 'Sheep lady' blogger concerned about the harm done to women and the vulnerable in the name of Christ. #churchtoo (Bio: http://goo.gl/eFI15S)
2) Cybersecurity Analyst
she/her
Jan Vömel @janvoemel.bsky.social Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social PhD. Social Worker. Author: ‘Gutsy Girls’ @uqpbooks 2025, & ‘Leaving Christian Fundamentalism & the Reconstruction of Identity', Routledge, 2016.
Environmentalist. No DMs.
Living in Sydney NSW: Gadigal land.
#exvangelical
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
#GatorNation #GoBolts #GoBucs #RaysUp
#FLwx
they/them
Opinions mine
https://ko-fi.com/KEBrightbill
Napoleon Bonarpant @palehorsebeholder.bsky.social Scalawag
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Qualified to talk about a limited number of things
Coalition for Responsible Home Education @responsiblehs.bsky.social Fighting for homeschooled children’s right to a quality education in a safe home. Founded and powered by homeschooled people. #MakeHomeschoolSafe
crhe.org
Micah Carver @thismicahcarver.bsky.social Storyteller. Father. Husband. Other things.
I write about #MalePatternBrokenness and #TheEtiquetteofFallingApart, among other things. Follow @jennywood.bsky.social and find me/us all across the internet:
https://linktr.ee/micahcarver
The Deconversion Files @deconversionfiles.bsky.social Humanist, writer, ex evangelical missionary, writing mentor.
The Tattooed Theologian @dillon-naber-cruz.bsky.social Author, commentator on religion and politics, co-host of The God Squad Pod, and panelist on Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on SiriusXM Progress. Permaculture enthusiast.
Rachel Klinger Cain @rachelklingercain.bsky.social Will never experience true happiness again since they discontinued pistachio Oreos.
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Scholar of Christian nationalism and the American Right. Award-winning author and podcaster. Co-host of @straightwhitejc and founder of Axis Mundi Media. Words: NYT, Rolling Stone, Politico, NBC, HuffPost, LARB, Revealer, and more.
www.axismundi.us
Dr Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of Leeds. New/minority religions. Socialist. I love cats, coffee, and off-kilter pop music. He/him. 🖖
Joseph Laycock @josephlaycock.bsky.social I'm a religious studies professor. I study new religious movements, exorcism, and satanic panic, among other topics. https://sites.google.com/view/joseph-p-laycock/
D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Autistic non-binary, exvangelical, tired. Co-founder of STRONGWILLED, a multi-media project focused on survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods.
http://strongwilledproject.com
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
Karma2023 @karma2023.bsky.social Michael Protzman aka -48 cult researcher.
Conspiracy theories/QAnon researcher.
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