Jo Locktov @jolocktov.bsky.social Complacency is not an option
co-founder Portland Cruise Control ⚓️ Maine
https://bsky.app/profile/portcruisecontrol.bsky.social
cruise ships are a climate catastrophe
Venetophile
Jane Flegal @janeaflegal.bsky.social Executive Director, Blue Horizons Foundation. Formerly @Stripe Climate/Frontier, @WhiteHouse Climate, @Hewlett_Found, Spitzer Trust. PhD @ESPM_Berkeley. Views my own.
@th1ngsfallapart.bsky.social @th1ngsfallapart.bsky.social Classical liberalism, represetative democracy, equality before the law. 0 tolerance for bigotry.
Certified reply guy.
I try hard to be sane, introspective & measured when I post. Easier said than done.
Read my pinned thread before following me.
He/Him
Maine People's Alliance @mainepeople.bsky.social Maine’s largest progressive community action organization. Fighting for a world where everyone has what they need, contributes what they can, and no one is left behind. mainepeoplesalliance.org
Senator Angus King @senangusking.bsky.social News from the office of Independent U.S. Senator Angus King of Maine. Following/reposting does not equal an endorsement.
Indivisible Mid Maine @indivmidmaine.bsky.social Dedicated to non-violently creating, supporting, & publicizing events to raise awareness; mitigating & protesting the harm being done by this administration; & moving our local, state & national officials to oppose The Coup and Project 2025 on all fronts.
Landulph @landulph.bsky.social 
Steve Benen @stevebenen.com Rachel Maddow Show producer, MaddowBlog author, MS NOW contributor, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
💥LazarTagWolf💥 @lazartagwolf.bsky.social Nice, but enjoy a good scrap.
(((Member))) of the 79%.
Cuss word enthusiast, Wife, Mom, Gen X’er, Born & bred Californian, Biden/Harris/Hillary/ Democrat, Lauren Underwood Stan. Shitlib, Vote Shamer. Over It.
🚫 Nazis in the Big Tent.
SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social I speak for me: a Liberal, a Democrat, & a Sane person who believes in facts, reality, science, healthcare, & civil rights. I fight for a sustainable future.
🏳️🌈⚖️🍂
Pronouns: he/him
Ecosystems: Windows/Android
Languages: English/C#/SQL
Liberal AF
Autistic
Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇺🇸💙 🤜#FightFascism🤛
Glad I left Elon’s cesspool
Formerly @inc_musings on X
Political Science major
• Loves nature & the outdoors
• Always flying in my dreams
• Never grew out of my WHY phase
• 👉 NO DM’s 👈
https://bsky-users.theo.io/
World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther @corncobanalysis.bsky.social 🤯
woke degree holder
read takes at https://electioncord.com/
Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social Among other things, I'm an occasional contributor at @LiberalCurrents.com
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/author/dennis/
Liberal and in the fight
Also: all things train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org Seeking to improve government and impact public policies through education & advocacy. Also at @VOTE411 for elections info!
VoteHub @votehub.com Your hub for elections. 🇺🇸 Detailed maps, live election night coverage, and analysis backed by deeper data.
votehub.com
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social Inwood NYC resident, professional Internetter. #ProAbortion, trying every day to be #AntiRacist, #AmWriting. Alt Text user. Opinions my own. “Hope is a discipline.”—@prisonculture.bsky.social.
Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social Progressive Independent Media - News, Views, and Analysis | Media for Progress | American Rights are Human Rights | Egalitarian | SoCal | 🚫 AI
Food and Politics @foodandpolitics.bsky.social Food systems, agriculture, and electoral politics. I write Food and Politics and build The Needle Project, a 2026 Senate forecasting model. DC.
My Newsletter: https://foodandpolitics.substack.com
Election Forecasting: https://theneedleproject.vercel.app
Nathan from Michigan @nathanfrommi.bsky.social Precinct Delegate, Political Treasurer, member of the LCI, and ELCA. Former member of the UAW (former local CAP Chair 2022-2025) Wayne County MI Democrat (we need a county party). Self-proclaimed Trade Union Starter Pack guy. Son, brother and friend.
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.
Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social Voracious reader, home cook, gardener, knitter - actually, I'm a hobbit, and have been since LOTR came out when I was a young teen.
Gretta Wark @gjw6.bsky.social Mainer. Democrat.
@anti-maga1.bsky.social @anti-maga1.bsky.social Organizing at the intersection of economic justice and civil rights. Fighting for systemic reform, labor rights, and a fair economy. Let's talk policy, politics, and building a better future. 🌹⚖️
Donna Bailey @deebers.bsky.social Don't call me a Boomer and we'll get along just fine #genjones
lawyer, genealogist, historian
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Raphael @raphael-pbl.bsky.social Used to be raphaelptw on the birdsite. Guy with nerdy/geeky interests who's pretty bad at most of the usual nerd/geek stuff. Politically ranging from center to very leftist depending on issue.
he/him
(Avatar shows trees reflected in the water of a pond)
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
MJ @princessmom122.bsky.social Mother of a princess
Esther S. Yoo @estheryoo.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law | Director, Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic
Jay Field @unorganizedterritory.org Former award-wining public radio reporter. Founder of Unorganized Territory and Frost Heaves on Substack. Maine is my forever home.
Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social Tom Carter has been the source of a wealth of material & insight [on Leonard Leo] - Gareth Gore
Much of what we know about Leonard Leo is through the work of Tom Carter - Lisa Graves
Tom follows Leo the way other people follow the Mets - Greg Olear
Claire Sommer @clairesommer.bsky.social Midcoast. Blue. Green.
Not Vex as in 🏳️🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.social Wine, Politics, M:TG, Derby, Urban Affairs, Travel. Probably bad puns. All views expressed here are actually yours; sorry, I don't make the rules. they/them Toronto based, but I get around.
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social Lawfare Senior Editor - MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst - Former FBI Special Agent
Meg Heckman @megheckman.bsky.social Associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University. Exploring modern gender politics through the lens of media history. Also: local news revitalization, digital humanities and writing.
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
Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social Mainer by birth. Logger by trade. With your help, Senator for the people.
http://www.JacksonForMaine.com
Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social Lefty queer journalist, trickster, memoirist: The Nation, Salon, the Village Voice.
donnaminkowitz.com
Straight Outta Cortisol @silvawolves.bsky.social Fighting the autoimmune diseases fight daily.
I literally don’t have the cortisol to deal with ~gestures everywhere~
#Crohn’s #Adrenalinsufficiency #SAI #Ostomate
#Maine
She/Her occasionally answers to “Hey you”
Laurie Wainberg @lauriewainberg.bsky.social democracy, media and anthropomorphizing cats
Prof. Nathan Shrader @nathanrshrader.bsky.social Professor, Pundit, & Ward Heeler. Cockeyed optimist. Red Sox. Phils. Yellow Dog. Wrasslin’ aficionado. PA MS NH. Opinions are my own.
Defenestrate Russia @defenestraterussia.bsky.social If by chance you find yourself standing near a window in a tall building, and Putin happens to be standing near that window... push him through it.
Persephone @acadia-maine.bsky.social Every billionaire is a policy failure.
A Non-Platner-Cult-Mainer working in DC.
ZIONIST - Take your anti semitic ass elsewhere.
[[[Save the animals - eat plants]]]
Jacob Bryant @pantsb.bsky.social 
SmilingMooseMainah🌲 @smilingmoosemainah.bsky.social Broadcasting from the middle of Maine.
I have friends everywhere.
Elbows up.
❤️🇨🇦 💙🇺🇦
🖖
Fi 🏴 Independence For Scotland! 🏴 @asenathmagic.bsky.social Scottish wumin 🏴
3 kids. 2 Dogs. 1 cat. 1 husband.
👱👱👱♀️🐶🐶🐱👨
#IndyScotland 🏴
#ADHD/Autism mum
Art 🎨, sci-fi 👽, space 🪐, movies🎬, Lovecraft 🦑, weird stuff👀
I 🚫MAGA, porn, crypto scammers & grifters. I 🚫DMs
Jean @voynichjean.bsky.social Interests include the Voynich manuscript and freshwater aquarium fish. You’re all bots, aren’t you?
@mountaingirl254.bsky.social @mountaingirl254.bsky.social ⛷️🎿🏔️🚵
Maine
Democratic AGs @dems.ag A league of justice, if you will • The only committee working to elect Democratic Attorneys General • Equity, equality, & weird pluralization fans ⚖️ dems.ag
@willdarrell.bsky.social @willdarrell.bsky.social Baby Boomer, Proud progressive-liberal, Bates College graduate, Born in Miami, FL, raised in Portland, ME. Worked/lived in Wash. DC 18yrs. Watched Am. politics since Watergate, British TV drama and The Wire. Visited London, UK. Read murder mysteries. Leo.
@gutbucketblues.bsky.social @gutbucketblues.bsky.social 
The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
@rbaldacci1.bsky.social @rbaldacci1.bsky.social 
@elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social Former NIH Program Official for 22 years. Speaking in my personal capacity. Opinions expressed are my own.
Christopher De Vries @unnecessary.tech maker of unnecessary technology
maintainer of @auroraalert.bsky.social
he/him
https://unnecessary.tech
Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social Politics Editor for @washingtonmonthly.com
Androscoggin County Democrats @androscoggindems.bsky.social Electing Democrats to office in Androscoggin County, Maine.
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Thakman📎🇺🇸 @thakman.bsky.social Retired Semiconductor Engineer
Devoted Human Dog Daddy
Born and Raised in #BroncoCountry #WNCStrong
Will block accounts that want to Chat
Derek Lane @dereklane.bsky.social Politics and nonsense, mostly.
T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights @truahrabbis.bsky.social Moral rabbinic voice protecting & advancing human rights in U.S., Israel & occupied Palestinian territories. Words = worlds. #ResistingTyrants.- S @smr260.bsky.social @smr260.bsky.social
Wm Statz @wkstatz.bsky.social Retired military. Public Health, trail runner and occasional editor of fiction podcasts.
Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social Writer, photographer, cyclist, naturalist, martial artist, tall ship sailor. The Pirate Guy of Blue Sky, apparently. Mexican-American. No kings in America. He/him. San Diego, CA.
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Oran Magal @oranmagal.bsky.social I teach philosophy for a living. Working on a novel. World-weary.
Secession anticipator @intolerablesit.bsky.social 
Victoria Zunitch @vickizun.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Journalist
Science Recognizer
President Criticizer
In for a penny, in for a pound.
@withinreasonvmd.bsky.social @withinreasonvmd.bsky.social Shallow thinker who spends too much time wonderin’ where the lions are, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, where to find a quality second breakfast, how is it bigger on the inside, and what kind of mileage do you get on a Krebs cycle?
Trish Owen @trish0116.bsky.social Fleeing X.Hoping to reconnect with others fleeing the platform. #StillWithHer
Democrat through&through. Women’s rights are human rights. “mind your own damned business”-TimWalz #EpsteinFilesPublishThemNow
IF: Nopicture/NoProfile/NoPosts=NoFollow
NO DMs🚫
michele collins @michelecollins5411.bsky.social Retired Architect. The Sidecar is the best cocktail. Ask your bartender.
@acadia23.bsky.social @acadia23.bsky.social 
Unreconstructed Curmudgeon @ems1944.bsky.social Husband, father and, really, nothing else matters. Retired publisher & consultant.
jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social public service. deep breaths, long horizons.
Show Me The Hope @show-me-the-hope.bsky.social I believe in American democracy - in liberty & justice for all - in the rule of law - in this nation of immigrants. What our WWII heroes paid in defense of this democratic republic must not be in vain. It's our turn, America. Rise up! Resist fascism! 🇺🇸
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Emily Mayer @emilymayersc.bsky.social She/her. #scpol strategy is my thing; trying to make it everyone else’s 🥴. Unapologetically opinionated and outspoken. Recovering people pleaser, former candidate, forever educator.
(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social Ukraine-born Russian-speaking Jewish-American non-believer, physicist, and educator. My favorite answer to a yes/no question is "yes but no".
Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com Historian, geek, social justice advocate, storyteller, maker
✊🏽 History of Racism | ⚖️ Social Justice | 📚 Ergodic Fiction | 📝 Interactive Storytelling | 🗣️ Communication Theory | 🏗️ Scale Models | 🏰 Disney | 🧱 LEGO | 🚀 Star Wars | 🐈⬛ Black Cats
JCSouperstar 🌱 @storyheadjill.bsky.social Gardener, homeschool mom, erstwhile poet, lapsed UU.
Selling tropical (mostly) edible plants & seeds from Southwest Florida.
etsy.com/shop/camplus
Typo Queen. 💁♀️
National Day Laborer Organizing Network @ndlon.bsky.social Building power with immigrant workers from the bottom up. ✊🏽🍞🌹
Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social General Counsel, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON).
Faculty, UCLA Labor Studies Department
Follower of @marjoriegarcia.bsky.social
Vituperative tweeter w/ a gentle heart
Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social Still working on a Mitski/Minsky pun; wine mom for big fiscal (the Bidenomics version)
https://ninaephd.org/
Carrington Ward @carringtonward.bsky.social I spent too much time on Twitter. I take some solace that Elon spent too much money on it.
Kevin Deutsch @kevinscottdeutsch.bsky.social 🪬Award-winning Jewish Communities Reporter @coralspringstalk
Substack:
AFTER OCTOBER 7
Subscribe here: https://open.substack.com/pub/kevindeutsch
Stories in @kcjewishchronicle
DM for inquiries
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Founder, The Gaia Leadership Project & The Ripple Effect Institute; political/leadership consultant; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights atty; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; NYer 4ever; Host, ResistanceLive on YT https://www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm
Sonya 🕊️ @sonya.eurosky.social 🚺 She/her
⭐️ Tejana
📍 Houston, TX
Professional interests: immigration, public international law, & natsec
Personal interests: pop culture, tech, & cats
Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia.
MichaelLeroyOberg.com
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Liz @kidsandpets.bsky.social Lover of humor, politics, and religion, really anything that you shouldn't say at dinner. Kindness Bully/ promoter of social justice. Love people, all kids, and pets/planet, Oh and food! I love food. 100% UU in faith and Action. No DM. Profile=follow.
Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social Energy & Climate Geopolitics
Head of Political Strategy @350.org
Energy Co-Lead, International Climate Policy Hub.
Views = my own
Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social It’s Reagan’s fault
he/him
Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com software engineer and illustrator. soccer fan: #USMNT, #USWNT, #NWSLBoston, Portland #UpTheHearts, QPR, Serbia. anti-racist. anti-terf
https://bensaufley.com
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social Venturing over here for a look. To quote myself, “I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done; but if not, they might go to hell, and I would go to The Other Site.”