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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social Science/medical writer & media relations for University of Michigan (Michigan Medicine/Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation) focusing on #primarycare, #mentalhealth, aging & #healthpolicy Mom, wife, baker, French horn player, AAAS Fellow, J! bronze
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social Nothing but #fintwitter headlines to get you started on blue sky.
BBC News (World) @bbc.s.cafe.ap.brid.gy News, features and analysis from the World's newsroom. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://s.cafe/@BBC, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency Https://www.johndickerson.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Christian Nightmares @christiannightmare.bsky.social Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️ https://christiannightmares.substack.com/subscribe
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social be inspired or be DESTROYED @skeletor@mas.to
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you? Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole Add confession b3ta.com/addfess Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21 Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social Politics, Music and Sports
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words @washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian. All at brookeharrington.com
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader big famous microblogger pet account reactionary flamboyant wrecker goddess of uselessness antisocial influencer [she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
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 She/They/bad at gender My apologies for continuing to be relevant
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩 newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.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.
Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi - Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social - Author of The Athletic's college football newsletter - Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
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.
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
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.
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 they never take the country out me. writer, strategist, homeschool subject matter expert, children's rights advocate. 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 -Yakuza/Like A Dragon Streamer -Artist -Creator of Ok2BeFat -Fat Activist (mostly retired) -Bisexual 💗 AuDHD 🕺 -Exvangelical 😱 Watch me on Twitch- https://twitch.tv/artists_ali
Qt @qtalk.bsky.social I’m probably submerged in an adrenochrome fountain or back in gitmo
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
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
Leah Remini @leahremini.bsky.social Mother. Wife. Actress. Author. Advocate. Student.
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
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
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America 🙄 also "cults" 🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF 📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020) https://megan-goodwin.com/design
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
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://www.michaeleheyes.com/
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 - 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,co-host of The God Squad Pod, and panelist on The John Fugelsang Show on SiriusXM Progress. Permaculture enthusiast. Enjoyer of sports. Swears a lot.
Rachel Klinger Cain @rachelklingercain.bsky.social Will never experience true happiness again since they discontinued pistachio Oreos.
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
Hilde Løvdal Stephens @hildelstephens.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of American Studies, Uni of Oslo. Book: Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home (2019). Interests: religion, education, political culture. Fulbright alumna.
Tablets and Temples @tabletsandtemples.bsky.social Unpacking Ancient History and Religion on YouTube www.youtube.com/@tabletsandtemples
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
Helene Meyers @helenemeyers.bsky.social writer, career educator, lover & critic of Jewish literature & film. Author of MOVIE-MADE JEWS: AN AMERICAN TRADITION. Forthcoming: ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS https://helenemeyers.com/
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover Yashar.substack.com Twitter: @yashar IG/Threads @yasharali
Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social America’s stepdad
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
Lance Storm @lancestorm.bsky.social Pro Wrestler SMW, WAR, ECW, WCW, WWE Producer TNA Wrestling Podcaster F4WOnline 🇨🇦
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social My new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, is out now on Nonesuch Records!
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. https://eleanorjanega.com/
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right Hugo winner Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
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
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social
Poker And Politics @pokerpolitics.bsky.social QAnon is a cult that ruins lives.
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.