Democracy Defenders Action @democracydefendersaction.org Democracy Defenders Action brings together a bipartisan, all-star team of experts to fight autocracy, protect the constitution and safeguard American democracy. https://linktr.ee/DemocracyDefendersAction
Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social Leftist, He/him
Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social Minnesota rep, matka, art person, tree person.
she//her
Lizz Winstead she/her @lizzwinstead.bsky.social Comedian. Co-creator of The Daily Show. Abortion Czar and Founder of @AbortionAccessFront. Host Feminist Buzzkills podcast. Author, "Lizz Free Or Die" Lizz Winstead on Substack
Views are my own, not of the organizations I am affiliated with. #AbortionAF
Iain Thomson @iainthomson.bsky.social UK journalist in SF covering security, space, and science, and stuff that looks fun. Into sailing, F1, F5, the Oxford comma, and Marmite.
All views my own. Signal: iainthomson.60 if you want to talk. Reluctantly siliconlimey on Insta & iainthomson on X.
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com Dublin's independent local newspaper, since 2015. Reader-funded through subscriptions. Wednesdays and Fridays online, monthly in print.
Decrim NY @decrimny.bsky.social Working to decriminalize, decarcerate and destigmatize the sex trades in NY. #CeciliasAct
linktr.ee/decrimny
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social stop your cryin' it's alright
texas culture reporter for @chron.com
🏳️⚧️
Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Call me Gigi! (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ Best selling author of diverse LGBTQ+ romance books and episodic serials. I also publish dark romance and paranormal romance books as Jasper Hyde. 🔞ADULTS ONLY! https://tinyurl.com/ypee4v36
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social @jollygoodginger.bsky.social 
Dawokefarmer @dawokefarmer.bsky.social I fight fascism with the 1st amendment!
Please support my mission here gofund.me/1db38e3a6
chrisjuhn.bsky.social @chrisjuhn.bsky.social Minneapolis-based photojournalist covering breaking news across Minnesota and beyond. Documenting humanity as it unfolds.
facebook.com/chris.juhn
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social Portland Mercury news editor. 🗞️ Got a tip? cvaughn @ portlandmercury.com
Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social The future is mutual aid. ✨ 💪
Trying to build community at the intersections of art and justice movements, sometimes organizing mutual aid fundraisers and distributing zines. 🕎 for a free 🇵🇸.
Dog auntie, flower lover, tchotchke queen. she/her
Justin @justinskolnick.com justinskolnick.com
Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social Investigative reporter @StreetRoots.bsky.social.
All about people and our needs. Signal: henry.3210 henry@streetroots.org
Past: Newspapers via WA’s state-funded Murrow News Fellowship, VA NPR stations via @reportforamerica.bsky.social and @PBSNews.org.
Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social 🍆Guggenheim Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama and the face that used to launch 1000 free meals off Tinder. www.KristinaWong.com 🧵🪡
Serene Khader @serenekhader.bsky.social Author of Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop, Decolonizing Universalism, and Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment. Political philosopher, feminist theorist, CUNY Professor and NYC enthusiast
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io she/her/xe/xer
Support my work: https://taliabhatt.com
Preorder CALL ME KIMBERLY: https://taliabhatt.com/#rcbg
Co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social, co-author of "Attack Dogs" with @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Read ATTACK DOGS: attackdogs.ju.mp
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Caty Simon @marginalutilite.bsky.social Ex-lumpenprole,ruthless editrix,tedious dilettante, community researcher,mediocre organizer.National Survivors Union/NC Survivors Union/Whose Corner Is It Anyway/Yale School of Medicine--give to gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway
Shannon Perez-Darby @shannonperezdarby.bsky.social Co-founder of Accountable Communities Consortium and Co-host of The Popaganda Podcast
Megan Burbank @meganburbank.bsky.social reporting on culture & post-Roe abortion policy at Slate, The Nation, NPR, The New Republic, Axios. helping out at The WSJ. girl about town at Burbank Industries. previously Crosscut, Seattle Times, Portland Mercury, The Stranger.
meganburbank.substack.com
The Celluloid Bordello 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @whoresonfilm.bsky.social An award-winning documentary history of sex workers in cinema. www.whoresonfilm.com
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
nat raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social poet & activist-scholar
📚 Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds @plutopress.bsky.social
📚 apparitions (nines), Nightboat Books
Queer.party/@fullnommunism
she/her
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social Grassroots, undocumented-led movement that works to end the detention of immigrants and stop all deportations.
https://linktr.ee/laresistencianw
Dr. Wolff @wolffdr.bsky.social My research focuses on intersex and trans justice. Wish I was paddle boarding.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/body-problems
Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org JOBS / JOURNALISM / JUSTICE
https://www.realchangenews.org/
📰 Our award-winning paper is sold by people who are houseless and low-income.
The views expressed here DO NOT reflect the newsroom.
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
MuckRock @muckrock.com The easy way to request and share public records, making government more transparent and democracies more informed.
Learn more: https://www.muckrock.com/
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
DAIR Possible Futures @dairfutures.bsky.social A workshop series where we make zines that answer the question: what happens when we imagine otherwise?
Run by @dylnbkr.bsky.social and @paulinewee.bsky.social from @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Sign up for workshops:
>>> https://linktr.ee/dair.futures <<<
Tomomi Yamaguchi @tomomiyg.bsky.social Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan); Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Montana State University (USA)
Cultural Anthropology, Japan Studies, Feminism
Kimberlé Crenshaw @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social Co-Founder & ED @aapf.org
Host of @imkcpodcast.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia Law School &
UCLA Law School
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
See what's new at akpress.org!
IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social A leading public policy research institute, based at the University of Bath. We aim to further the public good through research into issues of significant relevance to policy debate and decision-making.
Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social 📍 Portland, OR
📚 History. Philosophy. Political economy. Sci-fi.
⚡🚈🌱🚲 Decarbonization.
🌹Trying to show solidarity and keep an open mind. A veces posteo en español también.
Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social Crime, cops, courts, fire reporter at The Spokesman-Review. Covering both Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Formerly both TV & print in Boise, ID. Reach me on Signal: aduggan.58
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
autonomynews.co
trip eggert @tripeggert.bsky.social doing it for the bit and a better world.
previously: @vera.org @themarshallproject.org @brennancenter.org, forever proud organizer of @vera-union.bsky.social. they 👈🤠👉 them.
Nick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social Just a guy
Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social director of politics and science @wired.com, co-host of Uncanny Valley (available wherever you get your podcasts!) -- signal leahfeiger.86 with tips
Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social Editor-at-Large @ProPublica. I ❤️ journalism and good trouble. Tips/ideas: eric.umansky@propublica.org and securely on Signal EricUmansky.04.
More about me: https://www.propublica.org/people/eric-umansky
Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social on Signal: reece_rogers.01
Climate.us @climate.us We are an independent, nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Donate: https://www.climate.us/donate
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
OUR Little Free Diverse Library 小小彩色圖書館 @ourlfdl.bsky.social ✨義 ✨喜
Justice, joy and community centered space.
Increasing access to DIVERSE books in and around so-called #PDX #ReadInColor #LittleFreeLibrary #MomSky #BookSky
Est. 2022 https://www.instagram.com/rockcreek_diverselibrary?igsh=em5wbTZwa210a3h3
Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social naturalized US citizen born in soviet bloc.
who we are is less important than what we want and we want everything, for everyone.
@OldSquida2@kolektiva.social (i lost my password 🙄)
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social Criminologist and academic | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics & policy #ScotPol | Personal account/views.
📍 Scotland 🏴
Seattle Zine Fest @seattlezinefest.org A celebration of DIY and self-published creative works. Dedicatedly unpretentious, locally-focused. Sunday 7/26/26 in Capitol Hill!!
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. | http://signsjournal.org | Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/signsjournal
Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social Filter was a nonprofit news outlet covering drugs, harm reduction and human rights from 2018-2026. The website remains online: https://filtermag.org
Isobel Bess @echosequence.space laid off at the condensery
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social Author, speaker, and organizer. PhD researching political philosophy, social movements, and trans history. She/her
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Brent Hennrich 🇺🇸 For Congress (D) 💯PRO CHOICE! @bhennrich.bsky.social Husband to Amber & Father to 3 amazing children & 1 gone too soon. Running for Congress in #WA03 for affordability & to TAX the RICH to pay their fair share. "Look for the helpers!" #MGPisGOP & she will lose her seat. Learn more at BH4C.COM #DismantleICE
Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com 💯Pittsburgh’s alternative for news, art, and entertainment.
🆓Always free in print and online.
pghcitypaper.com
Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
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🤓 Fellow at Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🗞️ Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
🆕 Anchor on Medlines
Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Lawyer (not yours), Catholic. Opposed to Trump’s cruelty and lawlessness. There and Back Again (Oregon -> Spokane -> DC -> Oregon).
onpolitics.news @onpolitics.news Dive Deep into Democracy. https://onpolitics.news is a political news and media aggregator with the latest articles, videos, podcasts and social posts. Top new articles posted here every hour.
Support the journalists and their publishers.
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social Your friendly local Wired science editor
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social writer, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival ,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. seen a lot, still doing the rest. brownstargirl.org
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, coming soon!
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
Photo from 1999
https://www.calebward.xyz/
Life is impermanent and so are reposts.
Braided River Campaign @braidedriverpdx.bsky.social Working with river communities for just, green laws in Portland, OR. #justice #democracy #climate www.braidedrivercampaign.org
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Stella, l'amie de Maimie @amiesdestella.bsky.social Stella, l'amie de Maimie, par et pour les travailleuses du sexe. Pour la #décriminalisation et pour travailler en santé, sécurité et avec dignité #sexwork www.chezstella.org
ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance. Formerly ICRSE.
We are a network of 100+ member organisations in 30+ countries in Europe and Central Asia, working to support human and labour rights of sex workers.
www.eswalliance.org
Third Wave Fund @thirdwavefund.bsky.social ☄️ Gender Justice fund
💰 Resourcing U.S. youth-led organizing
🎤 Listen to our podcast, “Mic Check!”
🔌 Subscribe to our newsletter
linktr.ee/thirdwavefund
Decolonial Sex Worker Justice Empowerment Project @dswjeproject.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/dswjep
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association @scarletalliance.bsky.social National peak body for sex workers & sex worker organisations in unceded Australia. Fighting for our rights, health & safety since 1989.
https://linktr.ee/scarlet_alliance
RUS - Red Umbrella Sweden @redumbrellasweden.bsky.social ☂️ Community and Advocacy for $€x Workers 🇸🇪 Sweden 📱 Swish: 1231333715
dzz Yenn @dz-yenn.bsky.social ☂️ Activist for sex workers' rights and related issues.
📍 🇪🇸, 🇪🇺, 🗺️
📧 dz.yenn@pm.me
(DMs open)
#TrabajoSexualEsTrabajo — #SexWorkIsWork
La reducción de daños importa — Harm reduction matters.
Antipunitivista — abolish prisions; end violence.
LGBTIQAP+
Blake PDX @pdxblake.bsky.social I am a loudmouth from Portsmouth. I love public education, getting around on a bike & e-cargo bike with 2 kids and creating a better future for everyone. #YIMBY #ClimateAction #Urbanism #Equity #Inclusion #ClimateJustice
DeLaine ✨6’1 Giantess @delaineinla.bsky.social 🔞NSFW. 6’1” tall & curvy Giantess traipsing around Los Angeles.
Find all of my goodies in one place: https://delaineinla.carrd.co
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
✅ startribune.com/subscribe
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
Newsletter: newsletter.thexylom.com
Patrick Burnett @sociologix.ca Sociologist who builds. Tools for thinking with data — literature networks, applied AI, mixed-methods research. Sex-industry safety · higher ed · vulnerable populations. Available 2026 for contract work… sociologix.ca
emily sunshine @threnody.northsky.social fiction writer • roommate to 2 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
Zach @thesecretbarn.bsky.social he/him
CA>NM>CA
History, politics, voter protection.
Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social "Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night."
Irish journalist based in Stockholm, covering the world. 
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Alex @alex.bsky.team the passive pasadena thrill | bsky devrel
book a meeting: https://calendar.app.google/rNeqWSx2uMfzhQYV6
Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Investigative reporter and researcher: abortion, reproductive justice, disinformation.
Seen in The Nation, ELLE, Scientific American, WIRED, and more. Wyoming-born New Yorker.
Signal: garnethenderson.12
garnethenderson.com
Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social أليسا 🧿
Syria📍PDX
Journalist• Antifascist • She/They
Alissa@wewillfreeus.org •
https://linktr.ee/azarpdx
wewillfreeus.org
🖤 بذور الجنة تنتظر نيران الثورة 🖤