Rebellions Are Built On Hope @builtonhope.bsky.social Anti-MAGA. Pro-freedom everywhere.
NYC PROUD!
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Savannah Lee @savannahnlee.bsky.social Abolition & Harm Reduction, Arsenal FC, Austin FC | MSW | house plant enthusiast
Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
freedcproject.org
Megan Kimble @megankimble.bsky.social Texas political economy reporter @houstonchronicle.com, based in Austin.
Author of CITY LIMITS: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Professionally curious
Mariana Krueger (she/her) @marianakrueger.bsky.social City of Austin
🌿Environmental Commissioner,
🕊Human Rights Commissioner,
🌈LGBTQ Quality of Life Commissioner.
Local politico and national parks lover. Views are my own.
✨️Another world is possible.
Dick Lavine @dlavine.bsky.social Elected Board member Travis Central Appraisal Distr; Trustee City of Austin Employees Retirement Sys; Board member Progress Texas, AFSCME TX Retirees; former Every Texan, Every Texan United; www.dicklavinephoto.com
Zohaib “Zo” Qadri @zoforaustin.bsky.social Proudly Representing Austin City Council, D9. Progressive Democrat fighting for Austinites. Child of immigrants. 🇺🇸 🇵🇰 Proud Texas Ex.
zoforaustin.com
Kolby Duhon @kolbyduhon.bsky.social Human Rights Commisioner - City Of Austin. Messaging Chair - Texas Dems. SDEC Rep for SD14. frmr VP - Young Dems. frmr Prez - Texas YDs. Inside agitator. Bipolar out loud. Thoughts = my own. he/they 🍞🌹
AFSCME 1624 @afscme1624.bsky.social 4,600 Members Strong - Representing City of Austin and Travis County Employees. Advocating for better pay, benefits and respect on the job.
KristaforAustin @kristaforaustin.bsky.social Mom of two, Austin Real Estate Specialist, Public School Advocate, Former President of @AccessRRISD, Council Member-Elect for Austin City Council District 6!
Kristalaine.com
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Lee Phillips @leephillips.bsky.social Ex-NASA engineer, retired tech exec, space nerd.
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social Federal workers fighting to defend public services and rebuild government for a more democratic, equitable, and just country.
JOIN OUR MOVEMENT ⤵️
savepublicservices.com
SAVE THE SSA/EPA/VA PETITIONS:
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United Workers of Integral Care @uwic-cwa.bsky.social Building collective power through solidarity to improve work conditions, and client outcomes at the LMHA and LIDDA in Austin, Texas.
https://linktr.ee/unitedworkersofintegralcare
Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
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.
🌹blep 🧜♀️ @chrisptaco.bsky.social masc/neutral pronouns
libertarian socialist
Electrical Apprentice in IBEW Local 520
Financial Coordinator of San Marcos Abortion Activists
Mo87mo87 @mo87mo87.bsky.social Some guy.
Stephanie Gharakhanian @sgharakhanian.bsky.social Trustee @ Austin Community College. Lawyer/organizer working at intersection of labor & criminal justice reform. Mom of 2. Aspiring bake-off contestant. She/her. Views=my own. 🏠: Austin, TX
Cuitlahuac Tonatiuh @cuitlahuac.bsky.social aka “Profe” maestro física #stem #pbl #edusky inmigrante🇲🇽ciudadano🇺🇸naturalizado esposo papá x3. It was the #iteachphysics community that brought me here. ⚽️🌳💚VHLM🖤 StL raised Vandy grad⚓️⬇️
Claudia C @22314.bsky.social 
Patrick Michels @patrickmichels.bsky.social Podcast maker, writer and reporter in Austin
Josephine Lee @josephinelee.bsky.social Reporter at the Texas Observer
Email: lee@texasobserver.org
Signal: Josephineklee.14
https://www.texasobserver.org/author/josephine-lee/
Loren Lynch @lorenal.bsky.social Executive Director @TexasObserver. Past lives @TeamTrace and @TheNation. Reader and writer of various things. Fandom/comics enthusiast.
Derrick Crowe @derrickwrites.bsky.social Writer, artist, organizer. Unabashed nerd, unapologetic advocate for science and socialism. Opinions my own (duh). 
Win O’Neal @winoneal.bsky.social Moving forward through the next four years with 🎥/📸. Texas and beyond.
Council Member Krista Laine @cmkristalaine.bsky.social Official Account for District 6 Austin City Council Member Krista Laine. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/cmkristalaine
André Treiber @andrebttx.bsky.social Progressive nerd. DNC Youth Council Chair & Rules and Bylaws Committee Member. Campaign and #txlege alum. YIMBY. Film, Magic: the Gathering #mtgcube, poker, horror, games 🏳️🌈
Kevin Welch @thrungaron.bsky.social Kevin Welch is a mind forever voyaging, piloting a cyborg vessel on existential seas. Medtech startup Technology Director. Hacker. Cyberpunk. Activist. Improvisational musician. Written word muser. Post-colonialist Kantian. Will play Satie for a Sazerac.
Dominic Selvera @nicselvera.bsky.social Husband, father and AFSCME 1624 member.
#MFFL #BVB09
Steven Rivas (he/him/his) @stevenforaustin.com 6th-gen Texan • Descendant of 🇧🇪 & 🇲🇽 immigrants • City of Austin LGBTQ Quality of Life Commissioner, D3 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • Cubs fan ⚾️ • Past Sr. Advisor on 9 Texas statewide campaigns 🗳️ 📊
https://stevenforaustin.com • https://iwillvote.com
Melissa Beeler, AICP @plannermel.bsky.social I make some ppl mad 😠
Somebody gotta do it 🤷♀️
Fan of transit, bikes, great places and Kendrick Lamar
📍Austin, TX
Nima Shirazi @nimashirazi.bsky.social 
Lumon Elevator Union Steward @samkirsch.bsky.social shot in the eye squad
Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social Stay alive another week
patreon.com/deathpanelpod- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social linguist, feminist, pop sentimentalist. sad singer, witch fiction writer, game designer, seldom fighter / oldschool tx melee player, protect our scene 💚💜🖤
aneelee @aneelee.bsky.social Chicana, vegetarian, voter, and mama to a disabled and autistic adult. I knit things, cook things, and read things to maintain sanity amidst this maddening anti-trans, anti-brown and anti-vax country. aneelee.com
Sasha Jones @tartikovsky.bsky.social can’t spell library without libra
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Scott Medlock @scottmedlock.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer with the ACLU of Colorado. Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters are the only Super Lawyers. Ex Texas Civil Rights Project, Edwards Law, and Greisen Medlock.
Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are). Go Spurs Go!
Vanessa Fuentes @vanessaforatx.bsky.social Your D2 Austin City Councilwoman 🕊 Chair of the Public Health CMTE ❤️ First Gen Graduate 🤘🏽 Community Advocate 📣 Certified Chingona 💪🏽
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
AURA: An Austin for Everyone @aura-atx.org Austinites advocating for abundant homes, reliable public transit, walkability, & safe streets for all!
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social abolition, prisons, journalism, and also sometimes my dog
hannahrileyfernandez.com
thejumpline.substack.com
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Evan @evan7257.bsky.social Houstonian. Pulitzer finalist. Constant gardener. "Bastion of the area.” I no longer love our technodystopian future. Build the Ike Dike.
derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Author of PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, coming March 2027
Other books include STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & more
Doing things with Washington Prison History Project.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism
Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻
www.jphilll.com
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
sarah chechi says fight to win @sarahephilips.bsky.social but rwg said it to her first | she/they 💗💜💙 | malayali~texan | azadi! | abolition abolition abolition ! extremely online @fightforthefuture.org
views are my own but you can have em for free
https://beacons.ai/sarahephilips
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
Michael Barajas @michaelbarajas.bsky.social managing editor boltsmag.org, mbarajas@boltsmag.org- V @vanessabee.bsky.social @vanessabee.bsky.social
Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Supporting local coalitions to tell more compelling stories and work better together.
My org: https://ZEALO.US
The Appeal @theappeal.org We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system.
You can support our work here: https://theappeal.org/donate/
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beth @bethbourdon.bsky.social public defender doing death penalty/1st degree murder cases. @/bethbourdon on twitter, bbourdon on Insta.
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to outsmart the Macho Man.
Milwaukeean. I wrote Health Justice Now, a book about Medicare for All and beyond. Hong for Governor policy director 2K26, database goon @ Defector
https://error.malware-virus.biz
Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social human @theintercept.com | co-host 🎙️ The Intercept Briefing podcast
Brooklyn, NY | https://theintercept.com/staff/akelalacy/
https://akelalacy.substack.com/
https://www.instagram.com/akela_lacy/
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social Guardian reporter in Los Angeles.
Lois.Beckett@theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lois-beckett
Olayemi Olurin-Boleware @olurinatti.bsky.social ⚖️ Lawyer, Writer & Creator
🏆 Webby-Nominated
📺 The Olurinattiverse:
Olurinatti | OlurinattiPOP | OlurinattiBITES | OlurinattiPOLITICS | OlurinattiExtras | Olay & Chill
Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social Guardian senior reporter, based in Los Angeles. Sam.Levin@theguardian [dot] com. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-levin
Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own
book info/events: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls
Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social co-host Citations Needed podcast.
order my new book ‘How to Sell a Genocide’ here https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide or https://a.co/d/0hl4hmFi
columnblog.com
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Jerry Iannelli @jerryiannelli.bsky.social They/he/any 🏳️⚧️
Piper French @psfrench.bsky.social reporting on prisons, jails, DAs for Bolts. freelance magazine work: NYRB, NYmag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation
piperstrehlowfrench@gmail.com
-> psfrench.com
en/es/fr
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
Support our work: https://bit.ly/4rioDIW
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
linktr.ee/workingfamilies
Meg O'Connor @megoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Most recently I covered cops and prosecutors for
@theappeal.org. Huge fan of hiking and baking 🍪 megoconnor.com
Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social We’re not resting until all working people are treated with dignity and respect. We're fighting for economic and racial justice. Join us. #UnionsForAll
https://fightforaunion.org/
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion