Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social Broadcaster | Producer
Samira@onthelinemedia.org
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.
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Professor, author, researcher. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. EIC at Black Youth Project. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social Classical Music host with a face for radio.
CKCU-FM 93.1, Ottawa, “Music for a While” (https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/info.html)
"Classical Muse" for other stations and YouTube
Ex CBC Radio
Always time for tea.
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
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife. 🏳️🌈 Author. 📚 Tarot enthusiast. 🔮
Professor of Africana Studies. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Into: Languages + Food + Art. 日本語を勉強します. Fun Fact: One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Brent van Staalduinen | Writer, Resister, Human. @brentvans.com Canadian. Award-winning, bestselling novelist (brentvans.com), Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
Peter MacLeod @petermacleod.bsky.social Principal, masslbp.com | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | Co-author, democracyssecondact.org
Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
Rosemary Richings @rosemaryrichings.bsky.social Writer, editor, speaker #Neurodiversity. Author (2 #Dyspraxia books): “Stumbling Through Space & Time: Living Life With Dyspraxia” & “Studying with Dyspraxia”. #Neurodivergent & living without a #Thyroid. https://linktr.ee/rosemary_richings
University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social Organised representation for all academic staff, postgraduates, and APM staff level 4 and above at the University of Nottingham. Here in solidarity with workers the world over.
https://uonucu.org/ 
Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action
FREE PALESTINE 
U.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social Bringing you propaganda since 1776.
Proud supporter of child labor and the military industrial complex.
IN OIL WE TRUST
The Western Edge @thewesternedge.bsky.social A new type of journalism in the Pacific Northwest.
https://westernedgemedia.substack.com/
Owned by no one.
Operated by @leahsottile.bsky.social & @ryanjhaas.bsky.social.
Email us story ideas: hellowesternedge@gmail.com
Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social International Digital Editor @meidastouch.com
Indivisible Ottawa CANADA @indivisibleottawa.bsky.social Ottawa-based Indivisible group advocating for democracy, maintaining Canada’s sovereignty, and showing up for people targeted by the current US administration. We welcome Americans, Canadians et al.
To join, email indivisibleOttawa (at) proton (dot) me
Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social Prof @ uOttawa School of Political Studies. Co-Director, Community Mobilization in Crisis (cmic-mobilize.org). Activist & community-engaged research and teaching. Queer mom, American in diaspora, Canadian-in-training.
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social small press + zine distro!
Tiohtià:ke // Montréal
transsexual-run // anti-ableist // pro-🇵🇸
https://sheerspite.ca/
https://sheerspite.bigcartel.com/
Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social Author: Strange People on the Hill https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ |
Signal: Mike.8852 |
patreon.com/c/PostingThroughIt |
https://michaeledisonhayden.substack.com |
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC, TPM. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: letsgomathias@protonmail.com. Buy my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com my latest book is MUSKISM, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 
Smayaykila Films @smayaykila.bsky.social CEREMONY (2026) - SXSW Documentary Spotlight Audience Award + Hot Docs DGC Special Jury Prize.
CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social Canadian Association of University Teachers // Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists. 
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social Author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism and founding member of Books From Below
They/them.
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own
siobhanmcelduff.com
Kidical Mass Ottawa @kidicalmassottawa.bsky.social A bike ride with a purpose: safe streets for kids
Jessica Bradley @jessicaeb.bsky.social Freelance journalist
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 🎤
Takara Small @takarasmall.bsky.social I talk and write about tech for a living @ CBC (Canada’s public broadcaster) and the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social Progressive politics, ideas & culture.
this.org
x.com/thismagazine
linkedin.com/company/this-magazine/
Joanne Roulston, MSW, JD @ottawakiwi.bsky.social Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer.
Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
https://joanneroulston.substack.com/
David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social Peace & human rights advocate, trade-unionist & anti-militarist; teacher-researcher; parent, spouse, sibling, neighbour, human. #ArmsEmbargoNOW 🍉
Gerry Dunn @ballydunn.bsky.social 🇨🇦Toronto Activist from 70s; Founder of Stop Line 9 Toronto & Danforth Village Community Assn. Party politics is not democracy; Protest is not Power; Create a better Narrative. #FullSpectrumResistance; Photo: Toronto Red Rebels 2024.
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Sarah Sahagian @sarahsahagian.bsky.social Executive Director/Publisher of rabble.ca. Loves progressive politics, rewatching Mad Men and debating in good faith…
Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair @ottawanarchistfair.bsky.social 2nd annual OAB is June 27th 2026 at the Glebe Community Centre, 10am-4pm!
Anarchist Bookfair held on Anishinaabe land.
ottanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org
Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social Settler on the Salish Sea
Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com I study immigration enforcement. Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social Pakistani-🇨🇦 grew up in Saudi. Illustrator, host of Polite Conversations Pod. IDW ridiculer. Covering types of extremism that masquerade as Rational/Intellectual
https://open.spotify.com/show/25FhI3g0wZMjWT19aIxcOn?si=x6hs5ldDQAWYmlHFLcgTJw
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
Amanda Burrows @amandajaneburrows.bsky.social Community builder ❤️
Vancouver | unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ territories
Tony McQuail @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social Your Green Progressive NDP leadership candidate!
https://tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca/#tony-mcquail-green-progressive
https://www.ndp.ca/donate/tony
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social Ad astra per aspera | archivist | in unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute territory | settler/trespasser | bitch who reads | higher ed baby| she/her | views are mine
Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com Independent Journalism on State Violence
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social https://www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWprotestors
Independent Jewish Voices @ijvcanada.bsky.social A grassroots organization in Canada grounded in Jewish tradition that opposes all forms of racism & advocates for justice and peace for all in Palestine-Israel.
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social Writer, Ottawa Citizen columnist. Fighting toxicity for fun and profit. J’écris en français aussi des fois. https://www.brigittepellerin.com/
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author of ON COURAGE: tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Fmr: White House Senior Policy Advisor
Get in touch: fieldsmeyer.com
Writing: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
The Ottawa Chronicle @theottawachronicle.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood salad. Reddit shitposter. My chronology of far-right activity and organizing in the Ottawa Valley since 2022 is in the works. To post soon. No Pasaran!
613 Antifascist @613afa.bsky.social 
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Robert Hunziker @ecojournalist.bsky.social Eco Journalist
Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social Architect Husband Dad he/him; past pres @oaarchitects.bsky.social; president @architectsdca.bsky.social; writer, public speaker, advocate for #procurement reform; #climatepoli @riseforarch
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Clash Montréal @clashmtl.bsky.social Nouvelles et perspectives anarchistes. Échos des luttes contre la domination à Tio’tia:ke (Montréal).
submissions --> clashmtl@riseup.net
SPLC Union @splcunion.bsky.social Disrupting White Supremacy • Pursuing Equity • Building Solidarity • Uniting Workers || Southern Poverty Law Center Staff Union, Unit of
@wbng.org || union.splc@gmail[dot]com
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Trauma-informed. Survivor focused. Relentless.
Breaking News and Politics
Substack: amberspeaksup100
Support: ko-fi.com/amberspeaksup
No DMs.
Signal tips, leads: amberspeaks.47
Upscrolled: AmberSpeaksUp
Anton Treuer @antontreuer.bsky.social Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State. Author. Racial equity educator. Indigenous language warrior.
William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social go to mastodon
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Mzwandile Poncana @mzwandilep.bsky.social Public Service Reporter @hilltimes.com | “the function of freedom is to free someone else” — Toni Morrison |
Ottawa Transit Riders 🇨🇦🍁 @otttransitriders.bsky.social Hi! We're a group advocating for better public transit in the city of Ottawa. See details at our website: https://ottawatransitriders.substack.com/
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Better Transit Ottawa @bettertransitottawa.ca Let's make public transit in Ottawa better.
bettertransitottawa.ca
https://discord.gg/QXYP2SGbpk
Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social Wife of @alysemayequade.bsky.social, mom, reproductive justice advocate, MN State Senator, and John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Winner (along with my Twin Cities neighbors). Reposts aren’t endorsements.
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾
Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca Recalcitrant Canadian. Political scientist at UBC in Vancouver. I research, teach and talk international relations, BCpoli, comparative democratic institutions, and contentious politics. stewartprest.ca | https://stewartprest.substack.com
Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social 🤖 Community-run, unofficial
🔁 Automatically reposts from: x.com/ctvnews
☕ Creator: @drew-t.bsky.social
Yuen Pau Woo @ypwoo.bsky.social Independent Senator for British Columbia, Parliament of Canada
Sénateur indépendant de la Colombie-Britannique, Parlement du Canada
Senator Rosemary Moodie @senmoodie.sencanada.ca Independent Senator from Ontario representing the Greater Toronto Area.
Senator/Sénatrice Bernadette Clement @senatorclement.bsky.social Independant Senator. First black female mayor in Ontario. Legal aid lawyer. Sénatrice indépendante. Première Mairesse noire en Ontario. Avocate de l'aide juridique.
Senator Stan Kutcher @stankutcher.sencanada.ca Senator from Nova Scotia. Committed to improving mental health/health outcomes and the use of best available scientific evidence to guide decision making.
Senator Donna Dasko @donnadasko.bsky.social Independent senator representing Ontario
Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social 📍 Working from Algonquin Anishinabe Aki, Homeland of the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation, for equitable access to robust social, economic & health supports. Worked with/for marginalized, victimized, criminalized & institutionalized-CoHost of Appointed podcast
@but-im-kim-tran @but-im-kim-tran.bsky.social After Diversity: The Rise, Fall and Future of a Broken Promise (Haymarket Books 2027) / PhD / she.hers / helping movement organizations build better cultures @ www.desaiandtran.com
Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com Parent & safe streets advocate 🚲🚶🏻🚌
Founder of the @mcbl.bike
League Certified Cycling Instructor
Minneapolis, MN
lauragmitchell.com
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. senatorpaulasimons.ca
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org Powering grassroots aid movements at scale with open source supply chains & tech.
they/them (or we/us if you're really cool)
https://distributeaid.org
Donate here: https://www.omprakash.org/global/distribute-aid/donate
Swedish charity # 802521-4456
Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social cientista cansada
climate science + political strategy. for internationalist and just transitions.
Writer, Political Economist & Sociology PhD. Senior Leadership Fellow @alameda.institute
🟠 ecocene.blog
🟤 sabrinafernandes.com
Posts mostly in EN or PT
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/