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
Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com Political. Creative. Portlander. Northern Arapaho. Husband. Dad.
Hype man for humanity and cage free futures.
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. #1667 on the Second Annual FISH List. That’s right: we’re on a list. Posts by EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press, publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
wanderingaenguspress.com
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social Good in a crisis and at no other time
First initial last name at gmail dot com
Signal:@KathrynTewson.06
joan @joanbybike.bsky.social Bikes, transportation, Portland, local politics, the downfall of petromasculinity, also dogs and books
Nathan Ong Norris @nathanongnorris.bsky.social Candidate for Multnomah County Commissioner D2
www.nathanongnorris.com
* Climate Justice & Sustainability
* Collective Survival (Emergency Management & Community Resiliency)
* Preschool4All
* Social Housing
Rob Heiret @rheiret.bsky.social Progressive, single dad, and writer for Nintendo of America's Treehouse. Opinions are my own.
Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com www.aanpress.com/artworks
Clayton @claytonwk.bsky.social Literally just trying to vibe
Urban planning enthusiast and public transit employee (opinions are 100% my own and not of my employer)
Theoretically a leftist
Portland, OR // he/him
Bill Discounts @smugglingrapes.bsky.social Pobody's Nerfect
@dnnynnn.bsky.social @dnnynnn.bsky.social 
J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com Economist, Georgian, Gadfly
Stadium Subsidies, Film Incentives, Local Economic Development, Sports Economics
Tariffs bad. Vaccines good.
Conjecture is not evidence.
jcbradbury.com
Book website: ThisOneWillBeDifferent.com
gifthood.community @gifthood.community A neighborly way to give and receive, freely, built on the AT Protocol.
gifthood.org
gifthood.community
🌈 J. G. Savv 🌈 @jgsavv.bsky.social Aspiring author, fanfic enthusiast | (They/he) | Always willing to admit that I have no idea what I'm doing | Big fan of that Jesus dude, and also queer as hell
Will U'ren @whollingsworth.bsky.social Bikes, books, busses, buildings, Bortland
"Mommy, mommy, buy me a license plate!"
"No, come along Bortland!"
"Are you talking to me?"
"No, my city is also named Bortland."
Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life 🚶Free ourselves from the automobile 🚲
🖥️ Get municipal support for ATProto 💻
🌱Imagine the future and thus create it 🌱
Portland Governance, Abolition, DSA,
Quakerism, Urbanism, Optimism
Imprisoned July 2026 to late 2028
Info: www.900daysoflight.com
Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com Dad, public servant, Oregonian.
brandonmullen.com
amb @amb.fyi how can we stroppy strangers live together without doing each other too much violence? | homes not highways | born 350ppm | still got hope so i think we’ll be fine in these disastrous times | he/they | www.amb.fyi
📍stj, pdx, or
Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social I write.
Kate Violette @kateviolette.com Multipurpose nerd. Engineering manager currently waylaid by a complex illness. On a mission to watch every Katharine Hepburn movie.
🏳️🌈 they (🇬🇧), elle (🇫🇷)
Currently in Portland OR. Always a Mainer.
✍️ www.kateviolette.com
📊 @healthlog.kateviolette.com
Connor he/they @gayloader.bsky.social PDX, frequent cyclist, socialist
I will not engage in bad faith arguments, so don’t waste time trying.
This is a personal account, and all opinions are my own.
Abolish ice.
Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social Chicago ➡️ LA
Writer for Bolts Magazine.
Policing & Criminal Justice. Democracy. Data.
Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social Urban planner, chronically & mysteriously ill, ✡️, plant lady, dog mom
PDX
@emily-vwg.bsky.social @emily-vwg.bsky.social I think we should institute a floating tax point based on however much it will cost to fill all societal needs
Alex N @alexnish.bsky.social Late 20s. Registered nurse, civil engineering student
Manila -> Hawaii -> Los Angeles -> Portland -> ?
Our society needs highly skilled and technically inclined citizens who can synthesize knowledge from different fields to find solutions to our problems
1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com Portland should aim for a minimum 2% average annual growth rate. People already want to live in Portland, we just need to make it cheap and easy to build homes. 🏗️🏙️🌲🚲🦫
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
emily @soupmuse.bsky.social lawyer. human rights and civilian protection. forever Arabic student.
conscientious objector to “AI”
our liberation is bound together.
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Breach Collective @breachcollectiv.bsky.social Building power within climate & labor movements through organizing, legal advocacy, education, & storytelling. @cwaunion.bsky.social & worker self-directed.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social Posts about urbanism and development, mostly specific to Portland
🏳️🌈🏴
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
NightOwl @nightowl.bsky.social 36 yrs pulling a squeegee & printing awesome shirts. Graphic design, embroidery, painter. HarpoMarxist #ACAB #1312 #AFA #BDS #FreePalestine #161
nothin but the real shit
nightowlcustomapparel.com
Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social Portland activist focusing on Christian Nationalist extremism, police brutality, and local issues.
Spider. @vaspider.gay Disabled Trans Queer Jewish Punk Butch Dyke. he/they.
Founder, NerdyKeppie. Makes art, writes, tries to fix shit. Over 40. Hire me for words or art. No virtual hugs unless I know you IRL.
yes, I'm that vaspider.
www.ithaspockets.gay
www.spiderperry.com
Strong Towns PDX @strongtownspdx.bsky.social Everyone deserves the opportunity to live a good life in a prospering place.
Give Me An Axe @givemeanaxe.bsky.social Non-Binary Author of things to read. Including a story in:
https://prideanthology.itch.io/2026
&
https://prideanthology.itch.io/2025
Disabled Veteran looking for morally validating employment.
Trans Rights are human Rights.
Sex Workers are WORKERS.
Sassy Tea Lady @sassytealady.bsky.social sturdy, nerdy, wordy, dirty
motivated urban left voter
Oh, and I do beads. Bees? Beads!
www.beadsandsundry.com
(Update, I also do bees. I'm the volunteer beekeeper for Blanchet Farm.)
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.
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
David Milley @davidmilley.com Long-time married, queer, gay man, retired developer and tech writer, enjoying time with hubby and writing seriously again, mostly verse and memoir. 🏳️🌈 No LGB, or any other letter, without the T: 🏳️⚧️
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
scott benjamin 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @scottbenjam.bsky.social He/him - husband - dog and cat dad - retired - cyclist and walker - ny jets fan
portland, or
Genderless Rodent, Eater of Trolls 🏳️⚧️ @genderlessrodent.bsky.social Queer, Trans, Non-binary and Nerdy
PDX Local Politics
They/Them
Profile pic:cool rat with sunglasses and denim jacket giving finger guns
Banner pic: "My voice is as important as the (g/less) rodent
Please try to stop the rodents and others like that"
✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social the lovechild of Dolly & Elvira
actor who writes & podcasts
bama alum, ATLien
https://linktr.ee/glitterburrito
Heyzell @heyzell.myatproto.social All we ever wanted was everything
music,bikes, birds, environmental restoration, drummer. Aspring watercolor and ink artist.
Probably out in the woods somewhere looking at plants, birds and trees
they/them
Free Palestine
#FreeThemAll
🌈 Queer Comes Trouble 🌈 @queercomestrouble.bsky.social Portland DSA Stan 🌹 🍞 & 🌹 member. Casual MTG player 😎
Rob Galanakis @robgalanakis.bsky.social Proud parent of two children, a failed school board campaign, cargo bike, bike bus, small business, two rats, three chickens, and dozens of mortal enemies.
❤️ PDX
https://bikebuspdx.org and https://robgforpps.com
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.
Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social Boston -->> Portland (16yrs).
Politics, music, culture, things PDX, bots and some TTRPG.
Portland, OR feed on Graze: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fgnkp5yb6fuvxsqpqpnan46u/feed/tstpdx
Kaliko Castille @wizkaliko.bsky.social Girl Dad| Co-Founder, ThndrStrm Strategies| Fmr. President of Minority Cannabis Business Association.
Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Lauren Armony @larmony.bsky.social Idea Guy™️ | Former Baby | Aspiring Swoletariat AuDHD Baddie - opinions are my own-
www.welcomehomecoalition.org/finding-home/
📍 Oregon
Lisa K. Bates c o m m a Ph.D. @lkb-pdx.blacksky.app 
Nox Aeris @noxyburd.bsky.social ~Into those woods that hid the sun~
He/him
Graduate student ~ Urban & Regional planning.
Transit, politics/society, postcrossing, photography,bowling, and games are my vibe.
Aggressively pro Portland and PNW
❤️🦝 gergmob.bsky.social🦝❤️
🌹🚲🚍🚊🚇🌃
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
andreaformaine.com
PFP: Andrea wearing an orange and blue plaid shirt and smiling
Header: “Together we lead” + chickadee logo
gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social robin sky leigh
strategic comms consultant, writer, socialist. working at the intersection of labor, capitalist globalization, and textile production.
she | her
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account of an ex-cdc guy and 10x jeopardy applicant. ask me about my cats! shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his. abide no hatred. warning: annoyingly slow at checking DMs
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Louise Villalba @geezola.bsky.social Writer/Editor. She/her. This is my fiction pen name, work in progress.
Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social An award-winning, investigative weekly street newspaper sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty to earn income opportunities.
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social Independent Journalist & Doc Producer
Newsletter: lastweekinhell.substack.com
Video/Writing/Audio in Cool Zone Media, Mother Jones, Truthout, and more.
📍Portland, OR
Support me:
https://linktr.ee/kevinfoster
mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social This is my personal account. Posts here should not be construed as the official government communications of Councilor Mitch Green.
“Bald and bearded, middle-aged, plucky data nerd who is also a cuddly cousin of Vladimir Lenin” - Sophie Peel, probably
OPB @opb.org Connecting people across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest through the power of a shared story. Share your tips: 🔗 https://www.opb.org/submit-idea/
Ashlie Weeks, Esq. @ashlieweeks.bsky.social Lawyer advocate believer in truth justice facts accountability & the rule of law. Animal lover & baseball fan. I love watermelon. My country is in shambles. Quality dad jokes fashion & sports. Opinions mine not my employer's. Jason Statham stan account.
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.
Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social Hopeless Optimist — Efficient Procrastinator | Read too much of the beat generation growing up | Progressive
#WomensRights #LGBTQ+ #Equality #ClimateChange
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
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/
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12
Newsletter: letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria and the Middle East.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Rav @rvbdrm.com Master Fitted-Sheet Folder | 🇬🇾 🇨🇦
Followed by Jerry
mastodon.social/@rvbdrm
Profile: A brown man wearing a tuxedo.
Banner: “Marked safe from explosive diarrhea.”
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
Internet Hooligan...
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literary crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
bulldog @harpua.bsky.social phish | pdxpol | grateful dead
on cinema | #RCTID🌲🌹
any pronouns
portland, or - always anti-fascist
#SaveTheCaps ⛰️
Abe 🌈 @acabraham.bsky.social professional pizza boy, recreational overthinker
he/him, pdx D3
go Ms
@alasverdes17.bsky.social @alasverdes17.bsky.social 
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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.
Khanh Pham for Oregon @khanhphamfororegon.com Community organizer, parent, and Senator for Oregon SD 23.
Social media policy:
https://linktr.ee/sen.khanhpham
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com