Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Judith Monroe @judithmonroe.bsky.social Helping nature lovers bring the joy and wonders of the earth into their home environments through richly textured artworks.
www.judithmonroe.com
Sacramento, California
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools. Dirt Road Democrat.
Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social Translator, blogger, wanna-be inventor, random internet stranger
She/elle/sie/ella/ona
Location: Toronto
http://impstrump.blogspot.com
🇨🇦 Stephen Wickens 🇨🇦 @stephenwickens.bsky.social Retired after 47 years at four Toronto papers.
Transportation researcher and author of Station to Station (a report on the soaring costs of subway building in the Toronto area). https://rccao.com/research/files/RCCAO-STATION-TO-STATION-REPORT-APRIL2020.pd
Louisa LaBarbera Jewellery @loulabar.bsky.social 
Not Vex as in 🏳️🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.social Wine, Politics, M:TG, Derby, Urban Affairs, Travel. Probably bad puns. All views expressed here are actually yours; sorry, I don't make the rules. they/them Toronto based, but I get around.
Alexis @alexisg.bsky.social Account may contain cat pics.
V.S. McGrath/Vicki Essex @vsmcgrath.bsky.social Author of THE DEVIL'S REVOLVER series and more. Also writes as Vicki Essex. Rep'd by @millercallihan.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/vsmcgrath
Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social Technician/artist. Googly-eye enthusiast. Several kinds of nerd. Unusual skill set. Toronto, Ontario. he/him.
Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
Piali Roy @pialiroy.bsky.social Let’s see. Toronto. South Asia. Bengali. Human. Home and the World. Once made radio documentaries. Last one re-aired: Madame Helena Blavatsky.
Danforth Dad @danforthdad.bsky.social Rating Toronto’s playgrounds, one playdate at a time. Adventures featured by CBC | Globe & Mail | Toronto Star
danforthdad.com
instagram.com/danforthdad
facebook.com/danforthdad
dad@danforthdad.com
Hey it’s Darcy @heydarcy.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Creative director, video guy, almost got around to starting that novel. He/him.
Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social Dad of 3. Human of 2. Husband of 1. Citizen of Toronto. Rider of bike. Partner @ Paliare Roland. No legal advice here.
And yes that IS an original goddam 1979 Participaction Canada Fitness Test Gold Badge.
https://paliareroland.com/people/andrew-lewis
Devan Marr @devanmarr.bsky.social Bike Rider. Mediocre Beer Brewer. Lawyer. Luddite. JDHD. He/Him.
It’s never legal advice. It’s rarely good advice.
Toronto, ON
Katya Nouveau🇨🇦 @katyanouveau.bsky.social I love Art Nouveau and all things Dutch. Proud Canadian. I’m a new sailor, have a woodworking shop & make fine pens. I’m interested in many crafts, too.
H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social ECE, 🇨🇦n. E Torontonianan
Part of “Fringe” that hates sewage in Toronto’s harbour, crappy air, supports a vital d/t and Lake Ontario recreation. ALSO highspeed rail fan!.
Clean air enthusiast.
Maker, mender, Wide pant leg defender.
PS HATE PIPELINES
Sawyer @layoutsilove.bsky.social Showcasing graphic design layouts I love 📖
Sawyer is an Adobe Certified Professional in InDesign ⌨️
https://ksawyerpaul.com/contact/
Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social Local punter, fietser and gadabout of record..
An unapologetic Torontophile.
MJ @marinajade.bsky.social Getting older and trying to be a good person in Toronto. Quiet pursuits are my thing but I can give you a run for your money in Tears of the Kingdom. Simplicity, massage therapist, ace, childless cat lady.
Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social "If we are fractured/we are fractured/like stars/bred to shine/in every direction"
Dorianne Laux
@photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social 
Brent J. Arnold @cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social (He/Him) Trial & appellate lawyer / data breach coach/counsel, Toronto. Litigating commercial/tech/cyber/privacy/AI/Web3 disputes. Chair, Canadian Internet Society. Director, The Advocates' Society. I keep a file on you. https://www.inq.law/
Eric Woolfe (He/Him) @ericwoolfe.bsky.social Itinerant showman, celebrated impresario of Toronto's most renowned flea circus, and purveyor of the ghoulish and uncanny. Director of the Uncanny at Eldritch Theatre.
Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social Canadian artist
nancybennett.ca
Paolostown 🍉 @paolokagaoan.bsky.social Salesman, estranged cat uncle, movie watcher. Critic and editor at In The Seats, former critic at National Post.
QSkeets aren’t dunks mostly.
And always remember, Free Palestine.
https://www.paypal.me/paolokagaoan
Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social Check out my YouTube channel with the same handle.
Likes many things. Dislikes some things. I don't promise to follow you back but I do promise to consider it.
Mark Wilson @markjaw.bsky.social Chair Arraymusic, Director Against the Grain Theatre, opera lover, ex-IT executive, aspiring flâneur.
Brian Banks Ⓥ 🇨🇦 @brianbanks.bsky.social Scribbler (mainly nature, conservation, critters, science, climate); Geographer (Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society); Soy nature boy. https://brian.eco/
Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. If you tell me a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable, you’ll get a lecture. 🇨🇦 She/her. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
Lloyd the Comma Shifter @lloyddavis.ca Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award winners, and 5 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.
J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca Toronto writer. cybersecurity analyst. vespa. tm & yin yoga practioner. cinephile. autism advocate.
https://linktr.ee/jacquelinevalencia
Eunique Horne Quean @eunique-horne.bsky.social Daughter of a refugee, interested in current events, grassroots engagement in unions, language(s), intersectional feminism & hangin' out with cuddly creatures ✡️ covid conscious 🍉
Varun Vachhar @varun.ca finder of new ways to confuse myself
https://varun.ca/
@coffeeaddict416.bsky.social @coffeeaddict416.bsky.social Tell me about third wave coffee, food, bikes, photography and how to fight fascism
I wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social Fine art photographer
She/her
Toronto(BEY)
Twin mom x2
Atheist, feminist, anti-fascist, anti-racist
Photography, politics, 2SLGBTQIA+, art, Canada
Kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - Bruce Cockburn
Matthew LaRose @matthewlarose.bsky.social Pap and pleasantries. Views are my own.
Damien Nelson @5onthe5.bsky.social Press Agent
Vice Chair, Bad Dog Theatre Company
Co-Producer, Sketch to the Deah
Co-Founder, Sketch Comedy Festival Association
WantAndAble.ca
PartonAndPearl.com
Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social Former hacker turned protest singer, aiming to follow Woody Guthrie’s injunction that “It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.” Anti-fascist. He/him. 🏴🇨🇦🏳️🌈🥂
Debut EP out now: https://linktr.ee/rickinnis
John Bowman @johnbowman.bsky.social Social media news producer. Recovering “Twitter guy.”
A Lesley in Leslieville @lesleyvillian.bsky.social Podcaster, cook, baker, sourdough, wine, gin, dogs, cats, baseball, running, cycling, triathlon. Toronto 🇨🇦 https://noreciperequired.substack.com/
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/norecipe
serene tan @serenet.bsky.social Read books, ride bikes, pat cats, climb rocks.
Amber Mac @ambermac.bsky.social Host, The AmberMac Show with Jeff MacArthur, Award-winning tech and AI podcaster, keynote speaker, event moderator, bestselling author, and radio/tv host (mom of teen boy + 2 rescue pups)
Julie Dabrusin @juliedabrusin.bsky.social MP for Toronto—Danforth and Minister of Environment and Climate Change | Député de Toronto—Danforth et Ministre de l’Environnement et du Changement climatique
Blair Scorgie 🍁 @blairscorgie.bsky.social Husband, father, planner, urban designer, consultant, sessional lecturer, volunteer, author, advocate, and Torontonian. Views are my own. www.scorgieplanning.com.
Mary-Margaret McMahon @marymargaretbey.bsky.social Community Catalyst
Green Girl
MPP for Beaches-East York
Former Toronto City Councillor
Will Perkins @williamhperkins.bsky.social Frankie’s Dad • CCO @wearecontinue.bsky.social • Producer @gamelegendsdoc.bsky.social • Publisher @thatshelf.com • Formerly Art of the Title
Kaila @kailahunte.bsky.social 
Nate Erskine-Smith @nateforontario.bsky.social MP for Beaches-East York | Host of uncommons.ca podcast
BancyCo @bancy.co Husband-and-wife #indiegame studio in Toronto, Canada. 🇨🇦 Made 😱 Home 🚀 Alone With You 💀 Worse Than Death 🚑 Neo Harbor Rescue Squad
🌐 bancy.co
🔀 https://linktr.ee/bancyco
Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social "It's hard to say, it's sad but true, I'm kinda dumb and so are you."
Nick Martin @nickmartin.ca Toronto-based 🇨🇦, Georgia-raised 🇺🇸 college football #GoDawgs 🐶
Elsipelle @elsipelle.bsky.social Photographer, artist, dreamer, Leo. Purrrrrr. I block those who use shitty AI slop.
Henry VanderSpek - Photographer @culturesnapca.bsky.social Art & documentary photographer based in Toronto, ON, Canada. Shooting film and digital, documenting people, non-profits and creative street scenes. 🚫AI
www.culturesnap.ca
https://bio.link/culturesnap
www.instagram.com/culturesnap
Fish @poissonish.bsky.social 
Mairi Babb @mcbabb.bsky.social she/her Actor/Director Toronto
Another fugitive from the hell site.
Progressive YIMBY who loves to cook.
Pro Abortion Anti Nazi
Carly Rhiannon @carlyrhiannon.bsky.social I say “There’s a documentary about that” a lot. Dog person, photographer, video game enthusiast, hibernating musician. She/her. 
David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social Toronto-based journalist
Don't Mess with the Don @dontmesswiththedon.bsky.social Don't Mess with the Don is an all-volunteer, Canadian-registered charity committed to the protection and enhancement of the Don Valley and Toronto’s ravines.
Registration number: 703168674 RR0001
Sarah Elton, PhD @sarahelton.bsky.social Academic, author, cyclist. Researching people, plants, and health #food systems; #climate; critical #qualitative health research; methodology
Antonia 🦋🐞 @antoniag.bsky.social Entomologist (Royal Ontario Museum) retired soccer player, cyclist, organizer of many things, President-Toronto Entomologists' Association, love my garden. COVID cautious, keep mask on….The Butterfly Whisperer Who Never Flies Under the Radar (she/her)
Peter Tabuns @petertabuns.bsky.social MPP for Toronto-Danforth
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social Transportation data scientist at the University of Toronto, physicist at heart.
I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
East End Arts Toronto @eastendartsto.bsky.social East Toronto’s Local Arts Service Organization. We work to unite, inspire, and enhance east Toronto communities with the transformative power of the arts!✨
Michael Hollett @northbymichael.bsky.social Editor/publisher NEXT Magazine. President/CEO NXNE. Editor-in-Chief SPIN Canada. Founder of NXNE and NEXT Magazine, co-founder NOW Magazine nextmag.ca. NXNE 2026 June 10 - 14.
JoannaLavoie @joannalavoie.bsky.social Bilingual Multimedia Journalist
CP24.com + bylines CTV News Toronto, CTV News
Prev: Toronto.com, Toronto Star
@JournalismTMU alum
#socialjustice #breakingnews
Jennie Worden (she/her) @jennie1ofmany.bsky.social Cycle hoyden, TOPoli nerd & activist, magical cake fairy. Community. Equity. Sustainability. Pie. jennieworden.ca
Octopedal🐙📷🚲 @octopedal.bsky.social Featherless biped. Luddite-curious. Likes to cook, eat, read, draw, walk, ride bikes, and take photographs. Almost as smart as a real octopus.
Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca Toronto based human.
Ilan Muskat @calculon.bsky.social "And then it was now; and then I don't know what happened." It's pronounced *sigh* like it looks. Maybe tomorrow. (He/him)
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca Gay Irish-Canadian Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social Journalist, crosspatch, editor at the Toronto Star.
BigFishStone @bigfishstone.bsky.social Old progressive tattooed Canadian broad with kid and cat and opinions. A "poisonous machine gun spewing vitriol". There might be discussion of hockey.
Tom Veenstra @tomveenstra.bsky.social Dad, Partner, Teacher, Toronto, NerdStuff, Raptors, plus duties as assigned.
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Thomas Boldt @thomasboldt.com Relentless posting into the void. I looked into the abyss, and it looked into me, and now we share memes.
Nikon nature + landscape photographer based in Toronto, Canada. All photos © Thomas Boldt.
Carina van Heyst @time4reading.bsky.social she/her…retired educator in Toronto, Canada
Books, nature, Raptors, knitting…
I write about books at www.instagram.com/time4reading with a focus on literary fiction, translated fiction, book prizes, CanLit, and nature non-fiction.
KPH @kph.bsky.social Bikes, music, bewilderment 
Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings.
Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php 
Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social When you could end reality from your throne of primordial chaos, but you'd rather just take a nap and maybe eat some leaves later. Antifa cottagecore. She/her.
Katarina G @katarinag.bsky.social Writer, tired mom, etc. Currently on sabbatical finishing my first novel. Toronto(pia). she/they
katarinag.substack.com
John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli
jm_mcgrath.01 on signal
Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social Writing, observations from the backyard
http://linktr.ee/mollymccarron
Adam Chaleff @adamcf.bsky.social Progressive urbanist. East end convert. Dad joke enthusiast.
Todd Irvine @toddirvine.bsky.social Arborist and founder of http://cityforest.ca | Cofounder of Spacing Magazine | Lots on trees, green cities and bike lanes.
Catharine Tunnacliffe @ctunnacliffe.bsky.social Climate, social justice, and occasional duck pictures. Toronto.
🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🌈🦆🇨🇦
Cassie Robinson @cassierobinson.bsky.social www.cassierobinson.work
🌳Wealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition.
🔮Erotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
EcoLabs @ecolabs.bsky.social Regenerative, systemic, feminist design ecologies and just (anti-fascist) transitions. https://ecolabsblog.com/
Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social A long-standing transit activist/commentator since 1972. Blogs at http://stevemunro.ca since 2006. Winner of the 2005 Jane Jacobs Prize and 2024 CUTA Excellence Award.
Bob Georgiou @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social Torontophile, writer, historian. Toronto history. Writings in York Pioneer & Spacing Magazine. Loves libraries&archives, parks & cultural heritage. (he/him/his)
www.scenesto.com
Anne Burbidge @anneburbidge.bsky.social gardener, sketcher out of @humberpoly.bsky.social hort program *she/her
@dontrailtalker.bsky.social @dontrailtalker.bsky.social Ravine and park advocate
Co-Chair Save OSC
A Park for All
Lost Rivers
Toronto Nature Stewards
Walking Toronto;
Toronto Field Naturalists
Evergreen
Kevin Rupasinghe @kevinrupasinghe.ca Scarborough Southwest City Council candidate. Cities Engineering @ UofT. Formerly Cycle Toronto & RaBIT & Unlock Democracy. #Ward20 #ScarbTO
Marvin Macaraig @marvinmacaraig.ca Ph.D. / Health Promoter and Scarborough Cycles Coordinator at Access Alliance / I help build healthy and resilient communities.
Sarah B. Hood @sarahbhood.bsky.social Author of Jam, Jelly & Marmalade, A Global History. Apt to chat about social history (food & fashion), sustainability, urban culture, craft, flora & fauna, various rabbit holes.
@tkleslie.bsky.social @tkleslie.bsky.social 
Julie Bogdanowicz @jbwicz.bsky.social Architect OAA. Senior civil servant - City of Toronto - City Planning - Urban Design. Permanent helmet head, all-season cyclist. Mother of two daughters, instantly radicalized after trying to move through the city with a stroller. All opinions my own.