Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social Editor in Chief, The Atavist Magazine (@atavist.com) • Contributing Editor, Longreads • Author, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Frontlines of White Nationalism • May I please pet your dog? • www.seywarddarby.com
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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social Filmmaker and consumer activist. Life‘s work archived by US Library of Congress. transgendermap.com / andreajames.com
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
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Marissa J. Lang ✍🏽🗞️ @marissajae.bsky.social Local enterprise at @washingtonpost.com. Formerly: housing + gentrification; protests + extremism. @PostGuild.bsky.social organizer. Forever NYer. 🍕 Latina bilingüe. 🇪🇨 Happy to be here. 👋🏽
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social Asst Prof at UBC. USian in 🍁. studying childhood/imagining pedagogies/unscripting curriculum/trans-ing through life. www.harperkeenan.com
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen @transrigo.bsky.social Transgender advocate. First openly trans child of a Member of Congress (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen)
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Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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tori gantz (they/she) @torigantz.bsky.social desert 🪽 from Wisco. editorial @inthesetimes.com | was politics @lookoutnews.bsky.social, forever @teenvogue.com * tgantz.36 on Signal📍Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Myaami
Philip Loring @philiploring.com Anthropologist and storyteller. Global Director of human dimensions science @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). he/they 🏳️🌈
Equality Texas @equalitytexas.bsky.social Working to secure full equality for LGBTQIA+ Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration. 🤠🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✨
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication. 
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
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Sara Sneath @sarasneath.bsky.social Reporting on climate justice for the Guardian US. Past: Journalist-in-residence at University of Miami’s Climate Accountability Lab. Big fan of bike rides | she/her | https://sneathfreelance.com
Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own.
Book learnin' –– OSU, GU, KCL
Martha Rivers Porado @marthaporado.bsky.social Editor of the independent, go-to news source for Canada’s doctors and pharmacists: CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, online home of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business magazines #MedSky
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Andrew Dyer @andrewdyer.bsky.social Military and veterans reporter at KPBS. Extremism occasionally. Former Navy wrench turner. He/him Signal: AndrewDyer.01
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
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whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Gabrielle Jackson @gabriellecj.bsky.social Deputy editor, Guardian Australia. Author of Pain and Prejudice. Member of Walkley Judging Board.
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
Jireh Deng @bokchoy-baobei.bsky.social journalist. dreamer. angeleno.
formerly @businessinsider.com @latimes.com @npr.org @inthesetimes.com
Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats. 
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account. past: tfgh, cdc, emory. interests: health policy, law, & politics, global health. big fan of: human rights, vaccines, abiding no hatred. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his/him.
Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social Journalist covering environment and education @oregoncapitalchronicle.com, part of @statesnewsroom.com
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Gender Justice @genderjustice.us Advancing gender equity through the law
cody 🗣️ @cody.boats vampire scholar @intothetwilight.xyz
Ali Killian @alikillian.bsky.social Copy editor, @nbcnews.com | Otherwise probably hanging out with my cats
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social Senator: VA-30 (Elected ‘23)
Former Delegate: VA-13 (Elected ‘17, ‘19, ‘21)
Chair: Virginia Commission to End Hunger
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Dee Whitnell (they/them) @s3xtheorywithdee.bsky.social 🩷 Multi Award-winning Sx Educator
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Andrew R. Flores @aflor017.github.io Political science
LGBTQ politics 🏳️🌈
Assoc Prof @American University
Distinguished Visiting Scholar @Williams Institute
Affiliated Scholar @PRRI.org
https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/aflores.cfm
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Movement Advancement Project @mapresearch.bsky.social Trusted source for the latest LGBTQ and democracy policy updates, backed by rigorous research, expert analysis, and collaboration.
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Logan S. Casey, PhD @loganscasey.bsky.social Director of Policy Research at @mapresearch.bsky.social Movement Advancement Project (MAP). Political Science PhD, UMich '16. Go Blue! St. Louis born and raised. I’ve probably got a spreadsheet for that.🌈🏳️⚧️📈📊📉
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net very tired freelance word girl | member, @transjournalists.org
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity
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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org Peer support hotline for the trans community.
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Jill Connelly @jillphotola.bsky.social photojournalist , college professor, mama
Based in Los Angeles
www.jillconnellyphoto.com
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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social Immigration attorney based in Washington, DC. Views are my own & posts ≠ endorsement. Message me to reach out.
Previously at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago and the United Nations in Switzerland.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Alison Gill @alisonmgill.bsky.social Lawyer, she/her, Director of Nominations & Democracy at National Women's Law Center
The Trevor Project @trevorproject.bsky.social The leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ young people 🌈🧡
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
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."
Michael Pegram @producerpegram.bsky.social Platform Manager at @nbcwashington.com 🦚 • Past: WWBT • #AMNewser • 3x #Emmy winner • Dog dad to Kona🐶 • Theme park nerd🎢 • RT ≠ END • He/Him/His🏳️🌈
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics, especially in marginalized communities. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
Liz Bergstrom @lizbergstrom.bsky.social Writer in Passages North, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, NYT... Queer & chronically ill. (they/them) lizbergstrom.com
(PFP: Person w/ purple hair & light skin wearing a teal jacket. Header: Living, Together anthology)
Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social Press/Editorial: AFJustice
Formerly: ThinkProgress (RIP).
Queer/cis, atheist, SJW, pianist, gaymer, IC alumni, union member. https://linktr.ee/zackford
Opinions my own. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈🖖
Sam Feder 🐳 @samfeder.bsky.social
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