Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social The Last of the Old School Blogs
Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social Politics & Public Affairs Editor for the Lexington @kentucky.com & @bluegrasspolitics.bsky.social.
Kentuckian. Hilltopper. Parks & Rec aficionado. Pen snob. Aspiring adult.
The New York Times @nytimes.com In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
Mario Anderson @marioandersontv.bsky.social I wake up early to deliver Your Morning News on Spectrum News Kentucky | I host the EMMY NOMINATED InFocusKY | Share your news story & show ideas: | I like gifs & emojis
Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Fast and reliable results and analysis for elections at every level, from federal to local.
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Louisville Public Media @lpm.org Louisville Public Media (LPM) is an independent, community-supported media organization serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. Learn more at lpm.org.
Jess Clark @storiesbyjess.bsky.social KyCIR education reporter, former ed reporter for WFPL, WWNO & WUNC, Louisville-grown, cat mom
Ethan's Rescue Pet Project @ethanspetproject.org A 13 year old who worked to get rescue pets named the state pet of KY and hopefully the US, feeding some pets, helping some people and getting some shelter animals adopted along the way.
David Siegel @davidcsiegel.bsky.social Producing interviews for The Beat with Ari Melber weeknights at 6 on MSNBC 🦚
Entirely unrelated, I talk to all the strangers
Former CNN, Buffalo & McGill guy
Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social Co-founder, #DefendResearch (https://defendresearch.org); librarian (ret). Some things I care about: social justice; defending libraries, education, & research; information equity. All posts/thoughts my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981
Sandile Hlatshwayo @femmeeconomics.bsky.social Economist w/ interests in int'l trade & macro. Lover of Ethiopian food and snowboarding. 🏳️🌈 IMF | Fmr CEA | AEA CSQIEP | Sadie Collective. Views my own. www.sandile.com
Sylvia Goodman @sylviaruthg.lpm.org Ky Capitol reporter @kentuckypublicradio.org ~ prev @chronicle.com @wbez.org @chicagotribune.com ~ she/her
send tips to sgoodman@lpm.org
@julielarson75.bsky.social @julielarson75.bsky.social 
Sean Moody @seanmoody.bsky.social Executive Reporter, Fox 13 News in Salt Lake City, Utah | Past: LEX 18 News | KSL 5 TV, WKYT, Sporty’s Pilot Shop| Aviation Geek | Kentuckian | Lover of the outdoors
Akiva Malamet @akivamalamet.bsky.social Editor @Liberalism.org + communications consultant @theihs.org. Opinions always my own unless you are Hume or the Buddha. Be excellent to each other. 🤘🤝✌️🌐🏴
Barry Galbreath @barrygalbreath.bsky.social Will do HR for Food | 🇺🇸🇩🇯🇦🇹
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
A J Farley @ajfarley.bsky.social That guy on that bike in Middle TN.
GP&R @s-griobhtha.bsky.social Husband, father, anti-fascist which includes anti-zionist. Former Army Ranger (1978-1982). Author -- X Rubicon: https://seangriobhtha.com/. @griobhtha1 Substack.
Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social book reader, software engineer @ Triumph, @awesomefoundgta.bsky.social organizer and @awesomefoundation.org board, 🏳️🌈, he/him, Toronto 🇨🇦
Ronald Howard @ronaldohoward.bsky.social St Croix, USVI. 7th Gen Native Kentuckian; 20 yr Crucian. Learning about the world in Español; Português; Kreyòl Ayisien; Kwéyòl; Ladino; Català. UofL Cardinals; Atlanta Braves; Estrellas Orientales. Lifelong Democrat- 2nd Class American bc Insular Cases
Bill Haneberg @haneberg.bsky.social Geologist at the geohazard•climate•policy nexus. Hazard + risk. GIS, lidar, landslides, debris flows, floods. Kentucky Colonel in New Mexico. He/him.
More: www.linkedin.com/in/billhaneberg & https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0mCybjIAAAAJ&hl=en
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social ✨I'm a former local TV news exec, reporter & producer with a few opinions about the news✨
⚡️Past: @KING5Seattle @WGNMorningNews @WGNNews @WCIA3 @NBC5Chicago @ABC7Chicago
🔥Now: Indistinct Chatter https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/
Mari Adkins @marifromky.bsky.social writer. avid reader. unapologetic Appalachian. homemaker. mother, grandmother, cat parent, wife.
no AI
accounts with no bio get blocked!
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_
Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social Lover of democracy. Proud Appalachian (living in RVA). Progressive Democrat. Seeker of a more just society. Writer. Reader. Doodler. Indivisible. Dog Lover. CFS/ME. He/Him. Sic semper tyrannis.
@drumguy82.bsky.social @drumguy82.bsky.social 
Jennifer Miller @jennmill.bsky.social Kentuckian, dog lady, community activist, attorney, Democrat, knitter, producer, Reform Jewish person with multiple sclerosis (MS). Yogi is my mobility service dog.
Linkedin.com/in/jennifermiller
Facebook.com/jenniferbethmiller
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
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Rockin’ Robin 🎶 🐦🪺 🎼 @rjow.bsky.social Depicting American life one screenshot at a time …
DM= instant block
Emergency Management•Continuity of Operations•Mass Care•Emergency Response•Pandemic Planning•Disaster Preparedness
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Katherine Dailey @kdailey.bsky.social Reporter @michiganadvance.com
Political journalist, big fan of all things FOIA + data reporting 🏳️🌈
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at @freedom.press. Interested in reducing overclassification, FOIA reform, enforcement of the Presidential Records Act, and preservation of federal records. Opinions mine. Signal leharper.89
Proud Pioneer @proudpioneer.bsky.social Democracy lover who just turned 70. My hometown has a pioneer fort in it. Former newspaper photographer, writer, editor, sports editor and online editor. Once got onstage with Richard Simmons.
The system’s as broken as Seth’s dong.
Martha Lucille @marthalucille.bsky.social I’m kind of a bummer right now.
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
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Theresa Moore @ttmoorepants.bsky.social Big nerd, bigger heart. Must love democracy, dogs and cake.
Justin Hyde @justinhyde.bsky.social Corporate communications @ Mobileye, self-driving/safety technology that may be in your car already. Former automotive journalist with many interests beyond wheeled objects. Esse quam videri. 
Bernadette Marie Oliver @bernadetteoliver.bsky.social Day by day. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐙🐝🕷️🐞 (she/they)
Ned Pillersdorf @ned1955.bsky.social Democratic candidate for Congress fifth congressional district Kentucky
DebTeachKY🌊 🇺🇦 @debteachky.bsky.social Retired Kentucky public high school teacher using my TEACHER VOICE. Married to Marine veteran.Owned by 2 cats
Do the next right thing. Don’t make yourself small.
#NeverForgetJan6th
#SlavaUkraini
#NoKings #NoWar
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
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DG Farnsworth @dgfarnsworth.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Author 20 books - RODRIGO GARCÍA OLZA Novel Series: 18 books w/ Barcelona coauthor/actor/director Rodrigo García Olza. Reincarnation of Karen Carpenter & Bombastic Gadflies my earliest novels. Photographer. INFP. Lexington, Kentucky.
Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social Husband/Father/Economist/Coffee snob.
Researching economic aspects of college athletics often using public records.
Christian Stevenson @christianstevenson.bsky.social All things ‘Cats! #BBN
All things ‘Cards #stlcards
Currently eh?-political | Claude Enthusiast | Salesforce Admin | Cat Dad
Ben 🔔🧑🏻💻 @beninquiring.bsky.social sociology phd 👥🎓
data engineer 📉🛠️
american soccer analysis ✍️🎙️⚽️
Loveshorses @loveshorses.bsky.social Horse loving mom, grandma, wife, feeder of the cats, loves dogs too. Blue 🌊 Pro-choice. Liberal. Born and raised in Montana - Virginia transplant. Montana GRIZ fan 🏈
**SERIOUSLY NOT LOOKING FOR A DATE**
Greg @gad611.bsky.social Midwestern born (Go Cubs!) but now living the desert life. Generally left of center.....
Jean-Michel Masson @masson-jmm48.bsky.social Former English teacher.
Atlas-network unfriendly.
Climate science friendly.
Near Paris, France.
78 year-old grand-father.
Maga not welcome.
I do not speak Kochlandese.
No post, no following back, probably blocked.
Porn peddlers will be blocked
Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social Renewable energy and climate politics and policy. Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Author of Owning The Green Grid (MIT Press). More at joshuabasseches.com
Blue Kentucky Woman @vote-blue24.bsky.social Feminist. Love all animals, Mother Earth, some people, & the Oxford comma. We have work to do. Let's get started! #ReuseRecycle. #SaveOurPlanet #VoteBlue #AbortionIsHealthCare #Resist
Jeffery Tyler Syck @jtylersyck.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pikeville. 8th Generation Kentuckian. Presbyterian. 
🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social A Kentucky woman that loves a good laugh, a fine Bourbon, a well-executed duck decoy spread, and a purpose. U.S. Marine Corps Family.
Former award winning journalist, executive, legislative advocate, campaign manager, built a $42M Performing Arts Center.
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.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Floodlight @floodlightnews.org Investigating the powers stalling climate action
WUKY @wuky.org University of Kentucky Public Radio
Where NPR Rocks @ 91.3
wuky.org
Morgan Watkins @morgreports.lpm.org Investigative reporter covering health, the environment & more for @lpm.org & the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (KyCIR). Formerly w/ Courier Journal, Gainesville Sun.
Think an issue needs coverage? Email me: mwatkins@lpm.org
T-Man the D-Man @tonyventura.bsky.social -Blues Keyboardist
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-Former Dem Communications Director
-All around nice guy. :)
"Stigmitize those who let people die, not those struggling to live."
~ Sarah Kendzior
Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social Asst Prof. Anthropologist & engineer. Celiac. Feminist. Studies bone health, physical activity, & menses. she/her
My views should not be construed to reflect those of my employer.
Victoria Wilson @violinwoman24.bsky.social I am a novice violinist learning by the Suzuki method.I am a would-be country fiddler. Also a peace lover, cat lover,really all animal lover and am a dreamer and fighter. I am a native West Virginian. I believe in the rule-of-law and believe in truth.
Cara Stewart @kycara.bsky.social Momma, lawyer, seeker of Joy and Justice
KY Resist @resistwithky.bsky.social We are a KY group, hopeful to bring protests against the current administration to Eastern KY!
www.kyresist.com
Advocacy for Democracy, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Gun Control, Anti-Racism, Anti-FELON AND MUSK, Kentucky WILL RESIST!
Lauren Brown @laurenb229.bsky.social Kentucky #BBN
Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social Old fashioned liberal, northern CA. Photographer, carpenter, atheist, copy editor, animal lover, Trump hater, women's rights hardliner. Pro Zelensky 🇺🇦.
I block dickheads reflexively.
DMs disabled due to abuse.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social English professor (c19 American), closed adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
KP Williams, Ph.D. @kpwilliams.me Academic Citizen ✩ Kentucky ✩ Independent Professor of Possibility & Founder of @CreativeRecess.me ✩ Leadership Coach, Educator, Facilitator, Speaker ✩ FUNemployed ✩ Sovereignly Sober ✩ 🏳️🌈🪧✊🏻🧱 www.kpwilliams.me ✩ www.creativerecess.me
Martin J. B. Burns @burns1mjb.bsky.social Wisconsin. 💙 Very BLUE. 💙 🌎TREE HUGGER. 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 Not as patient as I once was.📚 Better TOGETHER. 🌊 Antifascist DUE PROCESS!🦋Homegrown♥️ This is
NOT normal. 😟🧊🚫 Creating CHAOS to divide & distract from attacks on the ELECTORATE!⚠️ Unapologetically pro-Democracy.
Doug Boyd @dougboyd.bsky.social Oral history, folklore, archives and libraries, photography, podcast host, all things Kentucky, Fulbright Scholar, average singer songwriter
@mtnmantn68.bsky.social @mtnmantn68.bsky.social follows, ❤️'s and reposts ≠ endorsements
David Stephenson @photoprofdavid.bsky.social Associate Prof., Photojournalism and Multimedia, School of Journalism & Media, University of Kentucky. Random school stuff here. And 🐦. iPhone mostly.
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
Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social Law, social justice, human & animal rights, nature, arts, ecology. #voteblue NYC Business Lawyer beckermanlegal.com Trademark, copyright, business law, commercial litigation, internet, business formation, disputes, arbitrations, entertainment is.gd/xkbod2
@cartercountytimes.com @cartercountytimes.com 
Matthew W Nugent @n00ge8.bsky.social Supports efforts to reduce gun deaths and injuries across the US
The Other Side of Life @theothersideoflife.bsky.social Live music in Louisville:
8/15: BARK CULTURE; ZEUS, AGAIN and THE GLEAMING CORRIDOR at B-Side
9/4: JOE MCPHEE/KEN VANDERMARK/CHRIS CORSANO TRIO at Roots 101
9/19: BITCHIN' BAJAS with ELI WINTER & TYLER DAMON at B-Side
https://the-other-side-of-life.com
Caleb O. Brown @cob.bsky.social Christian / "great husband" / "Papa" 3x / Liberal / #STLCards / ⭕ / normcore icon / Shill, Big Liberty / Romans 13:8 / @bluegrassinstitute.bsky.social
lex @alexiscagney.bsky.social environmental scientist, perpetual pessimist, goddamn leftist | free palestine 🇵🇸 | 🌿💧⛰️📚🌹 she/her 📍KY
Perry County KY Democratic Woman’s Club @perrycountykydwc.bsky.social We are appealing to all women during this state of emergency in our country that threatens to take away all women’s rights! The time is NOW!! We must take ACTION and band together to keep what we fought so hard for!!! 🤬🤬🤬
Susan Grundberg @susangrundberg.bsky.social Full of rage. Trying to stay calm. Human services, policy, social justice, anti-racist, ally, mom, genX, UMich. Midwest roots. NYC is home. People are suffering. Disruptive stuff—neuroscience, psychedelics, mental health innovation. Also…democracy, obv.
Avian Mariner @avianmariner.bsky.social French-Canadian American 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Animal Behaviour Specialist 🐾
Photojournalist / Journalist (ret)
Je n'ai pas voté pour DT
Kent Gilbert @revkgilbert.bsky.social United Church of Christ pastor serving Union Church, in Berea, KY
60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social Skeets from the most successful news magazine in TV history, offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news ⏱️
Greg @thisisgregmck.bsky.social
Always looking for new sci-fi to read and dumb movies to watch
Mary Brew @ronague.bsky.social Humanist 🇮🇲🌍
Diane Bird (she/her) @deannakay.bsky.social I’m a medical technologist and liberal democrat in deep red East Tennessee
Hannah Hagan @hannah-hagan.bsky.social she/her/hers, 20s, #aapi
📚 book hoarder 🎹 piano hobbyist 🎶 yarn collector 🧶
📣 pro-democracy anti-capitalist 🌹
living on the land of the Yuchi, the Osage, the Shawanwaki/Shawnee, and the Cherokee, East
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Tom Spath @tomspath.bsky.social Writing, acting, improvising, environmental paralegaling, watching movies, comedy, rock 'n roll and the odd television show here and there!
Amy McGrath @amymcgrath.bsky.social Mom of Teddy, George, and Ellie. Wife of Erik. Former Marine. F/A-18 pilot. Proud American. Proud Kentuckian.
Jason Stephens @darktowerjunkie.bsky.social In another age, I was known as Lemonjuice McGee.
I'm a former professional wrestling personality, casual wizard, outdoor enthusiast, weirdo, photographer, Kentuckian, tattooed trash, human father, & cat-dad
Dinh of KY’s Constant Reader Book Club 📚
@liannewildlife.bsky.social @liannewildlife.bsky.social Multi tasking to help save Democracy.
Blue Kentucky Gal @bluekentuckygal.bsky.social Retired Kentucky educator. Spending my retirement years promoting Democracy even as a blue dot in a red state 💙
David Anthony 8647 @davidanthony133.bsky.social I get around. ...