old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Civil Defense Institute @civildefenseinst.bsky.social A nonprofit that reports on the organizations, donors and networks reshaping American public institutions.
https://civildefenseinstitute.org/
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social Civil Rights Lawyer | Drag is not a crime | 🏳🌈 | lissajostewart@gmail.com | Memphis | they/she
Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com I like trains and walkable neighborhoods.
https://linktr.ee/thetransitguy
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social Cranky lioness. You know me from Twitter. Cats, game design, Judaism, and very long threads. (She/her) Views and opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
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
Chairman Meow @jdny2.bsky.social 2026 is turning out to be even shittier than 2025
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social B.A. Biological Anthropology. M.A. in Biology (Conservation Biology). Animal lover. Cat Mom. Things I post about: Archaeology/Anthropology, Wildlife Conservation, Animals, History, Science, Primates. Proud Canadian! Southern AZ. #PrimatesAreNotPets
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/
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social Reporter, DailyKos.com, Previously Media Matters. Subscribe to http://oliverwillis.substack.com
Adam Bojak for Assembly @bojak4assembly.bsky.social Buffalonian, democratic socialist & attorney running for State Assembly. Let’s build a healthy, housed & affordable Western New York.
bojakforassembly.com
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social Journalism, media, politics, culture, technology…and other stuff.
Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social I write.
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and elsewhere
Signal @jbyoder.82
Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org
Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social 
Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social Exec. dir., Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (@critzstudies.bsky.social).
Out now: The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State (UC Press, 2026) at bit.ly/ucpress-gelman, discount code UCPSAVE30!
Writing & podcasts at emmaiagelman.com.
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)
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Writer of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social Executive Producer, Last Week Tonight. Friend to nearly all the animals. 
Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social Weather and climate scientist focused on extreme events like floods, droughts, & wildfires on a warming planet. www.weatherwest.com
Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social Writer (Disney, Spotify, that one West Wing spec thread you remember from Twitter) | Endurance Rider | Amateur Unfuckologist | Bug Simp | your real dad | mgmt @ Heroes and Villains 💜💙💗
Natalie Dee @nataliedee.bsky.social ♏️♒️♏️ VT. Design/illustration, ceramics, tarot. Co-host at GBU + The Great Mistake. Sexton. Come see me at nataliedee.com
@publicporpoise.bsky.social @publicporpoise.bsky.social Resident Seattle Hopepunk
Cuneiform Enthusiast
Structural Architect of the Universe
Not your average Cetacean
Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Supporting local coalitions to tell more compelling stories and work better together.
My org: https://ZEALO.US
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr-epic.bot.country Pics from the Earth Polychromatic Camera on the DSCOVR spacecraft (unofficial). Formerly @dscovr_epic on twitter.
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Operator: @russ.garrett.co.uk
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Pepperoni @pepperonipup.bsky.social Be Kind.
B.M. @ireallyhateyou.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Hebrew 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
If I don't respond to your DM, you're welcome to try and reach me at
ireallyhateyou1948 (at) gmail (dot) com
@ireallyhateyou on Twitter
Louis Kersten @louisvk.bsky.social Disturbingly domesticated former NYer living on the outskirts of the Chicago metro area.
Mildly allergic to jukebox musicals.
Your Merman may vary.
This isn't me being gay; it's science.
the-astro-stud @the-astro-stud.bsky.social 🌌 Cosmology PhD student • Writer
📩 inquiries@theastrostud.com
✨ Stay stellar, homies ✌🏾
Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social Warren Terra is a pseudonym.
@warren__terra on Twitter (inactive)
@warren__terra at mastodon.online
Apparently bluesky doesn't like underscores?
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
Like what I do? https://ko-fi.com/shabana
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
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Darializa for Congress @darializaforny.bsky.social Running for Congress in NY-13 because New Yorkers deserve better. Fighting to secure housing for all, invest in our babies, not bombs, and abolish ICE. https://linktr.ee/darializa
Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social Building power of immigrant, Black, and brown communities to achieve dignity & justice. 30,000+ members. Reposts ≠ endorsements. DONATE: http://bit.ly/supportMRNY
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Building a vibrant Jewish Left in NY, fighting arm-in-arm with our neighbors for care not cops. Extremely pro-glitter. https://www.jfrej.org/
David Orkin @david4queens.com Immigrant Workers' Rights Lawyer ⚖️ UAW Union Organizer ⚙️ Democratic Socialist 🌹 Dem/WFP Nominee AD38: Ridgewood, Glendale, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill 🗳️
Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social Interested in everything; dedicated to base-building & party-building. Member of NY WFP & NYC-DSA. Partner to one, sibling to three, comrade to many.
@workingfamilies.org | @nywfp.bsky.social
@socialists.nyc | @socialistmajority.com
📍Jamaica, Queens NYC
Josh @jvasquez.bsky.social A better world is possible. Union organizer. NYC. Views are my own. #1u #LGM 🇵🇷
Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com Queens mom 🌐 Immigrant New Yorker 🇪🇨 Democratic socialist 🌹 State Assemblymember for District 36 (Astoria & Long Island City) ✊🏽 Join @socialists.nyc!
Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social CMO of ShirtlessSummer and MidtownMagic campaigns; bylines in Mids Aficionado; bootleg perfume expert; he him or they; vote for Zohran: zohranfornyc.com
NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). We believe a better world is possible and we’re building it right here in New York City. Join us: http://socialists.nyc/join
aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social south richmond hill kid, @socialists.nyc @socialistmajority.com patriot 🌹
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social SF native in NO.
I have no difficulty holding both logic and feeling at the same time, and it does not diminish my powers. It expands them.
-Lawyer Barbie
Talk is cheap and whiskey costs money. - Fr. Gilson
LMDB, PI, Esq.
Gucky @gucky.bsky.social A creature of constantly shifting interests, orbiting around cartoons, cult movies, and tarot cards. Manic lumpy log lady. She/her
Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social More like Aunty Mame every day. Behold fat femme wizardry, bisexual hullabaloo, culinary feats of derring-do, progressive theology, and kitty cats. Probably posting from the bath. she/her
Nashville-->Boston-->SF-->OAKLAND BABY
Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social She/Her. I Love LA. Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man, Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River, & Viviana Valentine & the Ticking Clock. The NYT says I "write with flair." I podcast about movie sleuths. New Haven Pizza Evangelist. More: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Hobo Bindle Guy @thenotoriouspdb.bsky.social Not a lawyer anymore. Kid haver and wife simp. Long suffering Titans and Bulls fan. Weirdly convinced human life has inherent dignity. Bad at playing MTG and making music. Better than nothing.
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️
Mostly drawings ✍️
Vegan 🌱🫶
nenazhivina.com/hi
No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social Public defender raising a tiny human, 2 cats, and a sled dog with my husband in NYC.
Once I briefly ran for Congress.
#UAW Region 9A, Local 2325
pronouns: she/her
Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social Editor & Writer | Recovering entertainment journo | Unbreaking.org editor | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, druid, cool aunt, nature & conservation | Find me among the trees 🌿🌲/|\ https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social What I have is a particular set of skills; skills that make me a nightmare for Nazi dickbags on the internet. I joke, and drive a Nissan Altima 
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social Tracking and documenting ICE flights. Housed @humanrightsfirst.org and based on @tomcartwright.bsky.social’s methodology.
Contact: Info@iceflightmonitor.org
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social 
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social crows can hold grudges for 17 years. amateurs.
@mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social Neighbors organizing Neighbors to keep our communities safe.
Linktr.ee/mspwhistles
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Enable Chaos: https://amzn.to/4gCqcOD
Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) Blocking doomerism on sight.
blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social Minneapolis resident, polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 blogger, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, AuDHD, grey-ace, 💔 widow, COVID cautious. (she/her)
Ways to contact me or help me: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn ❤️🩹
Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Leopards Ate My Face @leopardfeasts.bsky.social 
Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social Lifelong advocate for human rights (*for EVERYONE), public health, evidence-based policy. Jewish. Intolerant of lying, hatred, and denialism. Entrepreneurial non-profit leader. Writer/editor. Mom of two amazing kids and two very, very good dogs.
Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au
Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia.
Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org Multi-Racial Working-Class Power Building | The Twin Cities chapter of Democratic Socialists of America | More at http://tcdsa.org
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social Host of the #StartMeUp & #TheSeeker podcasts. Author/Podcaster. Books: The Virgin Diaries\Peyton's Choice. @mswmedia.com https://linktr.ee/KimberleyJohnson