Nick Dowson @nickmdowson.bsky.social Co-Editor @ New Internationalist magazine | Investigations, public services, the climate crisis, the politics of technology
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Writer, Videographer, Photographer. LA Based but traveling lots.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
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Views are always mine only
@spicysourdough on X
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Global religious change, sociology
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
Raven Geary @ravengeary.bsky.social Journalist. Hate mail: raven@unraveledpress.com
AAS SGMA @aassgma.bsky.social The AAS Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy (SGMA) works to promote equality for all LGBTQIA+ astronomers.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
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@wpr.bsky.social
Tod Lauer @todlauer.bsky.social Extragalactic astronomer (black holes, galaxies, galaxy clusters, stellar pops) who also dabbles in planetary astronomy. Really, basically a pixel pusher.
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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@ollycostello.bsky.social @ollycostello.bsky.social Queer Illustrator | PIC Abolitionist | Urban Agrarian | Imagining more possibilities for a Just and Lush World | www.ollycostello.com ๐ต๐ธโค๏ธโ๐ฅ
Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social Educator, Citizen Scientist, National Geographic Explorer investigating heritage and biodiversity
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Same team from Twitter but with more gray hairs. ๐๐ฐ๏ธ๐งช๐ญ
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they/them
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Neil Denny @littleatoms.bsky.social Producer and presenter of Little Atoms podcast. Interviews with authors since 2005.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social Celebrating #zines in Chicago & the Midwest & beyond. #CZF2026 will be Saturday October 10th! https://linktr.ee/chicagozinefest
Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social Academic philosopher, lapsed chemist, occasional science writer, perpetual ethics booster. All views my own. (she/her)
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
๐ฑ Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social Professor of astronomy ๐ญ at Ohio State. Co-chair of @aascsma.bsky.social. Alum of UCSC and MIT. She/her ๐ฒ๐ฝ
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for โnatsecโ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social Artist and printmaker, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Portland DSA
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Marisol LeBrรณn @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
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Violet Fox ๐ฆ @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Sergio Gonzรกlez @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social Historian of Midwestern Latinos, labor, religion, and sanctuary. Author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin.
John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social Journalist and Translator.
Reporting for @lookoutnews.bsky.social
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Latest book, The Case for Open Borders: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2199-the
Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social Journalist, essayist, activist. Climate justice correspondent @TheNation.com. Contributor, @TheBaffler.com etc.
New book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-dark
Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social ๐ด Anarchist Federation in the US
โซ๏ธ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐
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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social A podcast that takes you on a journey to reimagine how we can bring freedom & liberation to life.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social Death Panel podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social
patreon.com/deathpanelpod
wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027)
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social cohost @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast
www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
coauthor with @avierkant.bsky.social Health Communism (Verso); forthcoming All Care For All People (Haymarket)
theorizing health, debility, class struggle & the state
minneapolis
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer โข ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION โข patreon.com/reproutopia โข Full Surrogacy Now โข Abolish the Family โข essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux โข octopus essay n+1 mag โข "recovering academic"
Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social Anticapitalist, abolitionist, ๐ด, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America againโ
The land that never has been yet..."
Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
bit.ly/NoMorePolice
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InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
Ari Bloomekatz @bloomekatz.bsky.social executive editor at In These Times
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social Iโve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social List-maker, office supply lover, late-1900s nostalgia chaser, book consumer, children's & YA GN enthusiast. Overly sentimental. Opinions my own.
Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social User experience designer. Faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Love design, theology, justice, grace. Enjoy coffee, beer, goth, metal. He/him. Live in Minneapolis.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil @burcinmp.bsky.social 
Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app Your friendly neighborhood abolitionist.
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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. linktr.ee/pmpress
NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social NASAWATCH.com - Unofficial Space News Since 1996
@nasa-needs-help.bsky.social @nasa-needs-help.bsky.social We are an ad hoc group that has formed on an emergency basis to save NASA from devastating cuts which wouldn't just shrink NASA, but would truly alter it. We are members of the public acting with our personal voice, not representing NASA or our employers.
felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social writer with a weird heart
www.felixlecocq.com
he/him
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently Iโm doing this now. 
viva mexico @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor โWe Grow the World Togetherโ
Co-author โPrison by Any Other Nameโ
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social Astronomer at UW, data pipeline wrangler for Rubin Observatory, satellite mitigation leader via IAU CPS SatHub, mom, violist, Ballardite (Seattle), family cargo e-bike evangelist, Episcopalian, etc. Opinions all mine
Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social physicist by training, reporter by trade
writer by nature
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tips: katrina.miller@nytimes.com
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Megan Watzke @mwatzke.bsky.social I write about science, particularly space and space-related topics. I've written some books already out there and another is on the way. https://www.arcandwatzke.com/
Dra. Lupita TM @astroxicana.bsky.social Astronomy & Astrobiology PhD | she/her/ella | views are my own
#FirstGen #LatinaInSTEM
Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social Mars clouds scientist, physics and astronomy prof; Episcopal lay minister; genealogy, RPG, LotR, comics; he or they pronouns
Nora Shipp @norashipp.bsky.social UW Astronomy | โจstellar streamsโจ | she/her
Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social Planetary astronomer, studying piles of rock in space. Reader of books. Drinker of tea. He/him. This is a personal account. To bigotry no sanction.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
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Slavko Bogdanov @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social Astrophysicist ordinaire. Columbia University.
slavko.org
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
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Friends call her "our own cunty Gramsci" and "Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social antifascist | newsroom veteran, fledgling cellist, former emt, budding bird enthusiast | he/they | ally ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | RT โ endorsement | ex CNBC, WWD, TODAY show, NBCNews, Associated Press, Arizona Republic etc
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
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โWomen arenโt typically this crazy about politics.โ
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
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