Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social Mostly retired #journalist (ex-CBS News, ex-AP, etc). Master’s degree in #philosophy. Friend to #animals. Usually annoyed about something.
My audio obituary for CBS News Radio:
https://on.soundcloud.com/6tMcY2ZIjYbefssAwm
https://www.samlitzinger.com/
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen @karinwahlj.bsky.social Journalism professor, Cardiff University. President-Elect, International Communication Association. Interested in media and democracy. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/wahl-jorgensenk 🏴🇩🇰
Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. https://linktr.ee/transjournalists
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K Petrin @petrinkae.bsky.social Data & graphics 🧙 @chalkbeat.org. 2026
@jskstanford.bsky.social fellow. Cofounder @transjournalists.org. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. petrinkae.github.io
email if you need to reach me
Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi - Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social
- Author of The Athletic's college football newsletter
- Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
Vacation Bible School Podcast 🏳️🌈 @vbs.bsky.social Crash-coursing the Bible, a book we were poorly taught as church kids. For believers/non-believers/whoever! By @jasonkirk.fyi and @its-mle.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vacation-bible-school-podcast/id1511438277
Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga.bsky.social skillet’s wario | youtube.com/masonmennenga | he/him
jessica @jessduit.bsky.social they never take the country out me. writer, strategist, homeschool subject matter expert, children's rights advocate. views are mine. fka hullojess.
Blake Chastain @brchastain.social Author, Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back. Host: Exvangelical. Words: RNS, Religion Dispatches. Yes I have a newsletter. www.blakechastain.com
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.
R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social Child liberation theologian, child and survivor advocate. Learn more about my work: www.rlstollar.com. He/him.
Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com Artist/writer/podcaster/organizer from Oakland, living in Berlin. #ShinyHappyPeople season 2. Co-hosted @kitchentablecult.com
https://darkwaterprojects.com/
Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social RGG Studios please notice me
-Yakuza/Like A Dragon Streamer
-Artist
-Creator of Ok2BeFat
-Fat Activist (mostly retired)
-Bisexual 💗 AuDHD 🕺 -Exvangelical 😱
Watch me on Twitch-
https://twitch.tv/artists_ali
The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social aka the Rabbit Hole Cartographer.
Mapping the folklore and history of the borderland sciences.
Conspiracism Taxonomist.
I study horrible people who believe weird things.
patreon.com/QuacksAnonymous
Qt @qtalk.bsky.social I’m probably submerged in an adrenochrome fountain or back in gitmo
Potty-Mouthed Ex-Pastor’s Wife @jennywood.bsky.social XChristian, Dabbler, Creatrix
I want to know more about IFS, Jung, Archetypes, Tarot, gardening, herbs, hearth magic
I write here woodcarver.substack.com w/ @thismicahcarver.bsky.social
Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com The Conspiracy is Real. A podcast by @eveettinger.com and @mxdarkwater.com connecting the dots between the Christian Nationalism they grew up in and the current state of politics in the US.
https://kitchentablecult.com 
Teddy Hose @teddyhose.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Humorist
Cult survivor on A&E's Cults & Extreme Belief
+ Netflix's Explained & How to Become a Cult Leader
CV: HuffPost, Laughing Squid, McSweeney’s
TikTok:@2dhose | IG:@teddyhose
https://linktr.ee/teddyhose
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Alexandra Stein @alexandrastein.bsky.social Social psychologist specialising in cults and totalitarian systems. My books: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in cults and totalitarian systems & Inside Out: A memoir of entering into and breaking out of a political cult. www.alexandrastein.com
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Leah Remini @leahremini.bsky.social Mother. Wife. Actress. Author. Advocate. Student. 
Sarah Steel @letstalkaboutsects.bsky.social Podcaster: Let’s Talk About Sects | Author: Do As I Say
https://linktr.ee/letstalkaboutsects
Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social Cohost at http://conspirituality.net.
DM for Signal. Antifascist Dad forthcoming from North Atlantic: Spring 2026: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/
Mike Rinder @mikerinder.bsky.social Blogging at mikerindersblog.org.
Author: A Billion Years My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Exposing abuses of Scientology on YouTube @MikeRinderSP
Erika Bornman @erikabornman.bsky.social Award-winning author of ‘Mission of Malice’. A whistleblower and storyteller working to make the world safe for children.
Tony Ortega @tonyortega.bsky.social On sale: 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely' https://amzn.to/3nciFKa; in the movie 'Going Clear'; Blog: http://tonyortega.substack.com
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
https://megan-goodwin.com/design
Martin Geoffroy (il/lui) @geoffroysociologue.bsky.social Professeur-chercheur en sociologie au Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. Fondateur du CEFIR. Processus sectaires, complotisme et radicalisation. Cults and the Far-right in Quebec. 
Brandon Grafius @bgrafius.bsky.social Bible and horror scholar, associate professor and dean. Recent book: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506481623/Lurking-Under-the-Surface. Words at Salon, Sojourners, and Tor.com.
Apostate Alex - Scientology activist @apostatealex.bsky.social Alexander 'Apostate Alex' Barnes-Ross is an activist calling for an end to Scientology's abusive practices.
Blog: https://scientologybusiness.com
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@apostatealex
Janja Lalich @jlalich.bsky.social 
Jill Aebi-Mytton @jilla-m.bsky.social Raised in the Exclusive Brethren, my family left when I was 16. I now research the psychology of cults & the well-being of those who leave. Other interests- space, auroras, travel, books, classical music mostly NO CHAT UP LINES - so creepy US men take note
Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
Julie Anne Smith @defendthesheep.bsky.social I have 2 gigs:
1) I am one of the #DisobedientWomen and 'Sheep lady' blogger concerned about the harm done to women and the vulnerable in the name of Christ. #churchtoo (Bio: http://goo.gl/eFI15S)
2) Cybersecurity Analyst
she/her
Jan Vömel @janvoemel.bsky.social Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Josie McSkimming @josiemcskimming.bsky.social PhD. Social Worker. Author: ‘Gutsy Girls’ @uqpbooks 2025, & ‘Leaving Christian Fundamentalism & the Reconstruction of Identity', Routledge, 2016.
Environmentalist. No DMs.
Living in Sydney NSW: Gadigal land.
#exvangelical
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
#GatorNation #GoBolts #GoBucs #RaysUp
#FLwx
they/them
Opinions mine
https://ko-fi.com/KEBrightbill
Coalition for Responsible Home Education @responsiblehs.bsky.social Fighting for homeschooled children’s right to a quality education in a safe home. Founded and powered by homeschooled people. #MakeHomeschoolSafe
crhe.org
Micah Carver @thismicahcarver.bsky.social Storyteller. Father. Husband. Other things.
I write about #MalePatternBrokenness and #TheEtiquetteofFallingApart, among other things. Follow @jennywood.bsky.social and find me/us all across the internet:
https://linktr.ee/micahcarver
The Deconversion Files @deconversionfiles.bsky.social Humanist, writer, ex evangelical missionary, writing mentor.
The Tattooed Theologian @dillon-naber-cruz.bsky.social Author,co-host of The God Squad Pod, and panelist on The John Fugelsang Show on SiriusXM Progress. Permaculture enthusiast. Enjoyer of sports. Swears a lot.
Rachel Klinger Cain @rachelklingercain.bsky.social Will never experience true happiness again since they discontinued pistachio Oreos.
Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Scholar of Christian nationalism and the American Right. Award-winning author and podcaster. Co-host of @straightwhitejc and founder of Axis Mundi Media. Words: NYT, Rolling Stone, Politico, NBC, HuffPost, LARB, Revealer, and more.
www.axismundi.us
Dr Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of Leeds. New/minority religions. Socialist. I love cats, coffee, and off-kilter pop music. He/him. 🖖
Joseph Laycock @josephlaycock.bsky.social I'm a religious studies professor. I study new religious movements, exorcism, and satanic panic, among other topics. https://sites.google.com/view/joseph-p-laycock/
D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Autistic non-binary, exvangelical, tired. Co-founder of STRONGWILLED, a multi-media project focused on survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods.
http://strongwilledproject.com
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
Hilde Løvdal Stephens @hildelstephens.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of American Studies, Uni of Oslo. Book: Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home (2019). Interests: religion, education, political culture. Fulbright alumna.
Tablets and Temples @tabletsandtemples.bsky.social Unpacking Ancient History and Religion on YouTube
www.youtube.com/@tabletsandtemples
Helene Meyers @helenemeyers.bsky.social writer, career educator, lover & critic of Jewish literature & film. Author of MOVIE-MADE JEWS: AN AMERICAN TRADITION. Forthcoming: ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS
https://helenemeyers.com/
Katya Rogers @katyaotm.bsky.social EP of On the Media: a radio show and podcast about all things media. 
Stan Alcorn @stan-alcorn.bsky.social investigative reporter / radio producer in Colombia; formerly @Reveal @MarketplaceAPM @WNYC @FastCompany; stanalcorn.com
Alec Hamilton @alecchamilton.bsky.social Senior Producer for Morning Edition at WNYC. Fan of radio, water fountains and Maná. Apophenic as a haruspex.
Alice Wilder @alicewilder.bsky.social podcast producer, union steward, tar heel, gardener
Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios.- L Latif Nasser @latif.bsky.social nerdy writer type. mostly harmless. co-host, wnyc's @radiolab. host, #theotherlatif and #connectednetflix
Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social Managing editor of collaboratives at Louisville Public Media: Kentucky Public Radio and the Appalachia+Mid-South Newsroom: 7 NPR stations across Ky., W. Va. and Tenn. Based out of Louisville, Ky. Young Author's Greenhouse Board. Mass shooting survivor
Madeline Fox @maddycfox.bsky.social making or editing public radio, now at kcur | aunt | library stan | Kansas booster | alis volat propriis | usually wish i were on a train | always watching women’s soccer | madeline@kcur.org
Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social Journalist, etc. Alum @whyy, @wnyc. Summer & Montreal enthusiast.
Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social Making live 📻 at WNYC with @allofitwnyc. Rider of the C train, birder, mother of daughters. Every voice is a radio voice. IG: @ksh68nyc
Giulia Heyward @giuliaheyward.bsky.social covering breaking news across NYC at WNYC and Gothamist | Text/Signal —> (917) 715-1458 | gheyward@wnyc.org
Joseph Capriglione @jcapriglione.bsky.social Producer @wnyc. Pseudo-musician. Fan of hot sauce, vintage instruments, road trips and the New York Rangers.
Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A on NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.
Jeremy Bernfeld @jeremybernfeld.bsky.social I'm the investigations editor at The Public's Radio, RI's NPR station. Used to be editor of Guns & America, director of collaborative reporting at WAMU, Harvest Public Media. I like your dog. he/him
Maya Garg @mayagarg.bsky.social Senior Managing Producer, @the1a.org 📻 (WAMU/NPR)
APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org Data journalism hub of American Public Media Group and beyond.
Bringing facts into focus
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/
Kimberly Adams @kimberlyadams.bsky.social Host and Senior Editor of “Marketplace Morning Report”, guest Host on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal", auntie, motorcyclist, and mermaid. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report
Reema Khrais @reema.bsky.social Host/reporter @ Marketplace. I talk with people about their money & feelings. 
Suzanne Gaber @suzannegaber.bsky.social Audio and video producer 🇪🇬 🇺🇸 currently at Notes From America w/ Kai Wright | previously @onthemedia.bsky.social
Ilya Marritz @ilyamarritz.bsky.social journalist in London
heard/seen:
@bostonglobe, @niemanfdn, @propublica, @npr, @wnyc & more
reach me on Signal @ilya.95
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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social Director and senior producer at Science Friday, a public radio science program. Ask your doctor if SciFri might be right for you. Restrictions apply.
Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org State government reporter for @kentuckypublicradio.org — @lpm.org, @weku.bsky.social, WKYU, @wkmsfm.bsky.social. Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe/BBN. Did a Pulitzer many years ago.
DM me news/apocalypse tips! https://www.lpm.org/people/joe-sonka
Ken Tucker @kentucker.bsky.social Music critic NPR's Fresh Air. Book, TV, movie critic: EW, New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, New York Mag, etc
WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @wpln.bsky.social Nashville's very own public radio. Community-powered trusted news | Nashville | Tennessee | National
KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org Local news and @NPR for the Puget Sound region.
Listen live at 📻94.9 FM and 📲http://KUOW.org or by asking your 🔊 smart speaker to “Play KUOW.”
Brooks Brunson @brooksbrunson.bsky.social Editor in charge of the audience team for WNYC / Gothamist newsroom | Brooklyn | born & raised & journalism-ed in South Carolina
basic oddity @ad1ti.bsky.social woman in chicago having a Normal one
Sam Brasch @sambrasch.bsky.social Climate and environment reporter for Colorado Public Radio in Denver, CO. 
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social Public radio reporter in Connecticut. One-time Bart Harley Jarvis of the Oklahoma press corps. CUNY grad. Replacement-level infielder for the Hartford Dark Twains Sandlot Baseball Club. he/him
Vic Vela @vicvela.bsky.social I’ve survived cocaine addiction, overdoses, HIV, diabetes and the 2003 Chicago Cubs. Public radio host. 5X Edward R. Murrow award winner. Deadhead💀⚡️
About me and my work: https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/people/vic-vela
David Condos @davidcondos.bsky.social Covering southern Utah + the environment at @kuer.org, NPR Utah • Past: High Plains Public Radio + Kansas News Service • Reporting: kuer.org/david-condos
Send tips confidentially on Signal: davidcondos.75
Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social Affable podcast guy! Two-sport athlete (softball, pub trivia).
Today: Senior Producer at 99% Invisible.
Previously: Slate, CBC, did work on The Dropout + 30 for 30
ChrisBerube.com
Casey Martin @caseyworks.bsky.social Reporter at KUOW | NPR Seattle
cmartin@kuow.org | cell/ Signal: 206-712-5315
kuow.org/authors/casey-martin
Tim Lambert @timlambert-pa.bsky.social Editor-in-chief @penncapital-star.com. Breaking down how policy and politics in Pennsylvania impacts you.
Husband, Always Happy's dad, journalist, history guy and traveler.
https://penncapital-star.com/
Fletcher Powell @fletcherpowell.bsky.social Program Director, producer, host, and movie critic at KMUW Wichita.
Co-host of the PMJA award-winning public radio show and podcast You’re Saying It Wrong.
“Pearl-clutching" - Forbes.com
P. Kenneth Burns @pkbnews.net Sucker free, Award-winning N.J. Reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia, 2022 Maynard 200 fellow, SAG-AFTRA Member via WHYY Union.
Send news tips to kburns[at]whyy[dot]org. Signal 609-843-0720 http://SeeDisclaimer.com
Corri Hess @corrihess.bsky.social K-12 & higher education reporter at Wisconsin Public Radio | Past: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Tips? Corri.hess@wpr.org |
https://www.wpr.org/person/corrinne-hess
Joy Powers @thejoypowers.bsky.social Host & Producer, "Lake Effect" on 89.7 WUWM, Milwaukee's NPR. Owns too many animals and draws sometimes. 
@michael-hill.bsky.social @michael-hill.bsky.social 
Al Letson @alletson.bsky.social Podcast/radioHost of @Revealnews & More to the Story. TV: Creator & CoShowrunner Kingmaker for @Starz Comicbooks: Mister Terrific for @dcofficial
Lisa Creamer @lisacreamer.bsky.social journalist / managing editor, digital news at WBUR
too much fun or not fun at all at parties
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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social deputy editor @billy-penn.bsky.social @whyynews.bsky.social | @aajafreelance co-director + @aajaphilly nat'l board rep | @switchboardnyc | Always curious, often hungry | RT/like=🤔🤣🤗🔖
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Jessica Gould @jessicagould.bsky.social Education Reporter, WNYC & Gothamist.