John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Danielle Radford @danielleradford.bsky.social writer/actor/comedian/markiest non Walhberg mark Dropout|Honest Trailers|@tightsfights|D20|Oni Press|Nerdist|Adult Swim|SyFy|Cracked|WBD|Several GIFs (She/her)
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Steph Gray @lesteph.com Digital, woodworking and net zero dad living (repair cafe, EV, solar, heat pump) in south London. Work-wise now: helping small orgs with digital and AI, and troubleshooting tech/supplier/team issues. https://stephgray.com/now
U.S. Digital Response @usdigitalresponse.org USDR works alongside state, local, and tribal governments to modernize how they deliver digital services and better meet the public's needs.
https://www.usdigitalresponse.org
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social A small yoz-type object. He/him/oh.
Passive Londoner, active Oaklander.
Only eats kosher planets.
Also @yoz@mastodon.social.
Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social antifascist | newsroom veteran, fledgling cellist, former emt, budding bird enthusiast | he/they | ally 🏳️🌈 | RT ≠ endorsement | ex CNBC, WWD, TODAY show, NBCNews, Associated Press, Arizona Republic etc
Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com Former Congressman. Running for Wake County District Attorney because the stakes for our community, and our democracy have never been higher.
Join the fight at www.wileynickel.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
AlwaysACivilServant @drneuro.bsky.social No longer former CDC guy | He/him | Opinion =My own
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Kristin Johnson @ksuzj.bsky.social Digital strategist at Rad Campaign helping progressive nonprofits change the world. Passionate about new media, nature, LGBTQ+ issues, and fighting fascism. (she/her)
Metro Rail Info @metrorailinfo.bsky.social Official service info feed for Metrorail. To report an emergency, call Transit Police at (202) 962-2121.
wmata.com/alerts
Metro @wmata.com Official Bluesky page for WMATA, aka Metro, the major public transit provider in the National Capital Region, serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
wmata.com
Drew Friedman @dfriedmanwfed.bsky.social Reporter for Federal News Network covering the federal workforce, pay and benefits. Email: drew.friedman@federalnewsnetwork.com. Signal: drewfriedman.11
Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com I’m so done with doomerism. 🌱
Queer🏳️🌈 Jewish✡️ disabled😷 political influencer 💙
Follow for daily Democrat wins & weekly election guides.
Our voices are our superpower
📧 ariella@ariellaelm.com
ugu💨Commissions OPEN @ugukun.bsky.social Reposts a lot!☆I'm embarrassing and I draw sometimes☆ she/they 20+ (multifandom/not spoiler free) FFXIV | BG3 ☆ MXTX / MXS | 2HA | QQ | WHA | visual novels | ugukun.carrd.co vgen.co/ugukun
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ZeldaCW . San Diego BunnyFest ♥🐇 @zeldacw.com 希奧達 🖌illustration & comic | Twitch Partner | proud bunny servant🐰| Introvert. Ace. Vegan | 《 🚫 DO NOT use, edit, or re-upload my art》
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social Political Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by ISPP (@polpsyispp.bsky.social)
co-EiC: @lizsuhay.bsky.social & @mjbsp.bsky.social
Follow us everywhere & current issue: linktr.ee/POPSjournal
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social your neighborhood feminist crank // freelance media critic // Community mod for @Aftermath.site and @mothership.blog // game photographer //(she/they)
av: @pugcrumbs.bsky.social
#overwatch #gamephotography
https://muckrack.com/appleciderwitch
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social Physicist, Journalist, Director of Digital Experience. All views are my own, not my employer. Fan of Film Festivals, Opera, and theater. Believer in buying two books for every one leaving the house. Unlikely to respond to DMs unless I know you.
The Niskanen Center @niskanencenter.bsky.social Strengthening liberal democracy through innovative policy solutions.
Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me Dad. Data business encabulator. Pizza robot whisperer. Born lucky.
Alliance of Civic Technologists @civictechallies.bsky.social A community dedicated to connecting and supporting all #volunteer #civictech efforts across the nation!
🌐 civictechnologists.org
Kayla @doc-amodeo.bsky.social Health Policy Wonk | Caffeine & Whisk(e)y Enthusiast | Powerlifting | Video Games | Opinions as strong as my coffee & are my own
U.S. Department of Labor @dol.gov The official Bluesky account for the United States Department of Labor.
AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST!
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
bbdd333 @bbdd333.bsky.social Mastodon: @bbdd333@infosec.exchange
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
amy brown @amybrown.xyz wife, mother, poster
oakland area via dayton, ohio
✨ amybrown.xyz ✨
Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social Chemist, wildlife photographer, scuba diver 👨🔬🤿📸🦅. I’m especially obsessed with raptors and owls. I’ll post wildlife photos most days, photos my own. I shoot with OM Systems camera gear.
https://stevemckerrall.com/
Katey @kateyforchange.com young Choctaw woman fighting for change ✊🏼
IG: @kateyforchange
views are my own :)
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social 
Poker And Politics @pokerpolitics.bsky.social QAnon is a cult that ruins lives. 
Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social The dapperest of ducks.
I mock and I know things.
QAnon analysis featured in Vice, Newsweek, Daily Mail, CBS News.
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
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
Jeff Yates @jeffyates.bsky.social Journaliste à Radio-Canada, Décrypteurs. Je gosse les gens avec les fausses nouvelles depuis 2014. Parfois barbu. Peut-être un lézard.
Toutes les choses ici:
https://linktr.ee/jeff__yates
Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
Miro Dittrich @mirod.bsky.social Researching German far-right-extremism/terrorism, QAnon, and content moderation policies
Senior Researcher @cemas.io
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Tristan Mendès France @tmf.bsky.social Observateur de l’extrême. 📍Paris/🇫🇷/🇪🇺/🌍
Podcast : radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/podcasts/complorama
Team : conspiracywatch.info
Me : tristan.pro
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social 🧱 💥
Pete Kurtz-Glovas @regularpete.bsky.social Extremism, Democracy, Peace | Former PERIL, Former GPAHE | Punk Stuff and Cats
raeuberhose / Karolin Schwarz @karolinschwarz.de writer / speaker / analyst / the far right, mis/disinformation, AI slop, CYBER / Schabernack
karolinschwarz.de / ohje-internet.de
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
hampton. @hampton.bsky.social rhetoric PhD student @ UGA | senior researcher @ Princeton | staring into the abyss at: state violence & paramilitarism + radical memes & graphic media + paranormal realities & haunted presents
Reddo Panda @reddopanda.bsky.social Anti-conspiracy, data nerd
tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social Father, amateur photographer, rockhound, lit professor, conspiracy theory theorist, Minnesotan/Montanan; deemed “poorly disposed for productive conversation” by the Bluesky chapter of the Friends of Roko’s Basilisk
Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
Bobby Amour @kunstderfuge.bsky.social Data things @ Q Origins Project (@qop.bsky.social).
Currently building dchan.qorigins.org
Pianoist (derogatory) 🎹
#ActuallyAutistic
Kaleigh Rogers @kaleighrogers.bsky.social Reporter focused on elections, polls, and dabbling in science stories. Past @nytimes @fivethirtyeight et al.
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇲
DaemonSky @dsky.bsky.social Biosecurity, outbreaks, apocalypses, language & conspiracy. Former Fed. Intellectual magpie. Dogs, SciFi, nerdery. Views my own.
Mitsuwo @3wochan.bsky.social Anti-Online violence/former 5chan Staff/non-expert QAnon Researcher/Anti-Fascism/Anti-Nazis/Anti-KKK. Born in Japan🇯🇵, currently living in Germany 🇩🇪
https://open.substack.com/pub/mitsuwo?r=dzub5&utm_medium=ios
Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
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
peter forberg @peterforberg.com UC Berkeley sociology // prev UChicago
technology, political mobilization, governance, ideology, birding
peterforberg.com // signal: pforberg.26
Alex Mendela @alexmendela.bsky.social Interested in Conspiracy Theories, Extremism, International Affairs
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Irish dancer. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
Jim Weatherall @jamesowenweatherall.com Philosopher, physicist, mathematician / Chair of LPS @ UC Irvine / EiC of Philosophy of Science / Poultry enthusiast fancier / Irish Step Dancer
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social Extremism, conspiracy theories, housing. Recovering housing attorney.
Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen! 🀄️
Byline: MSNBC
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social Conspiracy beliefs, apocalypticism, extremism, new religious movements. Skeptical Norwegian. Professor, Religionswissenschaft.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
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
Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com MS Biology, MPH, MS Cybersecurity |
Evolutionary Biologist 🪼| SciComm ✍🏻|
Bioinformatician 🖥️🧬| Public Health 🛟|
PNW 🌲|
>Art 🎨 & T-shirts 👕:
https://crvscience.com
>Books 📕 ✏️ 🖊️
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCYP88H5
Kelly Weill @kellyweill.bsky.social Writer in books and blogs. Author of "Off The Edge" (book) and MomLeft.com (newsletter). Bunch of other words at NYMag, The Daily Beast, Atlantic, your yearbook.
kellybweill at gmail
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com Philosopher of conspiracy theory theory. Editor (but not the) of “Social Epistemology” & the “Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”
they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
mat marques, ph.d. @mdmarques.com bicycles, coffee, and social psychology.
researches the causes and consequences of #conspiracytheories
he/him. woiworung land.
https://mdmarques.com
Daniel Zuidijk @dzuidijk.bsky.social Journalist covering digital culture and video games.
Mikey Biddlestone @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social Research Associate @COSPIRACY_FX @KentPsychology @UniKent. Studying Misinformation | Conspiracy Beliefs | Political Psychology (he/him).
Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social Host of the Did Nothing Wrong Podcast/Politics at the intersection of extremists, propaganda and Cold War 2.0
BJJ Faixa Preta 1 Grau
Griff@didnothingwrongpod.com
grzabjj on Discord
Stay Free
www.didnothingwrongpod.com
Brigitte Noël @brigitte.bsky.social Journaliste d’enquête / Investigative reporter @ Radio-Canada / CBC
(brige_noel on other site)
https://linktr.ee/brigitte.noel
E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com Public health + national security • Johns Hopkins alum • Tracking mysterious weaponized pigeons and FIMI
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
Philipp Pflegerl @ppflegerl.eurosky.social Political Scientist based in Vienna | Research @ IRKS | Online-Monitoring on Conspiracy Theories @ Federal Office for Cult Affairs | PhD @ UIBK at the intersection of far-right studies and social movement research | part of www.filmclubtacheles.com
Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social She/her - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. Research and community education countering fascist movements, hate, and Christian nationalism
I also really like rivers and trees
http://joanbraune.com
Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social Social Psychologist: Categorization, Stereotypes, Conspiracy Mentality; EASP Executive Committee; https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PJwzk1EAAAAJ
Shan Onlyone Lastname @parasocialmomma.bsky.social Go Birds🦅
Subject matter expert: Prevention & Disengagement/Rehabilitation violence-based extremism
"No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars."~Ursula K. Le Guin
https://patreon.com/shannonfoleymartinez?utm