The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
📰 homewiththearmadillo.blog
📧 (secure) grimesandrea at proton dot me
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
elie lichtschein @eliethewriter.bsky.social writer of horror, lover of sharks, believer in aliens
biblicallyaccuratealiens.substack.com
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Against the Grain @radioagainst.bsky.social A Podcast and Radio Program About Politics, Society, and Ideas Originating from KPFA Radio
http://www.againstthegrain.org
Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org Housing is a human right. Fighting for tenants rights along with four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. 🏘️
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social In this time of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice to fulfill the most sacred obligation in Jewish tradition Pikuach nefesh: Saving a life.
Nik Streng @nikstreng.bsky.social Sports reporter/editor for The Oregonian/OregonLive. he/him. 808 raised. #VeryAsian 🎌 nstreng(at)oregonian(dot)com
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
abby emerson @abbyemerson.bsky.social teacher edu/antiracism/abolition/arts-based methods. asst prof of edu in nyc. also, libraries!
david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social indiewire film critic. 
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social ⬛️⬜️🟥 Here we go again. Art director & designer for hire. Former: The Baffler, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Forum, etc. Rooting for a proletariat revolution or an O's world series win, whichever comes first. lindsayballant.com
steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social parent, activist, speaker, author (Becoming Eve, Sources of Pride), ordained rabbi, woman of trans experience.
Linktr.ee/abbystein
(She/Her)
Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com Texas News with Teeth
Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com News. Culture. Trouble. Established 2000.
www.portlandmercury.com
we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social she/her. sorry about my face, an animal licked it
honored east portlander, oregon treasure quest ranger, OSU extension service master food preserver and master composter, mother of multiples, peasant
USDA zone 8b/9a
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social Portland activist focusing on Christian Nationalist extremism, police brutality, and local issues.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social sex, speech, tech, justice, parenting, politics, & panic ✨ senior editor @reason.com, journalism instructor at University of Cincinnati, Midwestern mom
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
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Prem@zeteonews.com
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social full stack content engineer, portlander, t1d
he/him
Eli Lee, Exiled Poster @heyitshamhocks.bsky.social Eli Lee, 30-something wretched sportsboy, they/them. Weights, running, and roller derby 🛼
Kieran Hanrahan @kieranhanrahan.bsky.social Amateur botanist in Portland, OR. Living on native land on the lakebed of lake Allison.
he/him
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
todd bonzalez @doink.bsky.social i still hate babe ruth
they/she
🔞
https://linktr.ee/donkpatrol
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
taylor @georgetaylorg.bsky.social Mostly here to RT @swimintosound.bsky.social and @ganborzoi.bsky.social
Swim Into The Sound @swimintosound.bsky.social Words on Music and Life. Ad-free, independent, and from the heart. Forever. 🖤
www.swimintothesound.com
lxigh @dotorion.bsky.social is this anything? babe… this is everything
Bitsy Von Muffling @doctorpisspants.bsky.social Former teen, current male
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/
distopian dream girl @graceroso.bsky.social gracie roso if ya nasty
https://linktr.ee/gracerobinssomerville
Evil MoPac @evilmopacatx.bsky.social Pro-Gridlock Activist
Signal Hill @signalhillfm.bsky.social A new audio magazine. Issue One out now! signalhill.fm.
Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social It’s Liv agar
kelbin @kelbin.bsky.social pissboymcgee
latke @latke.bsky.social pop star, evil little wood elf, top .01% of succubi in the universe 🍊✨
@latkedelrey on X
@latkedelreyy on IG
content links:
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
helen @helenor.bsky.social i’m helen
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com Vids: https://www.youtube.com/@itgetsworsenews?sub_confirmation=1
@itgetsworse.net
📍: los angeles
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Claire Penis @handle.invalid a horse is kind of like the bladee of the plains
Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social COINTELPRO Summer Intern
Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social Stay alive another week
patreon.com/deathpanelpod
anahi @anahianabye.bsky.social professional unprofessional (she/her) / writer editor etc. / i have a blog called good consumer::
Jentry @jentry.bsky.social Just a fella who loves telling stories, come hang a while.