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Gail T. Smith @gail-cbip.bsky.social Director, Children's Best Interest Project
Founding E.D., Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers
Member, Love & Protect, abolitionist, Unitarian Universalist.
#CeaseFireNow #WearAMask #FreeThemAll 
samantha @commiesamantha.bsky.social social media war criminal.
she/her/comrade.
Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social Artist formerly known as ManuclearBomb || wallowing in my own crapulence || he/they || Chicago, Greatest City in da World || @notacast.bsky.social
Perry @unfairuse.bsky.social i am not your lawyer and my skeets are not legal advice, nor any other kind of advice, honestly // views are my own and do not represent my employer, because why on earth would my employer want these views
Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social Pakistani-🇨🇦 grew up in Saudi. Illustrator, host of Polite Conversations Pod. IDW ridiculer. Covering types of extremism that masquerade as Rational/Intellectual
https://open.spotify.com/show/25FhI3g0wZMjWT19aIxcOn?si=x6hs5ldDQAWYmlHFLcgTJw
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
August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social Your face is good. I am a Soos.
Cheryl YoureNotMySupervisor @scurvydagger.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇨🇺🇺🇸
I wish it need not have happened in my time - Frodo.
So do I. And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -Gandalf
Respair Media @respairmedia.bsky.social We’re a movement journalism and media org reshaping culture toward liberation. Based in Chicago.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online I write about art, gender, and the tech industry. Video essays on @nebula.tv, Twin Peaks podcast @tstv.show 🌲🌫️
All that is solid melts into air
youtube.com/@lily_lxndr
Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social Anarcho-anxious. Writer and Video Essayist from Beirut.
Latest video essay - Israel's Long War on Lebanon: https://youtu.be/Dkcwc0XfvTk
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aymanmak
Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social Your favourite comedian’s least favourite comedian. Buy my live stand-up special at www.gofasterstripe.com/bet
James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social I'm Policy Director at @progressivereform.bsky.social where I specialize in federal regulatory policy. When not analyzing federal regulatory policy, I enjoy silent film, soccer, and running.
"Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse."
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social Perpetual momming. Eventual writing. Respirator on. Prayers up. In my preservation of self — and family — era. Forever survivor. Never complier. (Can you do it?) I'm not gonna be able to do it! (8x)
M.A., USC Annenberg ••• 💖💚
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
https://www.rifftrax.com
instagram @billcorbett
Deus Pascit Corvos
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social Umbraphile. Vaccine enthusiast. Mpls. Interested in police abolition, immigrants rights, MPS and mutual aid.
She/her.
Trans rights are human rights.
Xer Mom to 2.
Free Palestine.
Bluesky joiner #442,075
Canadian.
Posting my way through it.
brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org.
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Mickey Lenin @thepolitburo.bsky.social Laughing all the way to perdition.
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social She/her
Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share
Community over corporations.
People over profit.
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her
https://linktr.ee/Lucyham
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZkXdOVrEtB9?si=wNQsMjAhRgK0sUCUnT7Y7Q
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social Leftist, He/him
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social professor, parent, interests in peace, human rights, U.S. foreign policy
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social He/him
Threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain
A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
Loafer and gentleman of the fancy.
Intermittent NSFW (43, over 18 for a long, long time)
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
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/- T Away @tznkai.bsky.social This account is no longer actively monitored.
Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social Computer knower. Urbanism advocater. Hobbyist law nerd. Accused fiat shill.
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
Rueben Vargas (1-0) @ruebenbvargas.bsky.social @InlandEmpireDSA member. Petty Seahawks fan. Proud Socialist. Agitate, Activate, Liberate. Miss you all Jack, Steph, and Bruno
Delphine, Canadian @delphine.northsky.social I'm that trans girl, you wouldn't know her
A real actual Canadian
amy brown @amybrown.xyz wife, mother, poster
bay area via dayton, ohio
✨ amybrown.xyz ✨
Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehada.bsky.social Gazan Writer & Analyst
Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Trauma-informed. Survivor focused. Relentless.
Breaking News and Politics
Substack: amberspeaksup100
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No DMs.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Van @probablyvan.bsky.social Former mariner and current renewable energy project manager occasionally mouthing off to (usually) nobody in particular on this brave new platform of ours.
Rob-in-New Mexico @rob-in-newmexico.bsky.social Rob Vaughan. DC ➡️ SF ➡️ HI ➡️ NM. PhD in my 50s in American Studies from Univ of Hawai`i. Along the way I taught college for 20 yrs. Then high school for 5. Retired now. Before teaching, 20 years in trucking. CDL to PhD. Long strange trip, etc.
Charm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social On a Bluesky break. Baltimore creature. Obsessed with film, music, and poetry. Public transit/urbanism advocate. Dry barfly. Socialist. O's fan. He/him or they/them. Posts delete daily. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/5xOCV
Annabell_OhNo!🍁 @annabellesashes.bsky.social Woke feminist socialist GenX girlmum in Alberta, leaning harder left every time Danielle Smith speaks.
🇨🇦💪
Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social Donate to abortion funds: https://www.baltimoreabortionfund.org/
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” - Susan B. Anthony
Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social Professional Dominatrix and erotic hypnotic Mistress
Making the world a little better, one orgasm at a time
She/Her
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social Pharmaceutical Industry Choreographer 
emi koyama @eminism.org activist, writer, rogue intellectual
seattle / portland
rightsandsafety.org • aileens.org
more links: https://linktr.ee/emikoyama
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
Aaron Regunberg @aaronregunberg.bsky.social Dad, organizer, lawyer working to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate crimes. Opinions my own.
Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Sophia Florence (Swolephia Arc Pt 2) @sophiaflorence.bsky.social ChemEng/data/applied math (pharma formulations + disinformation), writer/comedian (stand-up and horror films), health/science/tech policy consultant, copywriter, host of the Crumbling Podcast (about disinformation), Connecticut enthusiast.
thecrumbling.com
overzealots | isaac @overzealots.bsky.social youtube.com/@overzealots
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social she/her. Sous chef and professional 🦪 shucker in a James Beard Foundation Best New Bar Semi-Finalist. twin mom. ER doc's spouse. Arkansan in Denver. Presbyterian. obsessed w my dogs Pablo & PepperAnne 🩷💜💙
Brooke 🏳️⚧️ @blissfullybrooke.org Trans Millennial from MA/RI🏳️⚧️🌈
☕️🐾🍜🌮🎼♻️🔬🥃
Salem, MA 🖤
https://linktr.ee/blissfully.brooke
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social M.A. in United States political history. Another end of the world is possible. Admin, Unnamed Leftist Gaming Discord https://discord.gg/sK7BNjXfXv.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Dan Watson @wats.ink No buzzkill credit checks. No minimum down payments. That's not your bag.
Baltimore, MD
https://wats.ink/
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of politics.
ICE Out of CA coalition @iceoutofca.bsky.social #ICEoutofCA coalition organizes & advocates to protect our immigrant community from detention and deportation. Join us!
iceoutofca.org
Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social Editor at FAIR since 1990.
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social Holding corporate media accountable for distortions & omissions since 1986. fair.org
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social Public Historian, NYT Bestselling Author
A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (2026)
Media requests: anne@miracleworkerpr.com
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
Nima Shirazi @nimashirazi.bsky.social 
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
Jared Ball @imixwhatilike.bsky.social Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.
https://linktr.ee/jaredball
@againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social Socialist. Against the extreme centre.
Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social Drew | Religious pluralist, atheist/agnostic, wannabe educator and occasional polemicist who makes YouTube videos.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com Jeopardy! champ. Waiting for Survivor to call me back. Writer. YouTuber. Podcaster. Mpromptu@gmail.com. (Send me story tips!) http://linktr.ee/HemantMehta
Articles at https://friendlyatheist.com