Institute of Free Speech
A nonpartisan watchdog for violations and propaganda about free speech. Also hosts moderation lists and starter packs
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Good Sources Starter Pack
This starter pack includes sources of information we have found to be trustworthy
@henleyparker.bsky.social
Professor 👩🏻🏫 Researcher 📚 Activist 📣 Communication Expert 💁🏻♀️ Democrats who get things done 🪧 Hope is the Antidote to Despair 🗽 💙 Action > Fear 💙 Action > Posting 💙 Belief + Action = Hope We won’t win every battle, but we won’t win any, if we don’t try
@sethabramson.bsky.social
Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds), former CNN and BBC analyst, poet, retired journalism professor. 👤: sethabramson.net/bio ⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com 🕹: retrostack.substack.com 🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
@evangreer.bsky.social
Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. Last album "Spotify is Surveillance" out now on Don Giovanni Records and Get Better Records. she/her/they/them
@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
"Antifa Nancy Drew." https://www.clippings.me/noturtlesoup17 https://www.turtlediaries.net/ https://linktr.ee/noturtlesoup17 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/undercover-maga-alt-right/
@rhillama.bsky.social
📍 Chicago 🌈♾️☕🐕🦺🌮🐽🥃🌿🎮📚✈️ https://signal.me/#eu/Y4yAtN5WIUoiM3UIoK44VSUeBNUlWHdelz0oFq_7RBsjeUeE7a5ACpXk8NiK-bqK
@coconh.bsky.social
Voted Harris-Walz 🌸 #UAW 🌸 Dem 🌸 Educator 🌸 Region Rat 🌸 Activist 🌸 Fragile, like a bomb
@victorerikray.bsky.social
Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President Elect, American Sociological Association. BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
@spookymorales.bsky.social
FIGHT THE POWER ✊🏽👻 Grandson WWII USMC🪖🎖 Son Vietnam USMC🪖🎖 HONOR THEM ✊🏽RESIST👊🏽 Chicano🇲🇽🇺🇸 American Native🪶 🙏🏼GRATITUDE🧘🏻💙🏳️🌈
@jlouking.bsky.social
New to BlueSky. Never on Twitter. A Never Trumper. I sat in quiet bewilderment and terror from September 2016-January 6, 2021. NOT THIS TERM!!! I’m hunting Nattzies… #Resistance #AmericanGenocide #BigBrother
@ninajankowicz.com
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
@brianstelter.bsky.social
Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
@wisconsinexaminer.com
Nonpartisan, nonprofit news site | Digging up the truth in the Badger State. Part of https://statesnewsroom.com. Subscribe: http://wisconsinexaminer.com/subscribe/
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS, Trump, LGBTQ, criminal justice, and other legal news. / Email: lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. / He/him.
@welcomepac.bsky.social
👉 See what's next in political waves with the lessons from the front lines on the Far Left's rise and fall—on WelcomeStack
@whatashrinkthinks.com
Before: 30 years as a psychotherapist & community organizer Now: facilitating workshops on death, dreams, community resilience & psychologies of liberation Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine Quaker-ish She/Her Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
@niemanfoundation.bsky.social
Promoting and elevating the standards of journalism since 1938. Home of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports, and Nieman Storyboard. https://nieman.harvard.edu/
@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Non-partisan, civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom mediaanddemocracyproject.org News: tiny.cc/MAD-newsletter Meet: mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/ Blog: mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
@fixmedianow.bsky.social
Fighting for better media & a well-informed public 🇺🇸 #FixMediaNow #PressFreedom Reach out/sign up: tiny.cc/MAD-newsletter Meet/learn: tiny.cc/mad_mtgs Also follow: 🦋 @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social 🐦 twitter.com/@FixMediaNow
@liberalmeansfree.bsky.social
Photographer, Artist, Antifa, American, Awake, Musician, Philly Guy Follow me back... http://www.BillCannon.net
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
@gaelicgarlic.bsky.social
Irish/Italian/Chicagoan; Border Collie Whisperer; Live Music Junkie; Attorney and Technology Exec; eDiscovery, Computer Forensics, Cybersecurity and Privacy Nerd; Bears/Blackhawks/Bulls/White Sox; Stubbornly Independent; Sometimes Feisty
@5213.bsky.social
#BlueResisters #BlueCrew #BLM #HesNotMyPresident Twitter Quitter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally 🇺🇸God Bless America🇺🇸 & 🇺🇦🇺🇦 ✊🏻Power to the People✊🏻🚫DMs 🚫Porn 🎈GO BIG RED🏈🏀⚽️⚾️
@laminda.bsky.social
Science writer/editor at Scholastic, previously Live Science & the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her. And I wrote a book! Rise of the Zombie Bugs: https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
@hellgatenyc.com
A news outlet owned & run by journalists covering NYC: https://hellgatenyc.com Subscribe: https://hellgatenyc.com/membership/ Sign up for our free newsletters: https://hellgatenyc.com/newsletter/
@aftermath.site
Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture. www.aftermath.site
@rascalnews.bsky.social
Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
@thexylom.com
We grow science with words. The only Asian American-serving science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, run by Gen-Z! Get newsletter: thexylom.com/subscribe Be a sustainer: opencollective.com/thexylom#category-CONTRIBUTE
@sequencermag.bsky.social
Decode the universe. A popular science magazine, writer-owned forever. From @goesbykim.bsky.social @maxlevy.bsky.social @dsamorod.bsky.social and @maddiebender.bsky.social https://www.sequencermag.com/
@flaminghydra.com
A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem. $3/month https://flaminghydra.com
@404media.co
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
@theflytrapmedia.com
Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm. 🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
@maximumfun.org
Maximum Fun is a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported--directly--by you. MaxFunDrive is happening now! Support your favorite shows at maximumfun.org/join.
@51st.news
Information with representation, by and for D.C. residents. Worker-led nonprofit newsroom, funded by readers like YOU. 🌐 https://51st.news
@secondwindgroup.com
Worker-owned media. We make lots of video essays, podcasts and livestreams about video games, movies and TV shows. https://youtube.com/@secondwindgroup From the former team of The Escapist. Support us on Patreon. https://patreon.com/SecondWindGroup
@remapradio.bsky.social
A new adventure from the people who brought you Waypoint Radio, funded by you. Support us at www.remapradio.com
@racketmn.com
Your writer-owned, reader-funded source for Twin Cities news, arts, and culture. Sign up to support our work today: https://bit.ly/JoinRacket
@talkingpointsmemo.com
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
@assignedmedia.org
An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
@thecity.nyc
We're an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering New York. Read our newsletter: https://www.thecity.nyc/the-scoop/
@6newsau.bsky.social
Subscribe on YouTube to watch live 24/7: youtube.com/@6newsau | Become a supporter for just $4/month: patreon.com/6newsau
@grist.org
We're a nonprofit news org dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Get our journalism in your inbox: https://grist.org/subscribe/
@highcountrynews.org
Independent journalism dedicated to shining a light on all the complexities of the Western U.S since 1970. https://bit.ly/HCNLinks
@texasobserver.org
A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954. Become a member: https://texasobserver.org/join/ Follow our journos: https://go.bsky.app/EdSL3Co 🤠
@capitalb.bsky.social
News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta: @capitalbgary.bsky.social & @capitalbatl.bsky.social
@prismreports.org
An independent and nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color. Accurate, fearless, ground-up reporting—because justice requires the full story. Visit us at prismreports.org. 💫 Support our work: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/prism
@coloradosun.com
Nonprofit, independent newsroom telling stories that matter for a dynamic, evolving state. Support: http://coloradosun.com/join Newsletters: http://coloradosun.com/newsletters