Zoey Read
Founder - International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion (ICARS). Child Rights, Human Rights & Disability Rights. Views and typos my own. @againstrestraint.com 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
No DM's unless I know you or it is advocacy related
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If you're looking to improve up your Bluesky feed, this brilliant bunch is the perfect place to start.
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A mix of smart, thoughtful, inspiring—and occasionally hilarious—folks to follow here on Bluesky. Whether you're after a good think, a bit of a laugh, or just want to brighten up your feed, this lot’s a brilliant place to start. 🌤️
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Whether you're looking for fearless investigative journalism, breaking news, media experts or great authors this list will help you cut through the noise and access reliable sources. (Currently being compiled not complete)
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Virginia Democrats 2025
This list features Virginia Democrats running for election in 2025. These races will shape the state's political landscape and could signal voter sentiment ahead of the 2026 midterms. Follow and support them all!
@stopthestigma.bsky.social
A hub to find places to educate yourself about Bipolar Disorder Join the conversation at #bipolarsky
@suzannezeedyk.bsky.social
Academic turned activist because I think everyone deserves to understand that human beings are born already connected. Always keen to talk ACEs, trauma and attachment -- especially through the lenses of Tigers&Teddies and Fierce Curiosity.
@axrenton.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy - slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip - abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners. alexrenton.com
@logicplease.bsky.social
Pro women's rights - all of them. Resister. Have been around long enough to know what a great country is really like, and this isn't it. I follow back. No DMs. #Resist
@oliveralarkin.bsky.social
Electing @ElijahManley.bsky.social | South FL political strategist | X+TikTok: @oliveralarkin | Threads: @oliveradamslarkin
@carolinehaskins.bsky.social
reporter @WIRED.com caroline_haskins@wired.com Signal: carolinehaskins.61 https://www.wired.com/author/caroline-haskins/
@crdjustice.bsky.social
Promoting justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of race & disability. Based at Northwestern Law. Reposts not endorsements. https://linktr.ee/nlawcrdj
@thedemocracydoula.bsky.social
Daughter of the Witches You Didn’t Burn Human Rights are Fundamental rights. Feminist. Here for the resistance staying for the revolution.
@tigerkitty.bsky.social
#childfree and nerdy aunt, volunteer deputy voter registrar, trying to learn trading and #forex, 🇲🇽 daughter of immigrant, going this year to #sdcc, NO DM'S FROM NEW FOLLOWS - no exceptions.
@ethnedragon.bsky.social
🚫NO RANDOM DMs. NO MAGA. NO CRYPTO. NO "SUGAR DADDY" SCAMMERS🚫 Just an aging fangirl... And cats. So many cats. And coffee. #Resist #GenX 🏳️🌈♿🐈⬛🐾☕🔵🇺🇦
@cmikesf.bsky.social
Kindness is free. Typo Queen. No DM's, please. If you do just be warned, that I have a really quick 🚫 finger.
@bradtakei.bsky.social
Official keeper of The Way of the Takei & the luckiest guy in the world, because my job is to manage the career of the wonderful George Takei.
@awinston.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT. WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/ Ali.winston@protonmail.com Awinston.17 on Signal
@rachelit.bsky.social
🥷🏾ACTIVIST I 🏳️⚧️ NEWS 3 in 5 Black Trans Women are homeless. 🚨 Lets get them all off the streets into Safe Housing. DONATE NOW 👇 $250k+ raise so far 🪻 Help us get to $5 million. 👉 donorbox.org/hbtranswomen-fund
@journalismfestival.com
International Journalism Festival #ijf26 | 20th edition | 15-18 April journalismfestival.com
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@dee4ever.bsky.social
Mother of 7, grandmother of 16, veteran educator of 40 years. https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AIFAY9BVGWB?ref_=wl_share
@irenecanthear.bsky.social
Just a pup that can’t hear. 💙🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🇺🇦 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 Impeach 🍑! Facists not welcome!
@amlwhere.bsky.social
I direct the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Give me all the pencils.
@hudsonbay2la.bsky.social
Will not go gently into that dystopian night. #resist #antifa #LGBTQ+#vegetarian 🚫 magats, porn, crypto, 🌊 #BlueWave #BlueStorm #BlueCalvary #BlueCrew 🏀 #WNBA 🧪 Science 🏺Anthropology/Archaeology 🗃️ History Not going back 🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/hudsonbay2la
@abreezeclayton.bsky.social
she/her | Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. “Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great.” #RuralMatters
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Ex-Guardian & Observer journalist till I got replaced by Nick Clegg. Fighting the Broligarchy since 2016. Please sign up to my (free!) newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
@shannonbrooke01.bsky.social
Southern California ☀️ Former constituent services director U.S. House of Representatives/ social media director 🇺🇸 Current: Sky Flyer 💙 🇺🇦 https://www.c-span.org/congress/ End Citizens United 💚Ohio University DMs = Block Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
@samleecole.bsky.social
tf is going on here do not fight in my replies journalist / co-founder @404media.co signal: sam.404
@cendemtech.bsky.social
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @CDTEU.bsky.social for our EU-based team. https://cdt.org
@jfrejnyc.bsky.social
Building a vibrant Jewish Left in NY, fighting arm-in-arm with our neighbors for care not cops. Extremely pro-glitter.
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@tbh1910.bsky.social
Co-founder ArchCity Defenders. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney working with movements to support transformational change. Cat loving abolitionist and national non-profit survivor.
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
Organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. 📍Philly
@atlantajustice.bsky.social
🖤❤️🖤 Activists, Allies, and Accomplices Stop Cop City. Justice for Tort. 1312. ACAB. Free Palestine. Human rights. BLM. Direct Action>Compliance. Fuck off if you disagree. The Marshall Rancifer Memorial Mutual Aid Project
@atlpresscollective.com
Delivering stories that impact the safety and well being of Atlantans and hold power accountable. #atlpol
@iwwfju.bsky.social
A union for all freelance journalists, bloggers, and other writers in news media - www.freelancejournalistsunion.org. Part of the IWW (https://iww.org). For assistance, please email freelancejournalists@iww.org
@thenwu.bsky.social
The National Writers Union fights for all freelance writers & media workers in the digital age. Media contact: comms@nwu.org
@moe-sneakers.bsky.social
Founder of Sneakers with Soul, a nonprofit agency providing new, high-quality, brand-name sneakers to under-resourced kids in grades K-12 at no cost to schools, social services agencies, nor the families served. #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne
@ericdirnbach.bsky.social
Labor Movement Researcher, Activist, Campaigner, Organizer, Educator, Writer & Socialist, Philly born, NYC now. https://ericdirnbach.medium.com ✊ operarios omnia vincent ✊
@aqeny.bsky.social
New York State’s leading community-based organization in the fight for adequate public school funding and educational justice.
@mauricewfp.bsky.social
National Director: @workingfamilies.org | Co-Founder: Blackbird | Board: Brooklyn Movement Center, Center for Popular Democracy Action, United for Respect | Always: Movement for Black Lives | Text MOE to 30403. he/him
@andreassieber.bsky.social
Associate Director of Policy & Campaigns @350.org Co-board chair TogetherForFuture Climate, Energy, Geopolitics Views = my own
@clementpetitj.bsky.social
Community organizing | social movements | Chicago | yoga. Associate professor, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Author of "Occupation: Organizer" (Haymarket Books)
@curbprisons.bsky.social
We are a coalition of over 80 organizations working to reduce the number of incarcerated people in California, reduce the number of jails and prisons in our state and shift wasteful spending away from incarceration and toward healthy community investments.
@nlgnews.bsky.social
Volunteer lawyers, law students, legal workers & jailhouse lawyers of the 1st national, racially integrated US bar association. People > property💚✊🏽 Est. 1937 Become a member: nlg.org/join
@nelini.bsky.social
Child actress to political organizer pipeline. Jedi Knight w/ @workingfamilies.org. Come for the politics stay for my pop culture hot takes. Bread and freaking roses!
@blmdc.bsky.social
Centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. NOT PART OF THE NATIONAL BLM ORG!
@nclrights.bsky.social
We're groundbreaking. We're intersectional. We're ready to fight for LGBTQ rights.
@gladlaw.bsky.social
We are a leading legal rights organization dedicated to justice and equality for LGBTQ+ people and people with HIV 🌈💪 Learn more and join the fight for justice: glad.org
@dylanmulvaney.bsky.social
🎭 Actor | 🌈 Trans Advocate | 💄 Day [∞] of Being Me | ✨ Spreading Joy & Love 🌍 | She/They