Don’t Despair Starter Park
Some good people to follow as you try to find your people here. List includes organizers, strategists, campaigners, academics, researchers, activists, writers, professors, and journalists.
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@dizzy.gay
@catsofyore.bsky.social
Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Fergus and Francie. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908. Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.bsky.social / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
@luckytran.com
Public Health, Climate Justice, and Science Communication. Bylines in the Guardian, Washington Post, and more. WHO Fides member. Grist 50 Fixer. Opinions my own and do not reflect those of my employer. http://linktr.ee/luckytran
@amysampleward.bsky.social
they/them | Co-author of "The Tech that Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists can build an equitable world" with Afua Bruce | CEO at NTEN | Still believe a better world is possible.
@nacarty.bsky.social
Movement Builder, Political Strategist, Executive Director of Get Free. Thoughts my own.
@catachresis.bsky.social
Into my ABCs: abolition, barbells, cute animals. Publisher, @convergencemag.com Host, Block & Build (https://convergencemag.com/podcast-shows/block-and-build)
@laurenrants.bsky.social
Cities, labor, racial justice & the corporate agenda vs all of us. (views are my own not those of my employer or any other organization)
@avtorres4.bsky.social
He has arrived. Organize with Get Free. Andor & Star Wars fans: Join Project Fulcrum. Thoughts are my own.
@jaycarmona.bsky.social
Decentralized organizing and basebuilding expert. Labor. Technology nerd. Disabled. Views mine. 🏳️🌈
@danielaistyping.bsky.social
progressive strategist, digi organizer, and cat lady 📍nyc prev at Green New Deal Network, Bernie 2020, NY Renews
@mwoluchem.bsky.social
Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
@srgaudette.bsky.social
ED @fightfortheftr.bsky.social, organizer forever, can be the order muppet to your chaos muppet
@michelleimiller.bsky.social
Hello, I’m from the labor movement. I co-founded Coworker and now I work at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. (She/Her)
@thebbennett.bsky.social
data director @ Working Families Party prev: Sunrise Movement. waffle house ambassador & David Byrne fan account. budding organizer. she/her, born n raised on a holler
@materialistjew.bsky.social
Executive Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Tweets are my own and do not represent positions of BISR. my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
@geminiimatt.bsky.social
Hacker. Founder of , @cryptoharlem.bsky.social, counter-surveillance, safety, and security expert. Pushing back against inequality in all it's forms. Anti surveillance, trainer to all marginalized & oppressed people everywhere. (He/They)
@hahrie.bsky.social
Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
@lsarsour.bsky.social
Organizer. Good-Troublemaker. Author. Palestinian-Muslim-American. Born and raised Brooklyn.
@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
@terrigerstein.bsky.social
Director, NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. Workers’ rights lawyer. Sometimes writer. Policy wonk. Former NY labor law enforcer. Mom of 2 ppl taller/smarter than me. Brooklynite.
@dianah.bsky.social
Unions. heyadiana on that bird site. Comms at the mighty UAW. Lebanese American from the mighty Dearborn, MI. Lifelong Detroit sports fan. Detroit Lions Super Bowl champs!!!
@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!
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/ Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
@pahlkadot.bsky.social
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
@floodlight.bsky.social
Video @UAW | fmr. @JusticeDemocrats and @BernieSanders | @nycdsa 🌹
@stacyfmitchell.bsky.social
Working to change public policy, rollback corporate power, rebuild local communities. Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Portland, Maine.
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
@flyingwithsara.bsky.social
Union Flight Attendant since 1996 and president of the Flight Attendant Union, AFA-CWA, 55k at 20 airlines. (she/her)
@margaret.bsky.social
host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and of Live Like the World is Dying. Latest book is The Sapling Cage. she/they
@rafaelshimunov.bsky.social
Host of Beyond The Pale on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, Board alum Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. Co-founder of the Jewish Vote. Art at Art V War. Queens is the Future. @rafternoon on IG
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@matthewcort.land
🖋️ Lawyer, advocate, writer, public health nerd 🦠 Immunocompromised, chronically ill, disabled Then: SSI, SNAP, Medicaid Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare. 🔗 patreon.com/mattbc 🏳️🌈nonbinary
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@banditelli.org
Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment. Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@waleedshahid.bsky.social
Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Former Spokesperson, Justice Democrats. Formerly @ Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, YNWA.
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Read me: HamiltonNolan.com My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
@leximcmenamin.com
permanent Philadelphian in NYC news + politics editor @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin on twit/insta/tumblr linktr.ee/leximcmenamin
@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
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: MKwrites4000@proton.me signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@erininthemorning.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking & content: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888 Subscribe to support my journalism and read my reporting at www.erininthemorning.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@esqueer.net
Transgender Menace 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her. Sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist.