A Starter Pack From @MsKellyMHayes
Here's a sampling of people, orgs and publications I follow on Bluesky.
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@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
Books! Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and a Nabokov bio. Former painter, translator, karateka, and record store clerk. Subscribe to my newsletter and podcast: www.andreapitzer.com
@techwontsave.us
A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com. https://techwontsave.us/
@jaredlholt.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, US Hate & Extremism @ Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) • [Views expressed here are my own] 🎙️Find “Posting Through It” on your favorite podcast player and here: https://postthroughit.substack.com/
@harshawalia.bsky.social
Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle. New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
@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.
@workingfamilies.org
We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us. linktr.ee/workingfamilies
@sesmith.lol
that person with the peaches national magazine award-winning culture critic and journalist seen in bitch (rip), the nation, the verge, rolling stone, etc @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder, @scarleteen.bsky.social coconspirator, & much more! realsesmith.com
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Politics, intl relations, psychology, etc. Making sense of a world that doesn’t Encourager and threat scanner Smith College BA, MSW | LSE #ActuallyAutistic #LGBTQ #MECFS Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath Substack: https://leahmcelrath.substack.com/
@clairewillett.bsky.social
Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Covering arts philanthropy at orartswatch.org. Writing books and plays at clairewillettwrites.com. Mentoring lefty grantwriters at tinyurl.com/8thHousePDX. Just a Virgo who can’t drive.
@shengokai.bsky.social
Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
@amyhoy.bsky.social
- OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better. She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
@mommunism.bsky.social
Curly hair enthusiast, ☭, mom, abortion aficionado, misplaced Kentuckian, Berliner, Colonel Sanders chronicler, recovering lawyer, contributing writer @therealnews.com Social Media etc for @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social Always Antifascist
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era. this is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here. ngl.link/armageddon1312 don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
@msolurin.bsky.social
🇧🇸🇳🇬Movement Lawyer + Political Commentator. subscribe to Olurinatti on YouTube and substack
@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/
@katelynburns.com
Freelance journalist. MSNBC and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host. Formerly: Vox For story leads, my signal is kab.80
@lolgop.bsky.social
Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids. Find a protest you can join or an action you can start now https://www.reddit.com/r/onethingtodo/ THE FARCE covers American fascism and the mass mobilization against it https://www.thefarce.org/
@noahshachtman.bsky.social
contributing writer at Rolling Stone // contributing editor at Wired // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
@taliajane.bsky.social
indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
@ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Independent journalist covering internet culture, politics, and media @spitfirenews.com.
@daveweigel.bsky.social
National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
@nyc.streetsblog.org
The only website devoted to covering all the livable streets and public space news you need. Visit us at http://nyc.streetsblog.org.
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@prayingmantis.bsky.social
Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids
@eveewing.bsky.social
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@micahh.bsky.social
law student. "subject is a support of defend the forest according to his twitter" 𝘕𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘱 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘕𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘱 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 in 2025 (Haymarket) - bit.ly/4cMtg7q micahherskind.com for abolition resource guide
@modernistwitch.bsky.social
yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju, opeiu l1010 // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
@zsamudzi.bsky.social
visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
@williamcson.bsky.social
“Everybody has to die Firdaus. I will die and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”— Nawal El Saadawi 🔗: williamcanderson.info
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast ~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
@jaybeware.bsky.social
"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives" - CLR James. Co-host/Producer at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
@andreagrimes.com
bitch kraken / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com 📰 newsletter: homewiththearmadillo.blog 📧 email: grimesandrea at proton dot me 🛍️ shop: andreagrimes.threadless.com
@thebaffler.com
Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
@chanda.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof.: Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Physics ⚛️ 🔭 & Black Feminist Science Studies 🧪 Writer 📚: #DisorderedCosmos #EdgeOfSpaceTime #CosmosIsABlackAesthetic Web: chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project. #DisabilityJustice feed I created: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho More about me https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
@igd.bsky.social
In search of new forms of life. Digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reports on autonomous movements, social struggles, and revolt across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective. itsgoingdown.org
@davidmackau.bsky.social
reporter boy. writer girl. Slate. Rolling Stone. NY Mag. NY Times. Bustle. The Daily Beast. Yahoo. Always & forever BuzzFeed News + ABC News (Australia). Signal: davidmackau.07
@vinnythomas.bsky.social
ancient reptile in real life, Omar on Platonic. formerly known as vinn_ayy
@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
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@coribush.bsky.social
St. Louis Congresswoman. Nurse, activist, organizer, mom, & pastor. Leading with love, fighting for regular people. St. Louis Strong (she/her)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews Www.instituteofunreality.com Unreality.institute
@mattbors.bsky.social
Writer of the new TOXIC AVENGER comic and co-writer of JUSTICE WARRIORS. Founded The Nib (RIP). Comics editor at In These Times magazine. https://mattbors.substack.com/
@forensicgarlic.bsky.social
Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Fuck Terfs.
@sonofahurricane.bsky.social
ai. zie/hir ("zee"/"hear".) 31. reference jester, “sure I can do that” w Free the MS Five campaign. PIC abolitionist trying to learn to live finally.
@ethai.bsky.social
they/she, climate, philanthropy, systems, tech. making high-impact climate giving easier @givinggreen.bsky.social. opinions mine, strong, weakly held, not my employer's. follow 4 more cat pix
@bullycreative.bsky.social
Filmmaker. Creative. Woodpusher. Purveyor of fine media. Story activist. "Word-work is sublime"
@jonathanstegall.bsky.social
User experience designer. Faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Love design, theology, justice, grace. Enjoy coffee, beer, goth, metal. He/him. Live in Minneapolis. https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
@ladyofsardines.bsky.social
I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting until the end. (she/they)
@candicebernd.bsky.social
Independent journalist. Independent thinker. Senior editor/reporter at @truthout.org • candice@truthout.org Other writing in @texasobserver.org, @salonnewsroom.bsky.social, @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, @inthesetimes.com & more
@truthout.org
Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Support our work: truthout.org/donate Get our daily email: truthout.org/subscribe Follow us: go.bsky.app/9WsnfPT
@theagentndn.bsky.social
Operative of the NDN Agency. All opinions and views are psychological projections on your part. Listuguj Mi'gmaw. straight. cis. student. display:@inde_milou https://www.paypal.me/TheAgentNDN
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories. https://bit.ly/4lbdmXU
@auntie.bsky.social
Art & Indigenous advocacy. Haud/Nish—Oneida Nation of the Thames, Ohkwalihné:ke. M.Ed. LAND BACK. Beads? Beads. (she/they) Sweetgrassandsage.com ✨
@dreanyc123.bsky.social
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
@bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com
A twitch streamer who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com
@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
@daanis.ca
Looking for Indigenous voices? Subscribe to and pin Indigisky🔥 and Indigiskeeters🦟 if you're Indigenous, ask me to add you to the skeeters list. Subscribe to both here: https://goodfeeds.co/search?q=%40daanis.ca
@robinmarty.com
Author, New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, End of Roe v. Wade. Executive Director, https://bsky.app/profile/wawchealth.bsky.social Alabamian. Exhausted. Donate here! https://wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250703-keep-wawc-funded
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is. Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, and squats
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
Writer of words, hater of prisons Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things. www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
@theappeal.org
We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system. You can support our work here: https://theappeal.org/donate/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://theappeal.org/newsletter-subscribe/
@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.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@verge-poster.bsky.social
Automatically posting new articles from The Verge (https://theverge.com) to Bluesky. Not official - for support with this bot, email "milan@milanm.org". Source Code: https://l.milanm.org/bsky-rss
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@jysexton.bsky.social
Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Board: The Change Campaign
@prospect.org
Ideas, Politics & Power: The American Prospect is an independent political magazine. We cover Washington and beyond like no one else does. Subscribe: https://prospect.org/membership
@ziibiing.com
asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
What noisy cats are we. Author of THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024). He/him. Author site: armoxon.com Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
@iwriteok.bsky.social
I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@wagatwe.com
antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers 🇰🇪🇧🇸 twitter.com/wagatwe wagatwe.com
@theserfstv.bsky.social
Métis (he/him) weareserfs.com Lefty news politics and comedy. LGBTQ+ activism and civil rights are my jam. If you enjoy my sillies check out YouTube.com/@theserftimes
@sjjphd.bsky.social
I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
Chief of da autism police and boss of the Irish Mob at the same time. Cousin, I’m a union man.