Starter packs with Anthea Butler

New to Bluesky and used to getting your news from Twitter? Well, stop, collaborate, and listen! Here are a bunch of outstanding accounts that will keep you tuned into the news without having to get Elon's emotional semen on you. Let me know whom I missed!

• Created by 🗽LOLGOP🗽  over 1 year ago
• 550 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Black accounts to follow for insights into black views on Bluesky. #BlackSky

• Created by Hip Hop Central  12 months ago
• 85 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Writers, artists, weirdos. Personally, I'm hoping that two out of three ain't bad.

• Created by David M. Perry  over 1 year ago
• 50 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Scholars, preachers, leaders, and authors who decolonize, deconstruct, and re-envision theology and religion from a womanist or Black feminist perspective. Follow if you’re trying to get free.

• Created by Chanequa Walker-Barnes  about 1 year ago
• 36 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

If you want to understand the far right, violent extremists, White Supremacists, and Christian nationalists, these are the journalists, researchers, academics, and other experts that monitor, research, and provide analysis on all the flavors of the far right and extremist movements.

• Created by Teddy Wilson  about 1 year ago
• 16 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

academics, researchers, journalists and subject matter experts focusing on conspiracy theories.

• Created by Dr. Marc-André Argentino  about 1 year ago
• 10 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

I have excellent taste. These are fun, lovely, brilliant, cool people you should follow. You’re welcome. You look like you need a win.

• Created by Saeed Jones  about 1 year ago
• 7 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by silenteth  about 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Folks with scholarship and teaching in media, and in JourComm adjacent spaces.

• Created by Jeremy Littau  about 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Reporters, pundits and professors who talk about politics and culture. Check out my Newsletters starter pack for independent journos. If you're looking for activists, check out Good Trouble-makers (general left activism) or Worker Power (labor and workplace power).

• Created by Evan Sutton  about 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

If you want to follow writers, scholars, creators, etc who are contributing/have contributed to exvangelical & deconstruction conversations--or other related critiques of American Christianity--start here. @ me to recommend people!

• Created by Blake Chastain  about 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Progressive Christians from all denominations in the good fight.

• Created by Mara Richards Bim  about 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just a collection of overspecialized nerds who study American religion.

• Created by Benjamin Park  about 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Journalists, academics, and others who write honestly about Christian Nationalism, Christian Dominionism, the New Apostolic Reformation, Project 2025, and the unfolding crisis for American democracy, science, and secular governance.

• Created by Gary Longsine 📱  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

the people and orgs I rely on to stay informed

• Created by shauna  about 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Join us in the resistance! Follow all, quote share, and let’s #Persist.

• Created by PERSIST.  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Scholars of religion, media, and culture unite!

• Created by Ruth (Rut or Ruta) Tsuria (Zuria)  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Scholars and authors who study white Christian nationalism in the U.S.

• Created by Robert P. Jones  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

These are the accounts I use on here to follow what’s going on

• Created by Max Berger  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Egalitarian/Christian feminist Theologians, Scholars, Historians, Authors, Preachers, Writers

• Created by Baptizing Feminism🎥  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Catholics and Catholic discourse on BlueSky!

• Created by Nichole M. Flores  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A few accounts to follow for friends new to BlueSky.

• Created by ichoseu  12 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People who write journalistically about religion with at least some degree of regularity (hastily made and a work in progress)

• Created by Jack Jenkins  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The brave - The bright - The brilliant This pack is now full 🙌 Please follow all - Listen. Learn. Amplify.

• Created by Brent Lee  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack of scholars of the history of Christianity. This is a small list that I'm working to expand. Let me know if you or someone else should be added.

• Created by Paul Foth  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Anna Rosensweig  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Hey, remember exvangelical Twitter? Here's a list of exvie writers, podcasters, as well as scholars of evangelical history, Christian Nationalism, the NAR, etc to help us continue those conversations. Created/managed by @muzach.bsky.social. Let me know who else to add!

• Created by Zach Malm  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of scholars and journalists who research right wing politics. This is an in-process starter pack. Will add more as I get my bearings and find folks.

• Created by A.J. Bauer  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Some of the interfaith organizations and people on the front lines fighting Christian Nationalism

• Created by Mara Richards Bim  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jordan  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Christophe Maine  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Craig Geevarghese-Uffman  about 1 year ago
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• Created by A  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Christophe Maine  12 months ago
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• Created by Martijn de Koning  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Tiffinita  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Kyle Potter  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Marty  12 months ago
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• Created by Adam Shields  about 1 year ago
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Academics, journalists, and some others doing research on varieties of global charismatic and pentecostal movements. Contact me if you want to be added!

• Created by John Maiden  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Anyone who is part of the Resistance. #FuckTrump

• Created by Virginia Henry  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Dr. Kali Thompson  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Kevin the Pikachu  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Erin Stiles  12 months ago
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• Created by Lysi Mache  11 months ago
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• Created by Stacy McDonald  11 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A group of organisations and individuals who promote science, evidence-based policy making and critical thinking.

• Created by Alex Reid  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Great accounts to follow to stay informed about the moment we are in.

• Created by H.Arendt - Call your Senators & Rep: 202-224-3121  12 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This is a list of Democracy Defenders. Many of them have joined me on my WCPT radio show to talk about democracy. All of them are doing important work that's going to help us going forward. Listen here: https://heartlandsignal.com/programs/the-big-picture/

• Created by Edwin Eisendrath  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Nicole Deniese Harris  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky