Starter packs with Don Moynihan

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

Funny, smart and political - large & small accounts I recommend

• Created by Randi Mayem Singer  over 1 year ago
• 167 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Scholars, experts, practitioners, reporters re American democracy.

• Created by Ryan Goodman  over 1 year ago
• 70 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Henry Farrell  about 1 year ago
• 39 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of journalists, pollsters and analysts to follow if you are interested in the US election, which takes place on 5 November 2024.

• Created by Chris Baraniuk  over 1 year ago
• 37 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by kim ❌👑  over 1 year ago
• 28 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Accounts to follow to understand what's happening now in US science and politics. NIH. Trump. Musk. NSF. Vought. Remote work. RIF. Grant NoAs. FACA Committees. Senate UC. MAGA, and Project 2025. A lot is happening. Follow this group and send your colleagues here to bluesky to do the same.

• Created by Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪  about 1 year ago
• 27 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Creates an active feed of (mainly) US politics

• Created by Daniel Donner  over 1 year ago
• 22 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A great mix of different subjects and interests from people who are active on Bluesky. Dive in! Bluesky has "the juice."

• Created by Hunter Walker  over 1 year ago
• 17 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Michael  over 1 year ago
• 11 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just some recommended folks to follow.

• Created by Mike Masnick  over 1 year ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Stay current on the latest political news and political opinions on Blue Sky from progressive, dem & liberal Influencers on Blue Sky.

• Created by US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal  over 1 year ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This space serves as a platform for policy researchers to convey their research findings and discuss pertinent policy issues.

• Created by Geoboo Song (송거부)  over 1 year ago
• 8 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The best follows from across the US democracy space! Curated by the Democracy Notes team.

• Created by Democracy Notes Perspectives  over 1 year ago
• 7 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Group of influential scientist and science communicators on Bluesky as of October/November 2024. You can see a description of our method here: https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-emerging-as-the-new-platform-for-science/ and here: https://lassehjorthmadsen.github.io/blueskyanalyses/

• Created by Mike Young  over 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of news outlets, journalists & analysts that see this dangerous, unprecedented time for what it is and are responding with fearless, reliable reporting. See list #2 for even more suggestions. Fearless Media #2: https://go.bsky.app/MjqCB1i

• Created by @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)  over 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Katieg🦋  about 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

More than 100 independent journalists, commentators, and well-known voices on US politics, justice, and current affairs. | Updated and expanded daily.

• Created by Andrea Junker  over 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of people who post about media reform: structural media incentives, the collapse of US journalism, bringing back ThinkProgress, why AG Sulzberger and John C Malone are different problems... And solutions to improve our media. There’s a Media Reform list too: pin it as a Feed.

• Created by Eric Blair  over 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by SergeantAVG.bsky.social  over 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter-pack of some of my favorite follows on here for smart, reliable news and pov.

• Created by Alex Winter  over 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

some of the people who made science twitter what it was (not comprehensive ofc)

• Created by samuel mehr  almost 2 years ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Parents For The Planet  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The best analytic takes on American politics — from political scientists, historians, other academics, and a few extraordinary journalists — that I can find on Bsky. Reading these folks will make you smarter and better informed. Find your partisan jollies somewhere else. 😏

• Created by Christine Barbour  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

people who know things

• Created by John Stange  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

Accounts that engage with the minutiae and big picture of Congress, mostly from a political science perspective. Not reporters or actual Members of Congress. Limited to 150.

• Created by Alex Garlick  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Silphium🌹  almost 2 years ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by cjlester  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

History and politics types UK and US

• Created by Leighton Andrews  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Trying to figure out how to navigate this new America that we live in now? Well here's a bunch of Political, Economic, Cultural and (hopefully) sometimes, entertaining accounts to follow

• Created by Blind$hepherd  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This starter pack includes food justice and anti-hunger advocates, and food and nutrition policy researchers, public officials, and journalists. Please let me know if I am missing accounts you think should be included!

• Created by Randy Rosso  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People who research and share knowledge about American history and/or how it shapes politics - cultural and political history welcome. If you publish/teach US history/politics & want to join just give me a shout.

• Created by Sarah Churchwell  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack on elections, voting, information integrity, and the stakes for democracy — not political horse races. Please DM me with additional suggestions. There are many more worthy candidates, but I am only including those authors that are regularly active on Bluesky.

• Created by Edward Perez  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Craig Sheldon's Favorite Feeds

• Created by Craig Sheldon  12 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Barb O'Brien  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Luigi Ray-Montañez  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by I Still Stand With Ukraine  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The faves

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

• Created by Michael O'Connor✊🇺🇦  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

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

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

• Created by Paul Bleicher  6 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

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

• Created by Fabienne Vande Meerssche  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Some of my favorite accounts from the other place😂

• Created by Fed up in Texas 💙  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

My favorite feeds, organizations, outlets, and people! Generally progressive, rational, and a little bit artsy. 🎨💜

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

Some folks I follow in the academic freedom and free speech worlds. DM at https://jeremycyoung.bsky.social to suggest new additions.

• Created by Jeremy C. Young  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky