Starter packs with Jeff Sharlet

Welcome CARD readers to Bluesky. Here's a list of good accounts to follow if you want a deeper understanding of the topics I write about.

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

A big list early adopting news sources / explainers on Bluesky. There are MANY more folks here, but I could only include 150. Please note that I'm not a journalist, but I can't remove myself as the creator of the list.

• Created by Greg Pak  over 1 year ago
• 35 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  over 1 year ago
• 16 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just an array of people who I think are worth following, a very subjective view of course, not canonical or exhaustive, but a general focus on news and politics and other things of interest to me.

• Created by Josh Marshall  over 1 year ago
• 4 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 📱  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  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Mostly queers and commies.

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

Extremism Prevention, Former Extremists, Deradicalization, Fighting Hate, Extremism Research, Risk Assessment, Counter-Extremism, Journalists, Social Advocacy, Academics, Exit Programs, Nazi/Fash Hunters, Historians, Cult Experts, Pro-Democracy

• Created by Scott Kelley Ernest - CEPI x HEIR | #mtpol 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Democracy suffers when billionaires control the media. This list includes leading academics, writers and advocates in the movement to build a more democratic media system.

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

Heather Cox Richardson

• Created by Casey Sparks  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Politicos, Journalists, and friends who have informed and challenged my own thinking over the years.

• Created by Melissa Ryan  over 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  over 1 year 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

I've been curating this list of feeds and people for six years over at the Bad Place - excited to share it with you here!

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

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

Various cult and religion researchers/understanders Message to be added or deleted

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

Guests from 11 seasons of The American Vandal Podcast.

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

Reclaim your news feed from the elite.

• Created by Moonbeam  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Robin Youngman  over 1 year ago
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• Created by sarah  over 1 year ago
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Democracy suffers when billionaires control the media. This occasionally updated starter pack includes leading writers, academics and advocates covering the movement to build a more democratic media system.

• Created by Tim Karr  over 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Democracy suffers when billionaires control the media. This occasionally updated starter pack includes leading writers, academics and advocates in the movement to build a more just and democratic media system.

• Created by Tim Karr  over 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Journalists and media outlets I trust in these times ✌️

• Created by Smurfsm00 💕🏴‍☠️🧜🏽‍♀️✊  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Siipseywild  about 1 year ago
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BlueSky accounts that Eric Gallager has found related to #NHPolitics

• Created by NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy  almost 2 years ago
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An eclectic mix of excellence

• Created by Laura  9 months ago
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• Created by nancybird  over 1 year ago
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Journalists, academics, and experts on American politics to navigate the next four years of Trumpism. Giornalisti, accademici ed esperti di politica americana per orientarsi nei prossimi quattro anni di trumpismo

• Created by Osservatorio sul complottismo  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Anne-Lie Lokko  over 1 year ago
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• Created by olanelsson  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Neil Thomas  over 1 year ago
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• Created by SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🎲-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS!  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Nathalie Rietveld  10 months ago
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• Created by SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🎲-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS!  over 1 year ago
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• Created by WalkingTaako🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩  4 months ago
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• Created by SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🎲-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS!  over 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Trads, indies, bloggers, poets... If you write, even if you're not published, on the list you go!

• Created by A.R. Millner  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Anymouse  almost 2 years ago
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• Created by samwmarks  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Deborah ZurSchmiede  over 1 year ago
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• Created by hopepgh  over 1 year ago
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All kinds of Jews... except the fascist kind

• Created by Larry Yudelson  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Ben the Hammerhead  over 1 year ago
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• Created by anthony petro  over 1 year ago
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• Created by Brook Wilensky-Lanford  about 1 year ago
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Join the Resistance

• Created by xpaulaxmasx  over 1 year ago
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• Created by galatea12  over 1 year ago
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• Created by eclectica  over 1 year ago
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