Starter packs with Jen Mercieca

After the election, I created this Starter Pack of pro-democracy accounts. I update it regularly. I hope you find it useful!

• Created by Marc Elias  about 1 year ago
• 1,711 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Scholars, experts, practitioners, reporters re American democracy.

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

Creates an active feed of (mainly) US politics

• Created by Daniel Donner  about 1 year ago
• 22 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

Rhetoric and political communication scholars staving off the end of democracy

• Created by Karrin Vasby Anderson  about 1 year ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

• Created by Michelle Q.❤️‍🩹🤍💙✊🏻  about 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Tech bods

• Created by Leighton Andrews  over 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

This isn't an exhaustive list by any stretch, but it's a good start!

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

A wide range of experts, academics, professionals, and activists working on information integrity somehow. Inclusion is not an endorsement but a recognition that the account is relevant to those in this interdisciplinary space.

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

Some of my favorites.

• Created by Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud)  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Building what’s next 🌊 Follow us @thepersistnetwork

• Created by Caro Pompizzi  about 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

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  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

Throughout the last 25 years, I’ve met many awe-inspiring anti-fascist and anti-racist organizers, activists, strategists, authors, journalists, artists, professors and community defense providers who’ve dedicated their lives to fighting for justice and equality. These are some. Non exhaustive.

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

Connections Matter. Insiders that know me, have had my back, cheered my voice —They're the very best of Antifa!

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

Texans that will turn Texas blue!!

• Created by Fucking Radical Left Scum Bitch, ETQ 😈😇  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just some of the Bluesky users involved in researching, reporting, exposing, mitigating, or combatting pseudoscience, anti-science, denialism, conspiracy theories, paranormal claims, and misinformation and disinformation of all types.

• Created by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Historians, analysts, and investigative journalists who research/report on resisting authoritarianism’s rise and democracy’s erosion

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

• Created by Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Michael Witthaus  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

Writers, lawyers, policy folks and more talking about democracy, authoritarianism, etc.

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

More Great People! 💙🦋💙 Friends & Resistance Activists

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

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

• Created by ℛℴ𝓈ℯ 𝒜.  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

lets build this feed up who's with me? let blow this thing by the way trump is a Carnivsl Huckster who agrees ? 🤚🏼 Follow,Like,Repost !

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

Go-to accounts

• Created by Tom | Witness to Folly  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jackson Waite  11 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Ella's favorite people

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

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

• Created by Tna925  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Tna925  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

• Created by Jenn Mahler  9 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Accounts whose posts I like and/or keep me informed. If you are a Plaque fan, chances are good you will like these, too. 🤠

• Created by J6 Plaque  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

• Created by Sara Grace  7 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by type181  11 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Outstanding journalists, commentators, authors, builders, anyone we feel embodies the spirit of two pioneers in communication; Bess Furman and Mary McGrory.

• Created by US House Equality  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

The Resistance

• Created by Monica Francisco-DeKam  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Jim 🇺🇸🇨🇭🇮🇪🇨🇦  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Monroe Gallery of Photography  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by We’ll StandTogether and Fight! 💙 We are Women hear us Roar 🦁  about 1 year ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by cherfan75  10 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

List of Twitters and META Transfers and survivors

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

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