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!
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.
Writers, artists, weirdos. Personally, I'm hoping that two out of three ain't bad.
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.
it's a collection of news outlets, journalists, people, and other people
A great mix of different subjects and interests from people who are active on Bluesky. Dive in! Bluesky has "the juice."
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.
I have excellent taste. These are fun, lovely, brilliant, cool people you should follow. You’re welcome. You look like you need a win.
Some of my favorites
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).
people who know things
Cohort of smart people with reality based reflections on insane world of media and poltics.
Heather Cox Richardson
Essential follows for Crider Thought
Finding my tribe of feminists, supporters of women, and feminist history and education creators
Some overlap with the first is expected but if you're new here, this isn't a bad way to get some cool ass shit rolling through your feed.
Sharing voices focused on the fight for reproductive rights, both in the United States and around the world.
These are the accounts I use on here to follow what’s going on
The faves
The Guardian's Bluesky accounts including editors and journalists
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.
People I trust to have great reliable information
Variety is the spice of solidarity. May or may not be antifa but I am. Professors, journalists, feminists, walks of all life💙🇺🇸
Comic artists, quippers, newshounds, and terrified historians. Also space pics.