Starter packs with Seth Cotlar

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 ❌👑❌  about 1 year ago
• 550 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

it's a collection of news outlets, journalists, people, and other people

• Created by Justin Ling  over 1 year ago
• 28 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Creates an active feed of (mainly) US politics

• Created by Daniel Donner  12 months 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  11 months ago
• 17 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  11 months ago
• 16 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Political influencers from the interwebs.

• Created by bart orchard 🫡🗽🦅  11 months ago
• 11 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Hey you know some of these people! You don't know others! I like all of 'em and if you like me you might like them. Be excellent to each other. Friends, faves, raves, and Flavor Flav.

• Created by A.R. Moxon  11 months ago
• 6 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  11 months ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Mostly reporters, a few politicians

• Created by Butlerian Jihad  8 months ago
• 4 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  11 months ago
• 4 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  11 months ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

people who know things

• Created by John Stange  about 1 year ago
• 3 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  11 months 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  11 months ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Some of my favorites.

• Created by Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud)  11 months 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  11 months 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  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Della🦋Dakota  11 months 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 🇨🇦  12 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

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

Academics, journalists, activists, and other smart people who post about extremism, mis- and disinformation, conspiracy beliefs, technology, and other issues important to democracy. People I've worked with or interact with frequently.

• Created by Daniel Malmer  11 months 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  10 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

My favorite people on here, including some of my favorite voices from Twitter.

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

• Created by savagegracewines  9 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The faves

• Created by Andrew  8 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Pro-Democracy, Anti-Authoritarian

• Created by The Resistance  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

What Phil follows (so far)

• Created by Phil Bateman  11 months ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A place for historians of the North American West—vastly cartographed and conceived.

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

• Created by KProfsBlog  10 months ago
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• Created by DJ TJ  8 months ago
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• Created by Amor De Cosmos  11 months ago
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• Created by Stephen F. Knott  11 months ago
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• Created by Nicole Lenz  10 months ago
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So far, a wonderful sky of blue people, as far as I can see. 🦋 Will try to update occasionally, or may make a new one.

• Created by .•°♡Åmy♡°•.~>🖕🏽🍊💩<~  11 months ago
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• Created by Kate Fullagar  11 months ago
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• Created by Jonas W. Schmid  11 months ago
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• Created by Kelly Jones  11 months ago
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This starter pack includes faculty and staff members at predominantly undergraduate institutions of all stripes. Please let me know if I missed someone!

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

• Created by Bob From Brockley  about 1 year ago
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• Created by Hafiz Muhammad Umar Mubashir  11 months ago
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• Created by Unlce Iro's Tea Leaves  about 1 year ago
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News orgs, blogs & podcasts

• Created by Curious D  8 months ago
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• Created by timothycarey99  11 months ago
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• Created by Brena E Lathan  10 months ago
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• Created by Dr. Jim  11 months ago
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• Created by Dave C- 86 47 No Kings, October 18  about 1 year ago
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• Created by iGary - Acetamerican  11 months ago
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Bigger and smaller accounts that have worthwhile things to add.

• Created by Stephanie Church  10 months ago
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• Created by Alice Rosie  10 months ago
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• Created by DevinCow  11 months ago
• So far no one has used this starter pack to join Bluesky