Goal is to help people make an easy transition. This contains people in and adjacent to 🌐 ET, and some popular follows amongst them. 👏FREE TRADE👏OPEN BORDERS👏TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER👏 trigger warning: institutionalism, neoliberalism, urbanism, new world order, graphs where line go up (good)
Essential follows for Crider Thought
Editors, Writers, and Patrons
Once again asking you to follow people and organizations with expertise. Disclosure; I have not vetted educational credentials and all here, but they seem smart to me. Also Democrat organizations mixed in because that’s what I like to do.
people who make my brain all tingly
All the Bluesky Samanthas in one place
Chums, cronies, acquaintances, colleagues, sympathizers, compadres, associates, contemporaries and well-wishers (e.g. who I do not wish any specific harm)
This is my worldview.
transgender journalists and experts, and also Chris Geidner
A think tank of excellent folks I’ve worked with over the years. Unfunded and unsystematic. DM to be removed. Not for everyone. A set of possibilities that never quite cohered.
Pittsburgh politicians, reporters, activists, and commentators (want to be added? DM me!)
Academics, writers, and others with something interesting to say. Based around people who've interviewed on the political philosophy podcast, with a few added.
🪐🦢🧩📚Comprehensive list of good bluesky accounts to follow with an intelligent lateral solidarity theme. Freeflowing artistic addition of people to pack, lot of allegorical, synchronicities, and deeper meanings.
A by no means comprehensive list of people named Samantha you should follow NOW.
Sensational views
People who write about history, law, politics, current events and culture. Writers, activists, academics, lawyers, and generally smart people. Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement of everything they write.
Commentators who are helping to resist.
Journalists, professors, historians, and political commentators
are you aligned with my exact politics? or are you new to bsky and want to skip the follow-farming slop? either way, here's the accs that make up the majority of my bsky feed and whose posts i appreciate :)
Let's start building what needs building.