My wife just got a Twitter handle and was looking for a good way to get news from leftist sources/perspectives, and anything else cool. Any good accounts come to mind? I’m kind of new to Left Twitter too so would love some recs. She isn’t like a full on communist yet but a solid socialist, so to speak, still like building her base of knowledge so would probably be turned off to any hardcore/outright theory accounts. Obvs any anarchist stuff welcome too. But yeah, just looking to give her a solid list to start with. Thanks for the help!
- News/events orgs, journalists, people with good critical takes, etc
- Funny people
- Community outreach/mutual aid (+1 for PNW stuff)
- Female voices, could be funny, feminist, anything really
- BIPOC and LGBTQ+ perspectives
- International news
- She likes dance, forests, art, movies, etc
- Anything else!
A few of my favorites:
@ParaDoomer - Aaron Thorpe (from A Time of Monsters, Trillbilly Worker's Party)
@mechapoetic - good poster
@andersleehere - Anders Lee (from Pod Damn America)
@bigmoodenergy - Transportation / urbanism, Makes YouTube videos about trains
@kimpossiblefacts - powerful shitposter
@GalaxyPeaBrain - Periodically makes funny videos about the Twitter main character / discourse of the day
@disco_socialist - Gay comrade dragging liberals
@zei_squirrel - Good agitator, digs up old media and quotes regularly, a bit obsessed with Noam Chomsky, but not in a cringe way
@queeralamode - solid anti-imperialist poster, affiliated with Mint Press News
@nickwestes - Host of the Red Nation podcast
@lib_crusher - comrade shitposter
@as_a_worker, @jamie_elizabeth - Sean and Jamie, hosts of The Antifada podcast
@HeerJeet - A liberal journo but makes interesting posts
@Chinchillazllla - Very powerful shitposter who has recently acquired the means of pigpoopballs production
@existentialcoms - Existential Comics
@china_takes - Like the_dunk_tank but for China specifically
@BenjaminNorton - Journalist at The Gray Zone
@maximillian_alv - host of Working People, Editor at TheRealNews
@Vinncent - Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method
@yashalevine - Yasha Lavine
@WideAsleepNima, @adamjohnsonNYC - Hosts of Citations Needed podcast
@EliValley - gruesome political cartoonist
@YaBoiHakim - Iraqi physician, youtuber and podcaster
@OnAuthorityBot - extremely sectarian (to the point of comedy IMO) shitposting bot
Hell yeah thank you for all these