BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has a new strategy for public engagement: ask a few hundred people on Bluesky what she should be doing.

After leaving X — the platform formerly known as Twitter, where millions of Massachusetts residents can be found — Campbell landed on Bluesky last Friday with a splashy introduction post that racked up 13,400 likes and 3,600 reposts.

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

— Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T16:32:01.458Z

Hours later, she followed up with a second post: "Hey Bluesky - as we get set up here, what kind of content do you want to see? News on my office's legal actions, like lawsuits and briefs? Federal accountability updates? Resources for MA residents? Notes from the campaign trail? Let me know."

Hey Bluesky - as we get set up here, what kind of content do you want to see?

News on my office's legal actions, like lawsuits and briefs? Federal accountability updates? Resources for MA residents? Notes from the campaign trail?

Let me know 👇🏾

— Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T20:30:11.623Z

That post got 170 likes and 50 comments.

Nearly 50 lawsuits and counting

Campbell's Bluesky introduction wasn't subtle — she led with her record of suing the President. And it's a long list.

President Donald Trump. Campbell's office has filed nearly 50 lawsuits against his administration. Official White House photo. Her office has sued to block Trump's efforts to deport thousands of Haitians from Massachusetts. She led a 22-state coalition accusing the administration of "starving families" over federal food aid cuts that threatened one million Massachusetts residents. She filed suit to allow children access to transgender medical procedures after the administration moved to restrict them. She blamed Trump for rising energy bills hitting Massachusetts families. And she even joined a California-led lawsuit to get free lawyers for migrant children.

Whatever you think of the merits, nobody can say Campbell is afraid of a fight — at least not in court.

The child safety excuse

Elon Musk, owner of X. The platform has taken steps to address the exploitation of its Grok AI chatbot's image generation feature.

Campbell has pointed to child safety concerns as her reason for leaving — specifically, users exploiting Grok, X's AI chatbot, to generate suggestive images of people, including putting them in bikinis. It's a real problem, and it deserved a real response.

But here's the thing: X has taken steps to address it. The same way Google addressed it when its Gemini AI was caught generating images of Black Nazi soldiers and diverse Founding Fathers in February 2024. Google paused Gemini's image generation entirely, called the outputs "embarrassing and wrong," and spent months rebuilding the feature before relaunching it.

AI products have growing pains. They get exploited, they break in embarrassing ways, and companies fix them. That's the pattern across the entire industry — not a reason to abandon a platform where millions of your constituents can reach you.

Framing X as inherently unsafe for children because its AI chatbot had a content moderation failure is like boycotting Google because Gemini briefly thought the Founding Fathers were Black. It's not a serious argument — it's a convenient excuse for leaving a platform where the replies weren't going her way.

The public square vs. the fan club

The issue isn't that Campbell joined Bluesky. Politicians are free to be on whatever platforms they want. The issue is what she's doing there — soliciting input on what appears to be official Attorney General business through a personal account on a platform that a fraction of Massachusetts voters even use.

When the state's top law enforcement officer asks the public what "lawsuits and briefs" and "federal accountability updates" they want to hear about, that's not casual social media banter. That's constituent engagement. And she's doing it in a space where only people who already followed her from X — or happened to find her on a much smaller platform — get to participate.

On X, Campbell's posts were visible to anyone. Critics could reply. Voters who disagreed with her could push back in real time. The comments weren't always friendly, but that's the point of a public square — it's public.

Bluesky, by contrast, is a curated space. It's smaller, quieter, and far more ideologically uniform. When you ask your Bluesky followers what you should focus on, you're not hearing from Massachusetts — you're hearing from the progressives who were already there.

Mixing official business with personal branding

Campbell's post blurred the line between her personal account and her official role. In the same breath, she asked about "news on my office's legal actions" and "notes from the campaign trail" — mixing the work of the AG's office with what sounds like 2026 campaign positioning.

There's nothing illegal about that. But for voters who expect their Attorney General to engage broadly and transparently, crowdsourcing priorities from a personal account — on a platform where 50 people responded — raises a fair question: who exactly is she listening to?

The accountability she's actually dodging

Campbell's retreat to Bluesky isn't just about avoiding mean replies. It's about avoiding accountability from people who are actually holding her feet to the fire — like State Auditor Diana DiZoglio.

State Auditor Diana DiZoglio, who has been fighting to conduct a voter-approved audit of the Legislature. In 2024, 72% of Massachusetts voters approved Question 1, giving DiZoglio's office the authority to audit the state Legislature. DiZoglio has been fighting to make that happen ever since — and the Legislature has fought back at every turn, collecting over 100,000 signatures from voters demanding lawmakers stop blocking the audit. And who's representing House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka in their effort to block it? AG Andrea Campbell — whose office filed a motion to strike DiZoglio's complaint and wrote letters to the Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of Mariano and Spilka requesting dismissal, according to the Boston Herald.

✌️See you & @RonMariano in court. pic.twitter.com/G2k2kVWvb1— Diana DiZoglio (@DianaDiZoglio) February 21, 2026

DiZoglio didn't mince words: "Can't make it up. The AG still claims she supports the audit. Please believe your own eyes. Her office is representing the Speaker, not us."

She added: "I am surprised anyone in their right mind allows her to state that she supports the audit and just needs more info. No. She's legit working against the case on behalf of the Speaker in plain print. Insanity."

"We are being blocked from the courts by a hostile Attorney General whose office is fighting against us, quite literally, on behalf of the Speaker," DiZoglio said. "The AG has a duty to act in the public interest but instead acted in the Speaker's interest."

"72% of the voters mandated the audit law and the courts need to settle this matter. The people deserve an answer. By opposing the public interest on this matter, AG Campbell has abdicated her responsibility as our chief law enforcement officer. We are absolutely going to fight her attempt to block us."

So the state's top lawyer — the one who brags about suing the President to protect Massachusetts residents — is using her office to help legislative leaders block an audit that 72% of those same residents voted for. And instead of facing that criticism on a platform where voters can call it out, she's on Bluesky asking her followers what topics they'd like her to cover.

The pattern

Campbell isn't the first Massachusetts Democrat to ditch X for friendlier waters. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu made a similar move, retreating to more heavily moderated spaces after facing sustained criticism online.

The pattern is the same every time: leave the platform where voters can engage freely, move to a smaller space where the audience self-selects, then frame it as a principled stand rather than a retreat from accountability.

Campbell can go toe-to-toe with the President of the United States in federal court — nearly 50 times and counting. So why can't she handle replies on X?