Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social Free range historian of economics. Curator of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror (irwincollier.com)
Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Kumar Ramanathan @kumar.fyi Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study the politics of law, public policy, and cities in the United States. All views are my own. Timeline may include stray 🎬/🏀 content. More at www.kumar.fyi.
Christopher J. Sparks @electropoetics.bsky.social October
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Tree kaleidoscope dreams float
Wet and shimmering with half remembering
Of the season unlacing.
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
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Host of a Secret Podcast.
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Janet Maslin @janetmaslin.bsky.social Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
Beatrice Loayza @bealoayza.bsky.social Film critic // New York Times, Criterion, Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, etc. 
Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com. 
Ken Tucker @kentucker.bsky.social Music critic NPR's Fresh Air. Book, TV, movie critic: EW, New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, New York Mag, etc
Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
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Gene Park @gene.meme Washington Post culture critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
Mike Koncewicz @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social Political Historian of the 1960s and 1970s, Associate Director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (@ipk.bsky.social), Author of They Said No to Nixon and Tom Hayden Biography (forthcoming).
Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social "Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education. 
Glenda Gilmore @glendagilmore.bsky.social Historian who lives in Connecticut and County Kerry. Latest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination. 
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist. 
David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
Cameron Joseph @cameronjoseph.bsky.social POLITICO's politics editor.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
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Never Trump.
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
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Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. Author of the forthcoming HOW RUSSIA WON and the OUR LAND newsletter. Go to davidcorn.com. On Signal: DavidCorn.99
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Edna Bonhomme, PhD @jacobinoire.bsky.social Critic, Historian, & Journalist • Author of TENDING TO OUR WOUNDS, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES & AFTER SEX • ✍🏾 The Nation, LRB, Guardian, NYRB, etc • PhD in History from Princeton
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Gene Seymour @geneseymour.bsky.social Writer, Jazz geek, Professional Spectator 
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David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
Jeremy Lybarger @jeremylybarger.bsky.social Editing prose @ Poetry magazine + Poetry Foundation // Writer // Working on Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown // www.jeremylybarger.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Elena Saavedra Buckley @elenamsb.bsky.social editor at NYT Mag / formerly Harper's / contrib at The Drift
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Matthew Sitman @mattsitman.bsky.social writer, co-host of Know Your Enemy
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
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Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Martin Johnson @martinvjohnson.bsky.social Writer, mostly jazz criticism, but I've also written on cinema and NBA. Cheesemonger too.
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & 20th C lit scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, sometimes editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
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