David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social Academic librarian, PhD in philosophy. Critical librarianship, phenomenology, synths, tabletop & video games, sci-fi. Settler on Treaty 7 land. He/him. All opinions my own. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
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/- P Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social Professor of English + Film & Media at Amherst College, Author of The Documentary Audit (Columbia 2025 *coming soon*) Immediations (Duke 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (UC Press 2023)
Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social politics reporter @ Rolling Stone • host of @americanfric.bsky.social • clipping with @snapstream.com • siempre jodiendo 🇲🇽
send me a book: https://linktr.ee/Nikkimcr
signal: Nikkimcr.70
http://SnapStream.com/nikki
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
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/
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
Escape the algorithm
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Zachary Petrizzo @ztpetrizzo.bsky.social
Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social Writer. Organizer. Coffee drinker. Cancer warrior. Twin Mom.
Expert in countering far-right extremism and hate, and the intersection of tech, culture, and politics.
Newsletter: https://www.altrightdelete.news/
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
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. 
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social 
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social Award-winning historian. Author of four books.Op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine. Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, Fall 2026. https://karencoxhistorian.substack.com
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/- S Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social COYG
*Not really active on here anymore.*
EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social She/Elle EN/FR. Policy, critical public health, medical anthropology, cats. IU 651. Opinions are my own. Ex-journo under Siobhan O'Leary (bylines: Rewire.News, VICE, Shadowproof). Public speaker, irregular blogger. 🏳️⚧️ liberation now.
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/4kspr3ds) Other projects in the works, probably
John S. Huntington @johnshuntington.bsky.social Historian and community college professor. Author of Far-Right Vanguard. Fan of soccer, acoustic guitars, and black labs. Posts are my own.
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies
studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere
opinions mine, mostly bad
site: andyjcarr.com
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social political theorist, assoc professor at Loyola Chicago. studying digital technologies, democratic practices, (software) architecture, & civic engagement. she/her
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
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).
Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social
Founder of Anayennisi. https://www.anayennisi.org/. Climate justice education for relational well-being. Working in service of collective regenerative systems change through education, facilitation, research, public speaking, strategy & writing. she/her
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Raul Perez @raulperez.bsky.social sociologist and author of The Souls of White Jokes (Stanford University Press) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308
Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social Teaches (law and society, political theory at SLAC in New England) and bakes. Occasionally writes on all things related to conservative movement.
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Cindy Ma @cindyxma.bsky.social assistant prof. in race & media at university of leeds | UNC CITAP affiliate | sociotechnical systems, political discourse & racial inequity
Rebecca Hill @rebhill.bsky.social Professor, Reader, Music Lover she/her
Diana Casteel @dianacasteel.bsky.social PhD candidate | UIC | CITAP Affiliate | studying female conservative content creators | vegan | Oreo-based
Clara Juarez Miro @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social Beatriz Galindo Fellow @cpoliticaub.bsky.social | Previously @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social & @jscvienna.bsky.social
Studying populism, online communities, audiences.
Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social Assistant prof of poli sci at Drew University; researches the right, Christian nationalism, male supremacism, IRMS co-founder and FRAN fellow. 
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social Comm Prof at The University of Puget Sound studying technology and relationships.
www.pugetsound.edu/directory/nicholas-brody
Elliott Edsall @edsall.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ U. Minnesota • CITAP affiliate • Class, Partisan Media, Populism, US Conservatism
Shea Minter @minter.bsky.social Pittsburgh resident and enthusiast, PhD Candidate at Georgetown University studying the racist far right in elections and political violence. Also sports.
Email me at sheaminter@proton.me
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Lorcan Neill @lorcancneill.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UNC Hussman & CITAP | Studying polcomm, sports, & democracy | GW SMPA & NC State alum
Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social Historian of transnational politics & religion between the US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, @histcatmex.bsky.social. Social Media Officer, @iehs.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie.
https://nathanellstrand.com/
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social Extremism, conspiracy theories, housing. Recovering housing attorney.
Ayse (Aisha) Lokman @aysed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University; Political Com & Computational Methods. Middle Easterner, she/her
Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social Dad. Political Theorist. Writes on white nationalism, the far right, critical theory. Author: The Rage of Replacement (2024, UMN Press). Words at The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian.
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Joseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social I study the politics of climate change and environmental education: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_Fm_bMEAAAAJ&hl=en
Carolyn Schmitt @carolynschmitt.bsky.social UNC Grad Student | Knight-CITAP Fellow | Go Hoos!
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://the-end.ghost.io/
Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social Political sociologist researching immigration, welfare states, (neo-)nationalism, democracy and more.
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Posts my own.
https://www.maureeneger.com/
Noelle Cook @noellecook.com Author of THE CONSPIRACISTS: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, THE CONSPIRACISTS (2024) noellecook.com
https://linktr.ee/NoelleCook
hampton. @hampton.bsky.social rhetoric PhD student @ UGA | senior researcher @ Princeton | staring into the abyss at: state violence & paramilitarism + radical memes & graphic media + paranormal realities & haunted presents
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social 🇫🇮🇸🇪 #Firstgen AssocProf at #Lunduniversity former #MSCA IF #ULBruxelles I use #intersectionality in 💻 #extremism & #radicalright #populism #welfarechauvinism #criticalbigdata #criticalAI
Pri Bengani @acookiecrumbles.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Tow Center
Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
April Anson @aprilanson.bsky.social Asst prof at UConn (English, AMST, NAIS). 26-27 Co-prez Association for the Study of Lit and Environment. Settler studying ecofascism and anti-racist/colonial enviro humanities.
peter forberg @peterforberg.com UC Berkeley sociology // prev UChicago
technology, political mobilization, governance, ideology, birding
peterforberg.com // signal: pforberg.26
Oded Marom @odedmarom.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at USC. Studies political conflict, radicalism, and partisanship in everyday life. See also: American Libertarians, the New Right, and gut microbes!
Dr Brandon Harris @drbrandonharris.bsky.social Husband + cat dad + Prof in AL studying: twitch, gaming, platforms, media industries, labor, & content creators one unhinged study at a time.
Thomas “Hank” Owings, Ph.D. @hankowings.bsky.social PhD UPenn 2026 / Political Theory, Religion, Conservatism, American Politics, Middle East / First-gen from rural Ohio / Bahá’í / History Faculty at Virginia Episcopal School
Annelotte Janse @annelottejanse.bsky.social Dr. | Historian of German, European, and transnational far-right extremism since 1945 | 📍 Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Germany
https://zzf-potsdam.de/en/institution/people/staff/annelotte-janse
Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social Research on the right-wing and religion.
Podcast: Fifteen Minutes of Fascism:
https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964
Author, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism: https://shorturl.at/jjwZz
Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/dINAA
DMs open. Opinions my own.
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