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dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social ‘a net whose fibres pass imperceptibly beneath the world’ // lawyer, writer, third worldist // views my own
Power Map @powermap.bsky.social A socialist journal for people who want to organize. https://powermapmag.substack.com/
Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social 🌌💡🌃🛰 #TransformingNight Out Sept 22! https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295755205/transforming-night/ #SkyStorian #STS #EnvHist #HistTech #envirotech #HistSci #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #CriticalDarkSkyStudies VMO
Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social North Carolina-based, part-time artist + song writer, full-time investigative data reporter @charlotteobserver.com. Spins the pottery wheel, not news. Rocks all keyboards. 🎹⌨️🤘🏽 Nerd Queen. @apantazi.bsky.social has my ❤️ @caitmcglade on all the things
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕 Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en& Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/ Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social Sports loving (Go Blue!), Vodka consuming, trying to survive the next 4 years. Lover of Chicago, Democracy, and my fellow LGBTQ brothers & sisters
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Der Spekter @derspekter.org Bundist perspectives, original artwork, journalism, and more. www.derspekter.org
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚 News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Public Banking Institute @publicbanksnow.bsky.social Our mission is to inspire, enable, & support Public Bank initiatives, returning control of money & credit to states & communities to: support local biz, create jobs, build & maintain infrastr, support & expand public budgets, & stabilize during econ crises
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Founder and Publisher of Liberal Currents liberalcurrents.com Signal profile adamgurri.41 Threads handle adamgurri
Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social historian — Cornell U. professor — book author, “Troop Movements” (2026)
Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
Danielle Wiggins @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Historian at Georgetown | author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (2025) | Aries | Stevie Wonder stan
Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social Responsible for covid data + analytics that touched 200+ million American lives. Husband. Dad. Doctor. Longtime techie. Lifelong learner. Twitter + Threads expat (@DataDrivenMD)
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how we teach literacy and what it means to be a good reader. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information. publishersweekly.com
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Ursula Hackett @uhackett.bsky.social Reader in Politics | Churchill Associate Professor in U.S. Politics at the University of Oxford (from Sep 1)| Author of America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social Free Palestine. No Zionists. No antisemitism. Millennial. Observer46664.86 on Signal, localobserver86 on Discord, and localobserver86 @ gmail. Not a serious or a professional account. She/her/hers 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉
Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com https://trustfnd.com/isabelle.roughol Founder & host, Broad History | Publisher, Democracy for Sale | Storyteller, journalist & public historian 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, almost 🇺🇸, once 🇦🇺 & 🇰🇭, forever MIZ 🐯
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian ◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale ◦ host, This Guy Sucked ◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028) all opinions my own. https://www.ceaubin.com https://thisguysucked.com
What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC Philosophy of Science History of Philosophy of Science
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games co-host, The Besties https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames https://postgame.substack.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711 Signal: plante.01
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Billy Corriher @billycorriher.bsky.social author of Justice for the People, The Anita Earls Story. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6KQZ9P3 state courts @peoplesparity.bsky.social @pppaction.bsky.social
Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social Seasoned extremism reporter at @rawstory.com. Investigations: law enforcement, national security, politics. Contact me at jordan@rawstory.com or jordangreen.03 on Signal. Here for the long haul. https://www.rawstory.com/u/jordan-green-special-to-raw-story
Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy at Michigan State. Contributor to The Downballot. I teach, write, and post about state constitutional law, institutional development, and criminal law. I write (infrequently) at guaranteedrepublics.substack.com.
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social Managing editor @votebeat.org. Previously senior editor and senior elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight. Email, don't DM: nrakich at votebeat dot org
Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social Investigative reporter, Institute for Justice. Formerly: Minnesota Reformer, Washington Post, Brookings, Pew. Orange cat evangelist. Ask me about my swamp.
Hachette Workers Coalition @hbgworkers.bsky.social The Hachette Workers Coalition is a union fighting for better benefits, protection, rights, and increased equity, transparency, and agency at HBG https://linktr.ee/hachetteworkerscoalition
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval" nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do." Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider. New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always. Signal: jeaton.04
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social‬ Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
Sean D. Naylor @seandnaylor.bsky.social Co-founder of @thehighside.bsky.social; author of "Not a Good Day to Die" and "Relentless Strike;" previously a staff writer at Army Times, Foreign Policy and Yahoo News; other work in The New York Times and Newsweek.
Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social Artist and printmaker, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Portland DSA Prints and shirts: https://toosphexy.carrd.co/
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture. www.aftermath.site
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing. https://draftingthepast.com/ http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social Author: Strange People on the Hill https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ | Signal: Mike.8852 | patreon.com/c/PostingThroughIt | https://michaeledisonhayden.substack.com | 🇺🇸🇪🇬
Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social Historian, writer, dog person.
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author. Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket. Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Shoe @shoe.bsky.social Former conservative. Good poaster with even gooder opinions. Truck h8er. Costco 4eva. Truth and Reconciliation Commission Advisor.
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️ https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal. **Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry Views dont reflect my employer
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser. I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc. FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks. *Stop the pervert glasses*
Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social Writer of Grand Old Primary/Uncrewed's State Legislative Election Watch. Lauren Underwood Stan. Some people may know me as Chris. (He/Him)
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art equator.org
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Peter James Hudson @darkfinance.bsky.social Writer, historian, associate professor of geography. Author Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Working on histories of Pan-Africanism and racial capitalism. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo26032761.html
Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com Journalist in NC 📬 Newsletter: ncrabbithole.com 🎩 Comms and adjunct professor at Wake Forest 🕶 read lowercase posts in a funny voice
Pam Brown @pamlivengoodbrown.bsky.social Fond of reading, flora and fauna.
jacob biba @jacobbiba.bsky.social NC Local/Open Campus Investigative Reporter (and freelance for other folks, too) jacob@nclocal.org jacobbiba@protonmail.com jacobbiba.03 on signal
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26). laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social Political scientist (at Johns Hopkins) and political button collector.
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Latin American and Caribbean History @UWMadison. ✍️The Lettered Barriada (DukeUP); Puerto Rico: A National History (PrincetonUP/Planeta); A Counter-Republic of Letters (under contract w/ DukeUP). 🇵🇷 💾: https://linktr.ee/jmelendezbadillo
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social Memory worker. Assistant professor. Writing about Black activism in Appalachia.
Town of Chapel Hill @chapelhillgov.bsky.social This is the official Town of Chapel Hill Bluesky account. Visit us at chapelhillnc.gov
Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan. Olympia, WA. 🏳️‍🌈
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
NC Stories @ncstories.bsky.social North Carolina stories. I covered a few in my day. Wilmington Raleigh Greensboro Charlotte Asheville #journalism #npr #ncnews #ncwx
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
1312 Press @1312press.bsky.social anarchist zine-distro & publisher splitting time between PNW & Great Lakes, USA. Anti-fascist, anti-police, anti-colonialism.
Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social NEWSLETTER: https://www.premiereparty.com/ | Partnerships & sponsorships 📩 sarah@collective.media
David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com Words, data, code. Senior data journalist with @today.yougov.com. Host of the French history podcast The Siècle (@thesiecle.com).
Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social Host of Comedy Bang! Bang! Co-creator / director Between Two Ferns Former writer of The Astonishing Spider-Man 😢 CBBWorld.com
Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; former DOJ/OLC attorney
Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org Learning Scientist. Maker and designer. Player of games and toys. Dad. Associate Professor @ Teachers College, Columbia University. Pop & Play host http://tc.edu/popandplay
susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social assistant professor at stony brook university writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Thomas Mills @tmillsnc.bsky.social Editor and publisher of PoliticsNC. Erstwhile Democratic political consultant with 30 years on the campaign battlefield. Now offering insight into North Carolina and national politics. Father, grandfather, dogfather. Tar Heel. https://politicsnc.com
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social writer and critic - long suffering Mets fan - marketing director @deepvellum.bsky.social & @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social it’s me channel: youtube.com/@any_austin merch: merch.unremarkableandodd.com
Chris Kromm @chriskromm.bsky.social Director, Institute for Southern Studies | Publisher, Facing South
Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in other stuff
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social believe in a better future for it is all that you can do - @jael.bsky.social park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, pushing papers for our public lands. Advanced EMT student, PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack. opinions are mine alone. 🏳️‍🌈
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social We fight for a better, freer North Carolina that works for everyone. The future is a policy choice. YIMBY, esse quam videri, go Canes. 🏔 linktr.ee/carolinaforward
Hill Woward @convolutedname.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Trenchant Analysis in Wrong Rock Studies, Oak Table LLC. he/him
Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc Civil-rights lawyer Executive Director of @pubaccountability.org https://pubaccountability.org/athul-k-acharya
Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Michael Lange @michaellangenyc.bsky.social NYC born & raised || Writing about local politics || #BillsMafia All tweets, views and writings expressed are my own www.michaellange.nyc
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Halbert Jones @halbertjones.bsky.social Historian of Mexico and US-Latin American relations. A North Carolinian in 🇬🇧. Following US and UK politics, academia and higher education, and UK borders and immigration.
Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social Historian, Author, Teacher, Alabama resident. Writing "Committed: The Lives, Work, and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod." More thank you notes than posts. https://www.ansleyquiros.com/
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴 my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io