Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social Sports journalist. University Instructor. Car dancer.
Mama x 4. Happy Wife. Coffee drinker. Cat lover. Anti-oppression in sport. Bend it Like Beckham Scholar.
Brenda Elsey @brendaelsey.bsky.social Prof and Historian of politics, gender, and pop culture esp fútbol in LatAm. Views expressed are my own. Co-host www.burnitalldownpod.com; anti-discrimination work with www.farenet.org; she/her, books on gender and sport: https://utpress.utexas.edu
Unusual Efforts @unusualefforts.bsky.social Smashing the ⚽️ patriarchy one post at a time!
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
Osasu Obayiuwana @osasuo.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 ex-@BBC. African ⚽️ junkie. Lawyer. @blzzrd & @guardian writer. @TimesRadio pundit. Ex- FIFA Anti-Racism Task Force. Ex-@thenff’s Reforms Committee.
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Kenneth Owen @kennethowen.bsky.social Dad. Teacher. Historian. In that order.
Political historian, studying secession movements. Also studying early America. Probably running or watching sports.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Diaspora United Podcast @diasporautdpod.bsky.social A soccer podcast that centers Black women in the global game. The Office of Tall and Stats ✊🏾🎙 Hosted by @838carlisle.bsky.social (he/him) and @courtneystith.com (she/her).
Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com Conflict Analyst | Novelist | Professor | Talking Head | Opinions my own | rep’d by Georgina Capel
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
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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
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social Teacher Educator & Researcher, Associate Professor of Social Studies Education UMass Boston; Boston Public Schools parent; Dorchester, Boston
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) Blocking doomerism on sight.
blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
Benevolent dictator of Historians At The Movies #HATM
New episodes available now.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Sarah Pawlicki @skpawlicki.bsky.social Public historian | Anti-capitalist | White settler on Peoria homelands | she/they | Conscientious objector
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
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repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social cohost @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast
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coauthor with @avierkant.bsky.social Health Communism (Verso); forthcoming All Care For All People (Haymarket)
theorizing health, debility, class struggle & the state
minneapolis
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
Pablo Torre @pablo.show 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/@pablotorrefindsout
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Jack Grimse @jackgrimse.com ⚽️ Soccer Storyteller | Broadcaster | Digital Strategy Expert
📹 Video content about Football Kits, Stats, Stadiums and working in Sports Media
beacons.ai/jackgrimse
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social Cyclist, powerlifter, football nerd, high functioning misanthrope
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Sid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social Football (mostly Spanish) and stuff.
Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social Co-author of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender & the Hatred of Identity Politics (Pluto Press, 2022) and Fascism & the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025).
Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com ~ Unf*ckwithable ~ Host of “Good Game with Sarah Spain” on iHeart, espnW contributor, co-owner SF Signal and Crux Football, community owner Minnesota Aurora, Emmy- & Peabody-Winning Journalist, Washed-up Heptathlete, Cornell grad, Chicago gal.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Raul Zelik @raulzelik.bsky.social Pensar para cambiar
HR Lady Politics enjoyer (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social History PhD in the intersection of Education (NYC & Texas), anti-racism, & Holocaust Memory. I also have opinions based on my evangelical upbringing and my anabaptist views.
Protect immigrants, Protect LGBTQ+, Protect PoC, Protect everyone!
Views my own
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Robert Greene II @robgreeneii.bsky.social Claflin University Associate Professor of History; AAIHS President; Co-Host *Our New South* podcast; Modjeska Simkins School Lead Instructor; historian, writer, Star Trek fan
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/
hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity
(she/her) #Autistic #NB
https://brandyschillace.com/
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social The official journal of @lawcha.bsky.social. Published by @dukepress.bsky.social
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
This Guy Sucked @thisguysucked.com A weekly history podcast hosted by @ceaubin.com and a rotating cast of expert scholarly guests - because it's never too late to have haters.
http://www.thisguysucked.com
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
The Wren with the Books @bookwren.bsky.social tolkien, fantasy, Christianity, light instead of darkness, and good over evil
Martín Espada @martinespadapoet.bsky.social The page of the National Book Award-winning poet, essayist, translator, editor, and activist.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Mari Murphy @marimurphy.bsky.social she/her. LFC, movies, music, politics, nonsense.
Instagram: yourphotosarewellshit
Letterboxd: mariclmurphy
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tumblr: mariwatchesmovies
Up the Reds. Trans rights are human rights.
“never knowingly a knobhead, always a gobshite”
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.
Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him.
Linktree.com/joekatz45.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social i do stuff
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social Proud papa. Perpetually pissed.
#BlueWave2026, #Feminist.
Author of The Bigliest Loser and The Liddle'est President.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins, author of Uncivil Agreement and co-author of Radical American Partisanship
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social she/her feminist author
Books: The seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
(And others)
Newsletter https://www.feministgiant.com/
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal