Derek H. Alderman @derekgeographer.bsky.social Chancellor's Prof. at Univ. of Tennessee, Former Pres. of AAG, Geographer of Memory, Race, Social Justice, Naming, Mapping, Tourism, SE USA http://mlkstreet.com http://tourismreset.com https://derekalderman.com/
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.
Insta: @bydreamphd
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Washingtonian | Alum and bylines, many places | To pitch me: phruby@washingtonian.com | To reach me: www.patrickhruby.net
Linda Blackford @lblackford.bsky.social Editor, Kentucky Lantern
Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com Atlanta-based accountability journalism rooted in community experience. #atlpol
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social Won journalism awards at ancient places called "newspapers" | Author | Columnist Raw Story, Alternet, Elsewhere | Navy Vet | Former Managing Editor Stars & Stripes | Animal-lover | https://dearlstephens.substack.com for my latest ...
Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit @summitpgh.bsky.social The 29th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit be in February, 2026. Follow us to find out about volunteering on the Summit, speaking, or attending!
https://linktr.ee/pittsburghracialjusticesummit
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.
Rust & Dirt: Rust Belt History @rustanddirt.bsky.social A public history project. Exploring the history, culture, and everyday life of the Rust Belt.
Pittsburgh Progress @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social Journalism built by workers, with our community, for Pittsburgh.
NOW LIVE: Preview the Pittsburgh Progress. Sign up for subscription & membership: pittsburghprogress.com.
Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social Atlanta-based investigative reporter with ProPublica's South team. I write about health care, public health and the environment, among other things. Get in touch at max.blau@propublica.org.
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
McKenna Horsley @mckennahorsley.bsky.social Covering politics for @kentuckylantern.com.
📧 mhorsley@kentuckylantern.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Rob Rogers @rob-rogers.bsky.social Freelance political cartoonist formerly with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Support Rob's work at www.patreon.com/robrogers or follow these other links https://linktr.ee/RobRogers #cartoons #politics #humor
Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social 🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
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/
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social Shining a light on Washington. NOTUS is now The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com
Metro coverage: @washsunmetro.bsky.social
Analysis, ideas and narratives: @washsunperspect.bsky.social
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
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.
Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. he/him
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
Barbara Samuels @bsamuels72.bsky.social Unleashed, not retired. Fair Housing & Affordable Housing attorney. Orioles, Ravens true believer. WV mountains, Cape waters, but Baltimore is still home. Repost is not endorsement etc
Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social #Author: THE NAZI & THE PSYCHIATRIST (adapted to movie NUREMBERG). Coming: THE CASE OF THE AUTOGRAPHED CORPSE. #Writer of DAMN #HISTORY newsletter. Bookstore: https://bookshop.org/shop/el-hai
Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.com Professes music theory & tech, head of Musical Arts Learning Lab at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/
Executive Director
@lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com
Erin Hébert @merylscreech.bsky.social 🐊🌹 Cajun baby, union lady, journalist — helping build Pittsburgh's first news co-op @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social 🗞️ @pghguild.com @newsguild.org forever
Writing about home and culture @ lecoeurafaim.com ❤️🔥
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI.
You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
ACLU of Kentucky @acluofky.bsky.social Working since 1955 in the Statehouse, courts, and communities to build power and defend the constitutional rights and liberties of all.
m.mtrbio.com/ACLUofKY
Aaron Javsicas @aaronjavsicas.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief
Temple University Press
Acquires in politics, urban studies, and Philadelphia regional titles
Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
deck.blue @deck.blue 3rd-party TweetDeck for the Atmosphere! Featuring columns, multi-account, scheduling and inline translations!
Developed by @gildaswise.com without AI
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The Poynter Institute @poynterinstitute.bsky.social Journalism. Truth. Democracy.
We’ve been a school for journalists for 50 years. Home to the Poynter newsroom, PolitiFact, MediaWise and the International Fact-Checking Network.
Dave DiCello @davedicello.bsky.social Pittsburgh. The Steel City. Home. And I’m just trying to capture it the best that I can.
prints.davedicello.com
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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)
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Mallory Szymanski @malszy.bsky.social Historian. Educator. Organizer. Writes about police violence, community resilience, and limits of reform. Co-founder @unyprc.bsky.social. Editor, @cliocontemporary.bsky.social. Knitter. Jewelry maker. Pro wrestling fan.
Page of Words @ratliff.bsky.social "He's pretty damned independent," said Jay. "And lazy. That's a bad combination." — Billie Lee Brammer, The Gay Place
Freelance writer and editor
Management and labor @ Mercury Improv
https://www.mercuryimprov.com
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Richard Heppner 🤷🏼♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him
Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social Lawyer, Pittsburgher, DSA, reader of too few books, enjoyer of too many jokes
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
Kendra A. Kennedy @kendraakennedy.bsky.social Studies history of gender and slavery in British North America and early U.S.
Christine Schmid Engels @schmengels.bsky.social Cincinnati archivist, curator, cat servant
KY Place @kyplace.bsky.social A documentary series. Made in Kentucky.
kyplace.com
Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social Philosopher & Clinical Ethicist | she/her | peds ethics, repro ethics, TIC, narrative med, feminist philosophy | Cincinnati (it’s cool despite Ohio) | Thoughts my own unless I am re-posting yours
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
Chicago Covenants Project @chicagocovenants.bsky.social Identifying and interpreting racially restrictive covenants in Cook County through civic engagement and collaboration.
Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social Truth to power, always. Obsessed with systems. DM tips. Editor, Co-founder, CEO, Innovator: Mississippi Free Press, JXN Free Press, Youth Media Project, Solutions Circles • she/her • MY views here • mississippifreepress.org • “Do the right thing and wait”
Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social extremely hireable games journalist, co-host of @girlmodepod.bsky.social, @insequence.pictures, @dotzip.online and twitch.tv/parallelplayers!
🏳️⚧️she/her🏳️⚧️ | robinbombus@gmail.com | robinbea.carrd.co
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Craig Stinson @craigstinson.bsky.social Tar Heel. Wilmington, NC
@awaltz.bsky.social @awaltz.bsky.social 
Liz @yellingatthesky85.bsky.social Mom. Writer. Public Historian. Elder Millenial. Social justice Catholic. Pittsburgh girl through and through. The crazy cat lady your mom warned you about.
I hate this timeline and sometimes complain about it.
Garage Journalist @garagejournalist.bsky.social Investigative journalism with garage band grit | It might get loud— but that just means you’re paying attention | Reposts & follows ≠ endorsements | #MuckrakersUnite
linktr.ee/garagejournalist
Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social The #greenestzooinamerica is dedicated to creating adventure, conveying knowledge, conserving nature, and serving the community. Home of Fiona the hippo 🦛
@wawatay.bsky.social @wawatay.bsky.social Artist and Reader, Dog Lover, Politics Junky, Foodie, Travel, Skoolie Owner.
Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social Comics illustrator/painter by night, boring corporate graphic designer by day. ⏱️
She/her, age 39😎
Covington, KY, USA🪴
has 2 cats and a garden 🐈🐈⬛🌻
Married to @mtscomics.bsky.social💗
https://linktr.ee/wingedelfgirl
Kelly Clements @kellbell24.bsky.social All about community development and affordable housing for all. Hoosier. Love the Cov (NKY). Hopeful, generally.
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Emmett Till Interpretive Center @tillcenter.bsky.social A nonprofit organization committed to preserving the legacies of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley through public education, memorialization and historic preservation, and supporting the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument.
emmett-till.org
COVertNKY @covertnky.com Exploring Northern Kentucky’s hidden, forgotten, and erased stories. YouTube: @COVertNKY #lovethecov
@andrewconte.bsky.social @andrewconte.bsky.social 
Lydia DePillis @lydiadepillis.bsky.social NYT economics reporter. Just checking things out over here. 
Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social Designer. Author. Professor. Neutral Good Gen Xer. San Franciscan in Pittsburgh. Keeper of the Saffervesence.- A @avbnky.bsky.social @avbnky.bsky.social PR pro. Recovering journalist. Wife. Mother. Proud NKU alum. #Bengals #Reds
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
@soupson6.bsky.social @soupson6.bsky.social 
Kenwood Theatre @kenwoodtheatre.com Cincinnati's locally owned, commercial dine-in theatre. New location at the Kenwood Collection above the Whole Foods. 5901 East Galbraith Rd, 45236 www.kenwoodtheatre.com
Don Winslow @donwinslow.bsky.social 
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Alyssa Ribeiro @riverlys.bsky.social Historian of race and US cities, Associate Professor at Allegheny College, book in progress on multiracial activism in Philadelphia 
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social Truth-Teller | Independent Journalist and Legal Analyst | Trial Lawyer | @katiephang on Substack, Instagram, Threads, & TikTok
https://linktr.ee/katiephang?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
“Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce”
MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social Auntie, hat lover, always looking for the work worth doing.
(Photo credit: Millinery By Anna: www.etsy.com/shop/MillineryByAnna)
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Ted Rutland @tedrutland.bsky.social Montreal | Prof at Concordia | Author of Out to Defend Ourselves (2023), Il fallait se défendre (2023), Displacing Blackness (2018) | www.tedrutland.com
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social 🏛️ The guardian and voice of Kentucky’s past – documenting, clarifying, and preserving the stories that define our Commonwealth.