Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Paul Johstono @profpaulj.bsky.social Ancient Military Historian
@DukeU PhD; @FurmanU
My opinions only
Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social publisher of books * mother of daughters * friend of the worker
publisher at cambridge university press focusing on US and Latin American history
hudson valley / nyc
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
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
Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
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
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Jordan Fish @jwordfish.bsky.social filmmaker | http://boxd.it/oqKX | Coen brothers podcast: tothewhitesea.me | he/him
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. 🏳️🌈
@themamu.bsky.social @themamu.bsky.social I try to see the beauty in humanity and everyday I’m challenged.
John Glaser @johnglaser.bsky.social used to think at a tank
Burp McCracken @buttwatercrafting.bsky.social ✅ Anti-Americanism
✅ Anti-capitalism
✅ Anti-Christianity
✅ Support for the overthrow of the United States Government
✅ Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality
Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social Historian, director for East Asia @quincyinst.bsky.social, cofounder Justice Is Global. Previously @gdp-center.bsky.social, University of Chicago. Writing on US–China relations and global capitalism.
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Ry-Guy @ry-guy-hi.bsky.social He/him | socialist
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social Filmmaker: Hyperobject Industries/Yellow Dot Studios
Climate & societal collapse with some sports and movie talk. And yes, the mixture is disorienting.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social Cheugy. I host a podcast called "Culturally Determined" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culturally-determined/id981282353
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
Anne Kornhauser @akornhauser.bsky.social Dept. chair.😱 U.S. #historian -intellectual, legal, political. Book: *Debating the American State...* Now: U.S. democracy & the world. Former legal journalist. NYC
Jonathon Catlin @joncatlin.bsky.social Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social a woman on the case (non-gendered)
jacqui shine dot com: women love me, factoids fear me
guide to preparing for surgery (feel free to save and share) https://shorturl.at/D7QMJ
dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social ‘a net whose fibres pass imperceptibly beneath the world’ // lawyer, writer, third worldist // views my own
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
Vivien Chang @vivienlchang.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Harvard. Historian of decolonization, development, postcolonial Africa, US & the world.
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.
Ashley @ashleyregan.bsky.social producer
KTLA.com/weekends
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Brandon Melendez, Ed. D. @bmmelendez.bsky.social Teacher, Educational Researcher, School Administrator, Husband, Father, Drawer of #bagart, Nerd, Mispeeler
Ursula Lawrence @ursulalawrence.bsky.social snacks, esoteric calendars, "comedy"
www.FrenchRepublicanWallCalendar.com
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
Matt Farish @mattfarish.bsky.social Historical geographer, University of Toronto; Affiliate, U of T's Centre for the Study of the US. Writing a book about climate labs, survival schools, and the 20th-c. US militarization of the planet. Distracted by AC Milan and ⚽️. Posts are personal.
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
@mariodelpero.bsky.social @mariodelpero.bsky.social History Professor, SciencesPo-Paris
Senior Fellow, ISPI Milan
Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social Historian of global decolonization at Ohio State
Author of STATES-IN-WAITING
https://linktr.ee/lydia_walker
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social Writer at Eunomia, Responsible Statecraft, and Antiwar
daniellarison.substack.com
Sean Case @seanmcase.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. history & IR / Book project on limited war as the dark side of nuclear deterrence / Policy as storyworlds, storyworlds as policy 🗺️ IR or D&D 🎲 ⚔️ 🐉
Kaete O'Connell @kaeteoc.bsky.social Historian of Food & Foreign Relations | #SHAFR Deputy Director | Senior Fellow @cphatsmu.bsky.social
Michael Brenes @mbrenes.bsky.social Historian at Yale.Non-Resident Fellow @cipolicy.bsky.social. New book: “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy.” Next: a history of the War on Terror for Grove Atlantic. Avi by @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social.
Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social Historian | Int'l history, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at U. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World" | Views my own.
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Julia 🤝 @remarksist.bsky.social European historian. A socialist. occasional writer. Bylines mainly in Jacobin
📍 Berlin 🚩
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Howard Winant @hwinant.bsky.social Father, partner of DR, Saba, race/racism scholar, Marx, new left, secular Jew. Parents were refugees.
Lily Lynch @lilylynch.bsky.social Writer and journalist, Californian.
https://lilylynch.substack.com/
Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023)
https://stefaneich.com/
Sheyda Jahanbani @professorsheyda.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, Associate Professor at University of Kansas, mediocre knitter, and pie connoisseur. Author of "The Poverty of the World: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968," an actual book I researched and wrote!
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Andrew Johnstone @historyandrew.bsky.social Now available on bluesky. Mostly history. Occasional Yacht Rock and sport. Author of Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and more
Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan. 
Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social https://www.renata-keller.com/
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, UNR. Author of *The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War* and *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections book series at UNC.
David Weinfeld @davidweinfeld.bsky.social Time traveling detective aka historian, teach Jewish Studies at Rowan U in NJ. Live in Old City in Philly. Husband of MAP, dad of 2 girls. Have celiac. From Montreal. Go Expos! Will not respond to people who don’t go by their real names here.
Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social Freelance writer with a PhD in history. Ex-academic; studied the anti-apartheid movement. Emeritus adjunct. Became a software engineer in 2020. Words in Dame, Liberal Currents, Smithsonian, Jacobin, BBC.
He/Him
zeb-larson.com
Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social Ocean Gate Elementary School class of 1992. John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. Books: GUN COUNTRY (2023) and CONSUMING JAPAN (2017).
Robert A. Karl @rakarl.bsky.social Colombia, past + present; author, #ForgottenPeace/#LaPazOlvidada. Minerva U. prof. Host @researchcraft.bsky.social. www.rakarl.com
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
snackowski @snackowska.bsky.social environmental humanities, urban / spatial studies, American studies, post-1945 literature. president of an imaginary Raymond Williams Fan Club
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*.
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).
Jordan Dubin @jgdubin.bsky.social 
Jay Schiavone @jaytingle.bsky.social CWA member, old guy who lives in a state forest. "Love me, I'm a liberal."
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Conan Neutron @neutron.bsky.social Supreme Allied Commander of Rock.
rocker/talker🎙🦝🎸🎬
Music: Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends 🎶
Pod: Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal 🎤
Cohost: Movie Night Extravaganza 📽️
https://lnk.bio/neutron
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
Dexter Fergie @dexterfergie.bsky.social 
jaeun @jaeun.bsky.social i buy books and stare at them
Tom Strand @tomstrand.bsky.social adjunct economics lecturer at suny
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
s m e l l e n @s-m-e-l-l-e-n.bsky.social a gentleman & a scholar
Faith @faithbennett.bsky.social she/her
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social Historian of Cuba and Communist systems. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD candidate at UW-Madison. U of Havana BA, UW-Madison MA. Bylines in The Nation Mag & Dissent Mag, among others.
the hot dam historian (phd) @varsha.bsky.social will index your book in exchange for money, send me a book rec, dissertating at berkeley: history+dams+us foreign policy+india.
linktr.ee/varshaoforange
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social Historian writing a book about choice architects. 
Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press
Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science
Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social Podcaster, writer, comedian, etc
Gal Debored @ckayerawlings.bsky.social I’m here now 
Forrest Miller @alwaysflacko.bsky.social Host of Movie Night Extravaganza. Co-Host of Red Flag. Former Jacobin, GTAA, Katie Halper Show. TMBS Forever.
youtube.com/movienightextravaganza
Ryan Lake @xaos.bsky.social Philosophy professor, possessing all the wealth, power, and glamour that goes with that title. I also draw cartoons sometimes. Reposts are not endorsements, except for when they are.
Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social Oscar nominated screenwriter, writer of every episode of Bronzeville, co-host of The Movies That Made Me & The White Canon, drinker of fine tequilas, lover of cats AND dogs, world class father since 2022
Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social I’m me ✌️
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Doug @doug.city Not actually a train. Personal account, views mine. He/they. 🏙️🚇🚍🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now