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brothadirt @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net Socialist, Jewish-Israeli, text guy, against apartheid and genocide. Never not mad at Germany. Founding editor @thediasporist.bsky.social, co-host parallelweltpalaestina.info
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Power Map @powermap.bsky.social A socialist journal for people who want to organize.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social 📚 🔺️ 🏳️🌈 🚀 ☕️ 👩🦼 🍋 🎞 🪴 🥗
Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012)
Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (2020)
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law
Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, Hugo finalist. I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.
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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social Writing about myth&YA@ NU& thinking about Catullus,too. Always a coauthor. Chicagoan since 1976. Self-styled TomJoad of Latin teachers. Immoderata mulier, proud of my alumnx, #confelicity. Reminding you to💉NOW. I salt all vibes😷
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social Archaeology & ancient DNA 🧬
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Ice Age communities of central Europe 🧊
Michael Rabbitt @michaelrabbitt.bsky.social Chicago’s 45th Ward Democratic Committeeperson | dems45.com | organizing for equity & justice
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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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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social Retired historian + lawyer, Chicagoan, lesbian-feminist, sometime Dolly expert, angry. I lived in Knoxville TN for 16 very long years. Author, "Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History."
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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/
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Chuck Leek @chuckleek.bsky.social Anti-Fascist. He/Him/His
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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.
Red Emma’s @redemmas.org Worker-owned radical bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, the greatest city in America
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social Maxing out credit cards and neglecting roofs
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now.
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.
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Center for Extremism Prevention and Intervention x Hands of Eir @handsofeir.bsky.social Center for Extremism Prevention and Intervention is a non-profit working to educate the public on the dangers of far-right hate and using social work as a catalyst for extremism prevention. Hands of Eir is an exit program within CEPI.
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social Métis (he/him) weareserfs.com
I explain the internet. Indigenous/LGBTQ+ activism and freedom for all are my jam.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social Political scientist, kayaker
Emeritus, UMaine
Political Sightlines at https://amyfried.substack.com/
Books on how U.S. conservatives weaponized distrust, New England politics, professionalizing polling, and perceptions of public opinion as a resource
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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
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social That guy from that thing. Too young for a Nobel Prize. THE THREE COFFIN PROBLEM out now.
Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social managing editor at The City Reporter (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • tell me something good: rsmith@thecityreporter.nyc // @rachelholliday.77 on Signal
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social Dabble in law, politics, family, music, education, genealogy, and women’s basketball — rarely in that order.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social A #philosophy podcast for the worst possible timeline. Hosted by ethicist aaronrabinowitz.net. Ethics director and credentialed creator at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org. Author of Luckpilled (April, 2027). Sibling show: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/
Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social Software developer working in EdTech, painter on the side. Episcopalian ✝️. Vintage Bisexual 🩷💜💙
Rep. Geoff Smith @missinglynxnh.bsky.social Representing Strafford County District 21 in the NH House of Representatives. BA/MS Data Analytics SNHU.
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
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Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social Theologian. Tolkien scholar. PhD on The Lord of the Rings and Post-Christianity from the University of Glasgow. Dad. He/him. All views my own.
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