CounterPunch @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social Tells the facts, names the names.
Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social Education, research and advocacy for musicians.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
James R. Tracy @jtofthebay.bsky.social https://jamesrtracybooks.org
Author specializing in movement histories. Melville House | City Lights| AK Press | Manic D Press.
Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice.
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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social Putting the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. linktr.ee/labornotes
Jo Andrews @hapticandhue.bsky.social Host of the podcast Haptic & Hue, and longtime hand weaver. If you can’t hear the voices of the past how can you understand the future?
Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
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. 🏳️🌈
Nicholas F. Stump @nicholasfstump.bsky.social Book: "Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law” https://wvupressonline.com/node/862 / Latest Law Review: "Non-Reformist Reforms in Environmentalism” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6043634 / All Work: nicholasfstump.com
Ravenous @weareravenous.com 🐦⬛ Food media with teeth
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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social repulsed
National Association of Letter Carriers @lettercarriers.bsky.social Founded in 1889, NALC is the union of city letter carriers employed by the U.S. Postal Service.
Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social Editor of Workday Magazine, formerly In These Times.
J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Editor Hell Gate (hellgatenyc.com), cofounder Hearing Things (hearingthings.co), Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books, etc
C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social class war hooligan
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@porchlightnews.bsky.social @porchlightnews.bsky.social The Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom is partnered with West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Louisville Public Media, WKU Public Radio, WPLN, WUOT, WKMS and WEKU.
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
WUKY @wuky.org University of Kentucky Public Radio
Where NPR Rocks @ 91.3
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Clay Wallace @claywallace.bsky.social Early bird! Morning host for @wuky.org in Lexington, KY. Podcast guy for the Capital City Museum in Frankfort, KY. Plays mountain dulcimer and mandolin with @newsroom.band.
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Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Love freedom of expression, digital ownership, libraries, and fun.
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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social Heirloom beans, etc
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com Nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent journalism not hidden behind a paywall. Mountaineers are always free, and so is West Virginia Watch.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, author. Kentuckian.
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Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social LaborLab empowers workers to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power through education, strategic research, and mobilizing public support in the face of union-busting. LaborLab.us
Midwestern History Association @midwesternhistory.bsky.social Official account for the Midwestern History Association, studying the history of the Heartland since 2014. Learn more and join us: https://www.midwesternhistory.com/
Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication.
https://stuckness.ghost.io/
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
annalise @casualpasta.bsky.social https://annalisedomenighini.com/
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/) 
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
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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...
andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
(he/him)
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
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.
If you have a style question, search:
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Sylvia Goodman @sylviaruthg.lpm.org Ky Capitol reporter @kentuckypublicradio.org ~ prev @chronicle.com @wbez.org @chicagotribune.com ~ she/her
send tips to sgoodman@lpm.org
Critical Listening @criticallistening.bsky.social a podcast about music, technology & culture industry hell from @lizpelly.bsky.social and @peretsky.bsky.social. available wherever you get your podcasts besides the Swedish app.
support us at: patreon.com/criticallistening
Thrill Jockey Records @thrilljockey.bsky.social Independently owned and operated. 50/50 profit share.
Liam Niemeyer @liamniemeyer.bsky.social Reporter for the @kentuckylantern.com, focusing on Energy and Environment coverage.
Tips, questions or anything else: lniemeyer@kentuckylantern.com 📬 + Signal: niemeyer.76
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens late September.
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing
Sarah @sarnarf.bsky.social West Virginian - she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Former teacher turned office worker
Sometimes I make quilts
Solidarity Forever
@joshkbrough.bsky.social @joshkbrough.bsky.social Chapel Hill, NC. Coffee / guitar.
SS&D out now
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/slither-soar-disappear
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Katie L. Burke @klburke.bsky.social Science journalist, writer, & editor. Senior contributing editor at American Scientist. Environmental Health Beat Leader at AHCJ. I love intellectual discussion & constructive criticism, but will mute rude people. 🧪 🌎 (Art by Julia Bollinger)
klburke.me
Jack @jacknorton.bsky.social 
Aaron J Leonard @ajleonard.bsky.social Author | Historian
Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social stoic chaos / books
MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social MMaP is the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place at Memorial University.
Publisher of Music Research Annual and the Back-on-Track Audio Publication Series.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Dan @quakerdan.bsky.social Quaker, Vermonter, leftist, social housing enthusiast
Kaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social Popular music scholar and music department chair at Wellesley College. Neuroqueer. I wear a mask for a reason. Falo português. תיקון עולם 🏳️⚧️🚴😷
PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. linktr.ee/pmpress
Namita Gupta Wiggers @namitawiggers.bsky.social work to build a craftscape. Recovering academic, curator, arts admin. Working on project on craft museums, fiction, art, making a writing life.
https://substack.com/@craftscape
www.namitawiggers.com
Denali Sai Nalamalapu @denalisai.bsky.social climate organizer + comic artist in Southwest Virginia ✦ my graphic novel HOLLER is out via Timber Press https://tinyurl.com/orderholler ✦ they/them
Jeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social bands: JA+The Heavy Lidders | DWLVS/Dire Wolves
radio: Pome Pome Tones on E-M radio + Camp France | Heavy Lidding on NQRA
life: NW Philly - prev. San Francisco, Providence, Baltimore
http://jeffreyalexanderlovesyou.com
https://linktr.ee/jerkfree
Francis Lam @francis-lam.bsky.social I write and talk about food and people. I’m editor in chief at Clarkson Potter, host at The Splendid Table, and ex-columnist at the NYT Magazine. I take statins.
Regina N. Bradley @redclayscholar.bsky.social Down South Georgia Guh•Writer•Dreamer•Professa and Blackademic studying the Black American South and southern hip hop #ChroniclingStankonia• Editor, Southern Cultures journal•french fry connoisseur
Brian Harnetty @bharnetty.bsky.social Interdisciplinary sound artist. "Noisy Memory" book out on UNC Press now. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, and Atavistic.
Kentucky Library Association @joinkla.bsky.social The Mission of the Kentucky Library Association (KLA) is to provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship.
4AD @4ad.com 
Rhizome DC @rhizomedc.bsky.social community space in Takoma DC // art * learning * diy culture // rhizomedc.org
Materialist Institute for Research @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social 
Three Pounds of .FLACs @igotarthritis.bsky.social music, linguistics, left politics, bad jokes
Hoosier living in Louisville
Steve Silverstein @stevesilverst.bsky.social Recording and live sound engineer, music writer for Tape Op and others, DJ at East Village Radio, Swarmatron squeakmaker
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
Basic Folk @basicfolkpod.bsky.social Basic Folk: honest conversation with folk musicians, produced by The Bluegrass Situation. Hosted by Cindy Howes & lizzie no. Account run by Chowes
Links: https://basicfolk.bio.link/
Listen: https://basicfolk.com/episodes
Amy Erdman Farrell @amyefarrell.bsky.social professor of American studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies; writer; author of Yours in Sisterhood; Fat Shame; and the forthcoming Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov Mom, Teacher, Vermonter, Writer & Congresswoman for Vermont, fighting for working families. House Judiciary Committee and House Budget Committee. She/Her. Official. 🏳️🌈🏔️🏍️🍁
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David Daniell @dwdaniell.bsky.social Also find me here: https://mastodon.social/@dwdaniell
Thomas Bedenbaugh @thomasbedenbaugh.bsky.social A Christian rock ingenue
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Jaap Niemandweet @jaapniemandweet.bsky.social Mainly music.
angela hudson jones @angelahudsonjones.bsky.social pictures, sound, words
los angeles, ca via ms•tn•oh
https://www.instagram.com/angelahudsonjones?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social Federal workers fighting to defend public services and rebuild government for a more democratic, equitable, and just country.
JOIN OUR MOVEMENT ⤵️
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SAVE THE SSA/EPA/VA PETITIONS:
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Harry Szabo is a Unionist! @harryszabo.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (They/them). Educator at VCU. Organizer. Writer. Richmond, VA
President of UCWVA (CWA). #1u #campusworkers4democracy
Plan your work. Work your plan. 💪✊🔥📢
Paul @paulsoud.bsky.social Music, urbanism and left-wing politics. 💀🌹⚡
https://www.wxnafm.org/playlists/?id=270554
📍Chicago