Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social host of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. weekends 10AM ET on @ms.now. author of NYT bestsellers Firestorm and Separated.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Blue Octäve Cult @blueoctavecult.bsky.social Music education professor. I like knitting, hiking, and politics. Views are my own. DMV for now, PNW forever.
Golden Goal @goldengoalmag.bsky.social a magazine about the 2026 World Cup
https://goldengoal.world/
The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group @lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com Established in 2016, we are a community for queer music scholars. Acct mod @shlomitsofer.bsky.social www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast 
Kristen Wallentinsen @kwallent.bsky.social Music theorist, book reader, baking enthusiast
Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social Doctor of History at LSE International History. Freeman of the Glaizers. Book Failure of Russian Democratic Transition 1990-1993 coming in 2028. I use to live in DC and do geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him
Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson
professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary
singer of the band Seeming
ex-ThouShaltNot
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social writer/prof📍🇫🇷🇿🇦
Gouvernance résiduelle. Histoire sud-africaine du monde à venir• https://sl1nk.com/vw4jv4w
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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
Temple @tmillerhodgkin.bsky.social Aspiring historian of agricultural modernity and the environment in Central and Southeastern Europe.
Luanne Platter @luanneplatter.bsky.social Commoner living in Austin TX. She/her
Puritans suck so bad.
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Prof@Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher@Nuclear Knowledges, Sciences Po, Paris. Senior Fellow@thebulletin.org. Author: THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging @ https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social Film, media, & cultural historian, U. Minnesota. Sometime film critic.
Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry; Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde. Coming in 2027: Film Stock: An Int'l History of a Sensitive Medium.
www.alicelovejoy.com
David Dies @daviddiescmpsr.bsky.social Composer, reader, knitter and trying to be a swimmer (again).
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
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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.
Emma Kuby @emmakuby.bsky.social Modern European historian @ UW-Madison. France, transnational activism, violence, aftermaths. Author of Political Survivors (Cornell 2019).
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway @satyaformadison.bsky.social Satya Rhodes-Conway is the 58th Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. Contact the office: mayor@cityofmadison.com
Contact the campaign: satya@satyaformadison.com
Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social ISMA @ismapolicy.bsky.social. The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Views personal, not institutional.
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social @TheNation. @CapTimes. @freepress. @theprogressive. Tom Paine. Quaker. Latest book (w/ Sen. Bernie Sanders): NYT bestseller: It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism.
Paul Allen Sommerfeld @perfectlypongo.bsky.social Musicologist, librarian, corgi enthusiast. Views are my own.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
Megan MacDonald @cmeganmac.bsky.social Musicologist, Twin Mom, ED of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Gray Huang @winterzebra.bsky.social PhD candidate in film phenomenology, media aesthetics, queer theory, and sound studies @binghamton | Singersongwriter (Jazz, Canto/Mandopop, Eng, Fren)
Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social musician Multi instrumentalist Australian https://youtube.com/channel/UC05SvWlMPqS3jJdljFdcW-A
As Socrates famously said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing".
Rebecca J. Ritzel @rjritzel.bsky.social Professional asker of cultural questions.
Bylines: NOTUS, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Dance Magazine, and many more. Cancer and stroke survivor somehow still here. rjritzel@gmail.com
Aksel Tollåli @akseltoll.bsky.social At the crossroads of 20th century musicology and rampant homosexuality. Dispensary of musical opinion. Classical music critic and editor.
Occasional knitting.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social enunciating the catastrophe
Terry Klefstad @terryklefstad.bsky.social Music history, health care, education are my concerns. My book is Crooked River City. Opinions are my own.
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com PhD in Music Theory (not sure why I did this lol)
Area of Expertise: EDM, Renaissance (Victoria), Music & Internet Culture, 19th/20th-c American music
Career in RevOps & HubSpot
NH | Millennial | AuDHD
Primarily here to talk UConn/BOS/CIN sports
Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social Music theory professor and pianist in Louisville KY, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
Kirsten Carithers @kcarithers.bsky.social Musicologist/ music historian: labor, gaming, technology, economics, gender, sound studies, experimentalism. Associate prof at Uni of Louisville. Views my own. Interpretive Labor (OUP, 2025)
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
MPR News @mprnews.org Minnesota news. Independent + nonprofit. Free thanks to members. Listen on air, read online or follow here ❤️
📷: The Minnesota Capitol building just after sunset on a spring evening, by Brian Bakst | MPR News.
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
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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
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
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Pauline Fairclough @paulinefairclough.bsky.social Music Prof, University of Bristol
Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social Former chronicler of jazz lives. Not sure what happened.
Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.
Ralph P. Locke @ralphlocke.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester); author and co-editor of books and journal articles on music history, incl. works by Berlioz, Verdi, Saint-Sae"ns, Debussy, Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Bernstein.
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
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
Philip Howie @musicianbynight.bsky.social Materials scientist by day and musician by night in Cambridge, UK. Christian. Percussionist, pianist, flautist, conductor, and instrument maker
Scott Gleason, PhD @buddytwo.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor, Grove Music @academic.oup.com Author of *Composing Modernism* https://tinyurl.com/3sjezuy7 publishing October 13 from @ucpress.bsky.social on the Princeton composer-theorists. #Arsenal. Views my own.
David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social Host of the Cold War Channel in YouTube. Independent Historian 20th Century, military, and Soviet and Post-Soviet spaces. Lifetime Spurs sufferer/supporter. He/him
History exists in shades of grey and yet so many seek only black or white
Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social National Security Attorney, Comic Book Historian, University of Rochester Alum
Nick Tochka @nicktochka.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, popular music studies, creative nonfiction. Eastern Europe / Albania, United States, and Multicultural Australia.
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.
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Tottenham Hotspur @spursunofficial.bsky.social COYS 🤍
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.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
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Sasha Frere-Jones @sashafrerejones.bsky.social https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
Steven E. Harris @steveneharris.bsky.social Historian of Russian and Eurasian History, expert on Russian aviation from Stalin to Putin. Professor of history at the University of Mary Washington.
Wisconsin Resist @wisconsinresist.bsky.social wisconsinresist.com ✊
Wisconsin Resist stands firmly against oligarchy, fascism, and all forms of oppression. We believe that true resistance is built on solidarity, mutual aid, and peaceful direct action. We do not condone violence of any kind.
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.
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social English professor in Miami. British-American. London > Bishop's Stortford > Brighton > Brooklyn > Miami. Subtropical gardener. Florida Mangos: A Cultural History, forthcoming from U of Florida Press. Posts are my own and do not represent my employer.
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
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.”
Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social Immigration lawyer, co-founder & President/CEO of @immdef.bsky.social, mom fighting for a better world for my kids. Based in beautiful Los Angeles. #Resist #DueProcess4all #SaveAsylum #TeamImmDef #WelcomeWithDignity
Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahong.bsky.social WI State Rep D - 76 | Service Industry Worker | G’s Mom |HealthySchoolMealsforAll |#Bucks| #Dolly | (she/her)
Max Erwin @spudelbach.bsky.social new music
Sam Austin @samva.bsky.social they don't allow you to have bees in here
State Health Policy. Birds. NBA.
Julia S @mmmmmozart.bsky.social Teacher, Editor for Video Games, Music Person, 🇺🇸 in 🇵🇱
Currently working on Imprinted with Cobalt Lane Game Studio: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3980340/Imprinted/
Brian Fairley @brianfairley.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Pitt. (Ethno)musicologist, media historian, former dramaturg.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Christiane Wiesenfeldt @wiesenfeldt.bsky.social #musicology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social; expert on early modern liturgical music (Marian masses etc.), romanticism and concepts of home
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/
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps