Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
https://robertkelchen.com/
Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social articles of interest
Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
Tracey Tully @traceytully.bsky.social I cover New Jersey for The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/tracey-tully
Derek R. Peterson @unseenarchive.bsky.social Ali Mazrui Professor of History & African Studies @umich. #MacFellow. New book: A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda. Just published! https://tinyurl.com/mtdy6yv2
W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org I am a historian at Rice University. I use this account for updates about my work, cross-posted from my website at https://updates.wcaleb.org.
Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology & co-founder Centre for policing & prevention, Malmö Uni, Sweden.
Research on police, the geography of crime & fear, & crime prevention.
Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, author of Make Your Own Job
madeleineebaker.com
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
Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social Ancient Millenial Jersey Jewish Kaiju. Blue Sky's #1 Totenkopf hater. Cursed by Smooch. He/him. Reskeets and follows are not necessarily an endorsement. These posts don't represent any of my employers. Mercutio Politics ftw.
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social Retired Professor of Philosophy.
Author, Vico's Axioms:The Geometry of the Human World
"Evils are many and good things are few" (Plato). Corollary: Goodness is real.
Lectures from the Plague Year: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqspNDnbuiVApX6PjI_mFDA
SnapStream @snapstream.com Media monitoring + TV search + live clipping solution.
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
@mspairport.bsky.social @mspairport.bsky.social
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
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New Yorker/Aussie
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social Professor of Immunology 🇳🇱 🇬🇧
Lisbon, 🇵🇹
#Immunology
Time for Science, not silence
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7vG1jLIAAAAJ&hl=en
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-9562
threads.net/@marc_veld
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Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins.bsky.social CNN's Chief White House Correspondent, 9 p.m. Anchor and diehard Alabama fan.
ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
@mikespies.bsky.social @mikespies.bsky.social Senior staff writer at The Trace, Contributing Writer at Rolling Stone. Get in touch at mspies@thetrace.org or on Signal: @mikespies.15
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social "Aprendí caminando..." - Sur Caribe
We Dream Together (open access): http://tinyurl.com/y2euh85t
Soñemos: http://tinyurl.com/ybmspeuw
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social
I teach American Studies, labor history, and abolitionist university studies. Also I post about birds.
https://abolition.university/
Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net Protect libraries. Children are people. Fight patriarchy. Abolish plenary adoption. Make streets safe for everyone. Trans rights are human rights.
Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app She/her.🌈AP. Earnestposter. Family Preservation. Abolition. Reproductive Justice. Plants. I like to make things.
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social Presidential historian. American History Columnist @NYTBR. Senior Fellow @NewAmerica. NYT bestselling author of (almost!) 3 books.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
@richardcarlbom.bsky.social @richardcarlbom.bsky.social
Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I’m just here for a good time.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
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
📍 queens / fun hell
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack.
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Christian Jacobs @christianjacobs.bsky.social Historian interested in social movements and ideas, colonial histories, and transimperial histories in the 19th and 20th century | Book: "The Politics of Culture. Far-right, Feminist, and “Immigrant” Movements in France, ca. 1965 to 1985" | He/him
AHA Career Center @historyjobs.bsky.social Your best resource for recruiting historians. Find more jobs at careers.historians.org.
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
@Angela Jones @drjonessoc.bsky.social Author of Sex in Public
Black feminist sociologist writing and advocating around sex work, sexuality, race, gender, disability, and class.
WGSS Prof
They/them
DrAngelaJones.com
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
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social Lawfare Senior Editor - MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst - Former FBI Special Agent - “I am an American, Chicago born…”
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
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
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Founder, The Gaia Leadership Project & The Ripple Effect Institute; political/leadership consultant; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights atty; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; NYer 4ever; Host, ResistanceLive on YT https://www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm
Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov Husband to my college sweetheart. Father to two troublemaking baby boys. U.S. Senator for New Jersey.
Account run by staff. Posts from Senator Kim signed –AK
University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social The University of Nebraska Press disseminates books and journals of enduring intellectual and cultural significance. http://unpblog.com | http://bit.ly/UNPmuse
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/
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.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff.
Cory James Young @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social assistant professor of history at UIowa | personal account | northern slavery, legal history, Black America | i ♥️ WNY
Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
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
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social Historian | Distinguished Professor Utrecht University | „Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
June Blackwell 🏳️⚧️ @junipercapita.bsky.social Higher Ed advising, environmental history & sundry. Trans woman (she/her)
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
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.)
Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe at Oregon State University. Writing about incarcerated youth in France, Russia, Ukraine, teaching is life!
@sghabrial.bsky.social @sghabrial.bsky.social
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:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social Journalist at MPR News, reporting on K-12 education. Author of "Behind the Red Velvet Curtain: An American Ballerina in Russia." Parent. Minnesotan.
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