Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social National writer Religion News Service. New grandad. Author of Reorganized Religion. Enthusiastic Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Sci-Fi fan. Ridiculously Gregarious 
Superchunk @superchunk.bsky.social Rock band since 1989. NC. Posts by Mac unless otherwise noted!
Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social Nashville Banner criminal justice / public safety reporter. “Death Row Welcomes You” author. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676743/death-row-welcomes-you-by-steven-hale/
Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia State College of Law
Reproductive health, rights, and justice; health & FDA law; social justice; and dogs. 🐶
Views are my own.
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social Writing at https://somepersonalnews.substack.com/
Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social Queer historian and professor at Rutgers-Newark. New book OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY coming Oct 2026. Preorder links here: www.timsw.com/outed
"fart" @jonhendren.com tall but otherwise normal
sydney
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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social Law prof at GW Law. New Yorker turned Virginian. Former SDNY clerk and litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell. Studying and writing about court admin and the judiciary. #LFGM #COYS Papers here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=22389
Amanda Weiss @amandaweiss.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cornell Department of Government.
Quant methods, causal inference, research ethics, and criminal justice policy.
www.amandakweiss.com
Opinions my own, reposts not (necessarily) endorsements, etc.
Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social Democracy nerd, DC politics guy, public-interest lawyer, Jewish American. Live Free or Die. Views and puns solely my fault; everything else is fedsoc’s fault.
Jacob Rubashkin @rubashkin.bsky.social Deputy editor, Inside Elections
Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social Director and Curator, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center
Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma
Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social Writer, comedian, illustrator, blogger and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat. Writer of jokes in The Beaverton and Cracked. 🇨🇦
Rich Hribar @lordreebs.bsky.social Connoisseur of Context. Fake Football Meteorologist at Sharp Football Analysis. The Swami of Konami. ↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, B, A.
@andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social New Jersey Senator, public servant, and dad to two troublemaking little boys. Whether you voted for me or not, you’re my boss, I’m here to serve you.
Dominic Gwinn @dominicgwinn.com Freelance photojournalist. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Seen in AP, Getty, Reuters, WaPo, WSJ, NPR, DW, Der Spiegel, Le Point...
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social Palmer Chair in Law and Public Policy at Dalhousie Law. Formerly @ UCLA and Yale. All things tech and democracy. Dachshund enthusiast.
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
Henry Snow @henrys.now Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
website: http://henrys.now/
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com Political Science Professor at Marquette University. I write about constitutional history. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com
Website: https://patsobkowski.com/
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social No Homework with @ugarles.bsky.social and @veryimportant.lawyer
Lizz Winstead she/her @lizzwinstead.bsky.social Comedian. Co-creator of The Daily Show. Abortion Czar and Founder of @AbortionAccessFront. Host Feminist Buzzkills podcast. Author, "Lizz Free Or Die" Lizz Winstead on Substack
Views are my own, not of the organizations I am affiliated with. #AbortionAF
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Whistling Batter @whistlingbatter.bsky.social Cincinnati, City-State, USA.
oh. hi. oh.
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
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.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app ✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers (1981-2026) • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
weeder @weeder.bsky.social When the going gets tough, the tough get growing
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Warren Throckmorton @wthrockmorton.bsky.social Buy now: The Christian Past That Wasn't. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FCCCP71V
Check out the podcast series, The Christian Past That Wasn't https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/telling-jefferson-lies/id1720424853
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social But doctor, I replied, bursting into tears, I 𝘢𝘮 universally beloved bluesky personality Microplastics Sommelier
Boston area coffee-milk advocate ⚓️ | Astro PhD 🔭 | he/him | Exact Same Politics As You
Reskeets = Endorsing me as a person
Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social Prof., English, opinions own.
Pres., AAUP-AFT Wright St Chapter, OH
1900-1950 scholar of literature, sociology, & propaganda; roller derby; cats; book on polling/ prediction.
Books: Psychographic Turn (OUP, 2021); Midcentury Women's Writing (MUP, 2024)
Elizabeth Hinton @elizabethkai.bsky.social Historian of U.S. Inequality, Author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law @Yale
Molly Ball @mollyesque.bsky.social Senior political correspondent, The Wall Street Journal 
Marie-Rose Sheinerman @rosesheinerman.bsky.social assistant editor @theatlantic.com
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc., and a book (???) on how climate legal advocacy can build a new public commons.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
ibramxkendi.com
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social I apologize to the reader, if I didn't post the bad thoughts they would fester in my brain and cause permanent damage. The only things I have useful knowledge of are fly fishing and building codes.
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
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stephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com political reporter in ATL covering the south + future of GOP/Dem parties + ??? for @npr.org | always thinking of bourbon, biscuits and buc-ee’s
newsletter: stphnfwlr.com
stories: https://www.npr.org/people/1219684807/stephen-fowler
Caleb Smith @smithcal.bsky.social Historian, Professor at Hamilton College (all views and opinions expressed are mine alone), PhD, writing about the neoliberal shift of Black politics in Chicago from 1929 to 1994, race, class, and 20th century U.S. political history. he\him\his
Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Law and Political Science at U. of Minnesota. AdLaw, Admin. Capacity, and the Federal Workforce. Contributing Editor for Lawfare; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings. Signal: Nbednar.46
Opinions are my own; Not UMN.
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social a change would do you good
texas culture reporter for @chron.com
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Princeton 2000 @princeton2000.org Official account for the Princeton Class of 2000
Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social Podcast Editor: @wunc.org
Contributor: @npr.org
Alum: @opb.org, @wamu.org
Cheerwine enthusiast. Go Dawgs!
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social TPM editor at large + all things Morning Memo: https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Signal: davidkurtz.88
Proton: davidmkurtz@proton.me
Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social Currently: National politics reporter at Mother Jones magazine. Previously: TIME Magazine. Always: Trying my best. Sometimes: Coming up short.
Email me at avesoulis@cir[dot]org
Encrypted contact info:
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social Troy Lissoway. Graphic Designer. Ape seeking understanding. Albertan. He/Him. Product of Canada*
(*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social Science writer. New book: A Pox on Fools arrives in May 2026. Preorders https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113/a-pox-on-fools-by-thomas-levenson/ Professing science writing at MIT. Spouse & dad. Servant to 2 feline overlords...All opinions mine.
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers @sejr-historian.bsky.social Historian | Professor | Wife | Mama |Book # 1 #TheyWereHerProperty | Writing Book # 2 #WomenoftheTrade
StephanieJonesRogers.com
M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social a historian currently writing a book about how we do history now and another book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC
http://mjrymszapawlowska.com/
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Brandon Proia @brndnpr.bsky.social Southern Editor
Richard Steigmann-Gall @notoriousrsg.bsky.social Historian - Cat Laddie - Flaneur. Materialist in the streets, Weberian in the sheets.
Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social Con Law Jock; Legal Editor, WASHINGTON MONTHLY; closing in on 50th anniversary of first novel; he, him, what's-his-face. BTW, I block accounts that consist of pictures of women. 
Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social Father of lots, earnest as shit, Regular and not too fancy, weird li’l guy enthusiast. He/him.
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Carlos Greaves @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social Co-author of Obey in Advance: How to Survive (and Thrive) Under Authoritarianism | available now👇🏾 https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/obey-in-advance-how-to-survive-and-thrive-under-authoritarianism
Ginny Hogan @ginnyhogan.bsky.social OBEY IN ADVANCE written with Carlos Greaves, out now, link below to order.
SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social The official @SickosCommittee soccer/fútbol account. Follow us here as we Park the Bus and track all the Red Cards from around the world. Watching as many of the games no matter the league. All our Committee Links here - https://linktr.ee/sickoscommittee
Air Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social professional dad. sometimes artist. baltimore.
https://airbudddwyer-shop.fourthwall.com/
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social Writer / Executive Producer at Rick & Morty.
Podcast: Get Played
Comedy: Whose Line is it Anyway, Hebecky Drysbell at UCBLA.
Alum: SNL, Creepshow, Eric Andre Show, Twilight Zone.
She/Her/It
Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social Eisner & Ringo winning writer: ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN, BUFFY, ANGEL, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN LIVES, BLACK CLOAK, THE CULL, BLACK WIDOW, STORYKILLER, TGWWBK, etc. Co-creator of JEFF THE LANDSHARK 🦈 REPS: Art/Work Ent & Verve. She/Her.
Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies. 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.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Tim Saintsing @tisaints.bsky.social 
James Opp @jamesopp.bsky.social History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees.
Carleton University
jamesopp.com
MicroSoft Word Champion @incompetentweiner.bsky.social To the best of my recollection, no sir. It was merely that concrete
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social IT professional and scholar of 19th century American political culture. Currently working on a microhistory of the 1855 Know Nothing triumph, part of a project exploring the continuation of antebellum republican thought into the Progressive Era.
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social A student in the economics PhD program at UMass Amherst.
Recreationally reading: ???
Most bylines in @alreporter.com and @liberalcurrents.com
Substack: someconvenienttree.com
Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social Mom, organizer, Lt. Gov. of MN. My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe = Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.
Running for U.S. Senate to fight for Minnesotans
Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com Chicago comic geek, author of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE: The Definitive Edition
For art sales go to https://www.panelpunk.com/collections/gene-ha
Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer)
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, host of Civic Forum with Rory Truex. https://linktr.ee/civicforumpod
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
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.