PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social 📍Brooklyn to Brazil...
Trinidad to Treme...
Venice to Veracruz...
CELEBRATING THE CELEBRATION!!!
Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social "Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple." The Wire (UK)
David Mittleman
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Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
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.
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Jorge Gillies (Profegeorgie) @profesorgeorgie.bsky.social Santiago, Chile. Profesor Titular UTEM, profesor Asociado IACC. Periodista, ex diplomático. Interesado en la ciencia y la tecnología y su incidencia en la transformación de la sociedad. Desilusionado, pero no desinteresado, de la política contingente.
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com Composer-Ringleader • darcyjamesargue.com • With Every Breath I Take out now on Nonesuch Records
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.
CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/they
I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
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Rep. Justin Jones @brotherjones.bsky.social State Representative for District 52. Community Organizer. HBCU grad. On the journey, searching for higher ground. Carrying my ancestors' prayers.
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Chris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social Founding member of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. Keeping it real out here in the field.
Gene Meneray @genemeneray.bsky.social Arts, Culture, & Bundesliga from the Bayou.
Emily Watlington @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social art critic and senior editor, Art in America
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
#GatorNation #GoBolts #GoBucs #RaysUp
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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com Texas News with Teeth
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
el Nuevo Herald @elnuevoherald.com 📰Diario número 1 en español de Miami. Cubrimos eventos locales, noticias del Sur de la Florida y Latinoamérica #elherald
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.
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social Words/photos on Latin America: World Politics Review, Vice, USA Today, the New Humanitarian
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Cid Bullens @cbguitar321.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, musician, writer, speaker, actor, Trans/LGBTQ advocate, bereaved parent (fuck cancer) Long time recovery. New memoir-TransElectric: My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star out NOW 🎶 #Maine #Resistance2026 ☮️🏳️🌈🚫DMs #Radicalliberalscum
J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social Analista política, doctora Ciencia Política y profe emérita. Libros: la Nueva Canción chilena; la Operación Cóndor; la transición incompleta argentina. DD.HH.
Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social "Aprendí caminando..." - Sur Caribe
We Dream Together (open access): http://tinyurl.com/y2euh85t
Soñemos: http://tinyurl.com/ybmspeuw
Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Journalist. Created @thebarbedwire.com. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
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Red de Medinas @redmedinas.bsky.social La Red de Medinas Andalusíes es un proyecto de protección patrimonial y desarrollo económico de territorios vinculados al patrimonio andalusí. www.visitalandalus.org
Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social Cataloguing threatening music notation.
Reposting from the original account.
@musicdocumentaries.bsky.social @musicdocumentaries.bsky.social Posting links to music documentaries online whenever the hell I feel like it.
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La Contessa @oscarsmother.bsky.social Art and music lover, proud liberal, underwater photographer, and parrot lover. Save the oceans, share the planet. Seahawks and Huskies forever!
The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
an online journal of unexpected music + culture → thetonearm.com
Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social Baltimore Beat is the city’s paper of record. A Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online media outlet for all of Baltimore.
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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive.
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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social Fan of MC Pipokinha; currently thinking about how the Chad Mitchell Trio foreshadow both punk rock and adult contemporary music. The people united will never be defeated.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Ivo Daalder @ivodaalder.bsky.social Former US Amb @NATO. Now Senior Fellow @BelferCenter. Host World Review Podcast. Author America Abroad Substack. Policy Wonk. Dog lover. Baseball fan. New Chicagoan. Old Dutchman.
liprap @liprap.bsky.social Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
Chamaco Vaquero @vaquerovaquero.bsky.social Diligent reader, occasional responder.
Malick Ghachem @malickghachem.bsky.social History prof @MIT. Attorney.
Jordan Hirsch @mrjordanhirsch.bsky.social Freelance writer: https://www.jordan-hirsch.com/
Editor of the interactive map of New Orleans music history at ACloserWalkNola.com
John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social https://www.johnlurieart.com/
Painting with John streaming on Max
Escuchame una cosita 🎧 @escuchame.bsky.social Música y otras derivas culturales. Un apéndice del newsletter "Escuchame una cosita 🎧"
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Jon Pareles @jonpareles.bsky.social always listening
Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
abel @abelwithatable.bsky.social always willing to fight for someone i do not know, never wanting to back down. 🇺🇸🇲🇽
Asako Gladsjo @agladsjo.bsky.social 
Toshi @toshiandthesongs.bsky.social 
Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
Linda Handelsman @bake-a-cake.bsky.social 
@matthewcovey.bsky.social @matthewcovey.bsky.social 
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Sai @saibellanyc.bsky.social Music nerd. Politically adept. Enjoys naps. Executive Director events lady and somewhat of a friendly know-it-all. 
@marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social I post for fun, mostly photos I take in New Orleans. All photographs © Marco Rasi. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Also on IG: https://www.instagram.com/marcorasi1960/
Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (@thejcpa.bsky.social)
Focused on democracy, hate, & extremism.
Previously: sued Nazis & won; Comms Director & Sr Policy Advisor, NY Attorney General
Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: davidmandl.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social Teenage werewolf / inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read / fensterstock@gmail.com
Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press ‘26)
Andrew Casillas @pincheandrew.bsky.social BlueSky’s ONLY Julieta Venegas authority (until more Mexicans get here)
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
ana maria @microfichas.bsky.social phd student in ethnomusicology at UC Davis
daughter in House of Bagnara ❤️🔥
reggaetón researcher 🍄
bugs lover 🐞
@musicrepublic.bsky.social @musicrepublic.bsky.social I launched my MusicRepublic blog to share my passion for the great traditional and folk musics of the world, very much at risk of being lost or forgotten.
Jorge L. Mercado-Mendez @jorgehataketuba.bsky.social Tubista, etnomusicólogo en proceso, aficionado de carros, wanabi cocinero y primordialmente Isabelino. 🇵🇷Ethnomusicology M.A. (KSU) Musicology Ph.D. (UIUC)
Merrill Markoe @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social Writer of things intended to be humor and animal lover. I post A LOT of pieces on my Substack page:"Still Looking for the Joke" https://substack.com/@merrillmarkoe?utm_source=user-menu
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social Latin America expert and aficionado. Retired Dutch diplomat and UN expert, postings in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Barbados, Suriname, Bangladesh, the Netherlands. Fan of Feyenoord, Rotterdam, music. Home is Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Sasha Frere-Jones @sashafrerejones.bsky.social https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social Hunter High, WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks, Hound Dog, Oxford Handbook of Pop Music
Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social okra eater.
Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social Writing and talking about music. Forever listening.
WRTI, NPR, formerly NYT. Author of a Substack newsletter, The Gig, and a book called 'Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century.' 
Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social Writer, music usually. Substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
Alexis Díaz-Pimienta @diazpimienta.bsky.social Escritor y repentista. Ha publicado hasta la fecha 54 libros en varios géneros (novela, cuento, ensayo, poesía, literatura infantil y juvenil) en España, Cuba, México, Colombia e Italia.
Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social Extreme weather and climate change expert writing for Yale Climate Connections. Co-founder, Weather Underground; former hurricane hunter.
@wrayb.bsky.social @wrayb.bsky.social 
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Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
@ivormiller.bsky.social @ivormiller.bsky.social 
Stef__Sound @stefsound.bsky.social Stefanie Alisch, Sound System Epistemologies, Kuduro, Mazurka, Pleasure Politics, Broken Beat, Groove. https://www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwissenschaft/sound-system-epistemologies-dfg
Steven Manning @scmann.bsky.social Retired journo, music lover, Brooklyn lover, 
Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social Sound Design for Film & Television at resoundPOST
Professor Noise at Pratt & SVA, Field Recording & Max/MSP
Pratt Film/Video Department Sustainability Coordinator
THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY IS NOW
https://linktr.ee/alexnoyes
David Suisman @dsuisman.bsky.social Author of INSTRUMENT OF WAR: MUSIC AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S SOLDIERS (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024) and SELLING SOUNDS: THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION IN AMERICAN MUSIC (Harvard Univ. Press, 2009). History professor. Occasional WFMU DJ. davidsuisman.net
Kimberla_di_da_di🏹 @kimberladidadi.bsky.social 
@roadwlady.bsky.social @roadwlady.bsky.social 
Maura Fallon @maurafallon.bsky.social Spiritual director-in-training, intercultural leadership coach, social justice advocate. Cinephile. Globally seasoned, Seattle-based. Left the Church and the US for 25+ years — returned to both with a comparative lens and the responsibility to use it.
@jimhannah1.bsky.social @jimhannah1.bsky.social 
Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social Historical anthropologist (U. Chicago), CUNY Graduate Center. Cuba, Venezuela, the greater Caribbean, the coloniality of power, racialization, African diaspora, African derived religious practices, the making of history, imperialism, and more. 
@lkatzz.bsky.social @lkatzz.bsky.social 
@parnell24.bsky.social @parnell24.bsky.social 
David Nagler @davidnagler.bsky.social Musician, etc.
Vernon Reid @vurnt22.bsky.social Living Colour guitarist & founder. Guitar can take you far, BK to the sky.
The moon 🌑 landing was REAL
David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social Journalist & writer on music/film/TV/art/books/sports (recent vintage: NYT Arts & Leisure, Blank Forms; ye olde late 20th century: Village Voice, SPIN). Detroit expat, Brooklyn zookeeper.
http://www.mikerubinbooty.com/writing