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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social UAlbany, SUNY Assistant Professor of American Politics. Researching Black Politics, Distrust, and Neighborhood Institutions.
Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social Reporter, Los Angeles Times. I cover the University of California and more in higher and K-12 education. Former national and foreign correspondent. Big fan of reporting on religion. Based in Los Angeles.
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social Professor, Scholar, Journalist * Culture and US civic life—past and present * English PhD * Books: "Untimely Democracy" & "Democracies in America" * Bylines: LARB, Public Source, Colorado Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, &c. * www.gregorylaski.com
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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✨Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body & the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke UP, 2024) ✨
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Western & Indigenous History
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