Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
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
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. I like financial crisis hindsight, spurious correlation and puppies. London ➡️New York ➡️Abu Dhabi ➡️Hong Kong ➡️New York
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
BlueCollarJazz @domguan.bsky.social | Dominic, Chicagolander and Illinois boi
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Andy Elrick @andyelrick.bsky.social Dir. of Center for Sports Comm at Marist University. Got a Ph.D. Former cog at ESPN, CBS Sports and FIBA. Fandoms: QPR, Cubs, UConn, Aberdeen, Hammarby. I'm a Vermonter. Host some pods. Views mine. Newsletter: https://andyelrick.substack.com
Sandy Darity @sandydarity.bsky.social Visiting Professor of Economics, Howard University
Emeritus Professor, Duke University
Coauthor with A. Kirsten Mullen of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
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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
Fund for Reparations Now! @reparationsfund.bsky.social We are the white lane of the reparations movement, formed under the National African American Reparations Commission. www.fundforreparationsnow.org
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social 40th Ward Alder / Father / Spouse / Chair of Immigration Committee / Chair of Progressive Caucus/ Vice Chair of Latino Caucus / Organizer / Problem Solver / Chicagoan until Chicago ends.
National Lawyers Guild @nlg.org Volunteer lawyers, law students, legal workers & jailhouse lawyers of the 1st national, racially integrated US bar association.
People > property💚✊🏽
Est. 1937
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social https://x.com/DylanGyauchL
Research @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Econ, Labor, History, etc. Opinions mine. 
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. 
Senadora Julie Gonzales @senadorajulie.bsky.social ❤️✊🏽 Chicana organizer-turned-Senadora running for U.S. Senate. Current state Senator for District 34.
https://linktr.ee/senadorajulie
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app In progress. Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social Oak Park Village Trustee, "boring suburban dad," attorney.
Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social Former candidate for Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District
Software Engineer. Queer. Unitarian-Universalist.
AI should work for all of us🌹
pronouns: any/all
https://bethfordemocracy.com
Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social I have been kicked out of a Priscilla Presley lookalike contest & yelled at by Oprah. No regrets.
Zines, snark, jokes, sociology, mutual aid, repeat.
@ccriot
carolynchernoff.com
https://ccriotenterprises.etsy.com
Etc.
Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social I wrote a book, LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING BOOTH: HOW TO LIVE WITH CARE AND PURPOSE IN AN ENDANGERED WORLD. Let me know if you think you could use it for something.
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Rep. Terri A. Sewell @sewell.house.gov Selma native, U.S. Congresswoman working #ForThePeople of Alabama's 7th Congressional District
Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
Director of the Justice Project
justiceproject.uchicago.edu
Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social 🧬 Genomics PhD & science communicator
🧑🔬 Founder of @beyondxandy.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive humanist feminist
🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad
🏠 Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/
Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social Creator of Build A Better Donkey (betterdonkey.substack.com).
A digital nomad trying to find a home. By day, a political hack. By night, an exhausted dad. Tortured Philadelphia sports fan. Go Birds.
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social I love LA. Fight for #justice. Music is life. #Filmnoir #Dodgers
Starter Packs:
Authors, Journos, Scholars fighting #fascism
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine
Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
Dcat @dcatty.bsky.social Historian, writer, professor. I work on race, politics, sports, & pop culture in the US and South(ern) Africa. Go Sox/Pats/Cs/B's/Boks! Part-time sports broadcaster. Author of 5 books, editor of another. [All opinions my own.] Will talk or write for food.
Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social Expertise on International Relations especially norms and migration
I mute excessive self-promoters (including humble braggers) and mansplainers
I block fundraising (or weirder) and haters
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it. 
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Jonathan Botes 🗃 @butcallmenate.bsky.social PhD candidate. Historian of gender & sexuality.- P Pamela Scully @pamelascully.bsky.social Historian of gender/biography/transnational history. And of sexual violence in conflict and after.
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Gardening• Calligraphy
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!
Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa.
More on https://duncan.money
Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me
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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•Residual Governance• http://bit.ly/41wDJzD
proud parent🏳️⚧️♾️🧠
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
@bmarmon.bsky.social @bmarmon.bsky.social 
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
Tatenda Mashanda @samaita.bsky.social Ph.D. Rhetoric & Political Culture, @UofMaryland, SADC Geopolitics, African Rhetoric, Foreign Policy.@WakeForest, @WaterfordUWCSA alumnus.@ChelseaFC fan,🦓 🇿🇼
Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social Freelance writer with a PhD in history. Ex-academic; studied the anti-apartheid movement. Emeritus adjunct. Became a software engineer in 2020. Words in Dame, Liberal Currents, Smithsonian, Jacobin, BBC.
He/Him
zeb-larson.com
Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net Chicago, zoning, ADUs, transportation, maps
my blog: http://stevencanplan.com
my business: http://chicagocityscape.com
BUILD: https://buildforil.org/
Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist. Author of “Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation” (Bloomsbury)
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social An indie bookstore and community workshop space in Chicago focused on building our connections to the natural world.
https://linktr.ee/skunkcabbagebooks
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/- M Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Lt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social Virginia’s 43rd Lieutenant Governor. Former State Senator for Virginia’s 15th Senate District.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Natalie Martin @drnataliemartin.bsky.social Ex-BBC, now @NottsPolitics. Democracy and security inc. disordered information in TR, GB and EU. Journalism is NOT a crime. “Her yer Taksim, her yer direniş"
RTs not endorsement https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/natalie.martin1
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social reporter @wired.com ✨ prev the markup, FTC ✨ signal: mvarner.01
Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social politologue // yinzer // co-editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism // author of "Counting Like a State" https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638758/counting-like-a-state/
Most posts are first drafts, comments welcome.
Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social Reporter at @MotherJones.bsky.social
Send me secure tips:
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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app If your country serves beans and toast, I dont want your food opinions. NOBODY DOES. Mainly jokes. Keep the replies brief. Aint nobody reading all that. Not 6'5"
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social U Mich prof. Anna like Donna. Author of Health Care Civil Rights (new and open access from University of California Press), Vaccine Court (2016), and Fat Rights (2008). www.profannakirkland.com Speaking for myself.
Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. I write and train on antisemitism, white Christian nationalism, the MAGA Right, Israel/Palestine, Christian Zionism. Co-author Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. benlorber.com
ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social comedian and writer
https://theashleyray.com/
www.theashleyray.com/ashleyraycrafts
https://ashleyraycrafts.etsy.com
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net 
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
Signal: jeaton.04
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
www.propublicaguild.org
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social (he/him) journalist/author. trans guy who lives in the woods.
📝: The Believer, Cosmo, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, This American Life, etc.
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social Writer, host. WAIT A SECOND POD, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOTD, KOTSK POD
https://www.youtube.com/@XRayVisionPod