Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
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
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies @cunyslu.bsky.social The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Labor Studies and Urban Studies: slu.cuny.edu
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ . Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed publisher of distinguished research and works of general interest since 1966 / Learn more about the State University of New York Press at sunypress.edu
caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social eisner award winning cartoonist 💬 Nancy, PeePeePooPoo, Adventure Time, Etc
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Danny @dannybauder.bsky.social Stand up, fight back!
President of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO
he/him
phillyaflcio.org
Avi courtesy of @mattielubchansky.com
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social critical race theory should be on your syllabus.
https://www.raceclasspodcast.com/
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social Labor lawyer (formerly @seiu), into court reform & judicial nominations, writer, consultant, person with kids, watcher of TV, she/her
Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social Sociologist, social work faculty
Posting topics include community, disability, social welfare, Chicago, social movements, organizing, policy, the state, labor, coffee, and various nerdy side trips. Personal account
Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Organizing with https://higheredlaborunited.org
Jane Roh 노진이 @janeroh.bsky.social Comms professional. Currently labor, formerly Philly DA & Philly City Council. Long-ago journalist. Views my own. Public money belongs in public schools.
Seoul 🛩 Philly 🚆 DC 🚆 NYC 🚆 DC 🚆 Philly 💞
Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social Digital executive editor at Fast Company
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Dave Infante @dinfontay.com reporter covering the beer industry (@vinepair.com), drinking in america (fingers.email), and east end richmond (chlookout.com) | send tips to dave@dinfontay.com, or dinfontay.11 on signal (good tips only, thank you) | more: linktr.ee/dinfontay
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg
& Random Lengths News: https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/author/paul-rosenberg
Election take: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/post/3lajp4jwy2s2n
The Labor Radio Podcast Network @laborradionet.bsky.social Working People's Voices – Broadcasting and Podcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. Find us at https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/nina-metz/
Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything
https://buttondown.com/NinaWatchesEverything
DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social I warned you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cursed to (be a) Know-It-All. DMV latchkey kid not obeying in advance. Poor mans wonk, pragmatic idealist. Ripostes, reposts, observation, rumination, (informed) political hot takes, typos + cats.
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Jennifer Sherer @jensherer.bsky.social Unions, state policy, worker power @EPI.org & @earn.us. Former UIowa Labor Ctr. Anti-fascist Barnard & City High mom. Posts my own.
Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing writers of motion pictures, television, radio, and internet programming.
linktr.ee/wgawest
Chris Aikin @chrisaikin.bsky.social Texpat, Mets Fan, Union Organizer, Sci-Fi Enthusiast, Ordained Minister (ULC), Playlist Obsessive, New Deal Democrat, Unlikely Beach Bum, Cocktail Waitress, Middling Cook.
@kandrias.bsky.social @kandrias.bsky.social
National Employment Law Project @nelp.org Every worker deserves a good job, one that pays a living wage and includes robust benefits. NELP is leading the fight to make a good-jobs economy a reality.
claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social labor reporter @thecity.nyc; teaching, CUNY Newmark; lajeña 🇵🇷; dímelo: claudia@thecityreporter.nyc
Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at WBEZ - Chicago Public Media
Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA
April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social International President of the Service Employees International Union
https://linktr.ee/AprilVerrett
Alexander Gleason @alexgleas.bsky.social
Lauren Kaori Gurley @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social Labor Reporter @washingtonpost also covering immigration & the economy, formerly @vice
Tips? Signal: laurengurley.35 / lauren.gurley@washpost.com
Theda b @theda-b.bsky.social
@moshezmarvit.bsky.social @moshezmarvit.bsky.social Labor, Employment,Civil Rights Attorney. formerly @tcfdotorg. Bylines in @nytimes @thenation @washingtonpost @inthesetimesmag etc. Novel at @acre_books
MarkGPearce @markgpearceadr.bsky.social Arbitrator, Artist, Educator- Lover of Labor Jazz & Justice - opinions mine only. Reposts not endorsements
Dan Cantor @danielcantor.bsky.social Senior Advisor @centerforballotfreedom.org. Here for multiparty democracy, election reform, and government that works.
Reviving #FusionVoting 🗳 former @workingfamilies.org
Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social The New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO represents more than 1 million workers in all five boroughs. https://nycclc.org/
AFT Archivist @aftarchivist.bsky.social I maintain the historical records of the American Federation of Teachers at the Walter Reuther Library.
Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social GTAA host, Jacobin columnist, adjunct philosophy prof, TMBS crew for life
Chicago Federation of Labor @chicagolabor.bsky.social Since 1896, the Chicago Federation of Labor has fought for economic, social, and racial justice for all working people in Chicago and Cook County.
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies // Visiting Professor, Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, Summer 2026
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Jeff Freitas @jeff-f7.bsky.social Math teacher by trade, President of CFT by members. I am LGBTQ+, AFT, AFL-CIO, EqCa, and husband. Opinions are my own.
Joseph A. McCartin @josephamccartin.bsky.social Labor historian; Co-Director, Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor; past president, Labor & Working Class History Assn (LAWCHA)
Stephen Lerner @stephenlerner.bsky.social Labor/Community organizer Bargaining for the Common Good
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
aaronsojourner.org
Be kind. Work hard. Have fun.
Seth D. Harris @mrsethharris.bsky.social Pro-worker/pro-union; @BurnesCenter.bsky.social @ Northeastern Univ; fmr Biden White House & Obama Labor Dept; Dad+Husband+Cyclist & Knicks+Nets
https://poweratwork.us/
Jody Calemine @guerino.bsky.social Director of Advocacy, AFL-CIO
Work wise: Fighting for a government that’s responsive to working people
Also: Waiting impatiently for the next great vowel shift
Views my own
dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social Building unions @sununion.org; Unions of Our Own out now (Haymarket): unionsofourown.org; co-author Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law and Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks (PM Press)
Chris Erikson Jr @chriseriksonjr.bsky.social Local 3 IBEW. Union til I die.
Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social 🎙️Host of @ProPublica’s new podcast, “Paper Trail”
🗓️New episodes on Thursdays
🕵️Investigative reporter and proud Minnesotan
AKA 伍德贞
https://www.propublica.org/series/paper-trail
Callahan @callahanrl.bsky.social Organizing for the Motion Picture Editors Guild, @iatse.bsky.social Local 700 @mpeg700.bsky.social. Old-ass alum of TUGSA, AFT Local #6290 and one-time peripatetic troublemaker for @aftunion.bsky.social.
Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics)
Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
Nelson Lichtenstein @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social Historian, sometime journalist, retired actually
Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social President —California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO
Breast Cancer Survivor
Former Assemblywoman
Latina
1199SEIU💫 @1199seiu.org As the nation's largest healthcare union, our mission is to win quality healthcare & good jobs for all. ✊ MA • NY • NJ • MD • DC • FL
www.linktr.ee/1199seiu
Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social Union Flight Attendant since 1996 and president of the Flight Attendant Union, @afacwa.org, 55k at 20 airlines. Sanders Institute fellow. @unionnow.org founder. (she/her)
Nicholas Toloudis @toloudis.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. Europe, social movements, the history of American teachers' unions...I'm all over the place, really.
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Seth Goldstein, Esq. @sethunion.bsky.social Partner at Goldstein & Singla PLLC
He/Him
New York/NY
@profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social Historian of labor, race, and (dock)workers. Unionist. Vegan. None of us are free until all of us are free. Ubuntu
Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social Optimism of the will/ Pessimism of the intellect.
Strategist, activist, deeply rooted cosmopolitan.
Board member @jfrejnyc/ @thejewishvote cofounder. RTs not endorsements.
she/her
Economic Policy Institute @epi.org The working people's think tank for 40 years. Nonprofit + nonpartisan, we use the tools of economics to defend & promote workers' interests in economic policy discussions.
epi.org
Newsletter: epi.org/signup/
Federal Policy Watch: epi.org/policywatch
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social Prof at Georgetown Law. Labor law, political economy, technology, other things. I no longer have a twitter account.
Author, Data & Democracy at Work, The MIT Press. Open Access version at https://tinyurl.com/btv74buj
Sam Wheeler @samwheeler.bsky.social Executive Director, Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO. Unions are good. Views are my own.
Sharon Block @sharblock.bsky.social Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. Former Biden and Obama Admin official. Labor lawyer and reg nerd. If you don’t know who the woman with the red flower in the picture is, ask.
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
The best sources and news
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social - Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com
- Host, Working People podcast
- Author, The Work of Living
- Dad to many cats
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/
Diana Hussein @dianah.bsky.social Unions. heyadiana on that bird site. Comms at the mighty UAW. Formerly UNITE HERE. Lebanese American from the mighty Dearborn, MI. Lifelong Detroit sports fan. Living in DC. Detroit Lions Super Bowl champs!!!
Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com The Past, Fully Present. Find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians.
Editor – Peter Moore
Creative Director – @jordanacosta.co
https://www.unseenhistories.com/
Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social Han Shot first. Making trouble @ Firekit Campaigns and baking pie. Formerly AFT, New Organizing, Obama '08. It's good to punch Nazis. https://linktr.ee/evanyellsatclouds
Jake Rosenfeld @jakerosenfeld.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Washington University-St. Louis
Rachel Rosenbloom @rosenbloom.bsky.social Law professor at Northeastern, focusing mostly on immigration law. Writing a book about birthright citizenship. Jewish supporter of Palestinian liberation. Cat person.
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social Director, NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. Workers’ rights lawyer. Sometimes writer. Policy wonk. Former NY labor law enforcer. Mom of 2 ppl taller/smarter than me. Brooklynite.
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Robyn Muncy @robynm.bsky.social Historian of the 20th-century US, especially social movements, social policy, women, and labor. Prof at University of Maryland, College Park. All opinions are my own.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social Senior Fellow at CAP, fighting for #PaidLeaveForAll. Lawyer, mom, wonk, advocate, not necessarily in that order. Philly-based, KY-raised. Personal account.
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social Supporting all workers in any workplace. You deserve a union.
Free resources & trainings on how to organize and start a union @ workerorganizing.org
More: https://linktr.ee/organizeworkers
Bob Reiter @bobreiterjr.bsky.social President, Chicago Federation of Labor
@chicagolabor.bsky.social
#Unions #1U
Shoegazing punk rocker and fitness guy
Taking life one comic book at a time
Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com Coming April 2027 from SUNY Press. Multi-disciplinary collection exploring how labor unions, union organizing, and strikes and job actions have been portrayed in mainstream, scripted episodic television shows. https://solongdentalplan.com/
Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social
Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social Career teacher, ed prof, researcher, education union activist. Still writing, in the struggle for social justice, union democracy. Socialist. https://loisweiner.net/ and https://futureschools.substack.com/
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
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