David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social reporter @ minnesota reformer covering immigration and more. posting about sports sometimes too. texan in st. paul. eng/esp
Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social Founder and Agent, Headwater Literary Management
Co-host of Print Run Podcast
www.headwaterliterary.com
www.printrunpodcast.com
fiction and essays in Triangle House / Welcome To Hell World / Typebar Magazine / Mount Hope / elsewhere
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social Writer of books, short stories, comics, and other things. Friend to cats and sometimes people. She/her. https://www.kathowardbooks.com/ and https://epigraphtoepilogue.substack.com/
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. 🦃
David Tanenhaus @david-tanenhaus.bsky.social I was a one-Tweet wonder. I write about juvenile law, periodically re-read Nathan Hill’s The Nix, and help prepare meals that are vegan, gluten-free, and corn-free.
R.L. Bynum @rl-bynum.bsky.social Cover #UNC athletics — mainly men's & women's basketball, football and baseball — for tarheeltribune.com | X: @RL_Bynum | Threads: @r.l.bynum | YouTube: youtube.com/@TarHeelTribune | TikTok: tar.heel.tribune | 53 marathons | Cubs fan
SHEAR @shearites.bsky.social The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is dedicated to exploring US history from 1776-1861.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
@defianthistorian.bsky.social @defianthistorian.bsky.social Parent. Historian. American. Neurospicy. Lover of research, small dogs, big oak trees, alpine lakes, lightening bugs, and crafting.
Gamle Ode Aquavits @gamleode.bsky.social Founded an American Aquavit company as a crazy dream to get more aquavit on shelves everywhere.
Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Sarah Willets @sarahwillets.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @indyweek.bsky.social
Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com Freelance journalist in North Carolina who writes longform stories about political, social, and environmental issues. Web site: http://barryyeoman.com. Newsletter: http://barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com. Teaching: Duke University.
Ala Montgomery @foreignadvices.bsky.social Early American historian working on settler colonialism and state power | Center for Digital History viceroy at the Washington Library, Mount Vernon | Nova Scotian | she/her | views and posts all me- D David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/people/david-wessel/
Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social Senior NBA Writer at TheRinger.com | Co-host, the Real Ones | #NBASky evangelist
Previously: SI.com, BleacherReport.com, NYTimes.com, DailyNews.com, VCStar.com, DavisEnterprise.com
https://www.theringer.com/authors/howard-beck
authory.com/howardbeck
@afabian.bsky.social @afabian.bsky.social 
Sarah Fitzpatrick @sfitz787.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic covering DOJ and National Security
Sfitzpatrick@theatlantic.com
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Jaz @jaz.sh Jasmine (Jaz)
Gender Nomad
IRC made me gay
Reject drab, wear bright colors and play fast
Former Platform Engineering Lead at Bsky
28. she/her 🏳️⚧️
BSky Stats- https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
https://github.com/jazware
Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social Mostly retired #journalist (ex-CBS News, ex-AP, etc). Master’s degree in #philosophy. Friend to #animals. Usually annoyed about something.
My audio obituary for CBS News Radio:
https://on.soundcloud.com/6tMcY2ZIjYbefssAwm
https://www.samlitzinger.com/
Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social Senior Editor at the Univ Press of Colorado (Utah State UP & U of Alaska Press) acquiring books in composition & rhetoric, folklore, & polar studies. Formerly at OUP (music), Palgrave (politics) & Bloomsbury (33 1/3). Based in Brooklyn. Opinions my own.
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
John Logie @johnlogie.bsky.social Rhetoric professor, internet nerd, choir geek, still loves rock and roll. 
Town of Chapel Hill @chapelhillgov.bsky.social This is the official Town of Chapel Hill Bluesky account.
Visit us at chapelhillnc.gov
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Jarvis DeBerry @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social Opinionated journalist. ms.now
Previously at lailluminator.com; cleveland.com and NOLA.com
Author of "I Feel to Believe: Collected Columns" by UNO Press
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social he him / musician / record producer / death cab for cutie, '97 - '14 / http://chriswalla.com
Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social Extreme weather and climate change expert writing for Yale Climate Connections. Co-founder, Weather Underground; former hurricane hunter.
Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social Historian, writer, dog person.
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
David Evans @forthepoor.bsky.social professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
Jordan E. Taylor @publiusorperish.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution, news, politics, etc. Author of Misinformation Nation.
Manager of Digital Content for Colonial Williamsburg. Views here are my own.
Used to be more into social media. Now trying to enjoy the quiet.
jordanetaylor.com
Ben Vereen @benvereen.bsky.social Tony Award-winning actor and entertainer. 🎭 Inquiries: benvereeninquiry@gmail.com
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Vanessa Briscoe Hay @pylongurl.bsky.social Mom, retired nurse, artist, singer / musician. Member of Pylon Reenactment Society, former member of Pylon and Supercluster
https://www.pylonreenactmentsociety.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Doug Thompson @drdougthompson.bsky.social Husband, dad x 3, profess for a living
Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com Owner: http://slidingonice.com - Winter sports writer, photog, announcer, dog dad, Protect Our Winters member, Durham Bulls fan/spokesmodel, Calgary Stampeders fan. Fall risk
🎼I’ve been places in my head, behind me worse than what’s ahead🎵
Durham, NC
Dave Chen @dave3d.bsky.social 3d graphics geek, dad, Tar Heel, lousy golfer, NIH scientist, Wonketteer, wannabe guitarist, slacker, probably not the Dave Chen you're looking for
Jen Holder @jenholder.bsky.social Mom. Scientist. Tar Heel. Showing up for humanity. Black Lives Matter. Abortion is healthcare. Trans rights are human rights.
Security Dilemmas @securitydilemmas.bsky.social I'm Richard Purcell, Louisiana native, proud UNC alum, former Capitol Hill staffer, SAIS grad, and (hopefully) keen observer of foreign policy and national security. Nukes are my specialty.
Judge Chris Brook @judgechrisbrook.bsky.social North Carolina attorney and law professor. Former Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Double Tar Heel. Georgia born, Carolina raised.
Ellis Hankins @forrepdemruleoflaw.bsky.social Indignant American in North Carolina. Retired lawyer & public policy/management professor in a purple state (the state, not me). Married up. Public commercial airport board member, aviation enthusiast.
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Sam Dean @samjdean.bsky.social Football reporter for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
Wade Minter @wademinter.com 2026 Stanley Cup Champion arena announcer for the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes. Founder/COO at @suggestionox.com. Ex-Founder at TeamSnap. Bad defenseman, worse goalie.
Bringing you that CAAAAANES WIIIIIN! If you don't know, now you know.
📍 Raleigh, NC
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social https://sugarcopperblue.com/
https://laylo.com/sugar
Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social Puck partner
Host, KCRW’s The Business
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov Official Bluesky for the City of Minneapolis.
https://linktr.ee/cityminneapolis
https://www.minneapolismn.gov
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social Retired bookseller, librarian, teacher. Writes sometimes. Owner of an Australian Shepherd. Living proof we don’t become more conservative as we age. Rural living, Queensland, Australia. Yuggera-Ugarapul country
On the Breast Cancer Journey
W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social Author of When It's Darkness on the Delta, A Place Like Mississippi, and other works of nonfiction. Faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. President, @authorsguild.org
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Emily Contois @emilycontois.bsky.social Media studies professor & faculty in residence at UTulsa // Books: Diners, Dudes & Diets (‘20) & Food Instagram (‘22) // emilycontois.com
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research, dialecticinstitute.org - views expressed here my own. jerseyflight.com
Andrea Orzoff @arorzoff.bsky.social research administrator, historian. Opinions mine, not my employer's. Hiker, mom, writer, reader, Deutsch, español, česky. Brecht: “When the times darken/ Will there be singing even then? /There will be singing even then. /Of how the times darken.”
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
Prev - Queens & Tulsa
PhD - Temple
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social Priest of Jesus Christ. Figuring this out.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Rob Murphy @robpmurphy.bsky.social NO KINGS!
The penitent man is humble before Zod.
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
The Organization of American Historians @oah.org Advocating for history. Advancing scholarship. Connecting the past to the present.
Burke Gerstenschlager @bleaktheology.bsky.social Finishing “Tears in Their Eyes: Joy Division as Theological Lamentation”. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Antifascist. UT Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Lutherpalian. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.
EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social Biologist, nonprofit CSO (opinions mine), fair-weather farmer, recovering academic, progressive christian. Probably one helluva lot older than you are.
Almost Heaven, Durham County, NC
Chris Yarrell @chrisyarrell.bsky.social Education attorney | formerly: @CityYear, @NYCSchools, @NYCMayorsOffice | writing on education & civil rights | cat person
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Interested in the academic workplace and what it's like to live and work as a faculty member. Tell me about it: DM, Signal mzahneis.09, or email megan dot zahneis at chronicle dot com.
Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social We fight for a better, freer North Carolina that works for everyone. The future is a policy choice. YIMBY, esse quam videri, go Canes. 🏔
linktr.ee/carolinaforward
Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.” Fellow, Society of American Historians. The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025.
William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social History Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Writing a book on the 1960s.
Last book a bio of Roy Benavidez: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social Agent at Gramercy Literary, representing historians and journalists. Former book editor at PRH. Reader of history. Will never give up the em dash. Inquire at brent@gramercyliterary.com
Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social director of politics and science @wired.com, co-host of Uncanny Valley (available wherever you get your podcasts!) -- signal leahfeiger.86 with tips
Omar Valerio-Jiménez @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social Professor of History, Latinas/os, borderlands, immigration, U.S. West, history and memory of US-Mexico War.
Remembering Conquest: bit.ly/49iuqFv
Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social Covering RFK Jr., MAHA, health policy & politics for @nytimes. Former Congress & White House Correspondent (Bush & Obama). Peloton aficionado, amateur painter, dog lover, mom. Tips: stolberg@nytimes.com
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social Looking forward to traveling more w my hubs. But in the meantime, I’m here to remind you to take care of yourself and keep learning.
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Ethan Kytle @ekytle.bsky.social Historian, Fresno State; co-author "Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery & Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy"; next book on 1960 fight to desegregate New Orleans public schools; Tar Heels sports
Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter