Hive Mind Books @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social We are a queer independent bookstore & coffeeshop in Bushwick. 219 Irving Ave, Brooklyn
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division @bgsqd.bsky.social The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer bookstore and cultural center hosted by The LGBT Community Center, on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape, now known as New York City. 208 W. 13th St. Rm. 210, NY, 10011
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Austin Pride @austinpride.bsky.social The purpose of the APF is to educate, resource, and connect the LGBTQ community in Austin, Texas.
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
Texas Tribune @texastribune.org Independent news. Trusted by Texans. We pursue the truth so Texans can shape our future. Sign up for our daily email: http://trib.it/signup
Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social We are a leading legal rights organization dedicated to justice and equality for LGBTQ+ people and people with HIV 🌈💪
Learn more and join the fight for justice: gladlaw.org
Don Romesburg (he/him) @donromesburg.bsky.social Professor of queer and trans history. Author of CONTESTED CURRICULUM: LGBTQ HISTORY GOES TO SCHOOL (Rutgers UP, 2025); editor of ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF QUEER AMERICA.
Linktree for publications, book talks, and media:
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Myrl Beam @myrlbeam.bsky.social Teacher, nerd about south Minneapolis and the queer and trans left; wrote Gay Inc: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social journalist, host of "The Michelangelo Signorile Show" on SiriusXM, channel 127, 3-6 ET weekdays @SiriusXMProg.bsky.social #breadsky
Newsletter, subscribe:
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New York City!
Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social Presidential historian. American History Columnist @NYTBR. Senior Fellow @NewAmerica. NYT bestselling author of (almost!) 3 books.
Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social A magazine of political commentary, analysis, and amusements.
https://linkin.bio/currentaffairsmag
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Dara Strolovitch @darazed.bsky.social 
Jonathan Capehart @jonathancapehart.bsky.social Co-host, MS NOW "The Weekend." Contributor PBS NewsHour, "Brooks & Capehart"
Former Associate Editor, The Washington Post.
Sean Vanatta @seanvanatta.bsky.social Financial historian at University of Glasgow and non-resident fellow at Princeton's JRCPPF. Writing about credit cards (@yalepress), bank supervision (@princetonupress), & pensions.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Kathleen J. Frydl @kfrydl.bsky.social February 2026: Liberalism & the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/liberalism-and-the-reinvention-of-the-modern-corporation-9780197567401?lang=en&cc=us#
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now. 
Margaret O’Mara @margaretomara.bsky.social Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, historian of Silicon Valley and author of THE CODE. https://margaretomara.com
Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/
BookPeople @bookpeople.com The largest independent bookstore in Texas 📚 A community bound by books located in the heart of downtown Austin.
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Michael Vorenberg @mikevorenberg.bsky.social historian, professor, New Yorker caption contest winner (twice!)
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Scott Kurashige @scottkurashige.bsky.social Author of American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism & co-author of The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs.
Educator, speaker & consultant on history, public scholarship & race/ethnic studies. Views my own & do not reflect employer.
Kai Bird @kaibirdbiographer.bsky.social Biographer Pulitzer Prize winner
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Texas Observer @texasobserver.org A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954.
Follow our journos: https://go.bsky.app/EdSL3Co
🤠Learn more about us: https://linktr.ee/texasobserver
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
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.
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social We are an association of all AAUP members in Texas #HigherEd. Join us as we advocate for faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one!
https://connect.aft.org/app/memberforms/8041A/JoinTheFight
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.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social Urbanist/teacher/writer/community advocate
Founding Director, Smart Cities Research Lab
Author, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
John A. Farrell @biographer.bsky.social Historian. UVA. PhD, Groningen. Biographer of Clarence Darrow, Tip O'Neill, Ted Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Next up: The American Revolution on the Frontier.
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social American historian @Yale, energy and environmental politics and policy, author of "Public Citizens," "The Bet," and "Crude Politics" https://history.yale.edu/people/paul-sabin
Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
Carceral History newsletter @carceralhistory.bsky.social a newsletter by Melanie Newport celebrating new books and research in U.S. carceral history https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
Judith Surkis @judith-surkis.bsky.social Historian @Rutgers
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Girls @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social it's a good theory in practice for people engaged in the spectrum of social justice struggles to figure out unexpected sites where their agendas align
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com
Adam Kluge @arkluge.bsky.social phd candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk | formerly @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | he/him
interested in punishment, violence, stigma, family, politics, gender, and media
more here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/adam-kluge
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social 
Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.
Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Nadine Hubbs @dean17.bsky.social UMich prof. Books: ‘The Queer Composition of America‘s Sound,‘ ‘Rednecks, Queers, & Country Music,’ ‘Uncharted Country.’ Now writing ’Border Sounds & Buckaroos: The Mexican History of Country Music.’ 🦋 ‘Queer Jolene’ video @ http://youtu.be/4MQLx_AVjuU
Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious.
ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️ 
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
joshua gutterman tranen @jdgtranen.bsky.social writer. hormones and abortion on demand. Palestine will be free.
joshuaguttermantranen.com
Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/
Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA
Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin
Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
Pippa Holloway @pippaholloway.bsky.social Professor of history and proud AAUP member. Living in Swansboro in south Richmond, Virginia, and part time at Buckroe Beach. I like a bit of a cavort.🏳️🌈🍷🧀
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
The Nation's Books & the Arts @booksandthearts.bsky.social Books, music, ideas, film, and criticism from The Nation's "back of the book" https://www.thenation.com/books-and-the-arts/
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
Follow us: https://profile.google.com/@newrepublic
Kathleen DuVal @kathleenduval.bsky.social Historian, UNC professor
Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social Historian, Yogi, Hiker, World Traveler, Animal Lover, especially cats www.etshermer.com
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.
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. 
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
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).
W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org I am a historian at Rice University. I use this account for updates about my work, cross-posted from my website at https://updates.wcaleb.org.
Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.- S Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social Teaches 19th century US lit at Hunter College, CUNY. Lives in Brooklyn, with all the contradictions that implies.
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Doris Morgan Rueda (she/her/ella) @dradorisita.bsky.social Legal historian, Colombiana artist, horror girlie ✌🏽
Current Law & History Fellow @ Stanford Law & Stanford Center for Law and History
Soon to be Assistant Professor of US Latiné History @ Appalachian State University
Liveright @liveright.bsky.social Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.com. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com Independent Publishers Since 1923.
Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social New York City-based literary agency, representing books that matter since 1977.
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
mary-elizabeth murphy @jimcrowcapital.bsky.social history professor at eastern michigan, author of Jim Crow Capital (UNC, 2018) & Policing Passengers (UNC, 2026, forthcoming!)