London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org Equipping the progressive movement with the data and insights it needs to win.
dataforprogress.org
Impact For Equity @impactforequity.bsky.social Impact for Equity is a catalyst for racial, economic, and social justice in Chicago and Illinois.
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
Darrick Hamilton @darrickhamilton.bsky.social University and Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Policy, and Founding Director of @RacePowerPolicy @TheNewSchool; and @AFLCIO Chief Economist
Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com Soccer nerdery at American Soccer Analysis and (occasionally) Massive Report. Throw-in aficionado. he/him
eliotmckinley.com
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social The plan for a global just transition to phase out fossil fuels.
https://fossilfueltreaty.org/
Matt Zarb-Cousin @mzc.bsky.social
Rory Smith @rorysmith.bsky.social The Observer, Men In Blazers, the Monday Night Club, Libero. Author of "Mister" and "Expected Goals."
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social 1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer.
Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019).
Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
Headshot: Varvara Mikushkina
Cover photo: Brian Cassella
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social Milwaukee's strongest soldier in the war on cars. Works in soccer. Posts about sports. Goes outside. Thinks trans and nb people are neat.
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
Joe Pera @joepera.bsky.social standup comedian, 'Joe Pera Talks with You' on Adult Swim & HBO Max. 'Drifting Off w/ Joe Pera' Sleep Podcast too.
Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org The Institute for Policy Studies has been the research arm of movements challenging inequality, corporate power, polluters, and militarism since 1963. www.ips-dc.org
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Tipping Pitches @tippingpitchespod.com Baseball for the many, not the few. A podcast trying to nationalize our national pastime. Hosted by Bobby Wagner and Alex Bazeley.
https://pod.link/1265588219 https://tippingpitches.myshopify.com
The Appeal @theappeal.org We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system.
You can support our work here: https://theappeal.org/donate/
Sign up for our newsletter: https://theappeal.org/newsletter-subscribe/
Eleanor Penny @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social Writer
Host Verso Books Podcast, Novara FM
Agents Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander (books) + Georgia Kanner Independent Talent (film + tv)
Teaching writing at Goldsmiths, Poetry School, City Lit
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Carcinization Now ✨
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️ @graceonfootball.com Football writer, from the newsletter with the same name and occasionally elsewhere. Non-football stuff @gemofamara.com.
https://www.graceonfootball.com/
Ryan Rosenblatt @ryanrosenblatt.bsky.social Work in ⚽️⚾️🎮. People who have paid me:
@ESPN, @FOXSports, @Dodgers, @SBNation,
@Eurosport. He/him. Contact: ryrosenblatt@gmail.com.
No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social humanitarian aid + solidarity in the Sonoran borderlands | against militarization and for the free movement of people | nomoredeaths.org
documenting death and disappearance at the border: thedisappearedreport.org elpasomigrantdeathdatabase.org
Maher Mezahi @mahermezahi.bsky.social All we need in life is a little African football. Covering sport on the continent for 10 years across different media outlets. Creator and host of the African Five-a-side podcast.
INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society.
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
Society for American Soccer History @ussoccerhistory.org Founded in 1993 by American soccer historian Sam T.N. Foulds, the Society for American Soccer History (SASH) works to promote, facilitate, and disseminate research into the rich history of soccer in the United States.
https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/
Ryan Walters @mrryanwalters.bsky.social Chasing the ⚽️ around the 🌏
ASEAN Game host for @TheAsianGame
The Football Collective @footballcollective.bsky.social The academic voice of football
The Football Collective is a network of people who wish to bring critical debate to football.
https://www.thefootballcollective.com/
Nutmeg Magazine @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social The home of brilliant football stories, made in Scotland.
Issue 40 out now: http://shorturl.at/w9E15
Substack: https://www.nutmegfc.co.uk/
Brian D. Bunk @brianbunk.bsky.social I study the early history of soccer in the United States. My new book "The Shortest History of Soccer" is out now.
Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net We believe our tax systems are our most powerful tools for creating a just society that gives equal weight to the needs of everyone. Every day, we inspire and equip people and governments to reprogramme their tax systems. taxjustice.net
Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social We are alive and we don't agree.
linktr.ee/repeater_books
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Jon Mackenzie @jonmackenzie.bsky.social Writer and presenter at The Athletic. Noticer. Possession is nine tenths of the lore. Buy my book, The Spectre of Pep, here: https://geni.us/TheSpectreOfPep
LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social Power research for just futures! Find us at: littlesis.org
🔗🌳: https://linktr.ee/LittleSisTree?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e78bcea5-862c-44f5-a482-b35564ac85b7
Suzy Wrack @suzywrack.bsky.social 💻 Correspondent for @guardian_sport. 📖 A Woman’s Game. 📖 You Have the Power w. Leah Williamson. 📖 Strong Women. DMs open.
The Chicago Alliance @caarprnow.bsky.social Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, fighting for democratic civilian control of Chicago Police #CPOPNow! CFIST, #FreeThemAll - incarcerated survivors of police torture & wrongful conviction - caarpr.org
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union @nonprofitunion.bsky.social Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, IFPTE Local 70 | Solidarity for Good. We are a member-led union representing nonprofit workers across the US.
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. https://linktr.ee/injusticewatch
Jobs With Justice @jwj.org Fighting for workers' rights and an economy that works for everyone.
Amaka Okechukwu @phdamaka.bsky.social Assoc Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies | Author of To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions (2019) | Oral Historian | Social Movements, Race/Place/Space, Black Brooklyn 📍Bmore
Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social ⚽️💰🚓 Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| ✉️tariq.panja@nytimes.com |tariq.panja@protonmail.com|
David Trouille @dtrouille.bsky.social Sociologist @JMU
Writing a book on temporary agricultural labor.
https://sites.google.com/view/dtrouille/home
Lux Magazine @readlux.bsky.social A socialist magazine of politics and culture. We want it all 👁️
https://lux-magazine.com/
The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere.
Host: @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Producer: @alexjrlewis.bsky.social
Listen at http://thedigradio.com
Give $$ http://patreon.com/user?u=4839800
Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas
www.lausancollective.com
Third Wave Fund @thirdwavefund.bsky.social ☄️ Gender Justice fund
💰 Resourcing U.S. youth-led organizing
🎤 Listen to our podcast, “Mic Check!”
🔌 Subscribe to our newsletter
linktr.ee/thirdwavefund
Francisco Perez @platanomics.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Economics. University of Utah. Dominican New Yorker. Development (macro)economist.
Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org AFR is a nonpartisan and nonprofit coalition of more than 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith-based, and civic and community groups. We are working to lay the foundation for a strong, stable, and ethical financial system.
ITEP @itep.org Informing the debate on tax policy nationwide with research and data-driven solutions.
Visit www.itep.org to find our work.
More info: linktr.ee/_itep
Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets.
Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org A home for fearless, impactful journalism for 50+ years. Projects include Bold Type Books, @typeinvestigations.org, and Tom Dispatch.
🎙️: http://apple.co/3yntG1M
🔗 typemediacenter.org
Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social ✍🏻about Arsenal for Arseblog. Arsenal Women Correspondent for Arseblog News and presenter of the Arsenal Women Arsecast. 🗣️ about Arsenal on the Arsenal Vision Podcast. WSL. Falo 🇵🇹
https://arseblog.news/category/arsenal-women/
Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social A podcast on media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Private Equity Stakeholder Project @pestakeholder.bsky.social Uplifting the voices of workers, communities, tenants, and others impacted by private equity. Est 2017.
Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org The region's sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, helping to make the city and suburbs better since 2013. Posts: @johngreenfield.bsky.social (unsigned) and @stevevance.net.
Anjulie Rao @anjulierao.bsky.social I write about the built environment. Bylines in a lot of places.
Anjulierao.info
Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetransportation.org
tabitha @thetolerantweft.bsky.social socialist tapestry artist, co-chair Chattanooga DSA 🌹
https://linktr.ee/Tabithaarnold
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Squirrel Flower @sqrrlflwr.bsky.social New album 'Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going' out now on Polyvinyl.
Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social
Grassroots Collaborative @grassrootschi.bsky.social We’re a community-labor coalition united for racial, economic, and environmental justice for all Illinois families. 🧡 Learn more👇
https://linktr.ee/grassrootscollaborative_
Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
tprweaver.com
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd
Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social We are 50+ grassroots orgs who represent 1M+ members across the US, building democratic power to end Amazon's abuse of our communities / #WeAreAthena
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social commissioning editor & reporter @novaramedia.com
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Good Jobs First @goodjobsfirst.org Good Jobs First has since 1998 been a leading watchdog on economic development subsidies. We also expose corporate crimes.
site: www.goodjobsfirst.org
trackers: goodjobsfirst.org/databases
newsletter: www.goodjobsfirst.org/subscribe
New Economy Coalition @us-neweconomy.bsky.social Fire the bosses & free the land! A network of 150+ orgs building #SolidarityEconomy putting people & planet before profit
equiticity.bsky.social @equiticity.bsky.social What happens when we turn on the Power, and Equity moves like electricity through our homes, streets, neighborhoods, and cities?
EQUITICITY
Power + Equity >
Link-In-Bio: bit.ly/m/equiticity
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social
Max Jerneck @maxjerneck.bsky.social Chefsekonom, Katalys
Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔
Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
avmarraccini.com
The Drift @thedriftmag.com A magazine of culture and politics
Pitch us at: pitches@thedriftmag.com
CORE Econ @coreecon.bsky.social Economics for a changing world.
The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics is now available online. It's free. Visit our website.
Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Issue 8.1 is out in June 2026!
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
Ilan Strauss @ilan-strauss.bsky.social Co-Director of the AI Disclosures Project: ai-disclosures.org
A classical economist's impulses
Mona Ali @mona-ali.bsky.social Econ prof, State Univ. of New York. Fellow, Transition Security Project.
Photo of Carina Brunnelli's Venice in the Flow of Time, Triptych I, 2025.
Centre for Sport and Human Rights @sportandrights.bsky.social A human rights organisation for the world of sport. Find out more ➡️ sporthumanrights.org
Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) @sportrightsall.bsky.social We harness the power of our partners to hold global sport accountable and advance human rights on & off the field.
➡️ Join the movement: https://linktr.ee/sportandrightsalliance
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023)
https://stefaneich.com/