Natalie J. Ring
Historian of all sorts of things in the US South, particularly the history of Jim Crow and Louisiana. Author/Editor. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX 20+ years. Native of MA.
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@jenvictor.bsky.social
Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://shorturl.at/T8ten
@mirya.bsky.social
Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
@fssp.bsky.social
The Freedmen & Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of the profound social revolution of emancipation in the United States.
@nikkisumrow.bsky.social
Texan into democracy and giraffes. Precinct chair (views mine). Mostly Texas politics and gun violence prevention.
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
@briandistelberg.bsky.social
@antoinesnola.bsky.social
We fired up our kitchen in 1840, and there's a reason we're still around. No one does French-Creole cuisine in New Orleans like we do.
@lesldunl.bsky.social
@eturiano.bsky.social
Historian of Slavery, Rights, Law, Politics • Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
@jedshug.bsky.social
Prof BU Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes. 5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23 (thanks, LeiterReports) Book: The People’s Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists http://shugerblog.com http://ssrn.com/author=625422
@anchistjournal.bsky.social
Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
@hidehirota.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
@clairedenelle.bsky.social
Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her
@clivethompson.bsky.social
Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Journalist with Wired / New York Times Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Built https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me
@4taxfairness.bsky.social
We’ve been fighting for ten years to build an economy that works for all of us by making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share in taxes. Follow us on all socials to boost tax fairness ➡️ @4taxfairness
@charlesornstein.bsky.social
Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: charles.ornstein@propublica.org. Posts are my own.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader. Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
Journalist & Historian. Director, @aspencyber. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Doomsdayscenario.co
@scbernard.bsky.social
Emmy and Peabody award winning filmmaker, professor, author. Books include "Documentary Storytelling" and "Bring Judgment Day." Films & series include "Slavery by Another Name," etc. Please visit https://www.sheilacurranbernard.com.
@tamupress.bsky.social
Publishing award-winning scholarship and popular trade books since 1974. Visit us at tamupress.com.
@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, Writer. Author. Next 📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25) ashleydfarmer.com
@corneliawoll.bsky.social
President @hertieschool.bsky.social Professor of International Political Economy
@darinself.com
Assistant Professor of Political Science -- My work is on democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
@steviez65.bsky.social
Liberal Masshole living in Brooklyn. Bruins/Celts/Sox/Pats Send coffee, weed, lawyers, guns & $. Fuck Trump & nazis. Living w/depression. Stagehand, author (American Loser, Fired and Furries, Radio Free Steve Vols 1&2) photographer. Etsy TwoCatsCloset
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile. collections: Deifying A Total Darkness, To Emit Teal, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (UPK, Oct 14, 2025)
@smugchristophe.bsky.social
Black. Atheist. Cranky left-liberal Democrat. 37. Don’t call me a Texan. https://smugchristophe.substack.com
@oliviamesser.bsky.social
texan. editor in chief, the barbed wire. words in rolling stone, marie claire, slate, the daily beast, texas monthly, texas observer etc for texas tips, email: olivia@thebarbedwire.com
@miriam2626.bsky.social
@saraspector43 on TikTok. Criminal defense attorney who became a little famous in Twitter. Followed by Mark Hamill, George Conway and Molly Jong Fast! Occasional tv pundit Blue Dot in Midland, Texas. Football and PGA!
@etxgov.bsky.social
Official unofficial gov of East Texas. Agitator of status quos, nerd. Usonian. They call me Queso Blanco. Yall Means All. Democracy Supporter. He/Him. This may be who we are, but it is not who we will be. Old glory does not wave for them, it waves for us.
@pbsnews.org
We are home to PBS News Hour (ranked the most credible and objective TV news show), PBS News Weekend and @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social. Support our work during Public Media Giving Days: https://bit.ly/4jCtAs4 More: linktr.ee/pbsnews
@meredithsalenger.bsky.social
Actress - Producer 💖Smarty Pants https://linktr.ee/MeredithSalenger
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
@stevenrenderos.bsky.social
Salvadoreño 🇸🇻 ED at Media Justice. Co-host of Bring Receipts. Doyers fan.
@tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
@johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa, UVA. Usually found in Virginia, longing for Cape Town.
@tedmccormick.bsky.social
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him
@cemberton.bsky.social
Historian. Knitter. Mom of a feral girl-child. Author of Beyond Redemption & To Walk About in Freedom. I post about history, education, & books. Go Bills! She/hers. www.caroleemberton.com