The Dig Follow Pack
Guests of the pod that are currently active on bluesky. If you're a past guest who's become active since this list was made, DM us so we can include you!
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@thedigradio.bsky.social
@iliasalami.bsky.social
Assistant prof political economy University of Cambridge Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020); The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!) Editor Economy and Society Member Second Cold War Observatory
@itsmccarthy.bsky.social
University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Senior Associate Editor: Critical Sociology. Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
@daniellecarr.bsky.social
@city.bsky.social
writer and organizer • The New Republic, The Nation, The Baffler & elsewhere • Abolish Rent from Haymarket Books bit.ly/abolishrent
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast ~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@jeremyscahill.com
Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.com
@cnewman.bsky.social
General Counsel, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). Faculty, UCLA Labor Studies. Partner and follower of @marjoriegarcia.bsky.social Vituperative tweeter with a gentle heart
@dianeravitch.bsky.social
I write about the history and politics of education. I oppose the privatization of public schools. I support democracy, teachers, students, unions, liberal education, freedom to teach and to learn. Born in Houston, live in Brooklyn. Twitter refugee.
@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer. Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
@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.
@brettstory.bsky.social
Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
@ahjohnson.bsky.social
citationspod.bsky.social podcast, write @ The Nation, Real News, In These Times, things of that nature columnblog.com
@deanbaker13.bsky.social
Economist at the Center for Economic Research. Father to two dogs.
@emorwee.bsky.social
I run HEATED, a newsletter devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. She/her. 📧: emorwee@proton.me Signal: @emorwee.06
@julesboykoff.bsky.social
Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author of What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); The 1936 Berlin Olympics (Common Ground 2023); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016). www.julesboykoff.org
@marisollebron.bsky.social
Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
@brendenbeck.bsky.social
Sociologist at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice studying policing, city budgets, suburbs, and housing. brenden.beck@rutgers.edu
@delaneyrules.bsky.social
Senior politics reporter covering Congress and the economy for HuffPost. arthur@huffpost.com.
@alexvitale.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social. Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com Preorder my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
@timshorrock.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, musician, DC since 1982. Living with grief since losing my daughter Roxanne in March 2024. Writing on Korea, Japan, Cold War, Capitalism. Crazy Bob Dylan fan. Twitter/X refugee. Author of SPIES FOR HIRE. Soon on Substack.
@ryanlcooper.com
Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
@cathylutz.bsky.social
Writer, anthropologist, live wire. Co-Founder of CostsofWar.org. Author of Homefront, Reading National Geographic, Carjacked, Schooled.
@lanewindham.bsky.social
Activist, writer, historian, labor and working-class issues. Author Knocking on Labor's Door
@jeffstein.bsky.social
Reporter at The Washington Post. Listen to my series on John Brown: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-carnage/id1723391781
@lkspence.bsky.social
Professor, Author, Son of Blood and Thunder, Father. Newsletter (https://lesters-newsletter-2ff539.beehiiv.com/subscribe), Knocking the Hustle ( http://bit.ly/1SzPlHi)).
@ironstache.bsky.social
Dad,Disabled Veteran,Union IronWorker, Populist | 1st Union political campaign in U.S. History | Helped Paul Ryan retire | My views here "The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed." — Simone de Beauvoir
@nomiki.bsky.social
“no-me-KEY” Believer in democracy, transparency in tech, good government, campaign finance reform. Co-director of Losing Puerto Rico🇵🇷. Occasional media host and political analyst. Board of Matriarch. 🇬🇷🇺🇸Bernie alum.
@summerlee.bsky.social
Somebody's aunty, organizer, sarcastic best friend, or Congresswoman.
@stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social
prof at UNC ⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
@becquer.bsky.social
Scholar of Spain at Hopkins • Author of The Op-Ed Novel • Regular contributor at The Nation and elsewhere Website: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/directory/becquer-seguin/ Book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674260108
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Committed to the bit. Signal: daralind.18
@davidharvey.org
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
@stephenwertheim.bsky.social
America in the world, past and present. Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org. Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy. Views my own. Read my writing: http://www.columbia.edu/~saw2156
@llchristyll.bsky.social
Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
@juliasalazar.bsky.social
NY State Senator in Brooklyn & Queens. Chair of NYS Senate's Crime Victims, Crime & Correction Committee. Democratic socialist. Forever optimist (#LGM) 🇨🇴🏳️🌈
@cgmaisano.bsky.social
🌹 socialist dad 🌹 | @socialists.nyc | @jacobinmag.bsky.social | @catalystjournal.bsky.social
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@jduffyrice.bsky.social
i write things and think about prisons. i live in atlanta. i read a lot.
@alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social
Professor of International Political Economy, Queen’s University Belfast; visiting appointments at U of Johannesburg, LUT, U della Campania, SOAS, AU Cairo and U of Brasilia.
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
@georgejoseph94.bsky.social
Investigative reporter for The Guardian US Signal: 929-486-4865 Email: george.joseph@theguardian.com
@fernandohaddad.bsky.social
Ministro da Fazenda de Lula, Ex-Ministro da Educação, Ex-Prefeito de São Paulo, Professor da USP.
@lsarsour.bsky.social
Organizer. Good-Troublemaker. Author. Palestinian-Muslim-American. Born and raised Brooklyn.
@daveweigel.bsky.social
National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
@jonathansmucker.bsky.social
Political organizer, campaigner, strategist, writer, sociologist Co-founder: Popular Comms, Beyond the Choir, Lancaster Stands Up, PA Stands Up, Mennonite Action Member: UAW Local 4811, DSA Author of https://hegemonyhowto.org/
@philbrickyadav.bsky.social
Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
@danieljadue.bsky.social
Chileno de origen Palestino. Militante Comunista. Arquitecto, Sociólogo y Magister en Urbanismo UCH. Ex Alcalde de Recoleta.
@jeromeroos.bsky.social
Political economist at LSE. Author of 'Why Not Default?'. Writing a history of global crises for Knopf and Vintage. Newsletter: therift.blog.
@magdabandera.bsky.social
Directora de @lamarea_com @Climatica | Cooperativista. No tengo cuenta en Amazon. https://mastodon.social/@magdabandera
@postnormcore.bsky.social
Populations | Property | Land | Borders | Barcelona | Houston
@reproutopia.bsky.social
Philadelphia immigrant writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
@lisaduggan.bsky.social
Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
@aldasky.bsky.social
Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
@repilhan.bsky.social
Representing Minnesota's 5th District in the People's House. @USProgressives Deputy Chair. Account managed by staff.
@graceblakeley.substack.com
Read Vulture Capitalism ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/Grace.blakeley
@ericlevitz.bsky.social
@akapczynski.bsky.social
Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
@abenanav.bsky.social
Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso, currently: fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@musewendi.bsky.social
trying to survive the united states | creator/founder of the Left POCket Project | mom | falo português
@stschrader1.bsky.social
cops, counterinsurgency, the cold war, & the color line | author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
@renfro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. Wrote STRANGER DANGER (Oxford University Press, 2020) and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (UNC Press, 2024). Represented by Calligraph Lit. Father of H and G. He/him.
@brdemuth.bsky.social
Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
@noshortcuts.bsky.social
Organizer-Negotiator-Author. Obsessed with teaching people how power works, and how our side builds enough to win and govern.
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
@nicke.bsky.social
⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. The Red Nation. Red Media.⚡️
@aysezarakol.bsky.social
IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
@isabellamweber.bsky.social
EconProf, UMass Amherst Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next "cost-shock queen" according to FT
@daisy-pitkin.bsky.social
Union Organizer. Writer. Newish Yinzer. Director at Starbucks Workers United. Author of ON THE LINE, Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@ceaweaver.bsky.social
tenant organizing and rent control, socialist politics, New York. director, @housingjustice4all.bsky.social
@dennismhogan.bsky.social
Central American and Imperial Lit | Higher Ed Section Editor @publicbooks.bsky.social | University lecturer & onetime union staffer | Go easy, step lightly, stay free. |
@maxfox.bsky.social
@jackschneider.bsky.social
professor at umass.edu | co-host of haveyouheardpodcast.com | director of umass.edu/education/organizations/center-education-policy previous book: offthemarkbook.com | latest book: educationwarsbook.com | next book: in progress.
@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social
Podcasting about education policy and politics at haveyouheardpodcast.com | new book: The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual www.educationwarsbook.com. Follow my work at: http://educationwars.substack.com
@pasenatorsaval.com
Fighting for the 1st Senatorial District in Philly and for all Pennsylvanians. Solidarity forever. ✊🏾 www.pasenatorsaval.com