Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
J.J. McCullough @jj-mccullough.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian YouTube man who has not won any awards.
Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social Wasting time online
Liberal
Watch my videos about politics!
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<3 @lizthegrey.com & many others
Engineer, writer, gamer, avid runner
Owns way too many space LEGO sets
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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
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Ben Murane 🇨🇦 @benmurane.bsky.social Social justice in Israel and everywhere. Executive Director of the New Israel Fund of Canada.
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
ACRI האגודה לזכויות האזרח @acrionline.bsky.social האגודה לזכויות האזרח הוקמה בשנת 1972, והיא ארגון זכויות האדם הגדול, הוותיק והמוביל בישראל. האגודה היא ארגון זכויות האדם היחיד העוסק בכל קשת זכויות האדם: מחופש הביטוי ועד הזכות לדיור, מהגנה על זכויות האדם בשטחים הכבושים ועד להגנה על הפרטיות באינטרנט.
New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social The leading organization advancing and protecting liberal democracy in Israel.
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian , writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social Report + edit @us.theguardian.com | Past: visual investigations @forensicarchi.bsky.social (The Murder of June Knightly https://vimeo.com/913426020) and @theintercept.com (Meet the Riot Squad https://vimeo.com/935228869) | +2,500 @nytimes.com bylines
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha.bsky.social The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead. Currently writing a book. tech x conflict x human rights. friend to cats. manishaganguly.com
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social
Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social Journalist/factchecker. Co-host podcast @computerenpodcast.bsky.social
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Gianluca Mezzofiore @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social Editor, OSINT and visual investigations @CNN
Email: gianluca.mezzofiore@cnn.com
Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social Poetician and Antifa from Iceland.
Former Captain in, and co-creator of, the Pirate Party. 8 years as an elected activist in parliament. Co-produced Collateral Murder. A annoying fly in the tent. Care about: Mother Earth & all her creatures 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌏
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم @fadahjassem.bsky.social Head of Data Visualisation 📊@TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi
#Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists)
(Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social Associate Professor, St. Mary’s University (TX). Fmrly Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, University of Essex. Mostly posting: human rights, business & human rights / #BizHumanRights, international economic law & transitional justice. And Taylor Swift.
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018), "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), and host of Balkanomnicon podcast.
🌐 https://jasminmujanovic.com
🌐 https://balkanomnicon.com/
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Antoine Hasday @antoinehasday.bsky.social Journaliste raisonnablement indépendant. Marottes: défense, sécurité, IA, environnement, sports de combat. Chez @collectifyoupress.bsky.social, @ajdpresse.bsky.social et au bureau de @ajtransparence.bsky.social. Crie aussi dans des micros.
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
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Daragh Murray @daragh.bsky.social Reader in International Law & Human Rights @QMUL_HSS. @UKRI_News FLF project on human rights impacts of AI & surveillance technology (Jan 2021). He/His. Newsletter: http://AIHumanRights.Blog
Razan S @razanspeaks.bsky.social Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories.
Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social Professor on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
📍IST/NYC
Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social Associate Prof in Media and Global Development @ University of East Anglia
Researching borders & camps | resistance & solidarity | transparency, #FOI & public spheres
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Paul Conroy @reflextv.bsky.social Kramatorsk based Photojournalist and author of Under The Wire. Covering the war in Ukraine since March, 22. @Noosphere contributor . UK board member RSF.
Brian Whitaker @brianwhitaker.bsky.social Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East', plus several other books about the region. Website: al-bab.com- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Peter Bouckaert @bouckap.bsky.social I am a passionate human rights activist, conservationist, permaculture farmer, father. Current senior director at Fortify Rights, building local human rights capacity in Asia. Living in Madagascar.
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Joanna Wren @1962wrenbskysocia.bsky.social 'Rise like tigers after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few'
James Sadri @halfiranian.bsky.social migrant. one leg of @ledbydonkeys.org
Jenifer Vaughan @jenifervaughan.bsky.social Chief External Relations @crisisgroup ex 🇺🇳 UNEnvoySyria UNHCR, OCHA, Al Jazeera, CNN, Yale Fellow; Peabody, Gracie award winner
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
Andrew Gilmour @ajgilmour.bsky.social fmr UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights; recent author of book on climate change and conflict "The Burning Question"; fellow SOAS; fmr visiting Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
@chloehadj.bsky.social @chloehadj.bsky.social
Kristyan Benedict @kristyanbenedict.bsky.social Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager: Crisis Response, Israel/Palestine, Syria. Also to be found drumming, climbing, and painting - https://www.instagram.com/kristyan_benedict/
Views all mine.
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
CNBC @cnbc.com First in business worldwide. 💰
Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social NYC
Shaul Amsterdamski @amsterdamski.bsky.social Economics journalist @kan, commentator @calcakist. I wrote a book and working in another one
Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social Senior fellow @obi-belonging.bsky.social Berkeley. Founding ed at The Lead, co-founder +972 Magazine. Bylines NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz etc. Exploring long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
Or Kashti @orkashti.bsky.social Journalist @haaretz
Allison Kaplan Sommer @allisonksommer.bsky.social Haaretz Podcast host and journalist at Haaretz, Promised Podcast co-host
טל שלו Tal Shalev @talshalev.bsky.social Political junkie, reporter and analyst for #walla
Noa Landau @noalandau.bsky.social Haaretz Deputy Editor in Chief- R @romyneumark.bsky.social @romyneumark.bsky.social
- N Noga Tarnopolsky @ntarnopolsky.bsky.social Journalist
Seth J. Frantzman @sfrantzman.bsky.social Middle East security, defense analysis. War correspondent @Jerusalem Post; Adjunct Fellow FDD. Breaking Defense.
#ChezFrantzman Author of 'The October 7 War' and 'Drone Wars.'
Skipper. Maine. Phi Psi.
Neri Zilber @nerizilber.bsky.social Journalist. Analyst.
Bylines @ Financial Times
Advisor @ Israel Policy Forum
Host @ Israel Policy Pod
www.nerizilber.com
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
+972 Magazine @972mag.com Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine, home to Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
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Maya Lecker @mayalecker.bsky.social Deputy Editor in Chief, Haaretz English
Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social Fmr. Ambassador, Consul General of Israel in NY.
Chief of Staff/Foreign Policy Advisor to 2 PMs & 4 of Israel's best Foreign Ministers since 70CE.
Played for The Arsenal, 1979 FA Cup Final.
Writes, but not enough.
Does TV, but too much.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Nettanel Slyomovics @slyomovics.bsky.social @Haaretz @University of Haifa
Linda Dayan @lindadayan9.bsky.social Reporter, Haaretz.com. Tel Avivi stereotype, k-pop stan, McNugget enthusiast. No relation to Moshe. Views are my own and will probably disappoint you.