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Mads @dumbdumbmm.bsky.social I had hoped for solidarity
H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost 🏴☠️ @harrysymons3578.bsky.social I have no politics but revolutionary change--for the worse.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
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Mar @marigo2thepolls.bsky.social Former pollster, current poster
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
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Vanessa E. Thompson @vethompson.bsky.social Abolition, Anticolonialism, Black Studies 
ido @ido.bsky.social European cybersecurity editor, Ingeniøren; before that at the BBC and New Statesman.
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
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Ashley Frawley @ashleyafrawley.bsky.social Senior Editor, Compact Magazine • Senior Research Fellow, MCC Brussels • Sociologist, Uni Kent • Author, most recently, of Significant Emotions (Bloomsbury, 2024)
zenoist.republican @anarchomorphist.bsky.social explorations in the convergences of science & philosophy | deepening democracy & expanding freedoms | beyond capitalism & state | stoic socio-cosmopolitanism
Raul Zelik @raulzelik.bsky.social Pensar para cambiar
Robert Misik @misik.bsky.social Writer, Fighter, Socialist. Web: misik.at - Contacts: robert(at)misik.at
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social An avid reader and sometime writer. Schmitt and the Middle East book due out in 2025.
Link to my substack :) https://theorymatters.substack.com/ 
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Ananya @ananyaprs.bsky.social 17. Mostly reads, books etc. Interests inc econ, history, politics, energy etc. ananyadhiraj4@gmail.com.
Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social Author: “STRANGERS & INTIMATES: the rise and fall of private life” Out Now! @picadorbooks. (Also: “Keeping Their Marbles” @ouphistory) Trustee,
@britishmuseum https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
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Fiction writer, film critic, journalist and poet. Currently writing my first novel.
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Razan S @razanspeaks.bsky.social Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
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Grew up in South Central LA
Lana Ster-Meiqari لانا ستير ميقري @lanasmeiqari.bsky.social MD. MSPH Epidemiology. PhD Global Health. Humanist of mixed-ethnic heritage and multicultural experiences, incl. Circassian, Kurd, Arab, Syria, Dutch, Europe, N America.
Karena Avedissian @karena1.bsky.social Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social Anarcho-anxious. Writer and Video Essayist from Beirut.
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Jonathan Church, CFA @jondavidchurch.bsky.social Economist & author. Cancer survivor (so far). Senior editor at merionwest.com. Enjoy philosophy, literature, & history. Critic of capitalism. Pro-union. People over profits. It should have been Bernie.
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Kate Mansey @katemansey.bsky.social Royal Editor and Assistant Editor of The Times of London
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
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Élise Daniaud Oudeh @elisedaniaudoudeh.bsky.social PhD candidate in politics on Russian presence in Syria/strategic narratives/social movements-associate researcher- Russian & Arabic speaker @uniLUISS @EUME
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Sara Wahedi @sarawahedi.bsky.social CEO, Civaam. Founder, EhtesabApp. Holding regimes accountable through civic technology. Afghan-Canadian. MPP/tech law @UniOfOxford. Prev. AI/ML @Apple. Alumni @Columbia. sara@civaam.com
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.
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Mike Harris @mjrharris.bsky.social CEO, http://89up.org; publisher of http://TheLead.uk, http://LittleAtoms.com, free speech, climate, digital rights, freedom, oh and was a Labour councillor for a bit.
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
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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.
elle hardy @ellehardy.bsky.social wrote a book on Pentecostals, writing one on the Moonies, words and voice in all sorts of places
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Helen Pluckrose @hpluckrose.bsky.social Still just wanting you to value evidence-based epistemology and consistently liberal ethics. Despairing a bit now, though. 
Omnia Sunt Communia @worldincommon.bsky.social Socialism is not state capitalism.
Don't expend political capital on causes you cannot win or that distract you from causes you can win.
Ostracize tyrants.
Vermont is my home
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Senior editor, Free Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social.
Pieces in Areo, Spectator Australia, Merion West & more. Substacker.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com A podcast by Lebanese-Palestinian writer and researcher @ayoub.bsky.social. “A place where we tell our hardest truths, and find one another" - Naomi Klein
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social In their silences, I returned home.
https://criticalmuslim.com/explore/issues/halal/german-redemption-theology
Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social Podcaster, poet, educator, former expatriate, angry person, “moralist," Buddhist. Author of Apocalyptics and Liberation. Host Varn Vlog ☸
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
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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
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
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