Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social Political scientist | Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science | University of Amsterdam | Hot Politics Lab | The PopuList | Stuk Rood Vlees | Parties, voters, populism, far right, and liberal democracy
James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social Father of three boys. Married to an Irishwoman. Ex-novelist. Historian. Teacher of writing. Novel “Speak for England” (2005) predicted Brexit - “it deserves some kind of prescience prize" (Observer, 2017). Website: Jameshawes.org.uk
Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him
Articles/publications here: https://monash.academia.edu/BenjaminMoffitt
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
benjamin novak @bnovak.bsky.social used to ✍️ about Hungary for nyt, SAIS alum — bnovak@protonmail.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
Uriel Epshtein @urielepshtein.bsky.social CEO, Renew Democracy Initiative
Leslie Vinjamuri @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social President and CEO
Chicago Council on Global Affairs;
also Professor of Practice @SOAS University of London
Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social Former US foreign policy senior official (Iran/MENA /energy); now focused on foreign policy in the Anthropocene.
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Ilan Goldenberg @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social Chief Policy Officer, J Street. Former Mideast Advisor to Vice President Harris and Director of Jewish Outreach on the Harris-Walz campaign.
Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social Economist; Professor @law.ucla.edu; senior fellow @piie.com; former tax DAS at Treasury; Author, Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
Lisa Desjardins @lisad.bsky.social Correspondent for PBS NewsHour. Lover of Chester Arthur. Lucky mom, sister, wife and former SC state fair baking contest first place winner.
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social Journalist, writer, unlicensed epistemologist. Brookings and The Atlantic. Please be sane, BlueSky.
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
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Claude Malhuret @claudemalhuret.bsky.social Sénateur de l’Allier | Président du Groupe @lesindependants.bsky.social |
Ancien Ministre | Fondateur de Doctissimo.fr | Ex-Président de Médecins sans Frontières
Contact : c.malhuret@senat.fr
Moises Naim @moisesnaim.bsky.social 
Carrick Ryan @realcarrickryan.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/carrickryan
Sam Eagan @sameagan.bsky.social Freelance reporter covering Masculinity, Conservatism, Far Right Extremism
📝: The New Yorker, VICE, WIRED, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, and more.
Harry Sisson @harryjsisson.bsky.social 23 | Democrat | @harryjsisson (2 million+) on Tik Tok | Email: inquiries@harryjsisson.net
Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social I am transient electrochemical patterns emergent from cellular homeostasis, briefly aware amid entropic decline.
Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/
Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Sunday Crunch Author for @politico.eu. Loves cats, Edinburgh, 'The Archers', trains and Earl Grey Tea. Email: nkeate@politico.co.uk
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
@opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
Georgios Samaras @gsamaras.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Public Policy @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Researching online radicalisation and far-right mainstreaming
https://gsamaras.org
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Thomas L Friedman @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnists and Author
Rouzbeh Parsi @rparsi.bsky.social Historian. Affiliated researcher, Lund University
For my publications etc visit www.rouzbehparsi.net
Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social Turning Politics into Punchlines 💙
Political Comedy🌟Satire & Parodies 🌟Maggiereedcomedy@gmail.com
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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Stephanie Baker @stephanie-baker.bsky.social Senior Writer at Bloomberg News/Businessweek for investigations. Author of Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia. www.stephaniebakerwriter.com @bloomberg.com
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a nonpartisan, independent research institution devoted to studying international economic policy.
Explore our research: piie.com
Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social Reuters Journalist of the Year 2025: 'Scoop of the Year'
Senior correspondent, UK economy and north of England.
☀️ Stockport ☀️
💬 Signal: bruce.369
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Simply Shada @simplyshada.bsky.social Progressive Idealist Anti-Racist Anti-Colonial award-winning EU commentator on diversity, inclusion, geopolitics & more
Ken Godfrey @kenlcg.bsky.social Executive Director of European Partnership for Democracy @epd.eu / Co-founder of European Democracy Hub @europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu
Rufus Gifford @rufusgifford.bsky.social Six Presidential Campaigns. Ambassador. Husband. Dog Dad. Twitter Refugee. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social Tuesday-Friday at 9pm ET on MS NOW.
https://linktr.ee/psaki
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social Premier Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 🇵🇱
Prime Minister of Poland 🇵🇱
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst
Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Special Correspondent at the Kyiv Independent - opinions mine alone
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Pro-democracy conservatives Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
Martin Gelin @martingelin.bsky.social American in Paris, formerly a Swede in New York.
I write for The Guardian & Dagens Nyheter and regularly speak on democracy and soft power across Europe.
Forthcoming book: Why Soft Power Matters in Hard Times (2027)
martingelin.com
Dr Stefanie Babst @stefaniedrbabst.bsky.social Former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General; passionate Ukraine supporter. 🇺🇦💕Author. Speaker. ELN Senior Associate Fellow. DGAP Board Member. Saluki-mum.
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
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Sarah Baxter @sarahbaxterstm.bsky.social Director, Marie Colvin Center, Stony Brook University, columnist at the i paper, ex-dep ed Sunday Times, IPSO member
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social Content Creator 🤓
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social Journalists (Ed Krassenstein & Brian Krassenstein) - Fighting hate, lies and tackling conspiracy theories.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University. 
Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social Journalism, media, politics, culture, technology…and other stuff.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social Senior research fellow, Centre for European Reform. Likes good coffee, long runs, and the Paris Review.
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
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Bill Browder @billbrowder.bsky.social Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice and Freezing Order
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Iain with 2 eyes @idbsw8.bsky.social London living, professional, single, gay.
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
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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 Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social Rochester Institute of Technology professor of practice: law, criminal justice, journalism & political science; Pulitzer Prize for NYTimes tax reporting; 4 NYT best sellers; DCReport.org co-founder; 8 grown children; AKA Mr. Jennifer Leonard since 1982.
Paul Waugh MP @paulwaughmp.bsky.social Labour and Co-operative MP for Rochdale
paulwaugh.co.uk