IStories Media @istories.bsky.social Independent newsroom focused on Russia.
Investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine, corruption, and life in the country.
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Tim Shenk @tim.doctorswithoutborders.org Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA. Based in NYC and internationally focused. Opinions my own.
@doctorswithoutborders.org
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Conflict Intelligence Team @cit.ngo https://twitter.com/CITeam_en
https://notes.citeam.org/+dispatches
https://notes.citeam.org/+mobilization-briefs
@ruslanleviev.cit.ngo @ruslanleviev.cit.ngo 
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social Writer, Opera Nerd and Drag King (They/Them)
Bylines: Jezebel, Lithub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Review, them., BOMB, The Forward
Living btw NYC and Edinburgh
Trinity Dublin, Yale & Columbia Alum
AmandaChemeche.com
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Film Comment Magazine [Unofficial] @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://filmcomment.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/filmcomment.com
IndieWire [Unofficial] @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy The Voice of Creative Independence
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://indiewire.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/indiewire.com
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
crimethinc.com
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
Shane O'Neill @shaneisland.bsky.social 🗞️ Washington Post, formerly NYT
📝 Seriously? newsletter
📻 Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Team HERMES @hermes.cx Creators of the Eudoramail app for Windows: https://hermes.cx. Also make a PHP tool for automating BlueSky and a library for people writing text editors. One of us (our social media manager) makes BeamNG mods too. We proudly support Ukraine.
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).
Susannah George @sgreports.bsky.social The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, before that Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq.
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
@bottid.bsky.social @bottid.bsky.social 
Riley Mellen @rileymellen.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter for NYT. Let's chat: riley.mellen@nytimes.com, Signal, DMs, etc.
Çağatay Cebe @cagataycebe.bsky.social Interested in Lebanon, Jihadi Movements and Security Affairs.
Gargari @gargaristan.bsky.social 
AI Rautahuopa 🇫🇮 @ainorautahuopa.bsky.social NAFO.
Can bark in 🇫🇮🇬🇧🇸🇪🇩🇪(🇮🇹).
Lieutenant in the reserve, Finnish Defence Forces.
Also: https://x.com/AinoRautahuopa
Tom Sharpe @tomsharpe.bsky.social Communications consultant (https://www.spp.global/)
Ex Naval Officer
Defence commentator (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/t/tk-to/tom-sharpe/)
Shane Woodford @woodfordindk.bsky.social Freelance Journalist. Father. A Canadian living in Denmark. News, travel, and culture.
https://woodfordindk.substack.com
@garygnutter.bsky.social @garygnutter.bsky.social Farmer, working on IT.
Pekka Lund @pekka.bsky.social Antiquated analog chatbot. Stochastic parrot of a different species. Not much of a self-model. Occasionally simulating the appearance of philosophical thought. Keeps on branching for now 'cause there's no choice.
Also @pekka on T2 / Pebble.
auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social Every system is a sensor if you hold it right.
Main arena, Baltics. 🇸🇪
mastodon.world/@auonsson , x.com/auonsson backup 🇸🇪
Animation Dad @animation350.bsky.social A space to express my love of animation.
MT Anderson @mtanderson.bsky.social 🇺🇸 husband, girl dad, son, brother 🇺🇸
••• Opinions are my own •••
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social Bleep blop bloop. Talking https://link.chtbl.com/kafka typing https://www.businessinsider.com/author/peter-kafka
@yoavpotash.bsky.social @yoavpotash.bsky.social 
Evan DeSimone @mediaevan.bsky.social Media Writer/Complainer
Previously: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
Currently: https://mediahappyhour.substack.com/
Maria Tsvetkova @mashatsvetkova.bsky.social Reuters journalist
I mostly do investigative reporting on the Russian war in Ukraine. If you have a tip, please email maria.tsvetkova@tr.com and we will find a secure way to communicate
Rebecca Bengal @rebeccabengal.bsky.social Writer, fiction and nonfiction | Author, STRANGE HOURS (Aperture) + ✏️ Paris Review, Criterion Collection, Oxford American, etc. | visiting artist, Bard College | born and raised in western NC 
Anthology Film Archives @anthologyfilm.bsky.social Preserving & presenting films made by visionaries, radicals, and independents—with a focus on the overlooked, forgotten or ignored. Est. 1970 #EssentialCinema
https://linktr.ee/anthologyfilmarchives
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Daniel F. Wajner @dwajner.bsky.social International Relations scholar at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Legitimation Struggles, Populist Foreign Policy, Regionalism & Conflict Resolution in Europe, Latin America & MENA
Daniel Sokatch @dsokatch.bsky.social CEO of the New Israel Fund - the leading organization advancing and protecting liberal democracy in Israel. @newisraelfund.bay.social
Hannah Bloch @hannahbloch.bsky.social Senior editor on NPR’s international desk.
Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @jewishwonk.bsky.social Columnist for the Forward. U.S. Foreign Policy and Jewish communal concerns. Bylines in The Atlantic, Washington Post, & Tablet Mag. All bad takes are mine alone.
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Ami Kaufman @amikaufman.bsky.social Producer/Writer @CNN 'Amanpour.'; Former Chief Night Editor @haaretz; co-founder @972mag. Opinions are my own.
Liam Stack @liam-stack.bsky.social NY Times reporter currently in Tel Aviv, but usually in NYC. Formerly Cairo, and a few other places. Khawaga-at-large. Brand new to BlueSky. Liam.stack@nytimes.com
@steveturnham.bsky.social @steveturnham.bsky.social Washington Bureau Chief and Managing Editor, Scripps News
Mary Ilyushina @ilyushina.bsky.social The Washington Post Eastern Europe Reporter, mainly covering Russia and Ukraine
Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Abraxas Spa @abraxasspa.bsky.social All-Source Analyst
Saving the spot here
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Julia Bayer @juliabayer.bsky.social Investigations @ DWNews, Synthetic media @ DWInnovation, OSINT @quiztime.bsky.social Contact: julia.bayer@protonmail.com / DM more: about.me/juliabayer
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social CNN national security correspondent. Send tips/pics of your dog(s) to Natasha.bertrand@cnn.com
Signal: Natashabertrand.12
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/natasha-bertrand-profile
Sanya Burgess @sanyaburgess.bsky.social There are too many social media platforms now. Can we just stop and go back to Myspace and taking out our rage on Age of Empires.
Investigations correspondent at The i Paper. Previously at Sky News.
https://inews.co.uk/author/sanya-burgess
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Sébastien Bourdon @sebastienbourdon.bsky.social Journaliste indépendant
Éditions Divergences :
📖 « Tintin au pays des fascistes » (2026)
Éditions du Seuil :
📖 « Drapeau noir, jeunesses blanches » (2025)
📖 « Une vie de lutte plutôt qu’une minute de silence » (2023)
Thomas Bordeaux @thomasbordeaux.bsky.social Visual Investigations Reporter @CNN.com
Previously: Member @bellingcat.com Global Authentication Project
DM's open, Signal: thomas.411
TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com Trusted by maritime insurers, oil producers & traders, finance, governments and top news orgs to track down oil shipments. Vessel pronouns are she/her. Got it?
Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social Not Giving Up.
Oscar Nominated Director:
RBG, JULIA, MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY, GABBY GIFFORDS (w/Betsy West)
PATH FORWARD (w/Mo Husseini)
EVERY BODY, STURGEON QUEENS
I ❤️ @PaulTheDogMan & 🐕 🐕
Co leader w @lizzylady: MontclairSundays INDIVISIBLE.
Doug Block @dougblock.bsky.social Documentary filmmaker (51 Birch Street, The Kids Grow Up, 112 Weddings). Current project: My Omaha (producer). Photographer. Founder and co-host of The D-Word, an online community of documentary professionals worldwide (www.d-word.com)
www.dougblock.com
Sofia @sofiaukraini.bsky.social My Ukraine. A land of resilience, where every heartbeat echoes freedom
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com Media platform covering global conflict zones. Focus on the Ukraine-Russia war. Consider supporting us once via buymeacoffee.com/noelreports or by becoming a member via patreon.com/NOELREPORTS.
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
The Intel Crab @intelcrab.bsky.social Open source investigator. An actual human. Not a real crab, believe it or not. 
Necro Mancer @mancer.bsky.social Necromancer (666_mancer) from Twitter official account
Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social Former UA officer
Founder of the Frontelligence Insight: https://frontelligence.substack.com
To support my work: http://buymeacoffee.com/frontelligence
@blinzka.bsky.social @blinzka.bsky.social Focused on geolocations of events of the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine- A AnnoNemo @annonemo.bsky.social
Twisty @twistycb.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇺🇦 / GeoConfirmed.org / IR Student
@warmonitor3.bsky.social @warmonitor3.bsky.social 
Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. (All skeets here are my views alone.) Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Сергей Смирнов @sssmirnov.bsky.social Главный редактор "Медиазоны" https://zona.media/ В конце концов ведь мы профессионалы
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Mike Kaufman @theonlymike.bsky.social Greener pastures, bluer skies.
Interested in conflict, conspiracies, and politics and how they often intersect. Coping through current events through sarcasm.
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring 
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.
@devonlum.bsky.social @devonlum.bsky.social @nytimes Visual Investigations
Alexander Cardia @ajcardia.bsky.social Graphics Editor, Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Ishaan Jhaveri @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social Deriving structure from amorphous data and finding needles in haystacks at @nytimes.com Visual Investigations. Muzafir from Mumbai
email: ishaan.jhaveri@nytimes.com
signal: jhaveri.01
Neil Bedi @neilbedi.bsky.social Visual Investigations @nytimes
Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social visual investigations @nytimes / sanjana.varghese@nytimes.com
Muyi Xiao @muyixiao.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times Visual Investigations team. Mostly covering China.
Previously with ChinaFile, Tencent, Reuters.
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social 🇺🇦Ukrainian blogger.. 🪖Military analytics and weapons.Geopolitics.. Monitoring of global conflict zones ||🇺🇦~🇷🇺||🇮🇱~🇮🇷||🇹🇼~🇨🇳||🇵🇰~🇮🇳||Ukraine will win
Barak Ravid ברק רביד @barakravid.bsky.social Global Affairs Correspondent for Axios. CNN analyst. Washington correspondent for Walla. Author of Trump's Peace
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.
@nataliyabugayova.bsky.social @nataliyabugayova.bsky.social 
Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social ABC News Polling Director, former Postie, feminist, library fan, BRCA mutant. Nats! Caps! Terps! Kill them with kindness and methodological rigor. she/her signal: emgusk.04
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/