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Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Communication, Journalism and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stony Brook University. Author of, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" -- out now via Princeton University Press.
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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com Author. Activist. Existentialist. Humanist. Beat Philosopher. Philosophy Of Mind. Dog Mom.
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Charlie Taben @ctaben.bsky.social Editor, Philosophy and Technology Series, American Philosophical Association Blog
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Dovsfriedman @dovsfriedman.bsky.social AML-CFT pro. Former Treasury. Amateur taco tour coordinator. Bear with me while I unlearn the Hatch Act.
Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social Balkan historian. Full Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.
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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social Berlin correspondent for AFP, occasional reporter & critic at various other places. A Midwesterner in Germany, former newspaperman in the Deep South. “...whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul...”
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Tom Barson @tbarson49.bsky.social Retired global IT services director. Hopeless eclectic with weaknesses for economics, history, philosophy of science, geopolitics, mathematics, and music. East Lansing, MI
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
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Christian Caryl @ccaryl.bsky.social Columnist @ForeignPolicy.com. Writing, insomnia, birds. Frequenter of diners. Ex-WaPo, ex-Newsweek. Own worst enemy. Book: Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social Third-country national in Brussels writing on EU policies and politics, Balkans, migration, democracy, information manipulation. Former reporter (RFE/RL, European Voice).
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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.
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Posts on EU, Balkans and International Politics.
Author: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU.
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Kate Brannen @k8brannen.bsky.social Non-Resident Journalism Fellow at NYU’s Reiss Center on Law and Security. Formerly: Foreign Affairs, Just Security, Foreign Policy, and Politico.
David DeSteno @daviddesteno.bsky.social Psychological Scientist, Author, and host of PRX podcast "How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality." Studying the Science of Emotion, Morality, & Religion. Words frequently in NYT, WSJ, etc. https://davedesteno.com https://www.howgodworks.org
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social Former guest Prof Sciences Po, Sr Fellow CEPA, Sr civil servant
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Charles Homans @chashomans.bsky.social Raise a toast to Saint Joe Strummer | I think he might have been our only decent teacher
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Nicolas Bouchet @nickbouchet.bsky.social German Marshall Fund Senior Visiting Fellow.
US foreign policy, democratization, democracy promotion, civil society. Throw in some Eastern Europe and Russia and we're mostly good to go.
Seth Mandel @sethamandel.bsky.social Father of the six Irishest Jewish kids on earth. Executive Editor, Washington Examiner Mag. Previous: @nypost, @Commentary. @bethanyshondark is my better half
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
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Dylan Primakoff @dylanmp.bsky.social Senior Manager for Eurasia Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy. Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. Posting mostly about Russia.
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
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Co-Founder CrowdStrike
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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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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
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Emma Ashford @emmamashford.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Stimson Center, Columnist at Foreign Policy, and Adjunct Prof at Georgetown CSS.
Research on US grand strategy and energy security. Working on a book about US foreign policy in a multipolar world.
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