Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
CHAPO TRAP HOUSE @chapotraphousereal.bsky.social ❄️⚖️ Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, and Amber A'Lee Frost Producer: Chris Wade
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
Nathaniel Powell @natkpowell.bsky.social Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social believing i had supernatural powers, i slammed into a brick wall
https://letterboxd.com/okbutstill/
Kevork Oskanian @drkevorko.bsky.social IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Researcher and practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social Historian, director for East Asia @quincyinst.bsky.social, cofounder Justice Is Global. Previously @gdp-center.bsky.social, University of Chicago. Writing on US–China relations and global capitalism.
Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social Twitter’s Maggie Serota. Writer. Frequent podcast guest.
maggieserota@substack.com
Juliet Lu (she/her/hers) @profjulietlu.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Environmental Governance & Business
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
julietlu.com
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
shane @shaneferro.bsky.social public defender / privacy lawyer who used to blog 
A K @aklingus.bsky.social It’s me, AK Lingus. I wrote a book called The Secret Chord, and it is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFVM23H2. Opinions here are mine alone. He/him. Avatar by @mattielubchansky.com
Benjamin Fogel @benjaminfogel.bsky.social Head of Publishing at Alameda, Contributing Editor at Jacobin. South African
Robert Wright @robertwrighter.bsky.social Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Writing a book about AI. Publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter & host of the Nonzero Podcast. https://nonzero.substack.com/ 
NonZero @nonzeronews.bsky.social Writing and podcasts about politics, human nature and tips on averting the apocalypse. Led by journalist and author @robertwrighter.bsky.social. Subscribe at nonzero.org
John Feffer @johnfeffer.bsky.social Writer, editor, activist.
Latest book: Right Across the World
Latest novel: Songlands
Latest play: The Wedding Jester (July 2025)
Charles Austin @charlesaustin.bsky.social E1
https://linktr.ee/charles.austin
John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
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
Discourse Blog @handle.invalid Politics and culture from the left.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Lily Lynch @lilylynch.bsky.social Writer and journalist, Californian.
https://lilylynch.substack.com/
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Patrick Carver Fox @pcfox.bsky.social Realism and Restraint - formerly JQAS & Security Dilemma
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.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)
Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
Ravioli Ripple 🌹 @ravioliripple.bsky.social Human male
World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social In-depth news and expert analysis on global affairs. Subscribe here: https://wpr.pub/subscribe
Chris Moldes @cdmoldes.bsky.social 🇺🇲🇨🇺 Librarian, amateur Russia-watcher, AFSCME union steward, but above all, shit-poster
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James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social Writer at Eunomia, Responsible Statecraft, and Antiwar
daniellarison.substack.com
ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social trickunicorn.com for my art, haveyouseen.us or your favorite podcast platform for the world’s only weird media podcast, Have You Seen This? 🍰 Redbubble shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/bonytanks/
Vertov @vertov.bsky.social Orange County CA’s greatest thought leader. | Avatar by @rollinrabbits
Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
@discontents.bsky.social @discontents.bsky.social 
Foreign Exchanges @fxnewsletter.bsky.social Newsletter devoted to international affairs and US foreign policy (https://www.foreignexchanges.news).
Jonny IsGood @jonnyisgood.bsky.social Bluesky's #1 Chiver
Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com Writer. Only work gets done here. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. I will not betray my soul. Fix your hearts or die. Tiocfaidh ár lá
Don Hughes @donaldhughes.ca AKA getfiscal.
https://linktr.ee/donhughes
Stefan BC @stefanbc.bsky.social Crim Defense lawyer, ultramarathoner, triathlete, medium sized dad
Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
Gal Debored @ckayerawlings.bsky.social I’m here now 
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman.bsky.social I invest in developing economies and study how sanctions are reshaping West Asia and the world. CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. Adjunct Prof at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social everything bad you hear about me is western propaganda 
Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News ed board, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, NYU lecturer, @flaminghydra.com member, immigration wonk. Work in @slate.com, @thenation.com, @boltsmag.org, etc | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
Mark Ames @markames.bsky.social Radio War Nerd patreon.com/radiowarnerd
L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social No Homework with @ugarles.bsky.social and @veryimportant.lawyer
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social Novelist, critic, books about crooks.
jacobbacharach.com
maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social former poster
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
signal: millionbear.44
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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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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in rural Missouri. Adopted the pen name "Sridhar Ramesh" from riverboat slang.
Jake Aron أبو بساس @jakearon.bsky.social Music composition/production • Psych pop sounds linktr.ee/moloqmusic • Podcast Producer americanprestigepod.com • Enthusiast of Arabic sounds and scripts
db @dbessner.bsky.social Trade me
Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social tech/cybersecurity reporter. also known as "Dopus Tom". my credentials are clear: I never given $50k in a shoebox to fake CIA guys.
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Ettingermentum @ettingermentum.bsky.social www.ettingermentum.news
amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social amberrollo.substack.com
Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social I’m me ✌️
Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social Here for some skeets!
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Brendan Karet @badtakes.bsky.social ex-@MMFA researcher (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/brendan-karet), current gamer
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social Host of Guys, a podcast about guys https://sites.libsyn.com/458346 the PODKast and the Sunday night stream! CEO of guys
Twitch.tv/NotEvenAShow
Patreon.com/GuysPodcast
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social im rich traditions
Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social Chief of da autism police and boss of the Irish Mob at the same time. Cousin, I’m a union man.
Chris Wade @chriswade.bsky.social Festival Promoter | professional amateur historian | podcast producer/host | spare us the cutter
Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social Socialist writer. Read me at The People's Line at http://www.peoplesline.org. Other links at https://linktr.ee/carlbeijer
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Katherine Krueger @kathkrueger.bsky.social are we having fun yet
bort, pud @crushbort.bsky.social cinematographer for Doogal (2006)
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com Journalist and writer.
Writing about the Middle East at http://seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at http://burntnitrate.com.
Email: s.malekafzali@protonmail.com
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
writer, @thebaffler.com, @majorityreport.bsky.social's daily amquickie.com newsletter
@willmenaker.bsky.social @willmenaker.bsky.social My son Cody is DEAD, I only want to post.
Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Views my own. https://marshallsteinbaum.org/
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