Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | your old millennial friend | local politics | palestine | states, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | will strive to listen
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
The Camel's Nose @thecamelsnose.bsky.social Professorial Lecturer in Political Science and Policy Analyst in Washington, DC. Comparative/IR. Middle East, Arab Gulf States, Iran, Israel. Gender, Tribes, Ethnic Politics.
Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
Shelley Deane @shelleydeane.bsky.social 
Tanisha Fazal @tanishafazal.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Specializing in sovereignty, armed conflict, international law, and military medicine. Plus LEGOs & chocolate.
Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social Family guy. Acting dad. Dog dad. Tax law professor. Backpacker. Beer snob. Weekend guitarist. Israeli expat in SoCal. Founder of @glowlaw.org.
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social Academic and author of a recent book on the Abraham Accords. Interested in the Gulf states, conflict diplomacy, progressive ideas.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380/
Hussein Ibish @ibishblog.bsky.social Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute (AGSI), weekly columnist for The National, and writer and speaker at large. Former Bloomberg columnist and New York Times regular contributor, now writing a lot for The Atlantic.
John Lyndon @johnlyndon.bsky.social Executive Director at the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), the largest network of Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders
Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography, Durham Uni. Violent conflict, political resurgence, colonial history.
Author of: 'Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land' (Chicago 2025); 'Life After Ruin' (Cambridge 2017)
https://tinyurl.com/mtyd9m
Issa Adeli @isadeli.bsky.social Researcher, Policy Advisor | United States Foreign Affairs and the Middle East | Security and Defense Policy | PhD in International Relations | usinmena.substack.com
Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests in US, politics
(he/him)
Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place)
https://open.substack.com/pub/miabrett
Sophie EG @egsophie.bsky.social Building power for the Jewish Left with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social one meme at a time
Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social Filmmaker, writer, Black Jew. Documentaries, op eds, & sketch comedy. 
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social parent, activist, speaker, author (Becoming Eve, Sources of Pride), ordained rabbi, woman of trans experience.
Linktr.ee/abbystein
(She/Her)
Sheera Talpaz @stalpaz.bsky.social prof @ UNC-Chapel Hill // modern Hebrew and Arabic lit. Palestine/Israel. translation // mama to 👧🏻
Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social Senior fellow @obi-belonging.bsky.social Berkeley. Founding ed at The Lead, co-founder +972 Magazine. Bylines NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz etc. Exploring long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
Benzion Sanders @benzi.bsky.social Tired father in Jerusalem
Aziz Abu Sarah @azizabusarah.bsky.social Co-Author of bestseller, The Future is Peace, co-founder of Mejdi Tours &InterAct International , Nat Geo Explorer, TED fellow.
Omar 🍉🇵🇸 @3lfares.bsky.social https://twitter.com/3lfares
MaytalKowalski @maytalkowalski.bsky.social Canadian-Israeli. Executive Director: JSpaceCanada. 2021 Israel Policy Forum convener. Views my own.
Halachic Left @halachicleft.org Halachic Left is changing the conversation about Israel/Palestine in halachically observant Jewish communities- A A @abdelhalima.bsky.social
Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social Essays at stevesalaita.com 
Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social I am @iskandrah on X; also here sharing + archiving reliable and vetted news + comms about Palestine + the Middle East💧 #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForShireen
➡️ Please support a Gaza survival campaign: GazaFunds.com
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Farah-Silvana Kanaan @farouha.bsky.social 
Andrew Kadi @imak48.bsky.social don't let your principles / politics be formed by who trolls you.
Jennine @jennineak.bsky.social takes my own 🤠
Palestine Day 🇵🇸 @palestineday.com Palestine, a nation of its people, shall be governed by its own people, free from tyranny and oppression.
#palestine 🇵🇸
#israel
#gaza
#antipalestine
#palestineday
#lebanon
#genocide
#freepalestine #palestinewillbefree
#islamaphobia
Susan Muaddi Darraj @susanmd.bsky.social Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com 
Tamara Nassar @tamaranassar.bsky.social I am an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada (@intifada.bsky.social), and the producer of the EI Podcast.
Muhammad Smiry @muhammadsmiry.bsky.social 
Eye On Palestine @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social Ran by the WSU4P team | instagram.com/wsu4p
🇵🇸 Spreading the message of Eye on Palestine on BlueSky
Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social Palestinian-American human/civil rights attorney, activist & mom. Co-founder of Intnl Solidarity Movement; Freedom Flotilla organizer; Freedom Rider.
Sam Husseini - running for Congress @samhusseini.bsky.social #SamHusseini4Congress running in Maryland’s 4th district. Write at https://husseini.substack.com. Art at BeThatEmpty.org
Dr. Ali Tawil @dralitawil.bsky.social A medical doctor from #Gaza | ICCU at #AlAqsaHospital | Try to tell more about our struggle 🇵🇸
Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social Reader in Law, SOAS; Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Yearbook of International Law; author, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).
Haidar Eid @haidareid.bsky.social Research Associate at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Pretoria
Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social State Rep | Running for SD 7 and building a movement for a Georgia we can afford 🍑 | Early Voting: October 13 - 30 | Election Day: November 3
linktr.ee/ruwaforgeorgia
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Zeina Sleiman @zslong.bsky.social Writer and Researcher. Doctor of politics. Palestinian of the diaspora based in amiskwacîwâskahikan. Winner of 2024 Silk Road grant + Tin House alum. WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS out April 2025
Ayman | Gaza 🇵🇸 @aymangaza.bsky.social Here I publish pictures of my house and garden that were destroyed by the war, I cry from the intensity of sadness..
You can support 👇, thank you. 💙🇵🇸
https://gofund.me/7ca41e20
A K K A S 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @hokkolorob.bsky.social • AuDHD • Cat mum • Socialist • He/him
Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social Exvangelical, atheist, DiY religious studies, cult studies, failed-apocalypse cringe-posting, weird shit, counter-extremism
School of Making Poor Life Choices
Only Slightly Doomed
She/They/bad at gender
My apologies for continuing to be relevant 
Travis View @travisview.bsky.social Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host.
QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia.
Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi - Co-host @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social and @vbs.bsky.social
- Author of The Athletic's college football newsletter
- Author of this USAT Best-Selling novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Is_a_World_Without_You
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social Conspiracy theory journalist, expert witness, TPM contributor, Eaton Fire survivor. Wrote JEWISH SPACE LASERS, THE STORM IS UPON US, and ZERO CONTAINMENT (Fall 2027). rothschildmd@protonmail.com for tips, interviews, collaborations. Not A Rothschild.
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social 
Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
Vacation Bible School Podcast 🏳️🌈 @vbs.bsky.social Crash-coursing the Bible, a book we were poorly taught as church kids. For believers/non-believers/whoever! By @jasonkirk.fyi and @its-mle.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vacation-bible-school-podcast/id1511438277
Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga.bsky.social skillet’s wario | youtube.com/masonmennenga | he/him
jessica @jessduit.bsky.social they never take the country out me. writer, strategist, homeschool subject matter expert, children's rights advocate. views are mine. fka hullojess.
Blake Chastain @brchastain.social Author, Exvangelical & Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back. Host: Exvangelical. Words: RNS, Religion Dispatches. Yes I have a newsletter. www.blakechastain.com
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.
R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social Child liberation theologian, child and survivor advocate. Learn more about my work: www.rlstollar.com. He/him.
Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com Artist/writer/podcaster/organizer from Oakland, living in Berlin. #ShinyHappyPeople season 2. Co-hosted @kitchentablecult.com
https://darkwaterprojects.com/
Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social RGG Studios please notice me
-Yakuza/Like A Dragon Streamer
-Artist
-Creator of Ok2BeFat
-Fat Activist (mostly retired)
-Bisexual 💗 AuDHD 🕺 -Exvangelical 😱
Watch me on Twitch-
https://twitch.tv/artists_ali
The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social aka the Rabbit Hole Cartographer.
Mapping the folklore and history of the borderland sciences.
Conspiracism Taxonomist.
I study horrible people who believe weird things.
patreon.com/QuacksAnonymous
Qt @qtalk.bsky.social I’m probably submerged in an adrenochrome fountain or back in gitmo
Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social Former conspiracy theorist. Head of DOUBT - Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together support group for formers.HONR Network volunteer. Pub in Skeptical Inquirer & AIPT. tinyurl.com/StephKemmerer DOUBTIsTheWayOut@proton.me
Sims 4 CC creator
Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com The Conspiracy is Real. A podcast by @eveettinger.com and @mxdarkwater.com connecting the dots between the Christian Nationalism they grew up in and the current state of politics in the US.
https://kitchentablecult.com 
DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social He/Him. Raised in Oathkeepers and the Militia Right, rural Montana delegate to the crash and burn DNC of '24 and fighting mad State Legislature candidate in 2026. Sometimes a writer, known local troublemaker, subject of a documentary, Aquarius ♒️.
Teddy Hose @teddyhose.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Humorist
Cult survivor on A&E's Cults & Extreme Belief
+ Netflix's Explained & How to Become a Cult Leader
CV: HuffPost, Laughing Squid, McSweeney’s
TikTok:@2dhose | IG:@teddyhose
https://linktr.ee/teddyhose
Shan Onlyone Lastname @parasocialmomma.bsky.social Go Birds🦅
Subject matter expert: Prevention & Disengagement/Rehabilitation violence-based extremism
"No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars."~Ursula K. Le Guin
https://patreon.com/shannonfoleymartinez?utm
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Alexandra Stein @alexandrastein.bsky.social Social psychologist specialising in cults and totalitarian systems. My books: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in cults and totalitarian systems & Inside Out: A memoir of entering into and breaking out of a political cult. www.alexandrastein.com
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Leah Remini @leahremini.bsky.social Mother. Wife. Actress. Author. Advocate. Student. 
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Sarah Steel @letstalkaboutsects.bsky.social Podcaster: Let’s Talk About Sects | Author: Do As I Say
https://linktr.ee/letstalkaboutsects
Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social Cohost at http://conspirituality.net.
DM for Signal. Antifascist Dad forthcoming from North Atlantic: Spring 2026: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/
Mike Rinder @mikerinder.bsky.social Blogging at mikerindersblog.org.
Author: A Billion Years My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Exposing abuses of Scientology on YouTube @MikeRinderSP
Erika Bornman @erikabornman.bsky.social Award-winning author of ‘Mission of Malice’. A whistleblower and storyteller working to make the world safe for children.
Tony Ortega @tonyortega.bsky.social On sale: 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely' https://amzn.to/3nciFKa; in the movie 'Going Clear'; Blog: http://tonyortega.substack.com
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social The dapperest of ducks.
I mock and I know things.
QAnon analysis featured in Vice, Newsweek, Daily Mail, CBS News.
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
https://megan-goodwin.com/design
Martin Geoffroy (il/lui) @geoffroysociologue.bsky.social Professeur-chercheur en sociologie au Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. Fondateur du CEFIR. Processus sectaires, complotisme et radicalisation. Cults and the Far-right in Quebec.