Hamidreza Azizi @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social Senior Iran Analyst at the International Crisis Group
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Jonathan Fulton @jonathanfulton.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack. 
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Holly Dagres @hdagres.bsky.social Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
Mehran Haghirian @mehranhaghirian.bsky.social Director of Regional Initiatives, Bourse & Bazaar Foundation | PhD. Gulf Studies, Qatar University | MA International Affairs, American University’s School of International Service | Diplomacy
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
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social NatSec analyst, WMD and nukes, sci-fi enthusiast, gamer 
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/.
Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social research on the UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, and international relations. interested in joy, screwball comedy. custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
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
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social AV Club writer with 200+ Random Roles to my name. Onetime senior editor/writer, Q Magazine. Helped ZAZ write a book about Airplane! (Surely You Can't Be Serious). Happily married w/ child. Venmo: @WillHarrisInVA
Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social International assignment editor, Washington Post // Journalism instructor, Harvard // New Englander. Potential Ukrainian. Literally Irish. Now more Canadian!™
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Jenne Jan Holtland @jjholtland.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent for @volkskrant.nl, based in Amman. Eyes on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen & the Gulf.
Villages over cities. Blueskies in Dutch.
Author "De Koerier van Maputo" (2021): https://tinyurl.com/3v7ekrah
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
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
Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social Wife, Mom, UMich Law School Professor from Practice, MSNOW legal analyst, The Contrarian contributor, former U.S. Attorney, EDMI
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Associate professor. Author of CRISIS AVERTED (Viking). Outbreak newsletter at forceofinfection.com
Anindya Ghosh @anindyag.bsky.social I believe we are being distracted on purpose
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com Executive Director @ votersoftomorrow.org | Immigrant 🇲🇽 | Views my own
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Founder and Publisher of Liberal Currents
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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR (Co-Author)
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Geenie1234@bluesky.com @geenie1234.bsky.social
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Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social caregiver
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Fereidoun Biglari @fbiglari.bsky.social Paleolithic archaeologist, Head of Paleolithic Department, National Museum of Iran.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi.bsky.social Foreign Minister, Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷
Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social Former BBC foreign correspondent reporting from
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Edmund Bower @edmundbower.bsky.social Journalist based in Dubai/Riyadh covering Saudi Arabia and the wider region.
Currently with AGBI. Past bylines in The Times, The Guardian, The Economist and elsewhere.
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Karima Bennoune @profkarimabennoune.bsky.social Professor of International Law & Human Rights, University of Michigan Law School. Former UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights. Author of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here" & "The Intl Obligation to Counter Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan."
روني الدنماركي @aldanimarki.bsky.social Yemen Researcher | Pol. Econ. | Agitpropagandist | Disciple of Dr. Arghiri Emmanuel
Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, Iran, & women’s human rights. Writing a book on early 20th c. US-Iran relations. Philly sports fan. Visiting Scholar @ GWU IMES and HRC Oral History Fellow @ Georgetown 🗃️
Susannah George @sgreports.bsky.social The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, before that Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq.
Sina Toossi @sinatoossi.bsky.social senior fellow at the @CIPolicy.bsky.social | write a lot about Iran, US foreign policy, Middle East | bylines Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian & elsewhere | check out my substack: dissidentforeignpolicy.com
Judy Chu Campaign @judychucampaign.bsky.social First Chinese American woman elected to Congress. #CA28. Former educator & lifelong Californian, fighting for equal rights & equal opportunities for all.
Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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Holly M @hmandia.bsky.social Avid Supporter of Human Rights for ALL
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
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Sara Sneath @sarasneath.bsky.social Reporting on climate justice for the Guardian US. Past: Journalist-in-residence at University of Miami’s Climate Accountability Lab. Big fan of bike rides | she/her | https://sneathfreelance.com
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social Girl dad. Hip-Hop lover. Fmr Capitol Police Officer. Making good trouble.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social RussiaUkraine war|Middle east | Europe|East asia| South Caucasus
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Tiffany Muller @tiffanymuller.bsky.social President of End Citizens United and Let America Vote. Wife, Mom. Lord of the Rings and Chiefs fan in equal measure.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
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Dr. Albert B. Wolf @abwolf1648.bsky.social PhD Poli Sci (UCI). Lived in Israel, Baku, Kabul, Iraq & Pakistan. Foci: MENA, Coercive Diplomacy, War Term & Aud Costs. Pubs: FP, IS, Survival, WOTR & MEP. Interviewed- Al Jazeera, BBC Radio, CNBC. Signal: Abwolf1815.37.
USMC Vet M-3-7/MarineBarracks, NAS Alameda 🇺🇦 @usmarinevet.bsky.social Citizen of the world enjoying good life in SF Bay Area. Left of center Democrat, atheist since age of reason. "We're all atheists about most of the gods humans have ever believed in(Thor, Zeus, Ra, etc). Some of us just go one god further." Richard Dawkins
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for @futuredude. Ex–U.S. empire insider turned Marxist analyst. I’ve seen how capital rules and how resistance is crushed. Now I write to expose—and to fight. #Truth #Censored
alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social still human in the strange loop • journalist ∆ words and images / technologies ecologies geographies security energy media cultures ∞ ∆ ∆ ∆ contributing editor Fast Company ⟴ founding editor Motherboard • ¶• pasternack@protonmail.com / alex.265 on Signal
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com Host of Coffee With Texas Paul.
Founder of the Ride Or Die Democrats. 💙☠️💙☠️💙
Low Road Democrat.
www.RealTexasPaul.Com
Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social Oubaitori
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social Contributor @the-downballot.com.
Elections, voting rights, redistricting, and maps.
Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
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Rick Noack @ricknoack.bsky.social @washingtonpost Kabul Bureau Chief covering Afghanistan and Pakistan
Areeba Fatima @areebafatima.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Researcher. Views my own. Hosted an international affairs show in Pakistan, fact-checked as a 3PFC partner for Meta, now pursuing data journalism at Columbia University. Contributor @dropsitenews.com
Katherine Zimmerman @katiezimmerman.bsky.social Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups.
katherinezimmerman.substack.com
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social Co-Lead @eurosky.social | Creator of the 3rd party Bluesky apps Flashes @flashes.blue, Skeets @skeetsapp.com & Bluescreen @bluescreen.blue
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social Author: Strange People on the Hill https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ |
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social Founder MPP (yeah you know me), UT Austin Prof, former chief economist various financial firms, Fed economist, Prez NABE. Passionate about family, macro, cats and freedom
Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.com
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social CNBC senior economics reporter. Husband, father, journalist, guitarist and fly fisherman. (The Lies-man joke has been made. It’s not fresh. It’s my father’s father’s name, bastardized at Ellis Island. Move along.)
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