Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
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Richard Nephew @richardmnephew.bsky.social Senior Research Scholar at Columbia U. Former Anti-Corruption Coordinator at Dept of State (among other things), White House and Dept of Energy. Personal acct. Author of "The Art of Sanctions" (2018)
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
Michael Carpenter @mikercarpenter.bsky.social Senior Fellow at IISS. Former Ambassador to the OSCE, NSC Senior Director for Europe, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Personal views only.
Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social Historian of Russia/Soviet Union; Cultural History of Work; History of Sexual Violence; History of Emotions
research associate (wiss. MA) @OEI/FU Berlin; associate @FSO Bremen
editor @Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
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Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social Fed and economy reporter with @reuters.com, ex-WSJ. Failed musician, guitar holdout. Signal: michaelsderby.50
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Department of State @state-department.bsky.social Leading U.S. foreign policy and American diplomacy since 1789.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
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Peter Buda @peterbuda.bsky.social International & Applied History | Fmr CI-Officer |
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Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
CIReN @cirency.bsky.social The Cyprus Investigative Reporting Network
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social Postdoc at University of British Columbia political science working on child protection in 🇺🇦, 🇺🇳 peacekeeping, and my third coffee of the day. Views strictly my own, etc. BC 🇨🇦 is home, PhD GU 🇸🇪, from NM 🇺🇲. He/him.
James Kanter @jameskanter.bsky.social award-winning journalist | euscream.com politics podcast | formers @nytimes @iht @dowjones-wsje @cambodiadaily
Scott Stedman @scottstedman.bsky.social Investigative journalist thenewsground.com
David Bauder @dbauder.bsky.social Media maven and longtime journalist. Proud pop to Sophie and Ben. Sometimes proud fan of Mets, Knicks and the ‘Cuse.
Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social Burned out political writer and podcast/radio host.
I was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and The Nation and a staff writer for Bill Moyers, among others.
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social A cat who took showers. 💔 Kittens who romp. 😻 My hooman is interested in cats, politics, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, and nuclear weapons and nonproliferation but mostly cats
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
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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/
Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social Former DoD, VA and FEMA senior official. Defender of the Constitution, Rule of Law, and Democracy
Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social Father, husband, citizen, professor, focusing mainly on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy issues. Faculty lead for Harvard's Managing the Atom project: www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social Columnist and editor at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC). WGAE member. Ex-Washington Post Opinions. DC born and raised. D.C. United and Montreal Canadiens fan.
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social Texas news, politics, food, culture, travel, yee-haw, and more since 1973. 🤠
William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social Reporter, ProPublica. Focused on federal law enforcement
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former British Soldier & 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Marine | Author of Live.Fight.Survive | Public Speaker | Defender of Mariupol | Writer & Independent Journalist ✍️
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Elsa @elsacourt.bsky.social Audience Development Manager @ the Kyiv Independent
Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social Lefty liberal by temperament, exasperated by experience.
Not strictly qualified for most arguments, but I do read a lot.
Stockport, UK
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Trump accountability
Public Citizen
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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social waking up everyday in a full sprint. cyber(punk) & counterintelligence. bloody inertia interspersed with bouts of bloody frenzy. i see kanly today in everything.
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at @freedom.press. Interested in reducing overclassification, FOIA reform, enforcement of the Presidential Records Act, and preservation of federal records. Opinions mine. Signal leharper.89
Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Yeganeh Torbati @yjtorbati.bsky.social Reporter at The Washington Post; co-author of forthcoming book on Iran for Doubleday
Ruchi Kumar @handle.invalid Writer. Journalist. Humanist. Pacifist. #Ukriane #Afghanistan #Iran #India #Conflict
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social Senior national political reporter, NBC News
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Charles McPhedran @charliekreuz.bsky.social Australian journalist and filmmaker between Berlin and Kyiv. Focused on spies, special forces, and why justice is so rarely served. Check out my BBC Radio 4 documentary, “Putin’s Blood Feud” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002830j (UK VPN)
Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social BBC News Analysis Editor, The Media Show, 'The Art of Explanation', 'Communicating...' podcast, squash enthusiast, DJ. Agent:
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Sander @sanderregter.bsky.social Edit videos and posts about Ukraine war,
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
Claudia von Salzen @claudiavonsalzen.bsky.social investigative journalist @tagesspiegel.de
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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.
max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social professionally nosy. reporter at @minnesotareformer.com
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social Economist at the Center for Economic Research. Father to two dogs.
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social Ukraine-based journo / analyst / etc.
#Ukraine #Russia #HybridWar #CriticalThinking #factsmatter
Comfort is a drug. Evolve or die.
I professionally hate the concept of "escalation".
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Michael Brakemeier @soulmib.bsky.social "We'll keep reporting regardless"
Pop und Politik, Schabernack und Göttingen | Redakteur beim Göttinger Tageblatt
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Alissa de Carbonnel @alissadecarbonnel.bsky.social International security analyst | former Deputy Director @CrisisGroup & Senior Correspondent @Reuters | Writing on European rearmament, Russia & Ukraine
Josh Rogin @joshrogin.bsky.social Lead Global Security Analyst at Washington Post Intelligence
Author of Chaos Under Heaven
On Substack at thecable.news
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Charles Jay @chazjay425.bsky.social I worked for more than 30 years for a major news outlet as a correspondent and editor. Follow my work at the progressive website Uncharted Blue. I had been a member of the Community Contributors Team at the Daily Kos website. I also write about jazz.
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
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Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social Former member of Bellingcat - Berlin, Germany
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social Woke Irish Europhile from Dublin,Ireland who regards felonious Pedolf as a grifting fraudulent pedophilic narcissistic sociopathic misogynistic racist malignant cancerous traitorous threat to democracy.THIS IS NOT A DATING SITE SO NO DMs FROM LONELY HEARTS
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social investigative reporter covering immigration, labor and more for @propublica.org
signal: nicolefoy.27
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.