Francis Wade @franciswade.bsky.social Political violence, nation-states & democracy • @LRB, @guardian, @nybooks, etc • Commissioning Editor @Noema • francis.h.wade@gmail.com
Essays & articles: http://linktr.ee/franciswade
Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social directing labor movement comms @moworkers.org / @moworkerspower.org. organize, fight, win. opinions expressed are my own (they/them)
Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social Science/health journalist • teacher • author • photographer 📷• kidlit • dog lover 🦮• rat mom 🐀• Texan • ADHD • neurodivergent • she/her
Pro: 👩⚖️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏽💉😷📚⚖️
tarahaelle.net
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com ⚡ Hold Elon accountable for his crimes
⚡ Stop him from becoming a trillionaire
⚡ Reclaim global democracy from the broligarchy
Join a peaceful protest, organize your own and learn more: https://linktr.ee/teslatkdwn
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Dana Orkideh @danaorkideh.bsky.social She/Her Iranian. Born in Mooseland.
Graphic Design student in Dublin.
Facists, Yank nationalists, assadists, zionists, islamists, and Swedish patriots get blocked. I have zero time debating with these cult thugs.
Also F--k AI.
Leyla Doss @leyladoss.bsky.social Journalist, Podcast Producer & Co-founder of Mada Masr. I tell human stories on politics and foreign policy.
Rami Emad رامي عماد @astroramiemad.bsky.social • Freedom-Seeking Earthling
• Founder and Manager of @astrogatespace.bsky.social
• Simultaneous Interpreter (Translator)
https://youtube.com/AstroGate 
Shariff Tabba @occulus5.bsky.social 
The Healer Chef @thehealerchef.bsky.social Ancestral traditions
Nourishing habits
Radical dreaming & wellness consulting
Cooking classes
Trans Futurism
🏳️⚧️♊️♏️♏️🐶🌷
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
Tech for Palestine @techforpalestine.org We are an incubator for pro-Palestine advocacy projects. Completely free mentorship, volunteer pool, and marketing support to help you scale.
https://linktr.ee/techforpalestine
Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org VOW is an oral history nonprofit that amplifies the stories of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. We partner to document community voices, teach ethical storytelling, and develop educational resources.
Website: voiceofwitness.org
Sahar Mechmech @saharmechmech.bsky.social MENA Tax Justice, Feminist Economics, and Climate Justice | Inclusive Economies manager at @timep.bsky.social
Alex Hiniker @hiniker.bsky.social Disarmament fan due to years working on landmine and cluster bomb clearance in Cambodia, Laos, and Lebanon. Syria also has a place in my heart.
I dig public transit and local government, too.
Proudly from PG County. Now in Pittsburgh.
Jeje Mohamed @jejem.bsky.social Holistic safety & security expert, press freedom, media risk advisor, HEFAT, physical, digital & psychological safety, advocate 4 all rights
Ethnic Studies Network of Texas @esntx.bsky.social Promoting Ethnic Studies for grades PreK-16 in Texas. Retweets are not endorsements (sometimes). https://ethnicstudiesnetwo.wixsite.com/esntx/about
Júlia Serrano @juliaserrano.bsky.social Translator [PT/EN]; Translation studies researcher; Editor at Eita! Magazine. E também preparadora e revisora!
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social newspaper editor and podcaster in Kyiv. Read english.nv.ua and listen to Ukraine without Hype
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
VivaRevolt @vivarevolt.bsky.social Twitter Migrant
TanaGaneva @tganeva.bsky.social Journalist.
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
murhaf مرهف @murhaf.bsky.social same murhaf on twitter (if that tells you anything)
works with nlp and data
lives for freedom and justice in syria and beyond
Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Windsor Law.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Petra Ramsauer @petraramsauer.bsky.social knows 1 thing or 2 about the Middle East. Was a crisis reporter, is a psychotherapist (in Fachausbildung unter Supervision)
will always be a political scientist.
focus on war, conflict, trauma, angst & panic.
European from Austria. Cat herder, dog mum.
nature @nature122.bsky.social nature is life
MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social Founder, @TheRedoubt.net. American journalist in Vienna.
Subscribe: TheRedoubt.net/subscribe
Cohost, @critical-support.bsky.social
Signal: @charlesdavis.13
Suhaib Zaino | صهيب زينو @proud-damascene.bsky.social 
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social Professor on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
📍IST/NYC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Gissou Nia @gissounia.bsky.social Lawyer specialized in international criminal and human rights law. Founder & director of @slpjustice.bsky.social.
Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists. 
Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018).
www.jennifernbaker.com
Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social Writer &c.
Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers
Sonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social Doctoral researcher, ULB & ex Brown Fellow | 🔎 humanitarian organisations in the Anthropo/Ecocene, disaster management | 👀 on Turkey, the Mashreq, Maghreb & EU-Med | obvious nerd ~ sci/cli-fi for better futures
now 📍 Brussels, 💚 in Istanbul & Beirut
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social Public Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years. We're people-powered and accept no corporate money.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
ryann @ryann.bsky.social director of data journalism @ABC news & stations || formerly @ProPublica, @inewsource, @IRE_NICAR, @CitizensVoice
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com Scrappy independent journalism. For you. Come to Source NM for fresh reporting, and insightful opinion and analysis from around the state.
Sign up for the morning headlines: sourcenm.com/subscribe
Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social @Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest
Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing
www.annaclark.net
Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social I like FOIA and octopuses 🐙 • Director of National Litigation at RCFP • creator of https://foia.wiki • maintain SunshineSky Bluesky feed • he/him/his • alum GW Law, LSE, Kalamazoo College • www.rcfp.org/author/adam-marshall/
Katie Townsend @ktownsend.bsky.social media & first amendment lawyer * partner @ Gibson Dunn * formerly @ reporters committee for freedom of the press * UF 🐊 & UVA Law grad * LA Kings fan 🦁🏒
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
crimethinc.com
Linda Quiquivix @quiqui.bsky.social Author of Palestine 1492: A Report Back and host of the WW4: A Podcast Syllabus
www.quiqui.org
اغين @augiedamous.bsky.social Anti Pasti
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social I explore fractured modernities across the Arab world and the Mediterranean. Political sociologist, public scholar and UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. 📍 Casablanca 🌐 www.amroali.com
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
Dr. Hanin Hannouch (she/her) @drhanin.bsky.social Curator of analog & digital media (photography, film, and sound) at Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna. 
Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com War, politics, climate change & food systems, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Investigations @ThePublicSource. Author, Day of Honey. Writing (tor)mentor. Interested in everything.
RTs—and I cannot stress this enough—are not always endorsements.
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot- S @shonmeck.bsky.social @shonmeck.bsky.social
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
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Hassan3 @hassan3.bsky.social I edit videos about how the world sucks.
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. - M @madamasr.bsky.social @madamasr.bsky.social
Sukrit Venkatagiri @sukritv.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College 👨🏽🏫 Studying how AI-generated content impacts security, privacy, and trust in institutions and each other. Previously: UW, Virginia Tech, Meta, Microsoft Research.
Website: https://www.sukritv.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.