Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social I don’t post often, so I try to make every one count. I’ve worked for 45 years in government, think tanks, Georgetown U. and philanthropy. I write, lecture and do media interviews. On Substack at: joecirincione.substack.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.- M MertensJ.bsky.social @mertensj.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
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Kurt Taylor Gaubatz @kurttg.bsky.social Independent scholar & analyst-Washington DC. Previously Old Dominion, Oxford, & Stanford Universities. Democracy & foreign policy, int'l law, research methods, & political philosophy. Some work now on econ forecasting, philosophy & the equality of women.
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
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Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
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Dov Waxman @dovwaxman.bsky.social Professor of Israel Studies at UCLA, scholar-in-residence at Nexus Project, writing about antisemitism, Israel-Palestine, US-Israel relations, & American Jews. My new book: "The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine."
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social Law Prof. Interested in Intl law, national security, sanctions, & SWANA (aka the Middle East & North Africa).
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social CUNY, Jewish Currents, New York Times, MSNBC. Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow.
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Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social Fmr. Ambassador, Consul General of Israel in NY.
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Dem Strategist. Dad to Cameron, Paxton & Brooks. https://TheAltMedia.com
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social President and founder of PRRI and NYT bestselling author of Backslide; The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. Writing at https://www.redeemingdemocracy.net.
Max L Grossman @maxlgrossman.bsky.social Rock Creek Forest. Dead Sea Scrolls. UMD. 
James M. Dorsey @jamesmdorsey.bsky.social Hard-hitting, fact based, Middle East-focused analysis at https://jamesmdorsey.substack.com 
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
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E.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social Prof. McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, New York Times opinion writer. Passionate Celtics fan. Opinions here are my own.
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Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Connor Kopchick @connorkopchick.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Poli Sci at Auburn | Ph.D. via UMD | Transnational Repression, Diasporas, Authoritarianism | Views are mine but should be everyone’s
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