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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Smuggler (preorder now), Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected; Personal account www.reecejonesauthor.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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Left Voice @leftvoice.bsky.social Left Voice is a socialist publication that fights for internationalist, revolutionary politics | leftvoice.org
Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social From Roswell NM. Distinguished Teaching Award UC Berkeley. Citizen Cherokee Nation. Read. Write. Take photographs. Always learning.
Michelle García @mg-pistoleraprod.bsky.social I am a journalist and essayist working on a book about borders to be published by @vikingbooks
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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social Journalist. Covering money & management @insidehighered.com. Nebraskan in DC. 🌽
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Alex Rivera @alex-rivera.bsky.social Writer / Director of 'Sleep Dealer,' 'The Infiltrators,' and other trans-border fantasies and nightmares. Associate Professor at Sidney Poitier New American Film School ASU / 2021 MacArthur Fellow.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social 🧊✈️ I forecast & track ICE Air flights
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social editor, migrantinsider.com
Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org Welcoming our new neighbors in DC metro (DMV) area through solidarity, not charity.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian (PhD) and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.
Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News ed board, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, NYU lecturer, @flaminghydra.com member, immigration wonk. Work in @slate.com, @thenation.com, @boltsmag.org, etc | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
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Previously at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago and the United Nations in Switzerland.
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