Zachary Shirkey @zachary-shirkey.bsky.social Professor of Political Science
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
International Relations; US Foreign Policy; Military Intervention; Historical IR
Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social I am an Australian leftist political "big picture" thinker / writer. My recent focus has been on how the neoliberal era has shaped today's extreme politics worldwide.
See pinned post for recent articles.
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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social ✍🏽 writer, editor, socialist 🌹 views are my own 🛸 editorial @rooseveltinstitute.org @rooseveltforward.org and member @nyguild.bsky.social
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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social Broad-minded media for all. Support independent journalism https://www.damemagazine.com/membership/
Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social Founder and Agent, Headwater Literary Management
Co-host of Print Run Podcast
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fiction and essays in Triangle House / Welcome To Hell World / Typebar Magazine / Mount Hope / elsewhere
Kevin Gray (new account) @profkevingray.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex. Researches on both Koreas, China, political economy.
Orli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social Yet another comedian and writer (Adult Swim, SundanceTV)
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social Journalist
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@crackingtheframe.bsky.social
Max Harris @maxdnharris.bsky.social New on this! Lawyer/writer/campaigner, former political advisor. 
maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social Political junkie, history, pop culture & science fiction geek. Left handed, cisgender, lesbian feminist, social justice activist & educator from Chicago. 
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Sara Rubin @sarahayleyrubin.bsky.social Local journalist working as editor of @montereycountynow.com covering anything and everything. Probably on deadline, but I also like to stop and smell the flowers.
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Alex Doherty @redandinexpert.bsky.social Host of @poltheoryother podcast.
Fighting Matters @fightingmatters.bsky.social Fighting fascism and the far-right in combat sports like MMA and BJJ.
https://linktr.ee/fightingmatters
Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - watermirrorecho.net
Notes from the Edge + Edge of Reason
Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
Josie Setzler @jsetzler.bsky.social Organizer at Witness Against Torture. Anti-war, anti-nuke, pro-Palestinian justice activist. Nonviolence educator. #AbolishWar
Daughter of Dutch immigrants. Birthright baby.
Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZkXdOVrEtB9?si=wNQsMjAhRgK0sUCUnT7Y7Q
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
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.
Robert K. Elder @robertkelder.bsky.social President and CEO of Outrider Foundation. Author. Dad & Husband.
Robelder.com
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Olivier @olivierjiujitsu.bsky.social Mindful Athlete
Meditate Daily 🧘♂️
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 🥋
No Meat 🚫🥩
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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social cientista cansada
climate science + political strategy. for internationalist and just transitions.
Writer, Political Economist & Sociology PhD.
🟣 ecocene.blog
🟤 sabrinafernandes.com
Posts mostly in EN or PT
Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social Here for some skeets!
I rarely see @s because Bluesky notifications are broken!
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Laura Grego @lauraegrego.bsky.social Senior scientist & research director, Global Security Program, ucsusa.org. Space, missile defense, nuclear weapons. 
Shiping Tang @shipingtang.bsky.social Distinguished Prof., Fudan University, Shanghai.
Int. Relations, Institutional Economics, & Philosophy of Social Sciences
Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social Galactic Effectuator (obvious Jack Vance aficionado); Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Interests: war and war termination, territorial disputes, why do leaders and why do individuals fight?
danielle carr @daniellecarr.bsky.social 
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
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Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Crawford Award finalist. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
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Max Kim @maxsoeunkim.bsky.social Journalist and former Seoul correspondent for the Los Angeles Times / X: @maxsoeunkim
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social Economic sociologist, PhD candidate, Wisconsin Badger, writing on: labor, elites, and economic development in the American South.
"Above this ridge, new peaks will rise"
🌹🍉🦡
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social IR at ANU
International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia
Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
www.deepaknair.org
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post.
Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics.
All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Ian Bowers @ianbowers.bsky.social Professsor of International Security at Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies - Norwegian Defence University College | Sea power, joint operations, deterrence, Korea | Professional Military Education
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
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Also: #filmphotography
Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social Sociology PhD student at UC Davis. Geopolitics, immigration, and elite study. Appropriately being political about everything. One day I’ll write a methodology paper about studying elites through golf. Self-censoring unless I can’t take it anymore.
Joel Petersson Ivre 유엘 @joelivre.bsky.social 🇸🇪 in 🇰🇷 | "Yoo-el" | Senior Policy Fellow at Asia-Pacific Leadership Network | Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament | Shilling for Big Disarma | views mine and not to be taken too seriously | same id on the Old Place
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.
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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, commissioning in the social sciences. Views my own.
https://press.princeton.edu/our-people/rebecca-brennan
Mattie Christine Webb @mattiecwebb.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at VMI | Institute for Global Affairs Nonresident Fellow | Rhodes University Affiliate | Formerly: Yale Postdoc, UCSB History PhD | US Foreign Relations, Global Anti-Apartheid, Labor | Marathon runner
Joshua Baker @joshuabaker.phd Investigative researcher w/PhD in political science, & advanced degrees in history & IR. Focus on pressure networks and perception manipulation, specifically re: nuclear weapons & climate. Push back against those who get rich by making the world worse.
post-birthday grace @acab4cutie.top “[grace is] the internet equivalent of when a child gets left in the woods and they find it completely feral years later”
“lesbian mr. rogers”
“chaos muppet”
she/her • 🔞 • @themckenziest.gay ♡
@k-daniel.bsky.social @k-daniel.bsky.social 
Jesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social Covering defense and diplomacy for @japantimes.co.jp • Signal: jljzen.18 • views my own • Japan resident since 2002 • グリーン車 aficionado
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Outlaw Podcast @outlawpod.bsky.social The revolution will be criminalized. Let’s get into how the law is being used to repress liberation movements in the US, and what we can do about it.
https://linktr.ee/outlawpod
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@davidgrossman.bsky.social @davidgrossman.bsky.social 
Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com cannot stress enough that I am not the Train guy. cohost, @whatatimepod.bsky.social
whatatimepod.com
Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl.
let’s work together! ⬇️
meredithshiner.com
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
@omarsdahi.bsky.social @omarsdahi.bsky.social 
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Anthony Davis @theanthonydavis.bsky.social British Broadcaster & Announcer 🎙️ Please support independent journalism. https://theanthonydavis.substack.com/
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
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Ross Caputi @rosscaputi.bsky.social 
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com Writer | Jewish/Latino | MFA Creative Writing | Critical Error Pod | JakeNoseIt ▶️ Twitch | 📩Jake@SteinbergDrift.com | Debut Acquired ✅
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social ⬛️⬜️🟥 Here we go again. Art director & designer for hire. Former: The Baffler, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Forum, etc. Rooting for a proletariat revolution or an O's world series win, whichever comes first. lindsayballant.com
Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social Prez, ReThinking Foreign Policy.
Writer, researcher, analyst, speaker.
Co-author of Except for Palestine
President of ReThinking Foreign Policy
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social Filmmaker (WHAT LIES WEST) and formerly a little Twitter famous. Married to @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social, writes with @nicksinnott.com
Rob Cain @imrobcain.bsky.social City Planner, MIT and Columbia alum, Air Force vet, wanderer
Zuri Linetsky @zurilinetsky.bsky.social Was a social scientist. Worked in humanitarian assistance & international development in war zones. Now doing something new. Occasionally writing stuff about foreign & military affairs.
Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
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.
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social Former governor still on a mission to defeat climate change and building a better future for everyone. Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize.
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social Senior reporter @theintercept.com
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John Delury @johndelury.bsky.social Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Nancy Okail @nancyokail.bsky.social President & CEO @CIPolicy. Ex-convict, Scholar, Tango dancer. Advocate: Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security. @Stanford, @SussexUni. Fmr ED @TimepDC
Nadine Farid Johnson @nadinefj.bsky.social Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Policy. Opinions mine.
Elon’s FinDomme ✈️ PDX 8/22-29 @loridiletto.bsky.social Your fave NYC dominatrix turned policy researcher turned DOGE casualty turned dominatrix (and therapist, elsewhere).
No adult content on socials—unless political commentary counts—but we do get PG-13.
Become useful at DominaDiletto.com
Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible
This account surrounds hate and forces it to surrender
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com Award-winning author and investigative journalist covering the intersection of sports and politics. Pre-order my new book, THE ULTIMATE STRONGMEN, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ultimate-Strongmen/Karim-Zidan/9781668225721
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Social Movement Technologies @socialmovetech.bsky.social Campaign support for people power movements and groups across the world. Follow to hear about free and paid training and coaching, reading groups for organizing wisdom, and great organizing. https://socialmovementtechnologies.org
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social Editor of Workday Magazine, formerly In These Times.
Anthony Ballas @tonyjballas.bsky.social Duke Lit | NFEE 4935 | @3ammagazine, @monthly_review, @NatCounterPunch, @scalawagmag, @proteanmag @blkagendareport, @plbmagazine | Internationalism | Host: De Facto Podcast |Co-Host Cold War Cinema | Activist News Network | Edits @PortolanSAQ
Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social I love James Harden & I write about abortioneveryday.com
substack.com/@kylietcheung / kyliewrites.net
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. Work focusses on great power relations and reducing nuclear dangers.
Robert Ralston @robertralston.bsky.social Lecturer (assistant prof) at University of Birmingham. Grand Strategy; Politics of Decline/Declinism; Civil-Military Relations
https://sites.google.com/view/robert-ralston/home
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.