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@mannfred.bsky.social
@trbrtc.bsky.social
Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Doing what I'm doing now (open source investigation combined with traditional reporting) because of Twitter's community. Retired hitchhiker.
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
@amermatar.bsky.social
Syrian journalist, filmmaker, director of the ISIS Prisons Museum @alshare media foundation. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018). https://isisprisons.museum
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@rashaaqeedi.bsky.social
Storyteller and occasional provocateur Mesopotamian from Mosul,Ninewa Other interests include: Art, Culture, Pop Culture, Kale Smoothies, and Seneca 105K followers on X and heartbroken
@qusaynoor.net
❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) ) 📸
@sewella.bsky.social
News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
@maitelsadany.bsky.social
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
@ayoub.bsky.social
I do @thefirethesetimes.com + co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com +Editor shado-mag.com + affiliate fellow @post-growth.bsky.social + Newsletter @ Hauntologies.net + @syriapodcast.bsky.social @thestartrekpod.bsky.social From 🇱🇧🇵🇸 in 🇬🇧
@aageb.bsky.social
Forfatter og human rights worker at @nhc_no. Siste bok, Krigsherren i Kreml; Vladimir Putin og hans tid, september 2022 (Kagge)
@radchenko.bsky.social
Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
@ksadjadpour.bsky.social
@omidmemarian.bsky.social
Journalist, Analyst, @ucbsoj, #Iran, #Politics, #Journalism, #Media, #MiddleEast, #Art, Communications Director at @dawnmenaorg
@mindaholm.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at NUPI. Work on ideology, liberalisms and global order, Far Right, postliberal & reactionary global visions, sovereignty, (mis)recognition and state ideals, social & political theory. Personal website www.mindaholm.com
@shiyam.bsky.social
U.S. born and based writer. Will probably just be lurking on this platform.
@thesyriacampaign.org
A human rights organization that supports Syria’s heroes in their struggle for freedom, justice and democracy 🔗 linktr.ee/thesyriacampaign
@gurimelby.venstre.no
Partileder for Venstre. Nestleder i Utenriks- og forsvarskomiteen på Stortinget. Kjernesaker: utenriks/sikkerhet, skole /utdanning, klima/miljø, næring/skatt
@adrianzenz.bsky.social
Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Research focus: Xinjiang, Tibet, authoritarian repression, re-education internment, ILO, Uyghur / state-imposed forced labor, OSINT. https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-zenz-phd
@nickcohen.bsky.social
British journalist and author Read me on Substack https://nickcohen.substack.com/
@kafriis.bsky.social
Research Professor at NUPI 🇧🇻 Security, defence, NATO, Arctic, Nordics plus some cyber and Balkans
@lotteleicht.bsky.social
Advocacy Director, Climate Rights International http://cri.org Jurist. Int'l Humanitarian, Human Rights & Criminal Law Int'l Justice Boards: ECCHR (Chair), Dignity,
@kristyanbenedict.bsky.social
Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager: Crisis Response, Israel/Palestine, Syria. Also to be found drumming, climbing, and painting - https://www.instagram.com/kristyan_benedict/ Views all mine.
@alexjrowell.bsky.social
Senior editor at @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Author of "We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World" (2023) and "Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas" (2018). https://linktr.ee/alexrowell
@unnieikeseth.bsky.social
Science teacher Education @NTNU 🇳🇴 🧪 | Author Vårt kjemiske liv (2023), Finding places (2020) /Jakten på stedsansen | Science textbook author Solaris 5-7 @aschehoug | Former TV host & Science journalist @NRK https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/unni.eikeseth
@leventkemal.bsky.social
Journalist - Analyst Conflict zones, terrorism, and security Bylines at @MiddleEastEye @AJStudies @ActaFabulae Circassian
@gissounia.bsky.social
Lawyer specialized in international criminal and human rights law. Founder & director of @slpjustice.bsky.social.
@kamilkazani.org
@jasminmuj.bsky.social
Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018) and "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), both available via Hurst and OUP. 📍 LAX via SJJ. 🌐 www.jasminmujanovic.com
@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social
Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org and Direkt36.hu. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling. 🙏 buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi 📝 authory.com/szabolcspanyi 🗞️ vsquare.org/newsletter ✉️ szabolcs.panyi@vsquare.org
@fridaghitis.bsky.social
World affairs journalist. Frm CNN producer/correspondent. Sr columnist World Politics Review, on-air contrib CNN, CNNE, contrib columnist Washington Post. Worked in 70+ countries. (Threads @fridaghitis, LinkedIn, Instag) https://fridainsight.substack.com
@chknutsen.bsky.social
Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem
@istanbultelaviv.bsky.social
Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Author of Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a new book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Also writes for Haaretz and more.
@mshagina.bsky.social
Diamond-Brown Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, IISS | Ex @FIIA_fi and UniZurich | Economic statecraft, sanctions & energy.
@rvawonk.bsky.social
Yep, it’s me! Mother, Wife, Asst. Research Scientist. Studying cyberpsychology, cognitive security, disinformation. “Epistemic Superpredator.” I write things here: https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com
@mwhanna.crisisgroup.org
Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
@kshaheen.bsky.social
Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
@razanspeaks.bsky.social
Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories. Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
@edwardlucas.bsky.social
Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
@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. 14 years writing on Tunisia. Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul.
@javierblas.bsky.social
Energy and commodities columnist at Bloomberg. Co-author of the 'The World for Sale' http://amzn.to/3t6dVJV Any views expressed are my own. jblas3@bloomberg.net
@hhassan.bsky.social
Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
@leilashami.bsky.social
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War' Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social & co-host @thefirethesetimes.com Member @thepeopleswant.bsky.social Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
Fellow with Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program and Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | PhD from Oxford | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
@jakluge.de
Russia & Economics Deputy Head of Eastern Europe & Eurasia Division German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) Picture: Tamek Kowalski
@idreesahmad.bsky.social
Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
@nrg8000.bsky.social
@Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
@yarotrof.bsky.social
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
@azelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com
@samagreene.bsky.social
Director of Democratic Resilience, CEPA. Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
European Media and Editorial Director, Human Rights Watch https://bsky.app/profile/hrw.org. Subscribe to my human rights newsletter: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights All my links here: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
@glandsbergis.bsky.social
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Landsbergis.com
@manisha.bsky.social
investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead, The Guardian. Emmys judge. friend to all cats / www.manishaganguly.com
@kajakallas.bsky.social
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice-President of the European Commission
@alanderminna.bsky.social
Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Senior Fellow Frivärld. Nordic-Baltic-Arctic security, NATO, European affairs. Plot twist: not from Åland. 📸 Arno Mikkor/ICDS ✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@casmudde.bsky.social
Dutchman in the South 🇺🇸 | Politicoloog 👨🎓 | European politics 🇪🇺 | far-right parties ✋ | soccer & politics ⚽ | punkrock 🎸 | movies 🎥 | columnist ✍️ | he/him/his 🚹 the “populism guy” who just wants to talk about soccer and politics 🤷♂️
@berlinbridge.bsky.social
Security & geopolitics | Previously based in 🇦🇫🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇼🇬🇧🇺🇸 | Capital Germany 40 under 40 | ☕ http://buymeacoffee.com/jberlin | Don’t just get mad, get busy | https://berlinbridge.substack.com
@antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
@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
@darthputinkgb.bsky.social
Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. YouTuber. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
@shayan86.bsky.social
BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
@sethabramson.bsky.social
Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds), former CNN and BBC analyst, poet, retired journalism professor. 👤: sethabramson.net/bio ⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com 🕹: retrostack.substack.com 🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
History & Italian Professor, NYU; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@mannfred.bsky.social
Passionate about human rights, liberal democracy, freedom of press & freedom of speech. Pro-EU. Oslo, Norway/Noreg