How to resist fascists, kleptocrats & similar
This is a list of people I consider wise thought leaders and activists who have hands-on experience of doing this work. If you have suggestions, please send me a message including something they have written / said. (And if you know such folk, and they aren't on here, you know what to do!) Thanks
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@rajtham.bsky.social
@lincolnsquare.media
Where facts, experts, fearless media, and the ferocious opposition meet. We're fighting back against the American autocratic movement and fighting forward to create the America we all deserve. Join us. https://lincolnsquare.media
@maitelsadany.bsky.social
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
@jenmercieca.bsky.social
Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Fascism is for losers. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@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
@kenroth.bsky.social
Retired litigation attorney and CFP. Active investor and trader. Most importantly these days, a person disgusted that this country could re-elect such a vile person to lead and represent the U.S.
@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
@truthout.org
Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Support our work: truthout.org/donate Get our daily email: truthout.org/subscribe Follow us: go.bsky.app/9WsnfPT
@wagingnv.bsky.social
Original reporting and analysis on movements for justice around the world. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://wagingnonviolence.org/subscribe/
@normeisen.bsky.social
Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Executive Director of State Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com 👇 - TN (posted by Team Norm)
@jysexton.bsky.social
Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Board: The Change Campaign
@lizzypearson.bsky.social
Programme lead MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI. Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
@eladn.bsky.social
Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
@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 🤷♂️
@heissenstat.bsky.social
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University. Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS) Middle East History and Politics Very unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Writer, host of podcasts: sci-fi deep dive "Space the Nation" & mental health convos at "Another Day." Leading The Third Story Workshop. More at anamariecox.com
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/ Roosevelt Institute Fellow, EQ Collaborative Member Working on a book about cities for Island Press and blogging occasionally at http://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/ ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
@shaneburley.bsky.social
Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity (Forthcoming, 2024), #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight. Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, others. Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
@judah-grunstein.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle. https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/ @wpr.bsky.social
@hardymerriman.bsky.social
Independent consultant focused on nonviolent civil resistance, human rights, democracy, and countering political violence. Formerly led the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC). Contact via my website: hardymerriman.com
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@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"
@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
@mariaressa.bsky.social
@rajtham.bsky.social
Formerly a sustainable finance guy who's also not fond of pandemics or genocides or fascists. On here for as long as it helps us organise a centre left response to the polycrisis. If we have something in common, feel free to send me a DM.