Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social Moodboard of late empire. Friction is foreplay for the strategically inclined.
Dr./ma’am
E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com Public health + national security • Johns Hopkins alum • Tracking mysterious weaponized pigeons and FIMI
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.com
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Richard Solomon @ricsolom.bsky.social political science PhD student at MIT.
richardsolomon.net/
「 Timber Wolf Enjoyer」 @poprygozhin.bsky.social Fluent: 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇬🇧
Less so: 🇺🇦
Passion for understanding why everything is so bad.
Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social Potential game show contestant.
Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.
Steve Syfuhs @syfuhs.net Noted idiot. Principal something or other. Runs the Windows Authentication team at Microsoft. It's my fault your password doesn't work.
Mostly dog pictures. Might actually be two dogs in a trench coat. 🇺🇸 / 🇨🇦
https://syfuhs.net/
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
McFlyTG @mcflytg.bsky.social Analyst, weapons officer, and professor, but mostly just a proud girl and dog dad. Not an official account.
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social Learn more about what your *real* neighbors are thinking in Silicon Valley! Comedy. Parody. Not official/affiliated with, or sponsored by anyone.
Please support my GoFundMe to help me pay for parking at Valley Fair
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io Senior Lecturer #USydCompSci at the University of Sydney. Postdocs IBM Research and Stanford; PhD at Columbia. Converts ☕ into puns: sometimes theorems. He/him.
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social Sometime writer and (mostly) analog photography | Award winning chili maker | Baltimore via Jersey City, Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, and Ohio | Friend to cats | He/him | No Grace for Doom
Revan @revan.eurosky.social It is the hybris of rationalism to always attack the prophet, the mystic, the god. It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us.
Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com
Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212 
The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social Excel Jockey and Aspiring Quirky Suburban Dad. GrillCath Supremacist. Mostly here for well-read snark & football. Token American fan of the Winnipeg Jets. RT = Regrettable Tumescence
Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social The unofficial account of Jomboy Media.
Two best friends started making content and others joined them, a breakdown. #JakeSucks
🔗 linktr.ee/jomboymedia
👨🏻💻 Admin: @apaulo11.bsky.social
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social Helping organize information about the Jan 6 Capitol attack and those who planned it. They are still with us.
also: @capitolhunters@mastodon.social
email: capitol.hunters@gmail.com
see bit.ly/Jan6Analysis
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Associate Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
A Major Turbonerd @moist.dad I contain multitudes; an old pilot trying to make more old pilots. Illinois! Very food motivated. Views not those of the DoD or US Gov't. He/him.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
David Blight @dblight.bsky.social Historian, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won P-Prize, a teacher and lifer as Tigers, Lions, and MSU fan.
Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com Presidential appointee in Obama and Biden administrations. Served as United States Public Delegate to United Nations. DNC Lawyers Council Chair. Trial Lawyer. Music & Hockey Fan. Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Democracy, Journalism, and Citizenship.
Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social Dad, husband, journalist at 9News Denver. Helping the community raise $20M via 300+ weekly microgiving campaigns. Next with Kyle Clark 6p weeknights + 9NEWS at 9/10p on-air/streaming on 9NEWS+. Signal tips: 303-871-1841.
Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social Washington correspondent for The New York Times focused on cyber conflict, digital espionage and intelligence. Prior stops at WSJ, Reuters, National Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dustin-volz
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.
Administrative law, political theory. Author: The Public’s Law. Personal views only. https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/blake-emerson
CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/they
I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
https://linktr.ee/czedwards
discord: czedwards or https://czedwards.dreamwidth.org/
Tumblr: https://galantier.blog/
Giled Pallaeon @giledpallaeon.bsky.social Military & International Affairs nerd. Defense professional. Mostly naval subjects, but all aspects of defense and natsec welcome. Oh, & plastic spaceships, that too. All opinions on all subjects my own #WeAreNAFO
Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social HF trader and manager. Former sell side and NYSE. Views are mine and not my employers or investment advice. NFL owner. #girldad
Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
andreaformaine.com
PFP: Andrea wearing an orange and blue plaid shirt and smiling
Header: “Together we lead” + chickadee logo
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, certified AI hater, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told.
he/him
Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social Lead Counsel, In Re Ea-Nasir MDL. Promote Frederick Douglass Thought
Obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise
Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social Writer, Ph.D. student in History and Jewish Studies at New York University. Interested in modern political history, labor, migration, diaspora, and religion.
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. Personal views, not speaking for NIH
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Graeme MacKay @mackaycartoons.bsky.social Afflicting the comfortable with insights here and there on daily events through drawn work featured in southern Ontario dailies—but who knows for how long? https://linktr.ee/mackaycartoons2
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social ❌ autocracy, electoral spoilerism, revolution
✅ democracy, consistent voting, incremental progress
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social Military Historian
-NatSec & Strategy
-Logistics
-Geopol Risk
-Urban Warfare
-LOGPOWER
-Rapid Analysis
Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. The Stakhanov of dad jokes. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Host, Producer: Making Contact on KPFK Los Angeles - 90.7FM (Mondays at 4PM PST and online)
Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mel_buer
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social Senior reporter @theintercept.com
Words: @nytimes.com @harpers.bsky.social @latimes.com @rollingstone.com @yahoonews.com @teenvogue.com @vicenews.bsky.social
Leak documents to me at: nick.turse@theintercept.com
Or on Signal: nickturse.01
Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne | IPE & Geoeconomics | Trade imbalances 🚢 & EV battery value chains 🔋
https://palmapolyak.weebly.com/research.html
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social 🍎 Education news updates & policy breakdowns
🇺🇸 Public schools 🤝 Democracy
🫧 Got it, got it?
Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5
Sequel: Duality, coming soon.
Substack: Breaking Beijing.
Podcast: WarTalk (ChinaTalk)
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social Interfaith cis Jew, never posts on behalf of his employer, he/his
Seriously, people, stop following me over my rather basic takes on politics alone, I really do want to post more about stupid shit.
Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social An ordinary Ukrainian. Soldier of Ukrainian Armed Forces, callsign Liber🫡. @dzygaspaw.com founder - we bring tech to 🇺🇦 Defenders. Former Software guy. Fun dude.
Just a Ukrainian dude fighting Russian invasion.
dzygaspaw.com
Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social here to yell about sports and raise money for charity
Suzanne Maloney @suzannemaloney.bsky.social VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Hill Woward @convolutedname.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Trenchant Analysis in Wrong Rock Studies, Oak Table LLC. he/him
Walter Mondial @dabenner.bsky.social Dad, cyclist, pianist, lawyer
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social Father, veteran, author. All views my own, but they should be yours as well. Author of THE SHIP AND THE STORM: POEMS.
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social Retired former US Ambassador, NSC Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, NSC Director for Nuclear Materials Security, and Deputy Exec. Dir. of the International Energy Agency
Democracy is a Verb @democracyisverb.bsky.social Cynical about power. Obsessive about facts. Political commentary, national security & democracy - with receipts.
Anti-ICE | BLM ✊🏾 & LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈ally
DEMOCRACY IS A VERB.
ACT ACCORDINGLY.
Follow me on TikTok: @democracyisverb
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social Finnish geopolitical analyst. PhD. Trying to help Ukraine with the 69th Sniffing Brigade
https://buymeacoffee.com/joni_askola
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
Stacie @stacietalksalot.bsky.social Good opinions and questionable choices.
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social Backwoods pinko scalawag. Bespoke replies a specialty. He/him. Rear Admiral in the Kansas Antifa Navy (Inactive Ready Reserve)
Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social Philosophy Research Fellow at ULisboa.
American, recently naturalized German, based in Lisbon.
Philosophy of mind and psychology/neuroscience, metaphysics, and moral psychology
Dogs, politics history, 90s Simpsons, SNL, some SF/F; 50% sh**posts.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools. Dirt Road Democrat.
Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Rhetoric prof, social movement scholar & author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social Hey, everybody!
Not that kind of doctor.
Embodied cognition, AI and robotics, eating behaviour, flavour & the senses
Mostly cathartic ranting
Personal account
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social Author: Strange People on the Hill https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ |
Signal: Mike.8852 |
patreon.com/c/PostingThroughIt |
https://michaeledisonhayden.substack.com |
🇺🇸🇪🇬
Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) senior editor and opinion columnist — covering politics, free speech, civil liberties, and extremism.
Signal: @afish.99
https://www.ms.now/author/anthony-l-fisher
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the neural circuits of glucose homeostasis.
Cats, embroidery, labor unions
Views my own.
https://khajdarovic.github.io/
She/hers/her
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
jgreen4919.github.io
The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social Ex-journalist/film critic. Biden/Harris Democrat. Pragmatic progressive. Taylor Swift/NIN.
Big fan of serious people.
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social ✨I'm a former local TV news exec, reporter & producer with a few opinions about the news✨
⚡️Past: @KING5Seattle @WGNMorningNews @WGNNews @WCIA3 @NBC5Chicago @ABC7Chicago
🔥Now: Indistinct Chatter https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/
Cai @annenotation.bsky.social Some weird lady out there. Eclectic mix of crap. Gay. Currently on my vampire bullshit. Saw "Cats" at the cusp of the plague.
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.