- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Emily Matson @emilymatson.bsky.social Historian of 20th century China, 东北 (Manchuria), WWII. Georgetown University and GWU. Penn-US China fellow. CFR term member. Speaks/writes español, 中文, 少し日本語, немного по-русски.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Executive Functions @execfunctions.org A Substack newsletter devoted to analysis of presidential and broader executive power issues, by Bob Bauer and @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social
Tim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social Christian, husband, father, American, attorney, in that order. Opinionated about coffee. Hybrid athlete (mediocre lifter; bad runner). Guy who parks his truck within the lines.
Views are mine, not my employer’s
https://www.9marks.org/answer/what-gospel
Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
pourmecoffee @pourmecoffee.bsky.social ☕
Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social
He/Him/His
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Dan Shapiro @danielbshapiro.bsky.social Former US Ambassador to Israel, Defense Dept., State Dept., NSC. Working toward a secure, integrated, peaceful Middle East. Devoted Cubs fan.
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Bryan Denton @bdentonphoto.bsky.social Current MSW candidate @fordham. Once upon a time award-winning photojournalist and photo editor for the @nytimes.
Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social New York Times reporter
Email me at greg.jaffe@nytimes.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social New York Times investigative reporter, writing about the world of nonprofits. CNN political analyst. Please send story tips! daf@nytimes.com
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Erin English @erinenglish.bsky.social Lifelong Buffalo sports fan in Seattle, and Kraken fan! Technology and economic enthusiast.
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia. 
Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social Mom, Cook, Cyber/AI/Privacy Lawyer, World Traveler, Cross-Pollinator, Continuous Learner (MY PERSONAL OPINIONS ONLY)
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Millie Tran @millietran.com Journalist. Chief Digital Content Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org. Mostly thinking about the world and how people get news. There must be a better way.
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. Author of the forthcoming HOW RUSSIA WON and the OUR LAND newsletter. Go to davidcorn.com. On Signal: DavidCorn.99
Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social Political writer. Author. Country Mouse. Columnist with @washingtonsun.bsky.social. Formerly with Washington Post. Sign up to receive my columns: https://washingtonsun.com/dana-milbank-newsletter-sign-up
Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social Covering Asia at The Washington Post. Mom to two needy cats & a rambunctious golden retriever. michelle.lee@washpost.com
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social Georgetown prof. Expect content on international politics, climate, soccer, and other random stuff. Views my own. Website: https://erikvoeten.georgetown.domains/
Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social I am professor of political science at Stanford University and an avid nature photographer. All views are my own. More photos at https://kenschultz.smugmug.com 
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social National correspondent, New York Times.
Previously: Staff Writer, The Atlantic.
Covering religion, politics, culture, and other low stakes subjects.
Mailing list: yair.substack.com
Music: bit.ly/azyashir
Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social Foreign policy/national security reporter
Author of Invisible Countries
Here, there, everywhere
MJ Durkee @mjdurkee.bsky.social Law Prof. @ Washington University in St. Louis. International law, theory, organizations. Corporate actors & the public/private divide.
AJIL and AJIL Unbound @ajil.bsky.social Official Bluesky Social account for both the American Journal of International Law and AJIL Unbound, featuring scholarly articles on international law issues.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law#
Asaf Lubin @asaflubin.bsky.social Associate Professor at Indiana University. Faculty Affiliations: BKC Harvard, ISP Yale, & HUJI Cyber Law.
Writes and Teaches about International Law 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️♂️, Torts 🏛️.
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, 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
Taylor Dalton @taylordalton.bsky.social law prof @ Santa Clara Law - international law + politics
Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Into history of international law, courts and dogs. Lives in and loves Den Haag <3
AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social Dedicated here to the unfinished work. - 16
Messy is the work, and the work can be joyful— Shepard Fairey.
Former, future.
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. & Harold Reuschlein Emerging Scholar @Villanova_Law
I teach and write at the intersection of crim law, media, technology, racial justice & society. Formerly @Stanfordlaw @stanfordccsre
Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social International criminal lawyer, teacher, and human rights advocate. Mom. Global citizen, born in the USA.
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com 
Noelle Quenivet @noellequenivet.bsky.social Professor in International Law. Interested in International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, use of force and Human Rights Law. Loves cooking.
Paul Stephan @pbs3.bsky.social UVA Law. Published The World Crisis and International Law -- The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future (CUP 2023), and Applying Municipal Law in International Disputes (Brill Nijhoff: Leiden, 2024). More at www.paulbstephan.com.
Eliav Lieblich @eliavl.bsky.social Professor, Tel Aviv U Law, International Law. Visiting prof at U of Cologne. Editor, Yearbook of IHL; Coeditor, Elgar Handbook on IL Theory and War; Editoral Board, Just Security
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1346165
Zachary D. Kaufman @zacharykaufman.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Criminal Law, International Law, National Security Law, Transitional Justice, Human Rights
Bio: https://www.zacharykaufman.com/biography/
Publications: http://tinyurl.com/bpaas2b7
Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk.bsky.social Law professor & think tank senior fellow; former U.S. State Department attorney; author of Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War (Oxford University Press).
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Neysun Mahboubi @neysunm.bsky.social Administrative law/Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host, China Studies podcast.
https://global.upenn.edu/global-initiatives/person/neysun-mahboubi
Amichai Cohen @amichaic.bsky.social Senior fellow, Israel Democracy Institute. Professor of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel.
Interested in International law, especially IHL/LOAC and National security law.
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"
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
@mattwaxman.bsky.social @mattwaxman.bsky.social 
Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social Ex-WashPost. Freelance writer (mostly about the news media but other stuff, too). Pleased to meet ya.
Anne Joseph O’Connell @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social Administrative law & bureaucracy obsessed Stanford Law School professor; former ACUS council member (fired by Trump); writing book, Stand-Ins (on temporary leaders in government, business, & religion); mom of two
Sergio Puig @lawprofpuig.bsky.social Academic Director of the Max Weber Programme and Chair in International Economic Law, @EUI_EU. Evo DeConcini Professor of Law, @UArizona. Co-Editor in Chief @JIEL_OUP. Board Member @AJIL_andUnbound.
Capital Weather @capitalweather.com D.C.'s Trusted Weather Team
http://www.capitalweather.com | info@capitalweather.com
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
EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Delaney Simon @delaneysimon.bsky.social Senior Analyst, U.S. Program @crisisgroup. Before, UN in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen. New here. Usual caveats. https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/people/delaney-simon
TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social Donald J. Trump's unaltered word from Truth Social. Immediately, 24/7.
Unaffiliated.
Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs.bsky.social Southeast Asia bureau chief at The Washington Post
Snaps from bikes and boats instagram.com/rebtanwp
GZERO Media @gzeromedia.com Global news, what it means, why it matters.
Unbiased, smart insights.
Tracy Moran @tracymoran.bsky.social Writer and editor covering geopolitics. Washington correspondent for the National Post. Formerly @USA Today, Deutsche Welle, GZERO, OZY, Cambridge News.
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social The World’s Opinion Page, featuring exclusive commentaries by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civic activists.
https://events.project-syndicate.org/event/democracy-summit
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org 🌏 CFR is a resource for foreign policy news and analysis.
CFR takes no institutional positions on policy. Follows, reposts, likes ≠ endorsements.
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Caleb Withers @calebwithers.bsky.social AI & natsec @cnas.bsky.social
@charleshorn.bsky.social @charleshorn.bsky.social Comms @ CNAS
Views my own
Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social Modern Warfare | Defense & Military Analyst | Author of ‚How the United States Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory‘ Link: https://www.gady-consulting.com/
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Jacob Stokes @jacobstokes.bsky.social Senior Fellow & Deputy Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Previously White House & U.S. Congress. China, East Asian security, US foreign policy. Views mine.
CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org A bipartisan research institution, CSIS is recognized as the top defense and national security think tank in the world.
https://www.csis.org 
Richard Fontaine @rhfontaine.bsky.social CEO of the Center for a New American Security (@cnas.bsky.social). Former State Dept, NSC, SFRC, SASC, and advisor to Sen. John McCain. Tweets reflect personal views.
Bill Drexel @bill-drexel.bsky.social Tech, National Security @CNAS
🇮🇳🚀//🇨🇳🦅 | Former @UNmigration, @AEI.
Views my own, RTs ≠ Endorsements.
Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social Uncrewed, autonomous, robotic systems and Artificial Intelligence. Russian and Ukrainian weapons development. CNA, CNAS and CSIS. Opinions my own.