The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social Just posting, enjoy poli-sci and history topics
the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
signal: millionbear.44
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SmokeDaddy @smokedaddy.bsky.social BBQ Junkie/Smoker, edTech refugee, nomad, & D&D newbie.
LVL 83 Barbecutioner
100 Cooking
87 Pyromancy
72 Bladed Weapons
Matthew Blanchette @mattpb.bsky.social He/him. Physically disabled. Canadian-American; fond of rye toast, when he can get it. Dreams a little. 
cbw94533.bsky.social @cbw94533.bsky.social Retired teacher in the Bay Area. Lean centrist or liberal. Married, three grown kids.
Matthew Johnson @seasouthern.bsky.social Parent. Partner. Queer. RA. South Alabamian in South Seattle. Urbanist. Transit Advocate. He/Him or They/Them. #WDE #EBFG #CIB #OIF #OEF
Dill Garlic Salmon @dillgarlicsalmon.bsky.social Interests and education in Science/engineering/economics fields, but mostly post about politics at the moment. Not revealing personal details. Salmon looks cool and I like cooking it, thus the name and picture. 
Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social Former cartographer, ballroom dance pro, tanguero, cyber security professional. Currently a strategy consultant. Volunteers in the USCG Auxiliary. PhD in Politics, University of Leicester. Expertise in MOOTW.
Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social “this short hair quiet slightly angry woman from the middle of the country with a don’t mess with me attitude.” Herds cats at OK Policy. Opinions are mine.
Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social WW3 has already started it’s just unevenly distributed | Aerospace, AI, and a real-life #polycythemiavera mutant.
Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social Software engineer, teacher, Pythonista, Astronomer, Black guy, Father. Always looking to build and maintain dope shit.
William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University. I wrote a book: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253481/
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
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
Lisa Mikolajczyk 🇺🇸🇺🇦✡️ @lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social Special Education Teacher
Single Mother of Twins
I block 🍉 emojis & dirtbag leftists.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Supreme Executive Council Of Posting @swolecialism.bsky.social i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social Ancient Studies professor at UMBC. Mostly Roman things. Views my own.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
vp @vptevo.bsky.social living in the crisis of confidence, 25, grad student, very bad at posting!
ReboundsMom @reboundsmom.bsky.social Same as on Twitter. Still like K-pop, cranky cats, and that GIF of Jason Momoa opening the chair. Chronically online since 1991.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Lindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
Tales From The Keane Compound @thekeanecompound.bsky.social Who made these Family Circus edits??
Fuq D'Faino!
Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social Writer, Novelist, Raconteur - International bestselling author of the #ShadowWarriors and #LionofGod thrillers
mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social #4 mary worth fan
melting funnies
Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social Research Director and Research Professor at NUPI, ass. ed. EJIR. Comment here primarily as a private citizen. I do research on conceptual history, privateers and diplomacy etc. I like mountains, skiing and my woodfired pizza oven.
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social I write, talk, and make media about the environmental impacts of data centers, chip manufacturing, energy, rare earth mining, and digital infrastructure in the Arctic. Stay tuned for some new film projects! https://youtube.com/@zanegtcooper
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now.
I miss properly seasoned seafood
She/ her
@segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social Great power competition turned collusion; international order and disorder; things that go boom.
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
xela navillus @navillusxela.bsky.social 艾小磊 | Any major dude’ll tell ya
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social https://www.renata-keller.com/
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, UNR. Author of *The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War* and *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections book series at UNC.
Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social Free-Trade Radical looking for a blade to sharpen.
Wish I had something funny to say.
Let’s go rafting!
California Apoligist
Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Cheryl YoureNotMySupervisor @scurvydagger.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇨🇺🇺🇸
I wish it need not have happened in my time - Frodo.
So do I. And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -Gandalf
Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇹🔶 | Mark 8:36 | he/him
Doing an MSc in Environmental Technology
Formerly: Harris-Walz, Kingston Council
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
jjfforest.bsky.social @jjfforest.bsky.social Professor & Director of Security Studies, UMass Lowell; Editor-in-Chief, Terrorism & Political Violence; Editor-in-Chief, Perspectives on Terrorism; Visiting Professor Fletcher School; published 22 books (http://amzn.to/2zW8brk)
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Karen Berger @karenpberger.bsky.social Editor of Berger Books from Dark Horse Comics, Vertigo Comics Founding Editor 
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Chris Galdieri @cgaldieri.bsky.social Political scientist; NH politics; carpetbagging; pop culture
Author, “Stranger in a Strange State” and “Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics”
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social President, @civildefenseinst.bsky.social
Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Exec. Editor @justsecurity.org. Fan of Tom Paine.
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.
Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social Philosophy Prof, author of Code of the Warrior. Research: Military Ethics and Ethics & Emerging Technology. Views posted are just mine; not any employer’s or sponsor’s, etc. Reposts aren’t necessarily endorsements. My humor is dark and my anger righteous.
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social (Banner and thumbnail are both from Remedios Varos' painting "Paraiso de los Gatos")
Therapist, writer type, armchair activist, kvetch. Raised from early adulthood by Internet wolves. Warning: squees at cats.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
I also like cute doggos
Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social Publisher of The Notable (coming soon.)
💙💙💙
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📸 https://instagram.com/damionmatthews
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social PhD/MHS Epidemiology: Infectious Diseases, Digital Health, Substance Use, Science Communication|Thoughts are my own| #Episky #IDsky
www.bethlinas.com
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Ndgree, the Grand Remonstrator @ndgree.bsky.social Travel tips, complaints, and observations from 6 years of full-time travel.
Mom of @Faineg but not responsible for Alf except tangentially.
Likes are free. Don’t be stingy.
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com Host, Slate Money. Author of THE PHOENIX ECONOMY.
sina @rejectionking.bsky.social Bonsai Wolf. Tiny and Mighty™️. Adorkable chihuahua. Tradecraft analyst focused on cloudsec. Dogged and rigorous. Bit of a weirdo. Exhausted historian focusing on extremism. he/they Email: theloopcast@gmail.com
Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social Next round's on me
Lena @notaterrornerd.bsky.social talk to me about mushrooms or the woods if you must; or don't talk to me at all
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
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
Emily Peck @emilypeck.bsky.social Axios reporter, Slate Money host. I'm back on coffee.
Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social Social scientist interested in social capital, social infrastructure, energy and environmental politics. Books at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-P.-Aldrich/author/B001JSDHPW 
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @jewishwonk.bsky.social Columnist for the Forward. U.S. Foreign Policy and Jewish communal concerns. Bylines in The Atlantic, Washington Post, & Tablet Mag. All bad takes are mine alone.
Anne Whelan @whelan06.bsky.social Dog Lover, FoTS, News, Slava Ukraine
Voods is Teh best
Jennifer S @jmsdc.bsky.social 
pthaugen @paideia72.bsky.social 
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social National Security Attorney, Comic Book Historian, University of Rochester Alum
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social Classic raccoon wardrobe staple. Writer of horror and urban fantasy. Veteran of the armed forces. Reader of pretty much anything and everything—unless the dog dies.
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
@lindasavarese.bsky.social @lindasavarese.bsky.social 
Zak Kallenborn @zkallenborn.bsky.social War Doctor in training in King's College London War Studies Department. Drone warfare, WMD, apocalyptic terrorism, and global catastrophic risk. Affiliate: CSIS Thinkdeterrence Scharschool