Ginn, Qui-Gon, and Juice @quigonginnandjuice.bsky.social Liberal Republic NatSec, Defense, aerospace (and Star Wars). Views do not represent those of my employer, the Jedi Counsel, nor its customers. (he/him)
James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social Political science PhD candidate specializing in civ-mil. Husband, father, former gangster for capitalism. Opinions, jokes, hot takes, and other skeets are only mine and not any current or former employer’s.
Becca Wasser @beccawasser.bsky.social Defense Lead, Bloomberg Economics; Senior Fellow for Defense, CNAS. Views are my own.
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.
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
For defense-related stuff
Site: https://defensearchives.com/news
Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing)
I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal.
(He/Him)
https://www.offensive-bias.com/
Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, forensic psychology, and school safety📍Atlanta, GA. Seven Summits 🏔️ (5/7). Adopt don’t shop 🐶 Personal account.
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
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social Political Scientist (all views are own, not employers’). Visiting Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
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
John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times. Former U.S. Navy EOD & Iraq vet. Reach me securely via Signal at: johnismay.01 or by email at: john.ismay@nytimes.com
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social CNN national security correspondent. Send tips/pics of your dog(s) to Natasha.bertrand@cnn.com
Signal: Natashabertrand.12
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/natasha-bertrand-profile
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas.
https://foreignpolicy.com/
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social Founder, The Counteroffensive Media Group.
Compelling reporting on human stories to illustrate the news. Fmr US Army medic.
https://linktr.ee/counteroffensivenews
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
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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
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert electric callboy, bad golfer
Center for Angletonian Thought @blackthr0atedwind.bsky.social Former national security executive, ailing distance runner, and struggling girl dad. Run a private intelligence company that supports public and private sector objectives. Based in Washington D.C.
Russell Johnson @russelljohnson.bsky.social Duplo code enforcement
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
ТЬМА НЕ СКРОЕТ СВЕТ 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @fortmaligator.bsky.social Russia news & politics. Psych. K9 handler. Vet. Illustrator.
SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦 & Freedom for Russia 🦅
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Robert Wilson @frcolumba.bsky.social SecOps perhaps human in academia in SC
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social will analyze competing hypotheses 4 food
Greg Otto @gregotto.bsky.social @gregotto from twitter, now on bluesky. Editor-in-Chief at CyberScoop. Host of Safe Mode. Better with words than I am with code.
Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
Vesperlynd24 @mws4.bsky.social Global Studies, NatSec, Sports, Languages nerd
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
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.
Katie Paxton-Fear @insider.phd Dr, apparently. Security Adovcate @semgrep & Hacker. #BugBounty hunter & #infosec YouTuber. APIs & Interlinked OffSec, PhD in AI+Sec @hacknotcrime. she/her
Gabriel @morecoffeeplz.bsky.social Distinguished AI Research Scientist at SentinelOne. Former OpenAI, Apple infosec. Lecturer at John’s Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute. Deceiver of hike length and difficulty.
Michael Idov @michaelidov.bsky.social Writer/director, LA/Berlin. THE CORMORANT HUNT out now in US and UK
Chad Lewis @chad1ewis.bsky.social Coffee drinker, world traveler, and national security researcher, but not necessarily in that order...
My website: chadlewis.net
Peel The World Substack: https://peeltheworld.substack.com
My latest book: The Persuasion Game is on Amazon and B&N
DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993.
Defcon.org
Forum.defcon.org
Defcon.social
The Steady State @thesteadystate.org 440+ former national security officials who remain committed to their oaths to “defend the Constitution."
Follow Us Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/SteadyState
Web: https://www.thesteadystate.org
Substack: https://steadystate1.substack.com/
Jason Kikta @kikta.net // Making it up as I go
// JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct
// @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor
// Former USCYBERCOM/CNMF
// Retired US Marine Corps
// Personal views and invective
Tim Starks @timstarks.bsky.social Senior reporter, CyberScoop, covering spyware, cyber policy and more. Russia-sanctioned. Former Washington Post, POLITICO, CQ Roll Call. @timstarks.02 on Signal. tim.starks@cyberscoop.com. Mastodon timstarks@infosec.exchange, X timstarks, Threads tstarks2.
malmoeb.bsky.social @malmoeb.bsky.social Head of Investigations at InfoGuard AG - dfir.ch
Matthias Schulze @percepticon.bsky.social PhD in political science, studying infosec, cyber conflict & information war. Blue Team at SRLabs in Berlin.
Blog and podcast about my work over at https://percepticon.de or https://ioc.exchange/@percepticon
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
Marc Owen Jones @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
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Stanford Internet Observatory @stanfordio.bsky.social The Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program studying the abuse of the Internet and providing thoughtful policy and technical solutions.
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social 
ESET Research @esetresearch.bsky.social Security research and breaking news straight from ESET Research Labs.
welivesecurity.com/research/
The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social Covering the world of cyber and intelligence from every angle.
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
Zoey Selman (V3rbaal) @v3rbaal.bsky.social #ThreatIntel #InsiktGroup #RecordedFuture | OG #BlueTeamVillage #TraceLabs #L0nelyH4ckers | #DEFCON #DemoLabs Co-Lead
Jamie Collier @collierjam.bsky.social Cyber threat connoisseur at Google. Senior Research Associate at Virtual Routes / Associate Fellow at RUSI. 
Louise Marie Hurel @lmhurel.bsky.social Tech, Cyber diplomacy, Norms etc.
Cyber at @rusi.bsky.social & among other things.
Jazz and personal views only.
Personal website: www.louisemariehurel.com
Tim Stevens @tcstvns.bsky.social Cyber, security, risk, infrastructure, politics | Assoc Prof | Dept War Studies | King's College London | Visiting RUSI UNED RISCS Cnam
Max @disclosing.observer PhD Candidate in Anti-Abuse Strategy & Ethics @ TU Delft
CSIRT Operations Lead @ https://divd.nl
Virtual Routes Fellowship Alumnus '24-'25
Writing about it all on https://disclosing.observer
Julien Strandt @lostincyberspace.bsky.social Cyber & Hybrid Threats @eudiplomacy.bsky.social 🇪🇺 | ex-NATO HQ Cyber Defence Policy, Virtual Routes/ECCRI Cyber Fellow, Johns Hopkins SAIS grad. Views my own.
Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social Expert commentary on emerging tech and security. Send us your article ideas at pitch@bindinghook.com. Project from @VirtualRoutes.bsky.social
Virtual Routes @virtualroutes.bsky.social Virtual Routes tackles the impact of digital and emerging technologies on global affairs. Also check out @bindinghook.bsky.social, our media outlet.
Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social Journalist covering cybersecurity and intelligence. UK Editor at The Record from Recorded Future News. Dad of two.
🏠 Sheffield
📧 alexander.martin@therecord.media
📱 Signal: AlexanderMartin.79
Amy Ertan @amyertan.bsky.social Cyber defence policy @NATO, views my own. Infosec PhD and curious researcher. Former @belfercenter and NATO CCDCOE.
Charles Beaumont @aspyalone.bsky.social I write books about spies.
Australian Spy Museum @aus-spymuseum.bsky.social Our mission - is collection, preservation, sharing and education on the history of espionage, and evolution of modern threats.
Our vision and goal - is to establish an independent and permanent museum home for our collection and educational programs.
VessOnSecurity @vessonsecurity.bsky.social Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.
PGP keyID: 0x365697c632dd98d9
DSA Angletonian Caucus 🇬🇱 @marechalberthier.bsky.social Paper pusher and history ender. American szlachta abolitionist. Universal homogeneous state respecter.
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state.
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Benjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social Head of Policy & Analysis at Helsing - AI to Protect Our Democracies | Chair @DSI_Strategy |🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #NeoIdealism | Post=personal, Repost ≠ endorse. Views mine
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social 
Intelligence and National Security @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social Intelligence and National Security is a leading journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations and politics.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
Esoteric Neolib @esotericneolib.bsky.social Radical Fukuyamist | shitlib enjoyer | natsec YIMBY | Spanberger-Stancilite
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Active Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social Active Measures, LLC is a full service research and writing firm. For details see activemeasuresllc dot com or reach out to walkin [at] activemeasuresllc [dot] com.
Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social Host On Offense Pod. Cohost Find Out Podcast. CEO Task Force Butler + Veterans Fighting Fascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (http://vva.org/trollreport). Yes, the Nazi hunter you’ve been looking for. linktr.ee/krisgoldsmith
Ryan Naraine @ryanaraine.bsky.social Three Buddy Problem
https://securityconversations.com
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
Nikki Ikani @nikki-ikani.bsky.social Assistant Prof Intel & Security ISGA | writer | NWO Veni Laureate | Research Fellow KCL | Snr Fellow NATO Defence College | researching warning | editor Poets Reading the News | @Kortschrijvers | she/her
Above Average Intelligence @aboveavgint.bsky.social This is Above Average Intelligence, a production of the DSR Network. Each week, host Marc Polymeropoulos is joined by leading experts from the intelligence community for expert analysis on the biggest security challenges around the world.
footage seer @douglassfreestate.bsky.social "every new thing I learn about her sounds like a Dracula Flow bit"
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur