Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
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Steve Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social Twenty five years or so raising money for indy and nonprofit journalism and now at UC Berkeley doing the same for the Journalism School. Picked up a PhD in sociology along the way. Pals with a fish named Bob.
Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health
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.
Damien Cave @damiencave.bsky.social NY Times reporter based Vietnam. Dad. Philosophy: “We must cultivate our garden.”
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
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Jesse Drucker @jessedrucker.bsky.social Reporter for @nytimes.
jesse(dot)drucker(at)nytimes(dot)com. DM for Signal or Whatsapp.
Writing a book on the US tax system.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/jesse-drucker
Katrin Bennhold @kbennhold.bsky.social Host of The World, the global newsletter of The New York Times. Former Berlin bureau chief, London and Paris correspondent. Nieman Fellow '13. Podcasts: Day X and The Battle for Europe
Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/rebecca-ingber
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social @nytimes correspondent writing about the Federal Reserve and the US economy. Previously @FT, @TheEconomist, @BloombergTV. colby.smith@nytimes.com
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Lucy Hornby @lucyhornby.bsky.social China-holic. Recovering journalist (Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore) and new citizen of Arizona.
Find my latest writing at Substack.com/@lucyhornby
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social Writer?
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David E. Sanger @sangernyt.bsky.social White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times. CNN contributor. Adjunct lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
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Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social Former United States Court of Appeals Judge (1991-2006)
Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social Washington Post tech journalist writing a lot about Elon Musk, Twitter, Tesla. My book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk (St. Martin’s) is in stores NOW! How to buy: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/hubris-maximus-9781250327178/
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social Associate Editor at China Books Review // Peace Corps China Clique // ex-China Digital Times //
personal blog: www.ramble.media
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
Jack Cushman @jackcushmanjr.bsky.social Retired in Vermont, building libraries in #Honduras. Former Inside Climate News & NYTimes Washburo.
Dan DePetris @dandepetris.bsky.social Syndicated foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Nicholas Procaccini @nprocaccini.bsky.social Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist (MD/JD). Cittadino degli Stati Uniti e Italia. Triple Hoo. #GoHoos #ForzaAzzurri #Finoallafine 
Len Schoppa @lschoppa.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Virginia writing on the political economy of Japan.
https://wordpress.its.virginia.edu/Schoppa_Homepage/
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Julian Gewirtz @juliangewirtz.bsky.social Author of Never Turn Back: China & the Forbidden History of the 1980s & Your Face My Flag: Poems | Former White House and State Dept 
Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social Journalist. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Nieman Nation for life. Give me all the pencils.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social Senior Adviser, Asia @crisisgroup.org | Strategic narratives on China, Indo-Pacific, geopolitics, geoeconomics, philosophy and values. Ex-diplomat. Don't start none, won't be none. 实事求是。己所不欲,勿施於人 https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelkovrig
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
Mari Saito @saitomri.bsky.social Special Correspondent, Reuters. DM for Signal #
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-war-frontline/
Matthew Keys @matthewkeys.net Journalist who covers the transformation of the media industry after working in it for years. Previously worked for Reuters, Disney-ABC, Tribune Media.
Sacramento = Home. Light the Beam 🔦🟣
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@idreesali114.bsky.social @idreesali114.bsky.social Reuters National Security Correspondent covering the Pentagon.
Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social co-host Citations Needed podcast.
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Constant Méheut @constantmeheut.bsky.social New York Times reporter in Ukraine | Reach out: constant.meheut@nytimes.com
Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social Senior editor @propublica.org.
Former Washington Post deputy health & science editor and race & economy reporter. Former Boston Globe national political reporter.
https://www.propublica.org/people/tracy-jan
Dafna Linzer @dafna.bsky.social Adviser to the CEO @ U.S. News & World Report. Former Executive Editor, POLITICO; Managing Editor, NBC News & MSNBC. Proud alum @GUpolitics
Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social New York Times economics reporter:
https://www.nytimes.com/by/talmon-joseph-smith // New Orleans Native // author of 'What Can We Afford' forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (March 2027) // mostly on Twitter
talmon.smith@nytimes.com
Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social CBS News senior White House reporter. Reporting what I know, not what I think. @Bloomberg and @DMRegister alum. Email me: jennifer.jacobs@cbsnews.com 💕Iowa
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Ben Forney @benforney.bsky.social Author of The Spy Hunter newsletter: http://thespyhunter.substack.com. Tracking industrial espionage and economic security trends.
PhD on Chinese espionage from SNU
Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
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
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social crows can hold grudges for 17 years. amateurs.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
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Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Cornelius Dieckmann @codieckmann.bsky.social Taipei correspondent @spiegel.de
Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social Biz investigations reporter @nytimes.com. Growing up, I wanted to be Harriet the Spy. Send tips and story ideas.
Signal: 347-843-9767, Jessica.silvergreenberg@nytimes.com
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social Senior resident fellow, the Renew Democracy Initiative. Music critic, The New Criterion. Substack: Onward and Upward.
Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs.bsky.social Southeast Asia bureau chief at The Washington Post
Snaps from bikes and boats instagram.com/rebtanwp
Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social New York Times columnist, author, backpacker and Oregon farmer. Always reporting on the ground. Trying to help democracy prevail and distracting myself by making great wine and cider at KristofFarms.com. 
All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social hosts the Emmy Award-winning “All In” Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. ET on MS NOW.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Humeyra Pamuk @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @Reuters deputy US foreign policy editor. Eye on State Department. Before: London, Cairo, Dubai & Turkey. @columbiajourn @kocuniversity alum. Personal account.
김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com SF/판타지/호러 소설가; SF 어워드 수상 (단편 1, 장편 1). SFFH writer. Blood of the Old Kings, Blood for the Undying Throne out now, published by Tor. Crawford Award 2025 Honour List, Locus 2026 finalist. Represented by grb@grb-agency.com.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Dankook University. Research interests: Korean modern history, US-Korea relations, democracy and human rights
Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social Senior Political Editor at TIME Magazine. Background in economics and TX politics. Formerly New York Times, Texas Tribune. Dad. #washingtondc @nytimes.com
Signal: @amanbatheja.46
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent at The New York Times
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