Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social Politics Editor for @washingtonmonthly.com
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social Salute to me, I’m your rheumatology queen.
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Ian Wiggett @wiggett-ie.bsky.social Cymro, Kernow, Wrestler. Policing stuff.
Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com It’s a web browser. It’s Powerful. It’s Personal. It’s Private. 🇳🇴🇮🇸
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🔗 https://forum.vivaldi.net (for support)
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
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Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art Taxon-agnostic entomologist, science communicator and cartoonist. Artist of ARISE, YE SKELETON KING!, cat dad, special little guy.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Judah @glutelord.bsky.social political science himbo and dummy thicc internet clown
glutelord is the handle for the spicier stuff too btw
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running (picture eliot.ely)
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social Now I am become sarcasm, destroyer of worlds. Cogito ergo sumbitch ipso facto vis a vis hold deez.
Grits
Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca In a world drowning in conflict and grief, we crave what keeps us alive: joy—our daily bread; hope—our living water; kindness—the roof over our souls.
Walker Harris @walkerharris.net He/him. Author. Anti-AI, Pro-LGBTQIA+.
Philosopher Queens: rock romance serial about lives & loves of an indie band ❤️🎸
Felcrown: fantasy adventure serial & ttrpg setting about a megadungeon that becomes a city
WalkerHarris.net
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social Your Lady of Chaos (Theory) | Cassandra of Geopolitics | MENA - Nazis - ISIS - political violence - etc. | @MsEntropy on all platforms
https://substack.com/@msentropy
Juniper @juniperbevensee.bsky.social Lost in a big parameter world.
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Decentralisation / agency / decol
juniperbevensee.com
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cyborg.garden
Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social Epidemiology and global health security policy.
thepandemiccenter.org
Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social Refugee from Twix. Arsenal fan and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Opinions my own.
JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca Artist in progress. Living on Treaty 6 land. Art, science, space & politics (sorry about that) Dad to Samwise. Storms & stuff. He/him. No AI, No NFT. https://earthskyart.ca #art #painting #sciart #fod #biking
Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social Mistress of Science. Transfeminine. Disabled, just like you.
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Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social Sirens, a new podcast from the ladies of Bombshell, dissects the institutions of American power. With their trademark wit and charm, they sound the alarm on technology, governance, and national security issues. (And maybe lure men to their deaths.)
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
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Empty Bag of Ducks📎 @emptybagofducks.bsky.social Ex-Army officer. Retired DoD civil service/SES. Historian. Battling advanced metastatic bile duct cancer. Hoya. Diehard Packer fan. Fighting the dying of the light, the dying of liberal democracy and the death of the American Republic.
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social Military Historian
-NatSec & Strategy
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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social Queer Punjabi-American artist, writer and book lover. Ecstatic purveyor of joy and jewelry at Adorned by Shivani!
https://www.adornedbyshivani.com
Proud Romancing the Vote minion.
Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social Director of the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as a Director at the UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Fellow at Bellagio, Notre Dame & Bosch. Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Writing a new book.
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Sasha Lehtonen | Mother of Tanks @motheroftanks.bsky.social Historian — 🇺🇸 in 🇫🇮. Likes, RTs, Follows do not equal endorsement. Personal account @sasha-lehtonen.bsky.social
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
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
Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social Moodboard of late empire. Friction is foreplay for the strategically inclined.
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social Political scientist. Political behavior + methods. Spatial analysis.
Speaking in a personal capacity. Opinions expressed are my own.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social Family’s first HS grad. Runner. Worked in labor/Did policy/Elected Dems/Stint on Cap Hill. Blogged+pieces for WaPo/TNR/etc. Got rare disease, nearly died 5 times. Detroiter in Chicago. Husband. Dad to twins. Gardener. Getting healthy. Wants to run again.
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
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George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism.
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
🌱Nita🍂 @nitaluvz.bsky.social ⛤ Love nature, growing veg, cooking, swimming in the North Sea, my poodles and my wonderfully grumpy husband. ⛤
Trigeminal Neuralgia, Vertigo, Depression, Endometriosis. Bit of an introvert but would like to feel more connected.
North East, UK 🌱
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
www.jenreadsromance.com
Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social Reader. Librarian. Lawyer. My mouth is unruly. I've been told I'm zesty! Lover of things and (some) people. Watcher of sports and cooking shows. And dramas. Midwestern core, PNW present.
https://ko-fi.com/robinbradford
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social Author & anthropologist. Human-animal relationships, landscape & identity.
Book - The Ponies at the Edge of the World
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShetlandKeepsakes
https://ko-fi.com/catherinemunro
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
APB @andrewbakaj.bsky.social 
Carolyn Hax @carolynhax.bsky.social Ned’s person. Advice person, Washington Post and syndication.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
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/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social 🇩🇪🏴
Friendly & wordy. Work-from-home knitter. Kind, not stupid. Ally of decency.
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Based in Germany. In love with Scotland. At home in more than one place.
Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
caitlin.gilbert@washpost.com ✉️
caitlingilbert.24 on signal
@caitlingilbertdata on tiktok/ig
🎭⚽️🎮 + other thoughts
washingtonpost.com/people/caitlin-gilbert
wrongnumber.beehiiv.com
Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471
Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social Recovering attorney, former journalist, and lifelong history nerd. I enjoy interrupting the interrupters. Pretty knowledgeable about the car industry. Jewish of Polish/Ukrainian descent. Married to a bona fide civil rights lawyer.
He/him
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Tyrell Corp Testing Lead @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
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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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
Lucy Coats @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Myth witch. Classical Association Prize 2017. Latin Programme Poetry Prize 2022. Bridport Poetry Shortlist 2024. Holy rage Feminist/Animist. 🐝 🐍
Lover of owls & goddesses.
ADHD/ND & ME\CFS🥄
Free 🇵🇸
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Threads: @lucywriter
Web: lucycoats.com
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://www.instagram.com/benmorganwriter/
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛ @helenivory.bsky.social Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner/veg grower, advocate for nature & the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile. Social & environmental justice NOW. Daily photo from Scotland.NOT a naturist!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
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Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social BBC cog; Russia, FSU, E.Europe, Syria opp watcher. Views own, some humour 🤨 migrant, chatty. Oversharing news. Masto: @fulelo@journa.host prior X @fulelo
Work: #TheGlobalJigsaw http://tinyurl.com/4t2vh3e2
BBCNews starter pack https://go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
Tina Says #ResistFascism @trcfwtt.bsky.social Expert typoist. #autism #ADHD #LGBTQ+ ally 🌈 #ResistFascism
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social Mason aka @Firstgentleman on Twitter. Someone already took that name on here so I'm stuck with this.
This is an A.I. hate account
🏠: L.A.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
@segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social Great power competition turned collusion; international order and disorder; things that go boom.
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.