Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social American with bittersweet memories of living in a shining city on a hill. Mathematician. Give em hell Devils. Go Navy. русский военный корабль, иди на хуй. Currently clean on OPSEC. Entropy always wins. Views my own.- C Chris Bolan @chrisbolan.bsky.social Professor Emeritus U.S. Army War College, Stategic Studies Institute
David Blight @dblight.bsky.social Historian, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won P-Prize, a teacher and lifer as Tigers, Lions, and MSU fan.
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
The American Civil War Podcast @uscivilwar.bsky.social Social page for the American Civil War podcast, located at: https://uscivilwar.substack.com/
Get in, loser. We're damning torpedoes!
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by August 4th!
Joseph Nunn @josephanunn.bsky.social Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Expert on domestic deployment of the military.
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social I research, teach, and write about about the causes and consequences of the proliferation of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (CBRN) weapons to states and terrorists. Views are my own.
Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social Radical liberal zoomer. Published in Liberal Currents! Big fan of worldbuilding, alt-hist and shitposting (see rest of bio).
Palingenetic ultraglobalist. Pro-Palestine neocon. Woke multiculturalist NatCon. Glorifying diversity, the world's only hygiene.
NERV IRB Coordinator @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Government Accountability Project @govacctproj.bsky.social We have 40+ years of experience representing #whistleblowers. Need help? Seek assistance 👉 http://bit.ly/348XhKN
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social My better angels want crew-served weapons.
I write about USMC 1866-1917
“The Marines Have Landed At Nantucket…” Marine Corps Gazette, May 2025
History blog: https://islandjohnny65.blogspot.com
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
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
CalMatters @calmatters.org CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization. We write stories about California, for Californians.
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
Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social Mom of four, Illinois Lt. Governor, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate.
Giving the people what they want.
https://linktr.ee/julianaforillinois
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social Advancing a more peaceful, just & sustainable world by centering people & the planet in US foreign policy.
Home of International Policy Journal and UnDiplomatic Pod, The Iran Podcast and Black Diplomats.
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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, impeachment, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian
K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com Writer, cartoonist, editor. Hugo finalist. Very sweary. Half politics, half dog pics. She/her.
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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
https://linktr.ee/aidanwalker1
Substack: How To Do Things With Memes, @aidanetcetera TikTok, Insta, YouTubey
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Chairman Phil Mendelson @chairmanmendelson.com The Official Bluesky account of DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson
Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com Podcaster, retired troop, Left leaning, violently woke
https://hellofawayto.dad/
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
San Diego Politics Show @sdpoliticsshow.bsky.social A new twice monthly show about politics, elections and civic affairs in and around San Diego County and Southern California, hosted by Matt Strabone and Andy Keatts
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. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is We are an autonomous group of anti-fascist researchers dedicated to providing communities from the Rockies to the Pacific with research and tools to protect themselves from fascism in all its forms.
https://pacantifa.is/
Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social Father, husband, citizen, professor, focusing mainly on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy issues. Faculty lead for Harvard's Managing the Atom project: www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom
My website: matthewbunn.scholars.harvard.edu
Heatloss @heatloss.bsky.social Cold War Air Power and other related topics | Heatloss on most other platforms | Cascadia Resident
@heatloss1986 on the other site
https://linktr.ee/heatlos
Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social Photographer and digital storyteller roaming the streets of Washington, DC. Documenting civic life and current events. Also posting on Instagram at aletakesphotos.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.- W woolaf @woolaf.bsky.social Nuclear nerd and lover of baseball. Owner of the cutest dog in the world.
Defenestration @madwonk.bsky.social DC-based technical analyst, I study that which should never be used. All opinions my own, but you probably shouldn't trust me anyways.
disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social not AI! this bot is madlibs with rng, it does not do tricks or take commands, it just posts. Not LLM or Markov-based / created by @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social, hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com
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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Giled Pallaeon @giledpallaeon.bsky.social Military & International Affairs nerd. Defense professional. Mostly naval subjects, but all aspects of defense and natsec welcome. Oh, & plastic spaceships, that too. All opinions on all subjects my own #WeAreNAFO
Sean D. Naylor @seandnaylor.bsky.social Co-founder of @thehighside.bsky.social; author of "Not a Good Day to Die" and "Relentless Strike;" previously a staff writer at Army Times, Foreign Policy and Yahoo News; other work in The New York Times and Newsweek.
Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social “as goes the south, so goes the nation.”
caring loudly for tennessee’s HD51 💓
#EndTheGroceryTax🛒
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
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Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social Bot posting 4x daily from Sam Biddle's curated collection of US military slides from the Cold War era.
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social Michigan State Senate Majority Whip | Notre Dame ☘️ | Ray Wert’s ginger half | Noa's mom
Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social Born for steel and thunder. The weak see chaos — I see maneuver.
Matt Dunlap @dunlapforcongress.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Lifelong Mainer. Running to bring accountability back to Congress and make life more affordable for working-class Mainers.
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social Established in 1841 for the reporters who cover the U.S. Senate.
https://www.dailypress.senate.gov/
Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social https://threehostages.substack.com/
Metro @wmata.com Official Bluesky page for WMATA, aka Metro, the major public transit provider in the National Capital Region, serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
wmata.com
In My Defense @inmydefense.bsky.social You've lost *another* submarine?
Staring at defense and foreign policy and hoping one day it makes sense.
"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evil" - Gen. John Stark
A place for my rantings https://inmydefense.substack.com/
ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
Haley Britzky @halbritz.bsky.social Pentagon for @CNN. Was: Army for @TaskandPurpose. Texan. Christian. E-4 Mafia stan. haley.britzky@cnn.com or haleybritzky@protonmail.com
Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher.
中文/上海话/ENG/FR
Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social Surface Warfare Officer (U.S. Navy) in DC. Six years in Japan, two years in China. Episcopalian. Johns Hopkins SAIS/HNC alum. 中文/日本語 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇹🇼
Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social J6D5H3TJ
@kriegsforscher.bsky.social @kriegsforscher.bsky.social Private entrepreneur before the full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Marine Corps. UAV company. PP for support: osint4ua@gmail.com
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
Iron Capt. @ironcapt.bsky.social Pro-wife, Anti-Nazi.
Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social Boring Australian suburban dad. Recipient of participation awards for Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and a few other things and places.
Mark 8:36
Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law Real-time updates on the latest filings in major cases in U.S. courts. Created by @bradheath.bsky.social. Run by @free.law. Monthly sponsorships available: https://bots.law/big-cases/sponsors/
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; former DOJ/OLC attorney
TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social Donald J. Trump's unaltered word from Truth Social. Immediately, 24/7.
Unaffiliated.
Jimmy Perez @jimmyperezshetland.bsky.social Solving crimes. Brooding. Now on Orkney.
Redistricting Action @redistrictingaction.org We’re on a mission to make our democracy truly representative and ensure every American has an equal say in our government. Formerly All On The Line.
RedditCFB @redditcfb.com The official account for /r/CFB, the home for college football on Reddit.
Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social Tracking the latest polls in US politics 
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social Chief of Staff for Governor JB Pritzker.
A continually aggravated Philadelphian making her way in the great city of Chicago.
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
J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz Social Justice Bard. They/them. Gay; tired.
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE and ICE has not faced justice.
Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
freedcproject.org
Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social Even a crooked regime wants an honest accountant.
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
olive consumer @machete.gay doctor of sociology at inst. nastro azzurro
terrorism/extremism explainer, media hell vortex looker
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social Mayor of Boston • Mom to Blaise, Cass & Mira • Personal account
michelleforboston.com
Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com Watchdog of the 3rd branch. Established in 2014. We advocate for SCOTUS term limits, enforceable ethics, cameras in courts & other fixes that 70+ % of Americans support. Sign up for news: FixTheCourt.com/Sign-Up.
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social Doing a year for space contempt.
Qualifications: Vanderbilt J.D.
Official Capacity: Just Some Guy
Admissions: only when in a contemplative mood.
California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social California YIMBY is a statewide advocacy organization working to pass legislation to end California's housing shortage by empowering and growing the YIMBY movement. Learn more at https://cayimby.org.
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
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
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.)