Joshua Tallis @doctallis.bsky.social Naval and maritime strategy | Director, Ally and Partner Security Affairs program @ CNA | Author of War for Muddy Waters: Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Insecurity
Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
Joshua Rovner @jrovner.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social China, PLA, Taiwan, defense, & nukes | IAF @CFR.org | Opinions mine
David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social Father, veteran, author. All views my own, but they should be yours as well. Author of THE SHIP AND THE STORM: POEMS.
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.
The Warchives @warchives.bsky.social I'm a history nerd who loves to share illustrations and photographs (and facts!). Works are public domain or have authorship credited!
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
Mark Zandi @markzandi.bsky.social Chief Economist of Moody’s Analytics. Host of the Inside Economics podcast. Co-founder of Economy.com. Views expressed here are my own.
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer @malfridbh.bsky.social Professor of War Studies, King’s College London
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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de Russia & Economics
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German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social The EUISS is the EU’s foreign & security policy think tank. We provide critical analysis and insights to inform the EU’s strategic choices.
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Giuseppe Spatafora @gspataf95.bsky.social Analyst for transatlantic relations 🇺🇸 at @euiss.bsky.social 🇪🇺. PhD International Relations @politicsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Formerly at NATO Policy Planning Unit, ISF fellow 2025
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social New role to be announced soon!
Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Fan of Tom Paine.
Philippe Lagassé @plagasse.bsky.social Academic working on defence policy/procurement and executive power in Westminster states. I'm aware of the typos.
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250
Chris Sprecher @chrissprecher.bsky.social Hoosier alum. Spartan PhD. Studying IR/FP. Cat person. Suffering Angels fan. Teaches at Allan Hancock College. Lives by the beach in Central California (Lompoc).
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
Rosa Brooks @rosabrooks.bsky.social Writer, law prof at Georgetown, Democracy Futures Project
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
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The War Horse @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social Award-winning nonprofit newsroom educating the public on military service. Subscribe: http://thewarhorse.org/subscribe. Support our work: http://thewarhorse.org/donate
Kevin R. Kosar @kevinrkosar.bsky.social Senior Fellow, AEI.
Host of the Understanding Congress podcast.
Editor of UnderstandingCongress.org.
Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social Posts from 1776! The American Revolution and War of Independence and the world in which they happened, 250 years ago.
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
Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
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Michael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social Director of Economic Policy Studies and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Professor of Practice at Georgetown University. Contributing Columnist for the Financial Times.
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
Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo. Defense policy, missile technology, and nuclear strategy.
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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social Excellent father. Recovering politics and government guy. Suffering baseball fan. Here for history, Star Trek, and ridiculous takes on current events.
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
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Patrick Chevallereau @pkchevallereau.bsky.social Vice-amiral (2S) - Former French Naval Aviation - between Aquitaine and Oregon
Military Writers Guild @milwritersguild.bsky.social The Military Writers Guild (MWG) is a global non-profit network of service members, veterans, civilian analysts, and writers dedicated to advocating for, collaborating on, and promoting military affairs and security-related writing.
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it. 
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social @BrennanCenter | ex Atlantic, WaPo | Author, Angler & Dark Mirror | bartongellman.com/contact
Shawn Skelly @sskelly.bsky.social Public servant. Veteran. Not going anywhere quietly. Live rock shows are life. #FlyNavy
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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Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
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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.
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University. 
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.
Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos. https://www.ft.com/content/d5f80bc5-a204-472e-921f-c1f08aa83989?shareType=nongift
Formerly doing various things in Mitteleuropa.
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MP @meliandialogue.bsky.social Security Studies
Suzanne Maloney @suzannemaloney.bsky.social VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Julian Borger @julianborger.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian, based in London
Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social Nonprofit executive director. Views are mine alone. Historian. Writer. Army veteran. Adjunct history instructor. Author of “The Last Lincoln Republican” (UniversityPress of Kansas, 2020). #ParkChat Hall of Famer. Pittsburgh sports fan.
Aurélie Basha @aureliebasha.bsky.social Historian at University of Kent: US foreign policy, Vietnam War, civil-military relations and now All-Volunteer Force. Author “I Made Mistakes: Robert McNamara and Vietnam” (CUP).
Graeme Callister @graemecallister.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies, York St John University, UK. Interested in everything Napoleonic, Revolutionary, and the general history of conflict. 
Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social historian of Cold War social movements and the U.S. military | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
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/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
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.
Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | poet | she/her
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Michael Allen @ma-allen.com IR Scholar Professor• War, US Foreign Policy, Basing, Troop Deployments, Data, and Political Economy • @boisestate • International Relations • SciFi • Gaming • www.ma-allen.com • https://tinyurl.com/GoogleScholarAllen
Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR 
Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
Tim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social Christian, husband, father, American, attorney, in that order. Opinionated about coffee. Hybrid athlete (mediocre lifter; bad runner). Guy who parks his truck within the lines.
Views are mine, not my employer’s
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Iron Capt. @ironcapt.bsky.social Pro-wife, Anti-Nazi.
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 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇹🇼
Caleb Weiss @calebweiss.bsky.social Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
Dr. Alexander S. Burns @kabinettskriege.bsky.social Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
Joanne Stocker @joannestocker.bsky.social Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
John Helin @jjhelin.bsky.social Journalist, Fact checker @ http://HS.fi
Ukraine War Analysis with Black Bird Group
Political History at the University of Helsinki
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
For defense-related stuff
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social Former UA officer
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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Patrick Porter @patporter76.bsky.social Prof, Int Security, @unibirmingham. Contributing ed, @TheCriticMag. @RUSI_org. @CatoFP. @RANDEurope. The Case for Realism, Stanford UP. Book on Churchill w/Polity, on the way. 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social Journalist + 🇺🇸 veteran / 2026-7 Knight fellow @MIT / Priors: Business Insider, Military Times, Iraq / "Too easy"
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Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social The donuts and beers one. Certified Barracks Lawyer. Guardian of the Thermostat. Consumer of Food and Drink. Actually forklift certified. Semper Gumpy. Drunken BBX Advocate. Writing at: https://inconvenientwarstudies.net/
Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social Washington correspondent for The New York Times focused on cyber conflict, digital espionage and intelligence. Prior stops at WSJ, Reuters, National Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dustin-volz
Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social Investor, CEO, Dad
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social Oscar-Claude Monet was a 19th century French painter. #artbots by
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Barbara F. Walter @barbarafwalter.com Explaining what's really happening in America and where it's taking us. NYT bestselling author. UCSD Prof. NAS member. I write Here Be Dragons on Substack: https://substack.com/@barbarafwalter
VoteVets @votevets.org GIVING VETERANS A VOICE SINCE 2006
VoteVets is the largest Democratic Veterans group in America, representing 1.5M+ Vets, families, and supporters.
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@segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social Great power competition turned collusion; international order and disorder; things that go boom.
Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, reformed oboist and whitewater kayaker, mom of teenage twins. Opinions are my own.
Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social Atlantic Council Fellow | Military Writers Guild Board Member | Marine Corps Strategist Fellow at Notre Dame | CIMSEC Managing Editor | Personal Account
Jamie Smith @jamiespad.bsky.social theaterjunkie
Nathan @never-say-die.bsky.social Reformed U.S. Army Combat Janitor.
Photographer, current student & public lands appreciator.
Dodgers and Rockies Baseball Fan
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social Senior reporter at Euronews covering EU politics. Lover of cinema, sushi and synonyms. Brussels resident since 2018. All views my own! 🦄
Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social Thoughts on Europe and the world. Director of @EUISS.bsky.social - the EU think tank on foreign and security policy. Views here are strictly personal - but we can share them.
Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
Strategic Trends @strategictrends.bsky.social US foreign policy and national security interests in the Indo-Pacific | Maritime minded | | Learning every day | Views my own. | Always humble
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
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Patricia Kime @patriciakime.bsky.social Covers Military & Veterans Personnel & Health Care Issues for Military.com, KFF Health News, USA TODAY Mags et al. Patriciankime@gmail.com. DM for Signal. Mom/Burdie/MilSpouse/#GoHoos
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.