The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Political economy of climate, finance, geopolitics & other things, by @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social
All our stuff is now here! http://www.thepolycrisis.org
The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social All the tweets I love, a few I hate. A few skeets too! Posted individually this time instead of threaded
Posting in large batches, pls address complaints to dennisbhooper
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Larry Friedman @customslawblog.bsky.social Customs and trade law, export controls, cycling, Chicago, good food.
Always talking about tariffs, one way or another.
Bluesky Wins @blueskywins.bsky.social Featuring notable accounts leaving X, user milestones other positive news about Bluesky
Goal is to influence others to leave X
Check starter pack for accounts posted so far no longer on X
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Policy Commons @policycommons.bsky.social The world's largest fully searchable collection of reports, papers, blogs and podcasts posted by ,000s of universities, IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, cities & governments from across the globe. If you were not indexing your organization’s content, let us know.
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Making sense of our political hell every Tues and Fri. From Podmasters UK.
Listen: https://linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
Back us: http://patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
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The Rest Is Politics US @restispoliticsus.bsky.social Katty Kay + Anthony Scaramucci's insider/outsider take on politics. Uncovering secrets from inside the Biden and Trump inner circles. Powered by Fuse Energy⚡️
linktr.ee/restispoliticsus
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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The Marginalian [Unofficial] @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy Marginalia on our search for meaning.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://themarginalian.org/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/themarginalian.org
The Archbishop of Banterbury @thearchbishop.bsky.social Entertainment | Memes | News
SimonFraser @simonfraser00.bsky.social Chair of Chatham House. Founding partner of Flint Global. Former Perm Sec at UK Foreign Office and Business Department.
Batshit Australia @batshit-auspol.bsky.social Weird and wild moments from Down Under. Smash follow!
(And for clarity, just because something's Batshit that doesn't mean we think it's bad)
OSINTdefender @handle.invalid ⚠️ MIRROR OF twitter.com/sentdefender
⚠️ If you own the original account and want to claim this, please contact @twttr-mirrors.bsky.social
Historical Pics @historicalpics.bsky.social Bringing you the most magnificent and breathtaking pics and videos from history!
Brian Roemmele @brianroemmele.bsky.social we can only see what we think is possible.
Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social You will know me.. I’m Sander from the Netherlands
Alexander Rose @alexanderrose.bsky.social Lawyer specialising in Public Funding, Subsidy Control and related issues. Previously worked at European Commission and in UK Civil Service. Very excited about effective regeneration.
Steve Bray @stevebraysodem.bsky.social Standing up to BREXIT
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
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
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social Chairman @EurasiaGroup. Board Director WWF. Climate, technology, and geopolitics. Priors: Principal Secretary to PM of Canada and Premier of Ontario, CEO WWF.
Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social Global Editor, Reuters Breakingviews. Usual disclaimers apply. My free weekly newsletter: https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/the-week-in-breakingviews/
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social Faculty at Johns Hopkins SAIS & the Alperovitch Institute | former Wilson Center; Stanford CISAC | PhD from UC Berkeley | cyber and national security; semis; 5G; AI | usual disclaimers apply
Coordinates: melissakgriffith.com
Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com Associate Professor at Hopkins/SAIS. Former White House industrial strategy economist. Industrial policy, trade, climate, economic security. Views my own. DC | HNL. 🏳️🌈
Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University/ Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council/Scholarly research, writing, teaching, & policy analysis at the intersection of national security & international political economy/ CFIUS&Tech Controls
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social Americas editor at The Economist
Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social New Yorker abroad. Adam Smith Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Economy at University of Glasgow studying governance by/of corporations. Sometimes journalist. Always feminist.
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social Published January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. Check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Julian Arato @aratojulian.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Michigan
International law, trade, investment, contracts, corporations, etc
Tobias Gehrke @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social Geoeconomics and economic security at European Council on Foreign Relations | PhD
Duncan Hollis @duncanhollis.bsky.social Laura H. Carnell Prof. of Law, Temple University; Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie
I study treaties, international organizations, and how to regulate state behavior in cyberspace (not always in that order)
Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
Tim Rühlig @ruehlig.bsky.social Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social, Paris/Brussels. Formerly European Commission, DGAP, UI. China, digital technology, EU-China relations. More at www.timruhlig.eu
Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social Europe Director @openmarkets.bsky.social. Former UK Parliamentary adviser and tech policy consultant. Pro-tech, anti-monopoly.
Rachel Ziemba @reziemba.bsky.social Geo-economics, EM, Energy/Resources. Obsessed by sanctions, sovereign wealth, debt, supply chains, trade. Ziemba Insights CNAS Horizon Engage NYU 🇨🇦 wine economist (dipWSET). NYC mostly, YVR often https://rziemba.substack.com
Dr Maria Shagina @mshagina.bsky.social Diamond-Brown Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, IISS | Ex @FIIA_fi and UniZurich | Economic statecraft, sanctions & energy.
Laurence Boone @lauboone.bsky.social Former French Minister of State for Europe. Geopolitics, Economics, European affairs, Democracy- F Doug Fuller @fudaoge.bsky.social assoc prof at Copenhagen Business School
Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
www.gppi.net
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social Professor of Military Strategy and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition. Born 🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 9y🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/
Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social I’m a Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen. Diplomacy, Digital Technologies, Global Tech Policy, Geopolitics, European Union, International Political Sociology and Social Practice
Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
Kristen Eichensehr @keichensehr.bsky.social Law professor. Editor @justsecurity.org. Working on foreign relations, cybersecurity, and national security.
Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Aleks Turobov, PhD @alturobov.bsky.social Political Scientist with a love for technology. Assistant Professor. Research lead AI & Geopolitics Project @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk, @cam.ac.uk.
AI | Security | Digital Sovereignty
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Jeremy Springman @jrspringman.bsky.social Research Scientist at Meta studying AI. I run surveys, produce data, conduct experiments, and model stuff. Former Research Prof at UPenn. Duke postdoc, UPenn PhD, Pitt alum.
jrspringman.github.io
Kevin Allison @kevinallison.bsky.social Founder and President, Minerva Technology Futures, a geopolitical and policy advisory firm focused on #AI, #semiconductors, #data, #supplychains. #techpolicy
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Hanna Dohmen @hannadohmen.bsky.social Analyst @CSET & Nonresident Fellow @AtlanticCouncil | Part-time JD Candidate @GeorgetownLaw | Economic Security, US-China tech competition, Semiconductors | Views my own
Rosa Balfour @rosabalfour.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Europe, interested in Europe in the World.
Trite Law 🇬🇧 @tritelaw.bsky.social A compendium of legal knowledge for the forthcoming tome ‘Trite Law and Practice’. Run by @legalstyle.co.uk (ie by @ezgra.net).
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Bernd Hüttemann 🇪🇺 @huettemann.eu 🇪🇺 #EBDGenSek @netzwerk-ebd.de #EurSky 🔦 #anticorruption l 🎓Teaching #lobbyEU ⛪ advising #beingCatholic in 🇪🇺 |❤️🩹 🇹🇷 🗣DE EN IT FR TR 🌐 http://www.huettemann.eu |
Berlin #berndsmitte 🔄️ #Çukurcuma #berndsistanbul 📸 #MathiasBothor
Falk Steiner @fsteiner.bsky.social Journalist. Berlin.
Bylines: DLF | Stern | c't | heise | Tagesspiegel | others
German/English.
http://steiner.berlin
Newsletter (DE): https://steady.page/de/guten-morgen-berlin/ (€)
Threema: C66VWYCB
Signal: gutenmorgen.86
Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social Political scientist with a passion for EU affairs, Geek with a passion for technology. Senior Fellow in Europe Division at @SWP-Berlin.org. Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.bsky.social Europe Programme. All views are personal. Journey before Destination.
Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social Acting Co-Director, Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School | all things EU institutional | previously Assistant Prof of EU con law | podcast: EU to go - Der Podcast für Europapolitik
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
Europäische Bewegung Deutschland e.V. @netzwerk-ebd.de Deutschlands größtes Netzwerk für Europapolitik, seit 1949
Germany's biggest network on European affairs, since 1949
http://www.netzwerk-ebd.de 
Fabian Häring @fabianebd.bsky.social Leiter Public Affairs - Referent Europapolitik
Europäische Bewegung Deutschland e.V.
Sophie Pornschlegel @sophiepornschlegel.bsky.social Political scientist & researcher
Senior Adviser EPC
Doctoral candidate Uni Maastricht
My book: https://www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/sophie-pornschlegel-am-ende-der-gewohnten-ordnung-9783426279090
Tobias Flessenkemper @flessenkemper.bsky.social On freedom and history, arts and culture, human rights, democracy, rule of law, diplomacy, international cooperation & European unity | views my own | follow/like/repost≠endorse |
Linn Selle @linnselle.bsky.social European enthusiast in Berlin | Europe Centre @dgap.org | former president @netzwerk-ebd.de 2018-2024
Alexandra Brzozowski @alexowski.bsky.social Journalist in a previous life, now foreign policy comms. RT/follows ≠ endorsements
Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social Journalist - energy, climate, buildings and occasionally politics @Euractiv
Tell me what I got wrong: nikolaus.kurmayer@euractiv.com
Andrew Gray @andrewramsaygray.bsky.social European Affairs Editor at Reuters, covering EU & NATO from Brussels. Previously: Lanark, London, Germany, Geneva, Balkans, Iraq, West Africa & Washington. Ex-Politico editor/podcaster.
StephanIsrael @stephanisrael.bsky.social Covering European and Nato affairs for https://table.media/europe. Previously Tamedia & Balkans reporter. Views are my own.
Transparency International EU @transparency-eu.bsky.social Fighting corruption in Brussels and beyond. The EU office of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
https://transparency.eu/
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Andris Gobiņš @gobins.bsky.social President of the European Movement - Latvia
Member of the European Economic and Social Committee
Eiropas Kustība Latvijā & Eiropas Ekonomikas un Sociālo lietu komiteja
Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu Helsinki-based researcher of EU integration and supranational democracy | Blogger @foederalist.eu | Visiting professor @collegeofeurope.bsky.social, non-resident fellow @fiia.fi, associated researcher @iep-berlin.de | Views my own, of course
Manuel Knapp @europamanuelberlin.bsky.social Europa. Politik. Berlin | Co-Vorsitzender Europa-Union Berlin #AuftragEuropa | Working on Europe @ Europäische Akademie Berlin |
Host www.twitch.tv/europalounge 👈 Follow!
🗣️Team Europe Deutschland
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
Rainer Rudolph @rainerrudolph.bsky.social German Diplomat, for my work in Kosovo please follow @pristina.diplo.de
Frank Burgdörfer @burgdoerfer.eu Demokratie | Europa | Bildung
Alyn Smith MSP 🏴🇪🇺 @alynsmith.bsky.social Scottish European. MSP for Stirling. Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education.
(Photo the brilliant @thekiltedphoto.bsky.social)
Franz C. Mayer @mayerprof.bsky.social Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Europarecht, Völkerrecht, Rechtsvergleichung & Rechtspolitik
Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft
Universität Bielefeld
🇩🇪🇫🇷 * uni-bielefeld.de/mayer
🦣 http://nrw.social/@mayerprof
Dr. Anna-Maija Mertens 🇪🇺 @praesidentin.netzwerk-ebd.de Mein 🦋 bluesky als 🇪🇺 #ebdpräsidentin @netzwerk-ebd.de. Postings von mir (AMM) und Team #EBDGenSek
https://netzwerk-ebd.de/ueber-uns/vorstand/
Tobias Bütow @tobiasbuetow.bsky.social 🇪🇺| Generalsekretär Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk @ofaj_dfjw🇫🇷🇩🇪 | Académie de Berlin | Advisory Board Regional Youth Cooperation Office | Own views 
Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social Historian
* 330 ppm