Inu Manak @inumanak.bsky.social Senior Fellow @piie.com; PhD, Georgetown Government. Books Editor, World Trade Review. Associate Editor, IELP blog. TBT = technical barriers to trade. RT ≠ endorsements. Views my own.
Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after.
Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
Opinions my own / posts off the clock
Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
Eric Robinson @ericrobinson.bsky.social associate director @ RAND | defense strategy | data science | special operations | former OSD policy | usual caveats
Sam Harsimony @harsimony.bsky.social I write about opportunities in science, space, and policy here: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
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
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Tony Johnson @tjprime.bsky.social National Security Executive, Veteran & Civic Strategist | Where Public Service & Tech Innovation Meet Public Trust
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
Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social China, PLA, Taiwan, defense, & nukes | IAF @CFR.org | Liberal natsec-type | Opinions mine
ARLnow @arlnow.bsky.social Local news for Arlington, Virginia. Since 2010.
New Arlington Way @newarlingtonway.org Creating an Arlington for everyone, igniting civic engagement and promoting policies for social progress. Currently merely a figment of imagination of @adamtheo.com but you can ask him about it anyway.
Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social Small town kid. Joined the military. Stuck w/ it for 21 yrs. Stayed in defense. Planner & strategist. Inventor of the coffee egg cream & mocha coffee egg cream
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
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
Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social PhD Student, War Studies, King’s College London. Senior Associate, China Warfighting Initiative, Marine Corps War College.
Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social assistant professor at stony brook university
writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science
Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
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.)
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social Not an official account of anything or anyone other than a guy who never learned when to shut his mouth.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
Matej Rafael Risko @matejrisko.bsky.social Researcher, focus on Nukes | Missiles | Deterrence | Strategy & Planning | War & International Security | Air Power | Wargames | Strictly personal views, Usual Cavetas
Igitur qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum
Center for Public Enterprise @publicenterprise.bsky.social Equipping the public sector with tools to deliver more inclusive economic development.
https://www.publicenterprise.org/
Employ America @employamerica.bsky.social Strategies for the full employment of America’s workers, resources, and capabilities.
Team:
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
James Acton @nuclear-jim.bsky.social Co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. I spend a lot of time thinking about nuclear weapons, advanced nonnuclear technology, and escalation.
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.
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
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.
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.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Texas National Security Review @tnsr.org A rigorous, policy-relevant journal on national & international security, brought to you by The University of Texas System | tnsr.org
Iskander Rehman @irehman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin's Clement Center. Author of "Planning for Protraction" and "Iron Imperator." Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security.
Carlton Haelig, PhD @carltonhaelig.bsky.social Defense Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Views are my own.
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
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 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇹🇼
Will Rinehart @willrinehart.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @cgousu. Economish focused on tech & innovation. Let's build something better. will (at) thecgo (dot) org.
http://williamrinehart.com
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social I was a Woke Youth :(
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social macro, fiscal, Fed. creator of the Sahm rule recession indicator. Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM) Substack.
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
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
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com US opinion editor at the Financial Times
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social ▶️ #scicomm as Science IRL
🎥 video producer
🌸 PhD in flowers
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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social AKA Dubanka. Military, IR, FP, dumb jokes, superheroes, spirited flirt, bigot smasher, retired soldier, field grade hater, DYLF. “Dangerous devil.” “Oozes sensuality.” He/him.
Metro Rail Info @metrorailinfo.bsky.social Official service info feed for Metrorail. To report an emergency, call Transit Police at (202) 962-2121.
wmata.com/alerts
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
Read my stuff: http://ryanjreilly.com/
Order my book: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-j-reilly/sedition-hunters/9781541701809/
Message me on Signal: @ryanjreilly.62
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org We use the law to advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people by defending progress, disrupting extremism, and building for the future. Join us at democracyforward.org
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Kaija Schilde @kaijaschilde.bsky.social Polisci + IR professor + Associate Dean, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies @bupardeeschool.bsky.social, Jean Monnet Chair of European Security and Defense + Global Fellow @Wilson Center
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
Paul Cormarie @paulcormarie.bsky.social RAND Analyst | European defense & nukes | 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Dr. Heather Williams @heatherwilly.bsky.social Director, Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) and Sr Fellow, Defense and Security Department at CSIS
Associate Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School
New Yorker by birth, Bostonian by choice
Forum de Défense et de Stratégie @fds-forum.bsky.social This account is not regularly updated — follow our activities on LinkedIn.
The #FDS seeks to provide exchange platforms for European, Canadian and American actors who work in the defence sector.
www.forum-defense-strategie.org
Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social US Army Goodpaster Scholar, Wargamer, & Paratrooper | USMA ‘09, KCL War Studies ‘15, G’town SSP ‘20 | PhD Candidate @ Duke PoliSci | Personal Acct per DoDI 5400.17
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.
Haggard Hawks @haggardhawks.bsky.social The bird with the words. // Obscure words, etymology & language facts // New book A WINTER DICTIONARY, a collection of obscure words for the festive season, is OUT NOW! // New look website haggardhawks.com launching soon...
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org A bipartisan research institution, CSIS is recognized as the top defense and national security think tank in the world.
https://www.csis.org 
Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo. Defense policy, missile technology, and nuclear strategy.
Weekly analysis of missile tech, nuclear strategy, and European deterrence 👇
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Nuclear Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
Wisconsin Project @wisconsinproject.bsky.social The Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent strategic trade from contributing to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
https://www.wisconsinproject.org/
CNA Corporation @cna.org CNA is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit research and analysis organization dedicated to the safety and security of the nation.
Sam Wilson @spacenukesam.bsky.social Space and nuke analyst at the Center for Space Policy & Strategy at the Aerospace Corporation, Spanish soccer aficionado
U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org An independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of seapower.- M Mark Hibbs @mark88.bsky.social Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. They are in Washington, D.C. I'm in Berlin.
Defense One @defenseone.bsky.social News, events, and ideas for the future of global security threats, policy, business, science, and technology. A division of GovExec. Visit defenseone.com
Fiona Cunningham @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of “Under the Nuclear Shadow” (Princeton, 2025). China, nukes, cyber, space, international security. She/her. Personal website: www.fionascunningham.com
Camille Grand @camillegrand.bsky.social Secretary General @asdeurope.bsky.social Previously Distinguished Policy Fellow @ecfr.eu Former senior official @NATO, Ministère des Armées, Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères and think tanker at FRS…
@matthewkroenig.bsky.social @matthewkroenig.bsky.social 
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
Alex Bollfrass @bollfrass.bsky.social Nuclear weapons and intelligence history.
Victor Cha @victordcha.bsky.social Georgetown Professor, author, former USG, CSIS Geopolitics President, long-suffering Giants and hopeful Knicks aficionado.