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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
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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Korea Institute for National Unification
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WLFireside @wlfireside.bsky.social Tracking Trump’s World Liberty Financial — the grift, the money, the machine. 🔥 WLFireside by Langdon Cage
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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/
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social political scientist at UC Merced
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social Author: Strange People on the Hill https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ |
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James Taub @taubhistory.bsky.social Associate Curator at the Museum of the American Revolution and a public historian. Focused on France and America during WWI and the 18th century.
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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social Ex-CIA, Ex-RAND, ex-historian. I post on things related to defense, national security, Africa (esp. the Sahel), and all things French military. Sometimes troll antisemites.
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social Mostly energy, supply chains, and transportation. Toto and Art Deco enthusiast. Still a MENA student at heart. Views my own.
Onward, Rocinante!
Joe Brusuelas @joebrusuelas.bsky.social Chief Economist RSM. Board of advisors UCLA Anderson School Economic Forecast. Member Wall Street Journal forecast board. Named a top forecaster for 2023 & 2025 by Bloomberg. Dodgers fan
The High Side @thehighside.bsky.social Investigative and enterprise national security news you won't find elsewhere, found at TheHighSide.substack.com and run by @SeanDNaylor.bsky.social and @JackMurphyRGR.bsky.social.
Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social War is bad. Books are good. He/him. STL. Go Cards. Let’s Go Blues. AllForCity
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social Health Care Reporter for POLITICO focused on sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion, contraception and STIs.
Author of the forthcoming book "Side Effects" with The New Press.
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social War Crimes Investigator focused on the Russian War in Ukraine
Perhaps the real watch list was the friends we made along the way. Keyboard Inghimasi. Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex. --Dire Straits Appreciation Zone-- #Flowers4Qanon
Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social Gay, from Chicago and now in Milwaukee | adorer of all felines | he/him/they | anti-authoritarian | Derek Thompson went on Dick Hanania’s nazi podcast and blocked me for asking why
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social ★ a queer civil rights lawyer who writes, professors, babbles, is obsessed with their cats, wrongly puts two spaces after periods, &c. ★ honorific/pronouns: Mx./they/them/their ★
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social Mainly focused on covering extreme weather events worldwide. Also interested in climate dynamics, geohazards and satellite remote sensing.
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Sam Lillo @samlillo.bsky.social Mostly weather, dataviz, and some homesteading projects
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc.
QUEER
RT/Fave/etc ≠agree
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Jonathan Caverley @jcaverley.bsky.social Political scientist who studies international security who is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Opinion's are not my employer!
Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social Mom of four, Illinois Lt. Governor, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate.
Giving the people what they want.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
andymasley.com
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social Bi, Heat Transferer and Supercritical Fluid Enjoyer
Tech, culture, war, and war by other means
Supplying you with feelings via an efficient band
Ballistic missile maximalist
土法炼钢 manufacturing engineer
Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
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.
Nice à Vélo @niceavelo.org Association des usagères et des usagers du vélo à Nice et dans sa Métropole.
Infos, événements, adhésions 👉 https://linktr.ee/niceavelo
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @brookings.edu. Previously Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs.
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social Bluesky newbie
Non-economist at The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au. Over 25 years working across climate, energy, forest, ocean and wildlife protection, and did time as a political 'staffer'.
All views and fat fingered typos my own.
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com Media platform covering global conflict zones. Focus on the Ukraine-Russia war. Consider supporting us once via buymeacoffee.com/noelreports or by becoming a member via patreon.com/NOELREPORTS.
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social Episcopalian | North Carolinian | father | husband | English teacher | liberal | lost on Jeopardy! | 🏳️🌈 | IG: @aubreygilleran
Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social City planner. Reconstruction Democrat. Housing is good and fascism is bad.
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
Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social Metro columnist, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
Email: tsteller@tucson.com
Signal: timsteller.87
Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Ph.D. @divreyes.bsky.social Sociologist. Origins-LA Latina🇲🇽. Author of #learningtobelatino Research: #highereducation #latinos #activism RT or ❤️ not endorsement
https://www.daisyverduzcoreyes.com/
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social Consulting on climate change & the energy transition for NGOs & foundations at Kostyack Strategies. Senior Contributor at Forbes.com & Senior Fellow at ceea.us. All opinions expressed here are solely my own.
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study very bad things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
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.
Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
For defense-related stuff
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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
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
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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.
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
RWJF @rwjf.org Taking bold leaps to transform health. Together let's build a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social energy historian | infrastructure, decarbonization, and landscapes | Angeleno | always on the lookout for a good fun fact
coming soon to a disciplinary boundary near you!
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.
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social Taiwanese-American MCEPA graduate from UC San Diego. I research cross-strait relations, conspiracy theories and politics in the Chinese-speaking world. Follow me for bad jokes, stats nerd stuff, and updates on whatever I'm reading.
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.
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen! 🀄️
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