Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Rob is reading Macedonian Logistics🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social Law talkin guy. Mostly posts about war books, corgis, and silly things my kid says
Russell “RPG” Ziskey @rpg-volley.bsky.social We’re in the shit now, somebody’s gotta shovel it.
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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.
Jason Lyons @bgsilverback73.bsky.social Don't ask me, I woke up here...former 3-letter guy...no I don't know who killed Kennedy, and no I can't hook you up with some of that sweet, sweet MKULTRA...EYES ON podcast co-host..
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social OIF/OEF vet and Duffel Blog writer. DarkLaughterTDB (at) gmail (dot) com #satire #natsec
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
John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times. Former U.S. Navy EOD & Iraq vet. Reach me securely via Signal at: johnismay.01 or by email at: john.ismay@nytimes.com
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social Pediatrician. Infectious Diseases. Once a Soldier. Wishing we could all be a little more kind to each other.
2 AmazingDaughters™️ and a BadAssWife™️
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org Yes Ha Ha Ha Yes… we’re on bluesky!! A Committee made up of depraved College Football Fans!! All our links here!!
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com https://drafts.interfluidity.com/
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Wilderness Medicine Updates @wildmedupdates.bsky.social The podcast for medical providers at the edges, bringing you digestible updates at the growing edge of Wilderness Medicine, Wilderness EMS, Search and Rescue, and more. 
jordan @jbythekilowatt.bsky.social | 🫶 | she/her |
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"the darkness do be encroaching, tho"
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Dallas Holladay, DO (she/her) @dholladay.bsky.social EM doc by day. EM doc by night... also weekends and holidays. Recovering academic. Working full time plus because my cats have become accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Unapologetically anti-fascist.
Calling the PNW home.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5
Sequel: Duality, coming soon.
Substack: Breaking Beijing.
Podcast: WarTalk (ChinaTalk)
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
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Roy G Biv @plunkettprime.bsky.social “Undaunted by the insolent menaces of villains in power” while “sharing a dark corner of the American experiment.”
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Hannah Wunsch @hwunsch.bsky.social ICU doc, researcher, writer, aspiring playwright, author of The Autumn Ghost #polio #nonfiction #criticalcare #ventilation
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You'll Never Walk Alone.
Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social Economist at the Center for Economic Research. Father to two dogs. 
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social 
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick
Sum, ergo cogito.
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social Military affairs reporter with The Washington Post. State-school alum. Beer-league softball enthusiast. Dog guy. Signal for encrypted tips: danlamothe.30
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
caidid @caidid.bsky.social Artist; writer; work: publishing, higher ed, theatre; volunteer w marine animals; curious about everything.
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Is it OK if I bring my dog?
Coach Nat Fan Club President @donachaidh.bsky.social Artisanal f-bomb purveyor. Founding Guard member. John le Carré's biggest fan and James Jesus Angleton's biggest hater. Louisiana born and bred, but Oakland for life.
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NDKirsch 🌻 @ndkirschmann.bsky.social Over-educated cat lady / NATO nerd & NAFO fan / All opinions are my own / Not official and definitely not serious / was @ndkirschmann at the old hangout
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
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
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social Host On Offense Pod. Cohost Find Out Podcast. CEO Task Force Butler + Veterans Fighting Fascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (http://vva.org/trollreport). Yes, the Nazi hunter you’ve been looking for. linktr.ee/krisgoldsmith
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
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books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Aoife Abbey 📟 🩺 ⚕️ @whistlingdixie.bsky.social Consultant Intensivist | Author Seven Signs of Life @ Vintage Books | Section Editor @ Intensive Care Medicine Journal | Person centred conversations matter | She/Her | ☘️
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social I make sense of hard things.
Author of the bestselling books In Shock and After Shock. Essayist. #MedSky
Also Physician|Patient|Painter|Mom
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
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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erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social the cafe is open and serving hot takes 
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
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Stephen Young @atomicwonk.bsky.social Advocate for more sensible nuclear weapons policies, firm believer that we should not live in a world where hundreds of millions could be dead in an hour. Associate Director for Government Affairs, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Nuclear weapons expert (history, policy, costs, accidents) and tracker of the nuclear “Football.”
Emily Fridenmaker @emilyfri.bsky.social Wife | Mom | Appalachian | MD | Pulmonary & Critical Care
Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social Renewed Kidney Enthusiast
no longer in📍 Gary, Indiana
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Molly Endorfman @endorfman.bsky.social ICU physician. Traveler. Sewist, potter. 
Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social Award-winning political scientist writing on the historical origins of gun culture and it relationship to political violence. Loves cheese and her kid. In that order.
New book: Race, Rights, and Rifles.
A Public Voices Fellow.
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
James Joyner @joyner.bsky.social Security studies professor. Defense policy, civ-mil, interservice rivalry, and conflict intervention. Blogging at OutsideTheBeltway.com. 
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
War Mapper @warmapper.org Mapping conflicts
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The writers thinly disguised family court complaints @swolecialism.bsky.social i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
J.M. Berger @jmberger.com Author, extremism expert.
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
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EMCrit Blog and Podcast @emcrit.bsky.social We are EMCrit. We explore an obsession with Critical Care and Resuscitation. Editor in Chief: Scott Weingart
Casillic @casillic.bsky.social Critical Infrastructure, High Consequence / High Integrity Systems, Space, Nuclear, Mathematics, Public Health, HPC
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Jessica Scott @jessicascott.net Writer of spicy military romances, among other things. Writing again after a 5 year drought. Sociologist studying privacy, surveillance, and narrative warfare.
https://jessicascottbooks.com
Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
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
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Pat Donahoe @patdonahoearmy.bsky.social Retired Army guy. Owner of a small dog. 
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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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com "fundamentally too earnest" Wendell-Berry-Pilled father+husband. Compoasting, gardening, Christopher Alexander and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. SOF veteran.
XO of all Things @xoofxos.bsky.social Deputy Assistant Kitten Wrangler.
Star Wars Stan. Y Wings 4-ever. Former conservative turned angry liberal. Retired Army LTC, inveterate RPG player, forever DM. Trans rights are human rights. Married to @MKKraemer. Most cromulent skeets.
Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social PhD, political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff.
I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking!
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
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