Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
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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.
John Chinner @johnchinner.bsky.social Head of Outreach - Airbus Defence & Space UK. STEM Ambassador, Space Geek, Robot maker.
Opinions & hair = my own.
Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social Aviation journalist, especially on Alaska. Never met a federal database I didn't love. "Probable Cause" newsletter is here: https://colleenmondor.substack.com/
Mari Saito @saitomri.bsky.social Special Correspondent, Reuters. DM for Signal #
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-war-frontline/
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social Host @indyamericans.bsky.social Founder @indyvetsofamerica.bsky.social, Righteous, @amvets4ukraine.bsky.social, IAVA, Operation Liberty. Speaking truth to power. https://linktr.ee/paulrieckhoff
Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social Data, maps, and satellite imagery 🛰🌻🔭
viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
@gh0str1dr91.bsky.social @gh0str1dr91.bsky.social 
The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social The human, budgetary, environmental, and social costs of U.S. wars and military operations, at home and abroad. Housed at Brown University's Watson School of International and Public Affairs at costsofwar.org.
Francis Tusa @ftusa.bsky.social Editor, Defence Analysis since 1999, bird watching and amateur archaeology on top.
Aude Leroy @audeleroy.bsky.social Grand reporter spé Défense et sécurité (dont Cyber) - Les Cahiers de l'Opinion, le JdN... - Asso des Journalistes de Défense « AJD » - 75e POLDEF IHEDN - Livre « Soldat de la cyberguerre », Ed Tallandier
Michał Gajzler @michalgajzler.bsky.social Aviation, defence industry and ... heavy metal. Nowa Technika Wojskowa, Lotnictwo, Dziennikzbrojny.pl
Seth J. Frantzman @sfrantzman.bsky.social Middle East security, defense analysis. War correspondent @Jerusalem Post; Adjunct Fellow FDD. Breaking Defense.
#ChezFrantzman Author of 'The October 7 War' and 'Drone Wars.'
Skipper. Maine. Phi Psi.
Colin Demarest @demarest-colin.bsky.social 💥 author, future of defense, @axios.com.
📩 cdemarest(at)protonmail(dot)com.
™️ https://www.axios.com/signup/future-of-defense
Theresa Hitchens @thitch.bsky.social Currently Senior Space Reporter at Breaking Defense. Space geek; former peace & security think-tanker; voracious reader of fiction esp. sci-fi/fantasy/alt-history; interested in cooking, archaeology/anthropology, poetry and scientific discovery.
Jacopo Barigazzi @jacopobarigazzi.bsky.social Senior defense correspondent at Politico. Brussels.
Charlotte Bailey @penandpaper1989.bsky.social Aviation writer, researcher and journalist. Author of Vampire Boys. Winner of the 2024 Aerospace Media Awards Best New Journalist of the Year.
John Stupart @john.africandefence.net Co-founder, African Defence Review
Newsletters Editor, Daily Maverick
Newsletters || Defence
Email: jstupart@africandefence.net
Mikayla Easley @mikaylaeasley.bsky.social Listening to loud music, complaining about sports | find me on signal: mick.538
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Kevin Baron @defensebaron.bsky.social Zoom out. Meet me at the intersection of global sports, culture, and strategic competition.
🌐 Founder, Elevation Global Strategies
🎙️ 🎥 Host, Elevation Live!
📺 Analyst - National Security, Defense, Politics & Culture
Link: www.elevation-live.com
Eleanor Watson @elleewatson.bsky.social Covering the Pentagon for @cbsnews
watsone@cbsnews.com
Jeff Seldin @jseldin-news.bsky.social VOA National Security Correspondent, former Pentagon Correspondent
Ex WTOP/Federal News Network | Syracuse University-Newhouse
(RTs ≠ endorsement)
DM for Signal
Jennifer Hlad @jhlad.bsky.social Managing Editor of Defense One. Georgia Bulldawg. Lover of all things sparkly and pink.
Peiyu Lin @peiyulintw.bsky.social 👩💻Journalist Made in Taiwan.
🦭Now military reporter @ Kitsap Sun, USA Today Network
📧pei-yu.lin@kitsapsun.com
Still trying to figure out how to use this app.
Gareth Jennings @garethjennings3.bsky.social Aviation journalist reporting on all aspects of international military aerospace and wider defence issues.
Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social NatSec/cyber/OSINT editor @ Haaretz ➡ http://htz.li/natsec
■ Prev: editor-in-chief @haaretzcom
■ I also follow planes
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
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social Polymath on gap year. #AvGeek. Writer, strategist, cook and guitar picker. Lol, woke, and cope gonna get you blocked, chile.
www.valkstrategy.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-sweetman-024aa01a/
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Rebecca Kheel @kheel.bsky.social Defense reporter at CQ Roll Call. Email: rebecca.kheel@cqrollcall.com. Signal: rhkheel.52. DM for cell/WhatsApp
Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social Journalist + 🇺🇸 veteran / 2026-7 Knight fellow @MIT / Priors: Business Insider, Military Times, Iraq / "Too easy"
Contact me securely:
(Signal) Samfellman.16
(Email) sfellman [at] proton.me
Lili Bayer @liliebayer.bsky.social European Security Correspondent at Reuters, covering NATO, EU defense and foreign policy in Brussels.
Signal: lilibayer.24
Follow Reuters’ Europe foreign policy team: @andrewramsaygray.bsky.social, @sasilink.bsky.social & @irishjreuters.bsky.social
Yannick Smaldore @windofchanged7.bsky.social Membre de l'équipe "France Journaliste" pour Mer et Marine
Matthieu Fauroux @matthieufauroux.bsky.social Europe & Defence Editor @LaLettre
Coffee, speculoos and 🇪🇺 tips 🚲
Dave Philipps @davephilipps.bsky.social National military correspondent for The New York Times
Eric Bazail-Eimil @ebazail.bsky.social POLITICO national security reporter | Come for the news, stay for the sports commentary | send tips: ebazail@politico.com
Rudy Ruitenberg @rudyruitenberg.bsky.social Journalist in France writing about business, defense @defensenews.bsky.social, wine @decanter.com, with a special interest in technology, science, climate, weather, agriculture, nature. On occasion teach at Sciences Po Journalism School. 
Guilherme Wiltgen @guilhermewiltgen.bsky.social Journalist - Editor Brazilian website Defesa Aérea & Naval (www.defesaaereanaval.com.br)
Laura Kayali @laukaya.bsky.social Senior defense correspondent at POLITICO Europe in Paris. lkayali@politico.eu
Ryan Chan 陳家翹 @kakiuchan.bsky.social Truth is still the truth even if nobody believes it. Lie is still a lie even if everybody believes it.
David Cenciotti @cenciotti.theaviationist.com Military aviation blogger and the man behind @theaviationist.com. Journo, IT Sec pro, Computer Eng., Ret. AF officer, speaker, pilot.
David Pugliese @davidpugliese.bsky.social Journalist since 1982. Spencer Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom.
Konstantin Toropin @ktoropin.bsky.social Pentagon Reporter at @apnews.com | Military.com, CNN, and US Navy alum | Opinions are mine. RT, ♥️ ≠ endorsement.
Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social Defense reporter, Europeanist (🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪), metalhead, not necessarily in that order...
Jen Judson @jenjudson.bsky.social Defense reporter at Bloomberg News, 115th National Press Club president, Military Reporters & Editors VP, boy mom, Colorado native
@leeferran.bsky.social @leeferran.bsky.social Managing Ed. Breaking Defense, fmr ABC News
Dean Wingrin @deanwingrin.bsky.social Aviation and defense journalist, author, photographer, defenceWeb correspondent and general raconteur.
Sébastien Roblin @sebastienroblin.bsky.social I write about defense, history and aviation for Popular Mechanics, 19Fortyfive, Forbes, CNN, NBC, Inside Unmanned Systems. In past, National Interest. Former Peace Corps China.
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Kevin Knodell @kjknodell.bsky.social Staff Reporter at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser covering defense and diplomacy in Hawai’i and the greater Pacific. Tips and hate mail to kknodell@staradvertiser.com http://SeeDisclaimer.com
David Axe @davidaxe.bsky.social I make movies and report the news.
Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Posts ≠ endorsement.
https://drrossmahoney.substack.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
Brian O'Rourke @briandefnerd.bsky.social Senior Editor @USNIProceedings, fmr Managing Editor, The War Zone. Mechanical engineer and food nerd. Task & Purpose alum. (Slightly) less awkward in person. Former civilian control of the military at Duffel Blog. (Mging editor). Opinions aren't even mine.
Christopher Cavas @cavasships.bsky.social Journalist and commentator specializing in naval, maritime and defense issues. Cohost of the CavasShips Podcast. Former television director. Proud native of Washington DC. Piano player. All comments my own.
Sam LaGrone @samlagrone.bsky.social Lester Bangs, but for like the ocean.
*stab, look, stab, stab*
Signal: SamLaGrone.13
Mike Yeo 杨启铭 @thebaseleg.bsky.social Defence reporter, military plane spotter, writer of books, scale model builder. Sometimes my worlds collide. An occasionally unserious X-ile. Personal account.
Howard Altman @howardaltman.bsky.social 
Tyler Rogoway @aviationintel.bsky.social Creator/Editor-In-Chief of TWZ.com. Gizmodo Media Group and Time Inc. alum.
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
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Paul McLeary @paulmcleary.bsky.social National security reporter for Politico, Buffalo sports fan despite all of it.
Alex Ward @alexward.bsky.social National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Jared Keller @laserwars.net Former journalist now working in strategic comms and writing about military laser weapons. Your school has no gymnastics team this is a last resort.
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Josh Posaner @joshposaner.bsky.social Managing editor at Euractiv
FlightAcesHigh @flightaceshigh.bsky.social European Defence Editor and Flight International Editor for FlightGlobal.com, covering all things military aviation. And a lapsed biker.
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social CNN national security correspondent. Send tips/pics of your dog(s) to Natasha.bertrand@cnn.com
Signal: Natashabertrand.12
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/natasha-bertrand-profile
William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social Europe/Mideast Bureau Chief for Stars and Stripes, an independent newspaper by and for the US military
www.williamwgallo.com
John M. Donnelly @johnmdonnelly.bsky.social Senior defense writer, CQ Roll Call. National Press Club leader and sports nut (DC and Baltimore teams +#H2P). http://johnmdonnelly83.journoportfolio.com
Tony Osborne @rotorfocus.bsky.social European Defence Editor at Aviation Week, proud hubby to Dr Kubi, aircraft photographer (Canon user, obvs), and #RIAT volunteer among other things.
Phil Stewart @phildstewart.bsky.social Military & Intelligence Correspondent@Reuters. Reported from 60+ countries including Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, China. US based. phil.stewart@tr.com
Bradley Peniston @navybook.bsky.social Executive editor, Defense One. Author of two books about the U.S. Navy. Knows just enough about scripting to be dangerous.
Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, co-author of Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
Website: https://fas.org/initiative/nuclear-information-project/
Chris Lee @propandkerosene.bsky.social Propofol and Kerosene - I am an aviation geek, amateur photographer, and a physician (anesthesiologist). Mostly aviation, with some ships and wildlife w/occ astrophotography. Seattle area - mostly Paine Field spotting. Own work unless otherwise stated
Scarlett Fox Fella 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 #NAFO @scarlett4fox.bsky.social Marine Vet who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and will always honor my oath.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
Michael Conte @michaelconte.bsky.social Six strings or none. #LFGM
@toddsharrison.bsky.social @toddsharrison.bsky.social 
John Koehn @johnkoehn.bsky.social 
jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social public service. deep breaths, long horizons.
Johnny Michael @mepurgamentum.bsky.social 
@beckyheyse.bsky.social @beckyheyse.bsky.social 
gia dehart @giadehart.bsky.social head of us govt comms @ maxar
⚓️navy vet, usna & wharton alum
views = my own. go birds 🦅
Kevin Butler @milesnaismith.bsky.social I love travel, food, good story-telling, and empathy. I also have a huge man-crush on the rule of law.
I run a company that does business phone, video conferencing, and contact centers especially for local governments. www.vertical.com
David Rohde @davidmrohde.bsky.social 🇺🇦
Fuck Trump.
Photographer, environmental planner and geographer. Husband and father (humans and animals). ΚΣ. UConn. New England.
www.davidmrohde.com
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/
Heather Mongilio @heathermongilio.bsky.social Reporter with USNI News, covering the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard. Focused on personnel, medicine and seas with colors in their names. American U, MIT alumna. Ice skater who bakes. Tips: hmongilio@usni.org, Signal: @HMongilio.52
Graham Warwick @theworacle.bsky.social Technology editor at Aviation Week, lifelong aeroplane enthusiast and recovering aeronautical engineer, sworn to eradicate the word "aircrafts". My musings on aircraft design and aerospace news.
Tim Shenk @tim.doctorswithoutborders.org Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA. Based in NYC and internationally focused. Opinions my own.
@doctorswithoutborders.org
Haley Britzky @halbritz.bsky.social Pentagon for @CNN. Was: Army for @TaskandPurpose. Texan. Christian. E-4 Mafia stan. haley.britzky@cnn.com or haleybritzky@protonmail.com
Michael C. Horowitz @mchorowitz.bsky.social Professor @Penn @perryworldhouse. Senior Fellow @CFR. Former DASD for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. Defense, #AI, and innovation. Always Boston. Views my own.
Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social Retired US Fish & Wildlife Service endangered species biologist (27 yrs), former Center for Biological Diversity
Writing a book on the international trade in insects & invertebrates
Butterflies, imperiled species, & especially golden retrievers 🦤🦮
Lauren Kahn @laurenakahn.bsky.social Policy Advisor, Force Development and Emerging Capabilities in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, DOD
On leave from CSET Georgetown | Previously Council on Foreign Relations & University of Pennsylvania |
Views my own!
X-POD™ @xpodtech.com “A global technology leader developing advanced occupant‑safety solutions, including the Safety‑X‑Pod®—an ejectable, crash‑proof passenger cocoon with an integrated Environmental Control and Life Support System.” https://xpodtech.com/
Steve Garber @skjgarber.bsky.social PNW, USAF Veteran, AvGeek