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.)
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
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.
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social Director of the Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program at CSIS. Podcasts EuroFile and Russian Roulette. Fmr State Department official. DC sports, Tottenham
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social Founder of the Housing Frame on Substack. Housing, markets, economy. Buc-ee’s fan.
conorsen.substack.com
📍Atlanta, GA
Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Dave Philipps @davephilipps.bsky.social National military correspondent for The New York Times
Capital Weather @capitalweather.com D.C.'s Trusted Weather Team
http://www.capitalweather.com | info@capitalweather.com
Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social Shareholder value = 3 eggs
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
Lizzie.oleary@slate.com
Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
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
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Joe Gould @reporterjoe.bsky.social POLITICO Morning Defense anchor. Tips: jgould@politico.com. Ex Defense_News, ArmyTimes, NY Daily News & Hammond Daily Star. BK native.
Alex Ward @alexward.bsky.social National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
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
Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social New York Times reporter
Email me at greg.jaffe@nytimes.com
Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social Politics Editor for @washingtonmonthly.com
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
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
Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
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
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Paul McLeary @paulmcleary.bsky.social National security reporter for Politico, Buffalo sports fan despite all of it.
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast is out now. I’m just here for a good time.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social Staff writer, The New Republic. Law, democracy, and the courts. 49ers/Dodgers stuff too.
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
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/
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Graham J. @grahamj.bsky.social Defense, space, intel | trains, cities, pugs, warhammer | learning 廣東話 | the good Graham/tall one
Old site: @grahamwjenkins, @lowheadways
about.me/grahamjenkins
LA via DC via Boston
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night, apparently
THE POPE'S HITMAN (10/27/2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://tinyurl.com/barnesandnobletph
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caidid @caidid.bsky.social Artist; writer; work: publishing, higher ed, theatre; volunteer w marine animals; curious about everything.
Children's Illustrated Clausewitz: helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz
Lists: limulus.ghost.io
Is it OK if I bring my dog?
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!
(she/her)
Naunihal Singh @naunihal.bsky.social Professor, writer, magpie, bad at introducing myself. Author of "Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups" All views my own and not those of my employer or anybody else. 
Meg K Guliford @mkguliford.bsky.social Philadelphia Liaison for the Kansas Board of Tourism
Jayhawk Born; Quaker Educated; Jumbo Trained, Dragon Employed
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.
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
Nada Bakos @nadabakos.bsky.social Former CIA analyst and social media alum. Now I mainly focus on being outdoors.
Diana Wueger @dianawueger.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at UChicago and Faculty Associate for Research at Naval Postgrad School. I study conventional weapons, nuclear strategy, South Asia, and ships. Typically spotted wearing pink and talking loud about birds.
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
Dave Brown @davebrown.bsky.social Deputy Managing Editor for Global Security at Politico
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
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.- J @jimmysky.bsky.social @jimmysky.bsky.social
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social Dedicated here to the unfinished work. - 16
Messy is the work, and the work can be joyful— Shepard Fairey.
Former, future.
Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social Political Scientist (all views are own, not employers’). Visiting Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
Paul MacDonald @pkmacdonald.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Focus on war, peace, and strategery. Proud father of Field Marshal von 9th Grader and Vice Admiral Lord 7th Grader
"Herbal" Carmen @herbcarmen.bsky.social Landed big planes on boats, played E-Ring Ding Dong Ditch. USNA'90, Georgetown MSB'13. Proud husband of Dr. Debbie and swim dad of Dash-1 (JMU'22) & Dash-2 (Drexel'27)
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/