Richard Simonson
Occasional wandering staff officer. Older than I used to be.
Interested in air and missile defence, COIN, civil-military relations.
Avid podcast listener. Bibliophile. Lapsed reader.
@thrustwr.bsky.social
Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader. For defense-related stuff Site: https://defensearchives.com/news Map site: https://www.vermln.com
@emmashortis.bsky.social
Director, International and Security Affairs at @australiainstitute.org.au. All things Australian foreign policy and US history & politics.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
Executive Director at The Australia Institute Economist, Author of books and writer of columns often for Saturday Paper, The Monthly & The New Daily (previously The Guardian, Australian Financial Review)
@stanleyhistorian.bsky.social
Canberra-based historian; author of 50 books, mostly on Australian and British Indian military history. Joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2011. Author of historical fiction, notably the Mansergh novels and The Sherrin (2025)
@mazjovanovich.bsky.social
Aussie military aviatrix, test pilot, lapsed physicist, occasional writer. Come for the aeroplanes, stay for the snark.
@jemh.bsky.social
Still working on a witty tag line. 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 studying all things strategy & security. Lover of wine, hiking & cricket.
@richganske.bsky.social
Supporter and Defender of the Constitution of the United States. Husband, father, strategist, Airman, fallibilist, and pragmatic idealist. I am a proud board member of @thestrategybridge.bsky.social.
@kaltoons.bsky.social
Editorial cartoonist who has inked over 11,000 for The Economist (46 years), the Baltimore Sun (35 years), Counterpoint and others. Loves the ancient mighty pen.
@johnfsullivan.bsky.social
Former U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer currently studying ancient Chinese military & strategic texts and arguing for the need to study and debate them more broadly within our own military PME and academic institutions.
@sbg1.bsky.social
Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Editor at large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Never Trump.
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@sodrock.bsky.social
The foreign 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/
@mikepbowers.bsky.social
@justinwolfers.bsky.social
Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings and PIIE ● Intro econ textbook author ● Think Like An Economist podcast ● An economist willing to admit that the glass really is half full.
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@rac-vic.bsky.social
The Refugee Action Collective Vic campaigns for refugee rights, including the abolition of mandatory detention and offshore processing. https://rac-vic.org/
@pgourevitch.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
@powerpointranger.bsky.social
Naval officer, forever staffer nerding out on geopolitics and the Indo-Pacific with a focus on the Korean Peninsula. powerpointranger.substack.com Cyclist. Hiker. Cat dad. Detroit sports fan. Thoughts my own, don’t represent DoD, etc.
@gideonrachman.bsky.social
FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
@robinpr.bsky.social
Sr. Producer and host for Tiny Desks and All Songs Considered at NPRMusic, composer, ruminator, Jayhawk. Rock chalk! (Not Moby) www.npr.org/allsongs www.robinhiltonmusic.com
@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
@drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University at Albany SUNY Greek and Roman History PhD UC Berkeley
@contrariannews.org
Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/
@joshtaylor.bsky.social
Technology reporter at the Guardian, in Melbourne, Australia. Tech, infosec, FOI, politics, media 🌈 (he/him) https://linktr.ee/joshtayl0r
@combatcavscout.bsky.social
Military, IR, FP, dumb jokes, superheroes, spirited flirt, bigot smasher, retired soldier, field grade hater, DYLF. “Dangerous devil.” “Oozes sensuality.” He/him.
@tonymartin.bsky.social
Mayor of SIZZLETOWN sizzletownpodcast.com | FROM THE HIDEOUT https://linktr.ee/fromthehideout | SHUT UP https://www.youtube.com/shutupseries | AUDIOBOOKS etc https://mrtonymartin.bandcamp.com/
@michaelstahlke.bsky.social
It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.
@deemadigan.bsky.social
Creative Director of Campaign Edge. Campaigner. Author. Speaker. On Gruen, Sunrise and The Latest.
@kazcooke.bsky.social
Author & cartoonist kazcooke.com.au Books: Up The Duff; Girl Stuffs 8-12 & 13+; Ada; You’re Doing It Wrong: a History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; ‘It’s The Menopause’. Further palaver as it comes to hand.
@antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
@mcfaulmike.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
@crikey.com.au
Holding power to account. Independent, Australian-owned news, investigation, analysis and opinion. Got a tip? We're all ears... crikey.com.au/tip-off-crikey/
@aunz.theconversation.com
Independent news from the sharpest academic minds. 📰 Read: http://theconversation.com/au 🤳 Subscribe for free: https://shorturl.at/Xp6g8 💸 Donate: http://bit.ly/3JKj16a
@murpharoo.bsky.social
Political editor, Guardian Australia. Traffic acquisition cost. Makes people cry. Sometimes runs the press conference.
@ketanjoshi.co
Analysis, research, writing and communications focused on anti-greenwashing and corporate accountability. Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
@danilic.bsky.social
Investigative Humourist. Host @ARationalFear Podcast. Winner 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Australian Podcast Awards Best Comedy Podcast. 🏆🏆🏆
@cathywilcox.bsky.social
Editorial cartoons, dog walks, languages, bleeding heart, existential malaise. Latest book Hoary Chestnuts, shop at cathywilcox.com.au
@fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Cartoonist for the Guardian (amongst others) , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary. Gadigal Country. Australia
@lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social
The podcast for laughing at the failures, crimes, and insanity of military history Hosted by @jkass99.bsky.social @gotitatguineys.bsky.social @inthesedeserts.bsky.social @animejlumyan.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys