Chicago Growth Project @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social Urbanist PAC promoting a pro-growth agenda for Chicago
www.chicagogrowthproject.org
Chicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social Petition to Demand A World-Class Chicago Transit System: https://www.change.org/Chicago2100
Advocating for a better tomorrow, one street at a time
starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org 12,000+ workers fighting for fair union contracts and a better Starbucks ✊
Organize your store, get updates from our campaign, and sign our Boycott Starbucks pledge at bit.ly/m/SBWU
Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social The OG Urbanist Youtuber! Prolific Streets Documentarian since late 1990s. All good things: biking, walking, transit, open streets & LTNs! Visit www.streetfilms.org for more!
All tweets only represent my personal point of view.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Kalen Luciano @kalenfor44.bsky.social Progressive community organizer running for Chicago’s 44th Ward to build a Lakeview for all
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com Certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social Cartoonist and comedian in Seattle. Buy my comix at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com, see my comedy at JOKETELLERS UNION every 2nd Wednesday at the Clock-Out Lounge
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
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
Writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI
Me & Israel/Palestine: https://bit.ly/4hQmiQl
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/3XbgmJ4
Patrick Gilsenan for 32nd Ward @patgilsenan.bsky.social Candidate for 32nd Ward Alderperson
patrickfor32.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
NWNA Chicago @nwnachicago.org We’re the Northwest Neighborhood Alliance of Chicago - a group of neighbors advocating for housing, transit, and safe streets in northwest Chicago!
Representing West Town, Logan Square, and Humboldt Park
linktr.ee/nwnachicago
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Christian Diaz @christiandiaz.bsky.social Racial healing is a matter of public policy.
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social Educator & advocate for little ones!
WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social As Chicago's PBS station, WTTW is committed to producing and presenting independent, trusted, best-in-class content fueled by a distinctly Chicago sensibility.
https://t.co/QTmgsrKIaj
Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social Build Housing-Protect All Workers-Organize
Construction labor union research analyst and campaigner since 2003. Research finds that union membership, collective bargaining & quality jobs are good for people and society, actually. Now covering CA, OR, & WA!
CTA Train Insights @ctatraininsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚆 Chicago L transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost trains, hourly speedmaps + system snapshots.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social Boston Globe opinion columnist and associate editor. Lego nerd. NY Mets & Knicks fan. Rockfordphile. Occasionally seen & heard. She/Her. OUTTAKES newsletter. Subscribe: globe.com/outtakes
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social This is a police hating and human existence loving account
Whenever I do satire everyone thinks its news and whenever I do news everyone thinks it's satire so good luck with these posts I guess
On Mastodon: Criminalerin.jorts.horse
She/they/guy
Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
Uphold Yang Wenli Thought
He/him
https://www.eveningconstitutional.net
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com Urban planner in Southern California working to transform transportation. Posting my way to a better world to walk, bike and roll.
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social the only moral position on immigration is open borders.
she/her. socialist in the liberal tradition. Reconstructionist. Liberal Currents Contributing Editor, i guess???
boycott the New York Times
Pessimismus intellectus, optimismus voluntatis
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
High Speed Rail Alliance @hsrail.bsky.social The High Speed Rail Alliance is a member-supported nonprofit organization advocating for fast, frequent, and affordable trains throughout North America.
https://linktr.ee/hsrail
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Stephanie Skora @stephanieskora.bsky.social Jewish Lesbian, big dyke energy. Chicago's Voting Person. #GirlIGuess writer, editor. #FreePalestine #BlackLivesMatter #DecrimIL Opinions my own.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
The Screens of Pete and Pete @peteandpete.bsky.social Wellsville: Come back when you get a minute!
Screenshots from The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
Better Streets Chicago Action Fund @bscactionfund.org Fighting for the streets Chicagoans deserve.
bscactionfund.org
Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.social Board President @bscactionfund.org
The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her.
✶✶✶✶
Matt Conroy For Congress (IL-05) @conroyforcongress.bsky.social 🇺🇸For People, Not Power.
🫂Join our uncompromised, unafraid path to a better future.
🗳️Democratic Congressional Candidate in IL-05.
https://linktr.ee/mattconroyforcongress
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social Fighting for Truth & Justice | Ranking Member: @robertgarcia.house.gov
Kevin Ryan @kevryanforillinois.bsky.social Marine Corps veteran, Chicago Public Schools teacher, and candidate for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. I am running a progressive, grassroots campaign to take money out of politics and put it into the working class.
Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social I ride a bike therefore I care about cities. Also love rock climbing, RPGs, SFF, heavy metal & martial arts. From Wəlastəkokewiyik territory, living in Anishinaabe territory. She/her but not a sonofabitch about it.
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Ryan George @theryangeorge.bsky.social Can’t stop talking to myself
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social Social Justice Worrier
Personal account; tweets are not representative of any employer (but are often nerdy about Chicago and/or local government)
It’s pronounced “Blewski”
He/him
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Lakeview Urbanists @lakeviewurbanists.bsky.social A neighborhood organization working to make a more bike, housing, and transit friendly Lakeview
Working Bikes @workingbikes.bsky.social Celebrating 25 years of being a Chicago based Not for Profit that gives old bikes new life.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social Abortion, abolition, those sorts of things. Free DC.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social Co-author, "Life After Cars,” co-host, The War on Cars. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him)
Taking a break for the summer.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com
Donate to my 2027 run in support of PPMD:
https://donate.parentprojectmd.org/fundraiser/7001403
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Father. Husband. Mayor. Building Chicago into the safest, most affordable big city in America.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Tuesday Funk @tuesdayfunk.bsky.social Chicago's beloved eclectic monthly reading series showcasing a mix of fiction, poetry and essays. Join us at Hopleaf the first Tuesday of every month.
Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social Chicago Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
https://chicagodsa.org/
Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social Marxist, wife guy, union man, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. CPS, DSA, THC. Crime, baseball, communism.
http://immortal-science.com
Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
She/her, Latina, Texan
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net It's the Democracy, Stupid.
Radio: WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social
Video podcast: @lincolnsquare.media
Substack: https://edwineisendrath.substack.com/
Long ago: Chicago schoolteacher, alderman, CEO Chicago Sun Times, etc.
Katie Hawkinson @katiehawkinson.bsky.social US News Reporter @the-independent.com
Based in Washington, D.C.
Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social Deputy Executive Editor, The Atlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/stuck-by-yoni-appelbaum/
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social • National investigative correspondent at The New York Times
• Author of zero books
• NYT stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker
📍 Cascadia
Katy Stoll @katystoll.bsky.social Some More News/ Even More News. Producer, actress. Friend.
Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social Host of Some More News, half of The Hot Shapes, space bird.
Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social A podcast on media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Daniel Roberts @drobertsimg.bsky.social FKA IronMikeGallego. I once wrote a few things you might’ve read but then I had kids. Cancer-hater. Gold Star Family. Recovering A’s fan. Combat sports wunderkind. Anti-Stratfordian. Lawyer.
https://deadspin.com/the-trouble-with-floyd-mayweather-1605217498
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social the closer we are physically, the closer we are socially.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov Representing Illinois' 5th District. House Appropriations & Intel Member, amateur hockey player, and proud Cubs fan. He/Him.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com