Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America is the largest and fastest growing socialist organization in the USA. 🌹 Posts are not official statements.
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Shosi שושנה בת לילית @roseamongthorns.bsky.social Lover of nerdy things 🧐
Straight up disaster vampire 🧛♀️ 🥀
Yiddishkeit, doikayt, aun khavershaft ✡️
Trans woman 🏳️⚧️
Lover of women 👩❤️👩
Lilith’s eepiest daughter
Future opshprekherins
Some times a feral bitch, sometimes a Handler
I love spicy content and memes 🔞
daniel sieradski @self.agency fmr. publisher: jewish worker, jewschool + orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead: nylon, jta news + repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. holds numerous dubious ordinations. aft+iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny.
🔗 https://self.agency
zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social interested in yiddishkeit and the yiddish language. looking to follow jewish artists and scholars 🏳️🌈🕎 lesbian theatre artist, she/her
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
See what's new at akpress.org!
Der Spekter @derspekter.org Bundist perspectives, original artwork, journalism, and more.
www.derspekter.org
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
The International Jewish Labor Bund @intljewishbund.bsky.social Yiddishkayt, Doikayt, Sozialism
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Scary Lady Sarah @scaryladysarah.bsky.social DJ; musician; vegan; traveler; proponent of peace & love; guitars/vox in The Bellwether Syndicate; Nocturna Chicago; cat mama; goth soul / shoegaze heart (or is it the other way around?) 💜🖤🦇🦋🎶☮️
#alwaysantifascist
linktr.ee/scaryladysarah 
The Dugout - A Black Anarchist Podcast @thedugoutpod.bsky.social Black anarchist podcast on politics, history, news and media critique brought to you by two queers in the Midwest
TheDugoutPodcast.com
bio.site/thedugoutpodcast
patreon.com/TheDugoutPod
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
crimethinc.com
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social Curling, cats, and crimes. And occasional baseball. (Also, baseball crimes.) Living in Chicago with @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social. Never quite sure which century I’m in. https://jacobpomrenke.com
SEIU_ORG @seiu.org Official Bluesky of SEIU, a leading voice for labor & progressive change for working people. #UnionsForAll #ProtectAllWorkers #1u
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social Producers of radical culture
Podcasts:
Live Like the World is Dying, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, The Spectacle
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/
https://www.patreon.com/c/strangersinatangledwilderness/
“Brandon,” a Bluesky commenter @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed. No faxes!!!!1
amy brown @amybrown.xyz writer / parent x2 / sf bay via dayton, ohio
"the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing” - KATSEYE
amybrown.xyz ✨
Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social Margo from Kyiv | telling you about war Russia threw on us | longer reads: margogontar.substack.com
support my reporting : via paуpal : contributeto762project@gmail.com & https://buymeacoffee.com/margogontar
🎧IT’S SO FCKD UP is out ✨
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
Je suis Link (kaelyn) @kaelynski.bsky.social She/her. Chicago. Metalwork. Community Care. Abolition.
🏗️ 🇵🇸
Profile: photo of me, a white woman with dark hair, standing sideways, braid facing the camera.
Banner: light blue/green sky with me looking down from the right side of the frame.
Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com Filmmaker, Force of Nature
Co-founder of thetriibe.com.
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NWS Chicago Unofficial (inactive) @nwschicago.bsky.social Unofficial account mirroring tweets from @NWSChicago. Maintained by @llkats.com. Notifications are not monitored. Checks for updates every 20 min.
If NWS Chicago would like to use this handle, please reach out to nwschicagobluesky@llkats.com.
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Jack ☁️ @bubblycreek.bsky.social Amateur Chicagrapher
Raven Geary @ravengeary.bsky.social Journalist. Hate mail: raven@unraveledpress.com
Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social An avid pedestrian in Chicago.
Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social Sociologist, social work faculty
Posting topics include community, disability, social welfare, Chicago, social movements, organizing, policy, the state, labor, coffee, and various nerdy side trips. Personal account
Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social Chicago. Reporter now, @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Focused on violence, and running to ground things related. Past: CNN, Chicago Tribune. More of a baseball account now if I am being honest.
Well used to ghostly company by this time
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social I research movements and markets (renewables, urban ag in Detroit, river conservation in Ireland) & corporate disinformation campaigns. UF & UW alum
Also: rock climber, forager, ceramicist, gardener, ADHD hobby collector
https://disinfonation.com
Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social We are all we’ve got. We are all we need. ✊🏽
Community Organizer 🚲 @cyclingxsolidarity
Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social Beers, bikes & bong rips.
Chicago homer to a fault. (he/him)
Mommy Marshal Heidi 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☭ @theonetrueheidi.bsky.social 43 | She/Her | Philly Girl | Polyamorous | Lesbian | Habitual Threesome Instigator | Part-Time Slut | Professional Bitch | Cosplayer | 🔞
NWS: @tsheidi.bsky.social
Cosplay: @evilqueenbee.bsky.social
Streaming: @evilqueenbeegames.bsky.social
maureen @maureenf.bsky.social Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, poems, and where I live.
she/her
Dreez🌵 @dr33zy.bsky.social Queer anarchist (any pronouns) and a menace to settler colonialism (Manifest Destiny, I am your Enemy). Wear a respirator.
📍 ZHIGAAGONG
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social A podcast that takes you on a journey to reimagine how we can bring freedom & liberation to life.
https://linktr.ee/underthetree
Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing writers of motion pictures, television, radio, and internet programming.
linktr.ee/wgawest
Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags @ooccouchgags.bsky.social Run by LorcanHedgehog
A Irish guy acts American. Age 28
Posts non couch gag/Simpsons posts
(Not associated to Disney, Fox or Simpsons Crew)
Chicago Gothic Scene @chicagogothicscene.bsky.social Flyers for Goth/Industrial/Ebm/Post Punk etc…shows in Chicago/and or Greater Chicago Area. DM info/flyers for any shows.
⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧
Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social 
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
POPULAR FRONT @popularfront.co 🔥 Live from the frontlines
www.popularfront.co
ellery @ellery.bsky.social not a dozen opossums in a trench coat. innovation editor at @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org. she/they 🏳️⚧️
talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
SEIU California @seiuca.org We are 750,000 members 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼 — CA’s health care workers, state & county employees, security officers, school workers, janitors, & more!
agitator in chief @soit-goes.bsky.social shitposting for justice since 2012
People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social Abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the ppls voice through direct action, public ed + community space https://www.patreon.com/therobinsonspace
Subscribe to our new project: https://www.peoplescitycouncil-la.com/podcast
Abby Klionsky @abionsky.bsky.social Teacher of littles ~ year-round #biker / donated car to NPR ~ indoor climber ~ improv w/ @whimsypc.bsky.social ~ Chicago native + lived in NJ, MS, & CA ~ mostly posts about #bikechi, transit, & the Point
Black Cat Ⓐ @americanow.bsky.social 
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org Award-winning nonprofit news site chronicling the #LongCOVID crisis. Founded by @BetsyLadyzhets.bsky.social & @MilesWGriffis.bsky.social
Website: thesicktimes.org
Newsletter: thesicktimes.org/newsletter
Donate: the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
https://instagram.com/luckytran
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
David Teeghman 🇵🇸 🌏🚴🏻🌹 @teeghman.bsky.social West Sider, YIMBY, biker and organizer. @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social executive committee chair. Radicalized former public school teacher.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
@davidgrossman.bsky.social @davidgrossman.bsky.social 
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Quinn Myers @quinnmyers.bsky.social reporter @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Email: quinn@blockclubchi.org
Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social staff writer @ The New Republic
AYMAN on MSNBC @ayman.msnbc.com Saturdays and Sundays at 7-9pm ET on MSNBC. Watch full interviews on YouTube at msnbc.com/ayman
Washington Wizards @washwizards.bsky.social For one, for all, #ForTheDistrict
Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org Chicagoans working together to make our streets better for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit.
🧑🦼🚶🚲🚌
linktr.ee/betterstreetschicago
Julia @juliadoubleday.bsky.social 
Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social Photojournalist @BlockClubCHI | BSJ, MSJ, Adjunct Lecturer @MedillSchool | Lifelong Chicagoan | #TodaysReportingLunch | Cats | News | Local Lens
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Chicago Teachers Union @ctulocal1.bsky.social Fighting for the Schools Our Students Deserve.
Strong Union of Member Educators.
ctulocal1.org
cta @chicagocta.bsky.social Official account of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Delivering quality, affordable transit services that link people, jobs and communities.
For customer support head to transitchicago.com/contact
Emily @emilyonhere.gay lmfaoing my ass off
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
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Alma Campos @almacampos.bsky.social Immigration reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
almacampos.com email: acampos@chicagopublicmedia.org
Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social ✶ State investigations editor at https://illinoisanswers.org/ ✶ https://www.jim-daley.com/ ✶ DM for Signal ✶
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Except the serious things, don’t take life too seriously. Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/ DM for Signal 🔐
Sally's Toy Box @sallystoybox.bsky.social Handmade bondage gear made by bondage enthusiasts. www.sallystoybox.com Sleep sacks, hoods, restraints, bondage furniture. Interested in relationships with other brands. Custom project inquiries welcome. All items made in and shipped from Fitchburg, MA USA
bimbotron9000 @bimbooshka.bsky.social Mysterious woman with a seedy back story
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Eye On Palestine @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social Ran by the WSU4P team | instagram.com/wsu4p
🇵🇸 Spreading the message of Eye on Palestine on BlueSky
Amina Hussein @aminahekmet.bsky.social Kurdish journalist// translator
Ànima Award 2021🎖️#Kurdistan #JinJiyanAzadi
Instagram: @aminahekmet
Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social Syrian political activist from #Daraa #Syria Freedom. Ya Hala 👋 8.12.2024
buymeacoffee.com/nedal
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Madeline Hill @madelinehill.bsky.social 🏀Sports gossip enthusiast🏀
Co-host of @sportsgossipshow.bsky.social from @theathletic.com
Listen here: sportsgossipshow.com
If Bravo and ESPN had a baby, it would be my newsletter.
Subscribe here: impersonalfoul.com
Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social Senior NBA Writer at TheRinger.com | Co-host, the Real Ones | #NBASky evangelist
Previously: SI.com, BleacherReport.com, NYTimes.com, DailyNews.com, VCStar.com, DavisEnterprise.com
https://www.theringer.com/authors/howard-beck
authory.com/howardbeck