@thejordany.bsky.social @thejordany.bsky.social 
Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social “northeast guitar”; he/him/any; useful promo stuff is @realtedleo on insta*ram, tedleo.bandcamp.com
Civil Eats @civileats.com Award-winning news and commentary about the U.S. food system. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://civileats.com/newsletter/
OpenNews @ SRCCON 2026! 🥳 @opennews.bsky.social We help journalists connect as peers to build skills that transform their work and relationships that transform our industry.
Oh, and we do SRCCON! Minneapolis, July 8 & 9. A community-driven conference for journalists.
2026.srccon.org
Dan "Dan Schultz" Schultz @slifty.bsky.social Dan is just this guy, you know?
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff.bsky.social @AP Elections News Project Manager, IgA nephropathy for more than 20 years, two kidney transplants 2006 and 2016!
DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Radically pro-transgender.
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social Artist, photographer
ATX
kicketh out thee jammes matriarch-fornicators!
https://linktr.ee/artofcoop
Photo account: https://bsky.app/profile/photosbycoop.bsky.social
mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Helping people do their best work despite the ravages of capitalism at everythingchanges.us.
Posting from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/. I log in about once a week.
Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account)
also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc.
chicago via new orleans via chicago
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff.
please dont, "not all white people" me
Terry Midnight tried to tell you! @docmidnight.bsky.social Owner of Third Coast Comics in CHGO.
Is unfathomable but currently thinking about Austrailian Prog Metal Bands.
Loves Comics, Prog & Skyrim. Hates Pants. UNFATHOMABABLE I tell you!
https://thirdcoastcomics.com/
https://thirdcoastcomics.myshopify.com/
Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com I’m CTO at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (@icij.org) where I build interactive stories, data driven investigations and tools.
#PandoraPapers #UberFiles #FinCENFiles #LuandaLeaks and many more.
@nwsnws.com @nwsnws.com Join us.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Stephanie Federico @sfederico.bsky.social Digital editor at KUT, previously NPR | Walking jukebox | 🖼️ 🐈⬛🦩🌕🌳
LIA 福振凡 🇺🇸🇨🇳 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago grad
Contract work for the United Nations
Contributor at the Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net Special Projects Editor at The Economist. Bad puns on The Internet.
Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social Heirloom beans, etc
www.ranchogordo.com
Official member: Leguminati 🫘
Matt Stiles @stiles.bsky.social Data, viz, code at CNN. 
BEAN YEAR @billhookunion.beanyear.com Say Yes To Beans!
https://beanyear.com
Mastadon: @Beanyear@epicure.social
Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social Food writer and photographer. Chicago. 
John Muyskens @johnmuyskens.bsky.social Graphics reporter at The Washington Post focusing on climate change and environmental justice. Cambridge, MA
FairVote Illinois @fairvoteil.bsky.social A nonpartisan, grassroots organization working for better elections. Join the movement to bring ranked choice voting to Illinois!
🔗: FairVoteIllinois.org/links
brentajones.bsky.social @brentajones.bsky.social News apps developer @npr.org; formerly @stlpublicradio.bsky.social
📍St. Louis
Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social Chicago journalist at Injustice Watch. 
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com EIC, @thetriibe.com
2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow
Monica Eng @monicaeng.bsky.social Axios Reporter in Chicago. Food writer. Dumpling lover. Struggling novelist. Mom and fermenta.
Wolf Point Media @wolfpointaudio.bsky.social We're a Chicago-based podcast production house comprised of audio pros who believe powerful audio can unite people and spark change. www.wolfpoint.media
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social Words/photos on Latin America: World Politics Review, Vice, USA Today, the New Humanitarian
+ lots more. Editor: Pirate Wire Services
Sign up for our newsletter: www.piratewireservices.com
Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social Eric_Erins on Twitter
Usually I’m out here posting buildings and real estate listings I think are interesting.
Chicago
matt carmichael @mattcarmichael.com Futurist, speaker, author, dad, softball coach. You are not alone, and music heals. (past: @mcarmichael, https://rocknroll.net)
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
http://www.jkimpictures.net
Chicago Tree @chicagotree.bsky.social Mostly reposting Chicago trees & sometimes other trees. And birds. And other things I find interesting.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
Headshot: Varvara Mikushkina
Cover photo: Brian Cassella
Kainaz Amaria @kamaria.bsky.social Visual Enterprise Editor, Investigations @washingtonpost •📸• prev @voxdotcom @npr • SF/London/Ohio/Bombay/DC
Christmas Vacation @xmasvacation.bsky.social Posting all of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," one clip at a time, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Posts auto-delete after 36 hours to avoid angering the movie studio.
Operated by @waldo.net.
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Jason Das @floodfish.bsky.social 
Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social chicago bicycle supremacist she/her
André Natta @acnatta.bsky.social I've been a journalist, a planner, and a hotel general manager. It's always about buying the ticket and taking the ride. Bronx native. Executive director/Executive editor, @bhamwatch.bsky.social
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public. 
Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social I write.
Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com Real estate information platform for development in Chicago, Cook County, and Lake County (Illinois and Indiana). http://chicagocityscape.com
jeff larson @hey.jeffl.es Used to be a journalist: https://www.propublica.org/people/jeff-larson
Now? A dad.
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Tony Coppoletta @tonycoppoletta.com Likes food. And trains. And cities. Info designer in transit. Made in Chicago. (Personal acct)
tonycoppoletta.com
Also super pro-trans and anti-facisct because I'm a decent human being.
He/him 🏳️🌈
Mike Janssen @mjanssen.bsky.social Editor @current.org, banjo noodler, on guitar at the dad jams. I like to make cocktails, coffee, pizza and other foods. W-A-S-H-I-N-G, T-O-N, baby, D-C
Music: boundarystones.bandcamp.com/album/the-boundary-stones-2 and soundcloud.com/thatmikejanssen
Scott Smith is Our Man In Chicago @ourmaninchicago.bsky.social S. Side; @erinjshea's guy; dad; host of The Frunchroom; Leo McGarry of the Cook County Assessor
Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
https://zachmortice.com
Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social Your Illinois news radar https://capitolfax.com/
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com I'm an architecture photographer and Chicago is my backdrop. I post about weather, science, and urbanism issues, too. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
📩: nick@nuphoto.com
https://linktr.ee/nick_ulivieri
Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.social Board President @bscactionfund.org
The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her.
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Jesse Kriss @jklabs.net 
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel
“The smart, transit-oriented [social media] account” -Chicago Tribune
Planning, building, breaking, rebuilding.
JGfromNP @jgfromnp.bsky.social I'm JG. I'm from NP. In Chicago. On a bike. He/Him/His.
Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
http://me3dia.com
Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social I like to write about terrible men, horrible things, and unlikeable women. Somehow my book is a bestseller. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary.
Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
Rebecca @rebeccakell.bsky.social She/her. Dyke. Chicagoan. Knitter. Treadmillknitter. Weightlifter. Anti-fascist. Anti-bigotry.
Rep. Kelly Cassidy @kmcchicago.bsky.social Only openly gay member of the IL House, mom of 3 adult sons, a bunch of cats, and a gigantic dog. Abortion defender for every gender.
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
Max Chavez @maxchavez.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️🌈
ART DECO WORLD available for pre-order: https://linktr.ee/maxechavez
Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social Newsletter Editor and Writer @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student. Floridian in the Midwest.
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net Editor @ Marketplace.org based in Seattle; D&D DM // Former: NPR's Morning Edition & Up First, NPR digital, MPR News, Orlando Sentinel. Other: Big fan of dogs, TTRPGs and nerdy stuff.
READING: London Falling
matt dennewitz @mattdennewitz.bsky.social 🫠
Now: CTO Muck Rack
Prev: Pitchfork, WIRED, them.us
Global synth search: wigglehunt.com
Baseball Observer: baseball.observer
ex. pitchfork
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social ProPublica deputy news apps editor
Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
wonder.voyage
debuggingteams.com
Christopher L. Keller @chrislkeller.com Award-winning journalist for The Associated Press.
Stretch-4 putting in work on the offensive and defensive glass.
Aspiring to play lead and rhythm guitar.
My posts disappear.
Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
Chris Zubak-Skees @zubakskees.bsky.social Data journalist and software engineer https://zubak-skees.dev
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social Dad. Doofus. Data dork. Now Florida Man.
Coffee tastes absolutely horrible.
Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com Tech and Product @ Philadelphia Inquirer. Hockey fan, trivia buff, pinball nerd, lapsed pizza chef.
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
katie @katieorwhatever.bsky.social 
mike tigas @mike.tig.as currently: 👨🍼 • previously: technologist at FTC, hacker-journalist at @propublica.org, contrib at @torproject.org (Onion Browser for iOS), TabulaPDF • he/him • chicago • [personal acct]
🌐: https://mike.tig.as/
Ryan Murphy @ryan.fail a traveler from the cursed land of online journalism. product developer at @themarshallproject.org. bargaining with @marshallprojectguild.org. @rdmurphy in most other haunts. on parental leave. 🫡