Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social Forklift-certified journalist in Chicago. Words in the Chicago Reader, Unraveled Press, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Courthouse News Service and some other ones I forget right now. All opinions & bad jokes my own. DM me for news tips/Signal info.
carolyn @papersquared.bsky.social academic library director
summer scares social media goblin
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she/her
absolutely not a professional account
Community Voice & Infrastructure Council (CIVIC) @getcivic.bsky.social Grounded in community. Built for Illinois. CIVIC advances public health, youth opportunity, and community investment.
allison🇬🇹 @alllisob.bsky.social chicago
primarily doing this for the Documenters Network
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Σοφία Σαραντάκου 🧿 @spsarantakos.bsky.social Educator + Writer | "Slow work in always urgent times." — Erica Meiners | https://linktr.ee/spsarantakos
Steve Cornforth @stevecornforth.bsky.social Lawyer, Access to Justice, Photography, Politics, Everton FC,
@owlwink.bsky.social @owlwink.bsky.social 
Lo @lorenboboren.bsky.social chicagoan. public policy attorney. girlypop. getting to the liberation
helper'in_SD @galateadubois.bsky.social Fighting the good fight
@msmarigold.bsky.social @msmarigold.bsky.social 
Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social The Eviction Lab is helping neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis. Follow us for the latest housing research + news.
RT ≠ endorsement.
@birdguy21.bsky.social @birdguy21.bsky.social KISS ARMY MEMBER
Democrat/Liberal
Avid birder
Genealogy
Hoping to work in a National Park
Despises the orange potato
Student at Kent State University
Likes Rock and Metal Music
Likes to go Hiking
Has seen a total of 510 bird species so far
Star Wars Fan
Eu sou o Cara 💠 @novobluskayapo.bsky.social Observador!
Mais com um Ótimo
Coração ❤️
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. - H @hotchocolatesenpai.bsky.social @hotchocolatesenpai.bsky.social
Ed Bull @eddiebullock.bsky.social Check out my newsletter for all things brain science: https://thementalhealthprogram.substack.com/
Programmer_🧑💻
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Cade Martin @fcm3145.bsky.social Minneapolis transplant. Media background. Animation fan. We live in scary times, but being in them with y'all makes me feel braver. ABOLISH ICE.
Joe K @adyeeri94.bsky.social I'm a human rights defender and activist for lgbtq , advocating for our needs and against the administrative law against our family 💘🏳️🌈. Hope you hear our cry mostly for us trans, please donate to help ❤️
Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social she/her. very bi very gay. Chicago I love you so much. Opinions are my own and not representative of my employer.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Starter Packs @mystarterpacks.bsky.social Lots of starter packs
Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social We can’t all save the world, but we can all save the world a little bit at a time.
Ashley C. Rondini, PhD @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social Public & Applied Sociologist~Intersectional/Critical Race Feminist~Mama Warrior~Foodie~Poodle Parent~Italiana~Social Policy and Inequalities Scholar, primarily in Healthcare & Education~Alumna of @Clark University @University of Sussex @Brandeis University
OrphanCrippler6969 @s8nsgimpyleg.bsky.social 💙💙💙💙Lifelong Democrat. Pro-Choice. LGBTQ+ ally. Blue Dot in a Deep Red State. 💙💙💙💙 #BlueCrew. Blocked by Kevin Kruse for some reason. (Not sure why.)
tim city. @timcity.bsky.social an endearing rock. permanent pedestrian. he/him. musician. union member. I work at the grocery store.
profits are stolen wages,
property is theft ☭
chicago, West Virginia
Sasha K. Bear @huskerlady11.bsky.social Public school supporter, puppy-enthusiast, coffee lover, national park visitor. Immigrants make America great! 🇺🇦
Opinions are mine alone.
@blueberry-blip.bsky.social @blueberry-blip.bsky.social 
Fines and Fees Justice Center @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social The Fines and Fees Justice Center (FFJC) is a national hub for research, advocacy, and collaboration for the reform of fines and fees.
Eli (like Ellie) @elliedwa.bsky.social remarkable to behold and difficult to understand | “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist” | “a Communist, who may have a Jewish pedigree”
@skyrd2.bsky.social @skyrd2.bsky.social 
@boogerhook.bsky.social @boogerhook.bsky.social I feel strongly about the current thing.
Ulupono Initiative @ulupono.bsky.social Committed to a Sustainable, Resilient Hawai‘i
-Local Food Production
-Clean Transportation Choices
-Renewable Energy
-Freshwater Managment
ulupono.com
Truth Tony 📣 @truthtony.bsky.social ⚖️ Nonpartisan. Nonviolent.
🗣️ Piercing the veil using unfiltered truth.
👇
https://truthtony.substack.com/
nat she/they @natpalm99.bsky.social this is still rough drafts, jokes, and shit i like
Black lives matter Black trans lives matter, anti-copaganda enthusiast; trynna organize to liberation
United Northwest Side @unitednwside.bsky.social A grassroots independent political organization on Chicago’s Northwest Side - organizing against the broken scarcity politics of the past for a future that includes enough for all of us. 
Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social "Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood.
Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related. Georgia raised via UGA & SSI.
mask fairy @maskfairy.bsky.social Middle-aged white lady
Country Mouse moved to the City
Chicago
Southside
Abolitionist
Anti-War
Susan Lucci @bloosoo.bsky.social Blue-skies-seeker, edgewalker, thresholder… dreamer and doer of ways we can be better together 
@notveryonfir.bsky.social @notveryonfir.bsky.social Please consider contributing to Palestinians’ monetary needs. One way to select people to contribute to is gazafunds.com she/her 😷
@sarahbellaaa.bsky.social @sarahbellaaa.bsky.social i know.
i don’t want it.
i can’t want it anymore.
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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The Appleseed Network @appleseednetwork.bsky.social Appleseed is a network of 19 justice centers across the United States and Mexico working together to reduce poverty, combat discrimination, and advance the rule of law.
🦄🐈🔱❤️🔥Jett Black 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇪🇭🇺🇳 @jett-black-25.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🔱 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦 🦄 ⚠️ BUILD COMMUNITY 🆘️ STAND STRONGER TOGETHER NOW ‼️BUY ONLY LOCAL! STOP Shopping BIG-BOX ⚠️ SINK TOXIC ECONOMY ☢️ VOTE OUT Monsters DESTROYING DEMOCRACY‼️ IMPEACH TRUMP 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🐈 🦄 🏳️⚧️
Low Society @metacapitalism.bsky.social Deeply committed to opposing MAGA. my pup, books, TV, old movies, jazz, rock, and classical music, beach walks, writing (fiction and non-fiction), abstract painting, stone sculpting, deep sleep, and non-violent villainy.
Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social We do not allow kings to lead our country. We should have three co-equal branches of government. Fight back or we will lose our constitutional democracy. Retired attorney. Boston sports fan. Music lover.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D- K @katiejoseph.bsky.social @katiejoseph.bsky.social
Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) @pretrialjustice.bsky.social PJI informs, inspires, and mobilizes pretrial changemakers working to end mass incarceration.
🔗 linktr.ee/pretrialjustice
The lost journal of bowsinger @spellhunter.bsky.social ...{designer}
...I hunt spells on a chess board using #poe_platform...
#marathon #bungie
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@amicus2112.bsky.social @amicus2112.bsky.social Aspiring cat fancier, Go Bills, #1 Deone Walker fan, baking, general tomfoolery
https://substack.com/@longseason1
Deborah Kay @westernncgirl2024.bsky.social Twitter refugee/@naturelove4real.
Fight for Democracy!
GO VOLS 🧡
🇺🇲USA🇺🇲 .... NEVER TRUMP
NO DM'S
Tata Ann @tatahue.bsky.social 🖤💛 midwest girl
🔵 livin in the south
@eraygnc.bsky.social @eraygnc.bsky.social 
MC @motherfucknmary.bsky.social what if desperation didn't motivate everything? (she/her) chicago
BlueCollarJazz @domguan.bsky.social | Dominic
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@vatsalakumar.bsky.social @vatsalakumar.bsky.social she/her
Illinois Justice Project @iljusticeproject.bsky.social ILJP advances policies and practices that reduce violence, decrease prison recidivism and make the legal system more equitable.
Dion McGill @dionmcgill.bsky.social Chicagoan | Jiu-Jiteiro | Chicago District Councilor - views expressed are my own - retweets do not=endorsement
WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social
#WeKnowThemByTheirVotes
WE THE PEOPLE!
Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121
House of Representatives at 202-224-3121
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Find your state reps and senators using the links above.
Madelyne 🌴 @madelynerants.bsky.social South Carolina #DemocracyBuilder -one🚪at a time. GenX. Feminist AF. Data Scientist. Map Nerd. Secular Humanist. Bleeding💙Liberal.🌱🫘🫛 Swiftie🐍she/her🏳️🌈Ally🏳️⚧️ 323.04 ppm *VIEWS ARE MINE ONLY*
💠If you're a SC🔵, shout @ me & I'll add you to our starter packs!
@starlene118.bsky.social @starlene118.bsky.social A delighted Nana, proud mom, SLP, civil rights defender, crafter, and sipper of tequilas.
Mr. Ministre @jahiggins.bsky.social The ribald laughter of the philistine
les aristocrates à la lanterne!
"But enough of the princeps; what now remains to be described is the monster,"
God have mercy on stringy Bob
BAD SOJOURNER @imbudog.bsky.social 65 years of age, husband, father, and grandfather. I'm a military veteran and a retired EMS professional. I live in the Pacific Northwest, clean and sober since 10/8/17. Facebook repeat offender. Sincere Seeker and Bad Sojourner.
CherieAnne @cherieanne.bsky.social Investigated by CREEP before I could vote, called out by Rush and banned by Twitter/Angry Bird. I believe in a Better South. From NC/SC. Poll worker since 1988 NO DMs immediate BLOCK if I don’t know you.
Heidi @heidiofthegarden.bsky.social Community advocate for food security and poverty reduction. Organic gardener, Berner mom. Will fight to the end to defend democracy.
RiCK SAUNDERS : Known Dissident @ricksaunders.bsky.social Dad, married = leslierobison.us/
Music Obsessive with
love for every genre & its subs, heavy reader, picture taker, Libra AF
Welcome, aliens.
I collect : https://bsky.app/profile/foundphotos.bsky.social
See: realdeepblues.blogspot.com
Mandolinwind @mandolinwind.bsky.social Educational Psychologist with 25 years working in state and local pubic education. Lifelong Democrat transplanted from Los Angeles to the great red Midwest too long ago. Army vet sickened by what our nation has become.
@tibbiit.bsky.social @tibbiit.bsky.social Left of center. Hated Trump since those poor Central Park Fivers and his treatment of tradesmen and other hard working Americans! I saw right thru him! Player of Wow since 2009, Everquest before, and long time Whovian who actually loves Who! No DMs.
Marshanah T. (she/her) @marshanah-t.bsky.social Tech Librarian @ Downs-Jones Library
Member @ACM.org | @Harvard.edu CFR '26 Alum ©️ | @Stanford.edu CIP '25 Alum 🌐 | ex-Smithsonian ☀️ | Texas Ex '24 🤘🏾
Interests: #AIBias #AncientBlackness #BlackDH
Website 🔗 : https://linktr.ee/marstay
📍ATX
Alexa Bradley @alexabradley.bsky.social Attorney | Chicago | Law Nerd | Intersectional Feminist | Political Junkie | Big fan of racial justice, repro rights, human rights, and all things currently under attack | Dog mom to the cutest 4 pups | she/her | Dopamine Chaser | 🏳️🌈
Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com Loevy + Loevy is an award-winning civil rights law firm working for justice, accountability, and transparency. We take on the nation’s most difficult public interest cases to hold officials, governments, and corporations accountable. www.loevy.com
Cabrini Green Legal Aid @cabrinigreenlegal.bsky.social CGLA exists to remove barriers to equity for communities negatively impacted by the criminal system in Chicago
Michael @michaelnotmikey.bsky.social I mostly talk about sports and make stupid jokes here. Chicago everything, LFC Legacy Fan, Colts, Expos, AFC Wimbledon, BVB, FCSP, Notre Dame, wrestling, etc.
Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show producer of Illinois Public Media's @21st.show, journalist, trans nerd. 🏳️🌈📻🏳️⚧️ she/her. based in Champaign-Urbana. past: UIS PAR '21, WPR.
the usual blurb: http://seedisclaimer.com/
JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com 🔹️Founder & Editor-In-Chief: The Shatterpoint.
🔹️Opinions: jjhastings.com
🔹️Links: https://linktr.ee/jjhastings
🔹️ JJ of JJ loves Wrestling
Gaza is a Genocide, fullstop.
🚫 Nazi 🚫 MAGA
Youth Observer @youthobserver.com We are a global media organization created for the youth, by the youth. We amplify fresh voices, explore issues that matter, and deliver bold, authentic perspectives on culture, politics, & society.
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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social RESIST! Managing Principal at ARK Real Estate Advisors, MBA University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, B.S. Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management-
Housing Action Illinois @housingactionil.bsky.social 
Jenn M @jjmartin451.bsky.social Progressive, ally, passionate reader, and passionate traveler. Buckeye fan. Blue dot in red Ohio. 🚫 Maggots . 🚫 Porn/OnlyFans
Canadianj 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @canadianj.bsky.social Humanist. Psychologist. Social Worker. Dog mom. Friend. Ally. Political enthusiast. Foodie. Always curious!
Waiting for someone to laugh hysterically and exclaim “April Fools”. 🤡
If this is our truth, I’ll take fiction. No one can make this 💩 up!
TheSocialRulebook @thescoopdaily.bsky.social Basically, I tweet about life’s unwritten rules so you don’t have to. 😏
Blair Paddock @blairpaddock.bsky.social prisons + investigations for @wttw.bsky.social
bpaddock@wttw.com
mouseartsandletters.org
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
Take Back the Halls @takebackthehalls.bsky.social Helping young people build healthy dating relationships and preventing dating and sexual violence
Ella Simone @ellasimone.bsky.social Writing Studies & community engagement ~ immigrant & refugee rights ~ food justice ~ race & equity in higher ed ~ Lake Michigan cyclist 🚴🏽♂️ (mural: Chinatown SF)
David W. Hardy, Esq. @hardymediation.bsky.social Atty, mediator, teacher. Lawrence, KS Advocate, MBA, former uni admin. Spouse:🧑🤝🧑@bsbadger INTJ/ENTJ 🚫DMs 🚫 Porn 🚫 Crypto 🚫 OnlyFans 🚫GoFundMe YES to int. news, sci, law, art, philos, Left pol, philanth, nature
Lorene @lorene9.bsky.social sports and culture
Free people read freely.
libraries and Disney parks
Keynoter
Redbird and Gamecock
The Librarian Linkover podcast
Bon Jovi Forever 🎶Got a fistful of friends that'll stand up for me.🎶
Location may vary. I start in Illinois.