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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.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
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"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social ProPublica climate reporter. Author of BRAZILLIONAIRES and WHEN WE SOLD GOD'S EYE. Past bylines: Bloomberg Businessweek, NYT Mag, Harper's, New Yorker, etc. More here: alexcuadros.com
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
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Writer, Cartoonist.
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Chicago Tree @chicagotree.bsky.social Mostly reposting Chicago trees & sometimes other trees. And birds. And other things I find interesting.
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social An indie bookstore and community workshop space in Chicago focused on building our connections to the natural world.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Nicole S. Hester @nicolehester.bsky.social Photojournalist at The Tennessean.
I can barely keep up with Instagram but sure let’s try this
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Chicago Critical Mass @chicritmass.bsky.social A Free bicycle ride the last Friday of every month 6PM leaving from Daley plaza. Come out & ride.
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer
Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
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Panflip Studio | Wishlist Stack Order ! @panflipstudio.bsky.social French indie game studio - Working on Stack Order an enigmatic deckbuilding adventure in which you stack cards to defeat bosses!
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian (PhD) and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
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