Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social Investigative journalist/author of the bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: https://GregPalast.com
Did voters or voter suppression decide the 2024 election? Watch my award-winning documentary: https://WatchVigilantesInc.com
Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social White House Correspondent for MS NOW. Formerly PBS News Hour, CNN. Signal: LBarron07.01
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social Fired by the Trump admin for doing my job. Forever CFPB Union proud: @nteu335.bsky.social
Previously: Candidate for the U.S. House in Maryland’s 6th district @ElectAlexis.bsky.social | ElectAlexis.org
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social Same @WeatherProf as Twitter. Posting about climate and weather. Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist WFLA NBC Tampa 
@chicagooemc.bsky.social @chicagooemc.bsky.social 
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Azmat Khan @azmatzahra.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Joan Price @joanprice.bsky.social Advocate for ageless sexuality, speaker on senior sex, author of award-winning books Sex After Grief and Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex. https://joanprice.com/
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
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social **FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY**
Chicago's #1 Fan.
Utility-Grade Content from Parts Unknown.
Post-Hip/Pre-Retro.
Avant-garbage.
he/him 😷
middle-class/middle-aged/middle-brow
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
BicycleDutch @bicycledutch.bsky.social All about cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling ambassador with the Dutch Cycling Embassy | Mark Wagenbuur
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social Ininwewi Gichigami
The big western lobe of the Great Lake Michigan-Huron.
Pretty and Old 🌊🌊
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
dataindex.us @dataindex.us The nation’s go-to resource to monitor changes to federal datasets.
Preservation Futures @presfutures.bsky.social Research, action, and design for the past, present, and future 💁🏼♀️💁🏻♂️
Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative @chiworkerscottage.bsky.social The Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative celebrates this housing style, seeking to preserve the unique features of these houses, protect them from demolition, and continue their use and reuse for the next century – https://workerscottage.org/
Reveal @revealnews.org The Reveal podcast is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX.
🎧 http://revealnews.org
📧 http://revealnews.org/newsletter
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
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
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
Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com ~ Unf*ckwithable ~ Host of “Good Game with Sarah Spain” on iHeart, espnW contributor, co-owner SF Signal and Crux Football, community owner Minnesota Aurora, Emmy- & Peabody-Winning Journalist, Washed-up Heptathlete, Cornell grad, Chicago gal.
Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social Independent journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press critic, publisher, head cunt in charge of Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
David Krueger @davidskrueger.bsky.social 
Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social Born in The Netherlands, living in the United States of Europe and concerned about what's going on in America. Psychologist, writer.
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
Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social Lesser building nerd, real estate photographer
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social Writer, editor, sometime teacher. Union work. Fights for queer, Palestinian and all human rights. Stubborn verbs: shake, drink, chop, eat (was restaurant critic and “food writer” for ages). https://www.artsjournal.com/outthere/
Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️🌈
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1120939
BreakThrough News @btnewsroom.bsky.social Covering people’s movements and global politics.
BreakThroughNews.org | Support below👇
linktr.ee/btnewsroom
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
Donate here: https://bit.ly/SUFS_GIVING
Learn more ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social 
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Catch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35pm ET on CBS and Paramount+ 📺 #Colbert linktr.ee/colbertlateshow
Andrew Yang @andrew-yang.bsky.social Entrepreneur who wants good things for people. Putting money in people’s hands is the best thing we can do in the age of AI. Let’s make it happen. CEO Noble Mobile. Andrewyang.com
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social Author of Against the Wall & ICE:What everyone needs to know. Emmy award winning HBO documentary Critical Incident Death at the border. https://jennbudd.net/
Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social http://prh.com/AmericaUSA | https://www.anativeson.org
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Associate Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Author "Brought To You By" @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social. Pod: https://push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.
Waleed Hazbun @whazbun.bsky.social IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
.- T @timothywu.bsky.social @timothywu.bsky.social
Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social Chief Economist, KPMG, opinions my own
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive"
signal: sandhya_.96
Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social Droppin' mics then bringin' them to be fixed 'cause I'm nice and whatnot. Look for "Clean Slate" on Prime Video February 6th.
On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
CREW @citizensforethics.org CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) fights for the democracy Americans deserve and aims to build a government that is accountable, transparent and ethical.
citizensforethics.org
Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
DL Hughley @realdlhughley.bsky.social 
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social Washington Bureau Chief, States Newsroom. Past: Politico, CQ/Roll Call, Des Moines Register. Drake U journalism. Annoyingly Midwestern. Mom to two great people. Read us: https://www.newsfromthestates.com/category/dc-bureau
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike Telling the stories of the Chicagoans who bike around our city, along with the infrastructure that supports them. Full videos on YouTube, and read all our past interviews at chiwho.bike!
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton 2026) (readsupremacy.com)
Heatmap News @heatmap.news A new media company focused on the biggest story of our time: climate change. Subscribe to our newsletter at https://heatmap.news.
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social Enterprise News - 365 days a year
https://substack.com/@macfarlanenews
https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacFarlaneNews
SIGNAL: https://signal.me/#eu/ufqBLFTh_D87knsngxcXcyng7-Qd8DYPvwGB6LhI44SNFazeeQZD2ZPRThTX-g7M
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Monica Eng @monicaeng.bsky.social Axios Reporter in Chicago. Food writer. Dumpling lover. Struggling novelist. Mom and fermenta.
Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
https://www.katieprout.com/
Lila Hassan @lilahassan.bsky.social Investigative reporter. '24 Livingston Winner for National Reporting. Words: Wired, Mother Jones, HuffPost, ProPublica, The Nation, The Intercept, Business Insider & more. Tip? www.lila-hassan.com
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Bodhisattva @boddhisatva.bsky.social The Dude abides.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Joy Machine @joymachine.bsky.social A new art gallery in Chicago. Wed-Sat, 12-6pm.
https://joymachine.art
4148 N Elston Ave
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social Chronically tardy yet somehow…Breaking news + bummer beats, formerly @washingtonpost
Why are you booing me? I’m right.
✶ ✶ CHICAGO ✶ ✶
Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social Politics reporter, guitar botherer. Luckiest hub and dad to Mr. Bugs aka The Moopus aka Mr. Moops or Mr. Moopus. Former @thedailybeast
Tips: roger.sollenberger@protonmail.com
Pop Heist @popheist.com Hi. We’re Pop Heist, a worker-owned media company stealing pop culture back from the algorithm.
popheist.com
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org Advancing ideas that rebalance power in our economy and democracy. www.rooseveltinstitute.org
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live cooler by the lake 🕶️🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Michigan, every 30 minutes
*randomly chosen image from a list of 50+ webcams. image captured within 30 minutes of post
@the.mazz.zone