dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
alex @birdmotif.alextey.co birdwatcher, writer, right-handed pitcher // she // new york
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Mx. Fox 🏳️⚧️ @fox.aurora.radio.fm abolish ICE
free Palestine
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Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
concerts georg @sarrusophones.bsky.social always trying to build community
with/through/about music.
also public radio, carhenge, etc etc
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team DevRel at Bluesky. THE Bluesky.
Applied Meteorology is where I write about AT Protocol and the Atmosphere: https://am.jimray.net
Host of Off Protocol, a show about building a better internet: https://atproto.com/off-protocol
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social Editor of Workday Magazine, formerly In These Times.
Nadia H @nadia.thetriibe.com I Strategize!
Black woman in marketing 📈
Audience and Marketing Manager for The TRiiBE
June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com Author of LOVE/AGGRESSION | Fiction Editor at New Session
Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social Photographer/Photojournalist
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Ryanne Mena @ryannemena.bsky.social Crime & public safety reporter 🕵🏻♀️
LA Daily News +10 🗞️
Prevs: ProPublica, LAist, Daily Sundial, The Corsair
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camacho @bencamach0.bsky.social journalist, photographer
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🎥 westsidestorytellers.com
🧱 @iwwfju.bsky.social
managing editor @thesouthlander.com
signal: bencamacho.01
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social Lexis-Olivier Ray
Artist & Award-Winning Investigative Reporter
Based in L.A.
347-644-0191 for news tips
Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social Reporter at Capital & Main/Berkeley California Local News Fellow.
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodian’s in California.
Signal: joeyscott.05
Venmo: @joeyneverjoe
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/joeyneverjoe
www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/
Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social abolitionist lawyer. everyday antifascist. viva viva tortuguita.
https://hearinla.substack.com/p/who-is-ricci-sergienko-and-why-does-the-la-sheriff-hate-him-so-much-83ca9a8a03eb
Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social Crime: Real & Imagined.
L.A. Times Courts/Chaos Reporter
Alleged Author: Russell Avery Novels (Counterpoint Press)
Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
Knows Ball (kinda)
SURVIVING THE LIE, the third and final Russell Avery novel, out 8/11/26.
James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Just published a book about anarchists at war in Spain, Kurdistan, and Myanmar, previously wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics.Para todos,todo✌️
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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social photographer, writer, documenting the far-right.
LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social News for LA People by LA People! 
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
abraham márquez @abemarquez.bsky.social Journalist
📨 abe@thesouthlander.com
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
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Laurel Powell @laurelpowell.net Bible college dropout. Amateur woodworker. Always fighting for trans people to get a fair shake. Director of Communications @hrc.org. Opinions mine. 🏳️⚧️
Wendi C. Thomas @wendicthomas.bsky.social Journalist. Disrupter. Dreamer. Dog mom. MLK50.com founder. ProPublica fellow. Memphis is home. 💚💕💚💕
Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social Writing about history when I'm not gardening. #Chicago #HydePark #20th Century America through the lens of my family
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
Violet @biblioviolet.bsky.social Lauren Berlant told me not to go to grad school but I did it anyway | Writer, erstwhile scholar, bookworm, another trans girl in Brooklyn
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
june @june.bsky.social 
samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net very tired freelance word girl | member, @transjournalists.org
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Chicago Sun-Times Guild @cstguild.bsky.social Safeguarding the future of the Chicago Sun-Times. Loud and proud members of @ChicagoNewsGuild.bsky.social.
Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social LGBTQ+ health reporter at @19thnews.org, previously breaking news at Axios. Southern, trans and tired. 📲 Text me on Signal @orionr.80 or email me at orummler@19thnews.org
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Jewél Jackson @jmjwrites.bsky.social Thinking and writing about youth, culture and society • Pitch me jmjwrites11@gmail.com • jewél.com
Opossum Pictures 🤖 @opossum.bsky.social an opossum image every hour
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social LGBTQ+ journalists and communicators on a mission to improve coverage.
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Meha Ahmad @mehaahmad.bsky.social I make radio and strong coffee.
Senior producer at @wbez.- P ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social
Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social gotham award winning filmmaker and actor and dreamer!!!!
The People's Joker is now available on VOD, Bluray, VHS, and MUBI (thepeoplesjoker.com)
patreon.com/veradrew22 to support my future art
TRANDEMIC - my new movie, coming soon
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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Natalie A @familiarshape.bsky.social Tattooer, Sugar Ray apologist
@familiarshape on ig for tattoos
@8bitshape on ig and twitch for pixel art and games
Compost-pile.com to find info on booking tattoos in Chicago
Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social Celebrating 26 years of metal & wood type letterpress work. Love to share the process, forms and printing adventures. Jen & Jo.
Starshaped.com
evelyn @evelynwebsite.com no more mister nice girl
- evelynwebsite.com
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- other stuff
sarah @oo0oo.bsky.social photographer / chicago / sarah@glitterguts 
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade - S Sonia @soniarao.bsky.social
@katelynhaas.bsky.social @katelynhaas.bsky.social 
Blair Paddock @blairpaddock.bsky.social prisons + investigations for @wttw.bsky.social
bpaddock@wttw.com
mouseartsandletters.org
@sylviaborowski.bsky.social @sylviaborowski.bsky.social 
Mariah Rush @mariahrush21.bsky.social retail reporter for @chicago.suntimes.com | mrush@suntimes.com
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Liz Kelly Nelson @lizkellynelson.com I run projectc.biz | newsletter/community about/for creator-model journalists. Co-created Going Solo, a 6-week online workshop for journos launching independent projects. I :heart: collaborating with smarties. Ex Vox, WaPo, USA Today.
Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social Transing it up.
Co-founder of Better World Collaborative - www.bwcollab.com
Co-author of The Advocate Educator's Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive, available now www.theadvocateeducator.com
Yana Kunichoff @yanak.bsky.social Journalist @azluminaria.bsky.social covering poverty/homelessness/housing insecurity and organizing in Tucson and southern Arizona
Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com Copy editor @propublica.org. Author of FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (2026), a biography, and MIND GAME (2024), about elite athlete mental health. Nonbinary ace. They/them.
www.juliekliegman.com
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org
mitch @czarmitch.bsky.social chicago // i will never die
he/she pronouns
Lulu Miller @lutimestwo.bsky.social Host of Radiolab and Terrestrials. Author of Why Fish Don’t Exist and Trucky Roads. Cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia. Science nerd. Mom. Queer. Lover of trees. Maker of bad puns.
Lisa Kurian Philip @lkpwrites.bsky.social Covering racial inequity in higher education for WBEZ Chicago and Open Campus Media. I love making radio. Like, LOVE it. 
Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social WBEZ Chicago reporter on public safety and health.
https://www.wbez.org/author/chip-mitchell
Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.
agitator in chief @soit-goes.bsky.social shitposting for justice since 2012
Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social News columnist on staff at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1987, also blogging daily at everygoddamnday.com, and the author of nine books, the most recent being "Every Goddamn Day," published by the University of Chicago Press. 
Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com 🌈 The voice of Chicago's LGBTQ+ community since 1985.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Alex Keefe @alkeefe.bsky.social Engagement Editor at WBEZ Chicago. Editor of Prisoncast!
Gilbert Bailon @gilbertbailon.bsky.social Former executive editor at WBEZ/Chicago Public Media and KERA public radio in Dallas. Former executive editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Dallas Morning News/Al Dia. Former president of NAHJ and ASNE.
Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social Swan Boy/Rude Tales of Magic/fuckin around
swanboy.com
patreon.com/bransonreese
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/
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Barry Adams 📰 @polemicdigital.com Specialised SEO & audience growth consultant for publishers. Co-founder of the News & Editorial SEO Summit.
Consulting: https://www.PolemicDigital.com
Newsletter: https://www.SEOforGooglenews.com
Podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1860544621
Emmanuel Felton @efelton.bsky.social New Orleans native now living in New York and working as the race and ethnicity reporter at @washingtonpost.com, I’m also writing The Search for Black Mecca for Harper Collins. Proud alum of BuzzFeed News and @hechingerreport.org
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.
Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social American in Belgium, ICC enthusiast, leader of the anti-IR realism coalition, no I do not speak French 🇺🇸 🇱🇺
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in rural Missouri. Adopted the pen name "Sridhar Ramesh" from riverboat slang.
Ginny Bixby @ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social Reporter for The Banner in Montgomery County @bannermoco.bsky.social, covering government, politics, etc. I have a lot of questions. past Bethesda Today, The Daily Progress. Always University of Mary Washington. 🌈
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Tina Sfondeles @tinasfon.bsky.social national political reporter @suntimes; past: White House reporter @politico, politics correspondent @insider; proud Chicagoan and Greek/Polish American
djoyce @joycelaurie.bsky.social to the united readers and lovers
haveyoureadpicnic.com
https://flinta.forum/authors/joyce.html
Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social You can’t make me post good on here. Best I can do is bad 🤷♀️
Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social Welcome to Mouseland!
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social 
Ella Yurman @ellayurman.bsky.social writer & comedian (derogatory) | she/her | host of Going Down with Ella Yurman | writer for Some More News | https://linktr.ee/GoingDownTV
Hannah Wise @hwise29.bsky.social Prairie-based Audience Editor @kcstar & @kansasdotcom. RJI fellow, @splc board, @kujournalism. Past: @nytimes @dallasnews. Stitching maven at SewManyComments.
Kyle Cooke @kylecooke.bsky.social News editor, Rocky Mountain PBS. Mostly post about the O’s on here.
Sean Kennedy @seandkennedy.bsky.social Royal Bluesky captain for The Virginian-Pilot. sean.kennedy@pilotonline.com
Tony Zaret @tonyzaret.bsky.social YouTube.com/TonyZaret