Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social Transportation planner working on making biking, walking, rolling & riding safer & easier | Care deeply about transparency | Posts are my own ofc
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
Ridge Knapp @ridgeknapp.bsky.social 🗳️ Candidate for Chicago Police District Council D19
💻 (D)ata guy
🚣🏼♂️ Rowing coach
🏙️ Chicago evangelist
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
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
cta @chicagocta.bsky.social Official account of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Delivering quality, affordable transit services that link people, jobs and communities.
For customer support head to transitchicago.com/contact
Lake. Big Lake. @lakebiglake.bsky.social White Sox⚾️, N.Y. Mets⚾️, Everton⚽️, transportation and urbanism advocate 🚲🚲🚲. Chicago U.S. 🏳️🌈☮️
Matt Frederick @mttfrdrck.bsky.social Edgewater Chicagoan | former St. Louisan
mattfrederick.substack.com
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Madeline Loshaw @maddillo.bsky.social anti car, pro cat | Chicago
Subscribe to my newsletter! (it's free) https://tinylilactionschicago.substack.com
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Ellen Steinke @ellensteinke.bsky.social Writer, comedian, urbanista
🎭 Creator Funny You Should Care
✍️ Contributor Streetsblog Chicago
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Æthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social he/himbo. i like to walk around a lot. bus/train dude & local bike guy
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org The region's sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, helping to make the city and suburbs better since 2013. Posts: @johngreenfield.bsky.social (unsigned) and @stevevance.net.
Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social He//him, Chicago, bikes
Regime Bureaucrat @regimebureaucrat.bsky.social Faceless bureaucrat, regimer (waiting for my Huey Long), lifelong Chicagoan
Micheál Podgers @michealpodgers.bsky.social Yassssssifying infrastructure.
📍Chicago
👨🏻💻Urban Planner
🗣️ EN DE FR NL GA
Professional account. All opinions my own.
Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us A network of local organizations working to fix the US housing shortage. Our members win pro-housing policy change. We can help you do the same. welcomingneighbors.us.
Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social Writer/Actor/Healthcare worker | Fought the void but the void won🌀| https://boxd.it/1oJd
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Desertcore 🇪🇺🌐 @desertcore.eurosky.social Keep on fighting autocracy and injustice worldwide
Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social I'm a background artist in Vancouver! Projects include Star Trek: Lower Decks, Rick and Morty, Carmen Sandiego, My Little Pony: The Movie amanda.wt.wong@gmail.com
Website: http://www.amandadraw.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandawtwong/
Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social Sidewalk enthusiast and adopted Midwesterner (formerly Twin Cities, Chicago). I write and research about housing and cities. PhD student at UW-Madison.
https://pencillingout.substack.com/
https://zakyudhishthu.github.io/
Alex @acannon.bsky.social They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike.
Chicago
Richard Day @rsday.bsky.social 
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine- C Cat Sharp (she/her) @cdsssss.bsky.social
Cat Sharp @catsharp.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Best known for getting hit by a car
Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social chicago bicycle supremacist she/her
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social Co-Founder AH Datalytics. NOLA kid. Longhorn. Former CIA officer. 2004 Intramural Softball Champion (C-League). Not a criminologist!
Newsletter: https://jasher.substack.com/
Jasher@ahdatalytics.com
"Some genius, Jeff Asher" - Ann Coulter
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
American Public Transportation Association @apta-info.bsky.social APTA leads public transportation in a new mobility era, advocating to connect and build thriving communities.
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Tom Cui @tom-cui.com I study how policies and institutions shape housing markets at the NYU Furman Center!
All opinions, for better or for worse, are my own
Kygosi @kygosi.bsky.social Former (?) philosophy prof & (former) math teacher, very unemployed, forming Presidential Exploratory Committee (he/him, cis, elder millennial white guy)
This is no world for paladins. No retreat, no surrender
Special Checking by Jack Whitten
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.
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv video essay person and writer and what not, idk I mainly just post about my hyperfixations
http://youtube.com/ladyemilypresents
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!
NWNA Chicago @nwnachicago.org We’re the Northwest Neighborhood Alliance of Chicago - a group of neighbors advocating for housing, transit, and safe streets in northwest Chicago!
Representing West Town, Logan Square, and Humboldt Park
linktr.ee/nwnachicago
kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine
Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social Posting live from the Most Serene IL-Khanate of the Great Khan JB Pritzker
Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social We are all we’ve got. We are all we need. ✊🏽
Community Organizer 🚲 @cyclingxsolidarity
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Lola Sebastian 💜 @lola.nebula.tv i write essays. you can find my work on @nebula.tv, YouTube, & Typebar Magazine. co-host of @onlywarriorcatspod.bsky.social
contact me: lolasebastian@standard.tv
linktree: https://linktr.ee/lolasebastian
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com Chicagoan, climate developer, photographer, creator of @chiwho.bike and @electrifychicago.net | 🌎 viktorkoves.com
Chicago 🏳️⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social Internally displaced southern queer refugee. All my homies hate landlords, car dependency, and exclusionary housing policy.
Housing policy is community, environmental policy, transit policy, and (anti-) segregation policy
YIMBYtown @yimby.town The national convening for the pro-housing movement is heading to Raleigh, NC on Nov. 17-19, 2026! Follow along here and sign up at yimby.town for updates.
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social This is me, not an official account. Led NYU-Marron’s passenger rail modernization effort; co-authored/edited the landmark ‘A Better Billion’ subway report. Now working on next gen trains at the MTA. City beat reporter in a former life. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈.
Drake Warren for Cook County Commissioner @drakefor10.bsky.social Running for Cook County Commissioner to make it easier to live in the city I love. Visit drakefor10.com to learn more.
Saoirse Laing @saoirsecl.bsky.social “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” -Herman Melville 🏳️⚧️
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com (hire me policy professionals) Lighter of people, policy person, @chirppradio.org DJ. Bike guy. Chicago Dog stan. Doesn't proofread. Chicago by way of Cleveland | 🇳🇴
r o n y t h e b i k e c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social Bike Cities Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Former Coastal Elite Person
Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Chicago Bike Sox @chicagobikesox.com Let’s bike to the ballpark
https://chicagobikesox.com
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social late to the urbanist party
YPT Chicago @yptchicago.org #yptchi Providing development, fellowship, and networking opportunities for young Chicagoans in the transportation field.
YIMBY Action @yimbyaction.bsky.social 70+ Chapters across the US fighting for abundant housing that's inclusive, sustainable, and affordable. 
Chicago Growth Project @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social Urbanist PAC promoting a pro-growth agenda for Chicago
www.chicagogrowthproject.org
Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social Humanist, Inmigrante, aspiring Urbanist, Army Vet, ex-Esq., serial founder, CPS LSC member, VFW Service Officer, candidate for 35th Ward Alderman. Chicago until the wheels fall off.
Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social ProPublica reporter
Get in touch: jesse.coburn@propublica.org + https://signal.me/#eu/xwbuF7II5GLbAxTDMR4tpqByg3GA7Q5Bp1jGBKV-xaSoy4OtSmZP_4dIYV9pjwC8
https://www.propublica.org/people/jesse-coburn
rust belt city enjoyer @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social charms for days and brains for minutes, STL.
🇵🇸 (they/them🏳️⚧️)
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social 40th Ward Alder / Father / Spouse / Chair of Immigration Committee / Chair of Progressive Caucus/ Vice Chair of Latino Caucus / Organizer / Problem Solver / Chicagoan until Chicago ends.
Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social freelance journalist in northern michigan
email: miles.macclure@gmail.com
signal: milesm.65
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social The best goddamn dancer at the American Ballet Academy
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Leigh Giangreco @leighgiangreco.bsky.social Buffalonian. Freelance journalist in Chicago. Words in The Washington Post, Block Club Chicago, The Guardian and Politico Magazine.
Find my work at LeighGiangreco.com
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
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.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov Your U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Product safety info, data, and recalls. Standing for safety since 1972. Official account of the USCPSC. HQ: Bethesda, MD.
Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov.
Report unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com The hardest-working paper in America.
FuckCars @fuckcarsreddit.bsky.social Official account of http://reddit.com/r/fuckcars
DM me urbanist issues in your city, I'll help boost it!
Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Comics, Music and Podcasts by Katie Freeway Hood
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
matt @mattxiv.bsky.social no elon! yippee
Armand Domalewski @armanddomalewski.bsky.social Cohost of @everybodygetspie, a podcast from the team that brought you YIMBYs for Harris