The Southwest Collective @swcollectivechi.bsky.social Breaking down barriers and building up communities on the southwest side of Chicago. swcollective.org
Ted Rall @tedrall.bsky.social Leftist political cartoonist, columnist, and graphic novelist. Pulitzer finalist and RFK Journalism Award winner. Fierce takes on justice, politics, and culture. "What's Left?" New Book Out May 1st! Subscribe/Support: tedrall.substack.com
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Mexican American Civil Rights Institute @somosmacri.bsky.social Expanding the story of civil rights in the U.S.
MACRI is creating the first national museum dedicated to collecting and sharing Mexican American civil rights history.
www.somosmacri.org
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social Official account of Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari, Representative for Arizona’s Third Congressional District.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social Former legislator, democratic socialist, housing advocate, founder of Tenants Together. He/Him. Opinions my own, reposts not endorsements.
Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social Proudly Representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com 🌈 The voice of Chicago's LGBTQ+ community since 1985.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
https://inthesetimes.com/
ACRE Campaigns @acrecampaigns.bsky.social We fight for racial-economic justice by challenging financial & political actors who profit at the expense of BIPOC communities.
Website: https://acrecampaigns.org/
Press: media@acrecampaigns.org 
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
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
linktr.ee/workingfamilies
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social Chicago Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
https://chicagodsa.org/
Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America is the largest and fastest growing socialist organization in the USA. 🌹 Posts are not official statements.
www.dsausa.org
Join today at dsausa.org/join
The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com https://www.TheLibertyPear.com
NO MAGA, Pro Democracy. Populism, working class advocacy, democratization of the economy, & Democratic Socialism.
Based in NYC.
News, economics, politics, holding power to account, & open discussion.
Rebellions Are Built On Hope @builtonhope.bsky.social Anti-MAGA. Pro-freedom everywhere.
NYC PROUD!
SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social Working together to provide quality education for children & students, ensure that education remains a state priority, & provide quality public services.
www.seiu925.org
Chicago Corner @chicagocornertv.bsky.social Welcome to Chicago Corner, where we cover Local and National News Commentary, from a Chicago Point of View!
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
@jessicabiggs.bsky.social @jessicabiggs.bsky.social 
Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social Anarchist/Anticapitalist/Anti-fascist/Academic Political Philosophizer/Buddhism/Researcher on Fascism, Authoritarianism & Freedom/opinions are my own (He/Him)
EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org Your friendly neighborhood environmentalists obsessed with trees🌲, orcas , salmon, birds 🐦, beavers, bees 🐝
AND
bike lanes 🚴, public transit 🚇, walkable communities🚶🧑🦽, affordable/social housing, vibrant cities, welcoming new neighbors💚
ecocityaction.org
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.
jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social I like ceramics and houseplants. There will be cat photos and typos.
William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social Organizer, coalition-builder & Democratic Nominee in #MI07.
YES to Good Housing and Healthcare for All.
NO to Billionaires, Bullies, and Endless Wars.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/william-lawrence-1
Donavan McKinney for Congress @donavanmckinney.bsky.social 🗳 Candidate for Michigan 13
🌹 Democratic Socialist
👊🏾 "Always With The People"
🔗 https://www.donavanforcongress.com
Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social This is the official Rep. Justin J. Pearson account.
Election Day is Nov. 3rd, 2026. TN-09, let's get to work.
➡️ Votejustinj.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social Doctor, advocate, girl from Y-Town. Running for Governor to fight for Ohioans who are struggling and give power back to the people. It’s time for a change.
Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social Organizer. Florida State Rep. Mom.
Running for US Senate because Floridians deserve better. Change can’t wait.
Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com Journalist. Writer-Producer of historical thriller MR JONES. Watch: http://tiny.cc/okyx001
BOOKS: Orwell & The Refugees. Mrs Orwell. Dictatorship-It's Easier Than You Think!
PODCAST: @gaslitnationpod.com
CONTACT: AndreaChalupa.com
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.
Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social Freelance journalist based in Chicago. Read my stuff here https://zoetakakiworks.wordpress.com
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social “Lesbian consultant.” “Your favorite poster’s favorite poster.” “A good argument, just miles outside the scope.” Union girlie powered by iced tea and Carly Rae. I will never watch a video. Please be normal in my mentions.
Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.
Michele @geauxwithmichele.com All takes (hot, lukewarm, and cold) are completely my own... sometimes they're Croissant's 😉 but we both agree Defund, Abolish, and Prosecute ICE.
Piper French @psfrench.bsky.social reporting on prisons, jails, DAs for Bolts. freelance magazine work: NYRB, NYmag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation
piperstrehlowfrench@gmail.com
-> psfrench.com
en/es/fr
MassShootingTracker @massshootingtrk.bsky.social Official BlueSky account for the Mass Shooting Tracker at http://massshootingtracker.site
#GunsDontMakeUsSafer
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
The Needling @theneedling.com Seattle's Only Real Fake News
(Satire/Parody)
Have a hot headline tip? Send it to Submit@TheNeedling.com
TheNeedling.com
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
VoteHub @votehub.com Your hub for elections. 🇺🇸 Detailed maps, live election night coverage, and analysis backed by deeper data.
votehub.com
The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social The Palestine Project is a non-profit organisation promoting the Palestinian narrative.
Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social Award Winning Investigative Journalist. Podcast: Lisa Guerrero UNLEASHED on YouTube
Immigrant’s Daughter. Mosaic Artist. Actor. Proud Latina.
Author of WARRIOR: MY PATH TO BEING BRAVE.
Inspirational Speaker & Host. https://www.lisaguerrero.com/
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. 
𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 @kassandraseven.bsky.social 
Josh Petri (he/him) @joshpetri.bsky.team Head of Communications, Bluesky Social.
former journalist and outdoor industry person. always an organic life form.
The Birthday Fairy Project @thebirthdayfairy.bsky.social Every day is the birthday of a victim of American gun violence.
Help us honor lives and raise awareness by following and sharing.
We are 100% volunteer & zero budget.
thebirthdayfairyproject.org
thebirthdayfairyproject@outlook.com
jad 📸 @aerojad.bsky.social Information technology trash with a penchant for photography. Will like all photos of your pets. Chicago is the greatest city in existence.
♫ and while I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth ♫
[he/him]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerojad/sets
Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social Architecture. Music. Art. Other things. Public Transit Enthusiast.
Strictly garden content over at @perennialmisery.bsky.social
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
VRT @virginiarthomas.bsky.social Easy to please, hard to impress
"In my own lane, but I'm still stoppin traffic"
bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social South Sider @bsdtectr at the other place
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
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.
📍 ✶✶✶✶
🔗 subism.com/links
Scott @skh80.bsky.social “I like getting older. I feel like I’m finally aging into my personality.” - Nick Miller
Chicago
Abolish ICE in Chicago and Everywhere @amberchicago.bsky.social (she/her) Chicago. cats. critical thinking. communication. also: knitting, sometimes
vince | FIFA Peace Prize 3rd Place @newvince.bsky.social Bird Alderman for Montrose Beach, Chicago.
MLS Fanboy.
Phoenix @funwithnix.bsky.social chicago containment zone // 32 // any pronouns
after 8 pm I tend to be very stupid
read my work: https://archiveofourown.org/users/FunWithNix
Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social I post about Chicago protests, police crime and cats.
scoutzknivez @serumaddict989.bsky.social Dev to Sustainable Urban Ag pipeline
IL
Jungle addict
maintainer of @jungle-dnb-ukg-bot.bsky.social
the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Lucario Doncic @blakesquest.bsky.social Husband of @wendycat.bsky.social. Chicago lawyer. All views are my own. Annoying politics stuff, sports posting, occasional gaming stuff, goofing around, etc. Chi DSA. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Solidarity forever. He/him.
Daniel @dmassey.bsky.social Chicago civil rights attorney, work on police abuse and surveillance
I dont really know how to go about relating to these people
he/him
Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too.
www.aaroncynic.com
maureen @maureenf.bsky.social Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, poems, and where I live.
she/her
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
@bcinchicago.bsky.social @bcinchicago.bsky.social 
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Chuck Sudo @bportseasoning.bsky.social Chicagoan. 1978 Prussing Elementary spelling bee champion. Writer. Cyclist. Semiprofessional flâneur. Gourmand. Guy who knows a guy. Navy vet. Wise ass.
Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social The inspiration for the 1987 TV movie 'Not Quite Human'.
Chicagoan living in San Diego.
Jean Baptiste Point du Gay @akimbon.bsky.social nothing changes while they live
✴✴✴✴
Henry T @henryt.bsky.social Suburban dad, magic hobbyist, curler (with the stones and the ice) and database professional, over 25 years of SQL Server experience, less with InfluxDB.
I had the hobbies of an older man, now I am an older man.
The Pope and I used the same public library
ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social Blog on Illinois, Chicago, national, and now Minnesota politics. Early local blogger and I chose the name long before the Gateway jackass.
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Viral Mistry @viralmysteries.bsky.social Scientist by day, organizer by night / he him
Chicago nationalist & Great Lakes supremacist
always carry a book
sara @saract.bsky.social she/her
public trans(it)
Gilgert Martwel @mkroll.bsky.social #1 purveyor of Fake Phil Steele Previews on Amazon.
Chicago stuff occasionally
Alt National BIM Hour @manofsuds.bsky.social I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog. He/him.
https://letterboxd.com/manofsuds
Djarum @djarum.org I am that guy. You probably know me from that thing that one time.
Tom McGrath @tcmcg.photo Just another dipshit from Chicago. Bits and jokes and jokes and bits. Photos, sometimes acting, mostly nonsense.
Banner image thanks to @chgohoods.bsky.social
Andrew Johnson @ratcalledaj.bsky.social Failed Actor/Comedian/Lighting Designer.
Successful pain in the ass.
I talk about my pitbull and soccer alot.
mark nickles @mapko.bsky.social Disgraced USAF aviator and geographer
Chicago via Macedonia 🇲🇰
Kyle @arnottky.bsky.social Ohio alum • former pro sports t-shirt thrower
@OhioUniforms.bsky.social
Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social Your drink doesn't go there
Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social University of Chicago Film Studies Center
Board, Media City Film Festival
Board, Chicago Film Society
Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
Director of the Justice Project
justiceproject.uchicago.edu
Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social great lakes secessionist | ask your therapist about me (she/her)
Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of politics.
Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social Recovering girlboss. Podcasts about Cowboy Bebop and She-Ra. Cosplayer, poet, bassist. STFU about Chicago. 🩷💛💙(She/her)