Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social Dirtbag Christian, writer, editor, and speaker
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Matthew Coller @matthewcoller.bsky.social Former AM radio host. Current Vikings beat reporter for Purple Insider. Author: Football is a Numbers Game. Adopt greyhounds.
Mary Dixon @maryldixon.bsky.social Host of Say More w/Mary Dixon & Patrick Smith on WBEZ.
Former Morning Edition host, former 93XRT
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons, jails and more for The Marshall Project. Formerly WBEZ (Chicago NPR affiliate). Host of Motive podcast (Season 4). Writes short stories and essays. Tips: sheffernan@themarshallproject.org
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca He/him. Anabaptist (Mennonite) + Liberation Theology Christian. Web developer, especially Drupal. Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Haldimand Tract). Childfree cat gentleman.
Mastodon: @ryan.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
Popular Education @populareducation.bsky.social Currently publishing a series on Cuba
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Shawn (with a W) @shawnwithaw.bsky.social I’m from The Bronx, New York, s—t happens.
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
James L. Edwards III @jledwardsiii.bsky.social Senior writer at The Athletic, covering the Knicks. 2021 NSMA sportswriter of year. From Flint, MI. Only reporter on League Fits. PBWA. Sneakerhead. Rap snob.
Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, @utoronto.ca | Director, CEFMF @uoft.bsky.social | Researcher, @unioslo-arena.bsky.social | Princeton PhD | European & EU politics, law & society, law & political development | Book: The Ghostwriters @cambridgeup.bsky.social
UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. We also engage UC Berkeley students in learning about the labor movement.
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com Geoeconomics & tech @ecfr.eu • Prof. @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Columnist @foreignpolicy.com • Author, Backfire @columbiaup.bsky.social
Global economy, trade wars, economic statecraft, geopolitics of AI
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social Advancing a more peaceful, just & sustainable world by centering people & the planet in US foreign policy.
Home of International Policy Journal and UnDiplomatic Pod, The Iran Podcast and Black Diplomats.
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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social EVP at @cipolicy.bsky.social.
Robert Mays @robertmays.bsky.social Host of The Athletic Football Show. Formerly of Grantland and The Ringer. 
Foreign Exchanges @fxnewsletter.bsky.social Newsletter devoted to international affairs and US foreign policy (https://www.foreignexchanges.news).
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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social NFL writer | Most recently: The 33rd Team | FO/FTN Almanac | danpizzuta@gmail.com | snapsandstats.beehiiv.com
Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social Putting the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. linktr.ee/labornotes
Delia Catalina Ramirez @delia.bsky.social Community organizer, daughter of immigrants, wife, golden retriever mom & Congresswoman of #IL03
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Cuba In Context @cubaincontext.bsky.social Providing in-depth analysis of Cuba’s social, political, and economic landscape, highlighting perspectives often absent from mainstream narratives.
Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social Writing @populareducation.bsky.social
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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social HuffPost labor reporter. dave.jamieson@huffpost.com. Signal: davejamieson.99
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
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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.
Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social civil rights lawyer, exhausted
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer.
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social Agenda-driven malcontent and grown-up version of Lisa Simpson || Chicago
Micah Uetricht @micahuetricht.bsky.social editor at @jacobin, editor-at-large at @newlaborforum. What force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times
LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum
Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com "laugh, lore, Lord of the Rings"
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Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social Cartography, GIS, maps, politics, and elections.
Chicago 📍
Latin American Elections @latamerelection.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science
Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/elections-in-latin-america-9781538189030/
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
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Phil Thompson @philthompsontrib.bsky.social Chicago Tribune Bears reporter.
Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social D.C.-based criminal justice writer and socio-political critic who spends a lot of time at the library.
Hoosier by birth and college education.
Some would call me a libertarian. I would not.
https://theblanksslate.substack.com/
Signal: @jpblanks.36
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social I love good books and bad movies. Trying to raise healthy and kind humans on the South side. Overrun by pets and projects. (she /her) Free Palestine.
Micheál Podgers @michealpodgers.bsky.social Yassssssifying infrastructure.
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Professional account. All opinions my own.
ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social Tracking and documenting ICE flights. Housed @humanrightsfirst.org and based on @tomcartwright.bsky.social’s methodology.
Contact: Info@iceflightmonitor.org
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social Watch your noggins, everyone.
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com Special Investigative Correspondent covering climate & movements @texasobserver.org • bernd@texasobserver.org • Signal: Candice.49
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY. Host of First America podcast. Out June 22. Subscribe now! firstamerica.info
Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
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
David Waldron @davidawaldron.bsky.social Economist in Indianapolis. Dataviz, labor markets, education, workforce development.
waldrn.com
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Tim Amor @timamor.bsky.social Jesus follower | Anabaptist | Mennonite pastor @ Linwell Church | Helper: @intentionchurch.com | Fan of sci-fi, ☕️, 🍕, & the Toronto Raptors, Blue Jays, & Leafs.
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work 
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
Alexandra Finley @alexfinley.bsky.social Historian of the U.S. Dog lady. Appalachian. Union member. Writing a lot of different things.
I can’t complain but I probably will.
emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️
she // queens🔄chicago
Kevin T. Porter @kevintporter.bsky.social I’m fun and normal
AFL-CIO @aflcio.org America's Labor Unions, representing nearly 15 million members across the country.
InSight Crime @insightcrime.org 14 years of research and analysis on organized crime and corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
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Alex Quigley @alexquigley.bsky.social Samantha's Dad. Inordinate amount of Chicago sports skeets. Life is long and weird, if you're lucky. Crystal Lake, Chicago, or the middle of nowhere.
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social The podcast for laughing at the failures, crimes, and insanity of military history
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social Yahoo Sports guy, area bird enthusiast
McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social Started as updates from an artifact from a significant South Side club that has been spared the scrap heap. Now mostly other Woodlawn/Chgo history. Jazz & minutia. Infrequent posts.
Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social great lakes secessionist | ask your therapist about me (she/her)
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage