Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com 🏳️🌈⭐👏Newsletter Writer & Contributor @The Barbed Wire, formerly Digital Editor @Texas Observer, bylines in Teen Vogue, etc. Austin, Texas. They/Them.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social Research at Media Matters for America, currently focusing on economic misinformation. All posts are my own views but are backed by the Commissariat. https://www.mediamatters.org/author/zachary-pleat
@lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social Graphics, maps, etc. at ProPublica
drew xolaya costley (they/she) @drewcostley.northsky.social black, trans, disabled. asst. managing editor for @veritenews.org.
journalist covering new orleans.
signal is drewcostley.12
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views are my own/reposts ≠ endorsements
Guardian US @us.theguardian.com With 200 years of history and staff across America and the world, we offer a global perspective on US news.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
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Jireh Deng @bokchoy-baobei.bsky.social journalist. dreamer. angeleno.
formerly @businessinsider.com @latimes.com @npr.org @inthesetimes.com
Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer Working on:
TormentNexus.social - agentic atmosphere
Hyprstream.com - RL environments for distributed open AI-RSI
Ferruleos.org - hardened Linux sandbox OS
Onionshell.ch - tor from a static website
Hannah Reale @hannahereale.bsky.social writing/editing/everything else for @gbhnews.bsky.social
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Hush Line @hushline.app Hush Line is a free & open-source whistleblower platform that provides secure, anonymous tip lines with no self-hosting, maintenance, or technical overhead.
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net Media & autocrats / pug kahu
https://www.gazzetta.xyz
Madison Karas @madraekaras.bsky.social seeing how good it can get 🔦📈💭🏁🕶️
currently journalism, tech & social impact, interested in a lot more
https://madraekaras.com/
Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent. Design patent geek. Also interested in #ScheduleA litigation. Full bio (including link to CV): https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/sarah-fackrell
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social We're a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that advances truth, accountability, and democracy by enforcing the public's right to government records.
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com Expert repro journalism that inspires. Home of @AngryBlackLady.blacksky.app Chronicles, Baby Boom! Lawyered and The Fallout 📧
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law, WUSTL. Con law 📜, crim law/pro 👮, SCOTUSology 🏛. Cohost 🎤 @dividedargument.bsky.social.
Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social Attorney - Professor - Views are my own, not my employer. she/her
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
RAYGUN @raygunsite.com Clothing. Home Goods. Time Travel Supplies.
Iowa (x6), Nebraska (x2), Chicago, KC, Madison.
Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. 
juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social Public Service Fellow - Lawfare
Adjunct Professor - GWU
Former Senior Analyst - CIA
Former Director - NSC
Doug Bock Clark @dougbockclark.bsky.social Here to listen. Investigative Reporter: @ProPublica. Past work:
@NYTMag @GQMagazine @NewYorker. Book: THE LAST WHALERS: http://amzn.to/2F8Eo1F. Movies based on my work at: @HBO; @Disney; @NatGeo; @PBSFrontline.
Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof/Research Dean at Tulane Law. Criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, punishment, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social National reproductive rights reporter at Stateline, based in Idaho.
Email me at kmoseley@stateline.org
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account. past: tfgh, cdc, emory. interests: health policy, law, & politics, global health. big fan of: human rights, vaccines, abiding no hatred. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his/him.
Elsie the Fall Weather Fox @weatherfox64.bsky.social Cartoonist, meteorologist, scotch enthusiast, and model railroader. I work on NOAA weather satellite products 🛰️ Plymouth State Meteorology BS 2010 and MS 2015. Frequently posts grilling and cooking shenanigans. She/her 🏳️⚧️
https://mccalloncallcomic.com
[ OC Questions ] @ocqotd.bsky.social Sometimes we want to yap about our blorbos!
Thats what we do here.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social I love James Harden & I write about abortioneveryday.com
substack.com/@kylietcheung / kyliewrites.net
Brie Callahan @briecallahan.bsky.social Archivist. Tomato enthusiast.
@akeefe.bsky.social @akeefe.bsky.social 
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
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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.
Bill Ruminski @bruminski.bsky.social Journalist, bartender, photographer
Saman Creel @samancreel.bsky.social Social Media Editor at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR station.
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
Alex Degman @alexdegman.bsky.social Statehouse reporter for WBEZ Chicago based in Springfield. Hi! 
Open Campus @opencampus.org Higher ed is a local story. We're a nonprofit newsroom that tells it that way, in partnership with more than a dozen newsrooms across America. opencampus.org
Meha Ahmad @mehaahmad.bsky.social I make radio and strong coffee.
Senior producer at @wbez.
NPRExtra @nprextra.bsky.social A behind-the-scenes look at NPR's journalism, people, and programming.
Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org Journalism and education for the public good.
For more, visit https://pulitzercenter.org
WBEZ Prisoncast! @prisoncast.bsky.social An audio journalism project for people incarcerated in Illinois & their families. From WBEZ Chicago. Check back soon for new stuff. WBEZ.org/prisoncast. prisoncast@WBEZ.org
Harris School of Public Policy @harrispolicy.bsky.social The official Bluesky feed of the UChicago Harris School of Public Policy. For the latest in evidence-based research and news, visit http://har.rs/news.
Investigative Project on Race and Equity @raceandequityproject.org We train journalists in data-driven reporting and collaborate with news organizations to uncover systemic racism and drive change.
Jacob Sanders @thejqs.myatproto.social Hi. Hello.
AntennaPod @antennapod.org Open-Source Podcast Manager for Android. Support and feature requests: http://forum.antennapod.org
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com A project of The Center For Scientific Integrity https://centerforscientificintegrity.org/
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POWER SOAK https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2YH8QMX
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
The Xylom @thexylom.com Take root and flourish in a healthier planet.
We cover everything you need to know about the world's most pressing health and environmental disparities.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
Restorative Justice & Reparations @c-anemone-d.bsky.social Free every ICE victim—tear down Dilley and Delaney and every concentration camp—reunite and compensate the families and communities.
Writer & documentary filmmaker, neurodiversity researcher, teacher. montrealserai.com/article/proxima-centauri-b/
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social they/them literally just asking questions "in the morning." journalist. send tips/sources to signal: baum.99 ⚠️ DO NOT SEND SENSITIVE INFO OVER DMs ⚠️
https://substack.com/@transvestigations
Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social Ex-psychiatrist, writer, campaigner. Trans ally. She/ her. Author ‘HER NAME IS ALICE’ on the life and death of my transgender child. Mudlark Books Harper Collins. https://www.carolinelitman.com/her-name-is-alice-1
Josh @josh.aguayo.ca I'm an artist living in Calgary. (He/Him)
Author of 'Cybernetic Mages': A cyberpunk/fantasy adventure novel about depression, drugs and fighting mega-corporations.
Available at: https://tinyurl.com/CyberneticM
Jey @jeyausten.com designer & creative director for the girls and the gays ✦ tech, music, film, alt brands ✦ fine artist ✦ husband and mother to design systems ✦ Austin TX ✦ #DesignSky
Lance Dixon @lancedixon.bsky.social human. Floridian. doing audience work at @19thnews.org. previous stops at WLRN, The New Tropic and @miamiherald.com. forever grateful for Morehouse College and The Maroon Tiger.
Journalism + Design @journalismdesign.bsky.social An interdisciplinary program at The New School with a undergraduate major and a lab dedicated to nurturing a resilient free press for the future.
Find more at linktr.ee/journalismdesign
Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com Chair of @journalismdesign.bsky.social at newschool.edu.
Editor, writer, producer, subway photographer. Podcast consulting at http://nounandverb.rodeo.
Knicks. Mets. Everton. Cook. Thief. His wife. Her lover.
Brent E. Huffman @brenthuffman.bsky.social #Documentary Filmmaker/Professor
Director of Documentary #Journalism at #Northwestern
Director of "Saving Mes Aynak"
New documentary about #Yemen
Passionate about #humanrights, #socialjustice #heritage
#Afghanistan #China
www.germancamera.com
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social I'm just here for the Gemütlichkeit
I write things (sporadically https://www.patreon.com/Pecunium) I make things (yarn, woven goods, minor woodworking). I take photographs (and teach photography).
Welcome to my place
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social Ph.D. in social psychology. Former researcher in pandemic behavioral risk reduction (non-pharma intervention).
Healthcare & public health; psych.; ed.; disability rights; women's rights; environmental issues; politics/activism.
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
Blogging at: lisadiedrich.org
SCOTUSfeed @scotusfeed.bsky.social Rarely posts, mainly provides the SCOTUS feed (👀/♥️/📌: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:35o63vs42f7uyexxyblvcxf7/feed/aaaaftnocwvuq) – use the feed to catch up on recent SCOTUS posts by published experts.
(run by @adamlinson.bsky.social)
Alys Brooks @alysbrooks.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, and developer based in Wisconsin. she/her/hers. @transjournalists.org member. @MarquetteU alumna. Words @rewirenewsgroup.com, @AssignedMedia.org, Door County Knock, CapTimes
Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org Award-winning nonprofit news site chronicling the #LongCOVID crisis. Founded by @BetsyLadyzhets.bsky.social & @MilesWGriffis.bsky.social
Website: thesicktimes.org
Newsletter: thesicktimes.org/newsletter
Donate: the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org
Errin Haines @errinhaines.bsky.social 24th @NABJ President | Editor at Large @19thnews | @MSNOW Politics Contributor | @caaspeakers |Subscribe to my FREE newsletter | Proverbs 31:31
The NewsGuild of New York @nyguild.bsky.social We are the union for media workers. Inquiries: communications@nyguild.org.
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social 
Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social Reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
Keenan Chen @kcinbk.bsky.social - Data investigations for @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org
- Formerly First Draft News, brownpublichealth.bsky.social, Columbia Journalism Investigations
- Lang: 普通話, 廣東話
- Email: kchen[at]chicagopublicmedia.org
- Personal site: kcinbk.github.io
Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
Carrie Muir @cmuirmath.bsky.social Community college math professor in the PNW (USA). Misses the early bird app, glad to find old friends (and new ones) here. Neurodivergent, queer, spoonie. Nerd, geek, fandoms random. Probably caffeinating. Pronouns in bio: she/her or they/them
Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social Author - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and EDI lead at the Bylines Network. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #writer #author
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
Mark Eichin @eichin.bsky.social https://mastodon.mit.edu/@eichin
https://www.thok.org/bloggery/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eichin/
Rabbi Ariel Stone @rabbiariel.bsky.social The prophets were right: if we don't care for the vulnerable we're all going to hell right here. Student of Torah. PDX 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍷✡️↙️↙️↙️ imparo Italiano
Catherine Warrick @catwarr.bsky.social Political science prof. Big fan of hound dogs, the rule of law, and the Oxford comma. 🇺🇸🇬🇧