Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Christian Lane is my name not a preachy road @chrstianlane.bsky.social He/Him. Singer songwriter. Guitar player. Protector of felines Ollie and Liam. Dead, Fabs, etc Music producer of Behind The Song podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-song/id1437006895
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. I hate board games. Brooklyn, NY.
dominicumile.com
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Laura Jane Grace @laurajanegrace.bsky.social New album “Adventure Club” out July 18th
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
NWS Chicago Unofficial (inactive) @nwschicago.bsky.social Unofficial account mirroring tweets from @NWSChicago. Maintained by @llkats.com. Notifications are not monitored. Checks for updates every 20 min.
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ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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Ask a Manager @askamanager.org Creator of Ask a Manager – home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social #DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
Brooke Kalvaitis @brookekalvaitis.bsky.social 
hessi @suffrajess.bsky.social physically: texas, spiritually: lilith fair 1997
knitting, pottery, writing, working to turn TX blue, CO Avs
sunlizard.substack.com
janequiltsslowly @janequiltsslowly.bsky.social Avid quilter. Member of Inland NW MQG. 🧵 Politically Progressive now verging on radical. Recovering liberal.
andyb_skeletonhead @andrewmburleson.bsky.social Cochlear implant researcher and dog friend
Sherri Lynn Wood @sherrilynnwood.bsky.social Artist Quilter Maker improvising patterns as a restorative life practice. Making new from making do here in Cincinnati 🌈🦋
@loavesandwitches.bsky.social @loavesandwitches.bsky.social 6034 n. broadway 📍chicago
queer, sober, witchy coffee shop & bakery
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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social Your critic and co-listener // ex-Washington Post // reccos/rants/prayers/curses at thefutureisourstomake.substack.com // contact me: christopherpaulrichards at proton dot me
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank @hsteinkopffrank.bsky.social Journalist for Le Monde in English. September gurl, musician and sewist. Words and photos in NYT, JSTOR Daily, Atlas Obscura, Yes! Magazine, Wired and more.
www.hannahsteinkopf-frank.com
A Ladd @aladd.bsky.social Music, human behavior, and innovation. Design thinker. On a good mixture.
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David Gans @dgans.bsky.social Musician, author, radio host living in Oakland CA
https://perfectible.net
I play a live set online at 4pm PT almost every day, at
https://facebook.com/dgansmusic
https://youtube.com/user/dgans
Zootopia Abortion Fanfic @radicalkiba.bsky.social I don't want to drown in American society.
Lenika Cruz @lenika.bsky.social ex senior editor at The Atlantic // that BTS lady // writing a memoir for Atria Books // Chamoru nene girl giya Guåhan 🇬🇺// indigenous + azn
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Alexa @alexaharrison.bsky.social Chronically online millennial who gravitates towards wordsmithing, restaurants, horror, moving pictures and karaoke. 🤙🏾
Libs Elliott @libselliott.com Making quilts with code since 2012.
Jon Flores @jonadamnflores.bsky.social Local 700 Film Sound Designer
Public Noise Maker, private noise appreciator
jerry cowgill @jerrycowgill.bsky.social talent buyer in chicago for metro & gman tavern. i used to write about music too, maybe i will again someday
shows: jerry@metrochicago.com
words: geraldcowgill@gmail.com
https://jerrycowgill.com/
Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social Photojournalist @BlockClubCHI | BSJ, MSJ, Adjunct Lecturer @MedillSchool | Lifelong Chicagoan | #TodaysReportingLunch | Cats | News | Local Lens
Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
signal: simbler.88
Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’ 
Zachary Lipez @zacharylipez.bsky.social Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter. 
Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social Investigations in the Midwest at ProPublica. Past: Chicago Tribune by way of OH/GA/NY/WV. Enthusiastic about FOIA + data. Tell me everything.
Taylor Moore @taylormoore.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Chicago with work in The Guardian, Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, The New Republic, WBEZ, etc. Ex-IWMF. Bloomin' onion apologist. taylorgmoore.com
Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR. 
Grace Del Vecchio @delvecchiograce.bsky.social 💻editorial program manager @citybureau | Union household @cbworkersguild | Philly ➡️ Chicago
Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social Bird Law Scholar.
Chicago journalist.
@loyolachicago.bsky.social Prof.
Co-founder @borderlessmag.bsky.social.
Alum @rooseveltu.bsky.social.
Opinions = Mine.
RTs ≠ Es.
✶✶✶✶ > Everything.
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
Headshot: Varvara Mikushkina
Cover photo: Brian Cassella
Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social Editorial Director at City Bureau. 📰 Previously Tribune, CS, DNAinfo. Dibs is law ❄️. (she/her) ariel@citybureau.org ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Patrick Smith @pksmid.bsky.social Co-host of Say More with Mary Dixon
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/
Jamie Ludwig @jamieludwig.bsky.social Indulging my many sound fixations. Writing. Coffee. Music. Projects Editor @chicago_reader. Freelance everywhere. (Illustration by @berhuff.)
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social still human in the strange loop • ∆/ ∞ ∆ editor @ Fast Company ⟴ Motherboard // Bandwagon • ¶• / alex.265 on Signal
Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
jacqueline @hellojacqueline.bsky.social immigrant, designer, hyacinth bucket📍ldn
sam sacks @samanthasacks.bsky.social wellbutrin appreciator
jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social ✨ senior business & China editor @wired.com
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Chris O'Coin @ocoin.bsky.social Documentary Video Editor + Producer. CREDITS: PBS Frontline, American Experience, Showtime, Paramount+, HBO, Discovery, Vice, ESPN. Vocals in punk bands. Opinions my own. Nothing is true and everything is possible.
www.chrisocoin.com
Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social “northeast guitar”; he/him/any; useful promo stuff is @realtedleo on insta*ram, tedleo.bandcamp.com
Brian A. Anderson @thebanderson.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Pulitzer-winning editor. LOUD AND CLEAR, my book on the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), out now in hardcover and paperback.
josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social chicago-based writer. newsletter producer at wttw news (@wttw.bsky.social). i also run the music and culture blog no expectations. ex: vice, chicago tribune, etc. tips, email: joshhowardterry@gmail.com
https://www.noexpectations.fyi
Allison C. Meier @allisoncmeier.bsky.social Writer on art, culture, history & other wonders. Editor at Fine Books & Collections. NYC-based, Oklahoma born. 'Grave' book is out now from Bloomsbury! (she/her)
Bess Lovejoy @besslovejoy.bsky.social Wrote Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses & etc. Now: research, podcasts, journalism, weird fiction.
BessLovejoy.wordpress.com
Sarah Laskow @slaskow.bsky.social senior editor at the Atlantic. I think a lot about climate, disease, animals, plants, risk, kids, New York City, and sometimes other cities too