Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist. 
Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
Justin Bull @justybull.bsky.social Radio producer at WBEZ
CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social https://cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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Lauren Wagner @laurenwreports.bsky.social Education Reporter for The 74 covering labor, rural, STEM, literacy & more | Words in: Omaha World-Herald, Norfolk Daily News, Hechinger Report, Lincoln Journal Star
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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social Activists in the US are censored and punished for speaking up for Palestinian freedom. We challenge the censorship so voices for justice can be heard.
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Public Good U @publicgoodu.bsky.social A name, a concept, a mindset, a way of life…and maybe something more. Join us to figure out what that might be.
Fund/price/staff/govern public higher education as the indispensable public good it is. #PublicGoodU #MADC
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Matt Topic @mvtopic.bsky.social Fighting FOIA denials to a soundtrack of thrash metal and avant garde jazz since 2007. Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People in (anti!) AI. Co-host of Disclosure podcast.
https://www.loevy.com/attorneys/matt-topic/
https://time.com/7012833/matt-topic/
Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times public safety editor
tschuba@suntimes.com
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Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Justin Myers @justinmyers.net Journalist, tinkerer, crocheter, parent.
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Graphics editor, @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org.
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Also active on fediverse/Mastodon:
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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.
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist, runs a sleep lab. Studying sleep, dreaming, memory and rest. Uses EEG, interested in open science, women in STEM. 🧠📈😴 Frustrated with the higher-education industrial complex. Luddite-adjacent. #AAUP. Views are my own.
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Akil Bello @akilbello.bsky.social Shadow education vet → policy wonk & public intellectual | Coined "highly rejective colleges" (Congress & Urban Dictionary) | Netflix, NYT, Forbes | 5x FAFSA filer, CSS hater | data-driven contrarian | "Brilliance & foolishness" per sources
akilbello.com
rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social Want to fight for a future where everyone can exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights? We give you the tools. Podcast hosted by Jennie Wetter. | 🔗 linktr.ee/reprosfightback
LIA 福振凡 🇺🇳🇨🇳🇺🇸 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago alum
United Nations contractor
Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections contributor, et al.
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
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
Alma Campos @almacampos.bsky.social Immigration reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
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Type Investigations @typeinvestigations.org A nonprofit newsroom for independent investigative journalists. Seeking comment from a corporation near you.
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Mohammed R. Mhawish @mohamhawish.bsky.social Writer and journalist from Gaza City.
Cait Hakala @caithakala.bsky.social Chicago ILGA witness slips aficionado and Nora Leerhsen stan account
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
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All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social Harnessing the power of American voices to enact policy change that guarantees full labor, civil and political rights for immigrants and their families.
www.AmericasVoice.org
Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social Global climate justice reporter
@DrilledMedia.bsky.com
Before: Guardian, Independent
Author: Who killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads & an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet
Contributor: Gaza. The story of a genocide
Ex-mental health nurse.
Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com Human. Global. Security.
Nonprofit news about our life with endless war.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
@paigepfleger.bsky.social @paigepfleger.bsky.social WPLN’s criminal justice reporter • Investigating guns, domestic violence + juvenile justice with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network • Tell me a secret: Paige@wpln.org
Mariam Elba @mariamelba.bsky.social Research Reporter at @propublica.org
Vanessa Lopez @vanessalop.bsky.social audience at chicago.suntimes.com
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social Bilingual Journalist at Chicago Tribune focused on immigration and Latinos/ Adj professor at DePaul University/ Maktub/ 1 John 4:16/ RTs ≠ endorsements /larodriguez@chicagotribune.com
Rolando Valdés Aguilar @rvathz.bsky.social Dad, husband, physicist, educator. Research on quantum materials, mostly topological magnets. THz and Raman spectroscopist.
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com Planetary scientist, earth + space science historian, dancer/choreographer, part-time community radio DJ. (they/she) 🏳️🌈
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov Defending freedoms. Advancing equality. Ensuring justice for all. News from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member @durbin.senate.gov.
John Dunlevy @jdunlevy.bsky.social Chicago ✶ and Berwyn, Illinois. he/him
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social Professor, Scholar, Journalist * Culture and US civic life—past and present * English PhD * Books: "Untimely Democracy" & "Democracies in America" * Bylines: LARB, Public Source, Colorado Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, &c. * www.gregorylaski.com
Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social ▫️writing about ed policy and politics
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▫️PhD in international ed policy
▫️posts are mine & reposts mean "hey look at this”
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
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.
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Isabel McMullen @isabelmcmullen.bsky.social Polisci PhD student🦡 UW-Madison IES Pre-doc fellow
Politics and Higher Ed
Proud 〽️ichigander and Kalamazoo Promise Alum
Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com Loevy + Loevy is an award-winning civil rights law firm working for justice, accountability, and transparency. We take on the nation’s most difficult public interest cases to hold officials, governments, and corporations accountable. www.loevy.com
Dr. Stacey Patton @drstaceypatton.bsky.social Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, historian, child advocate, and college professor.
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov Congresista proudly serving the diverse IL-03. 🦋
I will not concede the power of the people.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
Charles E Henderson @cafetacbva.bsky.social Veteran Advocate, Anti War Activist, Peace Activist, War Veteran, Community Organizer, Historian Campaign Manager, Chicago Historian, Southside Kid.
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social Registered Nurse. Congresswoman for IL-14.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social We believe that the fight against antisemitism cannot be separated from the struggle against all forms of oppression.
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Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social (She/They)
Cofounder of a bunch of repro orgs, won’t stop talking about abortion later in pregnancy.
www.getlatercare.com
‘Nah’ -Harriet Tubman
JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social Chicago chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. Solidarity forever!
linktr.ee/jvpchicago
JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl!
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Alireza Doostdar علیرضا دوستدار @doostdar.bsky.social Anthro, magic, games. Free Palestine 🍉
Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
Elizabethshakmanhurd.com
Aliyya Swaby @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social ProPublica South reporter, focused on children, families and social inequality
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.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social this one's personal: governance wonk; rural regional public u prof; sf/fantasy/comics/anime nerd; golf otaku; ex-pitcher/point guard/union goon (still HELU/CAHE); newly empty nester; mostly harmless Hawthornist; #PublicGoodU
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education @maynardinstitute.bsky.social Furthering Diversity, Equity, and Belonging in the news since 1977. mije.org
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Andy Pinedo @profandy.bsky.social Professor studying how young people reason about, feel about, and act on inequality | https://www.anpinedo.com/
Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social ✶ State investigations editor at https://illinoisanswers.org/ ✶ https://www.jim-daley.com/ ✶ DM for Signal ✶ He/him
John Bachtell @johnbachtell.bsky.social Social change agent, environmental steward, joyful solidarity and community builder.
Nick Blumberg @ndblumberg.bsky.social @wttw.bsky.social correspondent and Week in Review host | Chicago kid | lover of bike rides, books, and a good Negroni | nblumberg at wttw dot com
Blair Paddock @blairpaddock.bsky.social prisons + investigations for @wttw.bsky.social
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mouseartsandletters.org
Anvee Bhutani @anveebhutani.bsky.social Independent Journalist in New York City // Bylines in The New York Times, Guardian, Teen Vogue, Telegraph, and more
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social Grassroots, non-profit 501c4 advocacy org representing the interests of Illinois pro-public school families. Public schools = public good! info@ilfps.org
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
The 21st Show @21st.show Illinois' statewide public radio talk show and podcast. Hosted by
@BrianMackey.com. Stream live at 11 a.m. Monday-Thursday on http://21stShow.org.
MWRD Commissioner Precious Brady-Davis @preciousmwrd.bsky.social Advocate 🌈 Mother 💖 Environmentalist 🌳 Committed to protecting Lake Michigan for the people of Cook County, Illinois 💧 ✨ Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Savannah H-S @sleepysocialworker.bsky.social 
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Interested in the academic workplace and what it's like to live and work as a faculty member. Tell me about it: DM, Signal mzahneis.09, or email megan dot zahneis at chronicle dot com.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
@SZReports @szreports.bsky.social *Investigative journalist at Chicago Sun-Times
*Expert in consumer issues; also have reported extensively on the intersection of mental health and criminal legal system
*Previously with ABC News Investigative Unit
*Medill School of Journalism
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Corli Jay @corli.thetriibe.com I write therefore I am 🖊️
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Olivia Olander @olivia0.bsky.social chicago tribune reporter
chicagotribune.com/author/olivia-olander
Zareen Syed @zareensyed.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, currently food/features. Sometimes immigration and education. Perpetually planning my next trip 🏞️
✉️: zsyed@chicagotribune.com