Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Founder of Too Deep Zone: Subscriber-supported gonzo NFL journalism. Former NFL writer for Football Outsiders, Bleacher Report, the New York Times, Sports on Earth and other publications, some of which still exist!
Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
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signal: millionbear.44
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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co Insta: @richtercommaandy
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Podcast: The Three Questions
Call In Show on Sirius XM
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com ~ Unf*ckwithable ~ Host of “Good Game with Sarah Spain” on iHeart, espnW contributor, co-owner SF Signal and Crux Football, community owner Minnesota Aurora, Emmy- & Peabody-Winning Journalist, Washed-up Heptathlete, Cornell grad, Chicago gal.- R Ray Ratto @rayratto.bsky.social Defector dancing bear.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com Gianfranco Berardi is an indie game developer ( #GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev ), #Agile Software enthusiast, blogger, Gnu/Linux user, amateur gardener ( #GardeningFeed 🌱 ), and OJ drinker. he/him/his
https://www.gbgames.com
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
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.
@privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social Tattooed shrink, upstanding citizen if you squint right, mostly reformed hoodlum.
Skeets reflect the official position of my employer.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
maitreyi anantharaman @maitreyiaa.bsky.social staff writer at Defector, mostly women's basketball // maitreyi.me
Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social I want to do everything all the time
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, columnist at The Cut and GQ, HuffPost politics reporter. Brooklyn via South Louisiana. I write a newsletter called Nightcap: https://www.laura-bassett.com
Stereogum @stereogum.com 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉’𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌
→ stereogum.com
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too.
www.aaroncynic.com
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social I work at Defector. 🇻🇪 luis@defector.com
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social Mom of four, Illinois Lt. Governor, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate.
Giving the people what they want.
https://linktr.ee/julianaforillinois
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
weeder @weeder.bsky.social When the going gets tough, the tough get growing
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University 
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social stately, plump Buck Mulligan
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social Defector writer
Loverboy
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Steve @sterno.bsky.social Chicago progressive. Photographer. Computer geek. Cat dad.
Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
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
Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social They’re all bangers in my heart. He/him. 🍉
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
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
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
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
drew updates @drewupdates.bsky.social news editor @avclub / morale officer / views are my own and very good
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social Posting live from the Most Serene IL-Khanate of the Great Khan JB Pritzker
Laura Wagner @laurawags.bsky.social 
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social I love James Harden & I write about abortioneveryday.com
substack.com/@kylietcheung / kyliewrites.net
Field Yates @fieldyates.bsky.social Fantasy Football and NFL Draft for ESPN
Benjamin Solak @benjaminsolak.bsky.social Write about football. Talk about football. Not a child.
Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com ESPN writer/yapper
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social Tryhard | co-owner Defector
Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social reporter and whatnot
email: RASilverman@protonmail.com
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
#TheBeginningIsNear @mapninja.bsky.social Quality Craftsmanship Since 1968. Geospatial Swiss Army Knife at a Silicon Valley University. Raised by a badass single mom, and it shows.
https://zookeeper.stanford.edu/?action=&seq=selUser&viewuser=1428&subaction=viewDJ
https://github.com/mapninja
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Draggor 🔜 ??? @draggor.me Co-Founder of Fur Squared. Fursuiter and cosplayer. https://draggor.me
18+
Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com The hardest-working paper in America.
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social visual editor, defector media
currently on medical leave
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@ksodilla.bsky.social @ksodilla.bsky.social 
Remember the LMAO @ass.golf I draw the webcomic QUESTIONABLE CONTENT which is about robots who want to smooch www.ass.golf
you can also find me on patreon: www.patreon.com/jephjacques
My dog's name is Ollie and he is a smooth collie
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast debuts 9/9. I’m just here for a good time.
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true