Aylin Woodward @aylinwoodward.bsky.social Science reporter | Ex-Wall Street Journal. Covers paleoanthropology, space science, and dinosaurs (among other things) from New York City. Turkish, and prolific roller derby coach.
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social Former Alaskan, current Evanstonian. Ruby is my dog.
Republicans are trash, stop voting [and making excuses] for them.
Extremely displeased with current events.
https://youtu.be/thuYNWYwQ68?is=vBLx-2oxtDwfBq6w
Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social Writer; voice of the baby T. rex from the lost world jurassic park | https://linktr.ee/audipenny | https://audipenny.substack.com
Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social Cars, politics, Homestar Runner. He/him in bio.
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
how could you possibly know who I am @jaynah-hs.bsky.social I have given you no clues whatsoever
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago @mwrdgc.bsky.social Protecting public health and the environment by providing wastewater treatment for Chicago and 128 suburban communities and serving as Cook County’s Stormwater Management Authority. Learn more at mwrd.org.
☎️ Report waterway concerns: 800-332-3867.
actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social real, actual, unedited heathcliff comics. not affiliated with heathcliff in any way, just a fan.
McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social Lifelong bitch. Ruining your workplaces since the early 1990s. Former journalist. Current data scientist. For fun I write books about Cajun werewolves https://www.gothhouse.org/tales-of-the-rougarou/
Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
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.
Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
📍Hyde Park, Chicago
Ben Robins @benrobins.bsky.social Energy, Tech, Transit, Geopol, Economics
UK based small boat arrival from Xhitter
Stands with Ukraine & all fighting tyranny
Arguing is fine; political tribalism = block
Check out my lists, I've been busy...
Aggregate Studio @aggregate-studio.com Aggregate Studio is a mission-aligned architecture partner that specializes in dignified, community-centered affordable housing and civic projects.
https://www.aggregate-studio.com
https://linktr.ee/aggregatestudio
Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social I'm a 64 year old Thelemite vision-impaired autistic trans woman software engineer. I live in Los Angeles with my wonderful partner Leanne. I celebrate diversity in all its radiant forms.
Banner: Wilson River, Oregon USA (my photo)
Molly DeVore @mollydevore.bsky.social Covering the far Northwest Side for Block Club Chicago
Tips to molly@blockclubchi.org
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
FairVote Illinois @fairvoteil.bsky.social A nonpartisan, grassroots organization working for better elections. Join the movement to bring ranked choice voting to Illinois!
🔗: FairVoteIllinois.org/links
Tyler King @tyleraking.com General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower
tyleraking.com
She/her 🇨🇴
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. The Stakhanov of dad jokes. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social husband, dad, focused on elevating American entrepreneurs and innovators to achieve energy abundance by deploying at scale. It's simple, not easy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jigarshahdc/
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social 
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social Extremely Online medieval archaeologist in the PNW. Dem Tea Party Believer. AOCista. Gerontocracy hater. 🌹DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him. #nomoresenators
Jesse Smith @jessetayriver.bsky.social HVAC, catastrophic/x-risks, EA
kelsey jaffer⚡️they/she @kelatonin.bsky.social 🇵🇰🇳🇴| Towa #TowaGame Jane #ZZZ Yaoyao #Genshin Ayako #SlamDunk Zia #Barbie Ayla #PGR Eudie/Lilanthim #Shadowverse | #MongilStarDive #LupinIII #FEH #Arknights #Maplestory #EverybodysGolf #ESO #HSR #SMITE #ToGNewWorld | kelseyjaffer.com/voiceover 📍CHI
@minabloom.bsky.social @minabloom.bsky.social 
Crystal Paul @cplhouse.bsky.social Investigative Editor, Block Club Chicago - The Watch
Formerly Illinois Answers Project, Seattle Times.
Raised on the road. Found home in South Side Chicago.
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
math, systems theory, baseball, american pragmatism
wrote a novel about a motel. writing one about category theory and gnosticism, one about the beach
⚾️🎥🐕🎶
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Dr Moinhattan @emilymoin.com Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)
Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social Polls, Data, Shitposts, Opinions, Personal Account // Email or DM About Promotions // Support Me: http://ko-fi.com/polling 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social I'm a journalist in Chicago
But you're probably here for Birdie
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
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.
derek 🔒 @brainedimage.bsky.social locked account
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence. Occasionally: hate movements and conspiracism.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Kelly Garcia @kellygarcia.bsky.social investigative reporter @injusticewatch | signal: kgarci25.49
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, AI, politics, religion, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, but frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social quasar gazer | science & education policy wonk | prof. of physics & astronomy at a public liberal arts college | Illinoisan
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong.
Jen Sabella @jensabella.bsky.social Block Club Chicago Co-founder + Executive Editor
Ex: DNAinfo, HuffPost, Sun-Times
Lesbian Cat Lady, Chicago Lifer
blockclubchicago.org
gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social robin sky leigh
strategic comms consultant, writer, socialist. working at the intersection of labor, capitalist globalization, and textile production.
she | her
Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social Suburbanite. Sustainable transportation advocacy, for Chicago and Chicagoland. #BuildTheTunnel
“The smart, transit-oriented [social media] account” -Chicago Tribune
Planning, building, breaking, rebuilding.
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
campeonato clandestino de farmar aura Cuiabá-MT @gasseruto.bsky.social os deuses vendem quando dão, melhor saber
Francia Garcia Hernandez @franciagarciah.bsky.social Reporter covering Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards for Block Club Chicago | Host of ¡Presente! | Hablo español | Mexicana
Tips: Francia@blockclubchi.org
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
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social not AI! this bot is madlibs with rng, it does not do tricks or take commands, it just posts. Not LLM or Markov-based / created by @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social, hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Suggestion Box: https://forms.gle/1CP83J3YV2jbTLwy9
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Elon’s FinDomme @loridiletto.bsky.social Your fave NYC dominatrix turned policy researcher turned DOGE casualty turned dominatrix (and therapist, elsewhere).
No adult content on socials—unless political commentary counts—but we do get PG-13.
Become useful at DominaDiletto.com
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Stephanie Lulay @slulay2.bsky.social Co-founder + Executive Editor @blockclubchi 📰 Former flames @DNAinfoChi @BeaconNews 🔥 Mom. I-L-L fan. CHICAGO. The future of news is local. stephanie@blockclubchi.org
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social host of Mary in America, a new podcast out now
https://www.youtube.com/@maryinamerica
Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up, Immigration things over at Unbreaking.org. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social former poster
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social #Geriatrician #hospitalist at Michigan Medicine. Faculty Senate. #healthpolicy Fellow, U.S. House #WaysandMeans. Immigrant. INTJ. Wanderer. #finance #music. Cleveland Native, unwilling #Buckeye sister, Michigan Wolverine for life #GoBlue. Views my own.
Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com Filmmaker, Force of Nature
Co-founder of thetriibe.com.
Become a member of The TRiiBE and get access to the RESHAPE newsletter https://thetriibe.com/newsletters
Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social 🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
📕 Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry
✍️ Emmy-nominated journalist (NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone)
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social 34. Autistic who hates computers and math. The hottest thing from the North to come out of the South.
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Anjulie Rao @anjulierao.bsky.social I write about the built environment. Bylines in a lot of places.
Anjulierao.info
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️
Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a nonpartisan, independent research institution devoted to studying international economic policy.
Explore our research: piie.com
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views