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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Mamajamapants @mamajamapants.bsky.social Mental health clinician, mom, politically involved, menopausal woman in the PNW who despises fascism and aspires to make a positive impact.
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Coko @coko.bsky.social Veteran ✨Steelers Fan #Unite #Blacksky
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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
Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social Social Justice Worrier
Personal account; tweets are not representative of any employer (but are often nerdy about Chicago and/or local government)
It’s pronounced “Blewski”
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine.
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Siembra NC @siembranc.bsky.social Latino community & worker organizers in North Carolina, el pueblo salva al pueblo desde 2017. linktr.ee/siembranc
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
The Culture Codex Podcast @theculturecodex.bsky.social Decoding the minds shaping our world.
Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News ed board, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, NYU lecturer, @flaminghydra.com member, immigration wonk. Work in @slate.com, @thenation.com, @boltsmag.org, etc | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social Gay urbanist (he/him), Coach Operator of the Year ‘21, ‘24, ROSE Award Winner ‘22, 3rd Generation Bus Operator, Near East Indy via The Athens of the Prairie // All views my own
we there yet? @seriousdreamer.bsky.social • Alicia, Michigan, USA 💙
• 50 yrs of introspective angst, mostly due to childhood SA, made me THIS adult
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
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
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
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I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons, jails and more for The Marshall Project. Formerly WBEZ (Chicago NPR affiliate). Host of Motive podcast (Season 4). Writes short stories and essays. Tips: sheffernan@themarshallproject.org
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer
Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
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Matt Quinlivan @qdriver.bsky.social Dad from the 60s
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social a music blog & record store
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Till Eckert @tilleckert.com investigative journalist @correctiv.org • Burns Fellow '25 @propublica.org • covering national security, hybrid warfare & influence operations • Signal: tilleckert.90 🔦
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Lina Khan @linamkhan.bsky.social Served as 57th Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com Covering politics and policy from the Midwest. Newsroom for WCPT820
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
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DL Hughley @realdlhughley.bsky.social 
TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com Doing my own little part to win elections, restore sanity and save America from a President and party that has gone off the rails. Organize. Donate. Register. Vote. 🏳️🌈
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
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Stella Blue🦋 @karlamf.bsky.social Not here for dating.
Very happily married for 37years
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
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Neil Bhaerman @neilanalien.bsky.social hype man for unions [@OFTunion comms director]. organizer. baker. cyclist. tarotist. dad. baseball watcher. yinzer at heart, ohioan by accident.
opinions=mine only & often bad.
Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social FASCISM IS NOT TO BE DEBATED; IT IS TO BE
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
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Jacob Hoopes (they/he) @rjacobhoopes.carfree.life 🚶Free ourselves from the automobile 🚲
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Imprisoned July 2026 to late 2028
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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social Writer/Performer in Chicago. Early Neo-Futurist. Once & future Pansy King. Host of the Partly Dave Show. Russell Hobanologist. Old New Waver, erstwhile DJ. GNC/Queer. He/Him. I fly through the dark and I sing with the bees. https://linktr.ee/daveawl
Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real.bsky.social I'm so happy to be here with you!
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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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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social Republicans can’t guard me | DMV
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com Labor economist, opinion writer, policy consultant, podcaster
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Tom Morello @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social hoo.be/tommorello
correlation @correlation.bsky.social sports fan and other stuff. eagles | fever | chelseafc | ccfc
Doug Spaulding @dspaulding.bsky.social Grump
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social National correspondent at Mother Jones. tmurphy@motherjones.com.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc
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https://voterperceptions.org/
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social Jokes by John Hartzell. He/him.
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Matt Watkins @mattwatkinspolicy.bsky.social Helping communities navigate funding, governance, and policy shifts.
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Principal, Watkins Public Affairs.
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social Director, @cidrap.bsky.social
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Zurie Pope @zuriepope.bsky.social I'm Zurie Pope. I'm a reporter whose work has been published in The Nation Magazine, The Washington Blade, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and several other places.
Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social Liberal talking head (co-host of The Five on Fox News) and excellent mom if I do say so myself. Democracy enthusiast. Perusing the blue skies. 
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Did advance for KDH/JRB/HRC and built @Advance_Camp
The War Monitor @warmonitor.net Questioning questionable political and geopolitical events. OSINT. Fact checker. Exposing corruption. Anti-fascist. Pro Ukraine. The original War Monitor (Twitter 2013).
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com I’m so done with doomerism. 🌱
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