Phil Brinkman @philbrinkman.bsky.social City editor
Wisconsin State Journal
Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @pcgvr.org Collaborating with journalists, researchers and the survivor community to advance more empathetic, ethical and impactful reporting. PCGVR.org
Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social Guardian reporter in Los Angeles.
Lois.Beckett@theguardian.com
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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
John K. Wilson @jkleinwilson.bsky.social UW Center for Campus History | Past: @WPR, etc. | snotty upstart
Eric J. Miller @millerej11.bsky.social He, him, his. Afro-Caledonian. Law Professor, teaching criminal law, criminal procedure; reparations. All posts are my personal opinion and do not reflect the opinion of any institution with which I am affiliated.
@addiecostello.bsky.social @addiecostello.bsky.social 
WUWM 89.7 FM @wuwmradio.bsky.social WUWM is no longer posting on this account, but we're not going anywhere. Follow us on IG/FB/YouTube and stream live at wuwm.com.
Bethany Barnes @betsbarnes.bsky.social Deputy Investigative Editor at The Tampa Bay Times | Co-curator of the Local Matters newsletter, a weekly roundup of the best local investigative reporting in the county. Loves to talk books 📚
Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social Drug policy. Prisons and jails. Journalism. Research. Harm reduction. Veterans. Heart in Portland, skin under San Diego sun.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social sex, speech, tech, justice, parenting, politics, & panic ✨ senior editor @reason.com, journalism instructor at University of Cincinnati, Midwestern mom
Barry Adams @madnewsboy.bsky.social Reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal who roams the state in search of good stories. Also fish when not writing and reporting and enjoy smoked meats.
Todd Temkin @toddtemkin.bsky.social Poet, author, Patagonian alpaca farmer. A Wisconsin boy living in Chile between Valparaiso & Futaleufú. New book coming in 2027! All llamas, alpacas & Icelandic horses are Green Bay Packers fans. No DMs. No porn. No crypto.
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
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social media at @theonion.com
Jeff Mandell @jeffmandell.bsky.social Leading the fight to defend and advance democracy in Wisconsin, with @lawfwd.bsky.social. Dad of teens, husband, epicurean, fan of good tv and extraordinary ice cream. Opinions are my own.
Michael P. Agita @mkemxp.bsky.social Dad. Spouse. He/Him. Qns native.
I've opinions. Beer. Music. NY Rangers.
Legal services daily, Bartender weekly.
Milwaukee, Wisc.
Rebecca Loroff @eduporter-becca.bsky.social Reporter, K-12 education, Post-Crescent. USA-TODAY Network - Wisconsin since 2021. When I'm not writing, I'm probably doing yarn sports. she/her
George Stanley @georgestanley.bsky.social As water covers the sea
Scott Bauer Associated Press @sbauerap.bsky.social Associated Press correspondent covering Wisconsin, politics and music. Not always in that order. 
WBAY-TV @wbay.com Your First Alert Station. Official account of WBAY-TV, covering Northeast Wisconsin || news@wbay.com || (920) 437-2222 || wbay.com
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49
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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com Covering housing in Los Angeles and California for POLITICO.
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Nicole Godfrey @nicbrianne.bsky.social Clinical Law Prof | Civil Rights & Rights of Incarcerated People | First-Gen | Who Dey | O-H | LFG
WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social Politics, Music and Sports
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social Exploring Wisconsin’s past, present and future
He/him
Views = mine only
Joe Schulz @joeschulz97.bsky.social Northeast Wisconsin reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio. Covering statewide business and energy, as well as general news in the Fox Valley and Green Bay. Story ideas? Email: joe.schulz@wpr.org
Jennie Broecker @jenniebroecker.bsky.social Associate communications director, University of Wisconsin Law School. Word nerd. Mom of two humans and one morkie. 
Dave Dahmer @davedahmer.bsky.social Co-founder of Madison365, father, community journalist, extreme gardener, Wisco sports enthusiast, MST3K superfan, lots of other stuff I'm forgetting
Louisa Lincoln, PhD @ljlincoln.bsky.social probably talking about nonprofit news 🗞️ // minneapolitan
The Badger Project @thebadgerproject.org We are an INDEPENDENT news nonprofit in #WISCONSIN investigating the powerful - politics, wealthy donors, police, etc.
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Jeff Kleinman @jeffkleinman.bsky.social Miami Herald | consumer team editor
💵Health | Shopping | Travel | Real estate
📝Story sculptor, Clarity clinician
🍊Florida man, Mr. 305, Family guy
Bram Sable-Smith @realbrambo.bsky.social Writing about abortion, guns, insulin, trans health care and the Midwest for KFF Health News
Signal: Brambo.11
avery @sound-aves.bsky.social sound wizard • journalist • producer at WPR • fascinated by brains • currently petting my dog • email me: avery(dot)rogers(at)wpr(dot)org
Charles Bethea @charlesbethea.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer in Atlanta
Reporting mostly from the South
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/charles-bethea
@sommerhauser.bsky.social @sommerhauser.bsky.social 
Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social Marathon runner, husband, dad, Village Trustee and estate planning attorney. Pro-democracy. Let’s build safer streets, housing for all, and a greener Shorewood. Personal account.
Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network Neurosurgeon, among other things. Views, of course, are my own. Be Excellent To Each Other. He/Him.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFGRCu0AAAAJ&hl=en Brookfield/Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Minneapolis. Joncollinsjournalism.com
David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social VP Justice & Safety, Urban Institute. Research on prisons, jails, and systems change. Alum of Georgia, Indiana, and UC Irvine. Adjunct Faculty, CUNY. Alabama native. 🏳️🌈
#criminaljustice #criminology #corrections #prisonreform #crimsky
Charlotte West @charlottewest.bsky.social Education journalist covering prisons for @opencampus.bsky.social. Sign up for College Inside, my newsletter about the intersection of criminal justice and higher education: https://www.opencampusmedia.org/college-inside/
Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com Digital content editor 📺. Public media true believer. Photographer, podcast producer, woodworker. Chihuahua dad🐾
Telling stories about everything from a history of Milwaukee beer ads to processing death through game development.
Erin Davisson 🌲 @erindeenews.bsky.social Former Wisconsin TV anchor/reporter.
Grateful liver transplant recipient.
#organdonation
Cabin life with a side of world travel.
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
Internet Hooligan...
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
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
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Michele Gilman @michelegilman.bsky.social Clinical law professor fighting for and writing about algorithmic justice, data privacy, economic equality, and gender equity. Find me at: https://sites.google.com/view/michele-gilman/home 
Isabella Kostolni @bellak.bsky.social Award-winning journalist. Eating good food.
Sharing some of it. Bopping around Milwaukee.
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Joel Patenaude @jtpaten.bsky.social Producer at Wisconsin Public Radio, guilty of committing print journalism, too. Otherwise a road and fat biker, xc skier, former distance runner, reptile keeper, father, lover, not a fighter.
Angela Lang @angelalang8.bsky.social She/Her Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC). Always an organizer. Views are my own.
Russell Contreras @russcontreras.bsky.social Senior Race and Justice Reporter for Axios. Houston born, New Mexico-based. #ColumbiaMFA #UH #race #journalism #writing #history #immigration #latino https://www.axios.com/authors/rcontreras
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, brad.heath@tr.com
Lauren Gill @laurengill.bsky.social writing about criminal justice and voting rights
@bolts.bsky.social
lgill@boltsmag.org. Signal: lgill.52
Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social Reporter/editor/narrative coach @Bloomberg.com. Co-author, Unbelievable. Law school dropout/honorary doctor. Formers: ProPublica, Marshall Project, Seattle Times. Perturbable.
https://kenarmstrongwriter.com/
Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social Author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration & the Art of Transformation (2022); Theatre maker, performance studies scholar; Associate Professor, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre @ Brown University
Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com .
Sami West @samiwest.bsky.social Online editor/reporter at KUOW, Seattle's NPR station. 📧: swest@kuow.org
Jane Matenaer @jmatenaer.bsky.social Wisconsin based radio veteran of 44 years.
Find my pro-community, pro-democracy, pro-funny show "Matenaer On Air" at civicmedia.us
William @middlewestern.bsky.social 
Sam Levine @samrlevine.bsky.social Reporter covering voting rights at the Guardian
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.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social Deputy editor of investigations, Guardian US. I'm an editor and reporter. Feminist. Mother of two. Years in DC, Rome, NYC, London. But mostly DC. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephanie-kirchgaessner
Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social US Southern Bureau Chief and Investigations Correspondent - The Guardian
Presenter of the news documentary series Anywhere But Washington
Guardian US @us.theguardian.com With 200 years of history and staff across America and the world, we offer a global perspective on US news.
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E Mills 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social Wisconsin-based writer, reader, nature nerd, DJ, roller derby-er (Hammer Abby), and musician (Damsel Trash, LINE & Little Red Wolf). 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ grist-from-the-mills.ghost.io
yurko246 @yurko246.bsky.social Milwaukee. Politics/law. Tenant lawyer. Not your lawyer. Cat dad-who-stepped-up.
Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social Reuters journalist
he/him
Joy Powers @thejoypowers.bsky.social Host & Producer, "Lake Effect" on 89.7 WUWM, Milwaukee's NPR. Owns too many animals and draws sometimes. 
Alex Groth @alexgrothmedia.bsky.social I'm a reporter with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Please send any questions to agroth@gannett.com
Rick Coelho (he/him) @rickcoelho.bsky.social Father, activist, rural renewable energy siting advocate, radio DJ, hockey player, photographer, lover of: music, books, baseball and food. Flyers, Phillies, Badgers. Proudly Madison, WI.
"It is darkest before the dawn."
*Opinions are my own*
Henry Redman @henry-redman.bsky.social Reporter covering elections, water, wolves and the justice system for the Wisconsin Examiner
Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social @Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest
Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing
www.annaclark.net
Rachel Bernhard @rachelbernhard.bsky.social I’m over here now.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel dining critic. 🍽️
Fan of the Midwest. 💛
My cats’ names are Biscuit and Gravy. 🐈🐈⬛
@saragabler.bsky.social @saragabler.bsky.social 🎙on the radio
🎲 fantasy writer
🍩 eat the rich
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Justin Seitz @justinseitz.bsky.social Bullshit Hunter. Misidentified beet farmer. Fiery advocate. Neurospicy. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan prairie dweller. He/Him.
Find my work at bullshithunting.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social Publisher of Madison's Isthmus, Minnesconsinite (Winnesotan?). Read the news!
Kristin Brey @kristinbrey.bsky.social Radio Host. Columnist. Content Creator. Wisconsinite. 
Matt Wild @bymattwild.bsky.social Co-founder/editor https://milwaukeerecord.com
Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com President and co-founder of @urbanmilwaukee.com. Covering City Hall and all things city of Milwaukee. jeramey@urbanmilwaukee.com
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
Alice Herman @aliceherman.bsky.social Investigative reporter @suncosearchlight.bsky.social
Signal: @aliceherman.22
Email: alice@suncoastsearchlight.org
Jules @synathroesmus.bsky.social Wisconsinite, writer, political junkie, media critic, progressive, pragmatist, film geek, capricorn, feminist, gothic gardener, information digger, cool aunt, and future ghost. Check out my newsletter: https://synathroesmus.substack.com
Baylor Spears @bspears.bsky.social Reporter @WIExaminer || medill alum || tennessean || she/her || ✉️ baylor@wisconsinexaminer.com
Alex Brizee @alexbrizee.bsky.social strong headed since '97 • covering the criminal justice system for the idaho statesman• go vandals • stop using mugshots • 208 703 8818
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater. 
Chris Walton ✊🏾 @chriswaltonmke.bsky.social Son 👨👩👧👦 Big Bro👨👧Uncle🍀 | Chair of MKEDems 2017-21 |🧀 | ♎️ |#HailState🎓🐶| ✊🏾🏳️🌈