The Chicago Bench Collective @chicagobenchcollective.org Everyone deserves a place to sit. We build places to sit.
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Mark Simon (he/him) @marksimon.bsky.social Editorial at Sports Info Solutions
Host: The Journalism Salute pod.link/journalismsalute
Formerly, ESPN, Baseball Tonight.
Mets notes writer. Wrote "The Yankees Index" book.
Play-by-Play: Muhlenberg/DeSales
Creator- A Lasting Legacy documentary
H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
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Chicago Mayor's Press Office @chicagompo.bsky.social The official press office account for Mayor Brandon Johnson. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases.html
Ethiopique - ኢትዮጲክ @ethiopique202.bsky.social Local news and resources for Amharic speaking immigrant communities in DC-MD-VA. Web: www.ethiopique.com
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Street Sense Media @streetsensedc.bsky.social Empowering those experiencing homelessness & informing the public since 2003. Donate to help us continue our work at bit.ly/SSMDonate. Visit our website at streetsensemedia.org.
The Washington Informer @washingtoninformer.com Top-leading African American woman-owned media company serving the Washington D.C. metro area since 1964. www.WashingtonInformer.com #BlackPressMatters #BeInformed
lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social notably sexy rascal | he/they | Chicago
Borealis Philanthropy @borealisphil.bsky.social Borealis Philanthropy works as a partner to philanthropy, helping grantmakers expand their reach and impact.
https://linkin.bio/borealisphilanthropy/
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social Chicago Gay. Day job is healthcare analytics, unpaid night gig is trying to get my friends to play math rocks with me. Recovering policy addict. Cat pics are my own, but it's not my cat. Typos are proof I'm on the right side of the Butlerian Jihad.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
have a tip? DM me for signal
Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov Proudly serving Illinois' 2nd Congressional District since 2013
Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social Umbraphile. Vaccine enthusiast. Mpls. Interested in police abolition, immigrants rights, MPS and mutual aid.
She/her.
Trans rights are human rights.
Xer Mom to 2.
Free Palestine.
Bluesky joiner #442,075
Canadian.
Posting my way through it.
Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social Think globally, shade locally
📍 Mippulus Min
Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social (she/her)Math educator. Kids are better than adults. Math, crochet, fiber arts, politics. Minneapolis.
Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.social I dunno folks I'm just here to vibe and talk about movies or whatever 😃
Letterboxd: tckidd
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Minneapolis. Joncollinsjournalism.com
Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social The Minnesota chapter of the greater @50501movement.bsky.social movement!
https://mn50501.org
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social just an idiot
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he/him
SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of politics.
Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social Won the Nobel price of love 1922.
Chuck Grassley should resign. He should build a time machine and resign 30 years ago.
Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online Quantum mechanics is a limited hangout. God has way more to hide. Follow the money
Ryan G-S @ryangs.net 
Eternal Cat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social poster
Internet Himbo, biomedical R&D consultant, cat dad, IDIC 🖖 , staunch trans rights defender 🏳️⚧️
do not step to me re: covid unless you have had more than three (3) therapeutics EUA’d by the FDA, seriously shut the fuck up
Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social Architecture. Music. Art. Other things. Public Transit Enthusiast.
Strictly garden content over at @perennialmisery.bsky.social
austin @bainard.bsky.social jorts authority. head dude at @beermiscuous.bsky.social in Chicago. Free Palestine.
Gay Luxury Space Commie @glsc.bsky.social ✊🏽🇰🇷🇵🇰🏳️🌈✊🏽 | Democratic Socialism or Barbarism | Space Explorer Born Too Early | Chicago Nationalist in Temporary Exile | Ex-Catholic Who Knows Too Much Catholic Lore
[allshiny] @allshiny.bsky.social 
Rebecca @rebeccakell.bsky.social She/her. Dyke. Chicagoan. Knitter. Treadmillknitter. Weightlifter. Anti-fascist. Anti-bigotry.
https://my.habitatchicago.org/WomenBuild2026/RebeccaKell
Patrick @cleverturnip.bsky.social Alabama transplant in Chicago.
Random Oaf @therrak.bsky.social 
Ben 🏳️🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social Goofy video game streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/ps_garak
Goofy adventure game podcaster: https://zencastr.com/Quest-Quest
Goofy comic writer: https://www.instagram.com/philcomic/
Plus Chicago gay.
Eliza P @eliza-p.bsky.social - J Jeff Salvadore @jeffsalvadore.bsky.social
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks Just here to witness the disaster, but I sometimes post about bikes or dogs and stuff. The follower count is mostly blocked bots. 🇺🇦
CassieWasRight (they/them) @cassiewasright.bsky.social No billionaires, no borders, no prisons, no police.
Better Streets Chicago Action Fund @bscactionfund.org Fighting for the streets Chicagoans deserve.
bscactionfund.org
Connor Douglas @connordouglas.bsky.social Just because I don’t run my mouth, it don’t mean I got nothin to say.
Chicago
Kimchi Fries @kimcheesefries.bsky.social potato. fried. cheesy. pickle-ish
takes too many pics
chicago. bike. music. bullshit
Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
Autocorrected to “mentally I’ll” @nocash.bsky.social Look out honey cause I’m using technology
Charlie Zone @zonecharlie.bsky.social Photos, Chicago, Politics.
Laura 🍸 Elizabeth 🍷 @lauralizk.bsky.social Chicagoan • Furkid Parent • Cocktail Enthusiast • Movie Nerd • Progressive neighborhood organizer in a constant battle with my own Gen X cynicism.
petty mayonnaise @kalehummus.bsky.social critically acclaimed
she/her
marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social Werner Herzog’s alt, founding member of the Vatican City DSA chapter, The (former) Chairman, 48th Ward Neighbors and Chicago DSA
a cute f slur (they/them) @sleep.church 33 | they/them | chicago | just a slutty homosexual on the internet, here to thirst
check out my blog https://gaymixtape.com :)
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@ryandeterding.bsky.social @ryandeterding.bsky.social Just here to learn about all things Chicago, public transit, urbanism related from y’all. I have nothing to say.
are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social chicago common brick lying in a tallgrass prairie | he/they
Viral Mistry @viralmysteries.bsky.social Scientist by day, organizer by night / he him
Chicago nationalist & Great Lakes supremacist
always carry a book
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
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
Elizabeth Todd-Breland @etoddbreland.bsky.social Educator, Historian (US, Urban, Black Politics, Education, Policy, Chicago), Former CPS Board VP; Books: I Didn't Come Here to Lie (Haymarket, 2025); A Political Education (UNC Press, 2018); personal account; she/her
44th Ward Action @44thwardchicago.bsky.social We are progressive organizers in Chicago’s 44th Ward.🕊️🧿🫶www.44th-ward.com
@brrandin.bsky.social @brrandin.bsky.social Gym 🏋🏾♂️
Tattoos 🖋️
Anime 🤓
I dabble in a lil healthcare 🩺
Je suis Link (kaelyn) @kaelynski.bsky.social She/her. Chicago. Metalwork. Community Care. Abolition.
🏗️ 🇵🇸
Profile: photo of me, a white woman with dark hair, standing sideways, braid facing the camera.
Banner: light blue/green sky with me looking down from the right side of the frame.
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org We are a national organization dedicated to expanding Black voter engagement and increasing progressive power. #BlackVotersMatter #WeFightBack ✊🏾
robinson ✶✶✶✶ @gache.bsky.social ☸️ །ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱཧཱ། ☸️
people and planet before profits
public library enthusiast | flâneuse | environmental (BS) & information (MS) scientist | IBEW | 🏳️🌈
everything dope—including the pope—comes from chicago
2023.08.12
Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social 
Chi Ossé @chiosse.bsky.social @nyccouncil Member for Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights (CD 36) @CMChiOsse | Personal Account
Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social Your City is a grassroots organization focused on affordability in Seattle, Washington #thisisyourcity
https://www.yourcityseattle.org
Jazz @jazzaej.blacksky.app Video editor. Lover of Legos. Practitioner of the Domestic Arts.
Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social Prince fan and Writer featured in NY Review of Books, HuffPost, Paper Magazine, MTV News, etc. Author of the upcoming book, "The Infallibe Fannie Freeman." Co-host Primetime Saturday w/Aisha & LaLa! Find my work on Medium. No DMs unless I know you.
s.Jackson @scoopjacksoniii.bsky.social Writer. Author. Journalist. Producer. Storyteller.
Double Aunt Andre 3000 @arrogantade.blacksky.app The perfect balance of Insight and Ignorance
Please don’t ruin the jokes with your facts.
These skeets do not constitute legal advice.
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
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
👽mars 🏳️⚧️✨🧿 @pixeldelic.bsky.social genderfluid cat irl | ♋☀️ ♑🌙 ♎⬆️ | Kris 💝 | 18+
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Zena Keita @zenakeita.bsky.social WNBA on Ion Host | The Athletic NBA Daily Host | No Offseason: The Athletic WBB Show Host | NBC Sports Bay Area Warriors Host & Analyst | CBS KPIX Valkyries Analyst
Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
freedcproject.org
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social energy, environment, climate reporter for The Washington Sun
email: annakramer@washsun.com
Signal: annakramer.54
Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social Newsletter Editor and Writer @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student. Floridian in the Midwest.
Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov 40th Governor of California.
Building a California for All.
NaNay Pudding @notoriouslynay.blacksky.app 30 sumn Black woman. She/Her. ♒️🌈. Pro-Black, Pro-Fat, Pro-Mind your business. A lil nerdy, mostly a music lover. Yapper. Minors DNI.🔞 gift link below 👇🏿
https://throne.com/notoriouslynay
Samay Gheewala @samay-gheewala.bsky.social 
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
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
The woman formerly known as @debbie156 @debbie156a.bsky.social I stand for human rights and equality for all.
I’m an ally. Strong women unite! Save our democracy! NO DMs if I don’t know you!
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Cerise Castle @cerisecastle.bsky.social she/her. multi-award winning journalist. Wrote history of #LASDgangs, now writing the book. covering inequality Capital & Main, freelancing. IG/TikTok @yourmajestcee. Tip? DM
Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent at NOTUS // CROSSING THE RED LINE on Biden/Gaza (W. W. Norton, fall 2026) // he/him
Say hi: akbar.58 on Signal or akbarshahidahmed@notus.com
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.
grace e miya @graceemiya.bsky.social Charmed to meet ya- here for the music 🖤
Wallace @wallace.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional Law at Princeton Law School, specializing in the 18th Amendment. Former legal analyst for Crossfire.
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
be real black for me @a-banks.bsky.social love is my sword and truth is my compass | san fran born & raised | tar heel bred | chicagoan | abolitionist | she/her
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
@ctguild.bsky.social @ctguild.bsky.social 
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social Celebrating #zines in Chicago & the Midwest & beyond. #CZF2026 will be Saturday October 10th! https://linktr.ee/chicagozinefest