EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, publisher, advice guy, crankypants. Always looking for people to talk to and things to eat. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social PhD in #18thC gossip. Recent postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social Journalist | Wars, rights, dissent | Italiana all'estero, mother of dragons, runner | Send me tips
@bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social 
Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social jersey based 🗽 | digital: @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 | creative: @njyoungdems.bsky.social 🗳️ | board: @njleaders.bsky.social ⭐️ | views are my own | she/her/ella
⬇️ Support those detained in Delaney Hall and their loved ones
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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.
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!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Alex Freidus @alexfreidus.bsky.social schools, race, & inequality | author of "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" | momming & cooking & running & reading romance & mystery | she/her | personal account
www.alexandrafreidus.com
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aim_coalition_nyc
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Jess @jessbetten.bsky.social Cats-in-bow ties enthusiast, beginning knitter, Public Defender, Red Sox fan, and native masshole now residing in enemy territory.
Nothing here is legal advice or even necessarily good advice.
Follow for rage, cats, and snark
Pronouns: she/her
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org ED of @kairoscenter.org, Co-Founder, Poor People's Campaign, Author of You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons From the Movement to End Poverty (Beacon Press).
https://liztheoharis.org
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Ren, easy-listenin' freak @laurenblish.bsky.social Writer and reader. I like making stuff. Dick enthusiast. 🐋 Obsessed with Watergate.
Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social We’re a movement of young people fighting fascism to win a Green New Deal | Text GND to 88504 for updates 🌅
linkin.bio/sunrisemvmt
John West @johnwest.bsky.social I report the news with code at the Wall Street Journal. I wrote Lessons and Carols (Eerdmans, 2023); The Internet Will Die, and So Will You (Here below, 2026); The Psalmist (Union Square, Hachette, 2027).
http://beebe-west.com/john
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
amyash.me
Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social Han Shot first. Making trouble @ Firekit Campaigns and baking pie. Formerly AFT, New Organizing, Obama '08. It's good to punch Nazis. https://linktr.ee/evanyellsatclouds
The Believer @thebeliever.net A quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-believer-subscription-bm4
thebeliever.net
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Ash Chudgar @chudgar.com Mongrel, plural being, neuroqueer husband, cat fan, antifa Minnesotan in ICE’s “little database.” Communication coach & consultant by trade. he/him or they/them. 👉 Help the #Minnesota15 https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
gregorg @greg.org Artist, writer, publisher of greg dot org: the making of since 2001, "a [Cady] Noland obsessive" —T Mag [avatar: Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M1), Minnay; banner: Derek Jarman's Blue]
Lyz @lyz.bsky.social Men Yell at Me. I write books.
well it’s dan @danbe.bsky.social 
Sharon Butler @sharonbutler.bsky.social LIC, Queens, NYC / Painter / Publisher of Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com / www.sharonlbutler.com/links
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org
Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
bit.ly/NoMorePolice
bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds
InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Cat Sebastian @catswrites.bsky.social Writer of queer historical fiction. She/her. Newsletter: https://catsebastian.myflodesk.com/signup website: catsebastian.com
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Moacirlison P. de Sá Pereira @moacir.com Research Data Librarian at Columbia. Novels and space. Wikipedia and ice water. Modular synths and Tottenham. Rabbits and bots. he/him
Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social Cornell Law School professor working on torts, psychology & law, jury decision-making. Fan of Eagles, Steelers & Niners, which makes some games difficult.
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social Bot account of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of City & State NY.
🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at Politico.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Curating curiosity for all since 1887. The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Cover photo: Oak Street Beach postcard from Curt Teich Postcard Collection.
Gulf of Mexico 🌀 @saystay.bsky.social My friends call me Say
📣Signal chat for our whistle movement
https://shorturl.at/kUf9k
🎁 I don't take money, but here's a whistle wishlist if you want to help
https://tinyurl.com/Printer-Dwarf-Whistle-Wish
WE THE PEOPLE ARE STRONGER 🦋
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social The official podcast account. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
https://500songs.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey
Merch: https://500-songs.teemill.com
Josef Beery @josefbeery.bsky.social Printmaker, educator, creator of BookBeetle Press.
Freedom Forum @1stforall.bsky.social Fostering First Amendment freedoms for all.
https://www.freedomforum.org/
Alex Colston @recolston.bsky.social No one’s free until we are all free
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Jillian Steinhauer @jilnotjill.bsky.social Journalist, editor, teacher, organizer. I write about art and comics. Short, with tall energy.
jilliansteinhauer.com
jilnotjill.beehiiv.com
UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social The UChicago chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Fighting for democracy and academic freedom since 1915. uchicagoaaup.org
Alan Burdick @alanburdick.bsky.social Editor and occasional reporter with the NYT science desk. Author of "Why Time Flies" and "Out of Eden." Lapsed futurist. Minor planet #9291. More at www.aburdick.com.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Murad Awawdeh @heyitsmurad.bsky.social President + CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition & NYIC Action| Son of Brooklyn| Dad| Strategist| Organizer| #TeamNY| MDCNY|
Across platforms: @HeyItsMurad
Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel-Palestine.
👉 https://linktr.ee/standingtogether.en
Asad Dandia @asadfromnyc.bsky.social Local NYC historian, urbanist, organizer. I once sued the NYPD for spying on me, and now run a walking tour company called New York Narratives. Write to asad@newyorknarratives.com to chat!
(Trying to be more active here)
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social book club revolutionary | utopian space communist🖖🏻
James Schamus @jamesschamus.bsky.social Leibniz: "Everything that is possible demands to exist."
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social freelance photojournalist reporting live from nyc! work featured in: NBC, NY Times, The Washington Post, CNN, TIME, Politico, The Cut, Reuters, The Gothamist, Huff Post, Democracy Now! they/she. work lives mainly on instagram: madisonswart
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social Reviews architecture, in New York.
nyra.nyc
Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social Investigative journalist/author of the bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: https://GregPalast.com
Did voters or voter suppression decide the 2024 election? Watch my award-winning documentary: https://WatchVigilantesInc.com
Russ @russ41.bsky.social "And then there's THIS asshole..."
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mel_buer
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social In this time of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice to fulfill the most sacred obligation in Jewish tradition Pikuach nefesh: Saving a life.
Jaisal Noor @jnoor.bsky.social Multimedia journalist, troublemaker, dog-guy. PERSONAL ACCOUNT
Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Official account of NYC Comptroller. Working to hold NYC government accountable and secure a more just and sustainable future.
comptroller.nyc.gov
Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social Occasional writer for Mashable, Bust, Ordinary Times, and others; author of "The Paris Bureau" 2020 DIO Press Inc, pathological reader, returned expat from Canada, New Yorker at the moment.
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social Whose diligent shoulders can henceforth sustain this immense and fissured sky, which we fear, for the second time in a long history, will fall on our heads? (Michel Serres)
PhD Uppsala
Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics
Signal: dgaristo.72
Email: digaristo@gmail.com
Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social Ideas with appointments for food. 
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social Films, painting and photography
Yeah I did all that
Bill de Blasio @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social Former Mayor, NYC
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social Probably down a research rabbit hole.
📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (W. W. Norton).
🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net
He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
Luis.documents🧢 @luisdocuments.bsky.social Indie journalist based in NYC! Funded by NYrs!🥸Footage I document is reserved to me🚨
Signal is luis_documents.93
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social Co-author, "Life After Cars,” co-host, The War on Cars. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him)
https://www.lifeaftercars.com
Donate to my 2027 run in support of PPMD:
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/acatwithnews
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews
Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: SeanCarmitchel@protonmail.com
Ryanne Mena @ryannemena.bsky.social Crime & public safety reporter 🕵🏻♀️
LA Daily News +10 🗞️
Prevs: ProPublica, LAist, Daily Sundial, The Corsair
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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social Live on @wnyc from 10AM - noon. NY Public Radio's most popular politics and society talk show. Tune to 93.9 FM, AM820 or visit wnyc.org/radio to listen live.
Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC. 
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social. AAUP Council. Views my own.
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian (PhD) and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.