Digital Newberry @digitalnewberry.bsky.social Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
molly taft @mollytaft.com disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.99. mollytaft.com
David at FOIAball @foiaball.com FOIAball digs through public records to break college football's weirdest, wildest, and biggest secrets.
Give it a read today!
https://www.foiaball.com/subscribe
Investigative Project on Race and Equity @raceandequityproject.org We train journalists in data-driven reporting and collaborate with news organizations to uncover systemic racism and drive change.
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social As Chicago's PBS station, WTTW is committed to producing and presenting independent, trusted, best-in-class content fueled by a distinctly Chicago sensibility.
https://t.co/QTmgsrKIaj
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org The region's sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, helping to make the city and suburbs better since 2013. Posts: @johngreenfield.bsky.social (unsigned) and @stevevance.net.
Chicago Area Archivists @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social An organization for Chicago area archivists, historians, librarians. Join us!
https://chicagoarchivists.org/
Take action to save Chicago's NARA facility: https://chicagoarchivists.org/NARAClosuresAction
Sign the petition: c.org/cVMG6VvqPS
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social Reporter covering gender and politics at @motherjones.com, part of the Center for Investigative Reporting
Tips to mpauly at motherjones dot com
Signal: madisonpauly.15
https://www.motherjones.com/author/madison-pauly/
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Tony Sarabia @ruraltony.bsky.social Former host at Chicago Public Media(WBEZ radio). Now holding down the midday shift at Iowa Public Radio. I live with my husband on his family's farm in rural Iowa.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social things I’ve been described as: zinester, vermin, occult researcher, union organizer, and friend. how i would describe myself? annoying. 
Chicagoans for a Free Wales @transfem.my 🏴🏳️⚧️✵✵✵✵🏳️⚧️🏴
Cymru Rydd
starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social Attorney, poet, do-gooder, they/them or ka/kan. will demand your poems and hopefully stop your abuser. Unapologetic chicken and waffles, fake goths hate kan, Disco Janet, pope by consent of the governed, not Kathryn Tewson
Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social Translating Czech -> English: linktr.ee/AlexZucker
Organizing: New York Dignity Not Detention | Immigration Justice Working Group, SURJ NYC | Literary Translators Division, NWU | #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live the big lake they call Gitchi Gami 🛶🏖️
Current* view of a webcam located around Lake Superior every 30 min
*randomly chosen image from list of 40+ webcams. image captured within 30 min of post
@the.mazz.zone
Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com
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
Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social Oak Park Village Trustee, "boring suburban dad," attorney.
Maggie Dougherty @maggiedough.bsky.social Chicago energy + investigative reporter for @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
@medillschool.bsky.social grad • professionally nosy • she/her • on signal at maggie_dough.26 • opinions my own etc etc
MuckRock @muckrock.com The easy way to request and share public records, making government more transparent and democracies more informed.
Learn more: https://www.muckrock.com/
📪 Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.muckrock.com/newsletters
reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social queer. trans.
abolitionist.
decriminalize gender now!
everyone deserves everything they need to survive, even if they suck.
minneapolis & chicago based freak shooting photos, cooking, and printing against fascism every day
1/3 of OneHandedPress.com
Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social News reporter at @portlandmercury.com
Sometimes @theguardian.com
Also in Street Roots, The Nation, more.
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social She/her. Award-winning journalist. Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht. Use your words wisely. The keyboard is mightier than the sword. UIC MBA candidate
Writings: tatianawalkmorris.com
Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com Somewhere in Chicago, working near the intersection of immigration law, data, and technology. Not an attorney!
287(g) Program Tracker: tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-101/287g-program
buymeacoffee.com/andrewtitus
The Cola Corporation @cola.baby Provocation is a public service.
https://www.thecolacorporation.com
tori gantz (they/she) @torigantz.bsky.social desert 🪽 from Wisco. editorial @inthesetimes.com | was politics @lookoutnews.bsky.social, forever @teenvogue.com * tgantz.36 on Signal📍Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Myaami
Sado @marinovic.bsky.social Shock City. Immigrant. Unionized.
So far left I’m gone.
madopal @madopal.bsky.social Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Midway, et al), cat lover, data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker/woodworker, White Sox, Gen X, music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
UCP Workers Guild @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social Representing workers at the University of Chicago Press, as TNG-CWA Local 34071, a unit of the Chicago News Guild. Bound together in our effort for a more equitable workplace.
https://linktr.ee/ucpworkersguild
Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
https://zachmortice.com
adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social I am a writer. LA → CHI → NO
co-author of THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: http://shorturl.at/Otagc
currently writing NOTES ON FINDING HOME
📧: adam.mahoney@capitalbnews.org
adamlmahoney.com
Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: https://brianboyer.net Bean tips: https://beantips.com/
Dr. Reinheitsgebot @malzliebchen.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇿🍻
Dad jokes and beer, the destruction of infrastructure not designed for cyclists, Great Lakes secessionist, Solar Noon evangelist. Skeeting from the field of stinky onions.
Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
kerrycardoza.bsky.social @kerrycardoza.bsky.social editor, Chicago Reader/@chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social
Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social Charismatic, NAR and Extremism researcher
Fluent in Sean Feucht
Breast cancer community organizer and survivor.
Taungurung [-o-]
📍LA
✍🏼
https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/authors/kate-burns/
More
https://linktr.ee/kateburnschad
The Informant @informant.news An independent publication covering hate and extremism in the U.S. founded and edited by @nick-martin.bsky.social. Ex-Substack publication now running on @ghost.org. Relaunching very soon!
https://www.informant.news 
Jon Schleuss @jschleuss.com President of @newsguild.org, the largest union of media workers in North America.
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
www.propublicaguild.org
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
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social Reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
Matt Topic @mvtopic.bsky.social Fighting FOIA denials to a soundtrack of thrash metal and avant garde jazz since 2007. Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People in (anti!) AI. Co-host of Disclosure podcast.
https://www.loevy.com/attorneys/matt-topic/
https://time.com/7012833/matt-topic/
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
subscribe to my newsletter: newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
send reporting tips: marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
ILC Chicago @ilcofchi.bsky.social The Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club. Rebuilding the foundation of working class independence through friendship, education, mutual aid, and solidarity.
linktr.ee/ChicagoILC
Tampa Bay Times @tampabaytimes.bsky.social Florida's largest newspaper with 14 Pulitzer Prizes. Support our local journalism at tampabay.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social Information operations, spinstorms & latent contradictions. #Drupal too! @unicorn.riot producer/reporter/thing doer
tinker poster mailer spry
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social Tracks the level of the piss tank on the International Space Station in real time.
Not affiliated with NASA.
Please don't follow me unless you want your feed filled with percentage changes. (It is not as fun as it sounds)
FAQ thread is pinned.
Scott Medlock @scottmedlock.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer with the ACLU of Colorado. Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters are the only Super Lawyers. Ex Texas Civil Rights Project, Edwards Law, and Greisen Medlock.
Opinions aren’t those of my employer (except when they are). Go Spurs Go!
Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social “Wild and wise—a perfect paradox of a woman”—my friend Amanda. Also posting here as ibikedinthis.bsky.social
onetriibeunited.bsky.social @onetriibeunited.bsky.social We’re unionizing to build a fairer and more equitable workplace at The TRiiBE. ✊🏾
Chicago News Guild TNG-CWA Local 34071
https://linktr.ee/onetriibeunited?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=5a53148f-d517-4ab3-9423-e7e96adc02f1
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.
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Emeline Posner @emelpos.bsky.social reporter, @raceandequityproject.org
get in touch:
📧emeline@raceandequityproject.org
Signal: eposner.99
headshot: Diana Solís
ICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social Host of It Could Happen Here (and sometimes Behind the Bastards) for Cool Zone Media. Proud iHeart Podcast Union member Ending every post(?) with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed She/Her
Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social An indie bookstore and community workshop space in Chicago focused on building our connections to the natural world.
https://linktr.ee/skunkcabbagebooks
Nick for Illinois @nickforillinois.bsky.social Nick Uniejewski, community organizer and pragmatic progressive fighting for the future we deserve.
website: www.nickforillinois.com
linktree: linktr.ee/nickforillinois
Francesca D'Annunzio @francescadnunz.bsky.social investigative reporter covering immigration enforcement for @propublica.org
cat mom, multilingual, outdoorsy, nosy, very into FOIAs + touching grass
📩 francesca.dannunzio@proton.me
Signal: FrancescaDnunz.08
https://linktr.ee/FrancescaDnunz
Andres A. Chavez @andral404.bsky.social Chicago-based indie photographer and journalist
Freelancer / @unraveledpress.com
Support my work: venmo.com/u/andresachavez
EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social LESS THAN 60 YEARS OF TOPSOIL (he/him)
@nogodspod.bsky.social
sarah @oo0oo.bsky.social photographer / chicago / sarah@glitterguts 
Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social "should take a long, hard look in the mirror," per CBP // investigating authority @thedailynu.bsky.social // tip or leak to me, see pinned
Libraries for the People @librariesftp.bsky.social A leftist library project
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Brent E. Huffman @brenthuffman.bsky.social #Documentary Filmmaker/Professor
Director of Documentary #Journalism at #Northwestern
Director of "Saving Mes Aynak"
New documentary about #Yemen
Passionate about #humanrights, #socialjustice #heritage
#Afghanistan #China
www.germancamera.com
Troy Brundidge 312/541 @teebeegeo.bsky.social UOregon/Dartmouth College economic geographer. Interested in marketization, solutionism, insurance and public finance, police, carceral & legal geographies, how we know. Very from Chicago. Mostly quoting things my son says.
Leaflet @leaflet.pub The easiest way to make a blog, newsletter, or website on the open social web!
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Lab Notes: lab.leaflet.pub
Code: tangled.org/leaflet.pub/leaflet
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social what is law, really // opinions are my own // he/him
chicago, law, politics, games, beer, etc
Elsa Hiltner @elsahiltner.bsky.social She/her. Activist for pay equity in the arts. Co-founder of @onourteam.bsky.social Views are all mine, as some require us to say.
Nisei Lounge @niseilounge.bsky.social Chicago’s oldest baseball bar. 
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
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.
DSA Dripped Out Baddie Caucus, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social causing problems on purpose across micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. probably eating a banh mi somewhere in chicago. The Fernando Mendoza of @chicagodsa.bsky.social
lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social Nutria for now.
Orange teeth were result of a cosmetic procedure. I think I look much better now.
CHICAGO AI ALERT @chicagoaialert.bsky.social because using generative ai in politics only breeds distrust in reality
pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social Under the circumstances, I’ve been shockingly nice.
Mr. Cardio @ticketmasterceo.com Columbus ✈️ Cincinnati
🌀 https://cailinpitt.com/timeline
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Website: https://decoherence.media/
FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
daniel sieradski @self.agency fmr. publisher: jewish worker, jewschool + orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead: nylon, jta news + repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. holds numerous dubious ordinations. aft+iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny.
🔗 https://self.agency
Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social Politics & government reporter @evanstonnow.bsky.social 📸✍🏼 // @bostonu.bsky.social alum //matthew@evanstonnow.com
Have a tip? I'm on Signal: mattheweadie.02
ralphie cifaretto of bluesky @pisspartistrue.bsky.social bits, memes, shitposting et al