Ella Brockway @ellabrockway.bsky.social sports @us.theguardian.com • soccer talk @heyspirits.bsky.social • past things @washingtonpost.com @medillschool.bsky.social • #SeasIt
Christopher Kamka @ckamka.bsky.social Full of pithy nuggets. Associate Producer for Cubs Baseball on Marquee Sports Network. http://Baseball-reference.com Stathead. SABR Landmarks Committee. Pizza connoisseur. Baseball cards! Bibliophile.
80s News Screens @80snewsscreens.bsky.social Screengrabs from slower news days
Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science working at the nexus of a lot of things (but currently fascinated by the dreaded bitcoin/crypto politics) & NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative at Colorado State University; #firstgen; R(whatever)≠E
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co Insta: @richtercommaandy
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social "Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood.
Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related. Georgia raised via UGA & SSI.
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.
Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social Independent Journalist. IU alum. Recovering lawyer. She/her
Author - Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being A Woman in America; Losing My Perspicacity (newsletter)
Tips: jdica@protonmail.com
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Status @status.news A nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley with hard-hitting reporting and uncompromising analysis.
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Tracy Greer @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social Retired derby player, now learning to ice skate • desker @ChicagoSports.bsky.social • New Mexican • aided/abetted by @buckweaver.bsky.social
Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social Curling, cats, and crimes. And occasional baseball. (Also, baseball crimes.) Living in Chicago with @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social. Never quite sure which century I’m in. https://jacobpomrenke.com
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social Chicago’s very own Clown Attorney.
Should not be taken too seriously, please.
McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social Started as updates from an artifact from a significant South Side club that has been spared the scrap heap. Now mostly other Woodlawn/Chgo history. Jazz & minutia. Infrequent posts.
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him. Linktr.ee/adamchicago
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
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
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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
Joseph @colonel.bsky.social Chicagoan. King of the Loop.
I ramble about sports, architecture, my dog, woodworking, writing, music, horror, Star Wars. Politically left.
Equality is everything.
Blackhawks, Reds, White Sox, Bengals, Bears, Bulls, UK.
Bluesky elder.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Good News Network @goodnewsnetwork.org The #1 website for good news, GNN.org was founded in 1997 and delivers daily positive stories on the web or via free app. (Just joined Bluesky in 2025!)
NBC Sports Soccer @nbcsportsoccer.bsky.social Mirror of https://x.com/NBCSportsSoccer
Not affiliated with NBC, ran by a football(soccer) fan tired of the other site.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Greg Kot @gregkot.bsky.social Co-host "Sound Opinions." Former music critic at Chicago Tribune. Author of 7 books, including "I'll Take You There," “Learning How to Die," "Ripped." Teaching music and democracy at U of C.
Jim DeRogatis @jimderogatis.bsky.social Co-host, "Sound Opinions"; author, critic, journalist; professor.
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
Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. Jesus Fan. She. | cmclymer@gmail.com | I write about politics, religion, and culture in my award-winning blog/newsletter Charlotte's Web Thoughts: charlotteclymer.substack.com
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
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Run for Something @runforsomething.net We recruit & support young leaders running for state + local office in all 50 states + D.C. in order to build long-term sustainable power.
If you want to run for office, we're here to help you.
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Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social I love good books and bad movies. Trying to raise healthy and kind humans on the South side. Overrun by pets and projects. (she /her) Free Palestine.
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
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
Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect.bsky.social Data witch for good causes and bad datasets
Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social 4pm news anchor and investigative reporter at @wgntv.com in Chicago. For those who @ me, try to be kind.
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
Melanie McFarland @mctelevision.bsky.social Senior Culture Critic Salon. Fmr prez TCA & Peabody Awards board. Opinions are mine, RTs don't ≠ endorsement.
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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)
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.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Chicago Transportation Alerts @ctaalerts.bsky.social unofficial fan 🤖 publishing updates about the Chicago transit system. now including the el, cta bus, and metra
for more details, visit https://www.transitchicago.com/alerts/
The A.V. Club @avclub.com Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. https://linktr.ee/the_avclub
@sonnybunch.bsky.social @sonnybunch.bsky.social 
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social Mom of four, Illinois Lt. Governor, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate.
Giving the people what they want.
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404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Kenn @kenndotcom.bsky.social Proud dad. Amateur sports historian. Reformed sportscaster.
Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social Singer, Actress and Philanthropist.
www.lyndacarter.com
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now @rimrunner.bsky.social SFF writer, hardingfele player, tracker, librarian. Longer writings and book reviews at welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com. masto: welltemperedwriter@wandering.shop, insta: datamuse. SFWA, Codexian. Shakespeare Adjacent anthology out now!
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social Posting live from the Most Serene IL-Khanate of the Great Khan JB Pritzker
Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com she/her
Author. Not the one from Rent.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/maureenjohnsonbooks/
https://maureenjohnsonbooks.com
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
WGN Radio 720 @wgnradio.bsky.social Chicago's Very Own. Listen on-air on 720-AM, online at http://wgnradio.com/listen, WGN Radio mobile app, Audacy.com, iHeart, TuneIn, Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Call or text at 312-981-7200.
Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social The Finest In Jazz Since 1939
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Rock and Roll Garage @rockandrollgarage.bsky.social The home of the classics, b-sides and much more in rock n' roll and heavy metal!
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Chris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social Founding member of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. Keeping it real out here in the field.
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social 'Looking For The Happy' is out now.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
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The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
American Soccer Analysis @americansocceranalysis.com Soccer nerds with spreadsheets and ggplot2. Data collection & analysis for soccer made or played in America. #USMNT #USWNT #NWSL #MLS #USL
g+ GameFlow @gameflow.bsky.social Created by: Eliot McKinley, Jamon Moore, and Cheuk Hei Ho
Data via: American Soccer Analysis
Explanation: https://www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2018/9/10/xpg-pt-2
Joseph Lowery @joeclowery.bsky.social ⚽️ @backheeled.com
🖊️ ESPN, The Guardian, The Athletic
🎙️ TV analyst for Phoenix Rising FC
🗣️ Total Soccer Show
Ben Wright @benwright.bsky.social ⚽️ @sixonefivesoccer.com
📝 @backheeled.com, @SoccerAmerica.bsky.social & http://MLSSoccer.com
🏅 Nashville Scene's Best Sports Writer of 2024 & 2025
✟ Christ follower
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Backheeled @backheeled.com Taking American soccer coverage one step further.
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Tiotal Football @tiotalfootball.bsky.social Front office theory & soccer metaphysics at absoluteunit.substack.com
History of soccer blogging podcast at postscriptpod.substack.com
Players are not bought and sold. They buy and sell. Money and media are public and boundless.
Atlanta, GA
Jamon M - MLS and footy analysis @jamonm.bsky.social American Soccer Analysis: Co-creator g+ GameFlows and the Where Goals Come From project. he/him
Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com Soccer nerdery at American Soccer Analysis and (occasionally) Massive Report. Throw-in aficionado. he/him
eliotmckinley.com
Adam Whittaker Snavely @snaves.bsky.social Soccer Weirdo. Go Bills.
Name found: The Guardian, Backheeled, ESPN, The Athletic, Dot Esports.
Stream: twitch.tv/SnavesIsLive
John Muller @johnspacemuller.com making a good soccer app for you called @futi.live
Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social Writes, edits, talks, creates, mostly about soccer. Drop a line whenever.
Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social Soccer correspondent @theguardian.com
MLS Tuesdays @totalsoccershow.bsky.social
ROO-ter || Putting the "bi" in byline 🏳️🌈
Alicia Rodriguez @soccermusings.bsky.social Human person | Former ⚽️ ✍️| MSU/UCSD alum | Mother | She/Her
Harrison Crow @harrisoncrow.bsky.social Nerder. Soccer by way of American Soccer Analysis. Seattle Mariner fan, general fan of sports tragedy and I play too much video games.
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Evan Davis @evandavissports.bsky.social Co-host of @xowngoals.com. Computing fancy #WPBL stats for fun.
The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness.
ian @ahandleforian.bsky.social Occasional soccer writer and frequent poster. Roldan apologist. Big Mariners guy.
The least essential voice in American soccer. The world’s foremost idiot.
Aaron West @oeste.bsky.social Soccer talker. I build digital bridges. Webby winner. Davidson College alum. Views are mine & yours in the future.
Kieran Doyle @kierdoyle.bsky.social Battery scientist by day, American Soccer Analysis, Statford Bridge Podcast by night
https://www.youtube.com/@kierdoyle
Build a bigger table
Nate Gilman @nrgilman.bsky.social still Lucho Acosta rabona admirer
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