Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social Data Visualization. Ex-Planet & NASA Earth Observatory. Blue Marble, Earth at Night, color, cartography, occasionally skewed views of Earth. Looking for a job.
BlueCollarJazz @domguan.bsky.social | Dominic, Chicagolander and Illinois boi
| B[i]YLINES: https://unraveledpress.com/
@unraveledpress.com
| ✶✶✶✶ JAZZ+PPL POWER: @bluecollarjazz on IG
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
pj-evans.bsky.social @pj-evans.bsky.social 
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social Only the finest, peer-reviewed AI-slop from scientific publications.
Probably the highest-impact scientific shitpost you will ever find.
Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social Chicago Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
https://chicagodsa.org/
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social I write news stories of public interest.
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Madison365 @madison365.bsky.social Award-wining nonprofit local media outlet covering Wisconsin’s Black, Indigenous, Latino & Asian communities. Support the work: madison365.com/donate
Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com Independent, nonprofit news site dedicated to cover Tennessee government, policy and politics. Send tips to @info@tennesseelookout.com.
Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. Throttled by Bluesky algorithms.
https://jonathancook.substack.com
maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
DeFlock @deflock.org Tracking #ALPR, #AI cameras, autonomous drones, #RTCC, and the creep of mass #surveillance across the USA. They are doing more than reading your license plate. #Privacy #Flock #Tech
Ricardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.com Art ▪︎ UI ▪︎ Gamedev ▪︎ Music ▪︎ Epiphanies
He.Him // Brazilian
Lead Artist on:
• The Diner at the End of the Galaxy
• Chinatown Detective Agency
www.ricardojuchem.com
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
武政 諒 Ryo Takemasa @ryotakemasa.bsky.social Illustrator
https://ryotakemasa.com
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social Not Laconic
wiley cope @wileycope.bsky.social open source researcher & investigative reporter
bylines: @theguardian.com @decoherence.media
wileydcope@proton.me | signal: @wiley.50
Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Sharing info on COVID since the start of the pandemic.
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
Kevin Morrison @morrisonforil.bsky.social First openly 🏳️🌈 Cook County Commissioner running for Congress in IL-08
Track record of standing up to republicans and fighting for the working class. (he/him) kevinmorrisonforcongress.com
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Whistleblower Aid @wbaidlaw.bsky.social Report government and corporate lawbreaking, without breaking the law.
https://whistlebloweraid.org/
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app Solo parent raising a brave autistic child, defends fare-evaders and beaters. defund the police. STFU about Chicago. Medicare 4 All is my single vote issue. WESTSIIIIIIDE!!! Go #B1GCats! She/her, M.A.
“Care work IS justice work.” - @whatashrinkthinks.com
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social Professor, international relations, Spartan & Cyclone alumni, studies conflict, institutions, and disasters; mother of awesome rehabilitation counselor
Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at WBEZ - Chicago Public Media
Så farligt ute på prairien! @cowboysangha.bsky.social Miscomunico en varias idiomas. Rangelands, caballos, rural, Gayhitched. Dōgen & ware pottery. Comadres/padres Mexicanos, 🇲🇽 de formación, 🇨🇱 de pituto, 🇸🇪 på farfar. Doctorado: Antropología KU. ENMU profe agregado. DSA & Kenny-club member (Kenny Eriksson)
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Justin Feldman @jfeld.bsky.social Communism, public health, social sciences, etc.
trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social Organizer
Fantasy writer: patreon.com/TDOTWS
Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A.
Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood trustee. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy.
Signal: 352.222.2706
https://timburkelegalfund.org
The War Monitor @warmonitor.net Questioning questionable political and geopolitical events. OSINT. Fact checker. Exposing corruption. Anti-fascist. Pro Ukraine. The original War Monitor (Twitter 2013).
Rombout Luc @romboutluc.bsky.social Crisis Mgnt, CoO, CivDef, Societal Readiness ... ++ Skunkworks mindset, meandering towards PhD ++ 🇧🇪🇪🇺🌍 - Service above Self.
Ian @ibnorfolk.bsky.social Present: Risk & Security. Past: British Army Veteran. Passions: Renewables, Sustainability, Environment, Nature. Nerd: Solar. Religion/Cult: Home Assistant.
Trains Across the Sea @jnotj.bsky.social Fix your hearts and/or die
He/him | Older than ever | Professional Starter Over
Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social Labor Reporter at @TheGuardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michael-sainato
Invisible Institute @invisible.institute A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more. 
McDecency @mcdecency.bsky.social TX Born, raised in PA, happy to be in blue state NJ. Proud father of 3 that is not too happy that his children, especially his daughter, will live most of their lives under a bribable, heavy right leaning, Trump Supreme Court
@MDecency160127 join the fight
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/
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/
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
https://www.rifftrax.com
instagram @billcorbett
Deus Pascit Corvos
CyberMindGrrl@WokeAF @cybermindgrrl.bsky.social "Those that can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
A Canadian living in the Insane States of America.
#BlueCrew #IFB #Resist #BLM #Translivesmatter #FreePalestine #DemocraticSocialist
Author of WokeAF: wokeaf.substack.com
Banana Dictatorship Banker @bananadictatorship.bsky.social Emerging markets, import/export, offshore tax efficiency strategies, FTC merger approval analysis, pardon feasibility studies, politically exposed person (PEP) crypto projects, and a little this and that
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
Oy Veidt @oyveidt.bsky.social Anti: Fascism, Capitalism, Racism
Pro: Cavs, Guardians, Film, New Mexico, Space
It’s Complicated: Browns
Tara ⚢ @bundleofstyx.org Tara Knight ♀ | Feminist. | Writer.
Sub to my substack.
Bundleofstyx.org
LeChatNoir @meidasog.bsky.social 
Reygar Bernal @reygarbernal.bsky.social IB MYP-DP Language and Literature teacher (ESP / ENG / POR / ITA / DEU), weekend biker, lifelong learner: "So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see, cantar a beleza de ser um eterno aprendiz" (Shakespeare meets Gonzaguinha).
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social Sylvie Coyaud, retired science reporter, not sapiens yet.
Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social 50501 National Press Coordinator | No Kings | Take Back America Tour team | Never again a country without consequences | Inquiries: hunterisntdunn@gmail.com
Support my work: https://linktr.ee/hunterisntdunn
Mamdanification Guide: sway.co/mamdanification
Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social 
i spil my jice 🎣 @tusionni.bsky.social same name on twt
ייד | געי-זעם | איך הייס עזרא-שמואל
Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io All images belong to their original owners. See http://possumeveryhour.io for more places where to find your poss fix.
Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social A project of @gadflypod.bsky.social that tracks fascist bills, explains why they are fascist, and notes which Democrats vote for them. Check out our work at fdt.beehiiv.com
Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at @freedom.press. Interested in reducing overclassification, FOIA reform, enforcement of the Presidential Records Act, and preservation of federal records. Opinions mine. Signal leharper.89
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth
https://www.eurasiagroup.net
Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social Co-founder, #DefendResearch (https://defendresearch.org); librarian (ret). Some things I care about: social justice; defending libraries, education, & research; information equity. All posts/thoughts my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981
bunny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
*WHISTLE GOBLIN*
TootTootMotherfucker.com
✶✶✶✶
HOPE YOU LIKE RABBITS 🐇
✶✶✶✶
a sentient pile of anhedonia and glitter.
✶✶✶✶
🏳️⚧️Trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️
✶✶✶✶
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Michael Moore @mmflint.bsky.social Filmmaker. Writer. Citizen. Podcaster. Listen to “The Michael Moore Podcast” on Apple & Spotify. Sign up for my free newsletter at MichaelMoore.com
They Rule @theyrule.bsky.social Free collective research on the ruling class.
STAY AWAY:
AI bots / trolls / MAGA / fascists / nationalists / ice scumbags / genocide deniers / neoliberals / right-wingers / normie centrists and all other forms of bootlickers.
We #followback real people.
@beautifulcreturs.bsky.social @beautifulcreturs.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦I always wanted to be a great writer, like Victor Hugo who wrote "Les Miserable" I also wanted to be a great psychologist like Sigmund Freud,But my dream is still alive.🧾🚨 #NAFO #SlavaUkraini #NATO 🇪🇺 We’re fighting For our freedom and yours/
DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Lead Econometrician, Corporate Strategy, Lucent
That's my kid getting the Bronze at the World University Games.
She's a beautiful enigma
I keep a VanLife Blog here:
https://dbmain.substack.com/
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov Congresista proudly serving the diverse IL-03. 🦋
I will not concede the power of the people.
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social Skeet about markets and political corruption
Discord: http://bit.ly/3Bf2pNJ
Links: http://bit.ly/3V8D6Gb
Get $50-$5000 to trade: http://bit.ly/4ayctTD
Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social Writer and journalist. Words in HuffPost, USA Today, The Guardian, LAist, The Daily Beast, etc. Please subscribe. https://bettergracesandliberations.substack.com/
Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social Dad to school kids, professor to law students. Focused on education rights
SchooLawCracy: https://edlawprof.substack.com
Homepage: joshuaweishart.com
Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social Bilingual Journalist at Chicago Tribune focused on immigration and Latinos/ Adj professor at DePaul University/ Maktub/ 1 John 4:16/ RTs ≠ endorsements /larodriguez@chicagotribune.com
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
The Ghost of Tom Joad @gaean.bsky.social Lifelong liberal. Oddball sci-fi author and devout atheist. I love nature and am a radical environmentalist. Practice rock climbing, yoga, mountain biking and ocean swimming. I’m sick of politics but can’t stand by and watch. No DMs please.
Marty @51stward.bsky.social ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Call Dick Durbin’s office at (312) 353-4952
Call Tammy Duckworth at (312) 886-3506
https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/
https://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/
Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social Lawyer, musician.
And all we need is music
Sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be laughing and singing
Music swinging
And dancing in the street
⚘️
(~);-}
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
https://linktr.ee/premthakker
Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons, jails and more for The Marshall Project. Formerly WBEZ (Chicago NPR affiliate). Host of Motive podcast (Season 4). Writes short stories and essays. Tips: sheffernan@themarshallproject.org
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social Veteran, dog mom, criminal. Feet pictures: $reezlie
My book: https://www.spiegelandgrau.com/i-am-not-your-enemy
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