Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social Heard of the Nuclear Option? How it works? You’re welcome. https://preview.tinyurl.com/y3drq9j3
Kagro in the Morning #KITM Livestream, M-F, 9-11 AM ET: http://netroots-main-1.stream.creek.fm:8000/stream
http://kagrox.libsyn.com
http://patreon.com/kagrox
ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 He/him.
Armchair parliamentarian.
I type at 140 wpm.
Travis Miller @justtmill.bsky.social 2002 Purdue grad.
He/Him
Trans ally because our country's government sucks balls.
Local Boob who wrote a book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666748758/compassion/
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Churches of New York @brooklynwandering.bsky.social Documenting the churches, synagogues, mosques, etc, seen on my walks throughout Brooklyn and New York. @goldwagnathan.bsky.social.
Jessica Nix @jessicanix.bsky.social Health Reporter @ Bloomberg News writing about public health, disease and occasionally wellness || huge fan of GW SMPA and CJS || get in touch! jnix20@bloomberg.net or jessicanix.24 on signal
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com i'm a very religious religion journalist. (news editor @sojo.net / writing a biography of Clarence Jordan)
based in Chicago
Webthing @webthing.bsky.social PGH comic, online dip shit
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️ @renzaro.com i make videos (@renzarofitzgerald) about how economic justice and mobility justice are the same winning issue.
journalist in training @usa.streetsblog.org
Posts represent me and me only, obviously
www.renzaro.com
Sandi Villarreal @sandivillarreal.bsky.social executive editor at Texas Monthly
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon.bsky.social no thanks
Megan McGibney @meganmcgibney.bsky.social Journalist | Writer | Editor | Photographer Beats: education, politics, reproductive health, disabilities. Opinions mine/RTs🚫endorsers. Newmark-J grad
samury (pronounced samurai) @samury.com The Internet's 1,087,452nd most famous Ryan
he/him/they/them
chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social @chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social Documenting the stories behind the people, breweries and institutions that shaped Chicago's craft beer scene.
CTA Train Insights @ctatraininsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚆 Chicago L transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost trains, hourly speedmaps + system snapshots.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Chicago Alerts @chicagoalerts.com Chicago alerts from Notify Chicago, NOAA and other chicago orgs.
A simple bot by @harper.lol
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social PRE-ORDER TO STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
Garbage Day Bon Mots @youpaidforgarbage.bsky.social group project to share the best garbage created by j0.
yellojkt @yellojkt.bsky.social High functioning internet addict since 1992
tonight, the role of Magneto will be performed by Meryl Streep @mo333.myatproto.social forged in the crucible of brooklyn nets fandom. watching, taking notes, ready to pounce, ynwa he/him
❄️Lucas Delay❄️ @lucasdelay89.bsky.social everything happens so much
seancurry1 @seancurry1.bsky.social And now I'm here!
I write, mostly for a living: https://sean-curry.com/newsletter
I also love sandwiches: https://thesandwichenthusiast.com
He/Him, Jersey Forever
Daniel Wheaton @extemper1.bsky.social Just poasting | Nebraska based Re-skeet’s are blood oaths | Special damage tank, hedonist
J! @riptwitter.lol Scoots. Skeets. Schedules.
Old Dry Keith @lesspopmorefizz.com 
allegra @allegramk.bsky.social religion and media and tech cultures ✨ eurovision 🌀 crosswords 🌱 probably other things too - i contain multitudes 🧅 she/her
ppyajunebug @ppyajunebug.bsky.social Shitposting, tales from my finsta, and F1 memes. she/her. PhD in brains professionally, but let’s be real…I’m not gonna be terribly professional here
katato @katato.bsky.social I skeet pictures of my foster kittens 
Molly Muldoon @passingfair.bsky.social Eisner nominated comics writer. Freelance editor/researcher/reviewer. Book Mail and Horror Dispatch writer. MA. MLIS. 日本語OK. Ex-expat. She/Her. Icon by @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social
olive @oliviag.bsky.social UX designer. Probably mostly reposting art I like
laughterkey @laughterkey.bsky.social Connoisseur of spit-takes & throwaway jokes. Content & comms for the McElroys. Former Gethard Show producer & Cracked tumblr-er.
potch @potch.me web safe 🦒 it’s not a good idea, it’s just what’s happening
games, websites, things of that nature
connect with me OnLine https://potch.me/
makin games as @twentyminutemile.bsky.social
avatar by branson reese
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
She Shota on my Red Shoes til I (C)Umino @enmascarado.dev backend dev (C# mostly). Buffalo Bills, pro wrestling (AEW, Mystery Wrestling, TJPW; NJPW & CMLL when I can). From the 1900s. They/he, I guess??
Fuck ICE, fuck transphobes, Black Lives Matter
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social Christian. Father. Husband. 7th Gen Mississippian. District Attorney. Running for US Senate because Mississippi Matters. Text SCOTT to 54937.
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
chuff @chuff.bsky.social Fuck fascism in all its forms.
Pro abortion.
Email compliance and privacy, anti spam.
Chicago by way of the Bay Area (Go Cubs GO)
Just trying not to make things worse.
He/Him
Cat (she/her) @dressingforevenge.bsky.social 
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
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
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com Podcast person. Summer Album / Winter Album | What Now w/ Trevor Noah | This Day | Good Sport | The Puzzler | 30for30 | 538 | WNYC, more. Everybody has their own thing that they yell into a well. jodyavirgan.com
Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, impeachment, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
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
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
Subscribe: https://chicago312.beehiiv.com/
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social @jollygoodginger.bsky.social 
Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social editor, migrantinsider.com
Chicago 2100 Urbanism @chicago2100.bsky.social Petition to Demand A World-Class Chicago Transit System: https://www.change.org/Chicago2100
Advocating for a better tomorrow, one street at a time
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
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias @ilsecofstate.bsky.social 
John M @john-m-indy.bsky.social Indy resident, Irvingtonian, lawyer, former CQ site manager. IU undergrad, ND law. Cubs/Colts/Pacers/Liverpool fan. @johnm_iu at the other place.
Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social Posting live from the Most Serene IL-Khanate of the Great Khan JB Pritzker
@pinindiana.bsky.social @pinindiana.bsky.social 
Sunny Zheng @sunnyswords.bsky.social All opinions are my own.
Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social Chief of Staff for Governor JB Pritzker.
A continually aggravated Philadelphian making her way in the great city of Chicago.
Demi for Illinois @demiforillinois.bsky.social Progressive veteran, community activist, and DEMI-crat running for State Representative in the 13th District 🇺🇸🇲🇽🏳️🌈
Avery the Cuban-American @averythecuban625.bsky.social Leftist, Ace, Autistic New Yorker. Jersey City/HBLR simp. Loves Disney, urbanism, trains, 70s music, history, and geography! he/him 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Rev. Jim Wallis @revjimwallis.bsky.social Chair in Faith + Justice @mccourtschool.bsky.social Director of @faithandjustice.bsky.social
Advocate for justice, inspired by Matthew 25.
https://linktr.ee/jimwallis
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.”
Chicago magazine @chicagomagazine.bsky.social We are Chicago.
"soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social municipal grant award-winning transsexual punk rock musician
she/her I mostly like loud guitars wrestling and race cars, im dumb as hell
my webbed site https://mae-makes-music.neocities.org/ follow my band On Here @sparklingurbana.bsky.social
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com 🌈 The voice of Chicago's LGBTQ+ community since 1985.
📧 Sign up for our newsletters: https://windycitytimes.com/newsletters/
City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social A Chicago-based national journalism lab reimagining local media though civic education, sustained impact reporting, and the #DocumentersNetwork 🔎
Nell Salzman @nellsalzman.bsky.social Local investigations fellow @nytimes / originally from Denver
WBEZPolitics @wbezpolitics.bsky.social All things Chicago, Cook Co. and Illinois government & politics.
Illinois Answers Project @illinoisanswers.bsky.social Working every day to uncover waste and wrongdoing in government, hold public officials accountable and lift up solutions to Illinois’ most pressing problems.
Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social data reporter @us.theguardian.com
previously in your ears at @wbez.org
Esther Yoon-Ji Kang @estheryjkang.bsky.social Reporter @WBEZ, Chicago’s @NPR station. I cover housing, race, class + Asian American issues. Email: ekang at wbez dot org
paul goyette @pgoyette.bsky.social Chicago-based photographer documenting and uplifting collective action for progressive change. Most work licensed via Creative Commons at flickr.com/pgoyette
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Eric @ejohnso49.bsky.social Enjoys breaking fast and breaking computers. Chicago IL bby
Lil @lilsky.bsky.social I love cool buildings, good food, the cosmos, and all things Chicago ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Bulls 🏀
F1🏁
Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social Chicago. Reporter now, @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Focused on violence, and running to ground things related. Past: CNN, Chicago Tribune. More of a baseball account now if I am being honest.
Well used to ghostly company by this time
Corli Jay @corli.thetriibe.com I write therefore I am 🖊️
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights @icirr.bsky.social 
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/
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
Micheál Podgers @michealpodgers.bsky.social Yassssssifying infrastructure.
📍Chicago
👨🏻💻Urban Planner
🗣️ EN DE FR NL GA
Professional account. All opinions my own.
kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine
The Southwest Collective @swcollectivechi.bsky.social Breaking down barriers and building up communities on the southwest side of Chicago. swcollective.org
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social Fan of all things transit, Rutgers graduate, Hunter Master's of Urban Planning Student
they/he
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
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Dede Crimmins @dedecrim.bsky.social Film critic. Horror Fan. Spinster. Smithie.
Rue Morgue, That Shelf, CFCA
she/her
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/deirdre-crimmins/movies
Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com Tenderhearted sicko. CFCA member. I write about movies, feminism, theology, and sad men in space for Bright Wall/Dark Room and Seeing & Believing. The second edition of my book Becoming Alien is available now.
dodgyboffin.com
Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social Forklift-certified journalist in Chicago. Words in the Chicago Reader, Unraveled Press, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Courthouse News Service and some other ones I forget right now. All opinions & bad jokes my own. DM me for news tips/Signal info.
Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com I push transit to its limits, while attempting to be entertaining.