Chicago Reader Union @chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social Official editorial union of the Chicago Reader, organizing with @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social. Established 2015.
Benzinga @benzinga.bsky.social Financial News, Data & Education 💸
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
Ruadhrí Brennan [Scaled Beast] @rubrennanart.bsky.social Digital artist based in Dublin. Amateur Palaeoartist. Prop-designer. Skull maker. He/Him. My Shop: www.scaledbeast.com
Lost Futures @lostfutures.bsky.social The Arab Historian / YouTuber known as Lost Futures (he/him)
Métis / Lebanese / Syrian (its complicated)
https://youtube.com/@LostFutures1
Senator L Louise Lucas @momalou.bsky.social Virginia State Senator, District 18 | Fighting for Portsmouth, Chesapeake & Hampton Roads | Advocate for working families, education & justice reform | "Madam President Tempore”
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social Opinions are my own and not my employers.
I own and operate Comic Frontier! www.comicfrontier.com
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News CaptCan Comics
Graphics at Awful Announcing
Formerly lead comic writer Screen Rant and Looper.
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
geneva 🖍️ @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
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Nadja Lovadinov @lovadinov.bsky.social Morning Wire writer @apnews.com☕️🌅 Sign up here: https://apnews.com/newsletters Previously led European coverage @tldrnews.bsky.social. Serbo-Croat speaker (shares/likes/follows aren’t endorsements:)
Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org Women-run nonprofit/nonpartisan newsroom reporting causes, solutions, context since 3/20. Mantra: "Do the right thing and wait."
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Star Tribune Guild @startribuneguild.bsky.social We represent union members at the Minnesota Star Tribune. Support our laid-off journalists at bit.ly/stribworkers
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Jeremy Brooks @sketchbrooks.bsky.social I draw sketchy characters.
The Loon / Ruby + Rubbish / Mystic Melon
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A toad @toadlett.bsky.social I'm a comics artist, writer and worm appreciator. Look at things I do here: https://toadlett.com/ lettydraws[at]gmail[dot]com
she/they/he
Virginia Mercury @virginiamercury.com An independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news source covering Virginia government and policy.
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Do Stuff Make Things @dostuffmakethings.bsky.social I make things and stream on twitch
Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social Candidate for Congress, Author of DOPESICK and PAPER GIRL, thrifting champ, compulsive note-taker, and miner of stories about outsiders & underdogs.
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Filip Almansour Holm @itsfilipholm.bsky.social I make/play music. (Zini/Filip Holm)
I study religion(s).
I make videos about religion(s). (Let's Talk Religion @Youtube)
I eat falafel.
abby @counterfactual.bsky.social co-host of the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast, co-founder of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
abbykluchin.com
ordinaryunhappiness.com
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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social We are the members of Dark Horse Comics, forming a union—Dark Horse Workers United! Represented by @CWAunion.bsky.social #DHWU
Tom Nicholas | Watch BOOMERS on Nebula now! @tomnicholas.bsky.social Writer and filmmaker working on politics, history and economics.
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Mattias Adolfsson @mattiasadolfsson.bsky.social Swedish Artist
Rebecca Kirby @reweki.bsky.social I’m a cartoonist
Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social Prof @AmericanU. Interested in political theory, social movements, LGBTQ life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social A nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition developing and advancing public policies designed to strengthen local news and information.
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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social Exploring the Mesozoic world through art, science, and pop culture since 2009.
Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social co-host Citations Needed podcast.
pre-order ‘How to Sell a Genocide’ out 4/21 https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide or https://a.co/d/0hl4hmFi
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social Political columnist and editor MS NOW.
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The Well Project @thewellprojecthiv.bsky.social Together, we can change the course of the HIV epidemic…one woman at a time.
Juan Michael Porter II @juanmichaelii.bsky.social Black gay man; living with HIV since 2015.
Podcast host of the International AIDS Society.
Freelance journalist and consultant.
juanmichael.com
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Ytasha @ysolstar.bsky.social Afrofuturist. Writing in words and pixels. Author. Dancing always. Drinking tea. Champion for humanity. Next: The Afrofuturist Evolution
Heightened Scrutiny @heightenedscrutinydoc.com New documentary from director Sam Feder that follows @samfeder.bsky.social @chasestrangio.bsky.social's #SCOTUS fight for trans rights and access to healthcare. Premieres at the 2025 @sundancefest.bsky.social. Exec Producer: @lavernecox.bsky.social
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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social Human Rights Activist specializing in Housing & Disability policy. Queer, multiply disabled, formerly homeless, socialist, abolitionist, anti-Zionist Jew & son of immigrants. Antifa, always.
All opinions are my own, not of any organization, unless stated.
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
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I did a TED talk once
Faye Guenther @ufcwforward.bsky.social Union Pres of ufcw3000.bsky.social representing ~60,000 hard working people in NW. Labor Lawyer. Fighter for worker rights. Co-founder, national Labor for Democracy. More: linktr.ee/fayeguenther
Ravenous @weareravenous.com 🐦⬛ Food media with teeth
✊ Worker-owned
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Apocrypals @apocrypals.bsky.social The podcast where Chris Sims and Benito Cereno read Bible and Bible-adjacent literature and try not to be ding-dangs about it
https://apocrypals.libsyn.com/
https://apocrypals.dashery.com/
Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social Writer podcaster Latin Christmas horror movies Kentucky//BLOOD & THUNDER out monthly from Skybound//HECTOR PLASM: BORN INTO NIGHT BATTLES out May 27 from Image//CAPES monthly from Skybound
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Nate @fetorpse.bsky.social It’s me, Nate.
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat trans news and fiction writer, scientist, activist, data nerd
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it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
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Appalachian Voices @appvoices.org A leading force in Appalachia’s shift from fossil fuels to clean energy, healthy communities and 21st-century local economies.
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Freedom Cartoonists @freedomcartoonists.bsky.social We stand for a free press and freedom of speech in a spirit of dialogue.
La dessin de presse professionnel est un élément essentiel du débat civique.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
BLACK COMIC LORDS @blackcomiclords.bsky.social BCL is a multi-platform Black Comics Community Hub that serves as a nexus for interaction, promotion and mutual support between Black comic book collectors, fans, creators & publishers. "Black Comic Lords--we gotchu."
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
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scaachi.koul@slate.com
Public Seminar @publicseminar.bsky.social publicseminar.org
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REI Union @reiunion.bsky.social We are the REI Union, a group of union workers organizing to build a better Co-op for our fellow green vests and members!
https://reiuniongear.org/
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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social Fulbrighter, American, African American, Southern literature. medium.com/@interminablerambling
[Opinions are my own]
Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
www.rahawahaile.com
Julie Gabrielli @juliegabrielli.bsky.social juliegabrielli.substack.com/ In awe of nature’s design brilliance. I teach architecture and write stories and essays to cultivate hope in the face of climate crisis. Born at 318 ppm.
Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️🌈✡️
Comix 4 All @comix4all.bsky.social 2022 Eisner Judge
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City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social A Chicago-based national journalism lab reimagining local media though civic education, sustained impact reporting, and the #DocumentersNetwork 🔎
Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social Contributing writer, TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarahposner
Host, Reign of Error podcast: https://www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-error
Author, Unholy
More: https://www.sarahposner.com
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
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
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Tilde Swiñton @frandroid.tabnet.ca Zine dude. Web dev. Ⓐ with DemSoc leanings. AF af. Canadien français. Toronto. #GoHabsGo #BlackSails 🪶☀️🍉 Born at 332ppm.
Temrin @ TailsofSummer DD8 & Artfight: Mystery @wildelementstudios.com Fantasy artist, Zine/Event runner, VTuber, hobby crochet/darner | Support http://patreon.com/temrin | Nonbinary They/Them 30+ | NO NFT/AI | Not for kids | https://WildElementStudios.com
@CozyConOnline.com
@cszine.com
News is Out @newsisout.bsky.social A pioneering national collaborative of the leading local queer news publishers. 
The Advocate @advocate.com Your source for LGBTQ+ news, since 1967.
Sojourners @sojo.net Putting faith into action for social justice. Read sojo.net.
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
This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social ✍🏽 NYT bestselling author | Historian
📖 Faith, justice, religion
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Jawn Street • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app Lenée (noun): tomboy femme menace; a wild and erudite creature; a cackling bitch.
play with something safe; don’t play with me. eu sei onde os corpos estão enterrados. fale bem comigo. Philadelphia forever. glory to the martyrs. sayheylenee.com
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
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Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. Peruvian. English / Español / Português
Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Silver Run Forest Farm @silverrunff.bsky.social Cooperative nursery cross-pollinating food sovereignty and ecological restoration in the Shenandoah Valley. Go nuts. To the fall of tree crops, to the fall of empire
Center for Economic Democracy @economicdemocracy.us 🌱 We're building a post-capitalist world that puts people and the planet first!
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social A trans-led direct action group combatting the rising tide of bigotry in the UK
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J.A.W. Cooper @jawcooper.bsky.social Illustrator / Art Director / Fine Artist
Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social Zoologist, author, natural historian Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Books: DinosaursHTLE - DINOPEDIA - AncientSeaReptiles. PREHISTORIC PLANET lead consultant AppleTV | DINOCON leader | Mesozoic Art II out now
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Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
RJ Palmer 🔜 Gen Con AS-90 @rj-palmer.com Concept Artist | Illustrator | Paleoartist | he/him
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Lewis LaRosa (he/him) @lewislarosa.bsky.social Artist (comics, illustration, character & creature design design, paleo). All work is analog, pencil, ink & white paint on board. No AI. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onipress/carbon-based?ref=b6qdj9
Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social Illustrator | Paleoartist 🎨
📧 : himarudolf19@gmail.com
Prints 🖼️: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/rudolfhima/
Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social Illustrator, science writer and a bit of a crazy rat lady. Paleontology, biodiversity, animal behaviour. 🚫No AI
Portfolio: https://cara.app/maijakarala
Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social Professional paleoartist, concept artist and illustrator.
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villesink@gmail.com
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org criminal justice news. nonpartisan. nonprofit. nonpaywall.
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@jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social Working for Israeli-Palestinian peace, defending Jewish and democratic values.
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Hyphen @hyphenonline.com hyphenonline.com | The leading media platform on Muslim life in the UK and Europe
inkshark @inkshark.bsky.social I'm not super interested in another corporate social media trap; i'm using it grudgingly for other people. You can find social options i actually enjoy at inkshark.net
Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social Philologist, critic, insufferable theatre queen. Assistant Prof. at the University of Tulsa
Donald Earl Collins 🇵🇸 @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social Contributor, @aljazeera.com; Other Stuff: https://donaldearlcollins.substack.com; author, Spinnng Sage's Gold; used to be a hist prof;(looking for work/speaking opps/more income); donaldearlcollins@gmail.com