Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
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
DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993.
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at @wttw.bsky.social News/Chicago Tonight. Past life: Illinois Answers Project, BGA, Columbus Dispatch, ThisWeek News. I cover cops, courts, energy, health, finance, education, pensions etc. Prolific FOIA filer. He/him.
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology
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Veronica Martinez @veromartinezart.bsky.social Art | Illustration | Chicago
Visual Reporter at Injustice Watch
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social Radically pedestrian urban planning. Chicago-centric. ✶✶✶✶
Chi Hack Night @chihacknight.org A free, weekly event in Chicago to build, share and learn about civic tech. Join us every Tuesday evening! https://chihacknight.org/
nat she/they @natpalm99.bsky.social this is still rough drafts, jokes, and shit i like
Black lives matter Black trans lives matter, anti-copaganda enthusiast; trynna organize to liberation
David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social Epidemiologist, Professor GW School of Public Health; Longest serving OSHA head (2009-17); former Asst Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, & Health; Author: Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception. http://drdavidmichaels.com 
Hannah Pullen-Blasnik @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social political economy & the criminal legal system, urban development, algorithms & surveillance. sr data scientist at vera with a sociology phd from columbia. views=mine. hpullenblasnik.com
Ben Snyder @benjaminhsnyder.bsky.social I write about technology run amok, capitalism, and other depressing things while also envisioning a world beyond them.
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
Photo by https://www.greginda.com/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
Kara Finnigan @ksfinnigan.bsky.social education policy, sociology, cross-sector (educ/crim justice/housing/etc), network/spatial analysis, segregation, regional equity, racial justice, policy implementation. Current study-Detroit housing/schls
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social Reporter @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social, hyperfocused on zoning + city gov + police surveillance • B/MSJ23 from Medill • NKY➡️Chicago • he/him
I do not use generative AI in my work.
Read my stuff: https://evanstonroundtable.com/author/alex-harrison
Chris Kaiser @chriskaiserva.bsky.social Policy Director ACLU of Virginia | Fmr: ACLU of Louisiana | Unrepentant Kentuckian | Cincinnati Reds stan | Opinions are mine alone.
Alex Trimble Young @alextyoung.bsky.social UCWAZ Member, Teaching Prof at Barrett Honors, and Associate Director of the BRIDGS Initiative for Gun Studies; co-host of Guns Unpacked. Thinking about US literature, settler colonialism, gun culture, radical politics, and the US West. Views are my own.
Allen Louis Linton II @allenlinton2.bsky.social Best there isn't, best there wasn't, best there ever won't be.
Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social WBEZ Chicago reporter on public safety and health.
https://www.wbez.org/author/chip-mitchell
Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
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Personal account
Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social Professor at Michigan & Associate Director @umichstonecid.bsky.social
Sociologist studying crime victims and the politics of punishment in the U.S.; first book was an ethnography of urban development in Boston.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jeremylevine/
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social 
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
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Lakeidra Chavis @lakeidra.bsky.social Journalist @themarshallproject.org | 🕵🏽 Currently investigating police sexual abuse and misconduct against youth | 👩🏽💻 What should I cover next? Send me your thoughts
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer, https://bradydave.wordpress.com
Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual.
Books: Merchants of Doubt; Collapse of Western Civilization; Science on a Mission; Discerning Experts; Why Trust Science?; The Big Myth. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing, family. Hates: Beets.
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Anna Fox @annafox.bsky.social sociology phd candidate and semi-regular farmer's market attendee
Graciela Guzmán @gracielaforsenate.bsky.social IL State Senator, District 20 | immigration and healthcare advocate | mutual aid | with my community, for my community. Se habla español
https://linktr.ee/guzmangr
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Robert Peters @robertpeters.bsky.social Illinois 13th District State Senator and Candidate for Congress in IL-02
Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social Politics of inequality, population health, social policy, methods (esp qual), Europe, teaching & learning. S2/A1, dog lover, cook. ME/CFS hEDS MCAS PsA.
Getting Better is open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
agitator in chief @soit-goes.bsky.social shitposting for justice since 2012
Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com Filmmaker, Force of Nature
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
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Delia Catalina Ramirez @delia.bsky.social Community organizer, daughter of immigrants, wife, golden retriever mom & Congresswoman of #IL03
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond.bsky.social Working to #EndMoneyBail & pretrial incarceration across Illinois. We work for racial justice & freedom.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
Carlos Ballesteros @cb-312.bsky.social Senior reporter @ Injustice Watch, son of immigrants, against genocide, se habla español
Invisible Institute @invisible.institute A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more. 
City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social A Chicago-based national journalism lab reimagining local media though civic education, sustained impact reporting, and the #DocumentersNetwork 🔎
Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. https://linktr.ee/injusticewatch
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com 
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
Plz be patient with me @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Sam Stecklow @samstecklow.bsky.social journalist & FOIA fellow @invisible.institute
indie local news cheerleader
if you were really smart, you’d know what to do
orlando
he/him
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net Sociologist at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice studying policing, city budgets, suburbs, and housing. brenden.beck@rutgers.edu
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
Terence McDonnell @mintytem.bsky.social I'm doing sociology RIGHT NOW.
Culture and Objects
Henkels Family Associate Professor of Sociology
Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame
Cerise Castle @cerisecastle.bsky.social she/her. multi-award winning journalist. Wrote history of #LASDgangs, now writing the book. covering inequality Capital & Main, freelancing. IG/TikTok @yourmajestcee. Tip? DM
Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & check out our Blog: @lpeblog.bsky.social
Elizabeth Hinton @elizabethkai.bsky.social Historian of U.S. Inequality, Author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law @Yale
Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social law prof, Brooklyn Law School; author, Radical Acts of Justice, https://thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-of-justice
Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA. Civil rights, police accountability, civil procedure. Author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Learn more at: joannaschwartz.net
Tony Cheng @tonykcheng.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University
PhD Yale Sociology; JD NYU Law
www.tonykcheng.com- E Erin Collins @erincollins.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Richmond and former appellate public defender. Writing and thinking critically about criminal system change, especially data-driven reforms. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2286196
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Roberto G. Gonzales @rggonzales1.bsky.social Sociologist at Penn| Founding Director Penn Migration Initiative| Previously at Harvard| Author Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America| Writing book on DACA| Fan of the Yankees, Broncos, Springsteen, & my son’s baseball teams
Alyasah Ali Sewell, Your Public Sociologist for the Day @aasewell.bsky.social Winship Distinguished Research Prof & Associate Prof of Sociology at Emory. Critical Racism Studies & Intersectionality. Black Feminist. Gender Expansive. Lefty. #Blackademic. ✊🏾🌈
linktr.ee/aasewell
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Law at Stanford. Author of PRIVILEGE & PUNISHMENT www.matthewclair.org
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
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
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social Georgia girl• UNC-CH associate professor of sociology • alum of Mercer, UGA, & Duke • hopeful for a better tomorrow
Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social Sociology prof. at Univ. of Minnesota. Law, Criminal Punishment, Politics, and Labor. New book: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice.
John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason @johnmajoreason.bsky.social “You gotta be rock solid, not to be outsmarted
The rise from rock-bottom to one of the top scholars.”
Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame
co-editor of Sociology of Education | co-I of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
mamax2 | Michigander | former PS teacher |
scholar of education, inequality, mass incarceration, and race