dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
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
melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
Jeremy Cherson @jeremycherson.bsky.social Director of Communications at The Bail Project. Part prescient, part paranoid. 
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Chicago Ornithological Society @chicagobirder.bsky.social All things birds in the Second City!
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app She/her.🌈AP. Earnestposter. Family Preservation. Abolition. Reproductive Justice. Plants. I like to make things.
mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social Cats, social welfare policy, child welfare, advocacy, social work, bad puns, and random things that tickle my fancy. #BillsMafia
Robin @robinec.bsky.social nonprofit fundraiser. kid advocate. dog mom to luigi. proud auntie. the first to woo in a crowd. phd in nachos and mozzarella sticks. a pillow and blanket connoisseur. above average hula hooper. bookstores make me happy. bostonian by way of nj. she/her
Rebecca @fosterhood.bsky.social Adoptee turned foster (now adoptive) parent working with, around and beyond the NYC foster care system- since 2008.
*Also a psychologist
👧🏻Clementine rocking an intellectual disability
💅🏾Kid #1 living her best Black life despite having a white mom
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. I write and train on antisemitism, white Christian nationalism, the MAGA Right, Israel/Palestine, Christian Zionism. Co-author Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. benlorber.com
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
ManicPixieDreamFounder @mpixiedreamfoundr.bsky.social Quirky Start-up Founder🚀🐦/RN/Music&Arts Enthusiast/DNC Delegate X 2/Elected x3/Spicy 🥬 expert.
DNC “I Told You so” Alum ‘16
The DNC wars Alum ‘18
Kudos to the #BlueSky Founders! You got us all to give you our data to sell for a second time 🐥!
ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social Blog on Illinois, Chicago, national, and now Minnesota politics. Early local blogger and I chose the name long before the Gateway jackass.
jad 📸 @aerojad.bsky.social Information technology trash with a penchant for photography. Will like all photos of your pets. Chicago is the greatest city in existence.
♫ and while I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth ♫
[he/him]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerojad/sets
Will U'ren @whollingsworth.bsky.social Bikes, books, busses, buildings, Bortland
"Mommy, mommy, buy me a license plate!"
"No, come along Bortland!"
"Are you talking to me?"
"No, my city is also named Bortland."
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
R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social Child liberation theologian, child and survivor advocate. Learn more about my work: www.rlstollar.com. He/him.
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
📍 ✶✶✶✶
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of 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!
Joel Fleming @joel-fleming.bsky.social Progressive. Antifascist. Plaintiffs’ lawyer. Based in Boston but primarily practice in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Aurora C @theaurorac.bsky.social Lawyer by day (but only for children), Muay Thai fighting fire eater by night, semi-southpaw Romany Gypsy curmudgeon all the time. Fiddler, 9/11 first responder, former aerialist, flâneuse. Union strong. Barrister and Solicitor, Esq.
Sophie @sophiavp.bsky.social Full of malignancy and an inventor of evil things.
Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant. Literally OCD (F42.2!). She/her
לפעמים אני כותבת בעברית כי אני לומדת עברית ורוצה להשתפר. תיקונים מדוברי עברית תמיד מוערכים. היא
linktr.ee/lux
Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social Book History, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, TV, and the New York Knickerbockers
Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social
📍60625
Dan Izzo @izzos.net Attorney (VA & DC Licensed)
"Lawyers are basically just attack librarians"
Posts are not legal advice.
All opinions are my own
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
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
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Der Spekter @derspekter.org Bundist perspectives, original artwork, journalism, and more.
www.derspekter.org
Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com Lawyer.
Transit (@2avesag.as), baseball, politics, Yogi photos. Be loud for America.
Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social Ocean Gate Elementary School class of 1992. John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. Books: GUN COUNTRY (2023) and CONSUMING JAPAN (2017).
Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
https://www.katieprout.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.
🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social Chicago
Red/purple line enthusiast
Progressive
Occasional map maker
he/him
Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com Journalist: abortion and politics. Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, MSNOW, Jezebel. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
http://linktr.ee/susanrinkunas
susanrinkunaswrites @gmail
Signal susanrinkunas.73
GODZILLA STAN ACCOUNT @copolitics.bsky.social Dulcinian | video games | snowboarding | super gay | chaotic neutral | Octavia Butler Cultist | Scalia is dead and you can do butt stuff legally (for now)
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Andy Fletcher @andyfletchertrains.bsky.social Railroad artist, speaker, designer, advocate for freight & passenger #trains. 🚂🚄✏️🎨
Bex @bexcommunicated.bsky.social Spoonie. Cat lady. Living in Detroit but left my heart in Buffalo. Lawyer. Legal editor. (she/her)
I lost my place but I can’t stop this story 🎶
MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social **FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY**
Chicago's #1 Fan.
Utility-Grade Content from Parts Unknown.
Post-Hip/Pre-Retro.
Avant-garbage.
he/him 😷
middle-class/middle-aged/middle-brow
Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social • Middle Aged Midwestern Mom • Hospice Chaplain • Abortion Doula • she/her • Disaster Bisexual • South Side Best Side • Chicago • Petoskey •
miss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social MINNESOTAN. leftist and overall nightmare. hand-holder in your final moments. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS CHINGA LA MIGRA
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social Public defender. End cash bail. Abolish ICE. Commentary on the criminal legal system, local politics, housing, transit, and cycling infrastructure. All opinions my own.
Pooja Ravindran @poojaravindran.bsky.social 🙄
Probably commenting on shenanigans chicityclerk.com
I am not my employer so neither are my opinions my employers' opinions
Senator Mike Simmons @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social State Senator and Former Congressional Candidate for IL-09. Here for the Fight.
Chicago native. Proudly LGBTQ+, Ethiopian-American. 🏳️🌈🇪🇹
Let's do this together! Go to mikesimmons.org to sign up!
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone Josephine Riesman. NYT-bestselling US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. Profile image is Julianne Moore.
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social Religious Studies & Hebrew Bible PhD student📚/Jewish✡️/ADHD & Autistic🎧/Mythology Nerd🏺/Recovering Attorney ⚖️/Perpetually Sleepy💤
(she/her)
Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social Writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box & Ringer Tailgate | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988 | Dez & Lani’s dad.
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social B810. The Man who Bit Himself on the Ear. A man explains to his doctor that the wound on his ear (or forehead) is where he bit himself. He explains, "I stood on a chair."
Signal: oulipien.12
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
Dijon Bernthal @blakesquest.bsky.social Husband of @wendycat.bsky.social. Chicago lawyer. All views are my own. Annoying politics stuff, sports posting, occasional gaming stuff, goofing around, etc. Chi DSA. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Solidarity forever. He/him.
Michael Mrozinski @mjmrozinski.bsky.social Policy, research, and advocacy on legal system reform, public defense, legal aid & race equity at NLADA.org | Opinions are my own | UChicago, Georgetown Law & CTLS London alum | he/him
Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Patrick Bromley @patrickbromley.bsky.social Editor in Chief at F This Movie, co-author of In Search of Darkness, contributor at Bloody Disgusting and Daily Dead. CFCA/OFCS.
🍅 approved
Erik Childress @erikthemovieman.bsky.social Producer - Chicago Critics Film Festival, Chicago Film Critics Association, Movie Madness Podcast, The Friendship Dilemma Podcast, Business First AM, Rotten Tomatoes, The Nick D Podcast linktr.ee/erikchildress
Matt Cipolla @cipollamatt.bsky.social Was a film critic for seven-ish years (Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Spool, Ebert Voices, The Film Stage, so on). Now I guess I’m just critical. Tail-end millennial trash. Music, motorcycles, etc.
#MeToo
Mostly on Instagram @Cipolla.Matt
cipollam926@gmail
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
Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd
A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social Writer/editor. Past lives: The A.V. Club, Chron, Time Out Chicago. He/him/his. https://letterboxd.com/AADowd/
https://authory.com/AADowd
Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social Writer, Curator, Cultural Omnivore | 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online/ | Author of Amnesia: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk // I mostly retweet games + art. Opinions are my own. He/Him | PFP: Kara Xu (Helium Raven) Header: Dima Goryainov
Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social frequent bylines at www.inreviewonline.com
member CFCA
https://letterboxd.com/danimal1/
Jim Laczkowski @jimlaczkowski.net Hat-Wearing Librarian (chipublib.org). Podcaster/Writer (jimlaczkowski.net), (https://directorsclub.substack.com), (https://linktr.ee/jimlaczkowski). Musician! Cats, coffee, books, podcasts, libraries!
LarsenOnFilm @larsenonfilm.bsky.social Josh Larsen. Talker at Filmspotting. Writer at LarsenOnFilm. Author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies.
Zachary Lee @zacharylee.bsky.social editor, critic, journalist | bylines in rogerebert.com, The Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, RNS, Dread Central, Sojourners, Think Christian | CFCA Member
Sarah Marrs @cinesnark.bsky.social Deputy Editor of LaineyGossip.com | Member: Critics Choice Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society | All writing: https://bit.ly/3G2qegq | Email: sarah@laineygossip.com
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.social Freelance editor/writer. Former editor at Polygon, Verge, The Dissolve, A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her.
Letterboxd.com/tasharobinson
Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson
Nextpictureshow.net
Katie Rife @rifewithkatie.bsky.social You’ve seen me around. Writing all over: Letterboxd, Indiewire, AV Club, Vulture, Ebert, etc.
Caroline Siede @carolinesiede.bsky.social Film & TV critic. Writing at The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, and Girl Culture. CFCA member. Expert grocery shopper. She/her http://girlculture.substack.com
Peter “Cloaked In Gucci & Scandal” Sobczynski @petersob13.bsky.social Film critic at RogerEbert.com, TheSpool.com, Auteurist Class at Substack and the Movie Madness podcast. An enthusiast of De Palma, T Swift and Milla J. Programmer at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. A rogue and a bon vivant.
Collin Souter @collinsouter.bsky.social Film critic, CFCA member, teacher, co-host of the Christmas Movies Actually podcast, U2 fan, blu-ray collector.
https://www.collinsouter.com/
https://letterboxd.com/cdsouter/
Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social CFCA President - Editor http://RogerEbert.com - Bylines at Vulture, AV Club, NYT, GQ, Arrow, The Playlist, Rolling Stone, LA Times, elsewhere - Producer CCFF - Father of 3 Boys - Not Vince Gilligan
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
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
Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social Writer/Critic/Meat Popsicle -- assistant editor @ RogerEbert.com, editor in chief The Spool. Words: Block Club Chicago, Consequence.
Cody @codymonster91.bsky.social movie stuff probably | gay stuff definitely | 18+ mostly | he/him | livin in Chicago (The Big Apple) | CFCA member | writer/podcaster for Next Best Picture, AwardsWatch, and YOUR site!
Rob @flickmythrob.bsky.social Flickering Myth chief film critic, CFCA/CCA/OFCS member, Rotten Tomatoes-approved, lifelong gamer, miserable Chicago sports fan (White Sox and Bears), WWE/AEW fan He/Him ♿
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/author/robert-kojder/
yet another Kyle Logan @anotherkylel.bsky.social Scary movies & angry music | Member, Chicago Film Critics Association, @dorianawards.bsky.social | Bylines at @ScreenAnarchy.bsky.social, @chicagoreader.com & more | Contact: logankyle64@gmail.com | https://linktr.ee/anotherKyleL
Josh Parham @jrparham.bsky.social I tend to watch a lot of movies. Contributor at Next Best Picture and AwardsWatch. Member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Massive James Bond fan and Ben Whishaw fanatic. (he/him)
peyton danielle @peytondani.bsky.social film crit and transient thoughts • writer for RogerEbert.com and CinemaFemme • shipwreck enthusiast • she/her
lindsey romain @lindseyromain.bsky.social chicago-based writer/critic; CFCA (bylines: bwdr, nerdist, vulture, thrillist, etc.)
Amy @plitter.bsky.social cats, transit, cities, other cool stuff like that. I work at the MTA; my opinions are mine. she/her/🏳️🌈
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
asha ransby-sporn @asha-rrs.bsky.social organizer, writer
find me in chicago.
linktr.ee/asharansbysporn
DaniBananica @danibananica.bsky.social Huge dork. Autistic. Greysexual. HUGE loser.
American. Trump sucks.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pghlpclvmq5bx45krbsjntlf/feed/top-skeets
Single Female Lawyer @singlefemalelawyer.bsky.social Shitposter supreme 
Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @moltisantithots.bsky.social What I'm saying is...