Kurtis Pozsgay @kpozsgay.bsky.social Certified urban planner. Letter "B" love: Books, Bikes, Beer, Bowling, Bocce. Malort. 
Matt Topic @mvtopic.bsky.social Fighting FOIA denials to a soundtrack of thrash metal and avant garde jazz since 2007. Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People in (anti!) AI. Co-host of Disclosure podcast.
https://www.loevy.com/attorneys/matt-topic/
https://time.com/7012833/matt-topic/
@ishandaya.bsky.social @ishandaya.bsky.social 
Yifan Wu @yifanwu901.bsky.social Bad punny sports idiot @theathletic.com https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/yifan-wu/
Northwestern alum; Connecticut survivor
Short-suffering Ryan Day hater & Chicago Sky fan
‘A very unique personality’ once on Google Meet
Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app 37. NOLA. Sociology PhD Student interested the intersection of Nerd culture and Blackness. Also other stuff idk I stay talking on here.
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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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Chicago Mayor's Press Office @chicagompo.bsky.social The official press office account for Mayor Brandon Johnson. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases.html
Susan Rivera @chitownsusi.bsky.social Chicago Mexi-Rican
Reader, walker, cat & dog person
Work @wgnnews
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants & communities of color.
sahanjournal.com
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social She/her. Award-winning journalist. Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht. Use your words wisely. The keyboard is mightier than the sword. UIC MBA candidate
Writings: tatianawalkmorris.com
People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social Abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the ppls voice through direct action, public ed + community space https://www.patreon.com/therobinsonspace
Subscribe to our new project: https://www.peoplescitycouncil-la.com/podcast
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social I write investigative and narrative stories about immigration and criminal justice for Reuters. 2x Pulitzer Prize winner. Please send story tips!
📍San Francisco
kristina.cooke@reuters.com
Signal: kristinacooke.08
Hecha en Chicago @hechaenchicago.bsky.social Barrio journalist
La Villita, Chicago
Former editor-in-chief @SouthSideWeekly
Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social Chicago journalist at Injustice Watch. 
Gordon D @gordondym.bsky.social Writer. Digital marketer. Doctor Who fan. Tenants rights advocate. Marx Brothers wannabe. Troublemaker. He/him
Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/gordondym
Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent. Design patent geek. Also interested in #ScheduleA litigation. Full bio (including link to CV): https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/sarah-fackrell
Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
https://linktr.ee/KrystalKavitaJagoo
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Min. Foolish Farrakhan @uhohjaye.bsky.social Queer. Chicagoan. Aquarian. ENM.
Mystery/Thriller/Suspense📚Junkie
Artist. Baker. Furniture Maker.
Serial Binger. Women’s 🏀 Stan.
Finding a new way to be Jaye.
A. Chill @atchill.bsky.social ᴀꜰʀᴏ/ʙᴏʀɪᴄᴜᴀ 🇵🇷. ʙ-ʙᴏʏ. ʜᴜꜱʙᴀɴᴅ/ᴅᴀᴅ | ʙʟᴇʀᴅ | ᴘᴏᴏʟɪɢᴀɴ | EX: IGN, Machinima & CraveOnline
A.E. Haynes II @heyyyarthur.bsky.social writer. dungeon master 🐲🎲. compulsive comic collector.
author of THE PERISTYLE (urban fantasy)
Chicago 📍
https://www.aehaynesii.com/
Jamila @jamiladawson.bsky.social Sex Therapist. Writer. (she/her). My tweets & shares ARE endorsements for things worth knowing about. www.JamilaDawson.com
adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social I am a writer. LA → CHI → NO
co-author of THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: http://shorturl.at/Otagc
currently writing NOTES ON FINDING HOME
📧: adam.mahoney@capitalbnews.org
adamlmahoney.com
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social Journalist/Periodista for the Chicago Sun-Times
Proud member of the Chicago Sun-Times Guild https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/elvia-malagon
Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
Director of the Justice Project
justiceproject.uchicago.edu
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Rob @kleinwalder.bsky.social 40. Ukrainian Village, Chicago. (He/Him)
Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive"
signal: sandhya_.96
Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
Stacy Robi @stacyrobi.bsky.social Documentary Producer | Writer | Rebel When Required 
Tracy L. Stewart, MA, MEd, LMHC @tracylstewart68.bsky.social MBCBT trauma-trained mental health therapist | mindfulness teacher | sexual health therapist & educator | politicized healer| gardener | policy nerd
🌿🌈📿♿️✊🏾
~Walking the 8fold path and sometimes trippin on the roots~
Beth Renaldi @bethrenaldi.bsky.social Refugee from X, copy editor, Chicagoan, hometown of South Bend, Indiana
UIC Urban Forum @uicurbanforum.bsky.social The University of Illinois at Chicago hosts the Urban Forum, a national event designed to advance dialogue about the future of urban communities.
Sign up for this year's Urban Forum on April 8th: urbanforum.uic.edu
Cabrini Green Legal Aid @cabrinigreenlegal.bsky.social CGLA exists to remove barriers to equity for communities negatively impacted by the criminal system in Chicago
Marshanah T. (she/her) @marshanah-t.bsky.social Tech Librarian @ Downs-Jones Library
Member @ACM.org | @Harvard.edu CFR '26 Alum ©️ | @Stanford.edu CIP '25 Alum 🌐 | ex-Smithsonian ☀️ | Texas Ex '24 🤘🏾
Interests: #AIBias #AncientBlackness #BlackDH
Website 🔗 : https://linktr.ee/marstay
📍ATX
The Bigs @thebigs.bsky.social 
Sharlyn Grace @sharlyngrace.bsky.social She/her. Lawyer supporting social movements & public defense policy advocate in Chicago.
Tanya RDT @tanyardt.bsky.social Senior Comms + Press person at Pew Research. NY transplant in DC. English & Español welcome.
Andie @andielandie.bsky.social 
Michelle @internetmich.bsky.social writer, southsider, demon slayer,
sound guy for @citycastchicago.bsky.social
Jamilah King @jamilahking.bsky.social Editorial Director, Mother Jones. Say hi to your dog for me.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl.
let’s work together! ⬇️
meredithshiner.com
Elizabeth Todd-Breland @etoddbreland.bsky.social Educator, Historian (US, Urban, Black Politics, Education, Policy, Chicago), Former CPS Board VP; Books: I Didn't Come Here to Lie (Haymarket, 2025); A Political Education (UNC Press, 2018); personal account; she/her
Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago
lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🦄
Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author
Skeets my own.
John Bachtell @johnbachtell.bsky.social Social change agent, environmental steward, joyful solidarity and community builder.
1_of_few_that’ll_ really_step @protcolstacked.bsky.social Reality TV skeets, cooking, books and other BS! Security Engineer! 92% ΔΣΘ #DST HU Alum ✊🏾 🇵🇷 . The truth don’t care who tell it! Arguing opinions is a game for fools that too many ppl get on this app and play! New Yorker by birth raised by the CHI!
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Mothers & Men Against Senseless Killing @maskchicago.bsky.social Gun violence is a societal disease accompanied by many different symptoms.With each symptom triaged and treated, the likelihood of an act of gun violence is reduced, the quality of life of the community improves.
For more information go to: ontheblock.org
Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Deirdre @deirdre4020.bsky.social CCPSA - 020 District Councilor
40th Ward Born, Raised & Employed
My opinions are my own.
Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social Reporter, @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/people/jodi-cohen
Atavia Reed @ataviawrotethis.bsky.social On the South Side beat. Nosey by Nature. Words around town. Always talking film, music and books 👩🏾💻
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.
NBC News @nbcnews.com News updates from around the 🌎, all day, every day.
Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Father. Husband. Mayor. Building Chicago into the safest, most affordable big city in America.
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com Independent Journalism on State Violence
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Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social Chicago Public Schools Social Studies/Poetry Teacher since ‘07, CPS Parent, & Spouse of a CPS Teacher.
Chicago Teachers Union member. Nationally Board Certified (NBCT) and Masters in Ed. Policy. He/Him.
Occasional writer https://davestieber.com/
Tiffany D. Cross @tiffanydcross.bsky.social 📕 LOVE, ME: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship 📖 ORDER NOW! May 5, 2026 📕 Journalist. TV Host. Podcast Host. Author. Thinker. Dog Lover. Former: Native Land Pod & The Cross Connection. 🤎💞🤎
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
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Jewél Jackson @jmjwrites.bsky.social Thinking and writing about youth, culture and society • Pitch me jmjwrites11@gmail.com • jewél.com
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/
@poahcommunities.bsky.social @poahcommunities.bsky.social POAH's mission is to preserve, create and sustain affordable, healthy homes that support economic security and access to opportunity for all.
Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com Real estate information platform for development in Chicago, Cook County, and Lake County (Illinois and Indiana). http://chicagocityscape.com
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Maggie Sivit @msivit.bsky.social ✏️ Audience director at @injusticewatch.org ⌛️ Previously digital and engagement producer at WBEZ 🇨🇺 NAHJ member 📬 maggiesivit@injusticewatch.org
María Inés Zamudio @mizamudio.bsky.social Professional chismosa. award-winning investigative reporter with Invisible Institute/ProPublica. FOIA enthusiast. Professional Chismosa. Past @wbez @apmreports @publicintegrity @ChicagoReporter.
Runner and aspiring fiction writer.
Kelly McEvers @kellymcevers.bsky.social Founding host, NPR's Embedded. Former host, All Things Considered. Former NPR Middle East correspondent. Teacher/trainer, Uncuffed. Dodger fan with the zeal of a convert.
http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers
Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social Independent Journalist. IU alum. Recovering lawyer. She/her
Author - Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being A Woman in America; Losing My Perspicacity (newsletter)
Tips: jdica@protonmail.com
https://losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com/
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.
Word In Black @wordinblacknews.bsky.social 'Black America's Digital Daily' — innovating on the near 200 year legacy of the Black Press.
Maya Rodriguez @maya-rodriguez.bsky.social Certified Cotton Cloud of a Human™️
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CoS IL Sen Peters | 773/312 |
Columbia Sociology | UChicago |
Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social Purpose-driven storyteller, independent photog
✨ BAY AREA ☁️ FAA drone certified
Former staff: ProPublica, Freep, NYT
📨 Reach me: sbmaneyphoto@gmail.com
Indivisible Chicago-South Side @indivchisouth.bsky.social We work to defend democracy and fight for progressive values via grassroots influence on our elected officials.
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.
https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
SEIU Local 73 @seiulocal73.bsky.social Representing 38,000 workers across Illinois and Northwest Indiana
Ariel Parrella @arielparrella.bsky.social Logan Square/Avondale/Humboldt Park reporter/periodista
@BlockClubCHI | 🚲 🇮🇹 y español. tips + dog photos: ariel@blockclubchi.org
Umi Grigsby @umigrigsby.bsky.social Attorney. Advocate. Author. Joyful Warrior. Chief of Policy. Tweets and typos are my own.
Salem Collo-Julin @hollohulo.bsky.social Writer/editor/talker/host | she/they | 📨 scollojulin@gmail | dogs and cats living together | #Chicago
https://linktr.ee/hollohulo
McRonalds part-timer @mcrparttimer.bsky.social Blerd | Photographer | Bachelor Nation | 🏳️🌈
Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social My words are brushstrokes for the soul.
I write to create shelter, stir truth, and wake what’s been sleeping inside me. 🌱
Artist | Poet | Mental Health & Disability Advocate | Songwriter | Fitness | Anime & Fantasy Lover
@chicityclerk.bsky.social @chicityclerk.bsky.social 
Meha Ahmad @mehaahmad.bsky.social I make radio and strong coffee.
Senior producer at @wbez.
Reema Saleh ✨ @reemasabrina.bsky.social journo, producer & comms whiz kid. she/her ✨ www.reemasaleh.com
💼 @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social
🖋️ @chicagoreader.com @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and elsewhere
📚 policy trained at uchicago
✨Pretty, Witty, Girly, Worldly✨ @asdoseofreality.blacksky.app Front row seat to me living through the collapse of an empire while battling Patricia Peri.
Fat but not the bigger person, tread lightly.
Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
M. @farrockaway.bsky.social he • him 🏳️⚧️
Just I, myself, and me
“We’re either working on recovery or relapse.”
HRT: 9/29/23
Mastectomy: 1/29/24
Total Hysterectomy: 10/28/24
Quasi-news enthusiast. Pre-law. Some would say I’m passionate about sports.
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue