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
Indivisible Lincoln Square @indivisiblels.bsky.social Creating a just society through progressive values and grassroots engagement.
📍Lincoln Square, Chicago
indivisiblelincolnsquare.com
This Queer Book Saved My Life @thisqueerbook.com 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. LGBTQ guests share the queer books that saved their lives. Posts by Exe. Producer Jim Pounds. Unless signed by host @jpderboghossian. Listen: podfollow.com/thisqueerbook
@luiscnews.bsky.social @luiscnews.bsky.social 
PRIDEChicago @pridechicago.org PRIDEChicago is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We are proud to have produced the iconic Chicago Pride Parade for over 50 years. 🌈❤️
https://pridechicago.org
Polk Bros. Foundation @polkbrosfdn.bsky.social Polk Bros. Foundation is working to make Chicago a place where all people have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Second City Outlaws @secondcityoutlaws.bsky.social Providing the BEST in COUNTRY DANCING FUN and ENTERTAINMENT. Proud to be OPEN and INCLUSIVE to ALL
Ricky Martel @rickymartel.bsky.social Me. I Am Ricky. The Rollicking Buckaroo. Country Dancer. Second City Outlaw. Be Nice or Leave.
Penny Riordan @pennycriordan.bsky.social 20+ years working in the media industry and helping news orgs. Past: Local Media Association, GateHouse Media corporate, Patch, and newspapers.
Betty Alzamora @betty-unplugged.bsky.social I'm a bit like my martinis: very dry and with a twist. Board member Indivisible Chicago Alliance & Equality Illinois, advocate for immigration, LGBTQ+ rights. Made in Venezuela - hasta el final. Under the spell of my cats.
Kwame Raoul @kwameraoul.bsky.social Father, husband, lawyer & Illinois Attorney General.
33rd Ward Alder Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez @ward33chicago.bsky.social This is the government account for Chicago’s 33rd Ward Alderwoman Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez. Newsletter: www.bit.ly/ward33
Indivisible Chicago-South Side @indivchisouth.bsky.social We work to defend democracy and fight for progressive values via grassroots influence on our elected officials.
Rep. Bob Morgan @bobmorganil.bsky.social Illinois State Representative (58th Dist); https://bobmorganforillinois.com & https://repbobmorgan.com
Movement Advancement Project @mapresearch.bsky.social Trusted source for the latest LGBTQ and democracy policy updates, backed by rigorous research, expert analysis, and collaboration.
→ View our work: www.mapresearch.org
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
Reparations Media @reparationsmedia.bsky.social Reparations Media is a Chicago-based non-profit media education and production organization with a mission to provide quality information through multi-media productions regarding issues affecting marginalized and communities of color across the U.S.
Joel Hall Dancers & Center | joelhall.org @joelhalldc.bsky.social We awaken the dancer in everyone’s soul by highlighting and spotlighting the Black and Brown and LGBTQIA+ experience. We envision a world where dance is accessible and inclusive for all.
https://linktr.ee/joelhalldc
Liz @lizphotography.bsky.social ~Chico State Alumni
~Photographer
~Portraits, pets, graduates, events & more
📷: Cannon EOS
⚠️ not all request will be accepted -dm for availability⚠️
Missy Skelliott 💀🌈 @citizen-gonzo.bsky.social they/them | your friendly neighborhood weirdo
Queer & Feminist Africa @queerafricanews.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Curated news and policy updates on LGBTQI+ rights & Feminism across Africa. Tracking legal developments, activism, discrimination, and cultural shifts. Focus on Human Rights, Gender, Advocacy, Politics, and Intersectional Justice.
Weird Documentaries ✔ @weirddocumentaries.bsky.social We give our selves a check mark ✅️
The ultimate list of the weirdest documentaries ever made!
Weird Scale (1-5):
😐 (1) – highly recommended but not weird
😏 (2) – Somewhat odd.
🤨 (3) – Really unusual.
😳 (4) – Bizarre and strange.
🤯 (5) – WTF-level weird.
Bunson Sans-Culottes @bunson8r.bsky.social Lawyer, Environment Guy, UIUC Engineering, LUC Law, he/him. If you're not really into direct action on securing trans equality, radical climate solutions, and a free Palestine, go away. AI Neoluddite. 2026 will be the year Woke takes over ✊🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social STEM Librarian & Associate Professor in Iowa
Expect science, baseball, St. Louis Cardinals, #STLCards, progressive politics, astronomy, owls, beer, & pretzels
Kick Out The Jams @piratesandpoets.bsky.social Part of the LGBTQ family. They/them I love NYC, SF, SEA, TOR, ATL, DC, LA. Books and music keep me sane. Love who you want to love. Be kind, but fight the MAGA Nazis. Disability rights are human rights. They/them
KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social Chicago Gay. Day job is healthcare analytics, unpaid night gig is trying to get my friends to play math rocks with me. Recovering policy addict. Cat pics are my own, but it's not my cat.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Shan🏳️🌈 @shannonodonnell.bsky.social Pronouns: they/them
Hello! I'm a librarian and aspiring archivist! I love to read, draw, write, and crochet.
Will @willlllllllll2.bsky.social LGBTQ Family. BLM.
Social media is brain pollution. Chicago.
F putin trump bibi elon thiel scotus oligarchs.
bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social We could’ve had taco trucks on every corner 🏳️🌈
Burrow erupted feral from the woods $30/200 @burrow.northsky.social Disabled Trans Gender Anarchist
AuDHD, Artist, ex-circus clown
BI BI BI! IWW, cat parent, shark diver c. 1900s
Ankh-Morpork Poster’s Guild
THEY/THEM
Top surgery date: 2026-12-01
Sex worker
CA: $AdoraBelle
All my links: shibarinewbie.carrd.co/
ACAB
DrG78 @drg78.bsky.social 📍 Chicago, Doctor, Dogs, Pro-democracy and equal rights for all. Primarily a re-poster. ‘The Owls Are Not What They Seem.’
The Pink Triangle Legacies Project @ptlproject.bsky.social Honoring the memory of the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ victims and fighting homophobia and transphobia today through education, empowerment, and advocacy. Learn more at pinktrianglelegacies.org
Graeme Zielinski @gjzielinski.bsky.social Disgraced former Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Onion staff writer and Democratic Party of Wisconsin spox. Only living human to interview Neil Armstrong, Charles Schulz AND Bob Uecker. The union forever.
Badge Of Pride @badgeofpride.bsky.social Non-profit organization based in Dallas with the mission to activate artifacts from LGBTQ+ history to inform, enrich, and engage the power of the contemporary Queer experience. 
Lydia Rose @lydzrose.bsky.social Eternal Smart ass. Punk rock guitarist. A CNY girl in Eastern PA. I’m the radical leftist your Congress person warned you about.
LGBTQ+ World History Museum @lgbtqwhm.bsky.social A new museum looking to create a traveling exhibition to visit LGBTQ community centers and to build a permanent location in Southern CA. The first museum of its kind in the US looking at 10,000 years of LGBTQ+ history. www.LGBTQWorldHistoryMuseum.org 
Jamie Singer @jamiesinger.bsky.social Cybersecurity crisis comms expert, Michigan football fanatic, reality TV junkie … I contain multitudes 
Brad @allanbrad.bsky.social
Trans and proud 🏳️⚧️ | Navigating life with resilience and hope. Passionate about equality, safety, and community. Sharing my journey, raising awareness, and connecting with those who believe in a better, more inclusive world.
Jim Hennessey @briscoebs.bsky.social Chicago - Dog Dad to Nyx - Husband to Marshall - Heart Transplant Recipient - Clemson Alumni - Nonprofit Marketing Executive
United Independents (ANTI-FASCIST) (ANTI-COMMIE) Party💜❤️🔥 @unitedi.org HITLER 2.0 IS NOW HERE, FIGHT BACK LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT BECAUSE IT DOES NOW!! Let's get United for a better World! Not a political party, yet. #resister #nevergiveup #fightfascism #equalrightsforall
💜❤️🔥 I AM here. Connecting you to other HUMANS❤️🔥💜
Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social 🌈Passionate advocate. Loves working with smarty pants folks to create innovative solutions to seemingly intractable challenges.
LGBTQ, health (HIV/cancer) enviro bi-national with 🇨🇦 policy wonk. Loves elevating 🎶 & women’s sports ball.
Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social ** searching for early 2027 postdoc **
Science — how do early experiences shape emotional development & regulation? 🧠
Democracy — how do emotion regulation/co-regulation support our highest ideals (freedom, justice, peace, etc)? 🌈
ellencroche.com
Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me award-winning chicago journo, funky fashion enthusiast, and pink girlie™ 💖
✳️ prev: @raceandequityproject.org | vice president of the chicago journalists association | mizzou j-school alum | find me at maiamcdonald.me and @maia.pink | views are my own
LLittle@Luministfilms @luministfilms.bsky.social Filmmaker/educator/artist shedding light on stories about artists, activists and unseen heroes. Luministfilms.com
AIDS Foundation Chicago @aidsfoundationchi.bsky.social AFC Communications is not supported by federal funds. AIDS Foundation Chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to HIV or chronic conditions.- P Pride Action Tank @prideactiontank.bsky.social PAT communications is not supported by federal funds. Working to improve the health, safety, and progress of the LGBTQ+ community.
Kevin Boyer @kevingboyer.bsky.social Let's see if bluesky will be useful. Gayer than gayerson. 🏳️🌈
Rob Christopher @randomcha.bsky.social Sporadic filmmaker. ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO is streaming! (Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor.) New film: MY LAST MARTINI. Some stuff I scribe: #Chicago, #movies, #cocktails, #music, #books. And yup: I'm #gay. https://linktr.ee/randomcha
Unabridged Bookstore @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social new here, eager to talk about books!
📍Chicago, IL
Ryan @rdsmith2085.bsky.social Elder Gay Millennial
Seattle area of the PNW ⛰️🌧🏞
Educator
Liberal
Fluent speaker of sarcasm and snark
Mary_Anne 🦋🏳️⚧️🌈🌊 @mary-anne-mclaurin.bsky.social I am Antifa! Proud mom. Proud lowlife Radical Left Scum! Fierce🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Ally.
My Grandmother was a Suffragist, my father a WWII vet. I’m carrying their torch for my descendants.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR! But please, absolutely no DMs!
Twitter refugee @Mary_Anne
Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social Former media and tech, now on to more important things
Mastodon: flglchicago@mas.to
Quechua living on Potawatomi land
Kachkaniraqmi | we still exist
William4Love @2love4peace.bsky.social Writer, artist. LGBTQ. Peace, Equality. Safe space for all. 🌈 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
@wardl1.bsky.social @wardl1.bsky.social 
Timothy @timothy489.bsky.social News junkie, book worm, I watch too much tv, chronically online, professor, 🏳️🌈, cat dad,
Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
The Shitpostman (Il Shitpostino) @jerrybrennan.bsky.social Chicagoan. Author of Alone on the Moon, et. al. Founder of Tortoise Books.
www.tortoisebooks.com
Amy Eaton @missamye.bsky.social Writer. Director. Live Lit Performer. Perennial Screamer into the Abyss. Decent Tomato Grower. 
Mebhy ✶ @mebhy.bsky.social | 🏳️⚧️ Transexual Travisty |
✶✶ Rogers Park, Chicago ✶✶
| Loves her Dogs 🐶 |
| She/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ |
Ryan 🏳️🌈 @pyry.lutefisk.online Language stuff, city stuff, bus stuff, inane posting, Uralic facts. World reknowned lutefisk influencer. Elder millennial, gay for cities. Feral Chicago fanatic (yes, in Chicago!) from Minneapolis, by way of Portland and others. 🏳️🌈
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Jill Robinson @firstdraftdotblog.bsky.social Accidental writer. Querying Fragile, third place winner in the Chicago Writers Association’s First Chapter Contest. #amquerying
Peter Turner @rppt.bsky.social Cut political eyeteeth on JFK (1960). Supported Johnson vs. Goldwater. Very active in McCarthy peace movement. stop-the-war banners, bringing the '68 convention to a standstill. Strategist for Pierre Trudeau (Canada)—been active ' good troublemaker' since
John Presta @johnpresta.bsky.social Democrat. Political activist. Influencer. Author of an invaluable book about Obama's early political career and grassroots organizing efforts. A must-read for readers interested in grassroots politics and campaign strategies. Did I mention I am a Democrat?
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social Vice Chair, @democrats.org • PA State Rep, 181st District. • @drmatt.kenyatta’s husband
Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social Author. Independent Journalist. Political Commentator. Subscribe to my Substack to support.
Jarrett Payton @paytonsun.bsky.social Son of the great @walterpayton.bsky.social | WGN TV sports anchor and host of GNSports.
Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social Trekkie, human rights advocate. 7of9 fan✨🖖 #KeeperOfTheFlame 🗽Don’t blame me, I voted for #HarrisWalz ticket 🇺🇸✨Twitter refugee. ✨ News Junkie.
Laura Haynes👩🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social Miami native & U Miami🙌🏽 grad now in Connecticut’s Farmington valley
Immunologist/Gerontologist/Professor
#TrustScience #VaccinesWork
#LGM #GoCanes🙌🏽 #UConnNation
Opinions are my own & do not represent my employer
Creature of Hobbit 🇺🇦 @creatureofhobbit.bsky.social Angry AF about the destruction of our democracy by the fascist pedophile and his evil henchmen
[Check out my semi-funny jokes at @ghostofelizabeth.bsky.social]
CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social Disenfranchised humanitarian invested in civil rights, activism, and the re-establishment of our government. Married, mom of 2 here for our country.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally #NAFO fella #ACLU ACM-SW #USMS 🏊 she/her/hers
Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social NJ pizzatarian rumored to have made a presidential candidate cry
Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, independent journalist. TV/Movie List writer for Collider. Pardon the Insurrection podcast co-host. Democracy dies in the daylight…
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. Tips: tatianawalkmorris@protonmail.com
Clips: tatianawalkmorris.com/portfolio
LMHBryant @lmhbryant.bsky.social MagicalMisfit.Art Artist in 2- and 3-D media, master dressmaker and tailor, autodidactic entrepreneur.
Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social dial 311 it's a good time
Read: On Courage @blowen.bsky.social "When you know better, you do better."
Progressive. Biologist. Lawyer.
Doing what I can to protect our water, air, plants, animals, and people.
Not that Kelso 💙🌈🏳️⚧️🌳🫂🌍🩵 @mk99003.bsky.social Dem to the core💙 Retired Disabled Veteran🫡 Immigrant🇩🇪, she/her
Fascists need to fuck all the way off🤬
Same for fucking MAGA apologists
🤡Freedom
🤡Diversity
🤡Truth
🚫AI is theft, bye bye crypto fools
Love my pets🦮🐕🦺🐕🐈⬛🐈they are the best
🚫DMs
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social "There is no democracy without journalism." Covering antitrust, currently at Bloomberg News and “making people feel uncomfortable.” Former Politico, MLex, CQ. Email me at lnylen2 at bloomberg.net. On Signal: leahnylen.88. Opinions are my own (obvi).
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social Covering the Supreme Court etc at TPM & co-hosting the TPM Show; Philly-born Mystics diehard 🚴♀️🏃♀️Call me/beep me: kateriga.24/ kate@talkingpointsmemo.com 📸 Leah Miessler, Anna Moneymaker
ABC7 CHICAGO @abc7chicago.bsky.social For stories you care about, follow Chicago’s #1 news source.
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WGN NEWS @wgntv.com Chicago's Very Own ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ WGNTV.com
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Daily Herald @dailyherald.com Employee owned. Covering Chicago's suburbs. Big Picture. Local Focus.
Amanda Kaschube @amandakaschube.bsky.social Chicago Tribune: audience strategy and sports. Likes: cheese and breakfast food. Dislikes: traffic circles and tomatoes. Chant: Rock Chalk.
Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social UIC senior lecturer in data and digital journalism | RTDNA/GNI lead trainer | ONA AI lead trainer | Founder JournalistsToolbox.ai | Author: "Data + Journalism" and "The Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI"
John Chase @johnchase.bsky.social Deputy Metro Editor/Politics @chicagotribune. Alum BGA. An editor on 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for local journalism. Co-author of "Golden, How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself Out Of The Governor's Office And Into Prison." Haven't left Twitter...yet.
Sam Charles @samjcharles.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter covering the Chicago Police Department / criminal justice
scharles@chicagotribune.com
Signal: samjcharles.38
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sam-charles-staff.html
WGN Radio 720 @wgnradio.bsky.social Chicago's Very Own. Listen on-air on 720-AM, online at http://wgnradio.com/listen, WGN Radio mobile app, Audacy.com, iHeart, TuneIn, Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Call or text at 312-981-7200.
@stoomey.bsky.social @stoomey.bsky.social 
Jen Sabella @jensabella.bsky.social Block Club Chicago Co-founder + Executive Editor
Ex: DNAinfo, HuffPost, Sun-Times
Lesbian Cat Lady, Chicago Lifer
blockclubchicago.org
Mike Lowe @mikelowereports.bsky.social WGN-TV (Chicago) news reporter.
Heidi Stevens @heidikstevens.bsky.social Writer
Optimist
Chicago stan
Ray Long @raylongchicago.bsky.social Retired Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, 40+years govt/pols/scoops: 2x Pulitzer Finalist, 7 govs, City Hall, Obama, Burke, Madigan.
Author: The House That Madigan Built
JOT @jotoole.bsky.social Proud gay Chicagoan, dyed in the wool Democrat, Indiana University graduate, eternal optimist. Obama/HRC/Biden/Harris. StandWithIsrael🇺🇸. BlackLivesMatter. WomensRightsAreHumanRights. TransRightsAreHumanRights.