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Beth Humphreys 🌺

@producrgrl.bsky.social

18,324 followers, 36,985 follows, 17,356 posts

Registered:24 Jan 2025 01:28

Follow date:27 Jan 2026 19:51

Childless Cat/Dog Lady 🐈 Sugar 🐈 Blue 🐕 Maggie 🔵💙 Forever Democrat 💙🔵 🚫 Never Trump/MAGA/Magats 🚫 📺 TV producer/director/paralegal 🐈🐕Animals/Rescue 🤣 Memes 💜 Humor 💚 Kindness 🎼 Music ⚡️🏈⚡🏈⚡🏈⚡🏈⚡️ NFL Chargers fan since the 70s Burbank CA NO DMs

Nina Metz

@ninametz.bsky.social

28,346 followers, 569 follows, 9,994 posts

Registered:3 Jul 2023 14:50

Follow date:23 Jan 2026 18:41

TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com... Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything https://buttondown.com/NinaWat...

Atrios

@eschatonblog.com

39,071 followers, 1,809 follows, 23,020 posts

Registered:2 May 2023 19:53

Follow date:20 Jan 2026 12:30

I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog. https://eschatonblog.com Currently near Toon

Marj Halperin❌👑

@marjhalperin.bsky.social

8,358 followers, 496 follows, 1,066 posts

Registered:14 Nov 2024 07:20

Follow date:14 Jan 2026 11:38

Family is everything to me, a Democratic pundit trying to make sense of the world. Activist working for brighter days ahead for us all. Amateur mixologist, recipes welcomed. @CTV #MincingRascalsPodcast Ally to migrants, BLM, LGBTQ+ NO DMs please.

Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

16,485 followers, 818 follows, 14,062 posts

Registered:26 Nov 2024 07:14

Follow date:5 Jan 2026 13:21

Author: Villager, 1983, Everything Will Swallow You. Shirley Jackson Horror Writing Award winner who doesn’t write horror. "Hilarious" - Stephen Fry. "Made me laugh out loud" - David Sedaris. "Arrived damaged." - Amazon reviewer https://www.tom-cox.com

Jemaine Clement

@jemaineclement.bsky.social

30,716 followers, 172 follows, 157 posts

Registered:24 Jul 2023 10:14

Follow date:16 Dec 2025 18:13

Live Tapes

@livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy

1,430 followers, 21 follows, 24,055 posts

Registered:17 Nov 2024 22:20

Follow date:12 Dec 2025 16:46

Automated feed with new posts from live music & unusual recording repositories to accompany @LiveMusicArchiveUpdates, instigated by @bourgwick, operated via […] [bridged from https://heads.social/@livetape... on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

Ken Tremendous

@kentremendous.bsky.social

82,763 followers, 382 follows, 1,823 posts

Registered:27 May 2023 14:38

Follow date:9 Dec 2025 16:19

I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance. New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/97...

Seamus Blackley verified

@seamus.bsky.social

33,481 followers, 1,711 follows, 2,333 posts

Registered:25 Apr 2023 19:06

Follow date:28 Nov 2025 23:25

Them: You're the father of the xbox! Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent. theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee

Amanda Litman verified

@amandalitman.bsky.social

62,137 followers, 1,227 follows, 3,532 posts

Registered:17 May 2023 13:03

Follow date:4 Nov 2025 18:28

Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2 amandalitman.com/links

Margaret Mitchell

@mmitchell.bsky.social

22,870 followers, 811 follows, 1,884 posts

Registered:28 Apr 2023 17:01

Follow date:4 Nov 2025 15:55

Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face

Maria J Pérez Cuervo

@mjpcuervo.bsky.social

5,938 followers, 814 follows, 2,271 posts

Registered:25 Jul 2023 15:47

Follow date:23 Oct 2025 11:44

Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com 📖 helleborezine.com

Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

243,224 followers, 2,731 follows, 5,154 posts

Registered:11 Nov 2024 01:26

Follow date:23 Oct 2025 11:34

Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools. Dirt Road Democrat.

Front Range Antifascists

@frontrangeantifa.bsky.social

1,221 followers, 10 follows, 25 posts

Registered:18 May 2025 23:08

Follow date:22 Oct 2025 12:03

Antifascist research and action in "Colorado" Member of @torchantifa.bsky.social‬ Website: https://frontrangeantifa.noblo... Contact: https://frontrangeantifa.noblo...

Heather Randell

@heatherrandell.bsky.social

10,719 followers, 1,636 follows, 1,736 posts

Registered:12 Oct 2023 19:36

Follow date:20 Oct 2025 17:20

Assistant professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Sociologist/demographer studying the health impacts of climate change and dams, with a focus on Brazil and East Africa. https://sites.google.com/umn.e...

Jon Seidel verified

@jonseidel.bsky.social

12,979 followers, 113 follows, 2,240 posts

Registered:28 Sep 2025 16:52

Follow date:9 Oct 2025 16:46

Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com

Mark Bray

@mark-bray.bsky.social

24,054 followers, 1,005 follows, 250 posts

Registered:13 Nov 2024 03:10

Follow date:9 Oct 2025 15:35

Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul

@ilattygeneral.bsky.social

1,511 followers, 74 follows, 449 posts

Registered:27 Mar 2025 14:22

Follow date:6 Oct 2025 21:17

Illinois Attorney General Protecting the public interest of the state and its people https://linktr.ee/ILAttyGenera...

David Simon

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

60,318 followers, 236 follows, 6,379 posts

Registered:13 Nov 2024 18:25

Follow date:3 Oct 2025 02:42

Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.

David Corn verified

@davidcorn.bsky.social

321,841 followers, 385 follows, 3,763 posts

Registered:4 May 2023 13:55

Follow date:24 Sep 2025 14:22

Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. MSNBC commentator. Author of AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS and other NYT bestsellers. On Signal: DavidCorn.99

Internet Archive Europe

@internetarchive.eu

1,811 followers, 536 follows, 158 posts

Registered:29 Jan 2025 20:22

Follow date:21 Sep 2025 12:14

Internet Archive Europe, a Dutch non-profit research library, is building collections and tools to bring them to life. Working with libraries, museums, and archives, we share these tools and collections to further everyone’s services.

Sarah Lazare

@sarahlazare.bsky.social

6,788 followers, 126 follows, 797 posts

Registered:24 Jul 2023 16:22

Follow date:14 Sep 2025 19:04

Editor of Workday Magazine, formerly In These Times.

Rachel Cohen Booth

@rcobooth.bsky.social

16,906 followers, 611 follows, 929 posts

Registered:3 May 2023 02:53

Follow date:6 Sep 2025 17:02

Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy trying to prod productively

rickkogan.bsky.social

@rickkogan.bsky.social

95 followers, 25 follows, 164 posts

Registered:26 Nov 2024 17:04

Follow date:5 Sep 2025 16:40

Mike Nowak

@mikenowak.bsky.social

210 followers, 228 follows, 83 posts

Registered:13 Nov 2024 01:56

Follow date:2 Sep 2025 21:39

Sometime radio host, environmentalist and gardener, award-winning actor, director and writer, and fervent believer in treating people fairly. More at https://mikenowak.net

Jay Rosen

@jayrosen.bsky.social

229,057 followers, 635 follows, 3,989 posts

Registered:15 May 2023 21:42

Follow date:2 Sep 2025 11:21

Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)

Ron Sexsmith

@ronsexsmith.bsky.social

14,391 followers, 7,750 follows, 10,459 posts

Registered:20 Sep 2023 15:54

Follow date:20 Aug 2025 13:54

Canadian singer/songwriter. 3 time Juno winner Former kid detective. Idiot savant without the savant part. Dad. Lawn mower

Asha Rangappa verified

@asharangappa.bsky.social

340,314 followers, 347 follows, 2,299 posts

Registered:5 Jul 2023 17:23

Follow date:17 Aug 2025 01:54

Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine. https://asharangappa.substack....

Barry Butler Photography

@barrybutler9.bsky.social

23,627 followers, 4 follows, 1,175 posts

Registered:13 Aug 2023 12:33

Follow date:21 Jul 2025 19:13

Professional landscape photographer focused on Chicago and Ireland. My website is BarryButlerPhotography.com for prints, books and calendars.

Cheri Jacobus verified

@cherijacobus.bsky.social

130,570 followers, 2,176 follows, 4,833 posts

Registered:30 Apr 2023 21:46

Follow date:11 Jul 2025 23:32

Ex-GOP, political/PR strategist, EP “America Reads The Mueller Report”, writer, pundit, podcast "Politics With Cheri Jacobus" https://www.patreon.com/Politi... YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Polit...

Edwin Eisendrath

@eisendrath.net

9,519 followers, 957 follows, 705 posts

Registered:19 Oct 2024 15:01

Follow date:11 Jul 2025 17:22

It's the Democracy, Stupid. Radio: WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social Video podcast: @lincolnsquare.media Substack: https://edwineisendrath.substa... Long ago: Chicago schoolteacher, alderman, CEO Chicago Sun Times, etc.

ICEBlock Official

@iceblock.app

4,912 followers, 11 follows, 113 posts

Registered:17 Apr 2025 19:55

Follow date:1 Jul 2025 21:29

See Something, Tap Something 💯 Free - 💯 Anonymous Install today to protect yourself and your community https://www.iceblock.app Available exclusively for the iPhone on the iOS App Store

Samara Hunt

@sahuntbooks.com

4,735 followers, 3,895 follows, 7,466 posts

Registered:29 Jul 2023 22:57

Follow date:22 Jun 2025 18:24

She/her • Dark Fantasy Author • Gunslinger • Veteran (Combat MP) Malus Domestica series: https://us.macmillan.com/books... Patreon serial! Malus 4 & space novel https://patreon.com/sahuntbook... 📚💙 #transauthor

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH

@lcrw.bsky.social

17,915 followers, 272 follows, 2,113 posts

Registered:13 May 2023 03:44

Follow date:19 Jun 2025 22:34

Coverin' extremism PODCAST: http://bit.ly/3BGThEI NEWS TIPS: leftcoastrightwatch@Proton.me PATREON: http://patreon.com/lcrw DONATE: http://cash.me/$LCRW

Matt Zoller Seitz

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

81,790 followers, 3,802 follows, 11,419 posts

Registered:14 May 2023 03:10

Follow date:19 Jun 2025 22:27

Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man

unraveled

@unraveledpress.com

53,309 followers, 1,501 follows, 5,841 posts

Registered:13 May 2023 18:55

Follow date:5 Jun 2025 21:01

Independent, reader supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence. Occasionally: hate movements and conspiracism. Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/ 📧 info@unraveledpress.com 📱 Signal: unraveled.66

Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary)

@mosermostly.bsky.social

824 followers, 1,388 follows, 2,684 posts

Registered:13 Aug 2023 21:58

Follow date:5 Jun 2025 00:23

I love good books and bad movies. Trying to raise healthy and kind humans on the South side. Overrun by pets and projects. (she /her) Free Palestine.

Justin Baragona verified

@justinbaragona.bsky.social

82,702 followers, 2,035 follows, 4,958 posts

Registered:27 Apr 2023 14:40

Follow date:3 Jun 2025 01:36

Ragebait author at Zeteo Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast. Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85

Robert Falls

@robertfalls.bsky.social

2,940 followers, 521 follows, 1,810 posts

Registered:12 Oct 2023 18:54

Follow date:29 Apr 2025 19:32

Former director of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre; opinionated cultural commentator; husband of fab novelist Kat Falls. Often posts pet pics to boost followers.

Jen Bendery verified