Mike Varak
Anti-filatelist, armchair enthusiast and shallow font of warmed-over and under-considered opinions. Chicago over everything.
@asharangappa.bsky.social
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.com
@dhgscholar.bsky.social
Fine Art Photographer. Dog Lover. Scholar. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/douglashitch-graves photographybydouglashitchgraves.tumblr.com
@gwensnyder.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member. She/they.
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@psalmone.bsky.social
Global hip hop treasure. I write raps and books and I don’t know what’s going on anymore, but we move. I write ALOT. I cook too. Check the links 🔥 ✍🏾 https://lnk.bio/Psalm_One
@hollohulo.bsky.social
Editor in chief at the Chicago Reader | she/her or they/them | 📨 scollojulin@chicagoreader.com | https://linktr.ee/hollohulo https://chicagoreader.com/
@yasminzacaria.bsky.social
Dramaturg & Journo • they/she • 🇮🇷 🏳🌈 • 🎭 Prof • 💼 Digital @ City Bureau ✍🏽 Chicago Reader, TeenVogue, AmericanTheatre, MethuenDrama etc. (more active on IG)
@kerryreid.bsky.social
Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .
@pmontoro.bsky.social
Chicago Reader music editor and union cochair, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.39 he/him/y'all pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
@juggaloreporter.bsky.social
✾ journalist! freak! ✹ I work at the Chicago Reader ☻ mcaporale@chicagoreader.com ❁ signal: juggaloreporter.69 ✾ https://linktr.ee/juggaloreporter
@katieprout.bsky.social
features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history. proud member, Reader Union kprout@chicagoreader.com https://www.katieprout.com/
@dansinker.com
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
@mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social
Droppin' mics then bringin' them to be fixed 'cause I'm nice and whatnot. Look for "Clean Slate" on Prime Video February 6th.
@sulliview.bsky.social
Columnist at GuardianUS. Thinking/teaching at Columbia J School. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack)
@countryuniverse.bsky.social
The longest-running country music blog (f. 08.2004). www.countryuniverse.net
@simonwdc.bsky.social
Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight. My primary political home is on Substack. Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@imgarysuarez.bsky.social
just another guy on the i.r.t. CABBAGES is a hip-hop newsletter + rapper movie podcast: https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/
@milesmacclure.bsky.social
writer + journalist, former artist, microplastics enthusiast, chicago resident
@andymascola.bsky.social
husband, father, novelist, host of PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY (@peoplertheenemy.bsky.social), and senior writer for Surviving the Golden Age about.me/AndyMascola
@nomads.bsky.social
We are nomadic warriors united by one dream -- anointing JB Pritzker the Khagan of America
@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
@gerardcosloy.bsky.social
@lolgop.bsky.social
Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids. Find a protest you can join or an action you can start now https://www.reddit.com/r/onethingtodo/ THE FARCE covers American fascism and the mass mobilization against it https://www.thefarce.org/
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@deanvannguyen.bsky.social
Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
@bigugly.bsky.social
water-based sweetheart | pgh city planner by day, indie rock skeptic all other hours citiesbacklines.substack.com
@elienis.bsky.social
Writing a big book about shoegaze. Podcaster at @endlessscroll.bsky.social & Violent Treatment. Bylines at Stereogum, Billboard, Rolling Stone, etc. Former editor at Revolver Magazine. Subscribe to my newsletter: elienis.com
@dbanthony.bsky.social
Current thing: https://formerclarity.com/ Old things: Music Editor at The A.V. Club, The Shape of Punk column at Noisey, bylines at a bunch of other places, No Plus Ones and As You Were podcasts
@naterogers.bsky.social
bylines @ LAT, NYT, Ringer, Stereogum, etc. how about ratt, how about ratt https://www.naterogers.work/writing
@sotoalfred.bsky.social
I write things. Pitchfork. Stereogum. SPIN. Vice Chair of https://bsky.app/profile/floridafilmcritics.bsky.social Space and light and dreams That's what people need.
@andrewdsacher.bsky.social
editor at @brooklynvegan.bsky.social author at EMO REVIVAL, coming 2026 via @clashbooks.bsky.social https://andrewsacher.com/
@kearse.bsky.social
Journalist, critic, and author of novels Liquid Snakes and In the Heat of the Light. Noreasontopretend.com
@marissarmoss.bsky.social
Journalist, mom, Nashvillian, etc. Wrote a book called HER COUNTRY for Holt. Writing one now for Hachette called I'VE BEEN A BAD, BAD GIRL. Don’t Rock The Inbox on substack: https://www.dontrocktheinbox.com
@horsejeans.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, DJ, music dork, transsexual loudmouth ~ Indieheads podcast ~ she / her