Schoeppner @schoeppner.bsky.social Avant-garde curmudgeon. Historian of race and migration in 19thC US. Writing a book about the invention of illegal immigration.
Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Political Scientist, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Rural Politics and Health Disparities.
Website: https://www.michaeleshepherd.com
Book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo271447648.html
Heavy Table @heavytable.com An in-depth weekly culinary newsletter covering the Upper Midwest since 2009. Back us on Substack (https://heavytable.substack.com) to start getting the Tap, Churn, Hearth, and Tulip and Schooner.
James Norton @jrnorton.bsky.social Editor of Heavy Table (@heavytable.com), author of Lake Superior Flavors, generally in pursuit of tacos.
Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social Co-founder & Executive Director, Court Accountability. Contributor, MeidasTouch Legal AF.
Former U.S. Senate/Justice Department. Views my own.
https://courtaccountability.substack.com/
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social Ask not for whom the point is missed. It is missed for thee.
KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social KARE 11 News, kare11.com and the KARE 11 app are the places to go for all your news, weather, sports and traffic. Part of #teamTEGNA
David Brauer @dbrauer.net Former journalist, long-time Minneapolitan, curator of Uptown’s borders and chief rememberer, Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Amplifier & participant in the Minnesota Resistance.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social Good Politics/Bad Politics - Subscribe! https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/ Also I root for the Giants. The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024.
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Jason Esteves @jasonesteves.bsky.social State Senator. Small business owner. Former teacher. Dad.
Running for governor to build a better Georgia. 
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
@nanagyamfi.bsky.social @nanagyamfi.bsky.social 
The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social Located at Howard University School of Law, the 14th Amendment Center on Law and Democracy is a multi-disciplinary institute dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of the 14th Amendment on American democracy. www.14thamendmentctr.org
Karen Zraick @karenzraick.bsky.social Reporting on climate & environment legal affairs @nytimes.com, member @amejaglobal.bsky.social, neglectful gardener
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/ 
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social Contributor @the-downballot.com.
Elections, voting rights, redistricting, and maps.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
What's GoodmⒶn? @goodmanwrites.bsky.social Often writing about: History | Satanic Panic | Anti-Authoritarianism | Solidarity | Extremism | Anecdotes that spark hope | русский язык | Fantasy | Horror | Music | He/They
https://whatsgoodman.substack.com/
Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social Shut up! I am too a floozy. 
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
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
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com Environment reporter @NewScientist.com | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now winner 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🚫🐄 | icemushroom.substack.com ✉️
Brandon Roberts @bxroberts.org Investigative journalist. News Apps Developer at @ProPublica.org. Occasional AI/ML researcher. Using data+code to hold power to account.
Web: https://bxroberts.org
Signal: brandonrobertz.01
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
David Nir @davidnir.com Publisher, @the-downballot.com. davidnir (at) the-downballot (dot) com
Our site: https://the-downballot.com
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, search engine maven (https://udm14.com). Just launched https://boxed.news.
See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/
“Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles
Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com Managing editor of http://wonkette.com, executive editor/proprietor of The Moral High Ground (SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://evanhurst.substack.com)
Political analyst and comedy yeller, with some table-flipping ex-vangelical cussing thrown in.
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com Cat photos and opinions
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Covie @covie93.bsky.social 
Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Fed Up: A History of Why You're So Stressed About What to Feed the Kids by Carla Cevasco (Spring 27, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (2/27, RHPG)
Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social Mom. Fighter + Community Leader
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
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.
N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social Romance writer • delightfully subversive • mental health advocate • spoonie • gen-x • debut ami • fan of: tea, Rush, BTS, kpop, knitting, Vancouver Canucks, Leverage, kindness, HEAs • she/her• 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/nrlines
Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social Fiction writer; AuDHD-er; full-time Minnesotan; part-time misanthrope; scantily clad heroine. She/they. Abolish and prosecute ICE.
Barrett Brown @barrettbrownlol.bsky.social He loves games? Let him play for stakes.
BarrettBrown@protonmail.com
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Just trying to do a little more painting when not gardening. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. 🚫AI
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
@jim0novak.bsky.social @jim0novak.bsky.social Cosmopolitan. Deep state operative.
Colorado.
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, commentator, philosopher, podcaster and poet; I like soccer & literature too....AV Editor & Contributing Editor for @LiberalCurrents.com & contributing writer all over.
Signal: TRN.42
https://linktr.ee/T.Richard.Nelson
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
@democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org Democracy Defenders Fund is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to stopping democratic backsliding and restoring American democracy. democracydefendersfund.org
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Soren Stevenson - Minneapolis Ward 8 @ward8.minneapolismn.gov Soren Stevenson represents Ward 8 on the Minneapolis City Council.
https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/city-council/members/ward-8/
California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org Fast food workers organizing for racial and economic justice in the industry and to rewrite the rules.
1st statewide Fast Food Council and $20/hr for fast food workers.
#UnionsForAll
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Tim Buktu @mntimbuktu.bsky.social Disabled Artist and Father. AudHD. I draw and play video-games. TimBuktuDraws.com
Mike Young @micyoung75.bsky.social Gen X from #IN05: Country over corporations. Break monopolies. Ban junk fees. End dark money. Same rules for everyone.
https://micyoung75.substack.com/
Support the work: buymeacoffee.com/micyoung75
Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social Rolling Stone/Senior Writer
It's impossible to see
Who I'm waiting for in my raincoat
--Julia Holter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JgMniIpRM&list=RDX2JgMniIpRM&start_radio=1
State Futures @state-futures.bsky.social Building state capacity to govern boldly in the public interest.
https://www.statefutures.org/
Gaby Goldstein @gabygoldstein.bsky.social Founder, State Futures. Building power in the states. Lawyer + health policy PhD. Thinking/reading/writing about federalism, state politics, and regulation in the public interest.
statefutures.org
Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com Editor in chief of @allrisenews.com. Fearless journalism about the law, your rights, and your powers to effect change during the Trump era. www.allrisenews.com/
Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social Retired Lawyer, cook, Europhile, books, music, good conversations, gardens, walking. Bird site refugee 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist!
And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
Trevor, Westley and 🌈Bueller🌈 @buellerl.bsky.social A Lakeland terrier from Washington D.C. Metro area🇺🇲 & fur bro Trevor. I love sports, squeaky toys, and chasing birdies! It's mostly our Mom running this account who's a reader, music lover, and democrat with a communications degree.
Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it.
Let me know how you are and how I can help.
https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
NC Girl 🐳🌊 @ncgirl-voteblue.bsky.social Live a good life and be a good human 💕💙🫶 🇺🇸🌊🌎🏳️🌈🇺🇦🦋
Save democracy, vote blue 💙🦋
Go Chiefs 🥳 🏈 🫶
No DM’s please
Collin S @cseguin03.bsky.social Dad with terrible dad jokes, lawyer, insurance professional, eats lots of good food. He/Him
Treat people right and you’ll never go wrong.
Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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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!
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is We are an autonomous group of anti-fascist researchers dedicated to providing communities from the Rockies to the Pacific with research and tools to protect themselves from fascism in all its forms.
https://pacantifa.is/
Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social He/him. Southsider LGBTQ+ Latino 🏳️🌈. Minneapolis City Council Member for the 9th Ward. Views are my own.
Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov Senior U.S. Senator from MN | Snow enthusiast ❄️
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Noah Dahl @noahdahl.bsky.social Self-deprecating handle (say it a few times fast). Pro-democracy. Focused on SCOTUS and the federal judiciary, but not exclusively so. Relentlessly cynical. Sometime semi-serious collector of inexpensive first editions.
Nancy Lacore @nancylacore.bsky.social Nancy Lacore is a mom of six, Navy vet, and retired Rear Admiral running for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st District.
nancylacore.com
Afton Indivisible @aftonindivisible.org Afton Indivisible is a progressive grassroots organization in Afton, Minnesota.
With democracy under threat, we're united in defense of our rights, our communities, and our values.
https://aftonindivisible.org
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans. https://bio.site/gregolear
Don Hughes @donaldhughes.ca AKA getfiscal.
https://linktr.ee/donhughes
Susie Hd @sohayward.bsky.social Religion, violence, & peace scholar-activist. Minneapolis-based justice organizer and UCC pastor. Formerly with US Institute of Peace, Harvard Divinity School. Views mine but I share.
floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Minneapolis to be born?
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls.