Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
@rogueturdlette.bsky.social @rogueturdlette.bsky.social 
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Beks @justatiredlawyer.bsky.social Public Defender, kitchen witch (sort of), and general nuisance to society
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social Turning your kids into rock stars, chasing the northern lights and exploring Minnesota. I dig music, guitars, ukulele and stargazing.
📸🎸🔭
St. Paul/Minneapolis/North Shore
ms. maas @msmaas.bsky.social writer, editor, community builder, cat lady 🌺🐈🐈⬛
lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social I’m not here to post my THOUGHTS. I’m not here to share IDEAS. I’m here to post PICTURES OF MUSHROOMS and BE AN IDIOT
Get your mushie-mail! > cheerful letters filled with mushroom-themed stickers, news, and more! Patreon.com/luke_venechuk
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
shiftedshaped - emily mae @shiftedshaped.bsky.social Funeral Director/Mortician/Undertaker
Deep grief with ritual of radical gratitude.
Adam Greenwald @greenwald.bsky.social 🎸🎶📸🎥🎙💥🤘🏻
minneapolis, mn
it’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social the only higher power i answer to is the minnesota board of social work//mpls forever
Malik @thediscostew.bsky.social Minnesota. Hotdish socialism proponent. I’m designer.
#HigherEd
Tom Stoyton @tomstoyton.bsky.social Minneapolis, cat enthusiast, hates strong mayors and zionism, loves lake of the isles
Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social managing editor at The City Reporter (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • tell me something good: rsmith@thecityreporter.nyc // @rachelholliday.77 on Signal
📍 queens / fun hell
Debordekai Tenkaichi @detournementarc.bsky.social TTRPG Nerd, Anime Nostalgist, Socialist. The Most Boymoded Failwoman In The Midwest. They/Them.
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.
Fulton MPLS Dad @fultonmplsdad.bsky.social Minneapolis. Bikes, Parks, Schools, Data. Iowa State. UMN Humphrey School of Public Policy. 
Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social Minnesota rep, matka, art person, tree person.
she//her
Melody Hoffmann @phmelody.bsky.social Your friendly neighbor and community reporter. Currently at North News and Southwest Voices. I also cosplay as a weather reporter.
CONTACT: melody.hoffmann@gmail.com and on Signal @phmelody.143
she/her, Minneapolis, Midwest
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
cb @sowhereareyou.bsky.social 
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
SleepyNeutrons @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social Former Navy nuke & Senior Reactor Operator.
Proud father of a trans kid.
Blog at sleepyneutrons.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
quick13 @quick13.bsky.social Same quick13 you know from the other place. Salesforce consultant, Organic Gardener, Dual Citizen, professional pedestrian, Eldercaregiver, Dead Varmint Removal Specialist. Supposedly Elder.
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social musician, arts administrator; Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
"Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social East Bank, Minneapolis.
Former long-time MN legislative and state government staffer. I take pictures.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
TeeHee Lawrence @velvetwaterfront.bsky.social A thirty-something tech professional trying their best in Minneapolis. I watch movies, cook, and play GAA
Apricot S1 of 4 @earlapricot.bsky.social Biking, walking, gardening, exploring, staying curious, and raising 3 cats in Minneapolis with my partner. 🌱🚲🌊🌸😻🐾❄️🪻💻🌃🚎
Pearl Rose @pearlrose.bsky.social comedian • writer • advice columnist @ Racket MN // Minneapolis, MN // she/her
zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social reporter @startribune.com and midwest princess
✉️ tips: zoe.jackson@startribune.com
Offbrand Ken From B*rbie @sdrockcab.bsky.social Minneapolis. Your friendly local goth cowboy, now shitposting in the classic Twitter flavor and a brand new bluesky flavor
Kyle Nelson @kylenelson.bsky.social Twin Cities photo/design guy | clueless oaf | he/him
fotoapparatchik.com
Laura J. @lauraaah.bsky.social They/She. Abolitionist.
Michael @aband0nedmilk.bsky.social |They/it| |23|
|Great Lakes sailor / shitbox owner / mediocre musician / research consultant for Brick Immortar on YouTube|
Chad Owen @chadowen.bsky.social Dad of two. Minneapolis trail enthusiast. Synesthete. Camden High IB Coordinator. Proud Liberal. Sober. Burger snob. History lover. I live with my cat and a few guitars. Walkaholic.
ceo of friendster @mollywidstrom.com northsider
Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social Staunch Reconstructionist. Radical Republican.
cg00d @handle.invalid MN | Living on the right side of history in Tim Walz's America.
Democracy | Aviation | Tech | Rockets | Trees
🇺🇦 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇪🇺
The Tim Caucus @caucustim.bsky.social Two Trigger Timothy, much feared for his prowess in a duel.
Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social Minneapolis resident, polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 blogger, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, AuDHD, grey-ace, 💔 widow, COVID cautious. (she/her)
Ways to contact me or help me: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn ❤️🩹
SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social hosedrinker.
alexinomia @tmdub.bsky.social a more rigorous organizational program prior to computerization should have been done
it’s just my initials but “too much wool” isn’t wrong. Steward of the night mayor’s kegerator. she/her
Michael Wilson @mwilsonmpls.bsky.social Community organizer, democratic socialist, pro-union, passionate about environmental justice.
https://act.dsausa.org/s/3311.R6gRaz
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
fix your hearts or die @garbagefuckusa.bsky.social mpls leftists shitposting
canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social formerly snake, son of plane
voice actor and weird little guy
saint paul, mn
Stromboli Cannon @max1mil.bsky.social I'm my own ex-wife.
Jean P Satriale @dreams44.bsky.social @Dreams44 on X (the everything app)
Ask me about I-94
TCDSA
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Sam @shinaabikwe.bsky.social Anishinaabikwe introvert, late diagnosed neurodivergent, and reluctant matriarch.
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Friend to Dogs @dogsbestfriend.bsky.social St. Paulinator, dog enthusiast, union strong.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Kendal Killian @kedrickillian.bsky.social Executive Director, National Public Pension Coalition.
Labor, government, public pensions, democracy.
I ❤️ public institutions.
Personal account.
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Jen Winston @jenerouss.bsky.social bisexual author with perfect opinions
GREEDY (Atria 2021), a lambda literary award finalist
Dana Schwartz @danaschwartz.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author of ANATOMY and IMMORTALITY. Host of the podcast Noble Blood. TV writer on occasion. 
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
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social Wife of @alysemayequade.bsky.social, mom, reproductive justice advocate, MN State Senator, and John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Winner (along with my Twin Cities neighbors). Reposts aren’t endorsements.
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Kate Knuth @kateknuth.bsky.social Climate, democracy, civic-type things. Rooted in Minnesota and Minneapolis, stretching beyond.
solace @solace.music Simple design with a modern crypto touch
Jordan @eljordy.bsky.social (a bell rings, reminding me of previous times I have posted) these memories are so good… might as well post. it’s my choice.
Darin K @darink.bsky.social 📸Minneapolis based photographer📩darin.kamnetz@gmail.com💻 http://darinkamnetz.com
Barb Abney @barbabney.bsky.social Adoring mom to two grown adults. And Mamaw to my Granddaughter! Radio DJ. Podcast host. Friend. Afghan Whigs and Skyline Chili evangelist.
Derek Johnson @derekjjohnson.bsky.social music lover, liberal, data scientist, community owner Minnesota Aurora FC, Itasca Society Minnesota United FC; find me left of the dial - usually at First Avenue or a soccer match
Lizzie B @lizziebb.bsky.social Here to obsessively discuss podcasts, botanical tattoos, women’s sports, reality TV dating shows, T Swift, dahlias, books, and dogs. I <3 Minnesota. Board member, MN Aurora FC ✨✨
claire de lune @clairempls.bsky.social i sing songs @ tiny deaths
and write about the nba @ the guardian
los angeles, ca
baby fish mouth 🌈✨ @bluebonnetsclues.bsky.social sweeping the nation
(they/them, call me Blue)
Ron de Beaulieu @rondebeaulieu.bsky.social Minneapolitan
M.A. history
PhD sociology
86'd from Palmer's
Author of Minnesota's Most Notorious Mobster: The Making and Breaking of Kid Cann (https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/9781467158930)
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Moe @verdantwonder.bsky.social Parent, queer, nature nerd, cottage baker, avid reader, hobby collector, terrible gamer, AuDHD, chronically ill and chronically silly. Always learning. MN is home. No AI, kthxbye
Nina Moini @ninamoini.bsky.social Host of Minnesota Now on MPR News.
@stuffaboutmpls.bsky.social @stuffaboutmpls.bsky.social 
steve seel @steveseel.bsky.social Radio person, maker of boring musical noises
dismantlists.com
yourclassical.org
The Current @thecurrent.org 
First Avenue @first-avenue.com The legendary concert venue in Minneapolis, MN. Your Downtown Danceteria Since 1970 🪩 ⭐️ FAQs → http://first-avenue.com/about/faq/
randall "tex" boggs @cinatyte.bsky.social natural juice mainstream dad // radio host // 🐺🦐 // he/him // all opinions are my own
Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social Librarian. Side hustle: Producer & host of What We're Reading on KAXE / KBXE https://www.kaxe.org/show/what-were-reading
Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social (he/him they/them)
Local Award Winning Bike Nerd
Architecture. Accessible Design. Nature. Food. Building a Better System.
Professional Bicycle Propagandist @bikemn.bsky.social
Co-Chair @streets.mn
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