Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Texas Congressman. Democrat. Born, raised and represent San Antonio.
Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) + Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC).
Marc Wood @imarcmn.bsky.social It’s Record Store Day somewhere
📍NE Mpls.
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
September Shaun ♍🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social "Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her acceptance is the way we pay" Minneapolis devotion/rage, managing editor for hire and all things word-adjacent, musician and music lover, libertine papist. she/her
kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social guy on the internet 🫡 / twitch.tv/linktothepabst
current stream(s):
CONTROL RESONANT (9/24)
upcoming:
ACE COMBAT 8
paused:
FINAL FANTASY X
https://x.com/airbagged
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
Seinfeldism @seinfeldism.bsky.social For the love of Seinfeld. Meant to add a smile to your day. #Seinfeld #Seinfeldism
Radio K Playlist @radiok-playlist.bsky.social Listen in the Twin Cities at 770 AM / 100.7 FM / 104.5 FM
Stream online at: https://radiok.org
Nick Benson @ottergoose.net Currently: hyper-fixated on the aviation angle of ICE’s mass detention apparatus.
Generally: nerding out over geography, weather, politics, and photography of Minnesota's railroad and aviation scene. Chief AvGeek at @JetTip.net.
📍 Burnsville, Minnesota
Katie Cashman @katiecashman.bsky.social 🌻 Former Minneapolis City Council Member • Climate champion • Community advocate • Pro-housing • Pro-transit • Pro-worker • VOTE LOCAL
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
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
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Witch-King @astijl.bsky.social ☁️🗡️ more fuel
ash teal, she/her
Minneapolis, obviously
madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social reporter @ minnesota reformer covering immigration and more. posting about sports sometimes too. texan in st. paul. eng/esp
Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! They/them or other neutral pronouns are preferred. All my current and previous work is on my site: https://linktr.ee/aerialembroidery
Ali D. @aliinmpls.bsky.social She/Her/Hers | AuDHD | Artist | Meme Queen | Fashionista | Cat Lady | West Coast Swing Enthusiast |Chaotic Bisexual | Leftist | Free Palestine | Protect Trans Kids |
charlie @charliestdennis.bsky.social student / community organizer / crop artist / stp born and bred / watch women’s sports / avid runner / hot sauce enthusiast / you get what you organize for / views my own / he/him
Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahongwi.bsky.social State Representative. Single mom. Restaurant worker. Fighter for the working class. Candidate for WI Governor.
franhong.com/gotv
Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social Vegan realtor at @pentzhomes.bsky.social | soccer fan MN Aurora, MNUFC, Lynx, Timberwolves, ManCity | Aeropress Evangelist | he/him | North Minneapolis
claudia ✨ @claudiiiii.bsky.social 305 girlie mostly talking movies/tv, basketball, and general nonsense ✌🏼
she/her
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Jennifer Davis @jenniferdavisart.bsky.social Making Paintings, Murals, Illustrations, and Pet Portraits in Minneapolis, MN
Learning to navigate life with MS
www.JenniferDavisArt.com
ash 🏳️⚧️ @rollingfor20.bsky.social loud and annoying on the internet. little guy leftist. paralegal. 23. he/him. minneapolis.
posts are my own and are not representative of my employer!
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social Audience @startribune.com. Journalism utility player. I write Nuggets, our free weekly newsletter about legal cannabis in Minnesota. Sign up here >> startribune.com/nuggets
Send me tips via Signal: mattdelong.01
Turbo Tim's @turbotims.bsky.social The Twin Cities' favorite auto repair shop! Cars! Cats! Community!
MarniOpe! 🤬🧊 @silentmachine.bsky.social I have opinions and know stuff. Minneapolis enby witch with a pain disorder and cats. In my previous life I was a forensic psychologist. Now I garden and spread love to counteract my inner angst. I *will* call you "love."
When I die, I will be released.
Jay Gabler @jaygabler.com The Local: Twin Cities newsletter co-host at The New York Times. Formerly associated with Duluth News Tribune, The Current, City Pages. Views expressed are mine alone.
Lauren in Saint Paul @comobelladonna.bsky.social Paul Wellstone was right.
I talk a lot about homelessness and hockey.
The chickadee should be our state bird.
Terminal reply guy :/ Sry
OPINIONS ARE MY OWN
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
amityf @amityf.bsky.social She/her. public transit user, cat lover, ISAIAH/FiMN Data. "Intimidating", according to men. amityf elsewhere
How to join Minneapolis and St. Paul thread: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
♡ @jenessa.bsky.social 
Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.
PFP alt text: a pale woman with red hair sips from a straw in a cup. Her hair is in a high side pony, and she’s wearing goldy gopher sunglasses.
aly eleanor @purityolympics.bsky.social sounds and words and the occasional rodent
https://purityolympics.bandcamp.com
Ben Hovland @benjovland.bsky.social Photos, bikes, news.
Visual journalist at @mprnews.org
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
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.
Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com Southside Senator, husband, father, renter, son of Somali immigrants, long-time advocate for working people. fatehfor62.com
Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social He/him. Southsider LGBTQ+ Latino 🏳️🌈. Minneapolis City Council Member for the 9th Ward. Views are my own.
greta theft autumn @2007warpedtour.bsky.social a powerful rat named charles entertainment cheese
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com Musician, Writer, Designer—Shitposter. She/her.
https://nissamitchell.com/links/
Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social Probably on my bike.
max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social professionally nosy. reporter at @minnesotareformer.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh).
The Original Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social DJ
Daily celebrations of 70s/80s/90s/glam/punk/postpunk/darkwave/newwave/synthpop/dreampop/shoegaze/indie
More active at https://www.instagram.com/jakerudh
Weekly gigs http://twitch.tv/djjakerudh
Bio: https://first-avenue.com/performer/dj-jake-rudh/
Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social The people, places, and sounds of music in Minneapolis, generally prior to 2000.
Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com Parent & safe streets advocate 🚲🚶🏻🚌
Founder of the @mcbl.bike
League Certified Cycling Instructor
Minneapolis, MN
lauragmitchell.com
Jene @luckymud.myatproto.social They/them
Nonbinary, autistic, disabled, and queer.
2026 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2026 John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award winner
Minneapolis❤️🔥
#ThingThursday
Pop Crave @popcrave.com Craving Pop Culture.
Bob Mould @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social 
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Lady Christy @ladychristyk.bsky.social Northeast Minneapolitan. 🍒🥄Bibliophile.📚 Shameless nerd. 👓 Plant Lady. 🌱👩🏻🌾
TTRPG & Board game enthusiast. 🎲♟️
Avid Baker. 🥧 Cat-Mom.🐱🐱 She/Her.🖤
Bob Mehr @bobmehr.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author, 'Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.' 2X Grammy winner (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Dead Man's Pop). Reissue producer. Words for NYT, MOJO, Gannett.
Jessica Armbruster, editor at Racket @hamatron3000.bsky.social Big hamster energy here. You might know me as Jessica Armbruster: founding editor at @RacketMN and City Pages’ last arts editor.
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.
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
Rachel Brodsky @rachelbrods.bsky.social Music & Culture Writer/Editor. Words: TIME, Stereogum, LA Times, Rolling Stone, more. Copywriting for DISCO.ac. Co-host of TheInSyncPod 🎧 Say hi: Rebrods26@gmail.com
https://authory.com/RachelBrodsky
Chris Riemenschneider @chrisrstrib.bsky.social Minnesota Star Tribune music scribe
Ryan Schreiber @ryanschreiberfm.bsky.social The artist formerly known as @ryanpitchfork
Author of WEIRD ERA (Dec 1 via @fsgbooks)
Resident DJ @thelotradio
Writing at ethernet.fm
Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Christin With Minneapolis @christin-with-mpls.bsky.social christincrabtree.com
linktr.ee/ChristinWithMinneapolis
🌸ayana🌸 @ayanajsk.bsky.social • Legislative Assistant
• Minneapolis DFL Chair
• Communications Director
https://linktr.ee/ayanajsk
📍Minneapolis
she/her | my views do not reflect those of my employer
"People don't live their lives through statistics." - Zohran Mamdani
Electric Fetus @electricfetusmpls.bsky.social Minneapolis, Minnesota record store and purveyor of unique gifts for 58 years. Open 10-6 Tues-Sat and 11-6 Sun (closed Mon) 💜
www.electricfetus.com
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Pop Base @popbase.tv Pop Base is your best source for all pop culture related entertainment, news, award show coverage, chart updates, statistics and more. | email@popbase.tv
Christin 🦀, Ward 9 baddie @christin612.bsky.social Mom. Organizer. Opinions are my own. People over Property | Hope is a practice. The best work is done together. #metoo repost ≠ endorsement
City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov Official Bluesky for the City of Minneapolis.
https://www.minneapolismn.gov
Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social Minneapolis urbanist, St Paul enthusiast, purveyor of Midwest Exceptionalism™, called "an amateur historian" by Fox News. 📍Both Cities, MN 🏳️🌈
Trains and train adjacent things: https://youtube.com/@vincempls
Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social A Boston transplant turned longtime City Hall/urban news reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota (twincities.com) but my true claim to fame is I wrote this 3-part comic book: https://fredmelosupervillains.thecomicseries.com
Electric Wall Honey @missususs.bsky.social First law of thermodynamics. Trading in arcane knowledge. Minneapolis is home.
“All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica.”
- Gary K. Wolf
👻Kennedy reads spooky books @kennedy-reading.bsky.social She/her. Will talk to you about books & food.
St. Paul MN
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
Ross Raihala (Alpha Male) 🌈 @rossraihala.bsky.social Pop music critic at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. All shade very necessary. Former dancer at the Grind. World weary, cynical arbiter of taste. Proud Union member. Gen X. It's pronounced Ray-la.
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
kat @katlovesthemoon.bsky.social I like to make art and look at art. Show me your art.
27
Mpls
Trying my best
Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun “see hyphen saw dot fun,” he/they
punk + rock’n’roll newsletter: https://see-saw.fun/
🎙️ punk this week: https://see-saw.fun/tag/podcast/
🎙️ see/saw radio: https://see-saw.fun/see-saw-radio/
✍️ rolling stone, p4k, hearing things, nyt, npr, creem
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Carin @mrotzie.bsky.social Aquarius. MPLS. Dance 10, Looks 3.
Beer Battered Cheese Curds @beercheese.bsky.social One pissed off old punk postal worker. Anti-authoritarian. Anti-fascist. Southside MPLS. Him/They. Pan. Pro Godzilla.
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
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
Support us: unraveledpress.com/support-unraveled/
📧 info@unraveledpress.com
📱 Signal: unraveled.66
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
Sean Lim @seanlimmn.bsky.social Community Organizing, Movement Art, and Mutual Aid
Legislative Aide, @jenmcewen.bsky.social
Campaign Manager, @OmarFatehMN.com
Board, @ourstreetsmn.org
Advisor, @epni-urbanfarm.bsky.social
Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social Husband, Dad, and Minnesota State Senator District 60. He/Him
We stand up for our neighbors.
Learn more: www.doronforsenate.org
Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org Minneapolis City Council President. He/Him
Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social Umbraphile. Vaccine enthusiast. Mpls. Interested in police abolition, immigrants rights, MPS and mutual aid.
She/her.
Trans rights are human rights.
Xer Mom to 2.
Free Palestine.
Bluesky joiner #442,075
Canadian.
Posting my way through it.
star @foundbysara.bsky.social Minneapolis.
a zine can be anything and anyone can make a zine 🏳️⚧️ ♿