Mike Norton @mikenorton.org Disgraced Former Vice Chair Minneapolis DFL. Founder of a Tekne & Fast 50 (x2) awarded logistics company. Co-founder BajaOntario. Mpls gadfly. See my frunk in the WSJ. Autistic.
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
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
Star Tribune Going Out @stribgoingout.startribune.com We are Going Out, the Minnesota Star Tribune's guide to the best food, drink, concerts, theater and culture 🕺 we have fun here
Minneapolis Foundation @mplsfoundation.bsky.social Driving collective action to realize strong, vibrant communities.
Visit Lake Street @visitlakestreet.com You already love Lake Street, but let us tell you why it's even better than you thought! #Lakeof10KLands #VisitLakeStreet #LakeStreetLift
Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social reader, writer, translator. PhD French. I like running, gardening, baking, and outdoorsy stuff. I live in Minneapolis.
liaswopemitchell.com
Jimmy Lonetti @djgloverepair.bsky.social Expert baseball glove repair and quality used gloves (gallons of style)
https://www.djgloverepair.com/
Paul C. @clrksn.com Mediocre amateur bass player. Dog dad, cat servant. Generation Jones. John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® winner. Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA.
Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live The Wedge's News Leader | Tips: newsroom@wedgelive.com | signal: wedgelive.33
Support hyperlocal news: patreon.com/wedgelive
Walkin’ Around Checkin’ Stuff Out. @wacso.bsky.social WACSO stands for Walkin’ Around Checkin’ Stuff Out and these are the drawings I make when I’m walkin’ around.
wacso.substack.com
Litterbox Comics @litterboxcomics.com It's weird being a parent. Here's a comic about it -except everyone is animals, because I hate drawing people.
https://lnk.bio/LitterboxComics
Brooke @proptartmn.bsky.social Mpls/StP. Cats. Cartoons. Soccer. Social. Disney. Books. Games. Theatre. Whimsy. Weird snacks. she/they
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
Jessie Sholl @jessie-sholl.bsky.social Freelance editor, creative writing faculty at The New School and The Loft Literary Center. Animal enthusiast. Minneapolis. She/her
Zachary Johnson is not ok @zachstronaut.com Game and Network coder for @StageFrightGame.bsky.social by Ghost Town Games. Director of Joggernauts by @spacemacegames.com. Minneapolis creative dev (he/him). Not okay.
Cat selfie enthusiast.
Visit: zachstronaut.com
@longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social 
Steve Subera @stevesubera.bsky.social St. Paul resident. I can cook (literally, not figuratively).
Eli Radtke @eliradtke17.bsky.social Nocturnal. Cat dad. Writer.
Jeanne Lakso @jeannelakso.bsky.social Food, books, my front porch and the view from elsewhere. Car-free transit fan, music listener, pastry lover. Seeker of the ultimate biscuits and gravy. Writer, meditator. Diversity is strength.
Woodenmask @woodenmask.bsky.social Father, writer, flea-market enthusiast
@louisgarcia12.bsky.social @louisgarcia12.bsky.social Helm Tulip and Schooner at Heavy Table. Freelance work in craft beer, video games, futbol. Usually photographing wild animals. 
M.C. Cronin @mccronin.bsky.social Agency founder, creative, strategist, contributing writer, thinker/doer, bumbling father, happy stoic, idea lover, enemy of bullshit, ally of truth and caffeine and dark bars.
David Schoppik @schoppik.com Studying how balance develops, functions, and fails at NYU Langone. http://www.schoppiklab.com .
"And worse I may be yet: the worst is not so long as we can say, 'This is the worst.’” -- King Lear (Act IV Scene I)
Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social (all pronouns welcome, but please don’t ma’am me)
Disarmingly earnest independent sociology editor. pagesmithing.com
@contexts.org
@standuprecords.bsky.social
Gingersnap Jess Baking @gingersnapjess.bsky.social Micro-bakery making gourmet 1/4lb. cookies in creative flavors. Loves animals, nature, creative people, books, & human rights. Former NIH civil servant
RPCV 🇸🇻 Bilingüe.📍 Maryland, USA
gingersnapjesscookies.com
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
solace @solace.bsky.social 
Kris Pierson @krispierson.com Captain and Check Pilot for a major US airline.
Author: https://asa2fly.com/pilots-in-command-your-best-trip-every-trip-third-edition/
Newsletter: https://crewbriefing.substack.com
Website: https://krispierson.com
New Market, Minnesota
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
✅ startribune.com/subscribe
📪 startribune.com/newsletters
Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social Food & Music writer based in Minneapolis. Doing a lot, but never doing the most. 
aric @aghastronaut.com Minneapolis non-comedian
Made webcomics, did improv, and other unnecessary web stuff.
"Has a history of creating conceptual internet projects" -Billboard
(he/him)
briguy @datbriguy.bsky.social standard-issue leftist white jew with a haunted dog || mpls || he/him
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social Minneapolis ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿
paulschmelzer.com
Stacy Brooks @tangledupinfood.bsky.social Freelance journalist and lifelong Minnesotan who kinda hates winter and really loves carbs. I blog about food and travel: https://www.tangledupinfood.com/ + write occasional essays about Judaism and spirituality: https://www.stillproofing.com/
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.
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.
Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social tax policy guy 🧾 | former #mnleg -er 🏛 | @minnesotaacs.bsky.social leader ⚖️ | @swaempls.bsky.social rabble-rouser 🪧
opinions ≠ my employer's
Matt Hanson @matthansonaf.bsky.social Writer moviesbooksmusicpolitics. Masshole now living in the land of dreams. Cont. ed at The Arts Fuse. Byline all over the place. Opinions solely my own, whoever I am. Website: www.hansonmatthew.com
Jessica @jessinader.bsky.social 
Fancy Pants 🎩 @farnaby.xyz I talk about stuff. A lot of it is nonsense. Lets get weird.
male model and aspiring himbo. He/him
Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social Writer, director, occasional actor, Badger, New Yorker.
Racket @racketmn.com Your writer-owned, reader-funded source for Twin Cities news, arts, and culture.
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social a guy drops one piece of ham in the snow and he never hears the end of it. co-owner/editor of @racketmn.com, em@racketmn.com. (she/they)
Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social Probably down a research rabbit hole.
📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (W. W. Norton).
🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net
He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
Staciaann, Esq. @staciaann.bsky.social Sr. Contracts Mgr @first-avenue.com, Music Photographer, Record Slinger @electricfetusmpls.bsky.social + mama. All posts = mine.
http://www.stacyannschwartz.com or StaciaannPhotoMPLS on Etsy to purchase
Claire Lower @clairelower.bsky.social digital editor at milk street
formerly: sr food editor at lifehacker 
Maggie Westrum @maggiewestrum.bsky.social gentle amusement cloaked in mystery.
Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social Hang together or hang separately.
Aaron Landry 🐱🍕 @s4xton.com Digital nomad eating the world’s best pizza. Taking thousands of cat photos. Minnesotan. Let’s get pizza!
https://s4xton.substack.com
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social 47 is not my president. Writer, knitter, walker, parent, dog person who drops more F bombs the older she gets. Married and not looking so just don't. She/her
JD Hovland @jdhovland.com I like road tripping with my dog, more so via motorcycle than an enclosed vehicle. She's been to 32 states so far, the goal is to take her to all 49 continental states. I judge you if you don’t use alt-text. he/his
Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social Less than the sum of my parts
Zach Kindt @zkindt.bsky.social willing participant
always better to be lucky than it is to be good 
Dan Wade @dwade.bsky.social Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice.
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
Willy Lee (they/them) @advicepig.bsky.social Enby 🏳️⚧️ learning to free themselves from the patriarchy and getting to know anarchy
Erica @ericaaaaa.bsky.social I don’t get angry when I’m pissed
I’m the eternal optimist
I scream inside to deal with it
Like ahhhhhhhh
LIKE AHHHHHHHHH
She/her, MPLS
Josh @joshnorthsouth.bsky.social Wealthy and handsome
JeniEats @jenieats.bsky.social Twin Cities. Tired mom. Retired food blogger with a newsletter. Watch me do a V-Lookup. The hottest girl in this CVS buying Gas-X. I hate Ted Cruz. https://www.patreon.com/jenieats
Jeremy Zoss @jzossmpls.bsky.social Public servant. Music, MN, politics, other crap.
They will not win.
Bothkindsofheavy.weebly.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.
smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social MSP. Personal account.
[I’m sorry there’s no option to turn off my retweets]
Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time. Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. SpareTheRock.com. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only here.
St. Paul.
Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Passionate about making AI/LLM use socially unacceptable. Minneapolis. She/her.
James Norton @jrnorton.bsky.social Editor of Heavy Table (@heavytable.com), author of Lake Superior Flavors, generally in pursuit of tacos.