Laura Poole @laurapoole.bsky.social Editor, baker, modern quilter, pluviophile, pasta enthusiast, rhubarb lover. Retroflex r. Short and mighty.
She/her
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social Mosquitoes, watches and whatever. Huck Chair of Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology at Penn State. My opinions do not reflect those of my employer (they want nothing to do with them whatsoever)
rasgonlab.wordpress.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social Personal account. Thoughts & opinions are mine and do not reflect my employer(s). Journalist & #DifficultIndigenousWoman Pikwàkanagàn; @niemanfdn 2020 @caj @cjfe @aptnnews #cdnpoli #Indigenous #cdnmedia
Jody Gray @jodylynngray.bsky.social 
Rethinking Schools @rethinkingschools.bsky.social Nonprofit magazine & book publisher dedicated to sustaining & strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
rethinkingschools.org
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" available now. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.
https://bit.ly/4l7Avet
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
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
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Matt Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social Bikes, sweat, sandwiches, dogs, guitar, gardening, science, Daphnia.
@podunk-nowhere.bsky.social @podunk-nowhere.bsky.social Grew up out in Podunk-Nowhere, MN, kinda close to Gopher Prairie.
Learned to work together with people out there, to better our Community, and now I live in Minneapolis. A place "Just like my hometown, only Bigger!"
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Rob Davis @robdavis.bsky.social Clean energy innovation, comms, research, policy, & design || LEGO solar farm; biodiversity & bees love solar; local food & drink stories; RECs & markets; energy as an ingredient
Glenn Howatt @glennhowatt.bsky.social Former health care reporter at Star Tribune. Trying to figure out what's next. Interests: Medicaid, public health, LGBTQ health
Ingrid Jans @ijans.bsky.social 
slutcyclist extraordinaire, rimmin' the world @strwbryph1eld5.bsky.social ICU/ED RN
ACAB
Fuck ICE
Trans rights
Mpls
Becca Esche @beccasaintpaul.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 she/her. queer. adored by two idiots. cat lady. civic engagement fairy. duuuuuvallll forever in my heart. St Paul, Minnesota is home.
Our Streets @ourstreetsmn.org We work to make biking, walking, & rolling easy & comfortable for everyone.
Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social Staff writer @prospect.org. Send tips: wwimbish at prospect dot org & Signal at wwimbish.07.
Co-writing the daily newsletter for @majorityreport.bsky.social.
Proud member of The NewsGuild.
Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social reporter @motherjones.com etc | signal: @shurwitz.18, email: shurwitz@cir.org
Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social Author and bookseller in Chicago. Owner of @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social.
APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social Official account for APTN News, our stories told our way.
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Suzy the pensive shelf elf @queensuzy.bsky.social Library/archives conservator. Internet person. Aquarium nerd. Artist and maker of crafts. Covered in glue, surrounded by beads, and engulfed in yarn. Knox College ‘06 alum.
Kir @librarytrying.bsky.social Librarian, former vet med staff and current cat nerd. Trying my mediumest. She/her is fine.
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social Cartoonist
neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social mpls / give every pedestrian a brick and a license to throw it / awningfawning.xyz
Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social Portfolio growth/ #openscience @AIP Publishing; PhD dropout; co-author of DefendResearch.org declaration 👊#censorship;#openscience advocate #PostsAreMyOwn #DefendResearch
Basta YA!
ORCiD: 0000-0003-1803-6186
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
Becca Rea-Tucker @beccareatucker.bsky.social Author, baker, reproductive justice advocate!
Read my books: The Abortion Companion (out now!) and Baking By Feel (2022)
All my stuff: https://linktr.ee/beccareatucker
Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social I'm Shannon Gibney, and I am running for Minneapolis School Board in District 3. https://linktr.ee/shannonforschoolboard
Becca Dryden for School Board @beccaforschools.bsky.social Candidate for Minneapolis School Board, District 5
https://linktr.ee/BeccaDrydenD5MPS
More coming soon!
Trans(it) for Everybody @noisyredbird.bsky.social Twin Cities bike queer and urbanism enjoyer
🏳️⚧️ they/them
Josh Martin @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social Local political nerd in Minneapolis. CD5 DFL Chair
Directory: bit.ly/JoshMartinMpls
Kendal Killian @kedrickillian.bsky.social Baltimore/Mpls/DC/Duluth
I ❤️ government
Envision Freedom Fund @envfreefund.bsky.social Freeing people from immigration detention, dismantling the criminal legal & immigration systems, and fighting to end pretrial & immigration detention.
Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social #firstgen #professor and #writer in #nola ❤️. Relentless advocate for #sociology. Author of non-fiction and textbooks with a new book -- Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test -- out in 2026. I adore what I do. And #cats!
lisa-wade.com
Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social Covering the Supreme Court etc at TPM & co-hosting the TPM Show; Philly-born Mystics diehard 🚴♀️🏃♀️Call me/beep me: kateriga.24/ kate@talkingpointsmemo.com 📸 Leah Miessler, Anna Moneymaker
Lux Magazine @readlux.bsky.social A socialist magazine of politics and culture. We want it all 👁️
https://lux-magazine.com/
zero burn coalition @zeroburncoalition.bsky.social Shutting down the HERC and fighting for environmental justice in Minneapolis.
Clean air is a right — not a privilege.
Join us. ⬇️
#FreedomToBreathe
https://linktr.ee/zeroburn
Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, working w/you against authoritarianism.
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Wendy @hyssop.bsky.social Minneapolis, France, dogs, books, food and criminal justice reform. If I’m not here I’m out walking. 
All Aboard Minnesota @allaboardmn.org 🚞 Non-profit education and advocacy organization focused on the expansion of interstate passenger rail within Minnesota and the Midwest
https://linktr.ee/allaboardmn
Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social Current political reporter at TPM | past economic equity reporter @ the Philadelphia Inquirer; Knight-Bagehot Fellow @ Columbia; Billy Penn & WHYY; Philadelphia City Council; The Philadelphia Tribune
Matt Serwe @serwewx.bsky.social (soon to be) Chief Meteorologist in Omaha. AMS CBM #983
This will be weather, dog, sports, music, and husband content mostly.
James Norton @jrnorton.bsky.social Editor of Heavy Table (@heavytable.com), author of Lake Superior Flavors, generally in pursuit of tacos.
Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
Follow your favorite Futurism staffers (and a few alumni): go.bsky.app/Rfz5esw
Nenookaasi Ozhige @nenookaasi.bsky.social LAND BACK! Never homeless before 1492
http://linktr.ee/campnenookaasi
Drew's ratio @riverfiddle.bsky.social Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries is out from Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Here’s my latest: https://racketmn.com/draining-the-mississippi-river-gorge-will-we-find-trash-or-treasures#coral_thread
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid @legalaidmn.bsky.social Nonprofit law firm providing free legal help for lowest-income clients and people marginalized due to disability or age. Home of the Minnesota Disability Law Center. https://mylegalaid.org/ ⚖️
Sara McHenry 💌 SPX A5 @saramchenry.bsky.social It’s me, Sara. I was @yellowcardigan on the other site. Elder millennial/cis/bi/Chicago.
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
KT L☀️ Anderson @kelsonanderson.bsky.social Antifascist. Fierce Informer. Librarian. Pluviophile. Library Freedom Project. Metamodernism. Privacy. Evaluating Sources. Luddite. Screaming into the void. Powered by indignation & coffee. she/her
Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social Yes, that Tracy Novick
she/her/hers
Education policy and finance
I speak here only for me/ nullius in verba
from the Heart of the Commonwealth
Sometimes random photos of the cat
linktr.ee/TracyNovick
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Christin With Minneapolis @christin-with-mpls.bsky.social christincrabtree.com
linktr.ee/ChristinWithMinneapolis
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Sophie Brauer @sophiebrauer.bsky.social Ex science teacher, engineering PhD from the University of Minnesota. Labor unionist and PELRA geek.
Catalysis, Canadiana, Chaos.- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social Minnesota, data, transit/urbanism, miscellaneous ramblings
Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social They/She 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Minnesotan 🩵💙
Shared 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Recipient with all my Twin Cities friends and neighbors
Coffee, Hugs, Equality.
All views are my own.
Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social Explaininator, Sticker Thoughtleader, Marketing nerd. Not straight, she/her. Parent of adults, catbox scooper, wife of @silmaria.bsky.social, Kermit-coded.
Find me at heidiwaterhouse.com
#quilting
#sewing
#knitting
#therbligs
Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Joncollinsjournalism.com
Zaynab Mohamed @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social Organizer, policy advocate, and working-class immigrant. Senator for Minnesota Senate District 63 (S. Mpls) | She/her #BlackLivesMatter
Link tree: https://linktr.ee/immigrationresourcesmn
City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov Official Bluesky for the City of Minneapolis.
https://linktr.ee/cityminneapolis
https://www.minneapolismn.gov
Bi of Hormuz @blbiofhormuz.bsky.social Public transit operator, union thug ATU1005, anti-car advocate, Nobel peace prize nominee & jfk profile in courage ☭ no liberal apologia allowed
Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social News for the 99%. ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting covering stories the corporate media COVERS UP | https://statuscoup.com/join
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
Jon Hoffmann @hoffmpls.bsky.social We are not connected with “Snyder of Berlin”
I am not John Hoffman but will protect him forever.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
Writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI
Me & Israel/Palestine: https://bit.ly/4hQmiQl
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/3XbgmJ4
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)
Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social Father, Husband, Lawyer, and Minnesota Lawmaker. DFL & Labor endorsed candidate for Hennepin County Attorney.
https://linktr.ee/cedrickfrazier
Sheena (she/her/they) @bats-go-ding.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, nerd, owned by cat, Saint Paul MN.
I follow actual people who are owned by pets, actual academics, actual humans, actual wildlife/nature photographers.
Focusing on the beauty among the horrible.
Jennifer Linde @jensprite.bsky.social UMN assoc prof married to cranky poet ▪︎ middle-aged cat lady ▪︎ 〽️ Go Blue! ▪︎ I was on Jeopardy!, it was fun ▪︎ I ❤️ MPLS ▪︎ this timeline sucks
defendthe612.bsky.social @defendthe612.bsky.social Supporting community resistance to the current ICE occupation in Minnesota by connecting neighbors, sharing resources, and documenting.
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social Vader, ondernemer, techniek. Zoekt dingen uit. Recordhouder langste draadjes op Twitter. Heeft narcistjes & sociopaten rap door
Politiek, rechtvaardigheid, natuur, auto's, F1, astronomie, fysica, eten & drinken, MTB & fietsen. En nog honderden interesses
Phoebe Juel @mattycornfed.bsky.social Intl Humanitarian Law, Ag Health and Safety, Public Health, Civil War History, Rabbits, and an Haiku or two.
Unicorn, Pioneer, Catamount, Hawkeye.
Exasperated/Exhausted Episcopalian. Holder of a Jeopardy! annuity
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography/Assis. Technical Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton.
W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
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
FK @notrimskiy.bsky.social Making logistics software by day, catching photons with a bucket by night. Recovering vis comp sci. Occasionally security, compliance, electronics, and tech policy enthusiast. Good randos are welcome in mentions. Largely in Mpls. He/him.
Anne 🕊️ 🎵🧶🏃🏻♀️🥖🐈 @amlaffertydelgado.bsky.social Fumbling around trying to figure stuff out. History, science, and art enthusiast. Not an expert. Californian. Profile pic by Jon Rosenberg. She/her
@mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social Neighbors organizing Neighbors to keep our communities safe.
Linktr.ee/mspwhistles
Jackie Kashian @jackiekashian.bsky.social 🎤Touring Stand-Up Comedian
📀 New Special/Album Alter-Kashian soon
📺See me on Comics Unleashed After Midnight, HBO, NPR, Conan, Corden, & more!
🎤Podcasts — Dork Forest🌳 Jackie & Laurie Show🎧
MplsGlen @mplsglen.bsky.social Bus rider, volunteer on a half dozen things, data fan
Former Co-chair of Streets.mn, Transportation Advisory Board rep, Mpls Bicycle Advisory Board member
Minneapolis
Well There's Your Problem Podcast @wtyppod.bsky.social podcast about engineering going not good with @donoteat.bsky.social and @liamfromwtyp.bsky.social and @postoctobrist.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg
Jason Garcia for MPRB District 4 @jason4parks.bsky.social I’m excited to represent District 4 and work on equity and park access; honor the history of our parks in District 4; and develop new ways for people to enjoy nature in the city of Minneapolis. They/them.
Campaign account only.
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
🌈😈 @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social she/her rot goddess | views mine, ALL MINE
Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal that centers the experience of people with disability in LIS. Book reviews, academic and professional articles, interviews, and more.
CC BY 4.0
ms. maas @msmaas.bsky.social writer, editor, community builder, cat lady 🌺🐈🐈⬛