Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri.bsky.social Author of "The Red Letter"
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine @mspmag.bsky.social The Best of the Twin Cities Since 1972. mspmag.com
Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social Enterprise News - 365 days a year
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
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polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
City Cast Twin Cities @citycasttwincities.bsky.social Stay connected to what’s happening in the Twin Cities.
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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social Public Service Fellow - Lawfare
Adjunct Professor - GWU
Former Senior Analyst - CIA
Former Director - NSC
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social The best of Minnesota news, weather, sports and lifestyle from the journalist-owned, non-corporate Twin Cities news service.
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.
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social Writer
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social J.D. from GW Law ⚖️ | Attorney | Your go-to news source | Strategist | Views are my own | Retweets ≠ endorsements
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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
Michael Perino @professorperino.bsky.social Law professor at St. John’s Law and writer (The Hellhound of Wall St.) who still believes in the rule of law and the American experiment
Sheila Regan @sheilaregan.bsky.social Freelance writer. Arts columnist at MinnPost and classical music critic at the Pioneer Press. Based in Minneapolis. linktr.ee/sheilaregan
Reuters @reuters.com 
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
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. 
Star Tribune Guild @startribuneguild.bsky.social We represent union members at the Minnesota Star Tribune. Support our laid-off journalists at bit.ly/stribworkers
Adam Wells @adamwells.bsky.social I post about things that get lost in the algorithm.
Rep. Justin Jones @brotherjones.bsky.social State Representative for District 52. Community Organizer. HBCU grad. On the journey, searching for higher ground. Carrying my ancestors' prayers.
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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RandBall’s Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social Qualified jacuzzi professional. Newsletter: https://midwest-excellence.ghost.io/
David Wasserman @empirical-urbanist.bsky.social Mission-driven urban planner working at the intersection of urban informatics, 3D visualization, geospatial analytics, and visual storytelling.
https://empirical-urbanist.io/
Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social Senior Political Editor at TIME Magazine. Background in economics and TX politics. Formerly New York Times, Texas Tribune. Dad. #washingtondc @nytimes.com
Signal: @amanbatheja.46
Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to post about it.”
Solidarity through goofin' about it. Unaffiliated with the Twitter version.
Some shared takes will be good
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Jason DeRusha @jasonderusha.com Radio host, former TV news anchor, Food Critic, Minneapolis-area dad and husband, DeRushaDownload.Substack.com
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
SCOTUSblog @scotusblog.com Independent news and analysis on the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the official account of scotusblog.com.
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.
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social she/her | ♊️ gemini journalist & all things digital at mprnews.org 🌙 beep me: sstroozas@mpr.org
John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social journalist. alum: WSJ/NYT/NBC/CNN.
public speaker. requests: https://www.wsb.com/speakers/john-harwood/
advocate of decency in government and elsewhere
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social Official account of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social Men Yell at Me. I write books.
the moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social “there’s nothing new under the sun but there are new suns”
-Octavia Butler
# 1 St. John’s bridge fan acct
Alaska->PDX
let’s plant trees in the street
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social Minneapolis ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿
paulschmelzer.com
Racket @racketmn.com Your writer-owned, reader-funded source for Twin Cities news, arts, and culture.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social Ex nat’l security official. NYT bestselling author. Was “Anonymous” — now encouraging people to take their masks off. Also, aspiring Ghostbuster. Speaking out daily @ www.DEFIANCE.News
The National @scotnational.bsky.social The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland. Read at thenational.scot
Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social He/him. Southsider LGBTQ+ Latino 🏳️🌈. Minneapolis City Council Member for the 9th Ward. Views are my own.
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social Executive editor at @status.news. Email: jon at status dot news. Subscribe to the essential newsletter examining the media and power: status.news/subscribe 📬
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social host of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. weekends 10AM ET on @ms.now. author of NYT bestsellers Firestorm and Separated.
jacobsoboroff.com
max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social professionally nosy. reporter at @minnesotareformer.com
Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com Trans, non-binary, Minnesotan. Working to make the DFL more trans-inclusive because being a trans refuge state does not mean we are actually doing the work. South Minneapolis, Stonewall DFL, and Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules.
linktr.ee/dexanderson
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
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
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.
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social FASCISM IS NOT TO BE DEBATED; IT IS TO BE
SMASHED 👊
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Activist 📢
I will not be silenced 📢
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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.
Douglas Farmer @douglasfarmer.bsky.social College football by day.
Timberwolves by night.
Dive bar by day and by night.
http://douglas-farmer.com/
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social East Bank, Minneapolis.
Former long-time MN legislative and state government staffer. I take pictures.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_
Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social Minneapolis’ lowest ranking and least respected public official. Also winter enthusiast, tax justice advocate, and Director of We Make Minnesota.
Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov The official Bluesky channel of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Privacy Policy: http://federalreserve.gov/privacy.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social Retired former US Ambassador, NSC Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, NSC Director for Nuclear Materials Security, and Deputy Exec. Dir. of the International Energy Agency
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social Journalist, currently @MPRNews. '25 Nieman fellow. Co-creator of Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast. Victory gardener. Minneapolis. Joncollinsjournalism.com
Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social Mom, organizer, Lt. Gov. of MN. My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe = Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.
Running for U.S. Senate to fight for Minnesotans
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.
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social Chair of the Democratic National Committee | Proud Minnesotan
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Next book: MANLY WHILE STIMMING 03.30.27. Tar Heel He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Brad Tabke @bradtabke.bsky.social DFL State Rep MN 54a, former Mayor of Shakopee, MN, House Transpo Co-Chair, and lover of healthy yards.
Help us win in 2026 -> bradtabke.com.
Grow healthy landscapes -> abetteryard.org.
Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social Journalist at MPR News, reporting on K-12 education. Author of "Behind the Red Velvet Curtain: An American Ballerina in Russia." Parent. Minnesotan.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social Metro Transit is a leading transportation resource for the Twin Cities, offering an integrated network of buses, light rail, microtransit, and carpool resources. https://www.metrotransit.org
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
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
Robert Herbert @robertherbert.bsky.social May the wind take your troubles away...
Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social We are amplifying voices of the brave Americans speaking out against the Trump administration.
https://linktr.ee/ofthebrave
MS NOW @ms.now The place for in-depth analysis, political commentary and exclusive reporting.
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