John Kelly @jkelly3.bsky.social Retired LEGO Master Model Builder; Now building software teams and running TTRPG for kids at the park. Posts about Tech, Lego, TTRPG and Soccer.
reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social queer. trans.
abolitionist.
decriminalize gender now!
everyone deserves everything they need to survive, even if they suck.
minneapolis & chicago based freak shooting photos, cooking, and printing against fascism every day
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Daniel Herriges @dpherriges.bsky.social Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
The NPL Goat @thenplgoat.bsky.social Corp., M&A, and Securities Attorney.
Political beliefs in the tradition of North Dakota's Non-Partisan League from the start of the 20th century with progressive social values.
Proudly Anti-Fascist.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social Jessica is an editor, writer, dancer, and smut peddler. Stella is her unpublished pseudonym. She/they.
Trying to make "I hate AI" my whole entire personality.
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@mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social Neighbors organizing Neighbors to keep our communities safe.
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@bmkowski.bsky.social @bmkowski.bsky.social Union Teacher. Voracious reader. Movie lover. Distance walker. Mother. Also, is there a better Polis than Minneapolis?
Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social Bree | They/He/She | Illustrator | 🖤🩶🤍💜 | Yinzer | 2nd Most Annoying Poster in South Minneapolis | Anti-AI Luddite | @atle25zine Lead
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Michael Wilson @mwilsonmpls.bsky.social Community organizer, democratic socialist, pro-union, passionate about environmental justice.
https://act.dsausa.org/s/3311.R6gRaz
Tom Olsen @olsenforparks.bsky.social Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner At Large. Visit http://olsenforparks.org for more info.
Comms Specialist MN House DFL. MPLS, biking, Twolves. He/him/his.
Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.
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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
Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info aka guante. he/him/his. poet, activist, etc. minneapolis. www.guante.info
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.
Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social 
Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social St. Paul serial hobbyist, Dumb Cluck of the Midway
Katie Jones @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear.” - Sophie and Colin Hortman
https://linktr.ee/katiejonesmn
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist.
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Prof. for Participation Research @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
🧐 PI, The New Climate Divide (Emmy Noether)
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Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
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
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Rob @robertferry.bsky.social Climate policy, society, and the built environment. Architect, LEED AP BD+C. https://landartgenerator.org
@ryandowiguess.bsky.social @ryandowiguess.bsky.social 
daviss @daviss.org minneapolis photographer, photojournalist. paying attention. local history nerd. @daviss.mn on ig
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Steve Engel @sengelweb.bsky.social Professor of psychology and visual neuroscience, (very) local, (very) blue political activist, dorky dad, cat owner
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
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Voted for Hubie and Kamala @stef47.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦
I voice my dissent daily; silence is assent.
We are never not apes, never not mammals.
We have been given life to defy death.
Abster @abbystuller.bsky.social 
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Kristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social Co-Founder & Executive Producer, 535 News.
We ask unanimous consent on a motion to reconsider everything we know about how Congress is covered.
www.535.news
Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.
Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him.
Linktree.com/joekatz45.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.northsky.social East Coast born, Minneapolis living // Ward 1 🐻. Visibly able, white, queer & trans, parent, spouse. John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® winner.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com by @ziibiing.com
Alison F. Takemura @alisontakemura.bsky.social Staff Writer, @Canarymediainc | Clean energy journalism and compassion enthusiast. Reporting on building decarbonization, home electrification, heat pumps, and workforce. Fan of yoga and wandering. Opinions: just mine. @alisontakemura
Ken Paulman @kenpaulman.bsky.social Nonprofit media person
Twin Cities, USA
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
@claindivisible.bsky.social @claindivisible.bsky.social 
Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live The Wedge's News Leader | Tips: newsroom@wedgelive.com | signal: wedgelive.33
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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.
Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants & communities of color.
sahanjournal.com
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Andrew Mercado @andrew-mercado.bsky.social Editor-In-Chief at Mercado Media. YouTube Partner. Meta Partner. US Army Veteran. Proud Minnesotan
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social Abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the ppls voice through direct action, public ed + community space https://www.patreon.com/therobinsonspace
Subscribe to our new project: https://www.peoplescitycouncil-la.com/podcast
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com International woman of mystery. MA Philosophy. Anteater. Chief Muckety Muckraker. Signal TDBerg.24
https://linktr.ee/district34
John McMahon @johnamcmahon.bsky.social political theorist | podcasting at @notgreatbookstv.bsky.social and @delugecast.bsky.social | opinions mine not my institution's, obvi | he/him | occasional bad ♟️
We Are the Deluge Podcast @delugecast.bsky.social Spoiler-free chapter-by-chapter podcast about the climate novel The Deluge by Stephen Markley, brought to you by Emily Crandall and John McMahon
Emily K Crandall @emilykcrandall.bsky.social Political Theorist | Women and Gender Studies Lecturer @Hunter_College | co-host @alwaysalreadyon | co-host @delugecast
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
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"Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social He/him. Southsider LGBTQ+ Latino 🏳️🌈. Minneapolis City Council Member for the 9th Ward. Views are my own.
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)
Lilith @nicepersonality.social Certified Queer Elder™ (she/her). South Minneapolis. Black metal crone. Eventually successful roller derby retiree. I make websites for humans. Garak/Bashir OTP. Magneto was right. Dismantle DHS, abolish CBP, prosecute ICE
taylr @taylordahlin.com local duckling with internet access
📍 minneapolis MN
Coston @coston.bsky.social atx, software engineering, skydiving
@azeem.bsky.social @azeem.bsky.social 
Rob Walling @robwalling.com Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
DOJinExile.com @dojinexile.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account of the future DOJ-in-Exile. Our home in waiting is at DOJinExile.com.
Sven Sundgaard @svensundgaard.bsky.social Meteorologist, explorer. Climate, conservation.
Steve Burgess @steveburgess53.bsky.social Vancouver author of "Cheapskate in Lotusland: The Philosophy & Practice of Living Well on a Small Budget" and "Reservations: The Pleasures & Perils of Travel." Don't tell Poilievre I'm here.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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MussDaddy @blueskydogforever.bsky.social Stay-at-home dad in PDX; informed, engaged, pragmatic citizen; volunteer for democracy and climate. Family project manager. Compassionate, assertive, humanist. Anti-MAGA forever.
Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design Design Systems Architect in New York. Author of Mise en Mode. International speaker. Lives in ds.house.
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social Retired techie, from MIT AI to robotics and speech and back to AI. Lifelong lib, built affordable housing but otherwise didn't understand the political stakes until too late.
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
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social I write about climate change/grief/justice. Author of Troubled Waters (novel) & The World is Ours to Cherish (children’s book). Birmingham bred me, Mississippi fed me. ❤️🌍💚🌎🖤 https://www.maryannaiseheglar.com/
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Str @esther-author.bsky.social I write fiction, teach coding, raise children, and take quirky community ed classes. Currently obsessed with late classical Greece, activist lawyers who are fighting fascism and local organizers teaching me how to fight fascism in my neighborhood.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
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.
Dr AbsP @absp.bsky.social Former academic, current UX research lead focused on how people communicate online, forever a sociolinguist. Small and loud. She/her
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on being an Apocalyptic Optimist : go.ted.com/danarfisher
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
upalag resists @upalag.bsky.social Escapee from “Twitter”, wanting to find some sanity (and like minded souls) away from what it has become since 11/5/24. (DM’s will get an immediate block from me!)
Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social United States Senator for Hawaii. Climate hawk. Chief Deputy Whip. 
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social Climate scientist, professor of Physics of the Oceans in Potsdam. Dad. Opinions my own.
Born at 317 ppm CO2.
Charles Goldman @charliesc00.bsky.social Retired professor of psychiatry concerned about the fragile future of our ecosystem and civilization.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin
#polycrisis #collapse
Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us Official Bluesky account of the Office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Helping people afford their lives and live with dignity, safety & respect. | ag.state.mn.us
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social Vice Chair, @democrats.org • PA State Rep, 181st District. • @drmatt.kenyatta’s husband
Troublemakers Alliance 💙 @tmalliancemn.bsky.social We are the resistors and Troublemakers of MN! Find us on fb too where you can join virtual and in person events & calls to action.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Eric Smith/Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary