We, as Minnesotans, should take credit for more cool shit—why not brag about alt-rock hitmakers Marcy Playground?

These guys are from here. What have they got to say about that?

Racket payed me to speak to the bassist for one of my favorite bands. Read it if you want, but I already won.

A response to Lavender's closing statement from LGBTQ+ leaders.

Your buds at Racket took home eight awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists tonight, including three first-place W’s! Thanks to everyone who read and shared our stories and supported our work over the last year. We just love ya.

As mining villains creep closer to the BWCA, we look to the wisdom of Paul Gruchow. racketmn.com/what-are-peo...

As mining villains creep closer to the BWCA, we look to the wisdom of Paul Gruchow.

Here’s my latest piece for Racket about the BWCA and Paul Gruchow. I talk about mining and death and wilderness and the 1988 NCAA Ice Hockey National Championship. Nature is cool and we should protect it.

To Gruchow, wild places like the Boundary Waters offered perspective and clarity: Where the dominance of humanity is undetectable, our assumed superiority is lost.

Here’s what we know: this isn’t about Iran’s people—it’s about oil, wealth, and power. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social lays out why this war has no mandate (and why de-escalation is the only way forward).

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Coca-Cola is sending death squads to execute all dissident polar bears

Check out my latest for @racketmn.com I spent a day riding around with Will Stancil looking for ICE agents.

"Vonnegut found hope in books and heaped praise on librarians...dedicated professionals amid anti-democratic bullying and censorship." Take a moment today to read Kurt Vonnegut's admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.

ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity

"For Trump, it doesn’t make a difference whether the person has been convicted or is merely suspected. He chooses and promotes violence at every turn." On ICE and domestic terrorism in Minneapolis. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Pics from today

I have some thoughts on what happened today on my substack. Fuck ICE. open.substack.com/pub/alakovsi...

Stay safe if protesting today. I’m told a paddy wagon was seen heading South on 35W toward the city about 10 minutes ago with its lights on.

Kristi Noem and DHS are lying. Claiming an ICE agent stopped a domestic terrorist by murdering a civilian is absurd to anyone with a brain who has seen the video of what happened. They think you are stupid.

It's banned book week, so I will now shamelessly ask you to check out this article I wrote a while back for @racketmn.com about one MN school district reversing its right-wing book ban racketmn.com/st-francis-m...

Has Mamdani condemned restaurants with QR code menus

In his internship Spencer has: -eaten ~10 fast food fish sandwiches in the name of journalism -looked into the age old question: what the heck is feather bowling? -gone to the Minecraft movie to report on the chaos

The inside story of how students, teachers, and parents fought back.

This MN school banned books. The community got them back. Check out my latest feature for @racketmn.com racketmn.com/st-francis-m...

All-star @startribune.com intern @spencer-white.bsky.social made the connection that going to the Minecraft movie is like seeing a midnight matinee of Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Room but with kids and now I can't unsee it

Obligatory "I wrote this funny thing for @racketmn.com and you should read it" post

Wanna read about me eating fish sandwiches? I sure hope so

Netflix’s reality dating show “Love Is Blind” earned a Minnesota tax credit of more than $444,000 in January, and tax credits help attract film and TV productions to the state.

Will the Minnesota Film Tax Credit bring more film and TV to Minnesota? Read my article for the @startribune.com www.startribune.com/will-tax-cre...

Got to see my name in the paper for the first time with @startribune.com today. Not a bad start to the internship.

In a secret studio in the Arden Hills suburbs, bands like Rogue Royal are trying to bring their talents from the stage to social media. Read my article for @mndaily.bsky.social here! mndaily.com/292080/arts-...