Just checked this again - only 85% funded. Please donate and/or share again! Being in the hospital for weeks generally means A LOT of work and PT/OT after. Let’s help make it a little less stressful for someone who gives so much to our community 💜

jason would donate to your gofundme—there's no doubt in my mind. let's help them out during a scary and uncertain time.

hi! you can try racket for ONE DOLLAR right now! racketmn.com/products

it’s so far from the biggest problem facing us right now but as minnesota’s top VHS influencer [citation needed] i’ll just add that collecting physical media is a great way to not support streaming companies. get out your old DVD player and hit the goodwill bins bbs!!!

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

best they can do is claim that there are only 27 unhoused people in the city

go birds!!

Some are calling it the deal of the century—it's certainly the deal of the month. Now through the end of September (er, Sept-member), sign up for Racket for a single dollar!

who will make the first GO BIRDS, FUCK ICE, FREE PALESTINE koozie because I NEED ONE

I don’t want to keep the Ann Kim thing going endlessly, so I’ll wrap today by a) thanking @biketrouble.bsky.social for her brilliant piece; I really need my faith in journalism restored lately & b) presenting the relevant NLRB section ruling to dismiss, as damning to Kim as the ruling is perplexing.

i will shut up about the ann kim stuff now, but my colleague @jayboller.bsky.social wrote a really thoughtful, nuanced version of this story back before her whole labor fiasco even happened, which i would encourage you to read!

i have not seen the star tribune's food writers go after a single union buster, wage thief, or bad boss in the industry, regardless of gender!!!

I’m just not really sure what Racket could do at this point to dissolve what I would describe as my “marrow deep” loyalty to their publication.

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

in the running for worst minnesotan

I was just fired from my firm for filing this case lol

did you know there are a bunch of local mini print vending machines where you can get a handmade piece of original art for 50 cents or a buck? it's true! i chatted with the artists about what makes these machines so fun and why more of them are popping up:

maybe it was the fall-like temps or the big dog bounding through the front yard or all the cute couples in line or the "eat the rich, flaky croissants" yard sign but i was really overwhelmed by how adorable this whole operation is!!

perfect weekend to be on your bike imho

“It’s not even a matter of coming in and letting your hair down. We don’t ever really have to have our guard up. This is where the freaks hang out. Here, we don’t think you’re freaky. You’re just one of us.”

just saw that blaha won't seek reelection in 2026.... never forget....

This is tonight. Learn about New Bern with @kellyrogers.bsky.social; Discover Des Moines with ‪@story4more.bsky.social; Meet Perkasie with @biketrouble.bsky.social Great lineup!

Yeah I’m a @racketmn.com simp but you’re not getting regular analysis like this anywhere else.

they should make her read this at mass at annunciation

Great news: You're Not From Here returns to Black Hart on Wednesday 9/3! Come, make friends (but only if you want), and learn about Perkasie, New Bern, and Des Moines. Feat @biketrouble.bsky.social re: their recent Racket piece on transplant social tactics! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2025/08/your...

an underrated part of the state fair food guide that @racketmn.com did is that tim walz got a writing credit for reviewing the bison meatball sub

If you’re feeling paralyzed by this, wanting to act but not knowing what to do, go give blood. www.mbc.org/donate-blood/

The garbage truck should have music just like the ice cream truck does.

btw these were my favorite pieces in the creative activities building this year

everyone say thank you to @nissamitchell.com for drinking one million beers! (ok 25, but still)

there is no system on earth more efficient than what the teens are doing at the mouth trap cheese curds stand

genuinely one of my favorite days of the year. thank you for supporting @racketmn.com and helping us live the dream!!!

Being in @racketmn.com is still the coolest thing that has ever happened to me.

I try to share links to our stories with the most striking passage or quote, but this piece has far too many to do that. It's also hard to say what speaks louder: the photos or photographer Adriana Loureiro Fernández's words. Beautiful. Haunting. Make the time: www.propublica.org/article/ceco...

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Racket's Year in Review for year 4 is REALLY GOOD, very specific and actually helpful to indie publishers as opposed to certain legacy media alum who put out useless lessons like "churn is bad" Thanks @racketmn.com and nice work 🏆 racketmn.com/rackets-year...

As federal authorities crack down on homeless encampments in D.C., revisit our reporting on the possessions people lose in sweeps — and how these losses can traumatize them, exacerbate health issues and undermine efforts to find housing.

brendan rocks and this is a shitty unfair awful situation. if ya can:

oh i forgot to mention this but they also have a really nice little seating area out front and that's where i would sit if there are open tables ok that's everything go get these tacos!!!

never thought i'd see the day, but...... i had lunch at d's🥲

Come to our birthday party!

every year i am just bowled tf over at the support folks show for racket. thanks to y’all we keep doing better and better, it defies my understanding of business!!! thank you so much for being here. and YES knox is my boss and YES he wears a tie to work

PLEASE SHARE: Missing Child - Victoria Alexandria Jackson. The Minneapolis Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Victoria Alexandria Jackson , a missing 12-year-old girl. VICTORIA was last seen walking from Minnehaha Falls on August 2nd around 8:00 p.m.

Kevan's > Wally's > Maverick's

at the powderhorn art fair this weekend there was a young girl selling some original work for $1 each alongside her dad’s prints. i mean… how could i resist these

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

here are some film photos of my loved ones that i took in glacier national park :) our national parks are very good imo!!! worth protecting at all costs some would say!!!

How Textile Center's long-running garage sale evolved into this year-round secondhand store:

thinking about what if Blastoise shot out beer

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere