A full hour of Looch!

my favorite (now annual!) racketcast episode of the year is here:

Did you make the cut? 😬

Brush up on the ballot with @naomikritzer.bsky.social !

Podcasting through paternity leave!

more and more people are coming to minnesota for reproductive or gender-affirming care. i talked to some of the pilots who can help 'em get here.

My first @racketmn.com article is LIVE AF!!! I am famously Racket-pilled and insist you all subscribe to their esteemed press.

Wild scoop from the Minnesota Star Tribune, which includes a high-ranking Homeland Security official calling Kash Patel a “giant douche canoe” www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

I watched the whole thing (huge pain tolerance for ingesting bad media), and every "solution" involves lower corporate tax rates, deregulation, and punching left. It's the same old project, nothing new here.

Who exactly is paying for all this vague scaremongering?

The University of Minnesota’s efforts to breed a hardy hop could help local growers and breweries. Here’s why we don’t have it yet. racketmn.com/would-the-ho...

As you know, it's International Podcast Day. Celebrate by liking + subscribing to RacketCast, our year-old pod that's only interesting to Minnesotans. racketmn.com/category/pod...

My favorite part of the Sibling Rivalry that @moreneighbors.org and @sustainstpaul.bsky.social hosted at @blackhartstp.com tonight was when the @racketmn.com editors were forced to talk about Saint Paul & they mentioned the survey in which I chastised them about not talking about Saint Paul enough.

a while ago i became obsessed with the 2013 mayoral race in mpls: 35 candidates, yes, but also the city’s first real test of ranked-choice voting, + the race set up our current political landscape in both predictable and surprising ways. jay & i interviewed lots of people about it—here’s a 🎁 link!

Thirty-five candidates. Three dozen debates. Two unrelated pirate-centric elements. The first real test of ranked-choice voting and, finally, a new mayor.

Nobody ASKED for a 6,000-word oral history on the wildest mayoral election in city history, but here it is:

C'mon...

Fun times talking about the importance of altweeklies with the crew of @racketmn.com @coyotemedia.org and @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @usefulnoise.bsky.social we talk about the good, bad, and the ugly of them and I tell the story of one of my favorite and most notorious columns.

I went to gas station Flavortown.

HUGE TEAM MINNEAPOLIS ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 Saint Paul better prepare for trouble! Team N4MN is excited to announce that Jessica Armbruster, Jay Boller, and Keith Harris aka Team Racket will be repping us on the mic one week from today at Sibling Rivalry! Tickets: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

and here's my Rilo Kiley review again, for the daytime crew

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!

We ordered 60, about 30 left. This run is LIMITED.

Get your premium, super-soft hoodies while they last! shorturl.at/170u1

Come on, man.

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!

Finally the content I crave racketmn.com/19th-century...

Experience the thrill of supporting worker-owned, reader-funded media: racketmn.com/products

Hear Racket contributor Seth A. Richardson talk with @wccoradio.bsky.social about his Palmer's Bar longread 👇 www.audacy.com/podcast/adam...

Let's keep this series going! Email me if you wanna participate: [email protected].

If we lived in a less terrible time and place, Bari Weiss would be dismissed as a crank and a bigot, writes Jack Mirkinson. But we live in the waking nightmare that is the United States in 2025.

Hear @arif.bsky.social explain the 2025 Vikings 🎧

When you’re an unemployed journalist, you have a lot of time to spend at the bar. I decided to write for @racketmn.com about the best bar in the world, which won’t exist after next weekend, to try and capture what it means to those who love it most. racketmn.com/goodbye-to-p...

Amazing in-depth reporting on what happened to Palmer's, an honest-to-god institution that'll be greatly missed.

OBSESSED with this photo (by Carlos Gonzalez)

today @jayboller.bsky.social went off on the Strib's dumbest columnist

Plus rejected fair art, annoying U of M guests, and fair facts galore in today's Flyover news roundup:

These new options make "Driven to Discover" sound like the work of Shakespeare...

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

Wow: another new Money Journal! Please email me about creating your own: [email protected].

Gift link (fyi for non-locals, the Racket is our excellent online arts paper): racketmn.com/everything-w...

IT'S FINALLY OUT!! I'm very proud of this piece, which had me wearing elf ears in the service of JOURNALISM!!

Visited the fair today and the GOAT is still crushing it.

You've read the reviews. Now it's time to listen to over an hour of bonus reviewing.

NINE reviewers (including the governor of MN). 7,000 words!

Let's Remember Some Guys who've topped the Scarf!, Shrug, Skip rating scale.

Happy birthday... to us! Enjoy this very special anniversary edition of the Flyover.

Twins star Joe Ryan is a certified cycling nut. From 2022:

Triumphant return of Maine-based writer @jgfagerberg.bsky.social