Naz Reid 😢 Scoop from 2024:

Latest from the "thing-that-annoys-me-to-Racket-pipeline"

We really, really do "wanna buy" this one...

Five years ago four unemployed journalists started this company with $4,000 combined dollars—pretty cool, if you ask me!

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Our @madisonmcvan.bsky.social was named "Young Journalist of the Year" by the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists for her exemplary work in 2025. You can look back at some of that work below. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/refor...

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.

If you would like to support the 28 newsroom workers affected by the Strib layoffs, here’s a link to donate: bit.ly/stribworkers

🚨 50th & Nicollet Lustron house for sale! 🚨 New listing: www.edinarealty.com/homes-for-sa... Racket article from the archives:

56 (!!!) sources. Nobody does it like @matoswk.bsky.social.

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

From 2023:

I'm sorry but if some guy with infinite wealth buys a newspaper, that newspaper should never have to worry about $ ever again. Hope Glen Taylor's great-great-grandkids can afford a few more jet skis now.

This sucks.

The Minnesota Star Tribune will cut its workforce by 15% through buyouts and layoffs, executives said Tuesday evening, just a month after the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Annunciation school and church shooting.

Strib laying off 15% of our workforce tomorrow 🫥

"Open Streets is a beautiful celebration of community, sure, but it’s also a reminder that we don’t have to live this way—an important mantra to apply to all areas of American life." Thanks, @jayboller.bsky.social!

THANK YOU ALL. We're at 300+ new members for the month, shattering our goal.

"Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees, told Axios that workforce cuts may simply be 'the only lever they can pull' to offset their AI bills." dkluhgblkerhjbflkjbnrelkgjbnrleakjgbnlrekj www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...

They're calling it "the Shirt of the Summer." They're calling it "the Ultimate MN State Fair Wearable." AND ONLY 100 REMAIN!

That’s an awesome article lead

This is true 👇 I mail everything from a WINDOWLESS 200sf office

Woah, getting seriously close to our Spring Membership Drive goal of 300... racketmn.com/racket-sprin...

DID PRE-ORDERS JUST GO LIVE???

Somebody REALLY wants the 100-pound TV sitting in your basement.

Coming soon to the Racket merch shop... limited run 👀

this article is so good lol

Whoops! My hunt for a big old TV turned into a 2,200-word feature story.

From 2025:

Article from the FIRST WEEK of Racket. "Yabba, dabba... dome home?" indeed.

After dozens of interviews, we assembled this tribute to a true legend of the Minnesota music scene. RIP, Conrad.

INCREDIBLE progress after just 2 days. Sale ends June 1! racketmn.com/racket-sprin...

74 new racket members in 24 hours!!! y'all kick ASS. help us keep filling that cartoon thermometer: racketmn.com/racket-sprin...

After 1 day, think we're gonna need a bigger membership drive goal... racketmn.com/racket-sprin...

Very cool list of prizes, but more and more people are saying the the REAL prize is supporting a writer-owned, reader-funded media operation for the low, low price of $2.50/month. You hear similar things during other member drives around town, but we quite literally can't do this without you!

Go Wolves, go public school teachers who love art and basketball

In light of today's Bauhaus closure news, our "craft beer bubble" convo with David Berg, the longtime brewmaster at August Schell Brewing Co., from last year:

Back on the market for $990,000! (But there's already a pending offer...)

My big news: I've left The Athletic because they wanted me to stop covering the Twins. I refused to give up my dream, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots. I need your support to make it work. Join me and let's do this together: www.aarongleeman.com/welcome-to-t...

Huh... this reads like it was pre-written then, at the very last moment, the author connected with the realtor, who solved all the mystery elements... huh.

I'm not sure how many people realize how many brewers would mourn this loss racketmn.com/salted-nut-r...

It's apparently MN Local News Giving Day? First we're hearing of it, too! In any event: Pitching in $5/month really does make our MN-based, local, worker-owned, and reader-funded newsroom possible. racketmn.com/products

Happy MN Local News Giving Day, a real thing that happens (every?) April 30.

my friend @kylenelson.bsky.social spent roughly a year messing around with the clarus MS-35 and then wrote one hell of a story about it. part history, part how-to guide, part camera review—i love it so much!

Great piece from @jayboller.bsky.social

I've long been of the belief that every band should cover "Basket Case" at every show, a theory that didn't come up in my many conversations here:

"We gotta either do this original band and sell 20 tickets or do this cover band and sell 70," one booker tells us.

Respectfully: Awoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Love adding a David Brauer byline to the site 😎

Paul Westerberg of the Replacements wearing a Pope John Paul II tee shirt