Jay Boller

I'm working on a story about whether there's momentum to ban AI in classrooms, like in NY and CA school districts, and I'm curious if anyone: a) is; or b) knows a grade school public school teacher who could speak to how AI, screens, tech, etc. impact their lives. HMU! jay@racketmn.com

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DO THEY??? almost certainly yes. here's what a handful of twin cities food and drink content creators had to say about it when i spoke with 'em:

"Eric Adams is famous for one thing. Corruption. Eric Adams is not famous for his honesty, for his salesmanship, for his fashion sense. He's not famous for anything on this earth except for bribery," one unconvinced resident says via @hellgatenyc.com

What the hell was Eric Adams doing selling a data center in Wisconsin? How did this happen? And why did it all go so wrong so very very fast? For @hellgatenyc.com I went to Wisconsin Rapids to find out, and add another chapter to the Eric Adams lore. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-w...

This is true, actually.

New job alert: I review car washes with my daughter now.

Racket mentioned in the Times 😭

Thirty years later, remembering the Pike's one-and-done Arena Football League season with players, coaches, journalists, and archival quotes.

I've basically only been having conversations about the Minnesota Fighting Pike for the past two weeks. Here's what I heard:

Excellent reporting by Mother Jones. Revisit our day at Life Surge's 2023 Eden Prairie stop: racketmn.com/life-surge-g...

Very cool: You can buy the first-ever Racket book online, and then pick it up at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social.

MY CITY 😤😤😤

Love seeing this collab from two great sources, Mother Jones and Pablo Torre. I left an all-day 2023 Life Surge event in EP feeling like something deeply sinister had just happened. racketmn.com/life-surge-g...

Review: Older, wiser, louder, and no, not always sad, the singer-songwriter enraptured a young crowd on her biggest tour yet.

We got Gov. Mark Dayton on RacketCast, the only podcast from Racket!

For $300 you can try out for the @Timberwolves. The question is, should you?

We asked an architectural historian, an architectural critic, and a viral poster.

I didn't worry about money growing up, but I knew what was available to me and what wasn’t. I didn’t shop at Express or Nordstrom, I didn’t have Nikes. We didn’t vacation. The treat was *going* to Ren Fest, not shopping at Ren Fest.

A HUGE congratulations to @racketmn.com for turning 5! @jayboller.bsky.social stopped by to talk about the anniversary, their biggest story, the coverage of the Gestapo ICE invasion, and the importance of a news outlet doing what it does! I agree! #Spotlight Interview! soundcloud.com/am950radio/j...

Just redicuously good stuff here

NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.

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Triumphant return of my guy @jgfagerberg.bsky.social

I went to Racket's birthday party and bought a copy of their book. Then, each of the cofounders wrote me a profound, deeply personal note about our relationship. I'm sharing them here even though none of it will make sense to any of you.

An excellent opportunity to spend $20.

absolutely vital journalism

I love @racketmn.com getting the attention they deserve after five great years, and @rossraihala.bsky.social does a really good job with this article about their success: www.twincities.com/2026/08/27/r...

Thanks to @rossraihala.bsky.social for writing this lovely profile of our company, which launched 5 years ago with zero members and zero books. Now we have many members and one book!

I wrote about @racketmn.com, who celebrate five years in business with a new book and a party tomorrow night. Gift link:

well would you look at that

Can you believe it? Racket turns FIVE years old today! 🎉 Revisit our first-ever story here:

Frankly, I'm very proud of our little media company.

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

Here comes a re... al estate listing?!

Revelations that federal agents infiltrated community meetings and surveilled anti-ICE activists in MN this winter outraged targeted groups: “Minnesotans have already proven we won’t cave to bullies,” they said, vowing to "defend our neighbors and our freedoms." (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

It's the long-awaited return of Money Journal. Learn what your neighbors earn and spend.

The series returns with a good one. Email me if you'd like to keep MJ going!

Robson: How will the WNBA's all-time winningest coach transition her charmed team into the playoffs?

All coming full circle: We're back to print.

Wait... Racket is releasing a printed book?! www.facebook.com/events/10911...

racket is five years old!!! i find that fact very hard to swallow and yet it’s true. here’s our fifth annual report to prove it. i feel very, very lucky that this is my job and my life!!!

It's back on the market.

I'm getting good feedback on this, which always feels nice, but is particularly gratifying because this was a tough thing for the people I spoke with to talk about, for good reason.

A great podcast interview with, how timely, a fire-behavior analyst. Go @jayboller.bsky.social go! racketmn.com/racketcast-e... @racketmn.com

Finally read the story, really good stuff from @jayboller.bsky.social racketmn.com/minnesotas-o...

We posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.