Steve McPherson

Steve McPherson

@steventurous.bsky.social

writer // guitar teacher at sarah jane’s music school // guitarist for big trouble, 120 mins band // nice cooker // picking the wrong line since 1976 // that's just unconscious knowledge getinbigtrouble.com

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Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

Celebrating 50 this year by throwing a party with three of my bands at the White Squirrel: Big Trouble, 120 Minutes and Catfish Blue — my high school band from Massachusetts. Come one, come all.

Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

I would tell this guy to eat shit but he probably has.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Britt Robson
@brittrobson.bsky.social

Hey for those who subscribe to the And One newsletter at Minnpost, you'll be belatedly getting my NBA conference standings predictions sometime today. I wrote them last week but screwed up email of my editor. Some things should already be revised, of course; like picking the Wolves 5th in the West

Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

This guy’s brain has been pudding for a long time, probably starting with when he gave me shit over something I wrote about basketball.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

Steve McPherson
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Energy Secretary Chris Wright at a Paxton rally: "It kills me to see an election that's so tight. It's just a bad climate right now if you're full of common sense and you wave an American flag and are a Republican. Those days will pass ... we need to have Ken Paxton in the Senate"

Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

In Aliens, when they start the self-destruct that says, “You have 15 minutes to reach minimum safe distance,” it’s exactly 15 minutes of real time to when the terraformer explodes.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

Your eyes and teeth are part of your body now? Welcome to Woke 3.0 I guess.

Peggy Flanagan@peggyflanagan.bsky.social

I met a Minnesotan who paid $18,000 out of pocket for dental surgery because Medicare just doesn't cover it. Your eyes and teeth are part of your body. It's time to expand Medicare to cover vision and dental - then get to work passing Medicare for All.

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Minnesota Reformer
@minnesotareformer.com

In recent election questionnaires, House Speaker Lisa Demuth said she voted to cap the price of insulin for Minnesotans. But in both 2019 and 2023, Demuth, alongside nearly every other Minnesota Republican, voted against measures that would reduce insulin prices.

minnesotareformer.comLisa Demuth says she voted to cap insulin prices. She voted against it at least twice. • Minnesota ReformerIn recent election questionnaires, House Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, said she voted to cap the price of insulin for Minnesotans — an example of how she says she has worked throughout her legis...
Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

They had to cut the violence interrupters’ budget to pay for the cops’ violence.

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live

City of Minneapolis pays another $2 million to settle MPD excessive force claim from 2020. kstp.com/tracking-you...

kstp.comMinneapolis pays out another $2 million in claim of excessive force from 2020 civil unrestThe judgment is the latest in a series of lawsuits tied to police actions during the week of unrest, bringing the city’s total payouts in related cases to more than $11 million.

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Cedrick Frazier
@cedrickfrazier.bsky.social

Just weeks before the midterm elections, we are seeing another gross abuse of power by Donald Trump’s fascist administration, this time retaliating against his political opponents by conducting a federal raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home.

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Minnesota Star Tribune
@startribune.com

Many Somali Minnesotans have watched with worry in recent days as attention again gathers around crimes committed by a few in their community. It’s a feeling all too familiar for those trying to live productive lives in the place they call home.

startribune.comWhat it’s like to be Somali Minnesotan right nowAs the community grapples with fraud, terrorism and gang violence, these Minnesotans say the guilty should be held accountable without blaming all Somalis.
Steve McPherson
@steventurous.bsky.social

David Brooks is on MPR doing his whole schtick about character and understanding and love and I just can't stop ever thinking about him leaving his wife for his assistant who is 23 years younger than him while working on a book about character.