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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

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If it’s the last Saturday of the month, Big Trouble is at the White Squirrel. Come say hi.
If you need a little ray of light on a dark Saturday, I recommend hitting shuffle on this collection of Grant Green tracks from the 1970s.

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Grant Green in the ‘70s by Steven McPherson on Apple Music
Playlist · 45 Songs
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January 17, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting
January 17, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
I am making a direct appeal to Cobra Commander:
January 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Introduce yourself with four facts:

1. Mommy’s alright
2. Daddy’s alright
3. They just seem a little weird
4. Surrender
Introduce yourself with four facts:

1. Your tongue
2. Your transfer
3. Your hand
4. Your answer
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”

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Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
wapo.st
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I like Naz Reid as much as the next guy, unless the next guy is the guy I saw this morning with a Wolves edition vanity plate that said NAZ11.

My friend, reconsider.
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
This is the moderate position.
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
January 14, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Remember Viola Liuzzo? You should. It's happening again.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
This Has Happened Before
Viola Liuzzo was 39 years old when she was murdered. It was March 25, 1965.
geneweingarten.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
January 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Is she quoting Walter Cronkite or
“Let’s make sure every single night has something with viral potential,” Ms. Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, wrote to top producers as they prepared for the show’s new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, to start his tenure this month…

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Get these fucking dicks out of my city.
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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Do you know how bad you have to fuck up to radicalize St. Cloud?
A crowd of hundreds gathered at a St. Cloud strip mall parking lot to observe more than two dozen ICE officers near some Somali-owned businesses.

📷️: Jenny Berg
January 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Definitely my favorite musical of the year.
'One Battle After Another' named Best Movie Musical or Comedy at #GoldenGlobes reut.rs/49fRpmL
January 12, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
As soon as that clock hits 5 pm, Max starts trying to hype me up for his dinner.
January 11, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Definitely catchy. youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...
Join Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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January 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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dumb nazi bitch lmao 😂
January 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
We can only go up from here.
Update from the lowest point in North America.
January 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Great Dane obviously Telamonian Ajax.
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Great British Baking Show making granola bars and calling them flapjacks. This is a bridge too far. I can accept biscuits and crisps and chips but I’m out.
January 11, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Dem politicians in G.I. Joe world like “Deploying Cobra troops to our streets is NOT making us safer. Destro must do better.”
January 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM