Ross Willits

I led a tribute band for a number of years called the Gilded Palace Sinners. The best time I’ve ever had on stage!

So extraordinary

That’s the worst recreation of the Abbey Road album cover ever!

This is who runs this account

That’s one determined baby! Or constipated.

Hey now!!

David Brooks disagrees!

$50 ain’t nearly enough!

Hateful rhetoric: Fuck off!

Translation: Keep your mouth shut, or you’re gonna get shot!”

Let them eat shit!

I think that these special elections in St Paul and Woodbury brought us back to status quo ante—a legislative tie.

Just finished listening. Once again, I am astonished at your work. The episode reminded me both of what I’ve missed having stopped listening to Cat after his support for the Rushdie fatwa, and why I was right to boycott all these years. Needle well threaded!

I honestly could not tell what was happening. Was it another child, a spouse, or someone else who they were taking? Not that it matters—her grief is chilling.

As a Minnesotan who pays close attention to statewide politics, my first reaction is: Who?

So looking forward to this!

You know, where they send kids who need to learn to focus and concentrate.

“And I always thought: the very simplest words
Must be enough. When I say what things are like
Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
Surely you see that.”

Bertolt Brecht

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I’m not from St. Paul. That’s a mile south! And Fuck ICE.

Gotta visit the sloth for mental health.

They went on from there, but JFC, I promote music. And this was their response to an invitation to participate in an event.
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So here’s an email I received from a constituent today:

“You will be the first person from Minnesota that I will have contact with since the news of egregious fraud and mob violence broke. I think too many Minnesotans have lost your minds. At this point I want nothing to do with Minnesota.”
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He’d be in good company borrowing lines from TV—see Good Morning Good Morning.

Put me down for neither too!

Rushdie’s Joseph Anton memoir has a chapter on the Cat Stevens affair. Some interesting behind the scenes detail.

I used to love Cat Stevens’ music deeply, but I haven’t been able to stomach it since he supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I hope you are able to cover that in some degree. It’s not about the music, but it’s germane.

They can f right off

Believe!