I might have actually posted this a couple of years ago, but it just came across my radar again and damn.

Musicians are more than their pop image. I wish more people understood that. But this video? Is the proof in living color.

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854 were arrested during the #NoDAPL fight at Standing Rock. 50=pled guilty, 11=found guilty, 3=acquitted, 114=cases dismissed, 552 remain.
- Ruth Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) July 20, 2017

Merin is one of those 552.

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No other moment in music matters today. Just this one.

Free Merin.

Actually. Find her. She's "disappeared" again.

I was talking to a friend last night and he said he hopes she's dead. At least she won't be being tortured anymore. It's a part of her probably reality that I try not to think about.


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It's a song my uncle Mike wrote about his experiences coming off drugs. How he was hiding from the pain of losing his twin sister (also to drugs, really) and the loss of his best friends and his relationship with the mother of his kid, and everything else had been crap ( Read more... )

Success has arrived.

Tonight, I picked up the phone and on the other end was a computer voice asking if I could accept charges from some fucking Federal Prison and then there was a gasp and then ... her.

She isn't okay.

She needs to get out of there.

She doesn't belong there.

But she is drawing breath ...

My dad's music is speaking quite loudly right now.

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Update: Since the change in administration, there is no idea of who is doing what. There are still a handful of protectors who are still incarcerated, Merin included. From what the lawyers have been able to tell, they were supposed to be processed out but instead were transferred to a federal ( Read more... )

This story, more than any other, has been the hardest one for me to find any kind of headway with. There are aspects of it that I really love ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah. the easement's been blocked and the construction halted ( Read more... )