Meat Voltron

"Lefties have guns the way conservatives have abortions. We have them, we just don't talk about them."

I don't know where the quote originated, but I lol'd.

He only has so much power as a warlock.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

BLM, before, now, and always

Bobbie Draper FTW

You know this isn’t okay. You made a bad decision but that doesn’t make you a bad person. Unless you refuse to correct it when you know it’s wrong.

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Minnesotans are some of the baddest mutha fuckers on the planet.

Just before the town hall, a reporter asked Ellison about the difficulty states faced in prosecuting federal agents like the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. “The idea that they’re absolutely immune is a misstatement of the law, and it is a dangerous misstatement of the law, because I don’t want any ICE agent or Border Patrol agent or any agent to think that they can just kill people and then that’s it,” Ellison told the group of reporters. Then he asked rhetorically: “What about Ruby Ridge? You ever heard of that one?” Years after an FBI sniper shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the state of Idaho prosecuted the federal agent. The federal government went to bat for the agent, claiming that he was immune under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Idaho was allowed to prosecute the sniper — similarly, Minnesota is also entitled to investigate and potentially prosecute the officer who shot Renee Good. But a different example loomed larger in Ellison’s mind: the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers shot into a crowd, ultimately killing five people.

“It’s not exactly analogous, but we are talking about local authorities in Boston, prosecuting imperial agents of the colonial power, the central government, in England. And they were prosecuted. Two of them were convicted. John Adams actually represented a few of the imperial officers.” The Boston Massacre, said Ellison, was obviously “in the mind of the framers of the Constitution” at the time the document was written.

“They were thinking about this event, and they would have never conceded the state’s authority to prosecute a federal officer,” said Ellison, going on to add, “The states of the United States pre-date the United States. It is federal courts that are limited. Not state courts. State courts have plenary power.” He finished with a dramatic flourish: “It’s true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It’s also true that there’s no statute of limitations on murder.”

I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...

It's taken 6+months to pick up a paint brush after my mother's death. Finally started on an easy mini to ease back into it on Sunday. Now all I can think about is finishing this dude.

Renee Nicole Good was murdered in cold blood and we all of us better get ready to say that over and over again in the coming days.

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

Paul Thomas Anderson is really hit or miss for me, but I felt One Battle After Another was one of his best movies.

It is...inspired.

What the absolute fuck?

Send him our love!

@ogmatthewlillard.bsky.social

You have David Lynch's approval which weighs far more than Tarantino's.

You've been one my favorites since Hackers. Keep you head high.

At 47, my 10th(?) reading of The Lord of the Rings hits harder. Frodo's pain is more relatable. Eowyn's survivor's guilt more understandable.

But the need for hope in dark times seems the most important lesson to hold on to.

Mortal Kombat's Shang Tsung, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Dies Age 75 The beloved actor appeared in 150 roles across movies, TV and video games

What an icon of a man. Phenomenal actor. Really going to miss him.
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It's such a fucking battle someday to not spew comment vomit to every atrocity that is normalized in this government.

Write. And just get something out. Then your brain can look at what's on paper and think of different ways of resolving the conflict. And remind yourself that the people who read your work won't judge as harshly as you judge yourself.

Black and white photo of Udo Kier in a suit

Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.

These movies are a riot.

Its a great entry for an 8byear old imho

Thankskilling 1 and 3.

There was a time where I thought Dick Cheney was the most evil a Republican could get.

Hell yeah.