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Barb O'Brien

@barbobrien.bsky.social
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Professor Michigan State College of Law, Editor National Registry of Exonerations exonerationregistry.org Bowdoin College. Colorado JD. Michigan PhD. Herkimer native.

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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
OMG he is so predictable
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Which do you guys think you-know-who is going to post: That Dolly was a pathetic loser or that she was always a fan of his?
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No, not Dolly 🥺
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
*clears throat* *taps mic* criticizing the adult women who knowingly attach themselves to Trump - whether for his approval, proximity to fascist power, party status, or simply the joy of being evil - is not misogyny, no matter how much vicarious embarrassment it gives you to watch them do it
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That you know of.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is what everyone on that WaPo opinion podcast looks/sounds like
Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sadly this is true but I believe that eventually, floofiness will prevail
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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This just makes me want to vote for him harder
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.
A photo of a Magnapinna squid captured by a deep sea drilling company.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He’s running
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not to get off topic, but may I ask where in central NY? (I grew up near Utica in the 80s and agree that it is hardly a woke place!)
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Giving big Woodstock 1999 energy.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Starting to think Harriet Miers wouldn't have been such a bad pick after all.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don't you slamhound shame him!
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I mean, like, yes, I support providing "incentives" for people to have kids if that means paid leave, funded daycare, etc. but checking "agree" feels icky.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Silly but I'll take it.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My namesake
A calf named Barbara
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He’s not gonna let this go, is he?
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Others not taking this so well
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Pre-vet kid is working at a dairy farm this summer. My heart is bursting with pride (that she finally found a way to make this about ME)
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today, I am finally old enough to move into The Villages. Hang on to your dreams, kids. Hang on to your dreams.
static.klipy.com
The Simpsons: Homer Simpson's Dance
ALT: The Simpsons: Homer Simpson's Dance
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My birthday buddy! (With many many years in between, but still!)
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sorry, @richlucas.bsky.social, I’ve met someone while you were away. We’re in love.
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The Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Today on the Various Men In Dockers Discuss Progressive Politics Podcast, we identify the chief obstacles to the genuine reforms Graham Platner has proposed: bitches
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I love this so much😭
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Note the prosecutor was the infamous Doug Evans from Curtis Flowers’s case. The judge basically just skipped the third step in the Batson analysis
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Omg I saw that and had to restrain myself from vandalizing it
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Happy to see this but it shouldn’t have even been a close question
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I hear the voice of my late mother asking why I can’t get any president to stay
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Starting to wonder if maybe *I’m* the problem president.msu.edu/communicatio...
president.msu.edu
A Message to the Spartan Community | Office of the President | Michigan State University
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Mr. Sleepy Boy
World’s sleepiest black lab being sleepy
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Giving real substitute-social-studies-teacher-circa-1986 vibes
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 15/05/2026
Incredible news and story for those of us who have been following Richard Glossip's brushes with death and a death-prone Supreme Court since . . . 2015. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Richard Glossip, who was nearly executed 3 times, released while awaiting retrial
Glossip, 63, was released from incarceration for the first time since his arrest in Oklahoma nearly 30 years ago.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Some good news today...
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It’s the bestest noggin
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ollie got all floofed and such today too. Look at my shiny boy!
Handsome shiny black lab showing off his fresh floof
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I do too. It's just less awkward and I don't quite understand the arguments against it.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Man, I don't even charge to testify. I am such a sucker.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
One more comes to mind of another exoneree who was pardoned after he entered an Alford plea: exonerationregistry.org/cases/12338
exonerationregistry.org
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Also, Kerry Max Cook, though he was eventually exonerated: exonerationregistry.org/cases/13759
exonerationregistry.org
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
West Memphis 3
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes] Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious] Some Academics:
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How, pray tell, am I supposed to get any procrastination done today with Bluesky being intermittently on the fritz?
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
😍
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines.
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Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it: How can they write their "woke college kids are the REAL fascists" if the kids aren't giving them something to scold?
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