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Bobert

@bobertonbluesky.bsky.social
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TX lawyer; musician; lover of books, music, art, and film. Opinions my own and definitely not my employer’s. Ex-fED.

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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 45m
Watching Slow Horses with my mother is a bad idea because she won’t stop trying to get spoilers. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 2h
This. This is important. They’re hoping fear will hold us back because they don’t have the numbers. But it will make us stronger. It will bring people out.
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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 7h
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 23h
Campaign manager says that Paxy “was ‘obviously’ referring to the fact that campaigns don’t coordinate with super PACs.” Mmhm mmhm. Let’s not lie to ourselves, bb.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LMAO
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bill Cassidy traded a lot of Americans’ lives to lose a Senate primary.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A good article, but the GOP committing to defense of democracy won't happen. We must create disincentives for lawlessness and collaboration with fascists, and that means punishment. Either we impose consequences or we allow the GOP to keep making things worse as it has continually done since Nixon.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Michael Scott: Is This Really Happening? Proud Of You
Alt: The Office GIF of Steve Carell as Michael Scott smiling while crying with the text “Is this really happening”
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know I know it’s a cliche now but if Obama had said this the MSM wouldn’t have talked about anything else for the next 6 months. I doubt this will even rate a mention in the press tomorrow.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Left it a little late, but also ... I just booked my hotel for Wells for a wedding next month (NEXT MONTH!?). I do not have time to lose 20 lbs lol
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5,000 Epstein Files for Every American Adult @tobellz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He's the perfect evidence for not voting for Republicans.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everything costs more, and you don’t see the benefits of it. That’s their entire political project: They reap the profits, you suffer and pay more for the indignity of doing so. And repeat.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's days like today that I forget my baseball pitcher dad who's worked in car dealerships for decades also worked in his mom's dress shop as a kid before his dad's stroke. There was a rip in their top sheet, and the man pinned the entire thing before stitching it back by hand. Well then!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How many spinoffs of Yellowstone are there, and why can’t they pronounce “Norfolk”??
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Doing my time on Sunday night, but wearing my Gina for Texas shirt. Let’s gooooo.
Bobert at his desk wearing a sky blue Gina for Texas shirt
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Bruno @brunoinma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
seeing brazil possibly elect a fascist again:
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apparently there’s a shotgun under my bed. What the fuck?
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know I'm only just catching up on Ted Lasso, but Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor on a fucking accordion is SENDING ME
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acallan1, god emperor of the Unites States @acallan1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
a chef posting 🔥 economic explanations, i've prayed for celebrities like this 🫡
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Barbara on Ted Lasso is fucking hilarious
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The soundtrack for reorganizing my bedroom? Bach, of course.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Overachieving teen to burnt out late thirtysomething is a meme. I am the meme.
Bobert’s 7 Junior Classical League trophies for first place test finishes including two high academic scores in Latin grammar (lol nerd)
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Waschbären 🫡❤️ Also, it’s “horde,” not “hoard” in this context. Come on, BBC….
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The controversial story of the North American raccoons wreaking havoc in Germany
Once alleged to have been introduced by a Nazi commander, the true story of Germany's raccoons is divisive and often wildly misunderstood.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My mom won’t even give me time to see the insta reels she sends me before she tells me all about them 😵‍💫😭🫠
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m so fucking tired of clients and everyone else moving the fucking goalposts and asks. And why am I the only one who’s ever working at 1:30 am on a Friday night? Everyone else seems to get to have a work/life balance. Everyone else seems to deserve respect. Me? Fuck that guy.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The cute twink doctor from The Pitt is in Ludwig. Fun!
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a *lot* of top priorities for Dems in the next Congress but forcing the administration to follow the law on spending is probably the top of the top priorities.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is basically impossible for me to do because there are many, many albums which shaped my musical taste and what I need or want to hear, but um... here's 9?
Bobert's "My9Albums - The sound that made me"

1) THE TOSCA recording, the only one that matters: Victor de Sabata conducting the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alla Scala with Maria Callas, Giuseppi di Stefano, and Tito Gobbi

2) Alison Krauss and Robert Plant's tour de force initial collaboration album "Raising Sand" which won 6 Grammys

3) Shania Twain's "Come on Over"

4) Joni Mitchell's "Ladies of the Canyon" which, although perhaps less critically and generally appreciated than "Blue," will always have a place in my heart because it's the first album of hers I listened to

5) Strauss's Daphne, Semyon Bychkov conducting the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, featuring Renée Fleming and Michael Schade

6) Lily Allen's debut album "Alright, Still" immediately captured my fascination and was the soundtrack of my sophomore year of college

7) Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" which was basically all I listened to when I lived in Mainz in summer 2007

8) Michelle Branch's "The Spirit Room" ... what is there to say? My high school years were filled with her voice and music

9) Alanis Morisette's criminally underappreciated album "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" which is just banger after banger
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember, y'all, continue to check your TX voter registrations. Monday is the last day to register to vote in time for the November elections. Remember, ALSO, that if you register on the last day, you can only vote on Election Day, as there's a cooldown period before your registration is effective.
Screenshot of Bobert's voter registration lookup

Voter Status

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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My emotional support physical FT papers haven't been arriving because they're being sent via postal delivery and ... just aren't getting delivered. 🥲😵‍💫
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The president threatening and blackmailing our closest allies is uh… well not great.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Economist here: Job lock isn’t an indication workers are “very happy”—quite the opposite, actually. It’s a sign workers are staying put because alternatives are drying and leaving risks their benefits. It signals a cooling labor market, slower wage growth, and degrading overall economic wellbeing.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They’ll do anything but build HSR. What the fuck are we doing?
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Bold plans to connect budding Austin-San Antonio metroplex
Three ambitious plans to connect Austin and San Antonio with something more than cars and highways may spring from the drawing boards in the coming years.
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Kyle D. Long @blatherscribe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's not secondary. The destruction of culture and the dismantling and selling of our cultural infrastructure is part of the same project as the murders and human trafficking. The perpetrators and goals are the same. It only becomes wrong if one values a piano over human life, which this is not.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They are fucking weird and desperate.
Screenshot of a really bizarre Republican political spam text

“Are you white, Vicki?

James Talarico calls white men America’s top terror threat. See his exact words >> https://rep2026.com/talarico/5V1R3KMA

STOP2end

My response: “What the fuck?”

If you did not expect this message from an unknown sender, it may be spam.

Stop or Report Spam
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least when voters had a different perception of the economy than Biden did, Biden was telling the truth about the economic measures. Trump is just lying his ass off.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck Linda McMahon. Fuck Donald Trvmp. Thanks to their getting rid of the SAVE plan and the OBBBA, they're now saying, "Oh, well, you make X, so you need to pay an entire rent payment in a medium-sized city in student loan payments." I fucking hate them.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fuck Donald Trump for ruining our economy and occupying our city
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
yeah the correct answer for republicans is not to vote :)
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Random guy calls my dad after 10 pm last night and asks him to come in for an interview at 1 pm today where he was hired on the spot. Really bizarre, seems like a place with high turnover, but after so much time without work, it's definitely welcome for him. But who calls after 10 pm?!?!
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fucking hell
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No foul… you’ve got to be kidding me… she pulled her down? Right in front of the ref!
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is my former ZIP code. 👀👀
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 28/09/2026
I believe the Constitution provides a remedy for Congress when the President doesn't follow his constitutional appropriation-spending requirements!
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