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Bob Matthews

@bobm3.bsky.social
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Alabama lawyer doing criminal defense appeals and post-conviction work. Coffee hater and tea drinker who loves a good book.

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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let’s say for the sake of argument that the death penalty is a justifiable punishment in the modern day. It isn’t, but for the sake of argument. DO NOT FUCK IT UP
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He keeps hoping someone will ask him to press the button/flip the switch
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donna was the most difficult one to rank for me. Like Clara she had been ups and downs.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Clara was the most up and down. But the highs were really high. Regulars: Rose/The moment Amy/Rory Clara (various verisons) Martha Donna Bill (mostly a product of Capaldi's era struggling to the end) Part timers: River Willfried Vastra/Jenny/Strax Jack Mr. Weasley Me Nardol
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No the fuck we don't have to trust AI firms
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All for spending whatever it takes to tear down all of his ugly ass "renovations"
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking back the lack of backlash to Trump's mockery of John McCain and other vets in 2015 was maybe the clearest early sign of the contempt Trump and his ass kissers have for vets and how his hardcore followers do not care what he says or does.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And this is true of so much MAGA "policy"
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I was SHOCKED to see Carry Me Home on a 250th table at a bookstore in the Birmingham metro last month. This is the kind of book a large part of Alabama would prefer never see the light of day much less be displayed.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It isn’t even difficult to understand how things like the COVID-19 pandemic happen with just minimal critical thinking.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is remarkably stupid on a number of levels regardless of how it would be made. But honestly, all I can think about is the amount of power and water that are going to be used by data centers to do it.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Mini-Me's Sarcastic "Right..." Reaction
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Monday blues are completely and totally gone. We need more of this. Shut the fuck up to the asshole and then a respectful thank you to others
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Clown scares people
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Youngest son gets stuck running the family business
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Inmates hang out in the prison library
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
1) Michael Connelly 2) Dan Jones 3) Jon Meacham 4) Ron Chernow All I can think of off the top of my head. Fantasy/scifi included and the list gets bigger quickly
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well this is cool
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Really feel for Balogun, who didn't ask for any of this, and now must navigate the fallout of our racist, immigrant-hating mob boss of a president intervening on his behalf.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The manufactured drama of SCOTUS opinion releases is absolutely infuriating
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bumper sticker that reads, "YOU KNOW THESE FUCKERS BANNING BOOKS DON'T READ SHIT".
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I cannot stress enough how much people like it when you actually do something that helps. It doesn’t have to be healthcare, tax reform, immigration overnight. It can be small things like fixing potholes. It’s the doing something that matters. FDR didn’t fix things immediately, but he did shit.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And we have concluded our latest episode of What is the Supreme Court Going to Fuck Up Today in the Most Racist and Convoluted Partisan Way Possible? Tune back in Monday for our next episode.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Honestly the suspense knowing it is another Alito opinion is killing me
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
fuuuuuuuuuuck
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
He needs his gifts
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Do you want to use religion to do some bigotry?" Nahmon. I just need my hair. "Are you black?" Yeahmon. "GET FUCKED LOSER" --today at the Supreme Court
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
An onion headline that reads Supreme Court overturns right versus wrong
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“A poor Black man with intellectual limitations was forced to rely on a defense attorney who openly aligned himself with a terrorist organization best known for murderous violence against people who looked like his client.” amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/06...
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OP-ED: Imprisoned Black man, his KKK-linked attorney, and what justice really looks like
A poor Black man with intellectual limitations was forced to rely on a defense attorney who openly aligned himself with a terrorist organization.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
😕
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Schitt's Creek: David Rose says 'You and Me Both'
ALT: Schitt's Creek: David Rose says 'You and Me Both'
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...
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The real reason Democrats lost in 2024
The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024. In doing so, it fails to prepare the party for the future
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Whatever the opposite of Ain't No Mountain High Enough is. That's how hard I would hide if 174 former judges filed something like this concerning me.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My daughter goes to middle school 3 blocks from the statehouse. The school’s tornado evacuation plan is go to the basement. The basement flooded so they went back to the cafeteria. Kids were saying goodbye to each other. Lawmakers are building a new statehouse but not a new middle school.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The bait and switch with Luke in Last Jedi is phenomenal. By which, I mean for so long he is a broken shadow of what he was in Return of the Jedi--and especially in Mandalorian S2--and nothing like legendary Jedi people expected. Then he force projects himself across half the damn galaxy.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
He has said sometime in the last day that the whole world is a casino. Well we know what he did to his casinos
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I've never heard of him, but I don't doubt that in the slightest.
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What about when it is so bad the Alabama Supreme Court says this: "Most of the legal authorities in the briefs are misquoted or nonexistent. Fabricated legal authorities are certainly not sufficient to support legal arguments." And dismiss the entire appeal?
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Bob Matthews @bobm3.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
When the discovery starts
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a group of people are standing in a park and one of them is holding a bag .
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.
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