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tol3.bsky.social

@tol3.bsky.social
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Retired from 32 yrs practicing public law (& before that, 8 yrs newspapers, politics). SC native. Adult in NC, briefly DC. Lifelong Dem, now a blue dot lakeside in NE GA, trying to get self, wife, & dogs in/on water often.

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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 3h
You can’t practice law anywhere unless you pass the bar somewhere.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 3h
Apparently she consulted for a long time with many mistaken and badly informed people.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And a convicted felon & an adjudicated sexual assaulter & slanderer & defamer.
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We have just witnessed the 21st century equivalent of the Hitler-Stalin pact.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh, STFU, David Brooks.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇺🇦👇🏼
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Don’t forget the non-existent Applebees’ salad bar.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Never give up on your dreams
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“… and what Democrats must do to understand them.” Priceless. Even that wouldn’t be enough to earn their votes …
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
David Brooks should’ve been washed up long ago, after he wrote “journalism” about salad bars in restaurants that don’t have salad bars.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yup.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Similar story in South Carolina, where I was born in the late 1950s. The Lost Cause; the Dunning School; & the “moonlight & magnolias” mythology of Gone With the Wind & the like; successfully gaslit for generations about what happened.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you owe a woman 5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These guys’ browser histories are crime scenes
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In this Ohio diner, the Hawks still means Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm. But they do know this: it makes no difference to Senator Eric Schmitt.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am opposed to eugenics but I think anyone capable of making this face should be barred from office. This is the fourth face of power (smug).
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A bitter but persuasive critique of the political environment: “The only way to effectively respond to Trump in the media, in the public, is by hacking the same attention-seeking tendencies that Trump has, to aggrandize himself; By directly appealing to the media's desire for scandal and innuendo.”
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Erin @humanity1st.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Jamelle Bouie serves David Brooks on a platter! @driftglass.bsky.social Thank You! www.democraticunderground.com/100221438262
democraticunderground.com
Jamelle Bouie: The pundits have completely lost their minds - Democratic Underground Forums
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
And an adjudicated liar & sexual assaulter, as well as convicted 34 felonies.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a common issue in our era.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
One might be professionally obligated to say nice things and still be judicious in the choice of nice things to say.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Seems thin-skinned defensiveness is a job requirement at the current iteration of @theatlantic.com.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
And a convicted felon and an adjudicated sexual assaulter and slanderer.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And a convicted felon and an adjudicated sexual molester and slanderer.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Imagine being locked aboard a bus. Imagine the driver raving that he wanted to drive off a cliff. Imagine the bus stopping at a gas station and a few passengers filling the tank so he could reach the cliff. The people who pumped the gas (Republicans) would bear as much blame as the driver (Trump).
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
How drunk is Lindsey Graham here, on a scale of Jeanine Pirro to Pete Kegsbreath?
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Rabbit (the white dog) does not understand that getting dirty does not make him more attractive to Cora (the black dog).
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
With mother & the siblings, late ‘70s or early ‘80s.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“The vast, dense forest … gulp!”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If you know, you know.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
And “Cava Homan” it shall be, forever thus.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
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tol3.bsky.social @tol3.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Put it in a Cava bag to make it a more attractive offer.
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