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Buddy Spell

@buddyspell.bsky.social

New Orleans boy, Annie's husband, girl dad, felony defense lawyer, organizer, dissident, anti-fascist, Deadhead, rugby, Lego junkie, reader of books. #TNRT “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” - Charles Bukowski

created November 14, 2024

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10/9/2025, 4:41:53 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Powerful message!

10/9/2025, 12:51:19 AM | 5733 2442 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Annie Spell (@anniespell.bsky.social) reposted

No Troops, No Trump - New Orleans Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression - Hale Boggs Federal Building march today with @buddyspell.bsky.social and Terri TJ

10/9/2025, 4:21:35 AM | 10 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

We did.

10/9/2025, 3:55:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

Tonight in New Orleans

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10/9/2025, 3:36:47 AM | 26 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

No doubt.

9/9/2025, 3:22:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

Tonight, New Orleans! All hands on deck!

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9/9/2025, 3:19:44 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

Obey the step counter.

9/9/2025, 3:19:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

😀

9/9/2025, 2:55:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

The older I get, the less I care much about it. I quit on the NFL years ago.

9/9/2025, 2:55:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

We are so there.

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9/9/2025, 2:53:06 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

If this is real....

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9/9/2025, 2:51:25 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

As a retired lawyer, I lived my life believing that, eventually, the Court would always do the right thing. I met my wife in law school. We started a family firm together 30 years ago. We loved the law. We are heartbroken tonight.

9/9/2025, 2:44:33 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

This government does not work for or represent my family or me. Taxation without representation. Shut. It. Down.

9/9/2025, 2:39:43 AM | 13 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!

9/9/2025, 2:36:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

Too late for "just friends" with the child molester.

9/9/2025, 2:35:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't claim to be an expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

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9/9/2025, 2:33:42 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't claim to be an expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

9/9/2025, 2:22:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't claim to be an expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

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9/9/2025, 2:12:54 AM | 40 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

On a day when the Supreme Court threw us under the bus, this is exactly what I needed. Loving this a bunch. Can't stop watching.

9/9/2025, 1:55:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't claim to be an expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

9/9/2025, 1:53:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't claim to be an expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

9/9/2025, 1:52:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

We're with you, Chicago.

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9/9/2025, 1:42:46 AM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

"Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

9/9/2025, 1:39:16 AM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) reposted

I dont know how many times im gonna be surprised by this supreme court. I know better than to expect different but something in me just wishes for the best. God we deserve so much better. This court has legalized racial profiling. Unbelievable, well actually believable. I hate you Clarence Thomas.

9/9/2025, 12:46:44 AM | 11063 2267 | View on Bluesky | view

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😀

9/9/2025, 1:36:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm no expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

9/9/2025, 1:36:23 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm no expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

9/9/2025, 1:36:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

Keith's heart isn't toxic. Therein lies the difference.

9/9/2025, 1:28:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't claim to be an expert on confessions per se, but after 35 years as a felony defense lawyer, I've seen a few and this sure looks like one to me.

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9/9/2025, 1:20:50 AM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet, we have to say it. Our culture continues its rapid decline. Thank you for your activism.

9/9/2025, 1:00:58 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am heartbroken. Just another betrayal.

9/9/2025, 12:52:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The People's Fabric (@peoplesfabric.com) reposted

It's just some light "show me your papers" fascism any time you leave your house just learn to live with it, says the man credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults.

8/9/2025, 5:08:13 PM | 495 161 | View on Bluesky | view

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😀

9/9/2025, 12:49:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

Would you let your underage daughter be alone in a room with the man who sent this fawning, naked-girl-featuring birthday card to the most infamous child sex trafficker of his generation (who at the time was the card-sender’s best friend)? No? Then why is he still president?

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8/9/2025, 10:04:11 PM | 5659 1667 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted

We know he’s guilty. They know he’s guilty. He knows he’s guilty. And yet we wait for things to show him guiltier?

8/9/2025, 10:19:52 PM | 4520 884 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stonekettle (@stonekettle.bsky.social) reposted

Say what you want, but Mitch McConnell isn't getting nearly as much hate as he deserves today.

8/9/2025, 10:11:23 PM | 6101 968 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.

8/9/2025, 11:30:55 PM | 22348 6933 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 11:44:46 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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😀

8/9/2025, 11:43:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 11:30:32 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 11:22:55 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 10:34:30 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 3:59:22 AM | 43 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm down with you. But, you are assuming that they can read and that they do read. Your heart is well placed.

8/9/2025, 3:42:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 3:31:14 AM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

The Department of Homeland Security cowardly pushed people around at the Portland protest.

7/9/2025, 7:11:58 PM | 2341 1334 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 2:59:40 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JenniferJames100 (@femmenoire.bsky.social) reposted

Sinatra had it right: My kind of town Chicago is My kind of town 🎶

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7/9/2025, 6:45:32 PM | 764 155 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 2:48:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 2:47:43 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We're gearing up down south....

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8/9/2025, 2:29:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Best song ever.

8/9/2025, 2:28:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 2:27:11 AM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/9/2025, 2:21:11 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

Sign painting in New Orleans, Is this really where they want to make their play?

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8/9/2025, 1:46:38 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/9/2025, 5:37:15 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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He won't be making Christmas great again. MAGA will not be happy when prices undermine the annual mass consumption.

7/9/2025, 4:09:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/9/2025, 12:38:26 AM | 9 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/9/2025, 12:10:14 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, He represents me, I guess. He's a common white trash whore.

6/9/2025, 11:53:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 11:40:37 PM | 171 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

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6/9/2025, 11:26:37 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 11:24:29 PM | 10 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fight back. Just fight back.

6/9/2025, 11:21:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Punk has always been about truth.

6/9/2025, 11:20:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"If you don't consider your main job to be stopping the existential crisis of fascism, you should get a new job and stop being a journalist". - Abner Hauge, "Make Journalism Antifa Again"

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6/9/2025, 7:52:06 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mike Johnson is in on it. Gotta wonder why.

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6/9/2025, 7:43:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:41:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Antifascist, Woody Guthrie, hanging out at McSorley's bar in NYC.

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6/9/2025, 7:40:14 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Free DC (@freedcproject.bsky.social) reposted

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

6/9/2025, 6:08:27 PM | 13798 4386 | View on Bluesky | view

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Punk is not dead; it's out in the streets.

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6/9/2025, 7:23:04 PM | 17 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:18:55 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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You rock. If they come to New Orleans, I hope to be doing the same. Keep a good form file for us. 😀

6/9/2025, 7:17:07 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:15:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buddy Spell (@buddyspell.bsky.social)

Sometimes, I'm just not sure if it's Trump, Miller, or Johnson I detest the most. So, I'll just put them in rotation for now. Today, it's Mike Johnson, phony Christian who sees no problem with people building close relationships with known child molesters.

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6/9/2025, 7:15:08 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Treason.

6/9/2025, 7:08:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture a real, authentic person 🌯 (@unclecaviar.bsky.social) reposted

Kill the lib in you that’s still trying to throw people in the south under the bus man. Come on

6/9/2025, 3:47:33 PM | 24 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:05:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:05:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

“I don’t know what a constitutional crisis would look like” - Justice Amy Coney Barrett Look outside, Amy. The head of the executive branch considers himself above the law. He does not believe in co-equal branches of government. (1/3)

6/9/2025, 6:13:35 PM | 8820 2479 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:04:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 7:04:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump has help.

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6/9/2025, 7:04:16 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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In New Orleans' Congo Square on Labor Day, 2025.

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Not only that, but uses imagery from a war which he avoided by claiming "bone spurs". He is a coward and a bully. Things rarely end well for cowards and bullies.

6/9/2025, 6:44:07 PM | 31 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 6:42:12 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 6:37:19 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Free DC (@freedcproject.bsky.social) reposted

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

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6/9/2025, 5:16:02 PM | 17219 5008 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 6:08:22 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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He has declared war against an American city.

6/9/2025, 5:57:48 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 5:49:51 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Antonia Juhasz (@antoniajuhasz.bsky.social) reposted

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

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6/9/2025, 4:09:01 PM | 12676 3086 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

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6/9/2025, 3:54:46 PM | 32139 10897 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

A TruthSocial post from Donald Trump, featuring an AI generated image of him in front of Chicago burning and under invasion with the words “Chipocalypse Now” near him stylized like the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. The text accompanying the post reads “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 🚁🚁🚁”
6/9/2025, 4:53:31 PM | 29823 7480 | View on Bluesky | view

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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” - Elie Wiesel

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“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.” - Barack Obama

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6/9/2025, 3:14:32 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” - Dr. Seuss

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