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Matt Davenport
@davenportlawyer.bsky.social
I practice law and run and write nonfiction books in my free time. Also anti-fascist, pro-choice, still live in the 80s, sometimes the 90s.
#criminaldefense #marathon #FirstOverThere #TheLongestMinute
The House voted to cut Medicare and SNAP benefits and remove the judicial branch’s ability to enforce its own orders, but @jaketapper.bsky.social has a book he wants you to buy.
May 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I hope Cory Booker’s speech streamed in hell so Strom Thurmond could watch his filibuster record get shattered.
April 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Someone today described today’s GOP as the mass shooter and Congressional Democrats as the Uvalde Police and I’ve not seen it articulated better.
March 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"The Revolution 'bout to be televised. You picked the right time but the wrong guy."
-Kendrick Lamar
February 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Bullying is not strength.
Empathy is not a sin.
Mercy is not offensive.
Diversity is not a threat.
February 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I used to think I understood this quote.
But I actually do now.
February 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The first day of #blackhistorymonth2025 is the 65th anniversary of the first day four Black NC A&T students sat at the "whites only" lunch counter at Woolworth's and asked for coffee. There had been sit-ins before the "Greensboro Four", but theirs began a wave of change that could not be stopped.
February 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank you, Bishop Mariann Budde for speaking the truth of God’s love to power. “But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened.”
#profilesincourage
January 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The Poetry Foundation went hard with their Poem of the Day selection today.
January 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
David Lynch took us to a place where the birds sing a pretty song and there is always music in the air. RIP to a legend. #twinpeaks
January 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Actual picture of health insurance executives this Christmas #singlepayernow 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Christmas 2024 is basically millions of Americans praising “It’s a Wonderful Life” but half of them not getting that they voted for Mr. Potter. #itsawonderfullife
December 16, 2024 at 10:13 PM
If you have outrage over a murder but are silent about mass murder for profit, spare us all the lectures. #unitedhealthkills
December 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
“Spoken word album,
Nobody needs or wants you,
I say Leprechaun!”
Original haiku by @altmadison.bsky.social (if she ever likes poetry and visits Ireland). #siriusthoughts #lithium
December 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
A Whopper beats a Big Mac anyway.
December 10, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Spotify rips off artists.
Any other streaming service is better.
December 6, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Since the rest of us are again reminded that killing people is wrong & should never be the answer to anything, hopefully these CEOs & boards of health insurance companies will learn that too. #unitedhealthinsurance
December 6, 2024 at 2:37 PM
My cat Sylvester knows all the dirt on NC District 3A defendants. #confidential
December 2, 2024 at 5:07 PM
As an attorney (and Lithium listener) I will tell Clara she has no case. @altmadison.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 2:33 PM
"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."

-- Charles M. Schulz, born #OTD 1922
November 26, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Tomorrow #ncgop legislators will vote on a lie. Inside what has been purposefully misnamed a hurricane "recovery" bill for Western NC, the State Board of Elections will be moved under the control of the incoming State Auditor, the only statewide office won this year by a Democrat. 1/
November 20, 2024 at 8:53 PM
My new book, which tells the true story of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire, was selected a New York Times Review of Books Editor’s Choice.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/b...
November 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM