Thomas H. Shields III

Employment lawyer, 2023 DSOL Prof. of the Year, swim dad, #VFL, long-suffering Cleveland sports fan, and retired MLB bat boy.

[Northrop Grumman @northropgrumman]

It takes a lot to blow out 250 candles... we’re on it.

Happy Birthday, America!

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

That level in Super Mario 3 where the sun is trying to kill you is just every day now.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

It's not your decision to make, Bernie, whether a price is "unacceptable." That belongs to the people making the purchase, not a government bureaucrat who imagines he knows what a thing ought to cost. If the price is too high, men don't buy it, and Apple lowers it. That is the only authority required: the free judgment of the buyer.

You want to talk greed? Greed is wanting what you did not earn and seizing it by force. Cook offered you a phone you are free to refuse. You offer the public nothing and demand the power to dictate terms to a company you never built, with money you never made.

Apple's "profits" are millions of voluntary choices to trade. Your career is the opposite: taking by law what men would not give you by choice. One of you produced the value. The other just wants the power to command it.

The greed isn't in Cupertino. It's in the Senate seat that confuses a vote with ownership of other people's work.

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

This is the most Cleveland post ever and I relate to it entirely.

[b cunningham @BurdsIVue]

my husband watches the guardians every single night. without fail. props up his ipad & watches them on the little screen.

i've never seen someone do something so religiously while seemingly hating every single second of it. it's impressive.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

In world of dumb stuff, this may be the dumbest.

[Knox News @knoxnews]

Federal ruling halts Tennessee SNAP soda, candy restrictions https://t.co/qevuFyCw6K

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

Cute headline but not what the underlying data showed.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 by about 40 percent, according to a new study, per WaPo

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

To the idiots on both sides who said, "Process doesn't matter. This terrible deal is why process DOES matter.

Iran's an awful, dangerous, repressive regime.

But going to war on one man's whim - rather than after a full and proper Congressional debate and with the support of the American people (if that support was forthcoming) meant that our military, as good as it is, had ONE CHANCE to accomplish regime change, from the air alone, a strategy that has never worked in the history of airpower.

Guess what? It didn't this time either. And once it failed, Donald Trump could not escalate. He didn't have the political mandate to do so. I'm not even sure if he could have legally. All his threats were bluffs, as Iran well knew.

So he was negotiating from weakness -- barely negotiating at all, in fact. And the fecal sandwich of a deal we got reflects that.

Now one of the world's worst regimes is more powerful than it was, and the rest of the world knows how easy humiliating the United States can be.

Whether or not you think the risks of going to war against Iran might have been justifiable (I'm on the fence but lean no, as much as I dislike the regime), whether or not you think preemptive war is EVER justifiable, this is the worst possible outcome, and it rests entirely on one @realDonaldTrump and his insistence that he and his whims are more important than Congress, the Constitution, and the American people he is supposed to serve.

Hope that cage match Sunday was fun.

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

Hahahahahahaha.

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

89% of senior citizens support raising taxes on younger workers to maintain their benefits.

The median primary voter is 65.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

When a child wonders why "we" do not abolish poverty by simply giving everyone what they want, adults inform the child about scarcity, production, and perhaps how incentives work. The child thus learns about the world, grows up.
What about adults who remain as naive as children?

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

@JacobsFieldRBW Arias comes back, plays a serviceable 3rd base, and hits no worse than Jose so far this season. Pitching stays strong. Then Jose back for the stretch run. It could happen.

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

@RoKhanna @BernieSanders Honestly this says more about South Africa than it does about anything.

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

Just get a warrant from a real court.

[Senator Ted Budd @SenTedBuddNC]

Throughout this congress, Democrats have jeopardized national security through gov shutdowns, refusing to fund law enforcement, & now blocking the surveillance of terrorists.

Section 702 of FISA is America's most powerful counterterrorism tool—today, Dems are letting it go dark.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

There are so many things to criticize Democrats over, but here you are slamming them for blocking unconstitutional spying on Americans. You absolutely suck at this.

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

Get a warrant.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

As millions of Americans gather for large events and summer celebrations, Democrats just BLOCKED the FISA Section 702 national security statute, hampering our ability to detect foreign terrorist threats.

This comes after Democrats shut down Homeland Security.

This is a stunning and dangerous fact: Democrats are now willing to put petty politics over public safety.

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

@SNLUpdate They’re making it too easy for you.

[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

A message to the Texas Tech community from our leadership.

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

Thomas Massie lost and Lindsey Graham won.

If you still believe that the Republican Party is for small limited government, individual freedom, and no new wars then you have the IQ of a potato.

[Libertarian Party of Mississippi @LPMississippi]

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
- Frederic Bastiat

[Thomas H. Shields III @thshields3]

@roddreher Pedtextrian