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J. D.

@jdetc.bsky.social

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Chicago/ish. Civil/ish litigator. Left-center/ish. Elder Millennial. He/him. Interests/etc.: 1A/defamation, lolsuits, half of true crime, food, Cubs, Chi teams other than the Sox, EPL/soccer, art/architecture, film, indie music, enviro issues, tech

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 30m

Progressive compared to what? Not having at least a prepared answer for what do about the Netanyahu problem doesn't bode well for having a good answer for what to do about the Trump problem.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 41m

Cathartic to hear someone call the "Republicans don't snipe at each other" line deflection bullshit to his face.

It's frustrating that Booker has good policy preferences and a noble heart but absolutely no understanding of strategy to get from A to B in a bad faith environment.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 10h

He should've tried to get a book out first. Fill it with compete nonsense and take the air out of whatever she's doing.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 10h

Congrats to the Brewers for somehow making me root for the bleeping Dodgers and taking another L tonight.

Brewers team photo after the division series with a giant L flag to mock the Cubs.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 11h

The primary debates are going to be a hoot because you know someone is going to try the lame "we have to work with them and move forward" routine and they're going to be sacrificed on live TV by multiple other candidates before getting curb-stomped out of the race.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 11h

What's the title? The Webcamityville Horror?

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 15h

What a fact pattern. That gallerist is delusional. If they played their hand better, the auction value of the painting would have gone way up without the sanctions award.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

a cartoon of a man standing in front of a fireplace

ALT: a cartoon of a man standing in front of a fireplace

media.tenor.com

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

Rapidly becoming a tech bubble popping accelerationist regardless of what it does to my retirement account.

The Verge @theverge.com · 20h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

Taking the training wheels off the bike when your kid keeps running straight into the wall.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 17h

Agreed on this one. I still call it Bank One Ballpark. And New Comiskey's corporate name is The Cell or US Cellular Field.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 18h

4th bro definitely. Probably better at ordering donuts.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 18h

What a niche account.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Based on the episodes since I think they were nudged by legal to be hands off that one.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Even if they didn't have atrocious neo-fascist politics not one of these dipshits dresses well.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Every dude pictured in this article looks like a love child JB Pritzker doesn't want anyone knowing about for good reason.

A portly young white male Republican in an ill-fitting suit walks down a rural road directly at the camera.

A portly young white male Republican in an ill-fitting suit stands at the podium of a NYS young republican press conference.

A portly young white male Republican in an ill-fitting suit seated and looking smug with a background suggesting he's on a dais for a political conference.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 21h

And I'm positive they'd balk at trans accepting parents having similar rights.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 21h

Tfw you've traveled enough you can touch a hotel towel and see the future of a mediocre shower experience.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 22h

A half step away, but gets to one of my least popular SCOTUS opinions that I may as well shoot into space: Yoder was wrongly decided, a case of bad facts making bad law that ceded constitutional ground in the name of minority group liberty interests to unabashed anti-constitutional theocrats.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 22h

Justice Thomas has been the leading voice against substantive due process for decades. So I am just shocked - shocked! - to find him joining a statement where parents have fundamental rights over their kids' identity in disregard of various customs, traditions, and history.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Supreme Court will not hear a case over a Colorado school district’s alleged actions discouraging disclosure of students’ gender identity to the students’ parents.

The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.

Cite as: 607 U. S. _
_ (2025)
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Statement of ALITO, J.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. U. POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25-89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain concerned that some federal courts are "tempt[ed]" to avoid confronting a "particularly contentious constitutional ques-tion]": whether a school district violates parents' fundamental rights "when, without parental knowledge or con-sent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process." Parents Protecting Our Chil-dren, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S.
(2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certio-rari) (slip op., at 1-2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S. 57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that nearly 6,000 public schools have policies-as respondent allegedly does-that purposefully interfere with parents' access to critical information about their children's gender-identity choices and school personnel's involvement in and influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The trou-bling-and tragic-allegations in this case underscore the
"great and growing national importance" of the question that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting Our Children, 604 U. S., at _ (slip op., at 1).

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 23h

Reverse 12 Angry Men. Absolutely disgusting.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 23h

It's wrong to classify serially published works as "novels," or at least to lump them into the same bucket as single published volumes. Great Expectations is a fundamentally different art form than something like Blood Meridian.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

Also a one-graph indictment of the nation's handling of Native populations if you look at, for example, the red areas in South Dakota, why Oklahoma is darker than the adjoining Texas counties, or the splotches of red in the southwest.

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

As of my quote tweeting this has 434 likes in case any aspiring Discourse creators are having impostor syndrome about their own batshit smack-addled takes not being capable of getting traction.

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Being There
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Story of Your Life
The Order of the Day