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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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If you're going to QT me and wildly mischaracterize what I said, please have the guts to leave your replies open so I can tell you to get bent directly.
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This is a Rorschach test and I'm pretty sure I failed.
A close up if the AH from the logo above. There are two phallic things directed at the middle person's legs. Don't blame me I didn't make the font.
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Get in, losers, we're doing the thing again.
A screencap of the QT but "Venezuelans" has been replaced with "iraqis"
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Meme of girl yelling at guy with arm wrapped around him. Text: Actually, no. There were no laws against having sex with child slaves in 1776. "Horrific" or no, it wasn't "immoral" in Jefferson's time.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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If Man is five,
if Man is five
If Man is five,
then the Devil is six
Then the Devil is six,
then the Devil is six
The Devil is six,
and if the Devil is six
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Pope Leo jamming into a mic with a bunch if ecclesiastical dudes in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Ah, yes, the thing Judy Garland is known for: marrying and reproducing with Vincent Minelli when she was in her 20s and he was in his 40s.
Close up screen cap of image in QT: "the day that Judy Garland conceived Liza Minnelli"
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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When evaluating whether a market is a potential bubble or not, it's helpful to review the following chart and ask yourself if the political-economic environment has turned the ? into a viable, lawful path.
Chart from South Park episode with the gnomes about 3 phase business plan where phase 1 is now "fraud but pretend it's something else" phase 2 is "?" and phase 3 is "profit"
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Tweet from maple cocaine "When someone uses this emoji (laughing face) they are more made than they have ever been in their entire lift" from May 2020
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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This is a perfectly cromulent amount of fun.
Zohran campaign generator output with "MALORT FOR EVERY OCCASION" Zohran campaign generator with "BONG HITS FOR JESUS"
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Reminder that "economic" "advisor" Keven Hassett published a book in the autumn of 1999 arguing that stocks were undervalued and - this is on the cover - ackshually less risky than bonds (!).
Cover of Glassman and Hasset's DOW 36000, promising a "coming rise of the stock market" in 1999.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This case is about whether public school students in 2025 can call other public school students by pronouns the speaker chooses.

I'm on page 65, and they're rambling about the French Revolution and communism.

I've never been more convinced of the morals of this situation. What are we doing here?
ed., 1992). So, when revolutionaries guillotined Louis XVI in 1793, they called him “Citizen Louis Capet.” Noah Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President 372 (2017). Like the French revolutionaries, communists also sought to revolutionize forms of address for political ends. Communist regimes strongly encouraged and sometimes mandated use of “comrade” instead of traditionally employed honorifics to refer to another person, just as the French revolutionaries insisted on the use of “citizen.”22 That was not surprising. “[T]he history of authoritarian government . . . shows how relentless authoritarian regimes are in their attempts to stifle free speech . . . .” Nat’l Inst. of Fam. & Life Advoc. v. Becerra, 585 U.S. 755, 780 (2018) (Kennedy, J., concurring). Governments in the United States—federal or state—never operated that way. Our Constitution forbids mandatory use of certain titles to refer to others. Under Article I, the federal government may not grant titles of nobility, and public-office holders may not accept such titles from foreign governments without Congressional approval. See U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8. States enacted similar provisions in their constitutions and declarations of rights.23 Yet no law has ever prevented non-officeholders from using such titles as forms of address.24 And although Jeffersonian Republicans tried to convince Americans to refer to each other as citizen, American law never mandated it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"In the 1970s 1 in 50 Americans were on food stamps and now it's 1 in 8."

ReaganGraph time!
Line graph showing top 5 percent, median income and bottom quintile of real family income as a percentage of 1973 as a baseline. You clearly see a break around the early 80s and the Ronald Reagans picture is in the graph with an arrow.
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I'm going to be soooo ticked off if I find out Israel is actually cutting checks to some of you weirdos for the same content I'm pumping out for free. I'm going to, like, put your lawn decorations in offensive positions and such.
still of will poulter in we're the millers with the text "you guys are getting paid?" on top.
October 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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With apologies to everyone, I can't help but hear that sort of weirdo fetish stuff being said by Jon Lovitz playing the devil
Jon lovitz as the devil on snl. The caption says let me squirt my demon seed I will use a turkey baster.
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This isn't even well-thought troll slop. Like a single payload of manure is going to phase anyone walking in a big city downtown.
Still of Krusty the Clown saying "what the hell was that" while smoking a cigarette and looking on from stage left.
October 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Wonderful video that reinforces a theater/rhetoric lesson you can see in, e.g., last year's halftime show: move laterally while maintaining engagement with your audience when you really want to drive home a point. This guy dominates the scene from the background, and you know he's right.
Still from QT video where the taller bearded Black guy in white tee shirt and ballcap in background is yelling at the start of the video at the Bodega Assn rep who looks like Latino Guy Fieri speaking outside a bodega at an ad hoc press conference. still from Kendrick Lamar halftime show where he's mugging from the camera as he raps about Drake being a pedophile, allegedly.
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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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. A portly young white male Republican in an ill-fitting suit with his official headshot before the Vermont state seal. His glasses are tinted for some reason.
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Fetish ass behavior that's completely disrespectful towards any intended use of this site as an open space for idea exchange.
Sally Jenkins sheeting "there are a lot of people with gags in their heads on this site. Used to be a nice open space for exchange." Sally Jenkins sheeting "ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor." 4h ago.
October 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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My Chicago gang affiliation paraphernalia:
A portillos Italian beef atop a portillos wrapper with a portillos soda cup in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It's Sgt. Pepper's lonely broken can.
A zoomed in still from the video showing what appears be a misty spray from the pepper spray can before he sprays it and without a finger on the button.
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Same. Opportunities for small dose humor here.
Search for "ICE" yielding no results.
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Lol, no.
Close up of map in OP of northern IL and Southern WI. Chicago and Milwaukee are in the same cultural region, but Madison is in a different one and there's a weird sweep of some other region covering a part of IL south of I80 or so that's for some reason different than the rest of Central Illinois/Quad Cities area.
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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In a fun twist Bluesky suddenly becomes the number one internet place of [redacted] remembrance as users post his photograph to protest local management moderation decisions.
A late 20s/early 30s white male in a claret polo with a gray sportcoat with a thumbs-up gesture from a public speaking position. There is a large and loud but illegible banner behind him.
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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In the continuing saga of conservatives not understanding media, they're sacreligiously using clips from Twin Peaks - a show where exclusively pasty white PNWers (scoundels of the nation, really) did bad things - to advertise how good life will be when undocumented folks are deported.
Still from video of Audrey Horne dancing in Twin Peaks season 1 . Some asshole has put "life after all criminal aliens are deported" in yellow all caps computer text style font over the middle.
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM