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Leon English

@leonenglish.bsky.social

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Detroit area lawyer. Michigan stan. Personally (as opposed to professionally) interested in China. Open borders YIMBY.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wife no longer a fed.

I mute my threads when they hit the discover feed.

I do a lot of stream of conscious posting.

Fuck Sam Alito.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · Nov 13

Intro post.

I'm a lawyer. My areas of law are not super interesting to a general audience so I don't post about them much. This is not my real name, anymore, because my wife is a fed and I don't want her to be purged. I am a lifelong metro Detroiter. Michigan is great, hands off our lakes.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

I have lost 95 lbs from my heaviest and I get some real body dysmorphia when I see pictures of myself now.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

If you're unaware:

www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11...

Mike Johnson Said He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Usage, and Yeah, It’s Exactly as Weird as It Sounds

“My accountability partner right now is Jack…he and I get a report of all the things that are on…our devices once a week.”

www.vanityfair.com

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Did Mike Johnson have to report to his son after he watched footage of the Naked Bike Ride?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

maybe this is Mike Johnson's way of telling us he's a nevernude

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

I would follow Antifa Kermit through the gates of Hell

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 11h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

I really can't get into the head of a cop, but I have to imagine they dislike being tear gassed as much as the next person.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

If I had a nickle for every time ICE tear gassed the Chicago police in the last two weeks, I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot of nickles, but its a lot more nickles than you'd expect to have

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Holy shit they gassed the Chicago police again??

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h

"The tables will turn one day," @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. "These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump admin because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”

'The tables will turn one day': Pritzker blasts ICE, CBP in Chicago

Governor Pritzker is speaking out about the federal immigration raids of the last few days.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

I mean I think he sucks NOW, of course, didn't know who the hell he was until he was in a general election against a TV doctor, though.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

not having opinions on other state's senators is a great way to go through life and one of the few ways I am relatively normal

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · May 4

I had no opinion on fetterman/lamb because I didn't pay attention until it was fetterman v oz, at which point the superior option was clear, which is really freeing.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 12h

Ahhh this is enough schadenfreude to get me through at least a couple more week, good shit

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 13h

it's also a private market story. openai and anthropic are private companies, they have a lot of investors- including indirect retail investors, who invest through funding vehicles- but they don't have to make disclosures and if the bubble bursts, those investors will have a lot more trouble suing

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

On MSNBC, Kamala Harris was asked if she agreed that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

“I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed [...] the refusal to give aid, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris held back from labeling Israel's actions in Gaza a "genocide" on Sunday but said it was an appropriate question.
"A lot of folks in your party have called what's happening in Gaza a genocide. Do you agree with that?" correspondent Eugene Daniels asked Harris during an interview on MSNBC's "The Weekend."
"Listen, it is a term of law that a court will decide," Harris responded. "But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed, the number of innocent civilians that have been
killed, the refusal to give aid and support, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah."

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15h

this is the “break glass in case of not enough potentially monetizing users”

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 15h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

From natural causes only.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

Man I hope he dies soon

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

(been a while since I read the decision, iirc it left open the possibility that some level of coercion would be a problem, please correct me if I'm wrong)

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

I really hope someone is gonna bring a jawboning case if only so we can get details on what that "outreach" looked like.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

Taking like 5 hours away from the news now is awesome because you come back and like 5 stories have occurred any of which alone would have the biggest story of any normal presidential term

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 13h

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Skywatch Blue / Anti-Alf Aktion @skywatch.blue · 21h

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 16h

Idk if this deployment of tear gas violates Illinois or federal law.

But the agents who deployed it need to face investigations. And, if it is illegal, prosecution.

Also, as always, abolish ICE.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 16h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 17h

I think, definitionally, someone who wins a senate seat is a successful politician.

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 20h

class action lawsuit alleges canada dry ginger ale is deceptively labeled b/c the soda is not actually made in canada, but in the US!

the class alleges this misrepresentation is material to their purchasing decision, i.e. they would not have bought the canada dry had they known

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 20h

I'm guessing "not yet" because they mostly seem to want to ignore the absurd aspects of the protests so far.