John Treat
@jctreat.bsky.social
Stanford and Michigan grad. Lawyer. Just a regular guy like everybody else.
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they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content
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A man in his 40s, like Hanania, is attracted to 17-year-olds because he sees girls & women as things, not people.
As things, they look woman-shaped, so someone like Hanania thinks this is fine.
But if you see them as people, a 17-year-old is someone who not that long ago was in elementary school.
As things, they look woman-shaped, so someone like Hanania thinks this is fine.
But if you see them as people, a 17-year-old is someone who not that long ago was in elementary school.
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A man in his 40s, like Hanania, is attracted to 17-year-olds because he sees girls & women as things, not people.
As things, they look woman-shaped, so someone like Hanania thinks this is fine.
But if you see them as people, a 17-year-old is someone who not that long ago was in elementary school.
As things, they look woman-shaped, so someone like Hanania thinks this is fine.
But if you see them as people, a 17-year-old is someone who not that long ago was in elementary school.
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
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the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way
Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way
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at the very least, it was the beginning of 25 years of “because I said so” jurisprudence that has completely trashed SCOTUS’ aura of nonpartisanship, which will not be recovered in my lifetime
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
at the very least, it was the beginning of 25 years of “because I said so” jurisprudence that has completely trashed SCOTUS’ aura of nonpartisanship, which will not be recovered in my lifetime
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One thing future historians are going to notice very well is that both times the US came to the brink of destruction in the two and a half centuries after its founding, it was at the hands of men who wanted an unlimited license to rape and get away with it, not only legally but socially.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
One thing future historians are going to notice very well is that both times the US came to the brink of destruction in the two and a half centuries after its founding, it was at the hands of men who wanted an unlimited license to rape and get away with it, not only legally but socially.
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this take gets annoying as a southerner. you should not give up on the south, but no, it is not red because of voter suppression or a lack of funding for dems. doug jones raised shitloads of money and lost. it is red because the overwhelming majority are extremely racist white conservatives
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
this take gets annoying as a southerner. you should not give up on the south, but no, it is not red because of voter suppression or a lack of funding for dems. doug jones raised shitloads of money and lost. it is red because the overwhelming majority are extremely racist white conservatives
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Voting patterns across the USA now look mostly similar - denser areas vote more Democratic, less dense or rural areas vote more Republican. Whether you are in a red state or blue state is mostly a function of how urban your state is (and some other factors like how white it is)
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Voting patterns across the USA now look mostly similar - denser areas vote more Democratic, less dense or rural areas vote more Republican. Whether you are in a red state or blue state is mostly a function of how urban your state is (and some other factors like how white it is)
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ppl replied "Bears played there for 50y" so I looked up the last time there was a home walkoff loss in Wrigley Field and you know what? It never happened to the Bears. (gave up lots of late, losing scores, but never on the last play of the game)
ditto the other teams that played at Wrigley
ditto the other teams that played at Wrigley
I do want to congratulate Northwestern on being the first *home* team to ever lose on a walk-off at Wrigley Field
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ppl replied "Bears played there for 50y" so I looked up the last time there was a home walkoff loss in Wrigley Field and you know what? It never happened to the Bears. (gave up lots of late, losing scores, but never on the last play of the game)
ditto the other teams that played at Wrigley
ditto the other teams that played at Wrigley
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Make an example of her and call for her resignation now. she is a nonvoting delegate from the middle of nowhere, there is no downside
Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.
Epstein appeared to text with House member during Cohen hearing, documents show
Newly released documents from the convicted sex offender’s estate include text messages from him that appear to influence the lawmaker’s questions to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney at a 20...
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Make an example of her and call for her resignation now. she is a nonvoting delegate from the middle of nowhere, there is no downside
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I’m being glib but I’m semi-serious about this: send more white collar criminals to prison; prison conditions will improve
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m being glib but I’m semi-serious about this: send more white collar criminals to prison; prison conditions will improve
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If Neal Katyal writes himself a cameo in the “West Wing for the Supreme Court” TV show he’s working on, do you think he’ll play a liberal lawyer who writes fawning op-eds about conservative judicial nominees, or a BigLaw partner defending child slavery
A Brief History Of Awful TV Shows About the Supreme Court
The concept of “The West Wing for the Supreme Court” might be the only thing more upsetting than the actual Supreme Court.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If Neal Katyal writes himself a cameo in the “West Wing for the Supreme Court” TV show he’s working on, do you think he’ll play a liberal lawyer who writes fawning op-eds about conservative judicial nominees, or a BigLaw partner defending child slavery
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Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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pedophilia is the president's worst issue
Enten: "Trump is 39 below water on the Epstein case. 39 points in the negative! My goodness gracious. What Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people have not been buying at all ... less than half of Republicans are buying it. This is his worst issue by far"
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
pedophilia is the president's worst issue
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One problem with sex pests operating with impunity for decades is that they will assume impunity for the rest of time. They are relatively easy to catch. The problem lies with the political will to create consequences for them.
Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
One problem with sex pests operating with impunity for decades is that they will assume impunity for the rest of time. They are relatively easy to catch. The problem lies with the political will to create consequences for them.
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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Fascists and pedophiles, and their apologists—out of government, out of business, out of journalism, out of academia.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Fascists and pedophiles, and their apologists—out of government, out of business, out of journalism, out of academia.
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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we need to bring the hammer down on wealthy and connected elites. it’s been desperately needed for a long time. regardless of party or politics.
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
we need to bring the hammer down on wealthy and connected elites. it’s been desperately needed for a long time. regardless of party or politics.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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sure. but whoever wrote the memo must be disbarred and imprisoned. No more John Yoos.
Exclusive: U.S. troops are not liable in the deadly strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in Latin America, a new classified Justice Department memo announced.
U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says
In a classified memo, the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel said that U.S. troops would not be liable for participating in boat strikes on alleged narco-traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
sure. but whoever wrote the memo must be disbarred and imprisoned. No more John Yoos.