J. D.
@jdetc.bsky.social
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
"[T]he District Court failed to draw a dispositive or near-dispositive adverse inference against respondents even though they did not produce a viable alternative map that met the State’s avowedly partisan goals."
WHAT?!
WHAT?!
Here's the full Supreme Court ruling that allows Texas's racial gerrymander, from which I took the excerpted screenshot above:
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December 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
"[T]he District Court failed to draw a dispositive or near-dispositive adverse inference against respondents even though they did not produce a viable alternative map that met the State’s avowedly partisan goals."
WHAT?!
WHAT?!
This is an extremely troubling answer from someone who served two combat deployments and went to Harvard Law School.
The best case scenario is that he's a sitting Senator and committee chair who's chosen to lie publicly about a double homicide to protect his homies for a fleeting moment.
The best case scenario is that he's a sitting Senator and committee chair who's chosen to lie publicly about a double homicide to protect his homies for a fleeting moment.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is an extremely troubling answer from someone who served two combat deployments and went to Harvard Law School.
The best case scenario is that he's a sitting Senator and committee chair who's chosen to lie publicly about a double homicide to protect his homies for a fleeting moment.
The best case scenario is that he's a sitting Senator and committee chair who's chosen to lie publicly about a double homicide to protect his homies for a fleeting moment.
"Their own companies, with their own money"
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize The Heritage Foundation was a sole proprietorship. Will Mr. Heritage be paying taxes the next time revenue exceeds expenses or is it suddenly not his company in that case?
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize The Heritage Foundation was a sole proprietorship. Will Mr. Heritage be paying taxes the next time revenue exceeds expenses or is it suddenly not his company in that case?
Chris Rufo—a prominent anti-DEI crusader—-says the “idea that private companies should be able to prioritize hiring married men w/ families is completely within the bounds of rzbl debate, &…it's absurd that individuals cannot hire whomever they want [ie, discriminate] in their own companies…” 1/
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Their own companies, with their own money"
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize The Heritage Foundation was a sole proprietorship. Will Mr. Heritage be paying taxes the next time revenue exceeds expenses or is it suddenly not his company in that case?
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize The Heritage Foundation was a sole proprietorship. Will Mr. Heritage be paying taxes the next time revenue exceeds expenses or is it suddenly not his company in that case?
So I have a slight concern that the leaders of a multi-billion dollar operation in round whatever of raising private capital with no moat whatsoever don't understand the business they're in or what the words "tradeable asset" mean.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So I have a slight concern that the leaders of a multi-billion dollar operation in round whatever of raising private capital with no moat whatsoever don't understand the business they're in or what the words "tradeable asset" mean.
Every dang time. I guess at least Cokie McMullett is upfront about it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Every dang time. I guess at least Cokie McMullett is upfront about it.
Willing to trade every person in this clip and millions in agricultural aid for an equal number of randomly selected Somali familes. Would televise the lottery and enhange when we land the plane in Mogadishu.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Willing to trade every person in this clip and millions in agricultural aid for an equal number of randomly selected Somali familes. Would televise the lottery and enhange when we land the plane in Mogadishu.
He's actually not wrong in that salaries are down dramatically relative to what reps were paid in prior eras. If you want to actually pass a stock ban (which we should do), it should be paired with setting salaries to what they were at least in the 90s coupled with a built-in annual COLA.
Rep. Roger Williams defends members of Congress trading stocks: "I think we gotta be careful that we don't limit Congresspeople to where they can do nothing ... from a financial standpoint, it's not easy being up in Congress."
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
He's actually not wrong in that salaries are down dramatically relative to what reps were paid in prior eras. If you want to actually pass a stock ban (which we should do), it should be paired with setting salaries to what they were at least in the 90s coupled with a built-in annual COLA.
Anti-carceral but would briefly jail the person who started the trend of popups on every news site asking to disable ad blockers in exchange for viewing one (1) article from a Google link.
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Anti-carceral but would briefly jail the person who started the trend of popups on every news site asking to disable ad blockers in exchange for viewing one (1) article from a Google link.
See, kids, immigrants from places like China, India, Brazil, or Nigeria just can't embrace this type of stupid, obnoxious behavior as well as privileged white women:
![In May 2024, Cammack went to the emergency room due to an ectopic pregnancy and was initially refused methotrexate treatment (administration of an abortifacient to induce an abortion) due to uncertainty over the rules stipulated in Florida's abortion ban which Cammack blamed the Democratic Party for, purporting that Democrats "scared" medical professionals into confusion about their medical responsibilities[a] and that she didn't get an "abortion", regardless of the legal intervention required for her medical treatment in this situation.[54] After advocating on her behalf, she received the medication hours later.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohzrxr6bqzrfkdwxtosdflxv/bafkreiaguyttoitoagrq725yb5z3scovcbqhsqafrwkb4xhy5mhl44igmm@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
See, kids, immigrants from places like China, India, Brazil, or Nigeria just can't embrace this type of stupid, obnoxious behavior as well as privileged white women:
What's the strategy here if you're an associate in this firm? Throw the lawyer firmly under the bus, or timely get yourself hospitalized?
Ok #lawsky, the hearing on OC's motion to be relieved in this case was conducted today. Want to know how it went? Immediately afterwards, the Court sent EVERY ATTORNEY IN OC'S FIRM an email ordering them to be in court for a sanctions hearing in 2 weeks. Transcript will be posted as soon as I get it
Opposing counsel just submitted an application to the court to adjourn the trial tomorrow and didn't cc me on it and said it was OK because I wouldn't be prejudiced and didn't tell the court that I'd already submitted opposition to his formal request and the court adjourned it???
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
What's the strategy here if you're an associate in this firm? Throw the lawyer firmly under the bus, or timely get yourself hospitalized?
Even were this Constitutional (lol, no), there's one simple trick that could nuke it and it's any country on the planet gifting some Senators and Supreme Court justices citizenship with no procedural mechanism to renounce it.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Even were this Constitutional (lol, no), there's one simple trick that could nuke it and it's any country on the planet gifting some Senators and Supreme Court justices citizenship with no procedural mechanism to renounce it.
This gets the lawyer answer of "it depends," and in my opinion, it depends on how much overlap exists between the ranter's Facebook friends and the life of the person walking to the synagogue.
OK, internet, from a pretty awesome discussion with someone who has a different view than me, have a question. Is the following hypothetical bullying:
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This gets the lawyer answer of "it depends," and in my opinion, it depends on how much overlap exists between the ranter's Facebook friends and the life of the person walking to the synagogue.
I'm the wrong kind of doctor to say this with any definitiveness, but no one's getting chest and abdominal MRIs for fun.
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm the wrong kind of doctor to say this with any definitiveness, but no one's getting chest and abdominal MRIs for fun.
This is basically a 70s Republican platform. Compare, for example, Gerald Ford's policy preferences, which are arguably more liberal:
www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/1976-republi...
www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/1976-republi...
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is basically a 70s Republican platform. Compare, for example, Gerald Ford's policy preferences, which are arguably more liberal:
www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/1976-republi...
www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/1976-republi...
I realize it's AI slop, but is it too much to ask that the appropriated childrens' book characters being used in Dept of Defense propaganda at least attempt to make sense?
Why would you put a turtle in a helicopter to shoot at boats on a river? Turtles have camoflage and swim. Drop him downstream!
Why would you put a turtle in a helicopter to shoot at boats on a river? Turtles have camoflage and swim. Drop him downstream!
Because I don’t want to be taken away by the Secret Service, I cannot express properly what I think should befall the defense secretary.
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I realize it's AI slop, but is it too much to ask that the appropriated childrens' book characters being used in Dept of Defense propaganda at least attempt to make sense?
Why would you put a turtle in a helicopter to shoot at boats on a river? Turtles have camoflage and swim. Drop him downstream!
Why would you put a turtle in a helicopter to shoot at boats on a river? Turtles have camoflage and swim. Drop him downstream!
AI helped drive a 10% year-over-year increase in Black Friday sales, sort of like how I helped the Bears win on Friday by draining the rest of a bottle of Scotch.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
Although U.S. consumers spent more this Black Friday compared to last year, price increases hampered online demand, according to Salesforce.
www.reuters.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
AI helped drive a 10% year-over-year increase in Black Friday sales, sort of like how I helped the Bears win on Friday by draining the rest of a bottle of Scotch.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
"But your ad says, 'Strong Floor, No Ceiling.'"
"Oh, they got this all screwed up."
Edits copy to 'Strong floor? No. Ceiling!'
"Oh, they got this all screwed up."
Edits copy to 'Strong floor? No. Ceiling!'
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"But your ad says, 'Strong Floor, No Ceiling.'"
"Oh, they got this all screwed up."
Edits copy to 'Strong floor? No. Ceiling!'
"Oh, they got this all screwed up."
Edits copy to 'Strong floor? No. Ceiling!'
RIP to Tom Stoppard, unparalleled playwright of Rosencrantz..., Travesties, Arcadia, and many more; noted screenwriter of Brazil, Last Crusade, and many more; and (squints at CV) uncredited attempted salvager of Star Wars Episode III.
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
RIP to Tom Stoppard, unparalleled playwright of Rosencrantz..., Travesties, Arcadia, and many more; noted screenwriter of Brazil, Last Crusade, and many more; and (squints at CV) uncredited attempted salvager of Star Wars Episode III.
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Lily-livered charlatans.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Lily-livered charlatans.
This jackass sociopath needs to spend the rest of his life in a prison somewhere and I really hope the next administration understands that.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This jackass sociopath needs to spend the rest of his life in a prison somewhere and I really hope the next administration understands that.
"At scale, migrants and their descendents recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands."
Our most scaled up import group is the English. Welcome to the No Kings resistance, Stevie Miller.
Our most scaled up import group is the English. Welcome to the No Kings resistance, Stevie Miller.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"At scale, migrants and their descendents recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands."
Our most scaled up import group is the English. Welcome to the No Kings resistance, Stevie Miller.
Our most scaled up import group is the English. Welcome to the No Kings resistance, Stevie Miller.
Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow imperialists with hilariously stunted imaginations.
you’re missing the whole point
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow imperialists with hilariously stunted imaginations.
He thinks he's going to get Amazon Prime-level saturation with paid subscriptions to a nifty text generator.
Lol, no.
Lol, no.
Exclusive: OpenAI has projected 220 million people will be paying for a basic ChatGPT subscription by 2030 as it follows Slack’s and Spotify’s business playbook.
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OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its users—which now number more than 800 million—with ...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He thinks he's going to get Amazon Prime-level saturation with paid subscriptions to a nifty text generator.
Lol, no.
Lol, no.
Imagine awakening on the eve of an American holiday and bringing a motte-bailey fallacy defending AI to Bluesky of all places. I have no idea what Flask is, but son, you just showed up to the wrong saloon on the wrong day with a butterknife. These folks have liberal arts degrees and idle time.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Imagine awakening on the eve of an American holiday and bringing a motte-bailey fallacy defending AI to Bluesky of all places. I have no idea what Flask is, but son, you just showed up to the wrong saloon on the wrong day with a butterknife. These folks have liberal arts degrees and idle time.