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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 · 2h

Aw, in the time I wrote that skeet the tigers lost :(

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 2h

The year is 2025. Donald Trump is president. The tigers and the mariners are tied in game 5.

The year is 2026. JD Vance is president. The tigers and the mariners are tied in game 5.

The year is 40,000. The Emperor Protects. The tigers and the mariners are tied in game 5.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 5h

Funniest possible reason for China tariffs would be frog costumes

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 5h

God fuck yeah an extra 100% tariffs on the country that makes all the shit we gift each other for Christmas, do it donny, slam America's collective face onto the stove

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

The revolution will be live streamed and inflated

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 15h

This is awesome.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Fellow trademark people: I know, I'm making a joke

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Tigers should sue this motherfucker for trademark tarnishment

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Also apparently he is communicating via Truth Social DMs and just lol

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Foreign intelligence agencies almost certainly have a much clearer picture of Trump's health than the American public.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

I logged off for a day and...

It sucked, grass is highly overrated, fuck that noise.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 6h

They increased I-75 and the turnpike to 70 sometime in the aughts or teens, so it's consistent with SE Michigan now.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Getting out of Ohio and back into Michigan like

a woman in a blue suit is standing in front of an airplane that says rsg k7

Alt: Katy Perry getting out of a space capsule and kissing the ground

media.tenor.com

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

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

I mean if you're into bears Halsin fits the bill

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Frankly it never made sense for China to go along with that TikTok "deal."

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe a little early but in light of the news continuing to happen while I was at a wedding, gonna take a victory lap on this one, and once again remind everyone that the man is full of shit and there is no reason to believe anything he says until it is done and confirmed with your own eyes.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 15d

Another thing that now makes me skeptical a completed TikTok deal is imminent is that he is slapping more tariffs on goods we import a shitload of from China.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Seen in rural Cleveland/Akron:

Soybean farmer with a Trump flag. Hope you're enjoying that tariff retaliation, shit for brains.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

"OMG I always wanted twins" say people who have never tried to fucking wrangle twins

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Got the age verification thing and everything, dystopian ass state

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Trump realizing other countries have agency and that China can retaliate against batshit trade policy

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · Nov 12

Americans when they realize other countries can do tariffs too.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 12h

Middle of fucking nowhere, Trump country, I am so uncomfortable lol

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 18h

I have to go to Ohio today 😞

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 14h

Getting sent to the camps cause the found an inflatable frog costume in my Amazon purchase history

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 18h

Johnny Cash and Fleetwood Mac, the only two artists I ever recall him listening to.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 18h

I found a Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison vinyl going through my parent's stuff in their basement last month and it was the one "ok my dad had at least some good taste" moment I've had in my entire life, guy was a legend.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

Johnny Cash released his cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" in 2002, shortly before he died - it was an enormous hit, it's hilarious that some guy writing for the Wall Street Journal is just now realizing he was cool

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 18h

Thoughts and prayers appreciated.

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