Leon English
@leonenglish.bsky.social
Detroit area lawyer. Michigan stan. Personally (as opposed to professionally) interested in China.
Open borders YIMBY.
Open borders YIMBY.
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Leon English
@leonenglish.bsky.social
· Aug 31
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.
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.
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.
I mute my threads when they hit the discover feed.
I do a lot of stream of conscious posting.
Fuck Sam Alito.
Really cool that Trump can illegally tax us and then send a check to his supporters but Biden trying to forgive student debt was a bridge too far.
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Really cool that Trump can illegally tax us and then send a check to his supporters but Biden trying to forgive student debt was a bridge too far.
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Okay I can't. The news is reporting Paramount is taking its offer directly to shareholders in a hostile bid. That's not exactly correct.
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Okay I can't. The news is reporting Paramount is taking its offer directly to shareholders in a hostile bid. That's not exactly correct.
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1/ Public officials, family & faith leaders are urging ICE to immediately release Ernesto Cuevas Enciso, a former DACA recipient, father of a young infant & husband to a US citizen wife on bond pending his immigration hearing. Ernesto was in the legal process & working on his permanent residency.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
1/ Public officials, family & faith leaders are urging ICE to immediately release Ernesto Cuevas Enciso, a former DACA recipient, father of a young infant & husband to a US citizen wife on bond pending his immigration hearing. Ernesto was in the legal process & working on his permanent residency.
I don't know enough about Texas to have an opinion on their senate race. I just hope everyone has fun/crushes the Republicans.
December 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I don't know enough about Texas to have an opinion on their senate race. I just hope everyone has fun/crushes the Republicans.
I, too, am resigning as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba says she is resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I, too, am resigning as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey
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Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
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fascinated by the replies insisting that this is just poor people lying to pollsters because they fear getting caught as opposed to what is more likely - that poor people *actually steal less* because they fear getting caught.
(wealthier people almost certainly think they can talk their way out)
(wealthier people almost certainly think they can talk their way out)
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
fascinated by the replies insisting that this is just poor people lying to pollsters because they fear getting caught as opposed to what is more likely - that poor people *actually steal less* because they fear getting caught.
(wealthier people almost certainly think they can talk their way out)
(wealthier people almost certainly think they can talk their way out)
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This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
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This cover is EVERYTHING: thedoguemagazine.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This cover is EVERYTHING: thedoguemagazine.com
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Likely to confuse? www.law360.com/ip/articles/... CC: @lexlanham.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Likely to confuse? www.law360.com/ip/articles/... CC: @lexlanham.bsky.social
Reading a novel with some detectives in London and I keep being caught off guard that they don't have guns, which says some pretty fucked up things about the environment I've spent most of my life, I guess (America)
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reading a novel with some detectives in London and I keep being caught off guard that they don't have guns, which says some pretty fucked up things about the environment I've spent most of my life, I guess (America)
I appreciate the misinformation going around making me look this up, though, it'll come in handy when people inevitably claim he didn't say anything in Rep. Omar's defense (not in this screenshot, see the link in the thread if you want).
Here is what Jeffries said about immigration. This is not a statement that Trump is right on immigration.
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I appreciate the misinformation going around making me look this up, though, it'll come in handy when people inevitably claim he didn't say anything in Rep. Omar's defense (not in this screenshot, see the link in the thread if you want).
Here is what Jeffries said about immigration. This is not a statement that Trump is right on immigration.
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here is what Jeffries said about immigration. This is not a statement that Trump is right on immigration.
Costco has a portable sauna and I'm not really a sauna guy but having a box to hide in for some alone time sounds pretty nice
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Costco has a portable sauna and I'm not really a sauna guy but having a box to hide in for some alone time sounds pretty nice
It's weird to me to ask whether Senators or Representatives have done something Mamdani is doing - in this case, his ICE video - (yes, though not as prominently) rather than asking whether other mayors and governors have done that (definitely yes).
Exec and leg are different jobs.
Exec and leg are different jobs.
December 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's weird to me to ask whether Senators or Representatives have done something Mamdani is doing - in this case, his ICE video - (yes, though not as prominently) rather than asking whether other mayors and governors have done that (definitely yes).
Exec and leg are different jobs.
Exec and leg are different jobs.
Gene Simmons has always been a reactionary piece of shit, unfortunately
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Gene Simmons has always been a reactionary piece of shit, unfortunately
Christmas shopping: can someone who knows fashion tell me if there is a difference between a travel wrap and a blanket scarf
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Christmas shopping: can someone who knows fashion tell me if there is a difference between a travel wrap and a blanket scarf
The guy who wrote an op ed in the NYTimes saying Trump should use the military to violently suppress peaceful protestors thinks we should kill shipwrecked fishermen? I'm shocked.
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The guy who wrote an op ed in the NYTimes saying Trump should use the military to violently suppress peaceful protestors thinks we should kill shipwrecked fishermen? I'm shocked.
I've sort of assumed this was the inspiration for the name, but I guess I can ask @proptermalone.bsky.social @ed3d.net to satisfy my curiosity
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I've sort of assumed this was the inspiration for the name, but I guess I can ask @proptermalone.bsky.social @ed3d.net to satisfy my curiosity
Who, exactly, in the Democratic party needs to do these things?
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Who, exactly, in the Democratic party needs to do these things?
Tom Homan looks like he's speeding towards his grave
Love that for him.
Love that for him.
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Tom Homan looks like he's speeding towards his grave
Love that for him.
Love that for him.
Tapping the sign
Walter White had to cook meth because he didn't do his due diligence on his company's governing documents and his business partner forced him out, the moral is to hire a lawyer for your business deals, especially if it's with a friend.
*walter white did not have to cook meth to pay his medical bills*
The show is *really explicitly not about that*, if you think it’s about that, it’s basically like if you watched Revenge of the Sith and took away that Anakin was a pro-life crusader for unborn babies
The show is *really explicitly not about that*, if you think it’s about that, it’s basically like if you watched Revenge of the Sith and took away that Anakin was a pro-life crusader for unborn babies
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Tapping the sign
I think it is a little unreasonable to expect non-Americans to hold up Democrats as inevitable saviors of American democracy.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think it is a little unreasonable to expect non-Americans to hold up Democrats as inevitable saviors of American democracy.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
Pope Leo: Look, no one is arguing for open borders
Me: Oh word?
Me: Oh word?
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Pope Leo: Look, no one is arguing for open borders
Me: Oh word?
Me: Oh word?