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.
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?
This is correct - the "problem" with e.g. birth tourism, such as there is a problem, is that it privileges the wealthy and connected over everyone else. Solvable by making it easier for "everyone else."
Birthright citizenship is good policy - the arguments that it’s not all seem either race stuff or the unfairness that other people have to wait.
We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.
We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.
December 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is correct - the "problem" with e.g. birth tourism, such as there is a problem, is that it privileges the wealthy and connected over everyone else. Solvable by making it easier for "everyone else."
I also have a story about white people freaking out about cheese at a Tex Mex place, which makes me wonder just how common it is.
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I also have a story about white people freaking out about cheese at a Tex Mex place, which makes me wonder just how common it is.
I don't think this court is going to void the citizenship clause.
I'm not terribly confident in that belief, though, which is a fucked up place for this court to get.
I'm not terribly confident in that belief, though, which is a fucked up place for this court to get.
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I don't think this court is going to void the citizenship clause.
I'm not terribly confident in that belief, though, which is a fucked up place for this court to get.
I'm not terribly confident in that belief, though, which is a fucked up place for this court to get.
Reposted by Leon English
There are many constitutional questions that are complicated. There are many questions around the Citizenship Clause that are complicated. The citizenship of the children of unlawful entrants and temporary visitors to the US is not complicated.
blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...
blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...
Complications and Clarity in Birthright Citizenship
The conventional wisdom is right.
blog.dividedargument.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There are many constitutional questions that are complicated. There are many questions around the Citizenship Clause that are complicated. The citizenship of the children of unlawful entrants and temporary visitors to the US is not complicated.
blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...
blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...
Not sure longevity is the reason that unis shouldn't be run like businesses, though it might be A reason.
Definitely one that overemphasizes elite unis, though.
Definitely one that overemphasizes elite unis, though.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Not sure longevity is the reason that unis shouldn't be run like businesses, though it might be A reason.
Definitely one that overemphasizes elite unis, though.
Definitely one that overemphasizes elite unis, though.
Reposted by Leon English
Red and Blue America the minute they realize that a civil war means that the flow of treats would be disrupted
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Red and Blue America the minute they realize that a civil war means that the flow of treats would be disrupted
I'm sure this doesn't escape anyone's notice, but those two claims she is criticizing as inconsistent are not, in fact, inherently inconsistent.
This is, straightforwardly, the threat of disparate treatment to stifle dissent. The DOJ's Deputy Attorney General is telling lawyers critical of administration policies that their clients will be singled out for harsher treatment.
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm sure this doesn't escape anyone's notice, but those two claims she is criticizing as inconsistent are not, in fact, inherently inconsistent.
IMHO he thinks he's won and doesn't have to moderate anymore.
I don't think he's right, but he's probably in the best position he ever will be and it's not a slam dunk he'll lose.
I don't think he's right, but he's probably in the best position he ever will be and it's not a slam dunk he'll lose.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
IMHO he thinks he's won and doesn't have to moderate anymore.
I don't think he's right, but he's probably in the best position he ever will be and it's not a slam dunk he'll lose.
I don't think he's right, but he's probably in the best position he ever will be and it's not a slam dunk he'll lose.
If someone tries to use GenAI to argue with me I will simply refuse to engage; if I want to do that I can go to the GenAI myself and cut out the dipshit middleman.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If someone tries to use GenAI to argue with me I will simply refuse to engage; if I want to do that I can go to the GenAI myself and cut out the dipshit middleman.
$30 billion per year,* by some estimates
Still a totally reasonable investment, IMHO, but I think it's important to keep that in context because it goes to the frequent point that you can JUST tax the ultra rich to fund this stuff, we all have to pitch in (them more than the rest, of course).
Still a totally reasonable investment, IMHO, but I think it's important to keep that in context because it goes to the frequent point that you can JUST tax the ultra rich to fund this stuff, we all have to pitch in (them more than the rest, of course).
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
$30 billion per year,* by some estimates
Still a totally reasonable investment, IMHO, but I think it's important to keep that in context because it goes to the frequent point that you can JUST tax the ultra rich to fund this stuff, we all have to pitch in (them more than the rest, of course).
Still a totally reasonable investment, IMHO, but I think it's important to keep that in context because it goes to the frequent point that you can JUST tax the ultra rich to fund this stuff, we all have to pitch in (them more than the rest, of course).
Reposted by Leon English
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
I guess the problem generally isn't underrated, at least not in spaces like BlueSky, but I think people focus on the propaganda aspects of it (very bad) and underrate the welfare aspect.
The rightwing griftosphere is a really underrated problem imho. There's no meaningful consequences for bad actors when they have a soft landing (or career aspirations to) that ecosystem.
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I guess the problem generally isn't underrated, at least not in spaces like BlueSky, but I think people focus on the propaganda aspects of it (very bad) and underrate the welfare aspect.
Reposted by Leon English
A depressing comment on the whole bad faith student provacateur. That it serves policy preferences is why it continues. It's just Project Veritas in another venue.
As we follow the trajectory of the student at OU who wrote an essay citing zero sources and making no argument, got the instructor fired by claiming her 1A rights were violated, went on a tour of rw media and now seems poised to become a part of the TPUSA speaker circuit: (1/4)
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A depressing comment on the whole bad faith student provacateur. That it serves policy preferences is why it continues. It's just Project Veritas in another venue.
Reposted by Leon English
I find this deeply alarming -- Grok is giving stalkers extremely detailed information about how to locate targets, install spyware on their devices, leverage revenge porn against them, and way more ultra-creepy advice
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok Provides Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking
Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.
futurism.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I find this deeply alarming -- Grok is giving stalkers extremely detailed information about how to locate targets, install spyware on their devices, leverage revenge porn against them, and way more ultra-creepy advice
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Reposted by Leon English
There's a big difference between "I'm Socialist because that's what I call a functional Welfare State" and "I'm Socialist because I'm in a parasocial relationship with a dozen influencers who will be *outright* Fascists in a few months"
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
There's a big difference between "I'm Socialist because that's what I call a functional Welfare State" and "I'm Socialist because I'm in a parasocial relationship with a dozen influencers who will be *outright* Fascists in a few months"
