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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 · 35m

Oh yeah, definitely not going to completely kill the industry, but will reduce the demand and change some biz models as it will be limited to those simpler maintenance items. Thinking about like repair shops connected to gas stations etc. And major jobs for dealer service departments

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

My understanding is there are fewer parts that are likely to fail and require expensive, labor intensive repairs and replacements as well with the simpler engines, e.g. (some?) belts.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

Hm, interesting. I knew that about Tesla's, didn't know it was the case generally.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

Was thinking about this idly during the pandemic, what the transition to EVs is going to do to the auto service industry. The Pep Boys etc of the world. Obviously still going to be some servicing needs, but significantly less.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe all of it, save being largely owned by reactionary conservatives.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

This is part of why dealerships kind of hate them, right?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

Chinese English language media is doing a thing where they describe every decently sized city as cyberpunk because of the neon, so I guess they've got it covered

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3h

I wonder if doing this in Chicago is making Leo even more eager to weigh in.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Would put money on getting at least one instance of the admin arguing in court that calling them in to testify is unconstitutional harassment that violates the separation of powers by taking up the admins time.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3h

I think people kind of overrate how worried the admin is about the possibility of getting hauled in for hearings from a Dem controlled congress for this reason. They just see it as an opportunity to grandstand.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 16h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans: We need to let religious institutions get more involved with politics

The Pope: Bet!

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3h

<general contractor slapping a rotting post> Well, there’s your problem right there. Whoever built this thing used Marbury v. Madison as a foundation. You’re lucky it lasted as long as it did.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3h

The masks have to go. These Nazis feel completely immune from consequences.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13h

I don't see anything about not dipping a toe in though

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 14h

Has Wurman written yet about how the law saying feds get backpay after a shutdown doesn't say feds get backpay after a shutdown? Or is it still forthcoming?

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Spooky action at a distance @mkranz.bsky.social · 15h

“At first glance, Skrmetti and Chiles seem logically inconsistent: Medical uncertainty confers authority here, yet restricts it there. There is, though, an internal consistency: For the Supreme Court, right-wing reactionaries should always win.” There it is, courtesy of @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 14h

People are really leaning into "Consequences followed immediately after" or w/e was just normal alt text, huh

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway, we're coming up on 15 years, guess the fengshui was decent.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 15h

I knew my wife's grandmother wanted to go with a date on her little calendar of auspicious days, but I did not realize she'd been overruled by the fengshui uncle.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Today I learned our wedding ceremony date was selected by a fengshui master in the family.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 17h

And tbc this is not me saying a shutdown was wrong, because there's also no reason to believe the white house will actually spend anything that Dems manage to get in a deal. Our government has basically broken down idk.

Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 17h

Not that SCOTUS has or necessarily will bless using the tariff revenue as a slush fund, I'm just... Not optimistic

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 17h

This was one of the risks of the shutdown, that Trump would basically just ignore the law and keep paying for shit he decides he wants to fund. Really dunno what you can do with a president who just voids the constitution and a SCOTUS that blesses it.

Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

absolute mad king behavior here. singlehandedly raise taxes, then singlehandedly dole revenue out whenever advantageous

White House says it will use tariff revenue to fund federal food aid for mothers and young children | CNN Politics

The Trump administration said Tuesday it will use tariff funds to keep afloat a federal food assistance program for nearly 7 million pregnant women, new moms and young children during the government s...

www.cnn.com

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1d

I, uh, am very glad I don't have to fly anytime in the immediate future.

Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social · 1d

‘Flights could take off and land but had to follow procedures typically used at small airports without control towers’

Pilots are just flashing each other hand signals now?

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