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
It's a sad state of affairs that this is both more likely to end the Trump Presidency than the long list of other things that should, and that there's a nonzero chance it would lead to a sudden shift in conservative thought towards homosexual activities. "But the Greeks and Romans," etc.
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
![From:
Mark L. Epstein
Sent:
3/21/2018 2:54:13 PM
To:
'jeffrey E.' [jeevacation@gmail.com]
RE: hey
Subject:
High
I'd rather be in Donni Dee's shoes.
Importance:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:43 AM
To: Mark L. Epstein
Subject: Re: hey
you mean DONNI TEE
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard.
Sent via tin can and string.
On Mar 21, 2018, at 09:37, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
wrote:
and i thought- I had tsuris
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Mark L. Epstein
Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
wrote:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: hey
All good. Bannon with me
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
How are you doing?
A while back you mentioned that you were prediabetic. Has anything changed with that?
What is your boy Donald up to now?
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November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's a sad state of affairs that this is both more likely to end the Trump Presidency than the long list of other things that should, and that there's a nonzero chance it would lead to a sudden shift in conservative thought towards homosexual activities. "But the Greeks and Romans," etc.
Every time conservatives try to do the inane meme where their women are hotter, someone should post a collage of conservative guys who are aging like a deflated beach ball left in the sun. Seems like every day there's a new one.
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Every time conservatives try to do the inane meme where their women are hotter, someone should post a collage of conservative guys who are aging like a deflated beach ball left in the sun. Seems like every day there's a new one.
What Mrs. Lincoln simply refuses to understand is that Our American Cousin is actually a pretty solid play by 19th c. aesthetics.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What Mrs. Lincoln simply refuses to understand is that Our American Cousin is actually a pretty solid play by 19th c. aesthetics.
"FBI Director Kash Patel's Country-Singing Girlfriend Files Defamation Case with $5 Million Demand Over Claim She's an Israeli Spy" is a cursed headline in at least four different places.
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"FBI Director Kash Patel's Country-Singing Girlfriend Files Defamation Case with $5 Million Demand Over Claim She's an Israeli Spy" is a cursed headline in at least four different places.
If you learned today that lots of highly educated, well-to-do, overly confident elites write like balls, welcome to their broad orbit.
See, some people's time is too valuable for style that isn't outsourced, and for some reason, half the country still thinks it'd be immoral to tax them more.
See, some people's time is too valuable for style that isn't outsourced, and for some reason, half the country still thinks it'd be immoral to tax them more.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If you learned today that lots of highly educated, well-to-do, overly confident elites write like balls, welcome to their broad orbit.
See, some people's time is too valuable for style that isn't outsourced, and for some reason, half the country still thinks it'd be immoral to tax them more.
See, some people's time is too valuable for style that isn't outsourced, and for some reason, half the country still thinks it'd be immoral to tax them more.
Common but toxic weirdo belief. Alleviating temporary mild to moderate symptoms with relatively low-risk OTC medication is useful, safe, effective, and an overall outstanding medical advance, you popekilling "liberty for me but not for thee" jackass.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Common but toxic weirdo belief. Alleviating temporary mild to moderate symptoms with relatively low-risk OTC medication is useful, safe, effective, and an overall outstanding medical advance, you popekilling "liberty for me but not for thee" jackass.
In a deposition-speak, "So that's a yes?"
Not only did he do the bad thing, it's so widely known even the press secretary who was like 13 when it was happening knows he did the thing.
Not only did he do the bad thing, it's so widely known even the press secretary who was like 13 when it was happening knows he did the thing.
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In a deposition-speak, "So that's a yes?"
Not only did he do the bad thing, it's so widely known even the press secretary who was like 13 when it was happening knows he did the thing.
Not only did he do the bad thing, it's so widely known even the press secretary who was like 13 when it was happening knows he did the thing.
It does not diminish the victim part or the abject grossness of all this, but based on how this racket operates, they had to have paid that victim a modest boatload at some point, and Trump is not the only one on the payor side who knows about it.
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It does not diminish the victim part or the abject grossness of all this, but based on how this racket operates, they had to have paid that victim a modest boatload at some point, and Trump is not the only one on the payor side who knows about it.
An exhibit waiting for a plaintiff.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
An exhibit waiting for a plaintiff.
When evaluating whether a market is a potential bubble or not, it's helpful to review the following chart and ask yourself if the political-economic environment has turned the ? into a viable, lawful path.
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
When evaluating whether a market is a potential bubble or not, it's helpful to review the following chart and ask yourself if the political-economic environment has turned the ? into a viable, lawful path.
Well, he's not beating the totally soulless loser rap today, either, I see.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Well, he's not beating the totally soulless loser rap today, either, I see.
Oh, brother, go find the biggest of offs and fuck it.
Dave Portnoy is sounding the alarm on the rising wave of antisemitism.
awfulannouncing.com/barstool/dav...
awfulannouncing.com/barstool/dav...
Dave Portnoy sounds alarm on rise in antisemitism: 'It's every day now'
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy sounds the alarm on a rise in antisemitism during an interview with CBS News.
awfulannouncing.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Oh, brother, go find the biggest of offs and fuck it.
A fun ("fun") panel show topic would be debating which Republicans are performatively stupid versus actually stupid.
Many are easy: Kennedy, Marshall, Cruz, Vance, DeSantis, etc. fake being stupid, and poorly. Tuberville and Boebert are genuine. But Tillis or Chip Roy or Tim Scott? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Many are easy: Kennedy, Marshall, Cruz, Vance, DeSantis, etc. fake being stupid, and poorly. Tuberville and Boebert are genuine. But Tillis or Chip Roy or Tim Scott? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A fun ("fun") panel show topic would be debating which Republicans are performatively stupid versus actually stupid.
Many are easy: Kennedy, Marshall, Cruz, Vance, DeSantis, etc. fake being stupid, and poorly. Tuberville and Boebert are genuine. But Tillis or Chip Roy or Tim Scott? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Many are easy: Kennedy, Marshall, Cruz, Vance, DeSantis, etc. fake being stupid, and poorly. Tuberville and Boebert are genuine. But Tillis or Chip Roy or Tim Scott? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Frankly I'm not sure Maine as a political entity worked.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Frankly I'm not sure Maine as a political entity worked.
A strategy so bad even Jon Chait gets it.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes Jonathan Chait. Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A strategy so bad even Jon Chait gets it.
Primary every Senate Dem who votes for this thing when possible. You can't win at poker much less politics to lead a country folding every time the chips are down.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Primary every Senate Dem who votes for this thing when possible. You can't win at poker much less politics to lead a country folding every time the chips are down.
The NFL sells itself so easily that it's impressive how Fox managed to find one of the few things that resulted in an instant channel change on top of their off-putting Tom Brady campaign.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The NFL sells itself so easily that it's impressive how Fox managed to find one of the few things that resulted in an instant channel change on top of their off-putting Tom Brady campaign.
I'd post the "stop stop he's already dead" gif but it's a fact not in evidence that he was ever alive in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'd post the "stop stop he's already dead" gif but it's a fact not in evidence that he was ever alive in the first place.
Astonishing amounts of bas faith and theological ignorance.
What would Jesus do? Be like Charlie Brown and have hoes!
What would Jesus do? Be like Charlie Brown and have hoes!
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Astonishing amounts of bas faith and theological ignorance.
What would Jesus do? Be like Charlie Brown and have hoes!
What would Jesus do? Be like Charlie Brown and have hoes!
This is a perfectly cromulent amount of fun.
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a perfectly cromulent amount of fun.
A complete game changer in paying your bank interest.
For his next trick, Trump will propose ten-year auto loans.
For his next trick, Trump will propose ten-year auto loans.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A complete game changer in paying your bank interest.
For his next trick, Trump will propose ten-year auto loans.
For his next trick, Trump will propose ten-year auto loans.
If you ever have impostor syndrome, remember that there are dudes with more cash on hand than a Vegas casino vault who voted for this loser to potentially get a trillion dollar pay package. You're doing just fine.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If you ever have impostor syndrome, remember that there are dudes with more cash on hand than a Vegas casino vault who voted for this loser to potentially get a trillion dollar pay package. You're doing just fine.
This raises legal questions the same way that taking a baseball bat to your neighbor's dumb Harley wearing only a pith helmet and boots raises legal questions.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This raises legal questions the same way that taking a baseball bat to your neighbor's dumb Harley wearing only a pith helmet and boots raises legal questions.
If "divorced" were a country's executive branch:
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
If "divorced" were a country's executive branch:
Reminder that "economic" "advisor" Keven Hassett published a book in the autumn of 1999 arguing that stocks were undervalued and - this is on the cover - ackshually less risky than bonds (!).
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reminder that "economic" "advisor" Keven Hassett published a book in the autumn of 1999 arguing that stocks were undervalued and - this is on the cover - ackshually less risky than bonds (!).