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
Eat real food, from the most disastrous administration for domestic healthy food agriculture in the history of the country.
By real food he of course means the most overdone tasteless steak anyone has ever seen
February 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Eat real food, from the most disastrous administration for domestic healthy food agriculture in the history of the country.
The politicization of basic manners as a power establishment tool is extremely toxic behavior and it would be nice if a larger chunk of the country could recognize that in political spaces as they indisputably would in a workplace or social setting.
Tom Homan on Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey: "They ought to be saying 'thank you.'"
February 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The politicization of basic manners as a power establishment tool is extremely toxic behavior and it would be nice if a larger chunk of the country could recognize that in political spaces as they indisputably would in a workplace or social setting.
Here's good news for everyone with "comptroller race update ends with 'where state officials now want to dig for bodies'" on their bingo cards, and absolutely no one else.
February 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Here's good news for everyone with "comptroller race update ends with 'where state officials now want to dig for bodies'" on their bingo cards, and absolutely no one else.
This is a significant and totally preventable, however I would note that "I can beat the house!" is a pervasive mindset in American dude culture that preexists and goes beyond online gambling.
"Surveys have found that nineteen percent of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and 37 percent of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction."
Via @aselrod.bsky.social, we have a problem...we're creating a terminally online generation:
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
Via @aselrod.bsky.social, we have a problem...we're creating a terminally online generation:
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
This is a significant and totally preventable, however I would note that "I can beat the house!" is a pervasive mindset in American dude culture that preexists and goes beyond online gambling.
Drugs have nothing on the impact to the brain of becoming a minor media celebrity.
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Drugs have nothing on the impact to the brain of becoming a minor media celebrity.
Short of it being a Gacy/Bundy situation I have zero interest in incarcerating an 80-something, but hard no on this part.
Prison schmison, force her into Chapter 7 and give every unsecured penny above the exemption line to the wrongful death claimants.
Prison schmison, force her into Chapter 7 and give every unsecured penny above the exemption line to the wrongful death claimants.
February 14, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Short of it being a Gacy/Bundy situation I have zero interest in incarcerating an 80-something, but hard no on this part.
Prison schmison, force her into Chapter 7 and give every unsecured penny above the exemption line to the wrongful death claimants.
Prison schmison, force her into Chapter 7 and give every unsecured penny above the exemption line to the wrongful death claimants.
This company somehow manages to be as toxic as the tobacco companies or the sportsbooks, which I guess isn't surprising given that nerds stalking hotties was one of the original uses of it.
We need to make wearing this crap as socially unacceptable as being an ICE agent.
We need to make wearing this crap as socially unacceptable as being an ICE agent.
We used AI to find the moment of social unrest most optimized to distract from our launch of the Torment Nexus
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This company somehow manages to be as toxic as the tobacco companies or the sportsbooks, which I guess isn't surprising given that nerds stalking hotties was one of the original uses of it.
We need to make wearing this crap as socially unacceptable as being an ICE agent.
We need to make wearing this crap as socially unacceptable as being an ICE agent.
You hardly have to hand it to the administration, but the status quo has Americans with private health insurance effectively subsidizing medical research for people in countries with better healthcare outcomes and standards of living, and even though it aligns me with stupid people, I hate that.
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 PM
You hardly have to hand it to the administration, but the status quo has Americans with private health insurance effectively subsidizing medical research for people in countries with better healthcare outcomes and standards of living, and even though it aligns me with stupid people, I hate that.
In honor of the Sticky Toffee Pudding reviewer being on Bluesky I am pleased to announce that with sufficient funding I am willing to do this bit but with a quintessentially American treat like strawberry shortcake or pecan pie, and a wildly over the top southern accent.
I've just reviewed my 51st Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?
February 12, 2026 at 10:54 PM
In honor of the Sticky Toffee Pudding reviewer being on Bluesky I am pleased to announce that with sufficient funding I am willing to do this bit but with a quintessentially American treat like strawberry shortcake or pecan pie, and a wildly over the top southern accent.
Another example for the file where moderate Democrats take the position likely held by a plurality of Americans and get absolutely no credit for it whatsoever from the same media that demands moderate Democrats to be more in touch with common folk.
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Another example for the file where moderate Democrats take the position likely held by a plurality of Americans and get absolutely no credit for it whatsoever from the same media that demands moderate Democrats to be more in touch with common folk.
Particularly with law, LLM tech has game-changing potential but the evangelists have done it zero favors by trying to make an all-purposes conversation tool.
Imagine hiring an incredibly skilled legal assistant who nonetheless acts like ChatGPT around the office. I'd shoot them from a cannon.
Imagine hiring an incredibly skilled legal assistant who nonetheless acts like ChatGPT around the office. I'd shoot them from a cannon.
Tech people have a pattern where they stumble up to basically any area of human endeavor and underestimate / misunderstand what is being done so wildly that they immediately start yapping about how whatever new shiny they are trying to sell can totally replace the whole discipline or industry.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Particularly with law, LLM tech has game-changing potential but the evangelists have done it zero favors by trying to make an all-purposes conversation tool.
Imagine hiring an incredibly skilled legal assistant who nonetheless acts like ChatGPT around the office. I'd shoot them from a cannon.
Imagine hiring an incredibly skilled legal assistant who nonetheless acts like ChatGPT around the office. I'd shoot them from a cannon.
A fun lawyer party game is who could indict Pam Bondi in the most clever but plausible way. There are a LOT of federal laws.
Did you know Bondi was living in Florida when the Aileen Wuornos murders happened? Just an interesting coincidence... or is it? Pour me another Old Fashioned and find out.
Did you know Bondi was living in Florida when the Aileen Wuornos murders happened? Just an interesting coincidence... or is it? Pour me another Old Fashioned and find out.
Rep. Lieu: "I believe you just lied under oath."
Pam Bondi: "Don't you ever accuse me of a crime!"
Rep. Lieu: "I believe you just lied under oath and this is all on videotape."
Pam Bondi: "Don't you ever accuse me of a crime!"
Rep. Lieu: "I believe you just lied under oath and this is all on videotape."
February 11, 2026 at 11:09 PM
A fun lawyer party game is who could indict Pam Bondi in the most clever but plausible way. There are a LOT of federal laws.
Did you know Bondi was living in Florida when the Aileen Wuornos murders happened? Just an interesting coincidence... or is it? Pour me another Old Fashioned and find out.
Did you know Bondi was living in Florida when the Aileen Wuornos murders happened? Just an interesting coincidence... or is it? Pour me another Old Fashioned and find out.
What is Malört? The scientists researching it aren't sure either. Experiments conducted with the liquid are producing fascinating results - and raising questions about the nature of selfhood.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
What is Malört? The scientists researching it aren't sure either. Experiments conducted with the liquid are producing fascinating results - and raising questions about the nature of selfhood.
I mean, she's technically right that we should be talking about what the stock market has been doing recently but in a different room and with a different tone.
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I mean, she's technically right that we should be talking about what the stock market has been doing recently but in a different room and with a different tone.
Well if I didn't know any better I'd say MarkWayne Mullin is talking out of his ass.
Mullin: "When you start talking judicial warrants -- it would be basically making every arrest, even if its a traffic stop, that's like making judicial warrants only possible to arrest somebody w/ a DUI. It's same concept as having judicial warrants for arresting someone entering country illegally"
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Well if I didn't know any better I'd say MarkWayne Mullin is talking out of his ass.
"Every April, I get a bill where my labor is stolen from me at gunpoint," writes a man whose entire professional existence derives from the government providing forums for dispute resolution in a manner that is economically beneficial to him.
Here’s the whole sad bag of pathology if you can stomach it. What an absolute subnormal.
February 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
"Every April, I get a bill where my labor is stolen from me at gunpoint," writes a man whose entire professional existence derives from the government providing forums for dispute resolution in a manner that is economically beneficial to him.
Alternatively you could not voluntarily contribute to a publicly traded company running what is transparently a mass surveillance op.
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Alternatively you could not voluntarily contribute to a publicly traded company running what is transparently a mass surveillance op.
Trying to think of a worse slogan to put on a protest sign and it's tough without resorting to blunt bigotry. "Blue lives matter" somehow makes a better point than this sign.
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Trying to think of a worse slogan to put on a protest sign and it's tough without resorting to blunt bigotry. "Blue lives matter" somehow makes a better point than this sign.
Musk psychology is, for whatever reason, completely averse to doing anything that is feasible or beneficial to society.
Why not Antarctica? Why not the Sahara, Siberia, or northern Canada? Why not rain forest preservation/ecotourism? All of these places are way easier and superior to the moon.
Why not Antarctica? Why not the Sahara, Siberia, or northern Canada? Why not rain forest preservation/ecotourism? All of these places are way easier and superior to the moon.
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Musk psychology is, for whatever reason, completely averse to doing anything that is feasible or beneficial to society.
Why not Antarctica? Why not the Sahara, Siberia, or northern Canada? Why not rain forest preservation/ecotourism? All of these places are way easier and superior to the moon.
Why not Antarctica? Why not the Sahara, Siberia, or northern Canada? Why not rain forest preservation/ecotourism? All of these places are way easier and superior to the moon.
ProTip: read this bitchletter in Grandpa Simpson's voice.
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
ProTip: read this bitchletter in Grandpa Simpson's voice.
[Staring at Picasso's Guernica]
Well, obviously nothing political here. There ain't even words on it!
Well, obviously nothing political here. There ain't even words on it!
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
[Staring at Picasso's Guernica]
Well, obviously nothing political here. There ain't even words on it!
Well, obviously nothing political here. There ain't even words on it!
More Americans speak Spanish as a first language now than spoke English as a first language at the end of the Civil War.
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 AM
More Americans speak Spanish as a first language now than spoke English as a first language at the end of the Civil War.
All these dickweasels spent tons on lousy AI and A(ish)-list celebs and all they had to do was find Marshawn Lynch and hold a single camera in front of him while he talked.
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
All these dickweasels spent tons on lousy AI and A(ish)-list celebs and all they had to do was find Marshawn Lynch and hold a single camera in front of him while he talked.
Other than the halftime show all of this is so embarrassing for America. Lousy football nestled between lousy AI commercials. And now we can't even say we got a shutout.
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Other than the halftime show all of this is so embarrassing for America. Lousy football nestled between lousy AI commercials. And now we can't even say we got a shutout.
I can't read the article because democracy dies from not spending $4 on something I don't support, and I know this is a losing battle, but can we please retire using the word "hypocrite" to describe anyone wanting to the edit the rule book who doesn't self-handicap? It's the dumbest criticism.
Surprise, the Washington Trump-Post is opposed to gerrymanders that favor Democrats! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I can't read the article because democracy dies from not spending $4 on something I don't support, and I know this is a losing battle, but can we please retire using the word "hypocrite" to describe anyone wanting to the edit the rule book who doesn't self-handicap? It's the dumbest criticism.