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
Ah, yes, the thing Judy Garland is known for: marrying and reproducing with Vincent Minelli when she was in her 20s and he was in his 40s.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ah, yes, the thing Judy Garland is known for: marrying and reproducing with Vincent Minelli when she was in her 20s and he was in his 40s.
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.
This is a perfectly cromulent amount of fun.
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a perfectly cromulent amount of fun.
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 (!).
This case is about whether public school students in 2025 can call other public school students by pronouns the speaker chooses.
I'm on page 65, and they're rambling about the French Revolution and communism.
I've never been more convinced of the morals of this situation. What are we doing here?
I'm on page 65, and they're rambling about the French Revolution and communism.
I've never been more convinced of the morals of this situation. What are we doing here?
![ed., 1992). So, when revolutionaries guillotined Louis XVI in 1793, they called him “Citizen
Louis Capet.” Noah Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
372 (2017).
Like the French revolutionaries, communists also sought to revolutionize forms of address
for political ends. Communist regimes strongly encouraged and sometimes mandated use of
“comrade” instead of traditionally employed honorifics to refer to another person, just as the
French revolutionaries insisted on the use of “citizen.”22
That was not surprising. “[T]he history
of authoritarian government . . . shows how relentless authoritarian regimes are in their attempts
to stifle free speech . . . .” Nat’l Inst. of Fam. & Life Advoc. v. Becerra, 585 U.S. 755, 780 (2018)
(Kennedy, J., concurring).
Governments in the United States—federal or state—never operated that way. Our
Constitution forbids mandatory use of certain titles to refer to others. Under Article I, the federal
government may not grant titles of nobility, and public-office holders may not accept such titles
from foreign governments without Congressional approval. See U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8. States
enacted similar provisions in their constitutions and declarations of rights.23
Yet no law has ever
prevented non-officeholders from using such titles as forms of address.24
And although
Jeffersonian Republicans tried to convince Americans to refer to each other as citizen, American
law never mandated it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohzrxr6bqzrfkdwxtosdflxv/bafkreiau5rrqdpl7krbxiscw72dxv4trsvm52k2groacow5heiget3ws2q@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This case is about whether public school students in 2025 can call other public school students by pronouns the speaker chooses.
I'm on page 65, and they're rambling about the French Revolution and communism.
I've never been more convinced of the morals of this situation. What are we doing here?
I'm on page 65, and they're rambling about the French Revolution and communism.
I've never been more convinced of the morals of this situation. What are we doing here?
"In the 1970s 1 in 50 Americans were on food stamps and now it's 1 in 8."
ReaganGraph time!
ReaganGraph time!
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"In the 1970s 1 in 50 Americans were on food stamps and now it's 1 in 8."
ReaganGraph time!
ReaganGraph time!
I'm going to be soooo ticked off if I find out Israel is actually cutting checks to some of you weirdos for the same content I'm pumping out for free. I'm going to, like, put your lawn decorations in offensive positions and such.
October 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm going to be soooo ticked off if I find out Israel is actually cutting checks to some of you weirdos for the same content I'm pumping out for free. I'm going to, like, put your lawn decorations in offensive positions and such.
With apologies to everyone, I can't help but hear that sort of weirdo fetish stuff being said by Jon Lovitz playing the devil
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
With apologies to everyone, I can't help but hear that sort of weirdo fetish stuff being said by Jon Lovitz playing the devil
This isn't even well-thought troll slop. Like a single payload of manure is going to phase anyone walking in a big city downtown.
October 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This isn't even well-thought troll slop. Like a single payload of manure is going to phase anyone walking in a big city downtown.
Wonderful video that reinforces a theater/rhetoric lesson you can see in, e.g., last year's halftime show: move laterally while maintaining engagement with your audience when you really want to drive home a point. This guy dominates the scene from the background, and you know he's right.
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Wonderful video that reinforces a theater/rhetoric lesson you can see in, e.g., last year's halftime show: move laterally while maintaining engagement with your audience when you really want to drive home a point. This guy dominates the scene from the background, and you know he's right.
Congrats to the Brewers for somehow making me root for the bleeping Dodgers and taking another L tonight.
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Congrats to the Brewers for somehow making me root for the bleeping Dodgers and taking another L tonight.
Every dude pictured in this article looks like a love child JB Pritzker doesn't want anyone knowing about for good reason.
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Every dude pictured in this article looks like a love child JB Pritzker doesn't want anyone knowing about for good reason.
Fetish ass behavior that's completely disrespectful towards any intended use of this site as an open space for idea exchange.
October 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Fetish ass behavior that's completely disrespectful towards any intended use of this site as an open space for idea exchange.
My Chicago gang affiliation paraphernalia:
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My Chicago gang affiliation paraphernalia:
It's Sgt. Pepper's lonely broken can.
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's Sgt. Pepper's lonely broken can.
Same. Opportunities for small dose humor here.
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Same. Opportunities for small dose humor here.
In a fun twist Bluesky suddenly becomes the number one internet place of [redacted] remembrance as users post his photograph to protest local management moderation decisions.
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In a fun twist Bluesky suddenly becomes the number one internet place of [redacted] remembrance as users post his photograph to protest local management moderation decisions.
In the continuing saga of conservatives not understanding media, they're sacreligiously using clips from Twin Peaks - a show where exclusively pasty white PNWers (scoundels of the nation, really) did bad things - to advertise how good life will be when undocumented folks are deported.
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In the continuing saga of conservatives not understanding media, they're sacreligiously using clips from Twin Peaks - a show where exclusively pasty white PNWers (scoundels of the nation, really) did bad things - to advertise how good life will be when undocumented folks are deported.
It's still whiplash-inducing how quickly masks are bad because criminals protect themselves became masks are good because that's how law enforcement can protect themselves without any apparent acknowledgement that criminals can costume themselves like law enforcement.
Same people and everything.
Same people and everything.
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's still whiplash-inducing how quickly masks are bad because criminals protect themselves became masks are good because that's how law enforcement can protect themselves without any apparent acknowledgement that criminals can costume themselves like law enforcement.
Same people and everything.
Same people and everything.
So utterly devoid of gravitas, juice, rizz, whatever that you can slide his words seamlessly into Tim Robinson character dialogue. I call this the Tim Robinson Test.
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So utterly devoid of gravitas, juice, rizz, whatever that you can slide his words seamlessly into Tim Robinson character dialogue. I call this the Tim Robinson Test.
Apparently I have a different definition of "scientific" and "confirmed" than The Guardian.
September 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Apparently I have a different definition of "scientific" and "confirmed" than The Guardian.
You serve the public faithfully for four decades and this one little insignificant thing happens.
![Wiki article copy for Brown's Chicken & Pasta:
Brown's Chicken & Pasta
Brown's Chicken & Pasta, also known simply as Brown's Chicken, is an American chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken. It is based in the Chicago metropolitan area.
History
The chain traces its origins to 1949, when John and Belva Brown opened a restaurant in Bridgeview, Illinois. Brown's expanded to many locations throughout the United States in the 1970s. In the 1980s, pasta was added to the menu and eventually to the name of the company. In the 1990s, a traditional grill named "The Chicago Way" was added to all Brown's restaurants. After 2005, the company contracted their locations to exclusively within the Chicago metropolitan area. Former company president Frank Portillo is the brother of Dick Portillo, founder and former owner of The Portillo Restaurant Group, which was sold to Berkshire Partners in 2014. According to the company's website, there are 22 restaurants as of 2024.
Brown's Chicken massacre
Main article: Brown's Chicken massacre
On January 8, 1993, the Brown's Chicken massacre occurred at a Palatine, Illinois, branch. Seven people were killed, including both owners and five employees, all of whom were found bound in the walk-in freezer. In 2002, James Degorski and Juan Luna were arrested for the murders.[1] In May 2007, Luna was convicted for his part in the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.[1] On September 28, 2009, James Degorski was found guilty of the murders.[2] The massacre had an adverse effect on the entire Brown's Chicken chain. Sales at all restaurants dropped by 35 percent within months of the incident, and the company eventually closed 100 restaurants in the Chicago area.[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohzrxr6bqzrfkdwxtosdflxv/bafkreihx7vvxdnsfdffbtv27r2n6hpt7fn4hft45dcfcx5jucipj2q44pm@jpeg)
September 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You serve the public faithfully for four decades and this one little insignificant thing happens.
Not the worst thing in this trainwreck at the goat rodeo, but how seamlessly they can do the meme.
September 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Not the worst thing in this trainwreck at the goat rodeo, but how seamlessly they can do the meme.