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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 7h

If there is a branding lane for “the cheese loving lawyer,” I am prepared to fill it.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I find inspiring is the deep, genuine affection that they have for each other—a bond that politics cannot break.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One problem with the Hasan Piker line of attacks is that maybe 98% of humanity is unaware he exists, and of those who have heard of his existence, approximately 90% know nothing more than his name.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suspect, but don’t know, that a stance like this would raise eyebrows at the NFL Scouting Combine.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an incredibly stupid cross examination question. The witness is never going to give you a clean yes or no on this. They will provide context and make the question and questioner look stupid.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tax cuts cannot pay for themselves. It’s called “math” and basic economics. Suppose $100 profit/income and 30% tax rate. That means $30 in taxes. Now suppose we lower taxes to 20%. We get $10 less in taxes. How much growth is needed to make up that $10? You need $50 in growth: $150 x 20% = $30 1/

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just asking questions, folks. “Hawks” and “Hawkeyes” may seem like different team names, but we don’t have to accept whatever “Big Dictionary” tries to spoon feed us.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the part of the story that never made it into that Whitney Houston cover of “I Will Always Love You.”

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The exotic legal theory that consumer protection laws can form the basis of liability for running or publishing inaccurate polls has met its inevitable demise. Maybe Seltzer will file a malicious prosecution claim. But the more likely outcome is that she moves on with her life.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The federal tort claims act exists for claims like this. It’s not anywhere close to full justice, but there needs to be accountability.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Had an online tussle with an anonymous account who said I was psycho and demonic (of course I blocked). My offense? I said we should have immigration enforcement, but it should be like Canada’s not like ICE. This person believed that immigration laws are cruel, and there should be no enforcement. 1/

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This time, unlike the dozens of other times, the rhetorical brinksmanship will work.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hmmm. You say my advocacy creates mortal dangers? Well what if I just maintain that it doesn’t no matter the evidence?

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The “truth” is that Fetterman regularly goes on right wing programs to bash his own party. No one else, on the right or left, regularly goes on shows catering to their opponents’ audience to bash their own party. That’s not a “smear” I heard. That’s what I see with my own eyes, regularly.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Kennedy Center, like the reflecting pool, is 100% Trump-manufactured. If literally any other human being were President, this crisis would not exist.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am unfamiliar with this legal defense. Few reported cases discuss it.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The argument is that you cannot redraw a map after the primary. As someone who has litigated these issues, the way to handle this is a nonpartisan special election for the Missouri congressional delegation on the same date as the general election. That’s what happened in TX in 2006.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you like paperwork? May I suggest going to a medical or dental appointment of any type, no matter how minor.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How does this make us more secure?

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My guess is that we as species never figured out time travel because I seldom see people dropping from random portals that spontaneously appear and then disappear in the sky.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Kona shaved ice truck has decided that a Northern Virginia youth girl’s soccer game is better suited to attracting their ideal client than, say, the annual Actuarial Research Conference.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just asking questions, folks. We don’t have to accept whatever Big Palentology tries to spoon feed us.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mythologies like these are calculated to provide a pretext for stealing our rights (in addition to our pens, in Paxton’s case).

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Senate pens are slated to be much safer if Talarico prevails. Keep the Senate safe from Paxton the pen purloiner.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Real talk: the one year anniversary of my good friend taking his own life is right around the corner. And I miss him. Look at this smiling ginger mother lover… How can you not miss a fella like this?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Senator Collins didn’t only vote for Kavanaugh, she spoke at length in defense of his nomination on the Senate floor. She insisted that she was right about Kavanaugh’s approach to Roe and everyone else was wrong. Here is her speech: www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDF...

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Fox anti-defamation training is kicking in.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One small mercy to which every recently deceased person should be entitled is to have Trump abstain from saying anything about your life whatsoever.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s a damn disgrace that an innocent man who represented America in multiple Olympics and did nothing wrong was arrested and charged with a federal crime by hack Jeanine Pirro solely because Trump doesn’t want to admit he fucked up the pool with his usual incompetence.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Can’t win by escalating. Can’t win by withdrawing. A quagmire.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

These movements always rely on double standards. Impose on your adversaries an impossible burden of proof and 100% accuracy standard. Relieve yourself of any burden of proof while excusing all of your own errors.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We all love Jimothy … but we must never forget to spare some room in our hearts for loving the Constitution as well.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If the goal is security, and not voter suppression, why not authorize smartphone voting using facial recognition apps (which we use for banking and many other secure transactions) so any smartphone user doesn’t even need to go to the polls?

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is how I would do it if I were an armadillo.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Will your ego survive my witty social media riposte? That is a peril you must consider when you “stir the pot” on my feed.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Riddle me this, all you clean energy fanatics: what about when the sun goes ⬇️ at night! Checkmate, environment. Checkmate.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s interesting to watch senators try to ad lib a pretext, other than “that’s what the boss wants,” for supporting some random berserk Trump policies.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

January 6 was literally a declaration of war against free and fair elections. We had an election, and Biden was the clear winner. Having tried, and failed, dozens of times to reverse the election through courts and by pressuring state officials, Trump fomented a violent insurrection instead.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Suing and settling is common. What’s uncommon is to sue an entity you control and then settle with yourself. Since this distinction is obvious and easy to understand, ignoring it to make a false equivalence argument looks dishonest.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Reactions to the death of Roger B. Taney infamous author of the Dred Scott decision:

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Worldwide.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am always here for a tremendous pedant

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