Kate Sharon Zacharia, aka Katie, graduated from Pepperdine Law. She has a JD, if you will. But a Juris Doctor is a degree, and a degree doesn't make you a lawyer, an attorney, or anyone's general counsel.

Those take a license, and Katie comes up short in that department. California's State Bar told CNN it has no record of her, and Popular Information searched all 50 states plus D.C. and came up empty. I dug through The Florida Bar's directory and found nothing either.

No worries, says Katie. She passed the bar "when I moved to China."

It's Chyna, dearie. That's the accepted pronunciation in your orange-tinted tribe.

Editor's Note: Sorry, it's Jyyyna.

Down here in the Sunshine State, Zacharia has worked as "general counsel" for Trump Media, which is headquartered in Sarasota. Under Florida Statute 454.23, holding yourself out as qualified to practice law here without a license is a third-degree felony. It's called the Unlicensed Practice of Law, or UPL, so I dashed off a 22-page complaint to The Florida Bar, plus one to California, where similar shenanigans went on.

This being Reddit, the trolls will chime in: "Who's this Chudley guy, and what does he know?"

Well, unlike Ms. Katie, I don't claim to be a lawyer, and I don't hand out legal advice. I file paperwork, and I do it really well. Those of you familiar with my work can vouch for that.

Last year I sent six UPL complaints to the Bar's Tampa office, the same office that will look at Zacharia. All six were accepted and investigated, and they're now before the local UPL committee. I know how this process works.

The Bar makes the call. I just hand them the record.

Full writeup, with sources:
https://chazstevens.substack.com/p/im-a-lawyer

Say it with me! "Zelensky, you missed a spot!"

Anytime someone says some pro-Trump, pro-right wing, pro-fascism comment online, how can anyone know that it's a real person with a legitimate opinion and not an AI agent trained to spread propaganda online. The obvious drop of online pro-right opinion makes it easy to think that anyone expressing the same type of opinion is just a bot being run from a data center that wasn't destroyed.

Let's make any real person feel alone with their opinion by reminding them that their opinion is likely the same as a Russian bot by saying, "Zelensky, you missed a spot!"

Trump's motorcade, Youngstown, Oct. 12th, shot from 9 feet up as it rolled down Front Street toward the Covelli Centre.

An estimated 500 protesters lined the route. Most of us were stretched along the north side of Front St. A Mahoning Valley group packed the corner by the Courthouse at Market and Front, and another big crowd held down Walnut and Front, right by the arena.

What he heard on the way in:

"F*** Donald Trump!"

"Where's the Human Binky?"

"Where's the food truck for him to hide in?"

Then he went inside, talked to a lot of empty seats, and told the crowd about Sen. Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body... I looked at his a**." He also admired Husted's jawline.

Same arena where he told the crowd J.D. Vance was "kissing my a**" in 2022. Some traditions never die.

Trump isn't on the ballot, but Trumpism is. Vote early.

This is not a meme.

Phallic Philanthropy

For eight months, the residents of Elm Street begged the city council to fix a cluster of tire-popping potholes right outside a local primary school. The city repeatedly claimed they lacked the budget and manpower, advising residents to “just drive carefully”…

Frustrated by the council doing sweet-FA, an anonymous local artist who goes by ‘Wanksy’ took matters into their own hands.

Under the cover of night, they used bright, neon industrial spray paint to draw highly detailed, unmissable adult anatomy around every single crater.

Parents complained about the “obscene” artwork by 7:30am. By noon, the city council suddenly found the budget. A crew arrived with a hot-mix asphalt truck, and every single pothole was permanently filled and paved over before the school bell rang at 3:00pm.

(The screenshot taken from Wanksy’s Instagram [that is not a meme] says “sponge-nob square pants”) 🙂

My audio wagon in front of the Portland ICE facility. The punk band Gottlieb Punk has a 10-hour track of this. I've played it in Tacoma for new DHS recruits and the GEO corp security trolls.

This is heard inside the building. People inside have told me it's really loud. You can hear it echoing down the South waterfront. Those are Harbinger Vari 4415 speakers and an OUPES Mega 1 power bank. About $1,600 altogether. It took me a couple of months of overtime and donations to pull it together.

The full audio track is on YouTube. search "Gottlieb 535 alameda" for the 10hr track. Anyone can do this. Don't wait for an invite to disrupt the system.

OC: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeVOOnIzxTq/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canadian-youtuber-builds-flock-like-camera-to-exclusively-track-police-vehicles-officers-visit-his-home-to-express-privacy-concerns

Does satire of lawful evil count as chaotic good?

We were there to leave banners. No engagement with guards or detainees. And the quiet arrival, placing of banners, and walking off freaked out the guards.

Making fascists uneasy is good work. This is behind the concentration camp, er, i mean ICE Detention Center. And yes, the rail road tracks give it a haunting call out to the darkest history.

We will never become comfortably numb.

For those who don't know who Victor Marx is, here's John Oliver telling you all about him: https://youtu.be/lIHQoheG7TY?is=8M3ze9ovaJ_JZr-P

Being that I can't wait for Halloween and the next No Kings Day is Oct 17th, I put together this little mashup of monsters.

With kindergarten glue stick skills and minimal proficiency in Photoshop, I make these masks and design the posters and stickers and then beg and bully my friends to do dumb street theater stuff with me. It's actually a great antidepressant. If we don't fight these monsters now with everything we've got, we may not be able to do so later.

Song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers ‧ 1962

Lenticular graphics inspired by John Carpenter's They Live