Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

The US domestic (family) court system, in Ohio in particular, has become functionally corrupt.

The Ohio bar association has co-opted the domestic court system for their own revenue generating stream. The judges profit from kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions every four years from the very attorneys are supposed to be judging against, this is not just the appearance of corruption it is a system built on it.

On top of that, all the judgments are sealed and secret, meaning that there's zero records and zero accountability for any judges or lawyers in the system. This means the judges only incentive is to judge in a way that is most in line with his best interest. In practice this means that what little data we have shows that almost every time the judge finds in favor of whichever attorney donated the most money to his campaign.

This has been going on for the better part of 20 years and is the reason that 85% of divorces end with single parent custody in Ohio, it's because the judges are getting paid off.

I'm blowing the whistle, working on websites, printing signs, sending out mailers, Court watching and taking notes on these corrupt evil fucks, doing anything and everything I can to get the word out that the Franklin County Ohio domestic court system in particularly has been corrupted by a small group of judges, mainly Judge James Brown. I'm doing everything I can to get the word out about these evil and corrupt judges, the biggest hurdle seems to be how much money they are making and that people believe that once a lawyer gets rich and powerful enough they're uncorruptible, which is the exact opposite of the truth. The judges are the ones running a corrupt, pay to play, system of kickbacks with themselves at the top. The judges are the top lawyers and the lawyers are pieces of shit.

They are literally horse trading children like they're chips at the casino and what they've done to a generation of young people and millennial fathers is pure evil.

https://www.brief.audio -> Have a go, we're primarily testing internally atm, will look to make it more available and a bit more polished next week.

Primary focus is getting the content right this week with the audio script and hosts being user & content dependent. :)

Especially interested in hearing what content to pipe in (we're looking to put in our hackernews.coffee as a feed for example, but also other key news sources).