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Chris Berez

@chrisberez.bsky.social
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Liverpool, Freiburg, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, Lynx, tennis. I love comics and cats. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 4h
I keep seeing this same report, worded the same way every time, that republicans in Congress are “pushing back,” but I have yet to see anything about what that means, other than just a few reps saying they don’t like it. Which is meaningless, and does nothing to stop it.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 6h
When Dems take the House, dragging Elon in front of Congress needs to be one of the numerous top priorities.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 6h
Trump meltdown incoming
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 7h
Probably the same dudes who think they could win a point off of Serena Williams. Men are dumb.
wired.com
Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 16h
No matter what happens the night of November 3rd, no matter if the blue tsunami materializes or not, I am going to make sure to have a bottle of champagne on ice; because even if all that happens is Susan Collins loses her precious Senate seat, I will pop the cork. That’s how much I loathe Collins.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Does… does she understand what her job actually is, or…?
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 12/10/2026
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reyes: Know what I find most frustrating about this? [Silence.] Gov't: No, your honor. Noting that the court was told repeatedly that nothing was happening and that there was no urgency, Reyes calls the Trump admin's behavior "completely beyond the pale" and their claims "preposterous."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026
"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The cell-site simulator warrants raise serious questions about both the accuracy of the information investigators presented to judges in their effort to obtain authorization for surveillance tool’s use, as well as why they sought such intrusive tracking to find Richardson in the first place.  

The affidavits supporting the applications to track Richardson claimed video showed Fort, Lemon, Richardson, and others “chanting with agitators.” Prosecutors have since conceded that Lemon and Fort did not chant. According to her lawyers, the government acknowledged that the false claim appeared in at least 15 warrant affidavits.  

DHS policy says cell-site simulators are deployed only “in the fraction of cases in which the capability is best suited to achieve specific public safety objectives,” but it’s unclear what specific public safety reason justified its use in this case. Investigators obtained a second simulator warrant to locate Richardson, then a senior at Temple University, two days before he walked up to a federal courthouse in Philadelphia and voluntarily surrendered. He was released on bond that afternoon.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump weaponized the DOJ against a 21-year-old college student for producing a video report. And a judge signed off on this.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
wired.com
Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
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Lynne @lynne-sails.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The Yale Budget Lab projects that staffing cuts will reduce IRS revenues by $600 billion over ten years."
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You know how they say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes? If you’re a lawyer standing in front of the bench, and the judge yells, “I am thoroughly unamused right now!” does your legal career flash before your eyes?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i see jacobin is publishing reactionary shit again ... much revolution; so wow.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump does not accept Congress is the legitimately elected and constitutionally empowered legislative body in this country. He is waging a yearslong, escalating campaign of rebellion, violence, and state terrorism against its authority and will stop at nothing short of its total disempowerment.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Conservatives have been screaming bloody murder that Jack Smith lawfully collected call data on Trump allies in 2023 and 2024. But executing a search warrant on Omar’s house a few weeks before the election is totally cool.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Friend, get hip Would I climb aboard this ship If I didn’t have odds the Earth was highly spherical?
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing can “fall apart” if it never existed to begin with. It was obvious when Trump posted that this morning that he was making it up out of thin air like always.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the kind of headline/article so specifically geared towards me it’s like it was engineered in a lab.
Screenshot of a Rolling Stone article titled "DO RUSH LIKE STEELY DAN? WE FOUND OUT THE ANSWER." The top image shows Geddy Lee playing a double-neck bass guitar alongside Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It really can’t be overstated: journalists threw themselves a big party celebrating the First Amendment, with Donald Trump as the guest of honor.
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine needs to continue its successful drone attacks on Russian refineries, and strikes in Russian cities as much as possible. Trump will respond by cutting off intelligence sharing, and when that happens, our allies in the Five Eyes need to retaliate by cutting us out.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah, all of them love Putin as much as Trump does. Its sickening.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
American taxpayers are now funding Putin’s campaign to wipe Ukraine from the face of the earth and erase its existence from living memory.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh you have got to be kidding me
cnbc.com
Trump strikes deal with Putin to supply Russian diesel to U.S. and global markets
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh man, RIP Mike Ditka
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Man, the recent slate of book adaptations have been getting absolutely savaged. The Dog Stars, Verity, Other Mommy (based on Incidents Around the House)… Really hope Whalefall bucks this trend.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All he ever does is play games. Issuing the same threat over and over that everyone on the planet knows by now he’s not going to ever carry out is the definition of “playing games.”
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great job, Jared Polis.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@dawnsummers.bsky.social Have you read NIGHT OBJECTS by Eli Raphael?
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know there’s a new outrage every 5 minutes with this administration—it’s a deluge of corruption and evil. But even so, this story is truly stunning. This isn’t a scandal, it’s a catastrophe. I mean, my god, it’s bad enough the way Jared’s awful father is behaving in France, this boggles the mind.
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Yankees lost and the world is a marginally better place than it was an hour ago.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SUCK IT YANKEES
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is not the kind of thing you worry about if you're leaving office and accept the other party might win an election in a couple of years.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Absolutely fucking not are you kidding me????
wapo.st
Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf course into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You guys I’m starting to think Scott Bessent may not have any idea what he is doing. I dunno, gut feeling.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Heckuva job, Bessent! Maybe you can try buying back bonds a third time. Working like a charm!
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gonna be difficult for Dems to do anything on day one when Mike Johnson refuses to seat them.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Kirsten Dunst Says Buh Bye
ALT: Kirsten Dunst Says Buh Bye
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Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey ebookers, you can get DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP for 2.99. That price abides. bookriot.com/category/dea...
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
God LANTERNS was fantastic.
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Chris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pneumonic plague out of Russia? Huh. Something about that sounds vaguely familiar…
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