Reposted by Chris PolitoBiggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 4hFun Fact: Harm is not just physical 1123833960
Reposted by Chris PolitoJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Appropriations are passed for the Department of Defense. There is no funding apparatus for the nonexistent Department of War. 426834
Reposted by Chris PolitoJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it. 231418309
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Out of law school I worked for a lawyer who HATED Eric Deters. I remember one of my jobs was reviewing Facebook pics where Deters dressed up as the Dixie HS student who slept with Deters' client who was also a Ben Gal. 140
Reposted by Chris PolitoLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/10/20269-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...reuters.comTesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle. 718580
Reposted by Chris Politoderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that. 1833820402
Reposted by Chris PolitoRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Well, that is certainly a way of picking a law school dean that will produce a result. 3723725
Reposted by Chris PolitoThe Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.comCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The FutureITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri... 282804384
Reposted by Chris PolitoBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026the White House press ban lawsuit isn't the first time Trump’s DOJ has argued that the govt can single people out for worse treatment because of their viewpoints, and that the First Amendment doesn’t say anything about it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Trump White House Keeps Treating the First Amendment as More of a SuggestionWhere normal people see “rights,” the White House sees privileges that the president may grant or withhold as he sees fit. 04114
Reposted by Chris PolitoShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026now I may not be a fan of the potato, but we didn't even have it or tomato in India till the Irish brought them there and our cuisine is basically unrecognisable without them and there's a version of this for most places 1842813
Reposted by Chris PolitoJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 151047260
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to believe that's allowed on Twitter where naming Elon's favorite racist cartoonist gets you a ban. 011
Reposted by Chris Politomissingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's been pretty funny to see John Bolton have to say 'Not like that' over and over again to the Actually Existing Iran War after advocating for it for forty years. 240436
Reposted by Chris PolitoMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026really cool world, lots of neat ruins to explore and hints of lore, could benefit from actual well written quests or npcs that are worth remembering outside of memes 92442
Reposted by Chris PolitoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan. 181107282237
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bengals Special Teams really trying to keep this close. 000
Reposted by Chris PolitoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026"Americans might elect a normal Dem in '28 who will try to repair relations. But what if they opt for another insane Canadian-hating demagogue? From Canada's perspective, what’s the point of signing a contract with Dr. Jekyll when Mr. Hyde might emerge later, betray you, & tear up the whole thing?"publicnotice.coThe view from Canada: Make America Think AgainRebuilding trust will take generations. 1061538316
Reposted by Chris PolitoRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 26/09/2026What a weird way to admit that you've surrounded yourself with exclusively sycophants that would freak out about your clothes but not about y'all shared complicity in destroying all life and peace and freedom on Earth in pursuit of more money, Mark. 832020
Reposted by Chris Politothemamu.bsky.social @themamu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026These reporters not correcting them on facts makes this continue 123273
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm in the same boat as the person above. $1,200 for a new water heater installed over a holiday weekend. 020
Reposted by Chris PolitoC. Majuscula @c-majuscula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Our last water heater replacement was $1200 and that included the water heater, installation, and hauling the old one off. $9k is just robbery. We do have one of those companies in my area - very slick vans and marketing but they scaremonger and then estimate 2-3x what is reasonable. 1153
Reposted by Chris PolitoElise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auOpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM saysAnthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach. 411248461
Reposted by Chris PolitoI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk. 2532441055
Reposted by Chris PolitoJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hangtime is the study of the time interval between first public notice of a rising right/MAGA/manosphere influencer and their first rape/sexual assault indictment www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...thebulwark.comSCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, DruggingThe manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor. 431668406
Reposted by Chris Polito🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886282302
Reposted by Chris PolitoFrovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery 182545506
Reposted by Chris PolitoPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188137462918
Reposted by Chris PolitoKatherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I thought this was a joke 0536
Reposted by Chris PolitoJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy. 22750123
Reposted by Chris PolitoPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"The Republican Party puts its head down and says, 'We lost. Keep doing the same thing, but harder, we’ll win the next election.' The Democratic Party tends to over-interpret defeat and victory. We’re still hearing about Carville 30 years after he won one election," says @edburmila.bsky.social. 213219
Reposted by Chris PolitoThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the most masculine video on the internet right now 337185625077
Reposted by Chris PolitoGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16/09/2026a lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful. 1223464331
Reposted by Chris PolitoLes LeMieux @leslemieux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm thinking there's a Pulitzer Prize waiting for the reporter dicovering the identity of the FBI applicant who engaged in beastiality and what their relationship is to Kash Patel causing him to change the standard and allow that person into the agency. 401146194
Reposted by Chris Politojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons. 1035972951
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's really not hard to skip a show. There are so many shows I skip. It's not like there's a huge shortage of content vying for our attention. 0100
Reposted by Chris PolitoSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026shit like this is why i say the press are a bunch of chickenshits. "oh they yelled at us so we just dumped it on youtube" you fucking cowards, air it anyways and dare them to sue you then put the threats in the court record. air a title card saying "THE US GOVERNMENT ORDERED THIS NOT AIR", come on 472082442
Reposted by Chris Politomenos-es-mas.bsky.social @menos-es-mas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Nearly all American history can be understood as an argument over two words in its founding declaration's most famous line - over whether its self-evident truths applied to all people or just some of them. The throughline connecting the Confederacy to today's right wing is... 113536
Reposted by Chris PolitoChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561091621
Reposted by Chris Politoshintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 4360283
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A product that doesn't do what's advertised is not much different from one that doesn't exist. She had the charisma and skill to sell VC on a fake product. It's easy to build a big organization when people hand you millions of dollars and you don't have to spend that on the product. 020
Chris Polito @litig8or.bsky.social · 07/09/2026How do you gauge her talent as a "founder" when she's 0 for 1? It seems like it'd be easy to succeed when you're allowed to lie to your investors and sell them a nonexistent product. 021
Reposted by Chris PolitoChris Kluwe, Candidate for Assembly District 72 @kluweoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This Labor Day, I’m proud to stand with the workers and unions who have stood with our campaign. Having the support of teachers, nurses, construction workers, public employees, hospitality workers, and so many others is a huge honor that I do not take lightly. 323729
Reposted by Chris PolitoEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Created this for a reply on LinkedIn, but it applies pretty generally, so posting it here, too: 537287
Reposted by Chris PolitoAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com is right. You can say we have bad elites. It’s more important to reinvigorate our society by creating new paths to the top, expanding the seats that exist at the old institutions like HYPS, & rethinking what values we extol. www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note... 29818
Reposted by Chris PolitoSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026centrist dems be like “we have bold, serious, inspiring policy proposals” and it’s literally fucking taxpayer subsidized car loans 762262363