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Chris

@squirrelhaven.bsky.social
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Lawyer, songwriter, creative endeavorer. Loves the Who, Calvin and Hobbes, John Coltrane, Kurt Vonnegut, and New York City, among much else.

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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 17h
Trump’s corruption needs to be recorded in the history books, but every public monument, commemorative work, and memorial to him needs to be scrubbed from existence as soon as possible. He’s a disease and any positive memory of him must be eradicated.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Trump name will go down in history as synonymous with corruption and useless stupidity.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Any money Trump made or makes from his corruption should be seized and used to reimburse the country for the costs of repairing the damage he’s done.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Great, now if they could do this with appliances we’d be getting somewhere.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t know that guy from a hole in the ground, but he doesn’t look up to the job of running a super intelligent force.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t let the mitten hit you on the ass on your way out.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The craziest thing is that even if Smith had been at a Hawks game in Atlanta rather than a Hawkeyes game in Maryland, it would have proved absolutely NOTHING.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sad to think anyone is stupid enough to be fooled by Schmitt’s dumb graphic. “Here’s a pic of 2 people in Atlanta on Feb 2, and on the other side is Jack Smith and some unrelated texts from the next day by 2 other people in Maryland.” The only thing connecting them is the board they’re printed on.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The GOP is like the earless CIA guy from the most recent season of Reacher, they never learn, no matter how many times they get beat. Jack Smith ate them for breakfast last time he testified so their brilliant plan is to haul him back in and let him do it again. Maybe they’re trying to lose weight.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know they’re trying to do a job and everything, but I hope they enjoyed their brief respite from having to be in the same room as the disgusting sack of garbage known as Trump.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New quid pro quo: if I do business with you and you want me to give your business a review, you must first get on my socials and tell everyone how awesome I am.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Further proof that Trump isn’t (and never has been) a serious person, let alone someone who should be President.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well, CT also has the Merritt Parkway. And Massachusetts uses highway, but also turnpike (90), and expressway (93). In any case, I’m not sure how they’d identify northeasterners.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve never known any defense secretaries personally but I too can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. Because it’s fucking obvious.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The kind of cooperation I’m looking for is that Trump doesn’t put up a fight when they tell him to turn around so they can put the handcuffs on him.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, stop covering Trump, and just cover the actions of his administration. Stop giving him the benefit of the doubt and free coverage that he uses to toss around insults.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lots of articles on Mangione. Where are your articles on Capital One closing Trump’s accounts due to his money laundering activities, @nytimes.com ?
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good riddance.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I understand prioritizing the safety of previous presidents, but the current one is an incompetent boob and the country would be better off without him.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That must be one enormous cart.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/cbb.html
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Benefits scale with earnings up to the cap. Nobody gets benefits on earnings above the cap.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
No. She’s talking about eliminating the cap on income used to determine how much you and your employer pay into the trust fund to fund social security benefits. Warren’s position is misleading at best.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m all for raising taxes on high earners. That’s not what she’s talking about.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Warren is just plain wrong about this. Soc Sec is in danger because people are living longer and the ratio of people drawing from the trust fund to people paying into the fund has been moving in the wrong direction for decades. It has nothing to do with the cap, which gets raised periodically.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So he should know better, as you said. He has no excuse for his behavior, other than a terrible world view.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It must be one of those honorary degrees, although what sort of group of demented creeps would want to honor Hawley in any way is a mystery.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Where is the @nytimes.com story on this?
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Any right-wing moron who has it out for the USPS obviously has not experienced FedEx.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
No one’s seen it before because nobody cares and they had no interest in seeing the last self-serving piece of nonsense they put together about her. This new venture will also flop financially.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is that a violation of any stolen valor laws?
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci …because I value EVIDENCE over conspiracy, DATA over rumors, and SCIENCE over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence EVERY time. #medsky #publichealth
I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci because I value evidence over conspiracy, data over rumors, and science over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence every time.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That article should be updated to add some context: Bannon and Navarro never showed up and didn’t plead the fifth. That’s why they were in contempt. Fauci has testified before, showed up again, and exercised his constitutional right against self incrimination. That’s not contempt.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I believe it’s 0-19 at this point in time.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is far, far past the time when everyone in the media and government should approach everything Trump says as a lie until it has been proven true. He has zero credibility.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Why do the teenage mutant ninja turtles wear masks?
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 27/07/2026
A tiny federal agency that tracks consumer product safety wants patient records from emergency room visits, including details about injuries that have nothing to do with consumer products, documents reveal. Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld & @dariustahir.bsky.social report ⤵️
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Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records - KFF Health News
The tiny federal agency that tracks consumer product safety is pressuring hospitals to turn over patient records from emergency room visits, including about injuries that have nothing to do with consumer products.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It seems highly unlikely that the party that benefited from Russia interfering in the 2016 election (and probably others) (i.e., the GOP) would stop communism, were it even to exist in the USA.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Firing a $70,000 missile from a $28,000,000 drone flying at a cost of $3,624 per hour to kill people in the Middle East living on less than $1 per day.

We live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost. But then you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we become very cost-conscious.

Prof. Andrew Bacevich
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’ve never listened to his podcast, but I imagine the Joe Rogan Experience is like being sideswiped by a low IQ drunk driver. I’ve never heard him say anything impressive.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I just permanently deleted my account yesterday. Pretty happy to be done with that platform.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The absolute dumbest of the dumb.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m glad someone explained that it was actually Trump’s mug on that little coin. I thought it was Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Instead of testing for testosterone deficiency, they ought to test Hegseth for intelligence deficiency. He’s obviously sorely lacking smarts.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I did it! I canceled my Facebook account. I’m free! Or am I?
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Uh, just to be clear, I want him impeached and prosecuted.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That they think they should be allowed to use the Pentagon to go to war within our own borders against Americans with a different political ideology is astounding.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Which is saying a lot given the last nutjob who held the position.
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Chris @squirrelhaven.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The appropriate follow up question is: will you know anything about it tomorrow? Because we can all come back then.
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