Chris Greene
@christophergreene.bsky.social
Lapsed corporate lawyer.
Now litigate on behalf of cyclists and pedestrians in NYC with Vaccaro Law
Now litigate on behalf of cyclists and pedestrians in NYC with Vaccaro Law
It can be difficult to take the NYPD seriously as a law enforcement organization when it straightforwardly refuses to enforce the law when it applies to themselves.
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EXCLUSIVE: NYPD Rejects Ending 'Self-Enforcement' Scandal at Precinct Houses - Streetsblog New York City
Police brass are refusing to implement a major reform recommended by city probers earlier this year. And the agency won't say why.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It can be difficult to take the NYPD seriously as a law enforcement organization when it straightforwardly refuses to enforce the law when it applies to themselves.
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Is the problem the economic "messaging" or the economic "outcomes"
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Is the problem the economic "messaging" or the economic "outcomes"
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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New Yorkers have been training at churches and community centers across the city in recent weeks in preparation for an expected ramp-up in ICE activity.
https://gothamist.com/news/our-neighbors-are-in-danger-new-yorkers-prep-for-an-immigration-crackdown
https://gothamist.com/news/our-neighbors-are-in-danger-new-yorkers-prep-for-an-immigration-crackdown
'Our neighbors are in danger': New Yorkers prep for an immigration crackdown
Immigrant advocates, community activists and others have been meeting, canvassing neighborhoods, and preparing for increased enforcement.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New Yorkers have been training at churches and community centers across the city in recent weeks in preparation for an expected ramp-up in ICE activity.
https://gothamist.com/news/our-neighbors-are-in-danger-new-yorkers-prep-for-an-immigration-crackdown
https://gothamist.com/news/our-neighbors-are-in-danger-new-yorkers-prep-for-an-immigration-crackdown
Someone ask Jeffries to define the concept he just voted against.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Someone ask Jeffries to define the concept he just voted against.
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You’re a pretty shitty lawyer, Mike.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You’re a pretty shitty lawyer, Mike.
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It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
This article - which credits Tisch for some meaningful change at the NYPD - has pushed me closer to the "maybe it's good she stayed" camp.
There's so much more for her and Mamdani to do, but I don't see evidence that she's incapable of doing it.
There's so much more for her and Mamdani to do, but I don't see evidence that she's incapable of doing it.
Let's go over what we asked of NYPD Commissioner Tisch back when she got the job — and how well she's done on hewing to our livable streets and traffic safety agenda.
Tisch Will Stay On — So Is That a Good Thing? - Streetsblog New York City
So the mayor-elect says he'll keep Jessica Tisch as his police commissioner. What do we think of that?
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November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This article - which credits Tisch for some meaningful change at the NYPD - has pushed me closer to the "maybe it's good she stayed" camp.
There's so much more for her and Mamdani to do, but I don't see evidence that she's incapable of doing it.
There's so much more for her and Mamdani to do, but I don't see evidence that she's incapable of doing it.
I didn't even realize this kind of thing was still an option with this DOJ. Like obviously half the administration is doing illegal things, and often telling us about it. But to have them facing potential criminal exposure for doing so is a weird feeling.
SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I didn't even realize this kind of thing was still an option with this DOJ. Like obviously half the administration is doing illegal things, and often telling us about it. But to have them facing potential criminal exposure for doing so is a weird feeling.
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Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
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with a Nazi symbol, the Iron Cross, as the poster's avatar. subtle.
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
with a Nazi symbol, the Iron Cross, as the poster's avatar. subtle.
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Hard not to suspect that the thing that kept Epstein's documents secret and any actual co-conspirators safe is that every single person who has ever attended an East Coast gala has, at some point or another, sent Epstein an email that was like "SUBJECT: So sorry for the witchhunt against you"
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hard not to suspect that the thing that kept Epstein's documents secret and any actual co-conspirators safe is that every single person who has ever attended an East Coast gala has, at some point or another, sent Epstein an email that was like "SUBJECT: So sorry for the witchhunt against you"
So, yes? I'm not hearing a denial, which you'd expect to flow forth from a woman who seems to lie the way you and I breath.
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
So, yes? I'm not hearing a denial, which you'd expect to flow forth from a woman who seems to lie the way you and I breath.
Was this email among those on Pam's desk? Was it handed to one of the influencers who got invited to the White House for the big Epstein disclosure party?
(It tickles me that one of my law school classmates was among the marks handed the "Epstein files" and he ate it up.)
(It tickles me that one of my law school classmates was among the marks handed the "Epstein files" and he ate it up.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Was this email among those on Pam's desk? Was it handed to one of the influencers who got invited to the White House for the big Epstein disclosure party?
(It tickles me that one of my law school classmates was among the marks handed the "Epstein files" and he ate it up.)
(It tickles me that one of my law school classmates was among the marks handed the "Epstein files" and he ate it up.)
I'm confused. On her way from a prison cell to Club Fed, Epstein's personal child sex trafficker insisted that the President of the United States knew nothing.
Was the child sex trafficker lying?
Was the child sex trafficker lying?
Epstein: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump..[VICITM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”
Maxwell: “I’ve been thinking about that.”
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Maxwell: “I’ve been thinking about that.”
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Democrats Release New Epstein Emails Referring to Trump
Messages put president’s relationship with Epstein back into the spotlight.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm confused. On her way from a prison cell to Club Fed, Epstein's personal child sex trafficker insisted that the President of the United States knew nothing.
Was the child sex trafficker lying?
Was the child sex trafficker lying?
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
M. Gessen on the dangerous and barely reasoned decision to allow Trump to force trans Americans to travel using their biological sex at birth regardless of their gender expression.
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Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
M. Gessen on the dangerous and barely reasoned decision to allow Trump to force trans Americans to travel using their biological sex at birth regardless of their gender expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
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Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
Once you start seeing the cruelty to the unhoused built into our public infrastructure, it is hard to unsee. Plus it sucks for everyone! I also like having a place to sit.
Even the new “leaning benches” get anti-homeless dividers
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Once you start seeing the cruelty to the unhoused built into our public infrastructure, it is hard to unsee. Plus it sucks for everyone! I also like having a place to sit.
I don't know whether Carl Quintanilla has always been part of the resistance but I gotta say seeing him - a CNBC veteran and host of Squawk on the Street - say true things out loud that are unfavorable to the anti-capitalist in the white house is good to see.
The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don't know whether Carl Quintanilla has always been part of the resistance but I gotta say seeing him - a CNBC veteran and host of Squawk on the Street - say true things out loud that are unfavorable to the anti-capitalist in the white house is good to see.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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DAG Blanche knows better than to use the language of “war” to describe these legal battles involving judges who disagree with the Administration’s lawlessness. Too many judges require security as it is. To say nothing of the preposterous premise of his remarks.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described a “war” against the federal judiciary at the Federalist Society conference today and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports
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DOJ’s No. 2 Official Asks Lawyers to Join ‘War’ Against Judges
Todd Blanche, second-in-command at the Justice Department, described a “war” against the federal judiciary and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight against so-called ...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
DAG Blanche knows better than to use the language of “war” to describe these legal battles involving judges who disagree with the Administration’s lawlessness. Too many judges require security as it is. To say nothing of the preposterous premise of his remarks.