Chris Polito
@litig8or.bsky.social
Former public defender. Former bar prep professor. Back in private practice. Board gamer. Video gamer. Toddler dad. Adoring husband.
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
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We should stop calling this “gerrymanders” and come up with something based on John Roberts’s name.
“I Drove 700 Miles Through California’s Absurd New Congressional District” electionlawblog.org?p=153586
"I Drove 700 Miles Through California’s Absurd New Congressional District" #ELB
Politico: Just a few weeks earlier, this county, a paradisical, mostly suburban community sitting across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, voted over 80 percent to support Proposition 50, a p...
electionlawblog.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We should stop calling this “gerrymanders” and come up with something based on John Roberts’s name.
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We need to replace “gerrymander” with some variation of “John Roberts”
We should stop calling this “gerrymanders” and come up with something based on John Roberts’s name.
“I Drove 700 Miles Through California’s Absurd New Congressional District” electionlawblog.org?p=153586
December 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We need to replace “gerrymander” with some variation of “John Roberts”
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“Oops, sorry, I thought everyone would name the weird racial profiling stops that get people thrown in concentration camps after somebody else.”
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Oops, sorry, I thought everyone would name the weird racial profiling stops that get people thrown in concentration camps after somebody else.”
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The reason @martylederman.bsky.social’s brief was so effective is because it gave Roberts and Barrett (and Kav) a way to vote against Trump without calling him a fucking liar, which is what the lower courts based their decisions on
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The reason @martylederman.bsky.social’s brief was so effective is because it gave Roberts and Barrett (and Kav) a way to vote against Trump without calling him a fucking liar, which is what the lower courts based their decisions on
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Very funny to see Alito complain about the court skipping full briefing and oral arguments for a quick shadow docket decision when he has signed onto innumerable orders that pull the exact same tricks and rebuked colleagues who complain about it ... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Very funny to see Alito complain about the court skipping full briefing and oral arguments for a quick shadow docket decision when he has signed onto innumerable orders that pull the exact same tricks and rebuked colleagues who complain about it ... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
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When you destroy the reputation of an independent Department of Justice, you shouldn't be surprised that nobody believes what you have to say.
December 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
When you destroy the reputation of an independent Department of Justice, you shouldn't be surprised that nobody believes what you have to say.
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Donald Trump literally grabbed girls by their genitals and assaulted them. He admitted this on tape years ago and people treated it like hyperbole.
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Donald Trump literally grabbed girls by their genitals and assaulted them. He admitted this on tape years ago and people treated it like hyperbole.
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the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
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There's no firm burden of proof for "high crimes and misdemeanors," but it's properly closer to a preponderance of the evidence than proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It's not a criminal proceeding, nobody's life or freedom is in jeopardy. It's an employment review. Likelier than not is sufficient.
December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There's no firm burden of proof for "high crimes and misdemeanors," but it's properly closer to a preponderance of the evidence than proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It's not a criminal proceeding, nobody's life or freedom is in jeopardy. It's an employment review. Likelier than not is sufficient.
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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Ted is refusing to advance impeachment, so don't be like him either.
this is hakeem. hakeem is offering up a pre-written post disconnected from what is currently in the news. it has no resonance and seems robotic.
this is ted. ted is referencing an event happening right now and of relevance to millions.
be like ted. not like hakeem.
this is ted. ted is referencing an event happening right now and of relevance to millions.
be like ted. not like hakeem.
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ted is refusing to advance impeachment, so don't be like him either.
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It’s sad, I don’t even think she realizes what she just admitted. She was that disconnected from the assignment.
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It’s sad, I don’t even think she realizes what she just admitted. She was that disconnected from the assignment.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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Just a random reminder in the middle of our fundraiser: Bari Weiss is not our editor in chief and we've been calling out CECOT as a concentration camp and an inhumane hellhole for quite some time.
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If you're wondering what independent journalism that won't bend to White House pressure looks like, you're looking at it. On Sunday night, CBS News' newly imported "editor in chief," Bari Weiss, killed a 60 Minutes story about Trump's…
If you're wondering what independent journalism that won't bend to White House pressure looks like, you're looking at it. On Sunday night, CBS News' newly imported "editor in chief," Bari Weiss, killed a 60 Minutes story about Trump's…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just a random reminder in the middle of our fundraiser: Bari Weiss is not our editor in chief and we've been calling out CECOT as a concentration camp and an inhumane hellhole for quite some time.
If you'd like to support independent news orgs that don't kowtow to the gov't & billionaires...
If you'd like to support independent news orgs that don't kowtow to the gov't & billionaires...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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What was Kushner’s title and purpose at this meeting?
December 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What was Kushner’s title and purpose at this meeting?
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If the Democrats retake Congress this must be on the priority list of legislative initiatives.
Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate.
reason.com/2025/12/17/t...
Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate.
reason.com/2025/12/17/t...
These congressmen want to give you the right to sue federal law enforcement for violating your rights
The proposed bills aim to codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.
reason.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If the Democrats retake Congress this must be on the priority list of legislative initiatives.
Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate.
reason.com/2025/12/17/t...
Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate.
reason.com/2025/12/17/t...
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Trump was a frequent traveler on Epstein Air, including trips with Epstein alone and a trip with just Epstein and a [redacted] trafficking victim.
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump was a frequent traveler on Epstein Air, including trips with Epstein alone and a trip with just Epstein and a [redacted] trafficking victim.
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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