Chrissel

Chrissel

@chrissel.bsky.social

Finally cutting the cord & moving into bsky full-time. Interests: law, medicine, disability rights, and for fun: video games, ttrpgs, reading - esp SFF/Urban Fantasy, etc. Wife, mom, suburban Phila native, unrepentantly liberal

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As I've said, this is either an impeachable offense that Democrats act on or it's a new precedent.

I may have changed my mind on the idea of live-streaming firing squads. In general. For no particular reason.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth suggests Ukrainians haven't abided by Starlink's "terms of service"

Did…the Onion buy the NYT? Please tell me the Onion bought NYT.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

Y’all… I went onto the DOJ, Civil Rights division website, as one does. I was looking for election-related info, but never found it because holy shit, Harmeet. Obvious agenda much? The oddest by far is the desperately hopeful “Have you been transed against your will?” (Loosely paraphrased, lol)

Talarico is living rent free in these guys heads. Can’t find dirt on him, making stuff up, uh, didn’t work out. ❌ Trans ❌ Gay ❌ Muslim? ❌ Too tan? ❌ Mentally ill? I think they’re down to calling him skinny & low t. Wedgies & swirlies likely backup plan.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

Lmao. Chat is it smart to buy this really sweet Maserati off of eBay? I mean what could possibly go wrong? Nick Sortor makes me miss Jacob Wohl. (Yikes)

I guarantee Vance has made multiple orders of magnitude more references to trans kids than Talarico. Guess the FBI needs to take a look at Vance’s search history based on his own “logic”.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"He's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids ... typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some unusual search histories" -- JD Vance, who is obsessed with demagoguing trans issues, baselessly suggests that Talarico is a pedo

Chrissel reposted

Oh my God, this looks even better than I'd hoped. Hell yes.

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social

And here’s the trailer for BEING HEUMANN. In cinemas Nov 6, streaming on AppleTV Nov 13. I saw it last night at the London Film Festival & it’s a triumph.

Chrissel reposted

If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Republican Party, we believe that Somalia bandits, third-world gangs, and jihadist sympathizers do not belong in Ohio, they do not belong in America. We got to get them the hell out of here." More "De-port! De-port!" chants from the crowd.

Out of the dozens of posts on this hearing, THIS is the first time I’ve believed anything the gov has said. But, yeah. Random meeting showing up on calendar? I prob would have showed up, too.

Molly Roberts@mollyroberts.bsky.social

AL: Chronology. Meeting called by Deputy CoS Wischer. When did you hear mtg on that date? That very day? Week before? FL: My calendar is very busy. Basically saw invite and went to the meeting.

Of course, I would have taken the time to find out wtf it was about & did I really need to go, but that seems to be a step too far for some of them.

Are we really expected to believe this government is so corrupt or incompetent that they’re saying in open court there is/was no one in a project management role for something this big? Yet more proof Trump is a really lousy business man.

Molly Roberts@mollyroberts.bsky.social

JR: Who can I call for costs associated at this juncture? FL: Idk that anyone has JR: Any kind of budget before work was undertaken or no? FL: General contract estimate put together to remove the trees JR: How much? FL: I do not recall JR: Who would? FL: No one I know you cld call immediately

Even toddlers push back on that bullshit answer by the time they’re 4 yo.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

So, I thought about checking out the new journaling app preloaded with iOS updates. Visually, functionally, it doesn’t look half bad. Maybe I’m being paranoid, but I’m just not feeling real warm and fuzzy about committing many, many of my current thoughts in a subpoenable format.

DJT on the wrong side of a TREE LAW case? Oh, this could get really funny.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Waiting for the announcement that the letter D has now been officially listed as a domestic terrorism group. Because whytf not?

Vance: Hypothetically I’m against bribery but w/o details… Trump: <incites RaHoWa in MN> Hegseth: Good news, boys! Operation Snuff Film has been approved. Michael Tracey: Continues to be irrelevant

That earthquake you just felt was from millions of Americans, of all races, rolling over in their grave to say, “WhatTF?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"

We get to just make up meanings to words now? This man went to a motherfucking Ivy League school and “socialism is foreign workers and ’transing’ toddlers” because why?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

“Trust me. After a while, they just somehow catch on. Even if you’re really sneaky about it.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TAPPER: Trump wants to send checks from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which the CBO says is supposed to be used for insurance programs. Do you have concerns about that? RICK SCOTT: I'm sure it's gonna have to be used the right way or they won't be able to do it. Somebody will stop them.

Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost. Will not fedpost.

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Breaking banking laws? That’s what you mention? That’s like talking about famous tax cheat Al Capone! Pictured below: serial child sex abuser & frm speaker of the house hastert

Can’t complain about “fake news” or a hit piece if they just report exactly what he said. So they did. This is the way. It can’t be sane-washed and objectively demonstrates his mental incapacity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Chrissel reposted

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Replying to @kattenbarge.bsky.social

This is always how it goes. The accused are allowed to ruthlessly and relentlessly smear the victims while engaging in a supposedly fair and just legal process that retraumatizes and creates fresh trauma for victims who are already supposed life altering, sometimes permanent consequences of rape

Chrissel reposted

Replying to @kattenbarge.bsky.social

Another man accused, Scott Norris, denies that he partook in sexual misconduct but acknowledges in his own statement that misconduct took place. The men are already contradicting each other but I doubt any of them will be held accountable for making false statements while accusing the survivor of it

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One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

Whoever is keeping the 2029 master list: Once he’s out, however he goes, the title of President or even Former President must be stripped from him for eternity. I don’t care if it takes a constitutional amendment, referring to him w/that title s/b illegal. Penalty to be a fine scaled to income.

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social

Trump complains about the Supreme Court over its refusal to meddle in Missouri election law on 3 occasions. He is also factually wrong as it was only 2 times that the court blocked lower court judges. In the other it refused to block a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court interpreting state law.

Chrissel reposted

Replying to @randyhermanlaw.com

Basically the govt says "sorry we sent these guys innocently to a foreign torture prison, but they are out of our hands now so we can't do anything about it" Except they didn't say sorry

I just spent half an hour trying to figure out what is going on with Missouri districting maps and I *still* have no f-ing clue. Well, other than, “this is really not how things are supposed to work.”

I’m not a war-knower or defense guru, but it seems to me spending large amounts of the defense budget on a vanity arch while simultaneously depleting our strategic weapons reserve is bad, generally. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/21/congress/trump-arch-pushback-01086147

politico.comSenior GOP appropriator pours cold water on funding Trump’s arch“If it was my choice, I wouldn't put any of that money into the arch,” Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson said.

“Thank you, Mr Trump. May we have some more incriminating quotes for our compl…I mean for your record of bravery?”

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

After CNN, MS NOW and Politico filed their joint lawsuit this morning, Trump justified his press ban as "instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS."

Oh, so lying about the press, *to* the press, is where we draw the line and start pushing back? Good to know.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.

Chrissel reposted

There is in option for Louisiana’s 1st District other than someone who tells constant lies told on live TV. I’m running for the seat Steve Scalise has held the last 18 years. My name is Lauren Jewett. I’m a special education teacher running to protect our coast, healthcare, & the working class.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.

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At this point, they're going to send out the Eagles Pep Band to open for Ed Sheeran at Lincoln Financial Field this weekend. And they only know one song.

Saying this to North Carolina, at the beginning of hurricane season, should be impeachable—at minimum. Because he’s already proven it won’t be rhetorical hyperbole.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*