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Chris Pariso
@chrispariso.bsky.social
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Analyst/investigator/data nerd. Also, I blacksmith, train/teach various martial arts, and bake stuff. Tweets/opinions are my own. He/him.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 21h
Online Trump: virulent, jet flying pinnacle of health and masculinity.

IRL Trump: handshakes give my hand a sad pls stop.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 1d
Now, imagine all the recruits that juuuust eeked by trying to move around with 40+lbs of gear on.
adamweinstein.bsky.social Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 1d
This Anthropic settlement is weird bc yeah for sure pay up, but also if they’d asked to purchase the rights to use my books for their trash I would have said no, so doing it anyway and then paying in the form of a settlement is still slimy backdoor shit
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 1d
As always, "punishable by fine" means "legal for a price".
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d
alt-text: Fake Bluesky alert: “Your Bluesky account is temporarily suspended…” urges verification via a shortened link. Message claims to be from “Bluesky Security Department.”

don't fall for it.
doublecollusion.bsky.social SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 3d
Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 3d
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 4d
They believe bluesky is nothing but lefties, so they figure if they make accounts here they can farm violent responses and death threats to help "prove" the left is a dangerously radicalized movement.

So yeah, don't feed the trolls.
hannahgais.bsky.social hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 4d
Very curious why certain federal agencies decided to migrate to Bluesky. Bored with X? The government is still shut down so presumably they aren’t even getting paid.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d
Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 4d
I explained why flour would be dangerous in reply to their post, and they blocked me.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 4d
Flour is a dangerously bad idea.. it's is extremely flammable, especially when airborne in a cloud (like it would be if you were trying to pour it through the top of a traffic cone).

Doing this is just begging for a dust explosion.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 4d
FFS they're out there telling people to turn a tear gas canister into a dust bomb.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 5d
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 6d
Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 6d
I spent a few days there for work years back, and absolutely loved the place.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 6d
Always exciting when a celebrity joins the FirstNameBunchaNumbers crowd!
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 6d
Friendly reminder for everyone:
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6d
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 6d
Core to playing this down is pretending that "Young Republicans" aren't 40 years old with top positions in both the party and government. One's a state senator.
nathantbernard.bsky.social Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 6d
the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 7d
"if we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr"

I sincerely hope that turns out to be true, because this is a level of institutional rot that needs a cleansing fire.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 7d
Can confirm, I'm my wife's biggest cheerleader.

Like, she was accepted into the 2026 Boston Marathon and HOLY SHIT I'm shouting that from the rooftops every chance I get, because love and pride.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 7d
It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 7d
None shall be spared.
My black lab mut of a dog going onto his hind legs to paw at my hip, with his ears back and tongue out.
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 7d
ChatGPT: saying "please" and "thank you" in prompts is costing us 7+ digits.. knock it off

Also chatGPT: we're rolling out mindless thirst trap upgrades to encourage as many interactions as possible
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Chris Pariso @chrispariso.bsky.social · 7d
With the level of realtime location and tracking info needed to launch a precision airstrike, surely the navy could also send a ship to intercept the suspect vessel.

You know, just to be sure it's actually bad guys and not random fisherman.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
amaramarasingam.bsky.social Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 7d
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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