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
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
It matters that the DOJ has been largely starved of good legal talent, because it means no one is there to properly defend the president (which isn't their job but Bondi thinks it is).
It's called a defensive doc review and you do it before you produce documents.
It's called a defensive doc review and you do it before you produce documents.
this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media
December 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It matters that the DOJ has been largely starved of good legal talent, because it means no one is there to properly defend the president (which isn't their job but Bondi thinks it is).
It's called a defensive doc review and you do it before you produce documents.
It's called a defensive doc review and you do it before you produce documents.
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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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You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
Cars in tolling zone went down.
Bus speeds went up.
Toll revenue came in higher than expected.
In the tolling zone, Foot traffic grew faster and store vacancies declined more than the rest of Manhattan.
NYC sales tax revenue grew faster than nearby counties.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bus speeds went up.
Toll revenue came in higher than expected.
In the tolling zone, Foot traffic grew faster and store vacancies declined more than the rest of Manhattan.
NYC sales tax revenue grew faster than nearby counties.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New York's Congestion Pricing Is Working. Five Charts Show How
Nearly a year ago, New York City embarked on a controversial program to toll drivers entering some of Manhattan’s busiest streets. The goal of the congestion pricing plan, the first of its kind in the...
www.bloomberg.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Cars in tolling zone went down.
Bus speeds went up.
Toll revenue came in higher than expected.
In the tolling zone, Foot traffic grew faster and store vacancies declined more than the rest of Manhattan.
NYC sales tax revenue grew faster than nearby counties.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bus speeds went up.
Toll revenue came in higher than expected.
In the tolling zone, Foot traffic grew faster and store vacancies declined more than the rest of Manhattan.
NYC sales tax revenue grew faster than nearby counties.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Collision Investigation Squad of the NYPD often does great work on behalf of victims of traffic violence. They're not perfect - and honestly should be involved in more serious incidents - but the hit and run motorist from last week now faces serious criminal charges due to their work. Kudos.
Here's how the NYPD caught the man who they say struck and killed a pedestrian on the Lower East Side last week. buff.ly/dASKlXd
Anatomy of a Manhunt: How NYPD Quickly Caught a Hit-and-Run Killer on the Lower East Side - Streetsblog New York City
Cops used laser-fast technology, old-style gumshoe detective work and a little help from the hapless suspect to make an arrest in last week's hit-and-run.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Collision Investigation Squad of the NYPD often does great work on behalf of victims of traffic violence. They're not perfect - and honestly should be involved in more serious incidents - but the hit and run motorist from last week now faces serious criminal charges due to their work. Kudos.
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Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
Horrible. Let's hope the NYPD finds this motorist.
Then let's discuss why, as @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social points out, "there are more than 223 reported crashes every day in this city, and 130 people are injured every single day."
Then let's discuss why, as @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social points out, "there are more than 223 reported crashes every day in this city, and 130 people are injured every single day."
A pedestrian was killed by the driver of a massive SUV while crossing the street on the Lower East Side on Thursday night. buff.ly/Pp5HbJ6
Pedestrian Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Crowded Lowest East Side Street - Streetsblog New York City
The driver kept going. EMTs took the badly injured woman to Bellevue Hospital, where she died.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Horrible. Let's hope the NYPD finds this motorist.
Then let's discuss why, as @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social points out, "there are more than 223 reported crashes every day in this city, and 130 people are injured every single day."
Then let's discuss why, as @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social points out, "there are more than 223 reported crashes every day in this city, and 130 people are injured every single day."
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His legacy is unchecked corruption (including by state and local DAs) and a willingness to accept a pardon from Donald Trump. Everything else is secondary.
As Mayor Adams' term winds down, we brought together some NYC's finest local politics reporters (@elizabethkim.bsky.social, @benmax.bsky.social, and @jeffcmays.bsky.social) to reflect on his legacy.
www.wnyc.org/story/mayor-...
www.wnyc.org/story/mayor-...
Mayor Adams' Legacy | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
A look at Mayor Adams' term in office — what he accomplished, where he fell short of his goals, and how history might view his mayoralty.
www.wnyc.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
His legacy is unchecked corruption (including by state and local DAs) and a willingness to accept a pardon from Donald Trump. Everything else is secondary.
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"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"
(1) They are obviously going to over-redact; but (2) they are also very likely to under-redact something of significance, because the lawyers involved seem to be bad at their jobs (which they view to be "protect Trump" rather than their actual duty to serve the U.S. government).
Frustration is mounting inside the Justice Department as it races to redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein before they must be released Friday, multiple sources familiar with the process told CNN. https://cnn.it/44z7tNG
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(1) They are obviously going to over-redact; but (2) they are also very likely to under-redact something of significance, because the lawyers involved seem to be bad at their jobs (which they view to be "protect Trump" rather than their actual duty to serve the U.S. government).
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Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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The fact that the entire Pentagon press corps covering the world's biggest military has been replaced with right wing influencers happy to act as administration enforcers is a legitimate crisis for democracy and global security.
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The fact that the entire Pentagon press corps covering the world's biggest military has been replaced with right wing influencers happy to act as administration enforcers is a legitimate crisis for democracy and global security.
Reports of NYC's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
more people took the subway on a single saturday than live in 16 states.
The top Saturdays in the post-pandemic era.
December 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reports of NYC's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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The use of acquitted conduct at sentencing is one of those things where people don't believe it when you tell them about it because it sounds like nonsense.
It remains insane to me that the govt can try you for one crime and then just punish you for entirely different crimes reason.com/2025/12/08/t...
The government wants to punish orgasmic meditation defendants for crimes they weren't charged with
The prosecutors argue that sentencing based on unconvicted—or even uncharged—conduct doesn't violate due process.
reason.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The use of acquitted conduct at sentencing is one of those things where people don't believe it when you tell them about it because it sounds like nonsense.
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"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
I live in what is demographically a white Brooklyn neighborhood. The precinct is two blocks away, and there is a street where white parents ride with their children (laudatory) on the sidewalk (ehhhh), and that stretch appears blank in the summons enforcement map. Whoda thunk.
The NYPD seems to be enforcing the law against riding on the sidewalk almost by whim — and that's leading to serious disparities in who's getting ticketed.
Who Rides on the Sidewalk? To NYPD, Just Blacks and Hispanics - Streetsblog New York City
The NYPD has ramped up its enforcement against cyclists for squeezing pedestrians, but in a very suspect manner.
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I live in what is demographically a white Brooklyn neighborhood. The precinct is two blocks away, and there is a street where white parents ride with their children (laudatory) on the sidewalk (ehhhh), and that stretch appears blank in the summons enforcement map. Whoda thunk.
St. George is the most transit dense part of Staten Island, and one of the only places on the island that you can easily live car free.
But that doesn't stop NIMBYism from saying that no, we can't add housing there either.
www.silive.com/news/2025/12...
But that doesn't stop NIMBYism from saying that no, we can't add housing there either.
www.silive.com/news/2025/12...
Proposed 369-unit tower on Staten Island faces opposition over parking, density
The project, slated for St. George, would replace 6 homes, several of which were built close to a century ago.
www.silive.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
St. George is the most transit dense part of Staten Island, and one of the only places on the island that you can easily live car free.
But that doesn't stop NIMBYism from saying that no, we can't add housing there either.
www.silive.com/news/2025/12...
But that doesn't stop NIMBYism from saying that no, we can't add housing there either.
www.silive.com/news/2025/12...
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Very few provisions on the Constitution have a meaning as readily and definitively discernible from text and history as the Citizenship Clause. All credible evidence leads to the same place. If self-proclaimed originalists can’t get this one right, they discredit the entire project of originalism.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very few provisions on the Constitution have a meaning as readily and definitively discernible from text and history as the Citizenship Clause. All credible evidence leads to the same place. If self-proclaimed originalists can’t get this one right, they discredit the entire project of originalism.