Scott Crichlow

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Oh, man, he's so close to getting it.

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It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.

The thing about impeaching Hegseth is normally presidents don't choose wildly inappropriate people for key exec branch positions and if they do the Senate won't confirm them and if it does anyway and then the person screws up constantly the president will axe them so it never comes to impeachment.

“Even if you’re the most MAGA-positive, vaccine-resistant, torture prison–loving r/incel moderator who ever bought a blue check from Elon Musk, you intuitively understand that this man is a thermonuclear dork.” www.theringer.com/2026/10/19/p...

A great actor but beyond that, as this wonderful interview illustrates, a man who knew how to appreciate all that life offers.

Civilians applying for jobs in the Pentagon are also being vetted this way, but worse: asked if Trump won the 2020 election.

“Top officials in the State Dept made clear that only candidates who voted for President Donald Trump would be eligible for the mid-to-upper level foreign service roles.” They have effectively blurred the difference between career and appointee roles. Only loyalists rise in a personalist regime.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

This is an incredibly important point. According to both Acton and her mother, their last meeting was after Acton testified against her stepfather in court. Her mother fled the state with her stepfather and they’ve had no contact since. Acton’s mother is raging against a 12 year old abuse victim.

Ted Cruz's former intern and organizer for the largest conservative youth summit in Texas has just confirmed he voted for James Talarico.

There are very few phrases than make me want to punch someone more than “heritage American”. It’s not only racist, it’s stolen valor.

If you don’t think your basic rights should depend upon whether Sam Alito can imagine a single drunk in the 1700s wanting to take them away, you should get on board with Supreme Court expansion ASAP.

Bruh

If it counts as a song, Widor’s Toccata from Symphony No. 5.

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

Incredible

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

"The officials... did not specify who in the White House made the decision..." Sorry... how many people are there "inside" this White House who ultimately decide what orders to give the Pentagon? I was led to believe the number was one (1)? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

It's all white people behind the vice president. 80% are men. He can smirk and be smug all he wants, but he and his White House colleagues are speaking to a smaller and smaller audience each day.

Strong final days vibe.

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

there it is

🚨 New publication alert: Do Americans change their attitudes toward "culture war" groups when these groups shift how they vote in presidential elections? In a word, 𝐧𝐨. 👎 An important case of null results, we find no clear shift in attitudes, either for better or for worse.

Everything so on the nose these days

He truly believes that because Putin and Xi put on a show for him that they are his allies. He's childlike and gullible even as he is unspeakably brutal and corrupt. What a horrifying combination. And such a mark for powerful leaders who are smarter than him. Which would be all of them.

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.