Scott Crichlow
@scrichlow.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Fan of film & horse racing. Personal account - posts do not reflect the views of my employer.
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The media’s steadfast refusal to treat transparently bad faith actors telling obvious lies accordingly is like 95% of the reason we’re on this mess.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The media’s steadfast refusal to treat transparently bad faith actors telling obvious lies accordingly is like 95% of the reason we’re on this mess.
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This is why I regularly teach the difference between opinion and fact.
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 4:59 PM
This is why I regularly teach the difference between opinion and fact.
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In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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The college/non-college gap was ~30 points in 2024. A year later, it's almost vanished, with most of the swing against Trump coming among non-college voters. (Source: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...)
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The college/non-college gap was ~30 points in 2024. A year later, it's almost vanished, with most of the swing against Trump coming among non-college voters. (Source: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...)
The full alt text 😂
Just looked at the design brief for USS Bone Spurs here, and with 30+ knots, the biggest weapons available and absolutely fuck all armour...
Is, er, Jackie Fisher in the room with us now?
Is, er, Jackie Fisher in the room with us now?
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The full alt text 😂
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In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.
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Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.
It’s actually not technically a leak. CBS News only operates in the US. A non-PSKY owned network Global TV has Canadian rights for 60 Minutes and aired it unedited since the call to pull the episode was made so late in the day. That broadcast was recorded and then shared across the internet.
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.
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Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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See, here is the thing about saying everything is a national security matter...
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
See, here is the thing about saying everything is a national security matter...
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"were expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States" and "create together about 10,000 jobs"
The Trump admin just halted five additional wind farms off the East Coast, jeopardizing billions of dollars of investments. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"were expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States" and "create together about 10,000 jobs"
Just watched Urchin on the basis of the recommendation in this episode and wow - one of the best films I’ve seen all year. And Frank Dillane’s performance is award-worthy.
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Just watched Urchin on the basis of the recommendation in this episode and wow - one of the best films I’ve seen all year. And Frank Dillane’s performance is award-worthy.
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
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Personal opinion and it's after duty hours, but what in the name of John Paul freaking Jones??? A 25 foot tall mural of Trump on the ship?????
Computer, enhance
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Personal opinion and it's after duty hours, but what in the name of John Paul freaking Jones??? A 25 foot tall mural of Trump on the ship?????
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The lead ship in a class IS THE NAME OF THAT CLASS. So if the lead ship is the USS Defiant it's not the Trump class it's the Defiant-class.
Drooling, giraffe pointing idiot jfc
Drooling, giraffe pointing idiot jfc
December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The lead ship in a class IS THE NAME OF THAT CLASS. So if the lead ship is the USS Defiant it's not the Trump class it's the Defiant-class.
Drooling, giraffe pointing idiot jfc
Drooling, giraffe pointing idiot jfc
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The fact that Trump has been railing against them for years because he doesn't like the way they look and he thinks they kill birds and whales had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The fact that Trump has been railing against them for years because he doesn't like the way they look and he thinks they kill birds and whales had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
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*multiple sources go on the record with TV’s most respected news show about a government kidnapping/torture program*
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
When Bari Weiss wrote about the national crisis of “woke private schools,” all of her sources were anonymous students, parents, and teachers who agreed with her premise—and she ran the story without getting a school on the record, for “context.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
*multiple sources go on the record with TV’s most respected news show about a government kidnapping/torture program*
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
BARI: Can’t run it ‘til Stephen Miller calls me back.
*one parent tells Bari about something that may have happened at Chapin*
BARI: We do not need to hear Chapin’s side.
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Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
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Hunter Biden says wtf
💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government. n.pr/48P2QSb
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hunter Biden says wtf
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What we have here is a top editor spiking a story not because of serious editorial concerns, but because:
1) she is insecure and needs to assert authority;
2) she wants to drive serious journalists out of CBS; and
3) she craves attention, which is her oxygen.
Especially number 3
1) she is insecure and needs to assert authority;
2) she wants to drive serious journalists out of CBS; and
3) she craves attention, which is her oxygen.
Especially number 3
Bari Weiss, cont'd: "I held that story because it wasn't ready. The story presented very powerful testimony of abuse in CECOT, but that testimony has already been reported... The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison... we simply need to do more."
December 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What we have here is a top editor spiking a story not because of serious editorial concerns, but because:
1) she is insecure and needs to assert authority;
2) she wants to drive serious journalists out of CBS; and
3) she craves attention, which is her oxygen.
Especially number 3
1) she is insecure and needs to assert authority;
2) she wants to drive serious journalists out of CBS; and
3) she craves attention, which is her oxygen.
Especially number 3
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Alfonsi being the reporter whose story Weiss respectfully killed while refusing to even speak with her
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Alfonsi being the reporter whose story Weiss respectfully killed while refusing to even speak with her
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Everyone's been in a class or a meeting with a Bari Weiss, a delusional half-wit with three-dollar words in love with the sound of their own voice and determined to make everyone else listen to it too
That photograph of Weiss they use - the one with the hand gestures - makes her look just as she is: the person in the meeting who knows exactly what words will impress the boss, but otherwise has never had an original thought, and lacks even a trainee secretary's basic administrative skill.
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Everyone's been in a class or a meeting with a Bari Weiss, a delusional half-wit with three-dollar words in love with the sound of their own voice and determined to make everyone else listen to it too
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This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!