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Tom Scocca
tom-scocca
Deputy executive editor, Special Projects Desk

Trump, meanwhile, pivots from hemispheric open borders to Syrians pouring into our country. Read more

Chris Wallace quoted a Clinton speech from Wikileaks about “open borders” and cited her speaking fee, to boot. Now Clinton is talking about espionage. Read more

Clinton is hammering Trump for employing undocumented immigrants and underpaying them at the expense of American workers. Read more

Clinton just said Trump “choked” by going to Mexico and not bringing up his wall. Read more

Trump has brought up his endorsement from the Border Patrol in every one of these debates, hasn’t he? Read more

Trump has not complained yet about the apportionment of time. Read more

Trump has some sort of creeping redness in his right eye. Read more

I think it might have been when the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals, what do you think, Draper? Read more

So the answer to the upthread question is “Because Marchman is trying to pull a Craggs.” Read more

Grover, it seems as if maybe the people who are paying you to lobby to make vaping an issue are not getting a good return on their money. Read more

Asked what his own specific Syria policy would be, with reference to his own vice-presidential candidate’s stated policy, Trump said he rejects his own running mate’s position. Read more

The sequences where Trump just hoists the microphone and starts yelling on top of Clinton at the beginning of her answers are amazing. Read more

Trump is now directly promising to imprison his opponent if he wins. Read more

This is like someone fed egg Twitter into a Markov bot. Read more

Trump is delivering his stump attack but he’s doing it as if he’s dropped from 78 to 33 rpm. Read more

It’s hard to separate the bottomless supply of bad things Donald Trump has definitely done, the rumor mill about bad things Trump might have possibly done, and the thought experiment “Is There a Bad Thing Trump Could Have Done That Would Be So Bad It Would Finish Him?” But from at least one of those categories, via Read more

Ted Cruz, whose conscience and deep conservative principles led him last month to finally endorse the man who’d insulted his wife and called his father a murderer, has decided that the “grab them by the pussy” tape is truly damning evidence—damning evidence, that is, of the mainstream media conspiracy against Donald

A friend of mine told me that a friend of his had said this one band was really good, so we went to see them at the 8x10 in Baltimore, and I was amazed by how awful they were, just this terrible joyless white groove, with an inexplicably self-satisfied front man preening around, and I saw guys in the audience rocking Read more