Shawn McCreesh

Public executions are something that terrible regimes in Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea practice. While I support the death penalty in general and in this case in particular, I do not believe our soldiers should be live streamed conducting an execution publicly. It is not who we are as a military or a nation. cnn.com/2026/10/08/pol…

Here is the Columbus statue being added to the White House collection

New: Katie and Stephen Miller’s home on a military base has become the most talked about party address in MAGA DC.

She hires hibachi chefs, petting zoos, and a mechanical bull. It can feel like the entire cabinet is there. “Sometimes we joke: ‘Do we need a designated survivor for this one?’”
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Countries with public executions: Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

NEW: The daughter of Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles is working for a US lobbying firm that has a $35k-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska. Katie Wiles visited RS in August, the company said, but has not lobbied US officials on its behalf.
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“I actually have been with him in person, and I’ve gone door-knocking with him, and he dressed really nice that day,” said Mary Wilson, a 67-year-old woman from New Braunfels, of Ken Paxton. nytimes.com/2026/10/07/us/… @ShawnMcCreesh

SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.

@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/…

Mark Guiducci: “Do you know who Laura Reiley is?”

Sam Altman: “I don't.”

Mark Guiducci: “She is a journalist. She wrote an essay in the ‘Times’ last year. Her daughter committed suicide after speaking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT did not tell her to kill herself—”

OpenAI Publicist: “Mark, We have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming.”

Watch the two-part interview: vanityfair.visitlink.me/IRefRJ

primetime is the first true period film about the 2000s and it has it on lock. the film is not about pedophiles or about the ethics of television it is about how insane, psychopathic, and soul-annihilating that period of history was. mcmansions included. 9/10.

The thrill of using a word in conversation when you’re only 60% sure what it means

Kristi Noem’s plane: Boeing 737 airliner “converted into a massive private jet, complete with a stand-up bar, two bedrooms, marble showers and a table covered in manta ray skin.”

Price tag: $108 million

The Shivon Zilis post shows how fast some can fall out of Elon Musk's orbit. Zilis herself previously replaced Grimes, after secretly carrying two of his kids at the same time Grimes was about to have a baby with Musk via a surrogate.

As we reported in our book, Character Limit, Zilis also named one of her babies "Valkyrie," a name that Grimes had planned to use for her own baby. Grimes ended up writing a song about Zilis that she tweeted (and later deleted).

Spotted arriving with POTUS on M1: Laura Loomer walking in with Natalie Harp

A look at the crowd in Mobile, Alabama as Trump takes the stage.

Xi’s wheels.

Trump and Melania greet Xi at the State Dinner.