Dr. Leo Croft

Dr. Leo Croft

@drleocroft.com

Behavioral Scientist, PhD | Author | Decoding human behavior, challenging power, and calling bullshit by its name. No patience for racism, misogyny, or fascism.

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Sixteen days. Four Black celebrities. Tyson, Mayweather, Gurley, Nicki, all lining up behind a man who posted the Obamas as apes and said "I didn't make a mistake." Props, props, props. Every one of them said yes. Receipts in the piece. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comSixteen Days, Four Black Celebrities, and Every One of Them on a LeashTyson got a helicopter, Mayweather got a microphone, Gurley got a selfie, and Nicki got her ass graded on stage. Black people got nothing.

Shoplifting isn't a death sentence. Neither is selling loosies. Neither is running. Eric Garner got a chokehold for loose cigarettes. Dylann Roof killed nine people at Bible study and got Burger King. The Buffalo shooter got talked down. medium.com/the-polis/an...

medium.com“Any Law” Is a Death Sentence When You’re BlackBLACK LIVE MATTER | SOCIETY | WHITE SUPREMACY | RACISM “Any Law” Is a Death Sentence When You’re Black White America loves to wave the Constitution until a Black person is on the other end of …

Voters in TN, TX, OH, KS and SC say machines keep kicking their pick to the other party. Dolly Parton's sister had to fix her vote 3 times. Officials blame touch error. The state logged ONE complaint out of ~400,000 ballots. Read your review screen before you cast. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comBREAKING: Voters in Multiple States Say Machines Keep Switching Their Votes to Republicans, and…Voters in Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Kansas and South Carolina are reporting machines that won’t take their pick, and that’s the list for now…

Every single person following me should be following this podcast. These young Black men tell the UNAPOLOGETIC TRUTH about everything going on in this country. I don't know them personally, but being from Chicago and being a Black man, I'm so proud of these young men.

The JAAM@thejaampod.bsky.social

Wear it gang I PROMISE YOU it don't matter!💀

Not kidding... I read Laura Looneys ridiculous tweet to my wife and we talked for at least 5 mins about what we could have possibly done to piss off the universe enough to end up on this timeline with these fucking MAGATs. How aggressively delusional is this bootlicking bot? Press secretary? TF?

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Thank you for your interest in the position, but we’ve already exceeded our quota on crazy.

Holy shit, almost at 10k and I can't lie it feels surreal. It's refreshing to see that so many people are itching for the TRUTH!

I don't fear the power of weak men. I never have and I never will. But I want us all on the same page about what we're fighting, because we are not beating these motherfuckers with policy and prayer trump isn't just pardoning criminals. He's building an army out of them. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comHe’s Not Pardoning Criminals. He’s Building An Army Out Of Them.Two diesel shop owners, a stage in Wasilla, and the same favor-for-loyalty machine that started with January 6th
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Law and order was never a principle here. It's a weapon with an address on it, aimed at them, never at us. That's not mercy, that's recruitment. Every pardon is a debt, and he collects on all of them.

I don't fear the power of weak men. I never have and I never will. But I want us all on the same page about what we're fighting, because we are not beating these motherfuckers with policy and prayer trump isn't just pardoning criminals. He's building an army out of them. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comHe’s Not Pardoning Criminals. He’s Building An Army Out Of Them.Two diesel shop owners, a stage in Wasilla, and the same favor-for-loyalty machine that started with January 6th
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Sociologists call it clientelism. A boss hands out favors and collects obligation, and a person who owes you can't afford to leave you. Owes, owes, owes. Strong people build coalitions with folks who could walk away. Weak men collect the ones who can't.

So how do people who've screamed law and order their whole lives clap for this? Dissonance. trump hands them the rewrite himself. The pardoned were "persecuted," they were "fixing their car," the prosecutions were "weaponization." Make a convict a victim and a pardon looks like justice.

I don't fear the power of weak men. I never have and I never will. But I want us all on the same page about what we're fighting, because we are not beating these motherfuckers with policy and prayer trump isn't just pardoning criminals. He's building an army out of them. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comHe’s Not Pardoning Criminals. He’s Building An Army Out Of Them.Two diesel shop owners, a stage in Wasilla, and the same favor-for-loyalty machine that started with January 6th
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Same day as those July pardons, Adam Kidan, Jack Abramoff's old business partner, got his. He pleaded guilty to fraud and was ordered to repay $21.7 million. He gave more than $270,000 to trump and his committees in 2024. trump bragged about the polluters. He said nothing about Kidan.

Fraud, fraud, fraud. The Chrisleys fed banks false statements to pull more than $30 million in loans. A Virginia sheriff got ten years on fraud and bribery. Two former congressmen. Somebody with a donor check, an R next to his name, or a daughter on a convention stage.

I don't fear the power of weak men. I never have and I never will. But I want us all on the same page about what we're fighting, because we are not beating these motherfuckers with policy and prayer trump isn't just pardoning criminals. He's building an army out of them. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comHe’s Not Pardoning Criminals. He’s Building An Army Out Of Them.Two diesel shop owners, a stage in Wasilla, and the same favor-for-loyalty machine that started with January 6th
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Czubak got probation and a fine. Fleming got a $66,000 fine, with no prison time listed. Then he handed them the mic, and one of them told the crowd to reelect the Republicans who lobbied for the pardons. That's the whole transaction, out loud, in daylight, with a pen.

It's a pattern. In January the DOJ told prosecutors nationwide to drop defeat-device cases. In July he pardoned eleven people in one day, nine of them emissions cases. The cops got called off first. Then the pardons started.

I don't fear the power of weak men. I never have and I never will. But I want us all on the same page about what we're fighting, because we are not beating these motherfuckers with policy and prayer trump isn't just pardoning criminals. He's building an army out of them. medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comHe’s Not Pardoning Criminals. He’s Building An Army Out Of Them.Two diesel shop owners, a stage in Wasilla, and the same favor-for-loyalty machine that started with January 6th

Tuesday in Wasilla, Alaska, he brought two freshly forgiven felons onstage at a rally, signed their pardons at the podium, and held one up like a trophy. Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming co-owned a diesel shop called Arm Rippin Toys. Their business was tuning and deleting emissions equipment.

Prosecutors said the shop tampered with emissions systems on at least 37 vehicles and collected about $100,000 doing it. Both men pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act. trump told the crowd they faced ten years in jail "because they fixed an engine."

We shouldn't be surprised that he's ignoring and defying court orders. He's been doing that the whole time and NOBODY STOPS HIM! I hate that the people we elected to stop this kind of shit are all sitting back doing nothing whatsoever.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration continued airing taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump after a federal judge ordered the campaign halted, then told the court Monday that an internal email delay was to blame. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MAGATs’ confidence confuses me. They’re the stupidest people on the goddamn planet, and them acting intelligent offends me.

Federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's home less than a month before the midterms. Same regime where trump led a room in a "cheat like hell" pledge. Now we're supposed to trust their "criminal investigation"? This is political intimidation. I stand fully with Ilhan Omar medium.com/@drleocroft/...

medium.comThey Raided Ilhan Omar’s Home Less Than a Month Before the Midterms. Don’t You Dare Look Away.This is political intimidation, it has a pattern, and the gravity of it is the part too many people are choosing not to feel.