Posts by Shopie Claire
Trump Is Ditching His Biggest Supporter’s Birthday at Mar-a-Lago
“If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent and say you can’t ask that question,” Kent, formerly the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said. “Which then creates people who come out of nowhere and they start drawing their own conclusions.” Kent noted that this would fuel conspiracy theories, and…
Read MoreTrump Dodges Key Question on Strait of Hormuz Blockade
“When I looked at the illustration, I didn’t jump to the same conclusion as some,” Graham wrote. “There were no spiritual references—no halo, there were no crosses, no angels. It was a flag, soldiers, a nurse, fighter planes, eagles, the Statue of Liberty, and I think this is a lot to do about nothing.” But…
Read MoreTrump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government
A Black former federal employee is suing the Trump administration, claiming he was fired because of his race. Alvin Brown, a Democratic member of the National Transportation Safety Board nominated by President Biden, was fired from his post in May 2025. In his lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Brown said that political…
Read MoreDemocrats Formally File 25th Amendment Bill to Get Rid of Trump
“I figure that I’m probably going to be saving about $3,000 to $4,000,” Simmons told Fox News Digital. In another interview with Fox’s America Reports, she said half of her income came from tips, and at the White House, she said she made about $11,000 in tips. That would make her income $22,000, a salary…
Read MorePope Leo Condemns Trump’s “Unacceptable” Threat to Destroy Iran
“First of all we have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now. And it is true that some of them involve men, women, and entities that the president in the past has had issues with, and believes should be investigated,” Blanche replied, offering zero pushback to the notion that…
Read MoreDeSantis Signs Vague Anti-Terrorism Law Masquerading as “Anti-Sharia”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a vague law Monday that gives a handful of state officials—including him—the ability to denote groups as terrorist organizations and revoke their nonprofit status. Any college student who supports said terrorist organization can be expelled under the new law. Florida HB 1471 appears to be targeted at Muslim organizations in…
Read MorePeople Love to Blame “Ultra-Processed Food.” It’s Unhelpful.
The problem, however, is that Nova was not designed to adjudicate the nutritional properties of individual foods. It is designed to understand population-level health outcomes. While a growing body of research ties the consumption of ultra-processed foods to increased morbidity and deems them a “threat to public health,” deeper examination of the data tends to…
Read MoreDemocrats Need New Stories
The MAGA figures pivoting to solar are stressing this distinction. Kellyanne Conway’s memo to American Energy First, detailing the results of the poll it commissioned, concludes by saying that “solar, unlike wind, is not viewed through a partisan lens; it is seen as a means to an end.” Since the survey summary doesn’t document any…
Read MoreHow Low Can Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Go?
“Those people would say, if you ask them, ‘Hey, how do you like the presidency from the guy that’s, like, increasing your oil prices and maybe sending your son to war?’ And they’d be like, ‘Oh, yeah, I don’t like that,’” explained Morris. “But then you ask them who they’ll vote for, it’s like, ‘Well,…
Read MoreTrump Says There’s No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars
But now, Johnson and Thune have agreed on something that could have happened on Friday, or even weeks before. The sudden reversal seems to have come after Trump’s own 180, as he blessed Republicans on Wednesday to move forward with the two-track approach, and demanded a bill to fund DHS on his desk by June…
Read MoreMAGA Furious as Trump Restores Planned Parenthood Funding
“The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a Ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be the finest Building of its kind anywhere in the World. I then get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former…
Read MoreTrump’s FTC Settles With Match Over Nightmare Dating App Case
The Senate seat was vacated when its previous occupant, Jay Collins, was appointed Florida’s lieutenant governor. Nathan’s campaign sought to downplay culture wars and instead elevate issues such as better paying jobs, affordable housing, and quality education. It’s the latest Democratic upset in Florida, which has swung solidly Republican in the Trump era. In December,…
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