Posts by Shopie Claire
Mark Kelly Calls Pete Hegseth a Child “Playing Army”
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly accused Pete Hegseth Monday of “playing army,” after the defense secretary posted a juvenile meme making light of his military’s extrajudicial executions. Speaking at a press conference, Kelly nailed precisely what’s so disturbing about Hegseth’s lackluster leadership of the Pentagon: he’s like a little kid playing dress up. “I mean…
Read MoreKash Patel Is Under Investigation for Using FBI Jet as Private Uber
Kash Patel is in hot water for joyriding on the FBI’s dime. Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Monday opened an investigation into multiple flights that Patel took last month with a $60 million government jet. The visits were reportedly to visit his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, who was performing at a…
Read MoreWhite House Gives Chilling Update on Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order
After promising Americans in July that his proposed ballroom would “be near but not touching” the White House East Wing, Trump completely razed the FDR-era extension in October, plowing forward without prerequisite approval from the National Capital Planning Commission or the express permission of Congress. Conveniently, Trump started demolition during the government shutdown, when the…
Read MoreICE Barbie Panics When Asked About Vetting Alleged Guard Shooter
Trumpworld is flailing as it tries to redirect blame for last week’s National Guard shooting onto the previous presidential administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem insisted Sunday that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April.…
Read MoreHow Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
It may be a pedantic distinction, but Davis tends to exclusively reach for the term “police violence” even when he is talking about, say, retaliatory prosecutions or judicial bias. U.S. courts and district attorneys’ offices are also weighted in favor of the status quo, but not in exactly the same way the police are; Davis…
Read MoreThe Mar-a-Lago Party That Future Historians Will Never Forget
The federal government was in the thirtieth day of a shutdown that would last until November 13. Trump and the Republicans refused to extend subsidies for premiums under the Affordable Care Act, which would lead to astronomical increases, at least doubling for 22 million people, with millions struggling to pay and 4.2 million losing coverage…
Read MoreBari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate… pic.twitter.com/hfbM4gOwcN — Drop Site…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
What do judicial ethics codes have to do with climate deception? It all comes down to simple math. Every year, the Supreme Court receives many thousands of cert petitions. To grant a writ of certiorari, four of the nine justices must agree to take one of these cases. Given that lower threshold, any time a…
Read MoreThe Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
In late 2024, an operative for the right-wing gotcha group Project Veritas clandestinely filmed his Tinder date with a 29-year-old EPA employee. The employee, who talked freely about his work distributing grant funds allocated by the Inflation Reduction Act, at one point compared that process to “throwing gold bars off the edge” of the Titanic,…
Read MoreThere’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun
Everywhere you look, in other words, Trump and his people are wrecking the country. He doesn’t know what to do about the economy. Presidents don’t have a ton of power to lower prices in the first place, and people are now understanding that fact, and that Trump swindled them last year. He’s going to give…
Read MoreThe Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
Garnering support for farmed animals is difficult and expensive, particularly if one wants to do something more than just convince people to abstain from ordering lamb. As evidenced by the work of scholars like Elan Abrell, sanctuary farms—those that save animals from grim fates in farming and let them live out their lives as naturally…
Read MoreTrump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files
Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ’s evidence on Epstein. This included the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 prison death, as well as “search warrant execution photos,” “street surveillance video,” and…
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