Posts by Shopie Claire
The Five Craziest Things Trump’s New Pick for DHS Secretary Has Said
At least 87 sailors were killed in the torpedo attack in international waters in the Indian Ocean, and the Sri Lankan navy responded to the Dena’s distress call and rescued 32 survivors, but 61 members of the crew are still missing. The U.S. didn’t respond to the call, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth crowed…
Read MoreEvery Single GOP Senator Blocks Iran War Powers Resolution—Except One
But nobody in Washington has explained the rationale for going to war with Iran with any modicum of clarity, leaving even those in Trump’s Cabinet confused about the intended messaging. State Secretary Marco Rubio, for instance, had to eat his own words Tuesday evening after the president disagreed with his depiction of the war. Rubio…
Read MoreWhy Texas Republicans Want to Halt All Immigration Into the Country
Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey) Jimmy Panetta (California) Henry Cuellar (Texas) Greg Landsman (Ohio) Jared Golden (Maine) Jim Costa (California) “Our war powers resolution allows for the short-term, targeted strikes on the regime’s missiles and bombs, requires Trump to come to Congress for a vote, and specifies ‘no ground troops,’” Representative Landsman wrote Tuesday. “Destroy the…
Read MoreTrump’s First Administration Shut Down Investigation Into Epstein
“See that nice drape? When that comes down right now you see a very, very deep hole, but in about a year and half from now, you’re gonna see a very, very beautiful building. And there’s your entrance to it right there,” Trump said, pointing to gold curtains behind him. “In fact, I think I’ll…
Read MoreThe Dangerous Incoherence of Trump’s War With Iran
“Epic Fury” suits an administration devoted to cheap jabs that “own the libs,” livestreams of Cabinet members awkwardly attempting pull-ups, AI videos of our obese and sundowning president flying fighter jets or posing with glistening muscles and ripped abs. “Epic” once meant sweeping, glorious—it was Lawrence of Arabia or The Ten Commandments. Now it’s just…
Read MoreTrump’s Fury at Canada Backfires in Surprise Blow to GOP’s 2026 Hopes
The numbers are significant. Around 10 million fewer Canadians traveled to the United States in 2025 relative to the previous year, the story notes, adding that this is hitting Michigan and other nearby states “especially hard.” The impact on the Wolverine State is particularly acute: Canadian visits to southeast Michigan fell 30% from 2024 to…
Read MoreTrump DOJ to Investigate Itself Over Epstein Files Release
“Honestly, if you look at the polling in a general election setting, I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that the seat [flips], depending on who the Democrats nominate,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Politico. Paxton, meanwhile, enjoys strong support from the MAGA right over his efforts to fight the results of…
Read MoreNetflix CEO to Visit White House as Republican A.G.s Turn Against Him
The bombastic alumna of The View moved to Ireland last March to avoid Trump’s glaring attention (the two have shared a vicious public history, in which the president has repeatedly referred to O’Donnell as a “loser,” a “wacko,” a “mentally deranged person,” and a “big, fat pig”). Earlier this month, O’Donnell revealed that she had…
Read MoreKash Patel’s Jet-Setting Delayed FBI Probe Into Charlie Kirk’s Death
The detainees were reportedly fed while the plane was stuck, with strong winds preventing the plane from even being towed. Finally, at 2:45 p.m. Monday, the plane was towed to its terminal. Detainees were taken off of the plane and into the terminal, which was closed to the public, and were again given food. But…
Read MoreDNC’s 2024 Election Autopsy Blames Kamala Harris’s Stance on Gaza
During the meeting, “the DNC shared with us that their own data also found that policy was, in their words, a ‘net-negative’ in the 2024 election,” Hamid Bendass, a spokesperson for the IMEU Policy Project, told Axios. The report was deliberately buried last year, and now we can see one of the reasons why. The…
Read MoreThe Paranoid Style of Jeffrey Epstein Has Come for Us All
There’s a pattern to Epstein’s consumption of ideas and to the kinds of people he found compatible. It wasn’t a wish to brush shoulders with the famous and well-regarded—generic star-fucking. Epstein didn’t collect people for status; he identified and aligned himself with the intellectual machinery now justifying our current dystopia, including the academic rationalizations and…
Read MoreThere’s Only One Way to Eradicate Trumpism for Good
One of the weirder journalistic spectacles of the Trump era has been watching mainstream news organizations parachute into the hinterlands to try to understand the voters who ushered in, and continue to support, this age of cruelty in America. A recent classic was The New York Times’ herculean effort to find one Minnesota diner whose…
Read More