Posts by Shopie Claire
Trump Says He’s Still on Schedule in Iran Because He Took “a Break”
Donald Trump would get around to ending the bloody conflict in Iran, but come on—we all deserve a break once in a while! That was essentially what the president told reporters on Thursday when asked about the ongoing war. After Trump falsely claimed the United States had been involved with Iran for only “five and…
Read MoreDr. Oz Gives Trump the Weirdest, Grossest Compliment Yet
Dr. Oz waved off national concerns Wednesday about Donald Trump’s health, claiming that the president is “healthy as a bull.” The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator told the New York Post podcast that Trump’s “success to longevity as well as good health is his incredible passion for what he is doing.” Oz further…
Read MoreTrump’s Iran War Has Put Military at Risk of Running Out of Ammunition
“And I just looked at a little chart, World War I, four years and three months. World War II, six years. Korean War, three years. Vietnam, 19 years. Iraq, eight years. I’m five months. OK, five months,” Trump said. “I would have won Vietnam very quickly. I would have, if I were president, I would…
Read MoreKash Patel Sues The Atlantic Over Report That He’s Always Drunk
President Trump bragged on Truth Social Sunday that the Navy destroyer USS Spruance intercepted the Iranian cargo ship Touska in the Gulf of Oman, claiming that the U.S. “stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room.” The ship has been captured by the Marines, and Trump said it is…
Read MoreTrump and FIFA Have Already Broken the 2026 World Cup
Take a random moment from Trump’s second term—his inauguration, a state visit to the Middle East, a meeting of the preposterous “Board of Peace,” even just a random day when cameras are allowed into the Oval Office—and there is a decent chance that Gianni Infantino will be somewhere in the frame. From practically the moment…
Read MoreTrump 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…
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