Posts by Shopie Claire
Is Trump’s Flip-Flop on Epstein Files Enough to Appease His Base?
The Trump administration is doing damage control on the visible signs of aging in the president, as seen in his swollen legs and a mysterious bruise on his hand. On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Levitt revealed that the president had emergency heart tests to figure out what was going on and was found…
Read MoreThe Common Thread Between Epstein Denial and Climate Denial
Besides its rhetorical flourishes, the throughline between climate denial and Epstein denial is that the underlying harms at issue—catastrophic global warming, and decades of sexual abuse—are straightforwardly horrific. It boggles the mind to imagine that so many of the country’s most powerful people, Democrats and Republicans alike, spent decades either aware of or involved in…
Read MoreDonald Trump Is Having One of His Worst Weeks, Ever
They both shoulder some blame, but neither of those is really the answer. Every time I ask myself how he gets away with this, I remember: Oh, right. It’s the right-wing media. Duh. After the election, I wrote a column that went viral about how the right-wing media made Trump’s election possible. Fox News, most…
Read MoreTrump and JD Vance Humiliatingly Flub Response to WSJ Epstein Story
The Trump administration is doing damage control on the visible signs of aging in the president, as seen in his swollen legs and a mysterious bruise on his hand. On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Levitt revealed that the president had emergency heart tests to figure out what was going on and was found…
Read MoreTrump’s Old Drawings Resurface as He Denies Epstein Birthday Letter
The Trump administration is doing damage control on the visible signs of aging in the president, as seen in his swollen legs and a mysterious bruise on his hand. On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Levitt revealed that the president had emergency heart tests to figure out what was going on and was found…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Press Sec Seethes at Media as Epstein Fiasco Worsens
Sargent: What’s striking about what you’re saying is also the degree to which this is seeping down into every crevice of the party and its media apparatus. So you had this kind of adulation directed at the audience of one on Thursday from many different quarters. I’m going to read a few of them. Republican…
Read MoreThe World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s Eddington
Aster’s works are about the sick joke that is living in the modern world, “I do love an evil movie,” Aster said recently on Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset podcast. “And that probably has something to do with the fact that the world feels evil to me.” This comment probably doesn’t come as a shock…
Read MoreGavin Newsom’s Retaliatory Redistricting Plan Is Good, Actually
In a letter sent on July 7, the Justice Department formally notified Texas that it believed that four of the state’s districts—the 9th, 18th, 29th, and 33rd—amounted to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The letter claimed that the districts were no longer constitutionally defensible after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the…
Read MoreInside the Fight to Save SNAP and Medicaid
Experts also warn that some states will begin preemptively taking action to cut benefits ahead of time—many states have legislatures that meet on a biannual basis, and have constitutional mandates to balance their state budgets, meaning that they have a limited window to address the looming federal changes. It could also lead to states making…
Read MoreTrump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Queries about His Mental State Grow
President Trump is in trouble. The Jeffrey Epstein files are killing him with the base. New polls show him cratering on many issues. And questions are mounting about his mental fitness due to a bizarre story he invented about his uncle and the Unabomber. At her latest briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt grew…
Read MoreGreg Abbott Moves to Rig the Midterms Amid Texas Floods
Governor Greg Abbot is trying to further gerrymander Texas while his state recovers from some of the deadliest flooding in its history. On Wednesday, Abbot told state lawmakers to begin the redistricting process as he positions Republicans to maintain control of the House in 2026. This directive has come straight from President Trump, who is…
Read MoreJoe Rogan Met Up With Trump Days Before Trashing His ICE Raids
Joe Rogan, podcaster and prominent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is souring on the administration’s immigration agenda. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Rogan, who dined with the president on June 30, “has discussed immigration policy with Trump and pushed him to back off deporting workers who have not committed crimes.” In a podcast…
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