Posts by Shopie Claire
Black Voices Are Vital to Democracy. The Media Must Stop Firing Them.
Put these retrenchments together, and you have a very hostile environment for Black journalists. The political right is trying to basically outlaw any discussion of racial inequality—and news organizations are trying to appease the political right. So while the circumstances differ in these cases, Attiah, Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Robinson, and I are all gone from…
Read MoreTrump Refuses to Answer Key Question on Venezuela
Whether the troops have actually made the city better is unclear. Crime is down, homeless encampments have been cleared, and hundreds of people accused of being in the country illegally have been detained by ICE, reported CNN. But tourism is also way down, restaurants are suffering, residents have sparked protests raging against the military occupation,…
Read MoreThe Palestinian Organizer Who Wouldn’t Be Silenced
In early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student, campus organizer, and legal permanent resident—and detained him for more than three months, as the Trump administration worked to strip him of his status and deport him. (Khalil has since graduated.) For many, Khalil’s arrest marked a terrifying inflection point.…
Read MoreBrazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Republicans obviously deserve blame too, particularly the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling that defined much of what Trump did after the 2020 election as official acts of the president and therefore not subject to prosecution. It’s worth noting that the United States was particularly ill-equipped to punish an anti-democratic president because we, unlike most other democracies,…
Read MoreGenocide in Gaza?
Of course, the situation in Gaza is dynamic, and due to actions on the part of the Israeli government and its military, much of the population there is now on the verge of mass starvation. At the start of Hitler’s reign, which killed some six million Jews, the Jewish population of Europe was approximately 9.5…
Read MoreTrump’s Best Allies Are His Biggest Weakness
Donald Trump was lustily booed at the U.S. Open in New York, and his excursion to one of D.C.’s despots’ club restaurants was interrupted by chanting protesters. But the opposition to the president extends well beyond the Acela corridor. As CNN’s Harry Enten noted this week, Trump’s approval rating is plummeting and he’s now “underwater…
Read MoreMAGA Thinks Alleged Kirk Shooter Was Radicalized by … College
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it…
Read MoreDamning New Emails Show Just How Much Ghislaine Maxwell Helped Epstein
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it…
Read MoreUtah Governor Laments He Can’t Blame an Immigrant for Kirk’s Death
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it…
Read MoreTeam Trump to Use Unverified Data to Blame Deaths on Covid Vaccine
The findings they plan to present appeared to be pulled from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, which collects claims of adverse reactions and results of taking vaccines. But because the claims are self-reported and unverified, the system can sometimes be exploited by anti-vaccine activists. People sometimes submit fraudulent claims, or they deliberately…
Read MoreTrump Has Chosen the Lucky City for His Next Crackdown
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK — Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025 “Well, I watched that trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that…
Read MoreICE Is Detaining So Many People It’s Running Out of Beds
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK — Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025 “Well, I watched that trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that…
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