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Pete Hegseth's Past Comments About Hygiene Resurface After He's Caught On Video Running His Snotty Hands Through His Hair
Aug 14, 2026
Remarks about not having washed his hands "in 10 years" resurfaced after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was caught on video wiping his nose with his hands before immediately running those same hands through his hair.
Hegseth was seen doing just that while listening to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent deliver remarks. Footage went viral after it was shared by progressive journalist Aaron Rupar.
You can see what happened in the video below.
But then someone pointed out that Hegseth "does not wash anythiiiing," citing remarks he made in 2019 about how he hasn't washed his hands in a decade.
In 2019, Hegseth sparked disbelief when he said on Fox & Friends that he hadn’t washed his hands in a decade because he didn’t believe germs were real. He argued that because microorganisms couldn't be seen with the naked eye, they weren't real to him, joking that avoiding handwashing was his way of “inoculating” himself. The comments came after his co-hosts teased him for eating day-old pizza on air.
Hegseth later claimed his remarks should be taken as a joke, saying:
"We live in a society where people walk around with bottles of Purell [hand sanitizer] in their pockets, and they sanitize 19,000 times a day, as if that's going to save their life. I take care of myself and all that, but I don't obsess over everything all the time."
Given this extremely questionable remark, people are even more grossed out.
It seems Hegseth isn't alone in scoffing at germs.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a notorious anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist—raised eyebrows several months ago when he admitted he is "not scared of a germ" because he "used to snort cocaine off toilet seats."
However, germs are very real, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says proper handwashing is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of disease. It recommends washing hands with soap and clean, running water whenever possible. When soap and water aren’t available, the CDC advises using hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol.
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John Hinckley Jr. Shares New Message For Jodie Foster 45 Years After Shooting Ronald Reagan To Impress Her
Aug 13, 2026
Some Hollywood stories fade with time. The disturbing history connecting Jodie Foster and John Hinckley Jr. is not one of them. For those who don’t know, on March 30, 1981, Hinckley waited outside the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., where President Ronald Reagan had just addressed 5,000 members of the AFL-CIO.
As Reagan emerged from the hotel, Hinckley fired six shots from a revolver. One bullet ricocheted off Reagan’s limousine and struck him beneath his arm. White House Press Secretary James Brady, police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy were also wounded.
Hinckley was brought to the ground moments later. He was tried in federal court on 13 charges and found not guilty by reason of insanity.
He has since expressed remorse for the people he wounded:
“I know [the victims] probably can't forgive me now, but I just want them to know that I am sorry for what I did.”
Reagan survived and spent 12 days in the hospital before returning to the White House. He completed two terms as president and died on June 5, 2004, at age 93, more than two decades later.
But the story gets darker when Hinckley reveals his motive in an upcoming interview for The Mark Joseph Show:
“I wanted to have a union with Jodie Foster and live the rest of my life with her and all these things that, of course, were delusional.”
That’s right—the motive behind the assassination attempt was Hinckley’s obsession with Foster, who was just 18 years old and attending Yale University at the time. Already a celebrated young actor, Foster had starred in films including Taxi Driver and Freaky Friday.
Hinckley described how far that delusion went:
“I thought she would, you know, after things settled down, join me wherever I was. I wasn’t sure if I was gonna be in jail or the hospital or what after things settled down. I had this notion that she was gonna join me wherever I was.”
And he had gone to disturbing lengths to pursue that fantasy.
When Foster began college in 1980, the then-25-year-old Hinckley moved to New Haven, Connecticut, to be closer to her. He sent letters, poems, and notes to her campus mailbox, called her, and repeatedly tried to make contact.
The future two-time Oscar winner wanted nothing to do with Hinckley and attempted to avoid him. As his efforts failed, his fixation escalated. Hinckley eventually turned his attention to U.S. presidents, believing an act of violence could capture Foster’s attention.
Hinckley even admitted Foster herself could have become his target:
“As fate turns out, it was Reagan instead of her.”
Hinckley spent more than three decades at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., before leaving the psychiatric facility. In 2022, he was freed from court supervision and the remaining restrictions on his life.
The Oklahoma native did wish Fisher creepily well:
“I just wish Jodie Foster well, you know. I don’t really see her movies, but I wish her well, and I know she’s doing quite well.”
Forty-five years later, it’s an unsettling message considering the history behind it.
You can watch that portion of Hinckley’s interview below:
The full interview is available on The Mark Joseph Show. Joseph also produced the 2024 film Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as the former president alongside Penelope Ann Miller and Jon Voight. A director’s cut arrives in theaters September 25.
Needless to say, social media had plenty to unpack after Hinckley’s latest message to Foster:
But while Hinckley can look back on the assassination attempt, Foster has spoken about the trauma she experienced in its aftermath.
The Nyad star recalled to People how the shooting affected her college years:
“I’m finally able to admit that the one bit of theater I did when I was in college, there was so much trauma involved in it. Well, just quickly, the play happened in two weekends, and I did the first weekend, and in between the first weekend and the second weekend, John Hinckley shot the president.”
Hinckley may now call his thinking delusional, but Foster lived with the very real consequences of it during a chapter that followed her beyond college.
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Journalist Reveals Just How Much Money Has Been Diverted From National Parks For Trump's Vanity Projects—And People Are Livid
Aug 13, 2026
In a series of articles for MacFarlane News and MeidasTouch, videos, and an appearance on CNN, Chief Washington Correspondent for MeidasTouch Scott MacFarlane blew the whistle on MAGA Republican President Donald Trump’s raiding of National Park Service (NPS) funds. Aided by his Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Trump diverted NPS money to pay for all of his White House and Washington D.C. vanity projects.
Trump’s hand-selected, mostly unwanted and unnecessary White House grounds and National Mall projects—things like a botched reflecting pool resurfacing, golden decor, a helipad, a ballroom, gilded statues, and giant flagpoles—alone took $423 million from major national parks across the country.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility's Tim Whitehouse told MacFarlane:
"The National Park Service is being used as a piggy bank for Trump’s vanity projects. The National Parks Service and the Department of Interior are giving Trump all of the money that he wants."
"That’s costing the American people. That’s hurting the rest of our country."
The funding shifts have caused project delays, staff losses, and exacerbated existing maintenance backlogs, which include replacement roofs at Mission San Jose in Texas, structural stabilization at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in Colorado, "emergency repair" of a wastewater treatment facility at Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada, and landscaping and maintenance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
According to records obtained from NPS by MacFarlane, the $423 million Trump took for his vanity projects totals more than the funding for these nine major parks:
- Golden Gate
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Teton
- Joshua Tree
- Mammoth Cave
- Statue of Liberty complex
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite
- Zion
Private donations, park use fees, and appropriated funds approved by Congress have all been looted by the Trump administration. In addition to maintaining and staffing parks for visitors, NPS also participates in wildfire prevention and conservation efforts.
An NPS employee told MacFarlane News:
"This is part of a pattern of the National Park Service being forced to prioritize Trump’s vanity projects over our own needs."
"These projects aren’t being delayed because of some bureaucratic apparatus. They’re being delayed because the Trump Administration forced out the people who make them happen."
In his appearance on CNN seen below, MacFarlane did the math.
People were appalled, but unsurprised by the Trump administration's hubris.
@lpeterp/Bluesky
No, it doesn’t make the national Park look bad it makes Donald Trump look bad. It makes the Republicans look bad. It makes the United States look bad. Parks and services had nothing to do with this 
— Watt Whatley (@watwhatley.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Trump with the blessing of Republicans has siphoned off/misappropriated millions in NPS funding The financial malfeasance when all accounted for will be in the billions and will take decades to recover from
— #Nov2026 🌊🌊 Vote for Democracy 🗳️ - ICE❌ (@kdjs-1.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
The grift has been ongoing, but the scope and scale were previously unknown.
In June, The Atlantic reported more than $1 million of NPS earmarked funds paid for White House projects. Trump repaved a short pathway with "polished African granite carved in Italy" for $689,232 and spent $347,503 to "affix gold frames and plaques mocking his predecessors" along the West Wing Colonnade.
But some of Trump’s changes are getting pushback.
His beloved ballroom is being blocked by the courts.
Congress is also investigating where Trump’s project money is coming from and going.
In a press release from Colorado Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper, he along with 10 other senators "launched an inquiry into the Trump administration redirecting tens of millions of dollars from [at least $90 million in] fees paid to the National Park Services (NPS) to fund President Donald Trump’s vanity projects in Washington."
The senators wrote to Interior Secretary Burgum:
"The American people deserve transparency and a complete explanation of where their money is being directed."
"Rather than distribute these fee revenues back to our national parks and public lands, it appears that the Department of the Interior has redirected fee revenues to pay for President Trump’s vanity projects around Washington, D.C."
The inquiry focused on transparency issues regarding how contracts for these projects were awarded.
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Engaged Woman Sparks Theories After Finding Strange Hair Tie Near Her And Fiancé's Home Entryway
Aug 13, 2026
Finding out that your partner is cheating doesn't always have to involve accidentally seeing a nefarious text message or walking in on the act. But sometimes, signs of what could be cheating might have a far stranger explanation.
Posting in the "Girl Dinner Diaries" subReddit, Redditor Jack-of-not posted a photo of an open-faced sandwich and explained what she'd discovered:
"I open a coffee shop [and] got home from work in the afternoon."
"Found a hair tie by our shoe rack."
"I'm engaged. I have short hair. Even when I had long hair, I didn't have hair ties."
"I'm trying not to freak out."
"He says it is probably one of his sisters' who visited last fall, and that our dogs must've been playing with it."
Sometimes, when people come across a single strand of hair, a hair tie, or an earring, others will be quick to assume it's a sign of cheating. But in this case, the Reddit community swooped in with a variety of other explanations.
Some urged the OP to look inward and think about her experiences with cheating before jumping to conclusions.
"Animals find all sorts of stuff and bring it inside. They could have picked it up off the sidewalk or in the yard and brought it inside without anyone noticing. I wouldn’t freak out unless there are other signs." - Medium-Ticket-9574
"I found a no show sock on my closet floor. It’s not mine. I live alone, and I know the closet was empty when I moved in a couple of years ago. Best guess was it stuck to my comforter when I washed it at a laundromat. I also brought home a Big Boy pin that got stuck on the bottom of my boot. There aren’t even any Big Boy restaurants around here. Weird stuff happens." - 17Girl4Life
"I understand why OP is freaked out (I would be too), but I also keep thinking about how frustrating it would be if his explanation was genuine and he really wasn’t cheating and didn’t have any idea where the hair tie came from. Having 'evidence' of wrongdoing appear out of nowhere and being accused of something you didn’t do that you have no way of proving otherwise has got to be SO maddening, haha."
"That being said, I sympathize with OP and hope she listens to her gut on this one." - ThePrefect0fWanganui
Even Redditor Jack-of-not admitted:
"I feel neutral about his reaction, I guess? He didn’t really seem shook or bothered at all; he didn’t seem uncomfortable or caught off guard."
"We've been together for four years! He's never done anything to make me second-guess him. I just always feel like I have to be careful because just about every man I’ve been with has cheated, unfortunately. I have trust issues, clearly."
Others agreed and pointed out hair ties tend to be everywhere but where they need them to be.
"Ask his sister or give it back to her. Trust your gut, but in my house, an unknown hair elastic probably was probably bought home from the park by the puppy who is obsessed with them." - ZaelDaemon
"A couple of days ago, I was doing a deep clean... Apparently, one of my cats has been hoarding scrunchies, small socks, and pencils behind a cupboard... My dog used to hoard my underwear and socks..." - BusinessLetterhead47
"Near the entryway, it could have been stuck to a shoe? It would spark weird feelings for me, too, but if this is the only thing to give pause, I think I would choose to believe my partner." - kateastrophic
"I also have had them shoved in my pockets or the top of my purse. I would never miss a random hair tie, I buy them and clips in bulk because they break or I lose them." - BetseytSchuyler
"It's pretty easy for a hair tie to hitch a ride somewhere it doesn't belong and him pointing out it could've been his sister's isn't a big stretch, it only takes one person with long hair (who might not have even been wearing it, could've just been in their bag or pocket) for it to fall, get kicked underneath furniture, and pop up way later."
"That's not to say that I would disregard it completely, but just that there are too many perfectly reasonable explanations to jump immediately to cheating. If you have other reasons to think that keep an eye out, but it isn't worth creating tension if that's the only potential evidence you have." - Brifrofo
Redditor Jack-of-not agreed with these observations, as well:
"Yeah, I’m really trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, cause I know hair ties are so small and something I could easily get kicked around or whatever?"
"It is super possible our dogs found it from the depths of the couch and have been playing with it, LOL."
Some Redditors shared weird finds they had made in their partners' apartments.
"Okay, to be fair, I found a Bobby pin in my bedroom TODAY. I don't live with my boyfriend, I live alone and haven't used a Bobby pin in AT LEAST three years. Maybe more like five? I've only lived in this house for three years. I'm thoroughly baffled, but I saw it with my own two eyes and picked it up with my own hands. No explanation for me, either." - MHIMRollDog
"One time, I came home, and there was one cashew nut in the center of my toilet seat (I keep the toilet seat lid down). I didn't even have any cashews in my house. It weirded me out so bad. I still think about it." - Milkbl00d
"I remember finding a disposable contact lens case near the base of the toilet in my then-boyfriend’s apartment. He didn’t wear contacts, I didn’t wear contacts. I was suspicious as f**k."
"Turns out the man is just nasty and never cleaned behind the toilet. The expiration date was like two years before, and it was dusty." - F**kThisMolecule
"My sister found my hair on and in her husband’s dirty underwear and in the clean pairs in his drawers. My hair is long and blonde. Hers is short and black. But she also has lived with me for 18 years and has known me all her life and knows it gets EVERYWHERE, and I’d just spent the night."
"Unsure how I managed to infiltrate even the clean pairs, after a single 18-hour visit where I never even entered their room, but that’s how my hair likes to play it. I can never commit a crime." - biscuitboi967
"I don't know, once I found a pair of underwear in our washing machine that was absolutely not mine. Turns out my mom came over a few days before, and they must’ve been stuck to her like static cling or something, and they were hers!"
"A hair tie could be from any guest at any point in time." - IceDry4639
As easy as it would be to imagine the worst, a simple hair tie could have been dropped by one of the fiancé's sisters and lost until a pet found it, or their pet could have found a stray one outside and brought it home to play with.
Hair ties like to be everywhere they aren't wanted or needed, so the possibilities are pretty endless.
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Jenna Ortega Reveals Heartbreaking Reason She'd Go 'All Day' Without Eating Or Drinking On Set As Child Actor
Aug 13, 2026
During an interview with Esquire, Wednesday star Jenna Ortega admitted that she didn't recall any mistakes she made as a childhood star, and that might be the exact problem.
Though she's best-known now for her role in Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and even Yes Day, Ortega's career began years before that when she lived out in the Coachella Desert.
During that time, her parents prioritized education over acting roles, much like an athlete might need to keep up their grades to avoid getting benched, so when she actually appeared on set for projects like Ironman 3 and Stuck in the Middle, Ortega was grateful—maybe a little too grateful.
When asked what her biggest mistake was as a child star, Ortega drew a blank.
"I really had it going for me as a child, because I can't think of one mistake I made."
"Is that a terrible thing to say? I feel like I make mistakes now all the time!"
"But as a child, I was so grateful and so excited to be there that my game face was on."
"I wasn't asking for a sip of water. I would go all day without eating, drinking, whatever."
"I wanted so badly to not be in the way of anybody that..."
"Maybe that was my mistake? Not actually looking after myself?"
You can watch the segment here:
Redditors in the "Entertainment" subReddit clocked Ortega's response, pointing out that not taking care of herself was, in fact, a mistake, but that as a child, there should have been people looking out for her well-being.
"A child is not supposed to look after themselves. The parents are supposed to look after the child. It is otherwise neglect." -pomonalost
"This response feels weird to me, but she is only 23. Not a kid, but also probably not totally disconnected from the feeling of being neglected as a kid who was acting like it's fine to protect herself. She probably hasn't had enough time to look back and examine it yet." -PoorlyDesignedCat
"Oh dear. This girl has a lot to unpack. Hope she comes out alright." -Icommentwhenhelp
"That’s what I was like as a kid. I never would ask for anything if I was at a friend’s house. Their parents would eventually try to get me to eat or drink, but I didn’t want to bother anyone and just figured I’d eat at home." -CleverGirlRawr
"As a kid, I would never ask for anything I needed. It was debilitating, really. I remember one time in class, we all brought our chairs to the front to watch a movie, and the guy in front of me moved his chair back and put it on my foot by accident. I sat there through the whole movie with his chair on my foot."
"I'm not famous, but I can get how she felt." -Capeverde33
"Tom Holland says that in his first 'Spider-Man' movie, the suit made it hard to go to the bathroom, and he didn’t want to 'make trouble,' so he stopped asking for water. In his check-in call with his mom, he joked about how thirsty he always was, and two days later, a producer came down to ask about his kidneys."
"So he wasn’t being deliberately deprived, but if you are an eager-to-please kid, it’s likely no one is going to check to see if you are hydrated and fed." -SmoothLester
"If I’m remembering correctly, she’s said in interviews that her mom worked full time as a nurse, while also balancing bringing her to auditions and sets."
"I wonder if that means Jenna didn’t have an adult with her to advocate for her on set. That’s a lot of pressure for a child." -pippspopsdom
"Knowing what we know now, it should be illegal for a child to be unattended that long on set." -_emma_stove_
"She’s already a smaller person, but that could have played a serious role in stunting her growth. That’s really sad; no kid should have to feel the need to do that." -CapableNeat4351
"I feel like we are taught this from an early age. Don’t inconvenience anyone. The thing is, I don’t explicitly remember anyone ever teaching me this. I just knew."
"I’m 42, and I’m still the same way. I hope she heals." -SlowerthanTurtleInPB
It's sad to hear how worried Ortega was about being an inconvenience. Hopefully, she's put that mindset behind her.
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