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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a re-election rally at Maceachron Park on June 21, 2024 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. (Joy Malone/Getty Images)

Sanders, Khanna float billionaire tax

Garrett Owen
Elon Musk envisioned a future with optional work and irrelevant money thanks to the domination of artificial intelligence. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA loves bad dads

Amanda Marcotte
Steve Bannon speaks on stage during The Semafor 2025 World Economy Summit on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images for Semafor)

Conservatives blast Bannon over Epstein

Garrett Owen
James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump during the “Trump Awards” Cold Open. (Photo by Will Heath/NBC)

"SNL" throws Trump his own awards show

Alex Galbraith
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We need Wikipedia more than ever

Troy Farah
Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas on May 27, 2025. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How SpaceX rockets put planes at risk

Heather Vogell, Agnel Philip - ProPublica
ANKARA, TURKIYE - NOVEMBER 7: In this photo illustration, Elon Musk's photo is displayed in front of Grok logo on a phone screen, in Ankara, Turkiye on November 7, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu via Getty Images)

AI is undressing women, children

Mariel Padilla - The 19th
Nick Fuentes, an avowed "intel" and white supremacist, speaks to supporters on June 15, 2024.

The right hit peak incel in 2025

Amanda Marcotte
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The legal tax tricks billionaires use

Ray Madoff - The Conversation
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (R), speaks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he returned to the White House last month. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

WH chief blasts Vanity Fair interview

Garrett Owen
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Craig Barritt / Matt Winkelmeyer / Kevin Mazur / Phillip Faraone / Kevin Dietsch / Andrew Harnik / Saul Loeb / Vittorio Zunino Celotto)

The best takedowns of 2025

Andi Zeisler
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Musk wouldn't do DOGE again

Alex Galbraith
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Allie Beth Stuckey on the set of Candace Owens' show on Dec. 6, 2021. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)

MAGA's war on empathy began with a woman

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Oct. 17, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Trump train is losing steam

Heather Digby Parton
Elon Musk during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Elon Musk's DOGE leaves a deadly legacy

Heather Digby Parton
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Republicans mourn passing of DOGE

Garrett Owen
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Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter, logo. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Has social media's reckoning arrived?

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA is starting to see the real Trump

Heather Digby Parton
Elon Musk envisioned a future with optional work and irrelevant money thanks to the domination of artificial intelligence. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

The creepy logic of a post-money society

CK Smith
ANKARA, TURKIYE - NOVEMBER 7: In this photo illustration, Elon Musk's photo is displayed in front of Grok logo on a phone screen, in Ankara, Turkiye on November 7, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Grok gets "absurdly positive" over Musk

Garrett Owen
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during the NRA ILA Leadership Forum at the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on May 18, 2024 in Dallas, Texas. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Abbott's Musk emails are still a mystery

Lauren McGaughy - ProPublica
Billie Eilish isn't afraid to call out people, even the uber-rich and powerful. And she isn't afraid to add some colorful language to her insults. (Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images for Live Nation)

Eilish & 5 salty words to describe Musk

CK Smith
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

MAGA rages over Trump's visa comments

Blaise Malley
Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Disgust over Musk's $1 trillion payout

Garrett Owen
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