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Sophia Tesfaye is a senior writer (and former senior politics editor) for Salon. She resides in Washington, D.C.
You can find her on Twitter at @SophiaTesfaye.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends an event on June 20, 2025 in Detroit, Mich. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

FEMA’s acting director is MIA — and the media hasn’t even noticed

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during the daily briefing, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA melts down, Dems exult as “Epstein files” evaporate

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The CBS logo is seen at the CBS Building, headquarters of the CBS Corporation, in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Too corporate to fight for a free press

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with President Donald Trump as First Lady Melania Trump looks on after the First Couple's arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Gavin Newsom can’t stop at simply trolling Fox

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Zohran Mamdani, presumptive Democratic New York City mayoral nominee, celebrates his onstage with Rama Duwaji, Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani’s win was a surprise. The attacks that have followed are not

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News photographers watch Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump onscreen at a townhall event hosted by Fox News on October 15, 2024 in Cumming, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

MAGA’s narrative warfare gets all mixed up by Rupert Murdoch

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The hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime" (MSNBC)

MSNBC wants to host America’s “fun Saturday night dinner party”

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives to court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Justin Lane - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump-appointed judge slams deportation of 2-year-old US citizen: “It is illegal”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

One day after demanding “Vladmir, STOP!” Trump concludes Putin is “just tapping me along”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

“This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians”: Putin defies Trump, escalates attacks

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Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Good riddance to Washington’s real power duo

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with US President Joe Biden at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump challenges Biden to a second debate: “No holds barred”

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James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump (Will Heath/NBC)

Trump’s Bibles get the “SNL” treatment

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Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., speaks during the House Republicans' news conference on on the EPA rule on EV production in the Capitol on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima”: GOP congressman says Gaza comparison is out of context

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Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Never forget”: Trump unloads on Republican “cowards and weaklings” in Easter Sunday meltdown

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Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

“Nearly adopted”: Clarence Thomas took in future law clerk following racist firestorm

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U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Very troubling”: Federal judge makes “extraordinary” move to reveal the truth about Trump’s threats

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Peter Navarro, a former advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse on January 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“You are not a victim”: Judge sentences Trump adviser Peter Navarro to prison for defying subpoena

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Jesse Watters and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s granddaughter strikes back at Fox News host’s “ugly” attack: “This crosses the line”

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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), speaks to the media in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“A mistake”: Fox News panel pans GOP’s “botched” Biden impeachment rollout

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., candidate for speaker of the House, is seen outside a House Republican Conference speaker election meeting in Longworth Building on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“A gigantic pool of nos”: Dozens of Republicans reject Tom Emmer, GOP’s third nominee for speaker

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Alaska Horizon Embraer S A ERJ 170-200 LR takes off from Los Angeles international Airport on January 13, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. ( AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)

Pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder

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Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer and supplier, in Clinton, Michigan, on September 27, 2023. (MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images)

“They have to stop the debates”: After second GOP face-off, Trump demands RNC silence his opponents

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Donald Trump (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

“I call for help from the highest courts”: Trump cries out in fear of “Trump-hating” prosecutor

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