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A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The goal of the GOP’s QAnon-influenced “groomer” troll: More political violence

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans don't really think liberals are "grooming" children — but they know saying so is permission to violence
U.S. President Donald Trump and American evangelical Christian preacher Andrew Brunson (L) participate in a prayer in the Oval Office a day after Brunson was released from a Turkish jail, at the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right

Amanda Marcotte
Trump's ungodliness was the cover that allowed the Christian right to hide in plain sight — now they're growing
Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes in "The Dropout" (Beth Dubber/Hulu)

What comes after “The Dropout” ending: What Elizabeth Holmes, Erika Cheung and others are doing now

Paige Harriss
The real story continues to unfurl with the Theranos trial ongoing, and the whistleblowers taking different paths
Supporters of President Donald J. Trump before the start of the rally. At the Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township, PA Saturday afternoon October 31, 2020 where United States President Donald J. Trump spoke during a campaign rally for his bid for reelection. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Boycotting Disney and Oreos: The red flags that MAGA is a cult

Amanda Marcotte
Cutting followers off from the rest of the world is a standard cult tactic — and a central tenet of Trumpism
Chris Rock and Will Smith onstage during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

On Will Smith slapping Chris Rock and what I know about heroes and violence

D. Watkins
Like Will Smith, I've been the slapper. And like Chris Rock, I've been slapped. Here's what I know about both roles
An American flag and a pride rainbow flag overlap in the crowd during a same-sex marriage support rally in West Hollywood celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 26, 2015 (Getty Images/Joe Kohen)

Tennessee’s child marriage bill pushes another purpose: Gutting same-sex marriage

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans signaled a way to gut Obergefell during KBJ's hearing — now red state legislators are heeding the call
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his address to the nation at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 21, 2022. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin’s war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm

Amanda Marcotte
The American right bet on Russia's swift victory in Ukraine to push authoritarianism at home — now they're spinning
Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker and former president Donald J Trump hold a Save America rally in Perry, GA, United States on September 25, 2021 (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump’s “hole-in-one” and Herschel Walker’s “degree”: Why MAGA loves lies too big to be believed

Amanda Marcotte
Trump taught Republicans that the GOP base loves to hear lies — so the more ridiculous the lie, the better
Atlanta (Oliver Upton/ FX)

On “Atlanta,” Van partied for every Black woman exhausted with being overlooked

Melanie McFarland
As usual, nobody was looking out for Van. But at a London party, she turned her invisibility into a superpower
Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 – 1931. American inventor and businessman. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

11 surprising facts about Thomas Edison

Mark Mancini
No. 6 – Thomas Edison gave his kids telegraph-inspired nicknames
Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Disney hysteria and litter boxes: Republicans’ deeply odd war on LGBTQ people escalates

Amanda Marcotte
The new Republican war on LGBTQ right is a full-blown "Satanic panic"-style frenzy of urban legends — and violence
Madison Cawthorn and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Madison Cawthorn’s cocaine-and-orgies brouhaha blows up the GOP’s QAnon plan

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans dish out titillating lies about Democrats, liberal judges and even Disney — but now they can't take it
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, delivers his opening statement during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Bidens nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, on Monday, March 21, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Ted Cruz earns his “whiteness”: The Republican attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson

Chauncey DeVega
Jackson's accomplishments triggered white Republicans into vicious attacks — and Ted Cruz seized his moment
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland | Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Merrick Garland is ignoring the DOJ’s original mission: Battling seditionists like Donald Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Democrats beg Garland: "Do your job." Taking out white supremacist conspiracies is why Department of Justice exists
Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Demonstrators in favor of LGBT rights rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill is just the beginning: Republicans want to claw back all gay rights

Amanda Marcotte
Having conquered the Supreme Court, the GOP take aim at same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination laws, and even Pride
Virginia and Clarence Thomas | Supporters of the "Peoples Convoy" wave US flags as the truck convoy heads east on Interstate Highway 70, on March 1, 2022, near St. Jacob, Illinois (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ginni Thomas and the truckers’ convoy: Why the right seeks refuge in conspiracy theories

Amanda Marcotte
Both Ginni Thomas and the People's Convoy are driven by a rage that is fueled entirely by lies and fantasies
Sen. Ted Cruz (lower left) (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (top left) (R-MO) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (top right) (R-TN) confer during a break in testimony for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

With their QAnon circus as cover, Republicans covertly unveil plans to undo decades of settled law

Amanda Marcotte
During Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearing, the GOP winked at plans to overturn Supreme Court precedents on marriage
Journalists are pictured during the press conference of Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova "On the crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine", Lviv, western Ukraine (Alyona Nikolayevich/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Report from Ukraine: Tension rises as Russian war crimes revealed — what’s Putin’s next move?

Brian Karem
Putin may be targeting journalists — probably because he's about to push this war to a new level of bloodshed
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Racist babies: Republicans reduced to white wailing at first Black woman nominated to Supreme Court

Amanda Marcotte
From attacks on interracial marriage to "white privilege" whining, Republicans triggered by Ketanji Jackson Brown
Brett Kavanaugh, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ted Cruz turns Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearing into rehabilitation of Brett Kavanaugh

Amanda Marcotte
Ted Cruz uses hearing for first Black female nominee to downplay Kavanaugh allegations as "teenage dating habits"
A toy and a notebook lies among the debris by the apartment block in 6A Lobanovsky Avenue which was hit with a missile on February 26, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. A residential building was hit as missile strikes were reported around Kyiv on the second night of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has killed scores and prompted widespread condemnation from US and European leaders. (Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)

Ukraine’s kids and adoption: Will an ugly history repeat itself?

Kathryn Joyce
A far-right Christian pastor just showed up in Poland with 63 Ukrainian kids. That may be just the beginning
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and a QAnon sign in fron of the U.S. Capitol (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a QAnon circus

Amanda Marcotte
Josh Hawley just previewed his QAnon-flavored lie that Joe Biden's nominee protects child pornographers
The New York Times Building is seen in New York City on February 4, 2021. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

What the New York Times doesn’t get about free speech and “cancel culture”

Amanda Marcotte
In a editorial, the board equates book-banning with "social silencing" people for bigoted opinions
Vladimir Putin, Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and Dr. Anthony Fauci (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exposes the Fox News-QAnon feedback loop

Amanda Marcotte
Conspiracy theories burble up from the right-wing swamp, Fox News launders them and the fringe gets emboldened
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