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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a collegiate athletics roundtable about fall sports at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus of Florida State University on August 11, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)

"Woke" means nothing — that's the point

Amanda Marcotte
Demonstrators march through downtown protesting the death of Tyre Nichols on January 28, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tyre Nichols died on January 10th, three days after being severely beaten by five Memphis police officers. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Diversity, "wokeness" and oppression

Chris Hedges
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

DeSantis tries out his 2024 pitch

Kathryn Joyce
Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit storm into the Kabul International Airport, wielding American supplied weapons, equipment and uniforms after the United States Military have completed their withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

America in 2021: It wasn't a great year

Anis Shivani
Pat Toomey and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Infrastructure bill: Secretly woke?

Jon Skolnik
Students line a busy intersection and overpass protesting against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history, in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo., Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. Several hundred students walked out of class Thursday in the fourth straight day of protests in Jefferson County. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

"CRT" hysteria is the perfect GOP troll

Amanda Marcotte
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White privilege? I don't want to hear it

Chauncey DeVega
Alex Trebek (AP/Seth Wenig)

"Jeopardy!"'s "stay woke" fail

Alessandra Maldonado
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