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Alex Galbraith is Salon’s nights and weekends editor, and author of our free daily newsletter, Crash Course. He is based in New Orleans.

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

“Big Tech can no longer place our kids in danger”: Meta loses New Mexico child exploitation case

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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)

“Test run”: Bannon says ICE presence at airports is practice for midterms

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In his second term, President Donald Trump is openly profiteering from the presidency (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“Damn good thing”: Trump encourages senators pass SAVE America act “for Jesus”

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Actor/stand-up comedian Bill Cosby arrives for sentencing for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on September 24, 2018 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)

“54 years to get justice”: Cosby loses $19 million sexual assault lawsuit

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An Air Canada Express plane sits on the tarmac after it collided with a fire truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 2026 in New York City. Two people are believed to have been killed in the late-night accident, with dozens injured. The plane had landed from a flight from Montreal. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

“That wasn’t good to watch”: Plane crash at LaGuardia kills two, closes airport for hours

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United States President Donald Trump speaks to the press before his departs the White House en route Miami, Florida on March 20, 2026, in Washington DC. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Getty Images)

“No need to say anything”: Trump saying he’s “glad” Mueller died draws bipartisan backlash

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ICE Police watch as Rep. Ilhan Omar, center, U.S. Representative Kelly Morrison, left, and U.S. Representative Angie Craig, (not shown) on right, make their way into the the entrance of the Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, MN on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Elizabeth Flores / Getty Images)

“No more games”: Trump threatens to deploy ICE at airports amid government shutdown

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Taylor Frankie Paul in "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" (Disney)

ABC cancels “Bachelorette” over Taylor Frankie Paul controversy

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US President Donald Trump meets with Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 19, 2026. (Photo by Jim Watson/Getty Images)

“Who knows better about surprise?”: Trump cracks Pearl Harbor joke in front of Japanese PM

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Maikel Garcia of Team Venezuela defeating Team USA in the 2026 World Baseball Classic championship game. (Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Venezuela beats Team USA at the World Baseball Classic

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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing titled "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland," in Cannon building on Wednesday, December 11, 2025. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Michael Glasheen, operations director, National Security Branch, FBI, also testified. (Photo by Tom Williams/Getty Images)

“No threat”: Kent says Trump was “deceived” into war with Iran by Israel, resigns

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“No more lies”: House subpoenas Bondi over DOJ’s handling of Epstein Files

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Pete Buttigieg speaks at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by KC McGinnis/Getty Images)

“Raising money over the bodies”: Buttigieg accuses Trump of using dead soldiers as prop

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Jeremy Culhane as Tucker Carlson, and anchor Colin Jost during Weekend Update on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo by Will Heath/NBC)

“What are we doing?”: “Saturday Night Live” gets Tucker Carlson’s take on the Oscars

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The Ticketmaster logo is displayed on a smartphone screen in this photo illustration. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/Getty Images)

“Robbing them blind”: Live Nation execs boasted about overcharging customers

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation's highest court, speaks at the 60th Commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 2023 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Butch Dill - Pool/Getty Images)

“Real unfortunate”: KBJ torches SCOTUS conservatives using shadow docket to aid Trump

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Stephen Colbert speaks during the 2026 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony at Edison Ballroom on March 08, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America East)

“This is not the Red Scare”: Colbert shrugs off blacklist comparisons, takes shot at Paramount

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Anti-war protestors gather in front of the New York Public Library and mourn the 180 Iranian children killed during U.S.-Israeli bombing on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, on March 08, 2026, in New York City, U.S. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Getty Images)

New video bolsters claim that US struck Iranian girls school

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

“Stay tuned”: Graham promises “Cuba is next” in a global war against “bad guys”

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Ashley Padilla as Kristi Noem during the “Hegseth Iran Presser” Cold Open on Saturday, March 7, 2026 (Photo by Will Heath/NBC)

“Saturday Night Live” comes to bury Kristi Noem

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Donald Trump used social media again to dictate policy. This time to end migration from "Third-World Countries" and call out Minnesota's Somalian community. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

“People we had in mind are dead”: Trump admits US preferred successors to ayatollah were killed

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James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump during the “Trump War Address” Cold Open on Saturday, February 28, 2026 (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC)

“Happy WW3 to all who celebrate”: “Saturday Night Live” takes on U.S. attacks on Iran

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - AUGUST 28: U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (C) speaks during a press conference at City Hall following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on August 28, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Minneapolis Police, a gunman fired through the windows of the Annunciation Church at worshippers sitting in pews during a Catholic school Mass, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others. The gunman reportedly died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

“Stay off social media when you’re drunk”: Omar responds to mocking Mace post about Khamenei

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Congressman Seth Moulton speaks during a Veterans Day town hall event in Marblehead, MA on November 11, 2024. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

“They can’t ride off into the sunset”: Moulton calls for ICE agents to be “prosecuted”

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