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Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt answers questions during the daily press briefing on Sept. 9, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Even Leavitt can’t spin the joke check to Epstein from “DJTrump”

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The real reason Trump will never fire RFK Jr.

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Katie Miller listens as President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to reporters in the Oval Office on May 30, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Katie Miller isn’t fooling anyone

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Teresa Helm speaks during a news conference with fellow alleged victims of disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, their lawyers, supporters and members of Congress outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 03, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Try as they might, Republicans can’t silence Epstein’s victims

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President Donald Trump announces on Sept. 2, 2025, that U.S. Space Command will move its headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s long weekend of humiliation

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a Turning Point Action Rally in Duluth, GA on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The sinister reason Trump revived the presidential fitness test

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Taylor Swift kisses Travis Kelce after Kansas City defeated the Buffalo Bills to win the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 26, 2025. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift is not the tradwife you’re looking for

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Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell attend Anand Jon Fashion Show on Sept. 18, 2000, in New York City. (Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell serves Trump like she served Jeffrey Epstein

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President Donald Trump visits the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on Aug. 21, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

MAGA knows DC takeover isn’t about crime — which is why they love it

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(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty / Stephen Reeves / Al Drago / CQ Roll Call)

MAGA can’t decide if women should be allowed to dance

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First Lady Melania Trump departs the White House with President Donald Trump. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Melania’s “Dear Putin” letter is about MAGA sexism, not peace

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President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters in the Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Image)

Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy”

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US conservative author Candace Owens speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida on February 25, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Candace Owens won’t stop her “transvestigations”

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Kim Davis (AP/Timothy D. Easley)

The Christian right claims marriage equality is persecution

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Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance at the 44th annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Divorce him already, Usha

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump drops IVF promise, preferring to blame women for infertility

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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Bondi’s phony Obama probe exposes Trump’s fears

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Charlie Kirk speaks during a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism

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Religious leaders and GOP politicians sing and pray around President Donald Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden on May 1, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump seems to want a tent revival — in the federal workplace

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President Donald Trump at the White House (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Epstein files give MAGA a post-Trump future

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David Corenswet stars as Superman (Warner Bros.)

MAGA’s tantrum over “woke” Superman is nastier than their usual whining

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People holds signs calling for the release of Justice Department files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump fires Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, which sure looks desperate

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Donald Trump; Jeffrey Epstein (Getty/Nicholas Kamm/New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

Why House Republicans voted for the Epstein cover-up

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President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House on July 11, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump doesn’t realize why MAGA needs the Epstein files

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