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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.

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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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in a roundtable event with President Donald Trump in Texas to discuss the devastating flash flood. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA

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Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

Trump’s IRS payola for churches will backfire on evangelicals

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Rogan O'Handley, aka DC Draino, with a binder reading "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," leaving the White House on Feb. 27, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Why MAGA can’t let go of the “Epstein files”

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Brett Cooper arrives at the premiere of "Am I Racist?" on Sept. 9, 2024, in Nashville. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)

Brett Cooper: The MAGA girlboss Ben Shapiro can’t control

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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Progressive parents in Oklahoma offer blueprint to mess with MAGA censorship

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Ecuadorians residing in the U.S., outside the Capitol on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Why Trump is terrified of AOC

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A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

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Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (Troy Conrad/Netflix)

Joe Rogan beef shows MAGA male fragility

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Evangelicals push Trump into conflict with Iran

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Karoline Leavitt is so annoying

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Bullet holes are seen in the door outside the home of State Sen. John Hoffman on June 15, 2025 in Champlin, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Conspiracy theories about Minnesota shooter aren’t just deflection. They’re dangerous

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Sabrina Carpenter performs live during The BRIT Awards 2025 (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sabrina Carpenter’s sexpot pop star act is good for women

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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at Gemperle Orchard on April 16, 2025 in Ceres, California. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Gavin Newsom rediscovers fighting MAGA is popular

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Stephen Miller speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2021. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Stephen Miller can’t make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage

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U.S. President Donald Trump (C) reacts as he stands with his family members after delivering his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump gave the speech in front of 1500 invited guests. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How narcissism became everyone’s obsession

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Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump’s fight with Musk reveals MAGA’s biggest delusion

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U.S. Republican Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst speaks to the press after the Republican weekly policy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

Joni Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” pushes MAGA’s toxic Christian compassion on us all

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Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022 (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard predicted young male voters flocking to Trump

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Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk claims he’s leaving politics — no one should believe him

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