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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.

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

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens
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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Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks during a press conference at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan on October 29, 2019 in New York City. Gabbard called for the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI declassify and release 9/11 investigative documents that she claims would implicate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard grows to become Donald Trump’s most dangerous attack dog

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his wife actress Cheryl Hines are seen as Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tapped California attorney Nicole Shanahan as his running mate during an event in Oakland, California, United States on March 26, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The hidden elitism of RFK’s MAHA movement is making America more unhealthy

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on January 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Kristi Noem’s proud MAGA bimbo act builds on the legacy of Sarah Palin

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Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gives a keynote speech during the Bitcoin 2024 conference at Music City Center July 26, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA

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Samuel Alito | Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“A court captured by far-right conspiracy theories”: How the GOP drove the Supreme Court off a cliff

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Conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer Ben Shapiro during a break of the filming of his show The Ben Shapiro Show on September 26, 2018 in Los Angles, CA (Jessica Pons/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Ben Shapiro is cracking under the pressure to shill for Trump

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Teenage girls dressed in costumes with colorful school lockers in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / AntonioSolano / Westend61)

Texas GOP wants to ban kids from playing dress-up: Yes, really

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George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s deportation lies are nothing new: Remember Bush, WMD and Iraq?

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Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“Two dolls” for Christmas: Trump resorts to sexism to sell tariffs

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