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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. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“I am the alpha in this relationship”: What Musk’s romantic history reveals about his hold on Trump

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Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. gives Elon Musk’s DOGE free rein to raid the federal health agency

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Banning “Enola Gay”: Pete Hegseth’s DEI paranoia knows no limits

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Donald Trump. Pro-choice protesters. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump quietly props up the strictest abortion ban in the country

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Donald Trump and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Not fit to have a job”: Trump victim-blames veterans, workers for his war on the economy

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Melania Trump and Pam Bondi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The “Epstein files” and Melania’s “deepfake” testimony are attempts to hide Trump’s violent misogyny

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People listen as former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally on July 3, 2021 in Sarasota, Florida. Co-sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida, the rally marks Trump's further support of the MAGA agenda and accomplishments of his administration. (Photo illustration by Salon/Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

“A woman is like a child”: MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power

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Pete Hegseth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Slavery produced a genuine affection between the races”: Hegseth’s church foretold “DEI” firings

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CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

What Elon Musk’s war on federal workers owes to Gamergate

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Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans shouldn’t be surprised Trump blames Ukraine — his sexual assault views predicted this

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Stay strong, cat ladies! After Trump’s first month back, personal defiance matters more than ever

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

RFK’s plan to make America healthy again? Send people with mental health conditions to farms

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Donald Trump watching democracy burn (Getty Images/Salon)

“His mission is to eradicate ‘woke Jesus'”: How money, lies and religion are abused to gut democracy

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Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“What the Lord established”: Elon Musk is camouflaging a Christian nationalist takeover

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U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) (L), Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, talks to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) sit in front during a meeting of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on January 31, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Musk took all their power, so Republicans remake Congress into a ministry of disinformation

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Elon Musk and Elizabeth Warren (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Let the scams roll”: Elon Musk exploits culture wars to turn MAGA against consumer protections

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Elon Musk and a sign for the National Institute of Health (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Elon Musk built his wealth from taxpayer-funded research — now he’s trying to destroy future science

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US President Donald Trump signs the No Men in Women's Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

“‘Women’ is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why the “President Elon Musk” mockery doesn’t seem to bother Donald Trump

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Children in a Head Start classroom in Frederick, Md. in 2023. (Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s war on Head Start childhood education exposes how “pro-natalists” are really anti-woman

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Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans usher in an “unleash the plague” era with RFK and Elon Musk’s attacks on public health

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Elon Musk attends 'Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk' session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 - Day Three on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)

“Hitler actually had some decent points”: Musk’s covert coup is guided by internet trolls

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Donald Trump and a school classroom full of kids (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s MAGA takeover of education may backfire with parents

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Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA’s revenge of the mediocre: Trump’s war on federal workers targets the meritorious

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