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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.

Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Centrist Dems broke a promise on infrastructure. They should not get their “bipartisan” victory now

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul holds a briefing at the State Executive office on 3rd Avenue, Manhattan, September 9, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New York’s vaccine mandate for health care workers is a success, despite media doomsayer predictions

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Man refusing the vaccine, and getting a pink slip from his job, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It’s time to start firing unvaccinated people: Trump fans are overdue for a lesson in consequences

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Joe Biden, Paul Ryan and an Occupy Wall Street protest (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse

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U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden became the 46th president of the United States earlier today during the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Stop the malarkey, Biden: Ban the unvaccinated from airplanes already

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Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

California recall ends in a resounding rejection of Trumpism — providing a roadmap for Democrats

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Larry Elder and Gavin Newsom (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Win or lose, California recall embodies the GOP’s embrace of Trump’s anti-democracy politics

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Greg Abbott, Joe Biden and Kristi Noem (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden’s vaccine mandate makes Republicans choose: culture war or corporate profits?

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From 9/11 to 1/6: What does “terrorism” look like?

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A Horse and Ivermectin Tablets (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why is everyone arguing over horse paste? To avoid discussion about the dangers of vaccine refusal

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

Greg Abbott is not ignorant — he’s a liar: Why the difference matters for the future of democracy

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The Satanists are right: Texas’ abortion ban is a direct attack on freedom of religion

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Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema | Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Texas abortion ban should wake Democrats up: A dystopian hellscape awaits without filibuster reform

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Are women people? Why the Supreme Court just signed off on a Texas law that denies women’s humanity

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Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Erin Schaff)

The “soft” overturn of Roe v. Wade exposes how far-right John Roberts has let the Supreme Court go

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Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans’ plot to impeach Joe Biden is not about Afghanistan — it’s payback for Trump

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US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s Supreme Court just showed why court-packing is necessary to save U.S. democracy

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U.S. President Joe Biden (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Afghanistan is not going to sink Biden’s presidency — but the pandemic could

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Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barret (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Supreme Court’s sloppiness reveals its radicalism

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Anti-vaccine activists hold signs and chant in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

FDA approval will not change anti-vaxxers’ minds — but it does make vaccine mandates possible

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Fox host Tucker Carlson (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

Tucker Carlson plays dumb on TV — but his stupidity is strategically weaponized

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Donald Trump | Pickup trucks and cars full of flag-waving Donald Trump supporters as they snarl traffic and parade through downtown Portland, Oregon on August 29, 2020. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s Capitol riot continues: Bomb threat proves GOP’s Big Lie is still a big danger

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Advocates against vaccine mandates protest in front of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on August 14, 2021. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Unvaccinated terror: Proud Boys push the anti-vaccination movement into a violent threat

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Brian Kilmeade, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right-wing media already bored with bashing Biden over Afghanistan, return to the culture wars

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