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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.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“AI nurses” as “good as any doctor”: RFK Jr. confirms he wants to take away people’s health care

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Trump is trying to collapse our economy”: War on “woke” revealed as a war on all Americans

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives to court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Justin Lane - Pool/Getty Images)

What “law and order”? Trump’s first week will only unleash more crime

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. waits to enter a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on January 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is not waiting for RFK Jr. — he has already started his war on public health

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US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s war on DEI is not about “merit”

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SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn’t working this time around

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump Jr., Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Usha Vance, Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum and Vice President-elect JD Vance applaud during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

“A brazen grift”: Trump turns his inauguration over to MAGA scams

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Let's not watch the Presidential inauguration this time (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Turn the channel on the inauguration with these counterprogramming suggestions

Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Kelly McClure, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Nardos Haile, Nicholas Liu, Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump and the Tiktok app (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump’s new love of TikTok is dangerous

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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The tech billionaire war on “woke” is really targeting workers

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Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tech billionaires expose MAGA’s “populism” con job

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“You will have to change how you see women”: Why Trump fears Hegseth accusers

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Jesse Watters and a view of a Sunset Boulevard sign during the Palisades Fire. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“DEI is deadly”: Fox News spin on California wildfires exposes MAGA’s total incoherence

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President Jimmy Carter makes a point during a speech to the congregation of a church. (Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

How Jimmy Carter’s so-called betrayal of evangelicals led to MAGA

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Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta makeover: MAGA grandpa is about to get much worse

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Thomas Jefferson side-eying Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Mike Johnson’s fake “Jefferson prayer” matters

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Mike Johnson, Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New year, same Trump: MAGA pounces on New Orleans tragedy to spread disinformation

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Newborns are being left in dumpsters in Texas, but Republicans don’t seem to care

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

MAGA was all about “masculinity” in 2024 — too bad they have no idea what that word means

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Republican Presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center on December 17, 2023 in Reno, Nevada. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“This is Trump’s America now!”: MAGA diehards jumpstart a new year of political violence

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Supporters attend a primary election night event for J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, at Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Tradwives, incels and cat ladies: The year MAGA broke heterosexuality

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Donald Trump | QAnon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Conspiracy theory is the new normal: 2024 was the year QAnon went mainstream

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Elon Musk embraces Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 05, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Elon Musk can easily use Donald Trump’s greatest advantage against him

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Put on your big boy pants”: Democrats rediscover a will to fight with government shutdown battle

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