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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.” She’s a first place winner in the 2024 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism awards. She has published in many outlets, including the Rolling Stone, the Guardian, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. She hosts, writes, and helps produce “Standing Room Only,” a weekly politics show on YouTube. Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

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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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

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