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Griffin Eckstein is a News Fellow at Salon. He is a student journalist at New York University, having previously written for the independent student paper Washington Square News, the New York Post, and Morning Brew. Follow him on Bluesky at gec.bsky.social.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker speaks during a 2024 United States Secret Service Democratic National Convention security briefing on July 25, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Vincent Alban/Getty Images)

“Infamous and disgraceful”: Pritzker says pardoned Jan. 6 rioters can’t get state jobs in Illinois

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The CBS logo is seen at the CBS Building, headquarters of the CBS Corporation, in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

CBS News’ parent company may settle Trump’s “60 Minutes” lawsuit

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends the inauguration ceremony where Donald Trump will sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (KENNY HOLSTON/THE NEW YORK TIMES/11276477p/AFP via Getty Images)

Musk pushes out top Treasury official over effort to access US government payment system: report

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Lara Trump listens as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks after being declared the winner during an election night watch party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 06, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Lara Trump was the RNC chair with little past experience. She says hiring should be based on “merit”

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Cesar Chavez Day event at Union Station on March 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“The data has been there a long time”: Lawmakers grill RFK Jr. on vaccine misinformation

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Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr speaks during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, United States on February 24, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s hand-picked FCC head Carr launches investigations into NPR and PBS

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The control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport as seen from a Metro train stop in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Not normal”: Air traffic controllers were stretched thin during D.C. crash, per report

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US President Donald Trump speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

“Only a monster would say this”: Experts, legislators slam Trump blaming plane crash on DEI

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at a campaign event with former President Donald Trump, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“It’s OK to be proud to be German”: Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event

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Premier Doug Ford speaks to media at Cool Beer Brewing Company in Toronto, July 10, 2024. (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

“I’m going to hit him back”: Ontario Premier Ford lays out plan to fight Trump in trade war

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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 confirmed as homeland security secretary

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“It’s a massacre”: Trump fires inspectors general in illegal overnight purge

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Dr. Anthony Fauci (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

“You can’t have ’em forever”: Trump cuts Fauci’s security detail loose

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US President Donald Trump speaks at a Hurricane Helene recovery briefing in a hangar at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, North Carolina, on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“FEMA is not good”: Trump looking into ending federal disaster aid agency

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (C) answers questions during a short interview with Fox News outside the White House on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump WH Press Secretary took hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press as he and first lady Melania Trump prepare to depart the White House aboard Marine One on January 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

“A new low”: WSJ editorial board slams Trump for leaving ex-staffers open to assassination

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Anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy speaks at a news conference on the five fetuses found inside the home where she and other anti-abortion activists were living on Capitol Hill, at a news conference at the Hyatt Regency on April 05, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump pardons anti-abortion protesters convicted of blockading clinic entrances

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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) speaking to Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol before Johnson won the speakership for the 119th Congress on Friday, January 3, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Republican introduces measure to allow Trump a third term — but not Obama

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President Donald Trump appears at a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Executive orders show Trump is already running Project 2025 playbook despite denials

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Host Pete Hegseth during "FOX & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on May 27, 2022 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Hegseth paid $50k to sexual assault accuser as part of confidentiality agreement

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Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

GOP lawmakers’ lewd texts kept House from subpoenaing Hutchinson in Jan. 6 probe: report

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SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at a town hall with Republican candidate U.S. Senate Dave McCormick at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

“Highly offensive”: ADL sours on Musk over puns that “trivialize the Holocaust”

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Texas Governor John Connally adjusts his tie (foreground) as US President John F Kennedy (left) & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (in pink) settled in rear seats, prepared for motorcade into city from airport, Nov. 22. After a few speaking stops, the President was assassinated in the same car. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty)

“A big one, huh?”: Trump signs order to declassify JFK, MLK assassination files

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Pete Hegseth attends the new All-American Christmas Tree lighting outside News Corporation at Fox Square on December 9, 2021 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

GOP Sens. announce opposition to Hegseth nom, saying they won’t “compromise” on “character”

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