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Heather Digby Parton

Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon.

From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal?

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

Stephen Colbert’s firing is a test of free expression

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks at a press conference on July 15, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

GOP’s foreign aid vote will cost lives — and they don’t care

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Meera G. Nair, Ph.D., and Declan F. McCole, Ph.D., AGAF, professors of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, observe intestinal epithelial cells on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNewsGroup/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science

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Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

MAGA continues to reel from Trump’s Epstein betrayal

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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don and Vlad’s love story could be on the rocks

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Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

How $178 billion is creating a police state

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President Trump has signed many executive orders in four months. One instituted merit-based hiring, which MAGA turned into a loyalty test. (MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images)

Trump has the midterms in his sights. We must be vigilant

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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

As the One Big Boondoggle passes the Senate, Trump and Musk square off again

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Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist attends a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 18, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Not Trump’s baby: The “big, beautiful” bill’s father is really Grover Norquist

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US President Donald Trump during a a press conference in the East Room to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” runs into a Senate sausage grinder — and it’s messy

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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court bends again to Trump’s will

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Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

War with Iran could activate Trump’s darkest impulses

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President Donald J Trump arrives to speak about infrastructure and artificial intelligence to reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Facing a decision on Iran, Trump is as befuddled as ever

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US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has become an easy mark — and so has America

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President Trump, sitting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and First Lady Melania Trump, observes U.S. Army tanks traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue, during a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and his birthday on Flag Day, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump takes aim at states’ rights, and the Constitution

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Worse than Orbán: Trump is trying to bring his opposition to heel

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Donald Trump arrives on Marine One to speak at a rally with U.S. Army troops on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

Now Donald Trump is corrupting the military — and perverting its loyalty

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US President Donald Trump followed by First Lady Melania Trump, shakes hands with California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with California will test MAGA’s limits

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, is flanked by Senate Republicans as he gives remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee building on June 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk turns the GOP’s devotion to billionaire tax cuts into a trap

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Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk (R) arrives to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk versus MAGA: Republicans have reached a tipping point

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum on November 02, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The ugly truth of Trump’s America first agenda

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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is becoming disillusioned

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U.S. President Donald Trump inspects the troops during a full honors welcome ceremony on the parade grounds at the Pentagon, on July 25, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump diverts military valor to himself

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