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Sophia Tesfaye is a senior writer (and former senior politics editor) for Salon. She resides in Washington, D.C.
You can find her on Twitter at @SophiaTesfaye.

Love Island USA cast members (l-r) Bryan Arenales, Amaya Espinal, Iris Kendall, Huda Mustafa, Nicolas "Nic" Vansteenberghe, Ace Green (Kim Nunneley/Peacock)

America’s “Love Island” fantasy couldn’t survive Trump

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.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro delivers remarks with President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the White House on Aug. 11, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Fox News star’s jump to the Trump administration is backfiring

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President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House on July 11, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Fox host offers bizarre response to network’s video debunking Trump

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Donald Trump and John Bolton (AP Photo/Salon)

With Bolton raid, MAGA media confronts Trump’s war of retribution

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a bill signing event after the state legislature passed a constitutional amendment referendum to redraw the state’s congressional maps. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Fox News sees the power of Gavin Newsom’s trolling

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Megyn Kelly endorses Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Megyn Kelly’s Beyoncé meltdown has nothing to do with Sydney Sweeney

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An illustration of podcasters Candice Owens, Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson around a microphone. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / MirageC / Jason Davis / Joe Raedle / Ian Maule / WILLIAM EDWARDS / AFP via Getty Images)

The right-wing podcast wars just got really ugly

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Nate Silver, Donald Trump (MSNBC/Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)

No, Nate Silver: Epstein is not the new Russiagate

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Police respond to a shooting in Midtown Manhattan that left five dead, including the gunman, and one seriously injured. (JOHN LAMPARSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Right-wing media makes NYC shooting all about Mamdani

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard’s failure to distract from Epstein saga is no flop

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends an event on June 20, 2025 in Detroit, Mich. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

FEMA’s acting director is MIA — and the media hasn’t even noticed

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during the daily briefing, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA melts down, Dems exult as “Epstein files” evaporate

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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)

Too corporate to fight for a free press

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with President Donald Trump as First Lady Melania Trump looks on after the First Couple's arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Gavin Newsom can’t stop at simply trolling Fox

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Zohran Mamdani, presumptive Democratic New York City mayoral nominee, celebrates his onstage with Rama Duwaji, Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani’s win was a surprise. The attacks that have followed are not

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News photographers watch Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump onscreen at a townhall event hosted by Fox News on October 15, 2024 in Cumming, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

MAGA’s narrative warfare gets all mixed up by Rupert Murdoch

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The hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime" (MSNBC)

MSNBC wants to host America’s “fun Saturday night dinner party”

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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)

Trump-appointed judge slams deportation of 2-year-old US citizen: “It is illegal”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

One day after demanding “Vladmir, STOP!” Trump concludes Putin is “just tapping me along”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

“This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians”: Putin defies Trump, escalates attacks

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

Good riddance to Washington’s real power duo

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with US President Joe Biden at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump challenges Biden to a second debate: “No holds barred”

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James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump (Will Heath/NBC)

Trump’s Bibles get the “SNL” treatment

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Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., speaks during the House Republicans' news conference on on the EPA rule on EV production in the Capitol on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima”: GOP congressman says Gaza comparison is out of context

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