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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.

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

“Never forget”: Trump unloads on Republican “cowards and weaklings” in Easter Sunday meltdown

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Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

“Nearly adopted”: Clarence Thomas took in future law clerk following racist firestorm

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U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Very troubling”: Federal judge makes “extraordinary” move to reveal the truth about Trump’s threats

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Peter Navarro, a former advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse on January 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“You are not a victim”: Judge sentences Trump adviser Peter Navarro to prison for defying subpoena

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Jesse Watters and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s granddaughter strikes back at Fox News host’s “ugly” attack: “This crosses the line”

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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), speaks to the media in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“A mistake”: Fox News panel pans GOP’s “botched” Biden impeachment rollout

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., candidate for speaker of the House, is seen outside a House Republican Conference speaker election meeting in Longworth Building on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“A gigantic pool of nos”: Dozens of Republicans reject Tom Emmer, GOP’s third nominee for speaker

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Alaska Horizon Embraer S A ERJ 170-200 LR takes off from Los Angeles international Airport on January 13, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. ( AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)

Pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder

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Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer and supplier, in Clinton, Michigan, on September 27, 2023. (MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images)

“They have to stop the debates”: After second GOP face-off, Trump demands RNC silence his opponents

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Donald Trump (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

“I call for help from the highest courts”: Trump cries out in fear of “Trump-hating” prosecutor

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives for a closed-door briefing by intelligence officials about the Discord leaks at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on April 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife indicted on federal corruption charges

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Rupert Murdoch at his annual party at Spencer House, St James' Place in London. (Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)

Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of Fox Corp. but vows to watch “broadcasts with a critical eye”

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Megyn Kelly speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit 2018 at Ritz Carlton Hotel on October 2, 2018 in Laguna Niguel, California (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune)

Trump lashes out at Megyn Kelly following interview blowback: “She was pretty nasty”

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., talks reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace is “very unhappy” with Kevin McCarthy: “I don’t like feeling like I was misled”

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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Lauren Boebert says she’s learned her lesson from “Beetlejuice” scandal: Never date a Democrat 

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Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon leaves the United States District Court House on the first day of jury selection in his trial for contempt of Congress, on July 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

“I made it very clear at the outset”: Judge stops Eastman trial to slam Steve Bannon for live stream

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Hunter Biden attends a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 7, 2022. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Hunter Biden indicted, charged with illegally owning a gun

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk (LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Reporter corners Elon Musk on Starlink: “Has your ignorance and ego cost Ukrainian lives, sir?”

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Interior of car parked in front of patrolling police car (Getty Images/Westend61)

Seattle cop caught on bodycam mocking woman killed by fellow officer: “She had limited value”

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US Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (L) listens alongside members of the House Freedom Caucus during a news conference on the debt limit at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Lauren Boebert is bragging about being escorted out of “Beetlejuice”

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Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks with Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

Impeachment threatens to split apart Kevin McCarthy’s fragile GOP House majority

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., takes questions after taking a break from a news conference because of lightheadedness, after the senate luncheons on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Knives out for Mitch: Republicans target a weakened McConnell after he freezes up for a second time

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E. Jean Carroll (C) leaves following her trial at Manhattan Federal Court on May 8, 2023 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

“Trump’s walls continue to crumble”: E. Jean Carroll wins second defamation case

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Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Blocked: Court stops Jack Smith’s effort to access phone records of GOP Rep. Scott Perry

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