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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." Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

Taylor Swift kisses Travis Kelce after Kansas City defeated the Buffalo Bills to win the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 26, 2025. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift is not the tradwife you’re looking for

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Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell attend Anand Jon Fashion Show on Sept. 18, 2000, in New York City. (Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell serves Trump like she served Jeffrey Epstein

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President Donald Trump visits the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on Aug. 21, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

MAGA knows DC takeover isn’t about crime — which is why they love it

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(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty / Stephen Reeves / Al Drago / CQ Roll Call)

MAGA can’t decide if women should be allowed to dance

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First Lady Melania Trump departs the White House with President Donald Trump. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Melania’s “Dear Putin” letter is about MAGA sexism, not peace

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President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters in the Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Image)

Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy”

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US conservative author Candace Owens speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida on February 25, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Candace Owens won’t stop her “transvestigations”

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Kim Davis (AP/Timothy D. Easley)

The Christian right claims marriage equality is persecution

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Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance at the 44th annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Divorce him already, Usha

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump drops IVF promise, preferring to blame women for infertility

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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Bondi’s phony Obama probe exposes Trump’s fears

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Charlie Kirk speaks during a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism

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Religious leaders and GOP politicians sing and pray around President Donald Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden on May 1, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump seems to want a tent revival — in the federal workplace

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President Donald Trump at the White House (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Epstein files give MAGA a post-Trump future

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David Corenswet stars as Superman (Warner Bros.)

MAGA’s tantrum over “woke” Superman is nastier than their usual whining

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People holds signs calling for the release of Justice Department files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump fires Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, which sure looks desperate

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Donald Trump; Jeffrey Epstein (Getty/Nicholas Kamm/New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

Why House Republicans voted for the Epstein cover-up

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

Trump doesn’t realize why MAGA needs the Epstein files

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in a roundtable event with President Donald Trump in Texas to discuss the devastating flash flood. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA

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Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

Trump’s IRS payola for churches will backfire on evangelicals

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Rogan O'Handley, aka DC Draino, with a binder reading "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," leaving the White House on Feb. 27, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Why MAGA can’t let go of the “Epstein files”

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Brett Cooper arrives at the premiere of "Am I Racist?" on Sept. 9, 2024, in Nashville. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)

Brett Cooper: The MAGA girlboss Ben Shapiro can’t control

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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Progressive parents in Oklahoma offer blueprint to mess with MAGA censorship

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Ecuadorians residing in the U.S., outside the Capitol on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Why Trump is terrified of AOC

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