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"Reaching her expiration date": How Marjorie Taylor Greene fell so fast from MAGA stardom

Making an Icarus allusion is tempting, except it would go right over MAGA heads. Plus the Greek myth of the ambitious young man who flies too close to...

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Stormy Daniels testimony reveals the triumph of #MeToo

Until her long-anticipated testimony at Donald Trump's Manhattan fraud trial Tuesday, the mainstream media had leaned on misleading terms like...

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Kristi Noem doubles down on Puppygate — can MAGA's endless trolling go any lower?

By any normal political standards, the reaction that Kristi Noem, the MAGA-friendly governor of South Dakota, got to her recent revelation that she'd...

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Trump's lawyers are trying to use his trial to generate conspiracy theories — but it's not working

Donald Trump's lawyers famously spend a lot of their time placating their client's narcissistic delusions, even at the expense of their purported...

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Donald Trump is using campus protests to stoke right-wing violence for the election

Despite all the hysteria in the punditry about campus protests against the war in Gaza, by and large, the student activists have been peaceful. Even...

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"Losing all credibility": Trump's hush money lawyer the latest to torch his reputation for nothing

Going into Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial for fraud and election interference regarding "hush money" payments to an adult film actress, the...

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"College was called 'Babylon'": A former "stay-at-home daughter" exposes Christian patriarchy

Christian fundamentalism is a competitive sport, with adherents often trying to outdo each other by escalating their extremism. Author Cait West is a...

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Kristi Noem doubled down on dog-killing to win over MAGA — now her story is backfiring in her face

Squint hard enough and perhaps one can see how Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., thought it was a winning political move to brag about murdering a puppy. It's...

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RFK is now openly gunning for Trump voters — and Republicans are starting to worry

"The Wuhan Cover-Up" blares the subject line of a recent presidential campaign email. Inside, it's all impenetrable conspiracy theory language that...

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Trump's isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments

Because Donald Trump himself wasn't indicted, there was a surprisingly muted response to the announcement, late on Wednesday, that Arizona Attorney...

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"Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense

In his opening statement in the People v. Donald Trump, defense attorney Todd Blanche told the Manhattan jury to gaze upon the criminal defendant and...

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Trump keeps begging for a "rally behind MAGA" — but his supporters aren't showing up to court

Donald Trump can't decide how he wants his supporters to feel about the scene outside of the Manhattan courtroom where he's being tried on 34 felony...

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Trump's humiliation deepens: In court, he can't hide from his tabloid roots

While it falls far short of the punishment he deserves, there was no small amount of satisfaction from reports that Donald Trump had to spend much of...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's "space lasers" show how the GOP gets away with escalating violence

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sure knows how to get the attention she craves by saying something incredibly stupid. "I’ve previously voted to fund...

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Donald Trump turns the GOP into a protection racket — and demands Republican candidates pay up

For someone who frequently proclaims his innocence, Donald Trump sure loves to act like a two-bit gangster. The perpetual defendant should be focused...

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"You can go three hours that way": Kari Lake and Arizona GOP can't decide if abortion is bad or not

Abortion is supposedly an act that is so evil it's tantamount to murder — yet it is somehow less wicked if someone takes a road trip before doing...

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Sleepy Don's dilemma: Napping in court could help Trump win the case, but it hurts him with his base

Toddlers are superior to Donald Trump in all ways, but they share one trait with the old man: A tendency to veer wildly between throwing tantrums or...

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Donald Trump was already a mess — now he's falling asleep during his own trial

"Study in contrasts" is an entirely inadequate phrase to describe the different experiences of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump over the weekend....

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Trump's right to fear Stormy Daniels — she could be a devastating witness

As a lifelong lover of the English language, I'm being slowly driven mad by one word that haunts the news coverage these days: "affair." It's the...

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Latest "masculinity influencer": Another dudebro guiding followers into deeper loneliness

Andrew Tate may be facing a mounting number of international charges for alleged sex crimes, but this doesn't mean we've seen the end of "masculinity...

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Kari Lake and her fellow Republicans can't run from Arizona's draconian abortion ban

As far as symbols of what the GOP intends for American women, the revival of an abortion ban that predates women's suffrage could not be more fitting....

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Trump busts the myth behind the MAGA rich

"Is Corporate America in Denial About Trump?" read a headline in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend. In it, staff writer Jonathan Mahler...

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Evangelicals won't be bothered by Trump's abortion gambit — they know he's lying

On Monday, with great fanfare, Donald Trump released his "plan" on abortion in a video posted to Truth Social. As with most things Trump says, the...

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Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA

Men are punching random women on the streets of New York City. As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown,...

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"Screws up female brains": MAGA leaders are conditioning Republicans to back birth control bans

Charlie Kirk, the head of the MAGA propaganda behemoth Turning Point USA, recently unveiled a novel theory as to why young women tend to vote for...

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Evicted, arrested and being sued by the boss: When will MAGA learn loyalty to Trump ends in sorrow?

When I saw the news that the stock price of Truth Social went into freefall after the company initally went public for $8 billion, I immediately sent...

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Donald Trump acts terrified to face a jury. He should be scared

Donald Trump, as usual, is unhappy. Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump's first criminal trial in Manhattan, just expanded an already...

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Fake right-wing panic about "trans" Easter is part of Trump's push for Christian nationalism

Most Americans spent Easter weekend with traditional activities like church or egg hunts, or, for non-Christians, just enjoying the lovely spring...

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"Stand where he tells you to stand": Why the GOP is doubling down on misogyny in 2024

"Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do." This is the wedding night advice offered to...

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Lara Trump's Big Lie hiring: Republicans stick with loser strategy that failed them in 2020 and 2022

As with many news items in the Donald Trump era, we must file this under "shocking, not surprising": People who are being interviewed by the newly...

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Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up

Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles. Claiming the book contains...

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Of course the lawyer trying to ban abortion pills is married to Josh "Run For Your Life" Hawley

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the group that argued against the abortion pill before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, does not hide that its goal...

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Trump loves to play the victim — NY appeals court bailout shows he's the most coddled person alive

As anyone who listens to him can attest, Donald Trump may be the most self-pitying person on planet Earth. Pretty much all the man does is whine and...

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Newly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli Babbitt

Nine people died as a result of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that Republicans pretend was a "normal tourist visit." Four rioters and five police...

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Trump's criminal cases are his campaign

"Hands off Trump Tower!" So reads a recent fundraising email from Donald Trump's joint fundraising campaign. Most of the email is an extended whine...

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Supreme Court grants Gov. Greg Abbott's wish to turn Texas into a far-right dictatorship

In his 2022 majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Justice Samuel Alito took great pains to argue that allowing states to ban abortion...

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White evangelicals embrace raunchy photos — yet they hate sex as much as ever

For those readers who have the self-esteem not to engage in the world of Christian right social media, let's just get this out of the way: It's heavy...

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Trump's call for a "bloodbath" was literal — let's not waste time pretending it was ambiguous

When Donald Trump declared "If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath" during his rally speech in Ohio Saturday, two things were...

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Adult MAGA rage is making schools more dangerous for students

Last week saw national headlines regarding two tragic stories that illustrate how MAGA radicalization of adults endangers kids in school. First, a...

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RFK Jr. and Aaron Rodgers: How con artists exploit male insecurity for political gain

It's certainly a match made in hell: Anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that he's considering New York Jets...

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Trump's MAGA movement is causing Republicans in Congress to hate each other

It's wild what a few short months of actually getting to know a person can do to your opinion of them. That's what House Republicans seem to have...

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Trump's RNC purge: His obsession with "loyalty" is as dumb as it is evil

Donald Trump's infatuation with Adolf Hitler is both well documented and profoundly disturbing. What's often overlooked is how painfully stupid it is....

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Republican women don't care about rape victims

It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump, who sexually abused her in the 90s and...

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Biden said Republicans oppose women's rights — Katie Britt's "tradwife" response proved him right

Politicians love to talk about their families, but in her Thursday night response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, Sen. Katie...

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"Tradwives" offer an alluring vision of right-wing Christianity — online warriors are fighting back

As social media stunts go, it's hard to top this one: Give birth to your eighth child at age 33. Then, just two weeks later, compete in a beauty...

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Nikki Haley never had a chance — as Republicans' bonkers candidate for North Carolina governor shows

Wednesday morning, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley did everyone a solid by being brief in her remarks as she dropped out of the Republican...

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Trump is degenerating before our eyes — MAGA voters don't notice or don't care

Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it's getting harder by the day to...

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"They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters": How Republicans bamboozle rural whites

It's become a tedious trope, the Beltway journalist who goes on a red state safari to ask Donald Trump voters if they still like Trump. It frustrates...

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Alabama's targeting of IVF is the Christian right's attempt to control motherhood

Former Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., gets a lot of glowing coverage simply because she occasionally criticizes Donald Trump in her fruitless presidential...

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James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren't fooled by Russian lies — they're complicit

Last week, the "whistleblower" that House Republicans were counting on to justify a long-planned impeachment of Joe Biden was arrested for lying to...

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