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Going no-contact with MAGA parents: Crucial self-care or the “unraveling of America”?

Left-leaning young adults are backing away from their Trump-loving parents — and mainstream media is sad

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RFK Jr. could hijack the conversation about Luigi Mangione — and set health care back for decades

The nation's ire focuses on insurance companies after the killing of UnitedHealth's CEO, but RFK could hijack it

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Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution

Far-right pastor Lance Wallnau is incredibly upset over the burgeoning controversies regarding Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete...

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Trump wanted to build an anti-#MeToo Cabinet — but it's backfiring badly

While this was never explicitly stated, one of Donald Trump's most obvious campaign promises to his mostly-male fan base was that he could bring...

05.12.2024 40

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Elon Musk's Twitter harassment of federal employees shows "DOGE" is weaker than he pretends

Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he announced, with great fanfare, that billionaire Elon Musk and professional troll...

04.12.2024 60

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Pete Hegseth's mother begged him to "get some help" — he joined a misogynist church instead

Even by the reality-TV chaos standards of our political moment, this one was a doozy: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of...

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Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it

After the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights in 2022, there was a robust debate between pro- and anti-choice activists over whether or not...

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No, progressives should not embrace conspiracy theories to win elections

If it wasn't for the American addiction to disinformation, Vice President Kamala Harris would have won the 2024 election. There's a lot of tap-dancing...

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Trump opens up a new war on public schools

It's not a coincidence that Donald Trump's nominee for Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, is the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that she ignored...

26.11.2024 30

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Resistance is not futile: Matt Gaetz's implosion shows how MAGA's chaos can be turned against Trump

Donald Trump isn't even in the White House yet, and already he's failing. Matt Gaetz, the trolliest of Trump's "Legion of Doom" Cabinet appointees,...

22.11.2024 10

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House of hate: Republicans in Congress turn MAGA harassment campaign against trans colleague

First things first: It is absolutely the case that the harassment of Sarah McBride, the newly elected Democratic representative from Delaware, is...

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How Mike Johnson's Christian "morality" provides cover for Matt Gaetz

It seems unshakeable, the Beltway press's faith that Christian conservatives mean all that jibber-jabber about sexual morality. On Sunday, CNN's Jake...

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Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more

Having endured Donald Trump in their faces for nearly a decade now, one would think more Republicans would understand better the man they've kept as...

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Trump trolls GOP with Cabinet picks: The point is to bring Republicans to heel — but it may backfire

In these dark times, it's more important than ever to nurse tendrils of joy. So it is a great pleasure to watch all the Republican leaders who...

15.11.2024 40

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Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary: Perfect symbol of phony MAGA masculinity

When considering the reasons why Donald Trump picked a Fox News blowhard to run the near-trillion-dollar U.S. military, it's important to remember...

14.11.2024 6

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No, women aren't likely to "boycott" men — but here's why the idea matters

It is not women's responsibility to use sex to cajole men into sucking less. First of all: Gross. Second of all, there's no evidence that sexual...

13.11.2024 20

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Biden wants Americans to "bring down the temperature" — but MAGA will not let that happen

In the wake of Donald Trump's devastating win last week, Democrats have fallen back on an old habit and are now trying to coax better behavior out of...

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America's political discordance: The Trump voters who want progressivism

Perhaps out of fear of insulting their audiences, the pundits, journalists, and political consultants engaged in the lengthy post-mortem about Donald...

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A cat lady's survival guide for the second Trump administration

For days and weeks to come, there will be endless analyses of how Donald Trump, a convicted criminal who fomented an insurrection and was found...

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Hope in the face of Kamala Harris' loss: Men failed America, but women will not give up so easily

WASHINGTON D.C. — I woke up on Election Day wearing fuzzy feline headgear. My brown tabby, Joey, had wrapped his paws around my head and was purring...

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Bracing for MAGA's backlash: The strategy behind secret Kamala Harris voters is safety

When it comes to political bait, it was the tastiest sort: a cheeky ad run by Vote Common Good, and voiced by Julia Roberts, reminding women that they...

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Trump is terrible for women — but that doesn't mean he's good for men

For all his endless rambling nonsense, Donald Trump's message can be boiled down to a simple lie: If one group of people does well, it must...

04.11.2024 50

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Donald Trump's plan to "protect" women in action: Two dead, another arrested for miscarriage

Donald Trump's favorite word when talking about abortion bans is "beautiful." When asked in June on Fox News about the states passing abortion bans...

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"I'm gonna do it whether the women like it or not": Trump's closing argument is toxic masculinity

Much has been made out of the fact that Donald Trump's campaign did nix one "joke" in the now-infamous speech by podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe during...

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"Obsessed with revenge": In dual rallies, Trump celebrated fascism, but Kamala exposed its true face

In the days since Donald Trump's hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, what's striking is the pettiness of the stakes MAGA defenders...

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Elon Musk's "illegal" past doesn't feel like hypocrisy to MAGA — Trump's hate rally in NYC shows why

Last week, the Washington Post reported that Tesla CEO and Donald Trump super-fan Elon Musk was once, to use the term favored by MAGA, an "illegal."...

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Trump campaign's obsessive hate may not boost him, but it will cause long-term damage

In my swing state of Pennsylvania, it's common for people to joke about how exhausted they are by all the campaign ads. But this year, the jokes fail...

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"Daddy's home": Tucker Carlson's bizarre troll distills Trump's false promise to male voters

It seems accidental, but there's no denying Tucker Carlson's timing. He was likely unaware that a new story about Jeffrey Epstein feeding sexual...

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"Donald Trump is unstable": Kamala's CNN town hall shows why he is afraid to face her

Donald Trump hopes he can confuse people about Vice President Kamala Harris's intelligence through sheer force of racism and repetition. "She’s lazy...

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MAGA bashes "single issue" abortion voters — but Florida shows these women are the smartest citizens

Convicted January 6 insurrectionist and professional conspiracy theorist Owen Shroyer knows his audience wants badly to believe women are stupid,...

23.10.2024 60

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Trump's apparent decline might make his next coup tougher to pull off

Anyone who's paying attention has noticed that Donald Trump isn't doing so well. First came the bizarre town hall last week, in which the Republican...

22.10.2024 4

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"I started to learn what patriarchy was": How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP

PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love just weeks before the presidential...

21.10.2024 60

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JD Vance's new spin on the Big Lie is even more fascist than Trump's original

After weeks of dodging and weaving, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, finally bit the bullet and endorsed the Big Lie. Donald Trump's running mate has been coy...

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"We want fertilization": Trump's all-female Fox News town hall wasn't for women, but his male base

Donald Trump is so scared of questions these days that he doesn't just cancel interviews, he will stand and sway to music for 39 minutes rather than...

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Trying to dance under the cloud of election anxiety

My partner and I were still buzzing with adrenaline from seeing pop star Dua Lipa close out Saturday night at the Austin City Limits music festival...

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Trump's hurricane of Milton lies: MAGA has a deadly addiction to disinformation

Of all the lies Donald Trump tells, perhaps the most preposterous is that he cares about his own voters. That was evident in 2020, when Trump...

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Trump is not women's "protector": New Brett Kavanaugh report shows MAGA protects predators

In a recent Pennsylvania stemwinder that raised eyebrows even by MAGA standards, Donald Trump declared himself the "protector" of women. "You will be...

09.10.2024 10

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"Feedback effects": The real censorship caused by fake "cancel culture" outrage

"Cancel culture" is a phantasm. Yes, as any true believer will insist, there have been cases where a person saw consequences — such as being...

08.10.2024 30

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"Pro-life" identity politics: GOP's sudden support of abortion shows it was never about policy

Before Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the Supreme Court decision that ended abortion rights, it was a truism in the Beltway press that Americans...

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JD Vance's "weird science" hypocrisy: His climate change cleanup job shows a contempt for children

If there's one thing most Americans knew about Sen. JD Vance of Ohio before Tuesday night's debate, it's that he really hates childless cat ladies....

02.10.2024 40

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JD Vance isn't just thin-skinned — he thinks whining is a winning political strategy

To know Sen. JD Vance is to dislike him. The Ohio Republican was relatively unknown to most Americans before Donald Trump picked him as a running...

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"It's a desire to affiliate with Donald Trump": An exvangelical on the explosion of his former faith

Large numbers of Americans are giving up on Christianity. The trendlines are unmistakable. Fewer people are going to church. The number of people who...

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GOP gay adult film controversy reveals the chaos brewing behind Project 2025

It's always a puzzle which scandal will or won't derail the career of the latest loose cannons who have taken up a career in the depressingly...

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RFK Jr.'s tour with Jordan Peterson: “Make America Healthy Again" shows why "alt medicine" went MAGA

In his endorsement of Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy Jr. continued to insist he remains "independent" and not a full-blown MAGA crank, laughably...

26.09.2024 20

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Donald Trump and Bernie Moreno rage at "crazy" female voters who refuse to fall in line

As Steve Kornacki of NBC News explained Monday, the polling gender gap between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is "off the charts." New...

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Trump's revolution succeeds: "One of the fastest shifts in evangelical thought in American history"

In the three and a half years since Donald Trump incited an insurrection on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Americans have come to learn how much...

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Mark Robinson's big mistake with MAGA: Being afraid to own his pro-Hitler posts

Donald Trump has turned on Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina. Axios reports that while Trump once lavished praise on the gubernatorial...

21.09.2024 30

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The play behind Melania Trump's delayed defense of her nude pictures

As part of the Trump family's larger efforts to snatch every MAGA dupe's nickel in the last days of the campaign season, Melania Trump — well,...

20.09.2024 30

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Georgia's abortion ban killed a young mother. The Christian right now blames the victim

Pro-choice activists warned in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health that the subsequent cascade of abortion bans would kill...

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"Get this under control": Mark Robinson's anti-birth control tirade spoils Trump's Project 2025 spin

North Carolina's Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, now running to be governor of the Tar Heel State, rose to fame in the GOP by channeling the id of the typical...

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