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The tech billionaire war on "woke" is really targeting workers

The tech billionaire war on

Mark Zuckerberg wants "masculine energy" and "aggression" at the office — sounds like a toxic workplace

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Tech billionaires expose MAGA's "populism" con job

Tech billionaires expose MAGA's

MAGA "populism" was always an inch deep — Trump's billionaire-palooza proves it

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"You will have to change how you see women": Why Trump fears Hegseth accusers

Hegseth's excuses for his misogyny contradict each other, but MAGA doesn't care

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"DEI is deadly": Fox News spin on California wildfires exposes MAGA's total incoherence

Jesse Watters implied women are too stupid to run fire departments — most LA fire department leaders are men

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How Jimmy Carter's so-called betrayal of evangelicals led to MAGA

How Jimmy Carter's so-called betrayal of evangelicals led to MAGA

Evangelicals loved Jimmy Carter — until his anti-racism turned them against him

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta makeover: MAGA grandpa is about to get much worse

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta makeover: MAGA grandpa is about to get much worse

In part because of his goofy appearance and in part because he doesn't engage in fascist trolling like fellow billionaire Elon Musk, Mark...

08.01.2025 30

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Why Mike Johnson's fake "Jefferson prayer" matters

Why Mike Johnson's fake

One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House. He read...

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Toxic masculinity links the New Orleans attacker and the Las Vegas bomber

Toxic masculinity links the New Orleans attacker and the Las Vegas bomber

As I noted in passing last week, the striking thing about the life of Shamsud-Din Jabbar is how much it reads like the boilerplate biography of...

06.01.2025 30

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New year, same Trump: MAGA pounces on New Orleans tragedy to spread disinformation

New year, same Trump: MAGA pounces on New Orleans tragedy to spread disinformation

In the hours after a mass murderer killed 10 people in New Orleans with a combination car and gun attack only hours into the new year, there was...

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Newborns are being left in dumpsters in Texas, but Republicans don't seem to care

Newborns are being left in dumpsters in Texas, but Republicans don't seem to care

Abortion bans don't just kill women. They kill babies. This is evident in the data, which shows a dramatic rise in the state's infant mortality...

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MAGA was all about "masculinity" in 2024 — too bad they have no idea what that word means

MAGA was all about

In the press, the intra-MAGA spat pitting wealthy tech bros Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against the larger MAGA masses has been framed primarily...

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Conspiracy theory is the new normal: 2024 was the year QAnon went mainstream

In the face of Vice President Kamala Harris losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, the punditry's focus has been almost exclusively on...

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Elon Musk can easily use Donald Trump's greatest advantage against him

The more Donald Trump denies he's being controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, who purchased the president-elect with over $250 million in campaign...

24.12.2024 60

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"Put on your big boy pants": Democrats rediscover a will to fight with government shutdown battle

Early last week, Democrats seemed to be hitting new lows in the post-election slump. Progressives were especially demoralized by the failure to...

23.12.2024 8

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MAGA hated Michelle Obama's healthy food agenda — here's why they changed their tune under RFK Jr.

Let's get one thing out of the way: Robert F. Kennedy's claim that he wants to "make America healthy again" is, like most things he says, a...

20.12.2024 40

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"Tradwives" were the hot topic online in 2024 — but offline, women are more independent than ever

I was already glad about the upcoming TikTok ban, but now I have one more reason to be happy about it: the site's minitrend of women "pranking"...

19.12.2024 3

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

"People are saying if you have a conservative family member, don't invite them to Thanksgiving or Christmas. Like, stay away from them," TikToker...

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sure is lucky in his timing. The former Democrat turned MAGA conspiracy theorist has a series of meetings with Senate...

17.12.2024 20

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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...

06.12.2024 5

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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 30

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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...

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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...

03.12.2024 60

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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...

27.11.2024 20

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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 4

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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...

21.11.2024 40

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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...

20.11.2024 6

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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...

19.11.2024 40

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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 30

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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 4

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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 10

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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...

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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...

08.11.2024 40

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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...

07.11.2024 50

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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...

06.11.2024 2

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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...

05.11.2024 60

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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 30

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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...

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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...

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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...

29.10.2024 2

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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...

28.10.2024 30

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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...

25.10.2024 1

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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...

24.10.2024 10

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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 40

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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...

22.10.2024 1

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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...

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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...

18.10.2024 7

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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...

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