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Sabrina Carpenter's sexpot pop star act is good for women

Sabrina Carpenter's sexpot pop star act is good for women

Feminists can't let male porn producers be the only ones selling sex

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Gavin Newsom rediscovers fighting MAGA is popular

Gavin Newsom rediscovers fighting MAGA is popular

Other Democrats should pay attention

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Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage

Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage

Mass deportations were never going to work, so Trump and Miller resort to authoritarian theater

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How narcissism became everyone's obsession

How narcissism became everyone's obsession

A once-obscure psychological disorder threatens democracy and haunts the internet

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Trump's fight with Musk reveals MAGA's biggest delusion

Trump's fight with Musk reveals MAGA's biggest delusion

The president accused Elon of having "Trump derangement syndrome"

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Joni Ernst's "we're all going to die" pushes MAGA's toxic Christian compassion on us all

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Evangelicals in the MAGA era call empathy a "sin"

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Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard predicted young male voters flocking to Trump

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard predicted young male voters flocking to Trump

The trial was permission to believe men are the real victims — regardless of facts

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Elon Musk claims he's leaving politics — no one should believe him

The far-right billionaire has a long history of making false promises

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Tulsi Gabbard grows to become Donald Trump's most dangerous attack dog

Trump's intelligence director peddles new conspiracy theory that stokes MAGA extremism — and even violence

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The hidden elitism of RFK's MAHA movement is making America more unhealthy

RFK promised to make Americans healthier — instead, he's helping Trump take health care away

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Kristi Noem's proud MAGA bimbo act builds on the legacy of Sarah Palin

The GOP adores a woman who plays dumb to build up the man she's serving

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RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA

Christian conservatives know they have a branding problem with women

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"A court captured by far-right conspiracy theories": How the GOP drove the Supreme Court off a cliff

In her new book "Lawless," law professor Leah Litman chronicles the collapse of reason at the highest court

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Ben Shapiro is cracking under the pressure to shill for Trump

Pointless trade wars and $400 million jet bribes make it hard for Trump sycophants to cape for the MAGA messiah

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Texas GOP wants to ban kids from playing dress-up: Yes, really

Lone Star Republicans propose ban on "non-human behavior" in school — it's another stealth attack on LGBTQ rights

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Trump’s deportation lies are nothing new: Remember Bush, WMD and Iraq?

Before Trump invented an "invasion" by Venezuelan "terrorists," Bush cooked up fake evidence for war in Iraq

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"Two dolls" for Christmas: Trump resorts to sexism to sell tariffs

Betting on the misogyny of MAGA, the president pushes a far-right fantasy that tariffs will restore male dominance

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TikTok's "Jesus glow" trend exposes the emptiness of social media religion

Conservative Christians are hawking faith like it's the hot new beauty treatment

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Trump's crypto racket reaches into Americans' wallets

Trump's crypto firm isn't just corrupt — he is making it easier for fraudsters to take your money

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"Still no Epstein files": After Virginia Giuffre dies, MAGA conspiracists struggle to keep the faith

A decade in, it's getting harder to believe Trump will expose the secret Satanic Democratic cabal ruling the world

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MAGA loves a tantrum: How public meltdowns became the preferred method of GOP communication

Why Nancy Mace, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller keep throwing fits on camera

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Why MAGA media is fixated on a Texas teen murder case

The racist exploitation of Austin Metcalf's killing shows how MAGA tears local communities apart

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Too late to opt-out: Supreme Court ultimately can't save the religious right's futile book bans

Even if SCOTUS allows LGBTQ books to get pushed out of classrooms, the right is still losing the larger culture war

23.04.2025 10

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Elon Musk's baby mama drama matters

MAGA masculinity is getting weirder — and making men lonelier

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An atheist's unnerving descent into Hallow, the prayer app beloved by MAGA celebrities

Endorsed by Gwen Stefani and Russell Brand, Hallow's take on religion is the opiate of MAGA

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JD Vance exposed the truth about Trump's war on foreign students (hint: it's not about antisemitism)

International students, Vance recently argued, are "bad for the American dream"

17.04.2025 20

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Harvard fights back against Trump: Institutional resistance finally rises up — and sets a new model

Columbia learned the hard way: Complicity will not save you

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Marco Rubio's hunt for "anti-Christmas bias" is creeping theocracy

In a new war on federal workers, State Department employees are told to snitch on people with Pride flags

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RFK's pledge to discover the "cause" of autism isn't just a ploy — it's a war on children's health

The head of this "research" is no doctor — and has a history of torturing kids with fake autism "cures"

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MAGA's war on empathy exposes misogynist fears

Elon Musk and the Christian right call empathy "toxic" and "suicidal" — blame their shared misogyny

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Trump blinks on tariffs in face of GOP resistance — but he hasn't given up on his cult leader dreams

"BE COOL": Trump is still giving "last days of Waco" vibes despite a 90-day "pause" on tariffs

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Fox News, desperate to defend Trump's tariffs, exploits MAGA's masculinity delusions

Right-wing social media has decided soaring inflation will somehow grant them all tradwives

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Don't believe the hype: MAGA knows that RFK's "endorsement" of vaccines is phony

Using Trump's pandemic playbook, Kennedy uses anti-prevention actions to speak louder than his empty words

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Russell Brand's rape charges expose the devil's bargain between MAGA and "Christian" celebrities

There's no depravity the religious right won't overlook — as long as a famous person validates their politics

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"Girls Gone Bible": Spicy Christian podcast sells young women on MAGA. Will scandal hurt or help?

Two L.A. actresses built an instant online empire on pre-tradwife content. Now former fans have questions

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Mike Johnson melts down after House proxy vote failure exposes MAGA's "pro-family" lie

The House speaker's latest tantrum shows how the "pro-family" MAGA GOP just wants women back in the kitchen

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The misogynist agenda of "MAHA moms"

RFK Jr. is using his "MAHA moms" to push women out of the workplace and into the kitchen

26.03.2025 30

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Why overturning Roe v. Wade only made America's abortion rate rise

"They will never stop abortion": "After Dobbs" chronicles "the extraordinary efforts" to help women get healthcare

25.03.2025 60

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From "Mar-a-Lago face" to uncanny AI art: MAGA loves ugly in submission to Trump

One of the swiftest ways to "trigger" the liberals is looking awful

24.03.2025 40

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"I don't regret the vote": Why most Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their lives

It's not totally hopeless: Some swing voters who backed Trump may learn their lesson

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"They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring

Even conservatives can't muster pity for a whining billionaire coming for Granny's Social Security

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Trump snookers MAGA with "Epstein files" promise: "I would say weeks"

Using his standard “two weeks” strategy, Trump suckers his conspiracy theorist base to keep the heat off Pam Bondi

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Elon Musk's war on Social Security unmasks the GOP's true disdain for retirees

Terms like "vampires," "fraud," "scam" and "definitely dead" are how the DOGE leader demonizes elderly people

18.03.2025 9

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The dystopian "freedom cities" dream fueling Elon Musk's destruction

Tech's plans for billionaire-rule expose why Musk wants to end government by the people

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"You must sacrifice": MAGA excuses for Trump's trade war echo "prosperity" preachers

Trump's closest faith "advisor" teaches that if you give her money, God will reward you with riches

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The "dangerous" reason why Trump wants Mel Gibson to get his gun rights back

A defining characteristic of MAGA men is their insecurity. Now, it's threatening everyone's safety

13.03.2025 3

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"I am the alpha in this relationship": What Musk's romantic history reveals about his hold on Trump

How Elon love-bombed Trump's MAGA cult

12.03.2025 40

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RFK Jr. gives Elon Musk's DOGE free rein to raid the federal health agency

Some Cabinet officials loathe Musk, but Kennedy grabs his chance to destroy science-based medicine

11.03.2025 50

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"Enola Gay will henceforth be known as Enola Straight": Pete Hegseth's DEI paranoia knows no limits

Trump’s defense secretary ends a 1965 policy barring racial segregation from contract facilities

10.03.2025 10

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Trump quietly props up the strictest abortion ban in the country

"Ordering people to suffer": Trump backs states that ban life-saving care for pregnant women

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