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Why the "President Elon Musk" mockery doesn't seem to bother Donald Trump

Trump's fragile ego meets Elon Musk's hostile takeover

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Amanda Marcotte

Elon Musk's war on Head Start childhood education exposes how "pro-natalists" are really anti-woman

“You do not want to give money to women," declared one leader of the movement to make more babies

previous day 5

Amanda Marcotte

Republicans usher in an "unleash the plague" era with RFK and Elon Musk's attacks on public health

"Eugenics is the Rosetta Stone for so much of Trump’s agenda"

wednesday 50

Amanda Marcotte

"Hitler actually had some good ideas": Musk's covert coup is guided by internet trolls

Musk's illegal government takeover is scary on its own — but the people he's bringing along make it even worse

04.02.2025 200

Amanda Marcotte

Trump's MAGA takeover of education may backfire with parents

Trump forgets the lesson of Moms for Liberty and orders schools to replace education with right-wing propaganda

03.02.2025 10

Amanda Marcotte

MAGA's revenge of the mediocre: Trump's war on federal workers targets the meritorious

"I will not be pushed out by two billionaire trust fund babies"

31.01.2025 80

Amanda Marcotte

"AI nurses" as "good as any doctor": RFK Jr. confirms he wants to take away people's health care

Kennedy's plan to "make America healthy": Replace real medical care with robots and lectures about diet

30.01.2025 60

Amanda Marcotte

"Trump is trying to collapse our economy": War on "woke" revealed as a war on all Americans

Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists

29.01.2025 100

Amanda Marcotte

What "law and order"? Trump's first week will only unleash more crime

Our felonious president can only benefit from a climate of fear and chaos — that's why he's eager for more

28.01.2025 10

Amanda Marcotte

Donald Trump is not waiting for RFK Jr. — he has already started his war on public health

RFK's hearing hasn't even started yet and the White House has already attacked vaccines, birth control and the WHO

24.01.2025 20

Amanda Marcotte

Donald Trump's war on DEI is not about "merit"

Executive orders attacking DEI are about promoting unqualified white men over diverse candidates

23.01.2025 10

Amanda Marcotte

Elon Musk's salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn't working this time around

As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said to defenders of Musk's provocation, "People can officially stop listening to you"

22.01.2025 40

Amanda Marcotte

"A brazen grift": Trump turns his inauguration over to MAGA scams

Forget "unity" — the real theme of the day was "rich people swindling the rest of America"

21.01.2025 4

Amanda Marcotte

Why Trump's new love of TikTok is dangerous

Trump's sudden love of TikTok shows he needs disinfo more than he hates China

19.01.2025 40

Amanda Marcotte

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

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

17.01.2025 40

Amanda Marcotte

Tech billionaires expose MAGA's "populism" con job

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

16.01.2025 9

Amanda Marcotte

"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

15.01.2025 80

Amanda Marcotte

"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

10.01.2025 20

Amanda Marcotte

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

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

09.01.2025 100

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

Why Mike Johnson's fake "Jefferson prayer" matters

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...

07.01.2025 90

Amanda Marcotte

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 any...

06.01.2025 30

Amanda Marcotte

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...

03.01.2025 60

Amanda Marcotte

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...

02.01.2025 100

Amanda Marcotte

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

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...

31.12.2024 20

Amanda Marcotte

"This is Trump’s America now!": MAGA diehards jumpstart a new year of political violence

Donald Trump isn't in office yet but his fans are already getting excited about hurting and stealing from people of color. Last week, Mother Jones...

30.12.2024 200

Amanda Marcotte

Tradwives, incels and cat ladies: The year MAGA broke heterosexuality

Fellas, is it gay to give your wife an orgasm? More than five decades after the publication of "The Joy of Sex," one would think this was a settled...

27.12.2024 20

Amanda Marcotte

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...

26.12.2024 90

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

"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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

"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

Amanda Marcotte

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...

18.12.2024 20

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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...

02.12.2024 100

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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 5

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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

Amanda Marcotte

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...

12.11.2024 80

Amanda Marcotte

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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Why the "President Elon Musk" mockery doesn't seem to bother Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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