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Mar 27 4 tweets 2 min read
Taking a closer look at Erin Hawley, who argued against abortion pills at the Supreme Court.

She's not just another Republican woman building a career by stepping on other women.

Her lack of empathy for other women was so chilling I literally gasped.
salon.com/2024/03/27/of-… Why to read this article past headlines: I listened to the entire length of oral arguments.

I'm hard to shock with Republican depravity.

But Erin Hawley is so soulless and dishonest, she actually gave me the chills. I have the details.
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Mar 26 7 tweets 3 min read
If we took all the second chances Trump has been offered in his life, we could not only bail out half of the prison population, but every single one of them would make something better of themselves than Trump has.

salon.com/2024/03/26/lov… Why to read this short article past headlines: We all deserve an angry yalp over this total unfairness.

Every day people are evicted or imprisoned for doing stuff one-millionth as bad as Trump.

This is why there's so much cynicism towards courts.
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Mar 22 8 tweets 3 min read
Trump's campaign is mostly, if not solely about his various criminal cases and anger at being held accountable.

Weirdly, I do think there's a strategy in his "me me me" message. I don't think it's necessarily a good one, but his team has a theory.

salon.com/2024/03/22/cri… Why to read past headlines: You, extremely online, already know Trump has centered January 6 and other crimes in his campaign.

What I add is analysis of why his team thinks voters will be as mad as Trump that he has to lose golf courses and skyscrapers.

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Mar 20 6 tweets 3 min read
It's true: White evangelicals have embraced cheesecake and other sexy imagery they used to decry as "immodest."

Don't get it twisted, though. They hate sex as much as ever. They still want to punish women and LGBTQ people who choose to have sex.
salon.com/2024/03/20/eva… Headlines:
White evangelicals embrace raunchy photos — yet they hate sex as much as ever

Trumpian Christians love bikini pics now, but they still don't want women to enjoy sex

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Mar 13 6 tweets 3 min read
Trump's RNC purge is a reminder of his main Achilles heel: His fragile ego.

I guarantee that, despite being corrected by John Kelly, Trump still thinks Hitler had nothing but "loyalty" from people.

His narcissism can't allow him to see the truth.
salon.com/2024/03/13/rnc… Why to read past headlines: You, extremely online, already know Trump admires Hitler and purged the RNC.

I pull these two stories together to explain how his obsession with "loyalty" (which means flattery) comes at the expense of competence.

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Mar 5 4 tweets 2 min read
In "White Rural Rage" @paulwaldman1 and @schaller67 finally wrote the book that stops treating rural white voters like children, instead of adults responsible for their choices.

As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I'm thrilled. My interview with them.
salon.com/2024/03/05/-th… "Nobody is more insulting to rural voters than the people who are giving them nothing and taking their votes.

"They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters to some degree, right?"

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Feb 24 5 tweets 2 min read
I enjoyed watching Tuberville's confusion over this IVF ruling.

But this is how most conservatives understand forced childbirth: As a way to get "more kids."

It also helps illustrate how fundamentalism rationalizes its own contradictions.....

al.com/politics/2024/… As I note, anti-choicers view IVF as a "cheat code" to allow women to diverge from what they consider the only legitimate life path: Getting wed early, having lots of kids in a contraception-free marriage, and being a housewife.

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Feb 15 7 tweets 3 min read
A Missouri Republican claimed a "1-year-old" can get an abortion under a rape exception. He did not back down when challenged.

But this story is deeper than "stupid Republicans." It's about misogyny and victim-blaming — even of very young rape victims.
salon.com/2024/02/15/new… "Assuming that babies could get pregnant, is Eigel arguing that it would be a good thing to force a baby to deliver another, barely smaller baby?

"We do have an answer, though it is stomach-churning: Yes."

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Jan 24 5 tweets 2 min read
About 43% of voters simply don't believe Trump will be the Republican nominee in 2024.

Hopefully, last night will be a wake-up call. Republican voters may act normal to your face. But Trump's criminal sociopathy appeals to them.

salon.com/2024/01/24/the… Headlines:

The time for denial is over: Republicans are really nominating Donald Trump

Huge numbers of voters still don't believe Trump will be the nominee — will New Hampshire be the wake-up call?

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Jan 10 8 tweets 3 min read
Biden and Trump's 2024 kick-off speeches were framed in the media as an argument over January 6. They were that — but also something else.

It's a sign that the election will be a referendum on white supremacy. Trump is for it and Biden is against it.

salon.com/2024/01/10/bot… Headlines:

Both Biden and Trump speeches make the stakes clear: 2024 is a battle over white supremacy

There is a reason why Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis pander to racists with false histories of the Civil War

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Jan 3 8 tweets 3 min read
Despite the strain caused from my eyerolling, I wrote a response to the Washington Post op-ed from Christine Emba.

Men are not in "danger" because Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are popular. Women don't "leave men out" by celebrating their independence.

salon.com/2024/01/03/men… Headlines:

Men who feel threatened by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Barbie deserve to feel bad

If men are upset by "the unabashed celebration of all things female," that's their problem to solve — not women's

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Dec 27, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Second in the series of 2023's Biggest GOP Losers is Moms for Liberty.

It's a group that brings up the important question of our era: How many sex tapes are there?

I can't answer that, but we can delight together in their total collapse this year.

salon.com/2023/12/27/big… Headlines:

GOP Biggest Loser of 2023 Moms for Liberty has us asking: How many sex tapes are there?

"You deserve to be fired": Amid a growing sex scandal, founder Bridget Ziegler was just confronted by a gay student

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Dec 26, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Morning! Kicking off a five-day series looking at the biggest Republican losers of 2023.

First off: Kevin "I Never Quit" McCarthy.

salon.com/2023/12/26/gop… Here's my short Instagram video announcing the series. Don't be scared by George Santos's face. It's mostly my face you see, straight to camera.

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Dec 18, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Over the weekend, Republicans had an extended fit because Jill Biden posted a video of people tap dancing to Duke Ellington.

We are apparently in the "Nazis want to ban jazz" phase of the MAGA movement.

Analysis of the fascist tantrum.

salon.com/2023/12/18/rig… Headlines:

Right-wing tantrum over Jill Biden Christmas video accidentally reveals how much MAGA hates America

When the "war on woke" is over, the only entertainment left for Trump cultists will be Dear Leader's speeches

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Dec 15, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Interviews with Iowa Republican voters reveals an important truth: Trump voters know he is not joking about being a dictator.

They may gaslight reporters (who they hate), but a dictator is exactly what they want Trump to be.

salon.com/2023/12/15/kno… Headlines:

Republican voters know Trump isn't joking with his "dictator" remarks — it's why they love him

MAGA folks are gaslighting reporters when they say Trump is kidding

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Dec 14, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Both inside and outside of the courtroom, the premise of Rudy Giuliani's defense is that he is too white, too rich, and too powerful to have to answer to his victims.

It's the Trump/Alex Jones strategy. But both of them lost their defamation cases.

salon.com/2023/12/14/i-d… Headlines:

"I don't regret it": Rudy Giuliani's defense is Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman should accept his abuse

Doubling down on lies and defamation backfired on both Donald Trump and Alex Jones, but Rudy's going for it anyway

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Dec 11, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
The viewership of Hallmark Christmas movies show it's dominated by older Republican-voting women.

It shows the power of the "kids moving back home" fantasy has with the Trump-voting woman.

The irony is that it's their votes driving their kids off.

salon.com/2023/12/11/mag… Headlines:

MAGA women want a Hallmark "home for the holidays" fantasy — but their votes run their kids off

Trumpism promises to a return to a time when kids lived close — instead, young people are fleeing to blue states

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Dec 4, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
The husband of the Moms for Liberty founder — and chair of the Florida GOP — is under investigation for rape.

What is shocking is GOP leadership seems to want him out.

They don't care about rape. This shows how far Moms for Liberty has fallen.

salon.com/2023/12/04/cur… Headlines:
Curtains for Moms for Liberty: The fallout of a rape charge shows the far-right group is floundering
Gov.

Ron DeSantis bet big on the book banners, but after electoral losses, even he's pushing them out the door

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Nov 28, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Handwringing about "people" (read: women) being single always had an implicit "lower your standards" vibe.

Now the pressure to marry Trump voters has grown more explicit.

This is a terrible idea. Here's why it's good most young women won't date MAGA.

salon.com/2023/11/28/its… Headlines:

It's a good thing women won't date Trump voters

Now the Washington Post has joined a campaign to shame women for having the bare minimum "no Trump voters" standard

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Nov 27, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
With a couple minutes to kill, I want to pull out an observation that I make towards the end of this article that mostly goes unremarked: "Tradwives" are not actually housewives, as they pretend. They are paid professionals.

salon.com/2023/11/27/the… As I note, creating content is work — and often time-consuming work.

Building a fanbase takes ambition.

Sharing loud opinions online is not demure or humble.

They embody the spirit of brash striving they claim is unbecoming in women.

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Nov 27, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Feminism gets blamed, implicitly or explicitly, for the male loneliness epidemic.

The real problem is sexism — including the rise of "tradwife" content that teaches young men to expect women to be helpmeets, making them unable to get on with real women.

salon.com/2023/11/27/the… Headlines:

The insidious rise of "tradwives": A right-wing fantasy is rotting young men's minds

There's serious money in peddling fantasies of female submission online, but it may be exacerbating male loneliness

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