Sophia Tesfaye
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Politics Writer at Salon.com
Trolling the Millers is good politics, even if it degrades our discourse
www.salon.com/2026/05/30/d...
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Democrats’ mean tweets trigger Fox News
Trolling Stephen Miller is causing conservative media to feign outrage
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/30/democrats-mean-tweets-trigger-fox-news/
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Phil Plait
1 day ago
I'll write about such things—reluctantly, these days—but "debating" some crackpot only elevates them into someone worth debating. That erodes trust in science and leads to where we are now, with the government attacking reality with a decent fraction of the public cheering them on.
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I like Spencer Spratt better
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amanda moore 🐢
2 days ago
ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.
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Fox News is going all in on Spencer Pratt. That’s no surprise. But what’s interesting is the relative silence on former contributor Steve Hilton’s campaign for governor. The election is Tuesday and Hilton has been polling in the top 3 all along. I wonder what gives
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Amanda Marcotte
2 days ago
Ben Shapiro is extremely defensive about the Daily Wire's decline. Here's a short video of me reacting to that.
youtube.com/shorts/DUYD7...
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Ben Shapiro's identity crisis... who is he trying to be now?
YouTube video by Salon
https://youtube.com/shorts/DUYD7Sn6TgE?si=UkawYFYDDvjojRed
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Erin Keane
7 days ago
In the interview, Owens apologized to Biden for years of mockery—but that wasn’t the real purpose of the interview.
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On the end of an era for
@salon.com
:
@mctelevision.bsky.social
reminds us just how much wholesomeness undergirds Stephen Colbert’s brand of political comedy
www.salon.com/2026/05/21/w...
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What we're losing as "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" ends
We'll see Stephen Colbert again, but his broadcast exit closes out David Letterman's absurdist TV legacy
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/21/what-were-losing-as-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-ends/
9 days ago
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The subway sandwich hurler should file a claim with Trump’s weaponization fund
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Jimmy Kimmel
9 days ago
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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🪄🛸 Showbiz Sid Oozeley 🪄🛸
10 days ago
Ben Shapiro does not realize that his niche in the media ecosystem has been filled by guys who will actually say the n word
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Media Matters for America
10 days ago
“Weaponizing the baseline historical illiteracy of (its) audience,” the Daily Wire’s latest documentary seeks to discredit Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism
The Daily Wire’s latest documentary seeks to discredit Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/20/ben-shapiros-daily-wire-goes-woke-with-civil-rights-revisionism/
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Can probably make the case that he deserves payment from Trump’s federal weaponization fund. He started all the targeting of speech after Kirk’s killing
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Amanda Marcotte
10 days ago
Having gutted the Voting Rights Act, the next target is the Civil Rights Act.
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What’s the point of trying to rewrite the history of Rosa Parks? Matt Walsh is hoping Samuel Alito is watching
salon.com/2026/05/20/b...
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Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism
The Daily Wire’s latest documentary seeks to discredit Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
https://salon.com/2026/05/20/ben-shapiros-daily-wire-goes-woke-with-civil-rights-revisionism/
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Erin Keane
10 days ago
"The irony of the Daily Wire’s historical excursion is that Walsh has stumbled into an approximation of the very historical critique that critical race theorists have advanced for decades," writes
@sophiatesfaye.bsky.social
for
@salon.com
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Via Malcontenti
14 days ago
and the telling detail. thanks to
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!
www.salon.com/2026/05/16/p...
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Patel promised to come after the media. So far, it's only been women
The FBI has investigated multiple women journalists who reported on the bureau's director
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/16/patel-promised-to-come-after-the-media-so-far-its-only-been-women/
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Jason Kyle Howard
15 days ago
Hi new followers! A brief intro: I'm the Senior Ideas Editor at
@salon.com
where I manage an excellent team of writers, including
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
and
@sophiatesfaye.bsky.social
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SpikeyBoots
19 days ago
No sympathy for Neil Gorsuch here!
www.salon.com/2026/05/11/n...
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Neil Gorsuch’s right-wing book tour blows up in his face
Supreme Court justice’s interviews with friendly media get a cold reception from conservatives
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/11/neil-gorsuchs-right-wing-book-tour-blows-up-in-his-face/
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tomwellborn3rd
19 days ago
Gorsuch toured conservative media pushing a children's book about America as a "creedal nation," and MAGA promptly called him a traitor. Heritage's Kevin Roberts, Curtis Yarvin, and Steve Cortes all piled on. Believing in civic nationalism is now disqualifying on the right. 1/2
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Andrew Lawrence
21 days ago
id get fired if something i wrote or edited had an error in it that i willfully ignored because my entire point relied on the error
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David H. Montgomery
24 days ago
This week, Donald Trump asked a child, "You think you could take me in a fight?" So we at
@today.yougov.com
obviously polled Americans on the topic. Our results:
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Presidential fight club
Surveys about Donald Trump and fights, the 2010s, Spirit Airlines, abortion pills, and short-form video.
https://yougovamerica.substack.com/p/presidential-fight-club
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Kevin Morris
about 1 month ago
Alito also notes that Black turnout reached near parity with White turnout in 2 of the past 5 presidential elections. But which two, Justice Alito?? Oh, the LAST TWO before Shelby County? You don't say!
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Erin Keane
about 1 month ago
"The message being sent is not subtle: Threatening language is an outrage when it comes from Trump’s critics, and a protected expression of presidential authority when it comes from Trump himself, or from his aides." writes
@sophiatesfaye.bsky.social
in
@salon.com
www.salon.com/2026/04/29/t...
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Trump makes fools of media with renewed attack on Jimmy Kimmel
The post-Correspondents' Dinner goodwill tour was short-lived — and the press corps should've known better
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/29/trump-makes-fools-of-media-with-renewed-attack-on-jimmy-kimmel/
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The bar has been set so low for Trump by the media that the president not blaming the people who were nearly shot was somehow praiseworthy.
www.salon.com/2026/04/29/t...
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Trump makes fools of media with renewed attack on Jimmy Kimmel
The post-Correspondents' Dinner goodwill tour was short-lived — and the press corps should've known better
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/29/trump-makes-fools-of-media-with-renewed-attack-on-jimmy-kimmel/
about 1 month ago
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Trump getting rid of every woman in his Cabinet is too predictable. Of course they all deserve it. Linda McMahon too
www.notus.org/lori%20chave...
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Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Has Resigned
A Labor Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.notus.org/lori%20chavez%20deremer%20ousted
about 1 month ago
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Media Matters for America
about 2 months ago
In the conservative media ecosystem, the distinction between talking points and reality is beside the point. The goal is to “flood the zone” and create so much noise that the truth struggles to break through.
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Why Fox News is so mad at Abigail Spanberger
Virginia’s new governor accused of bait-and-switch by right-wing media
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/15/why-fox-news-is-so-mad-at-abigail-spanberger/
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The right is successfully running its Biden playbook on Virginia’s first woman governor and sinking her favorability rating
www.salon.com/2026/04/15/w...
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Why Fox News is so mad at Abigail Spanberger
Virginia’s new governor accused of bait-and-switch by right-wing media
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/15/why-fox-news-is-so-mad-at-abigail-spanberger/
about 2 months ago
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Janky Onassis
about 2 months ago
still laugh every time
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Via Malcontenti
3 months ago
They're selling, we ain't buying.
@sophiatesfaye.bsky.social
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www.salon.com/2026/03/08/t...
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Trump’s cable-news Cabinet tries to sell a war
The Trump administration’s media strategy on Iran reveals as much about the conflict’s weaknesses as its goals
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/08/trumps-cable-news-cabinet-tries-to-sell-a-war/
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Matt Ortega
3 months ago
Muslims, like my mother-in-law's family, are welcome here. Anti-American bigot Andy Ogles, on the other hand, can crawl back under his rock.
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Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America
The Tennessee Republican recently introduced legislation banning immigration from some Muslim-majority nations.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/09/congress/andy-ogles-muslim-americans-ban-00818765
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Allison F
3 months ago
Owens understood that the QAnon people needed something new to think about
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Media Matters for America
3 months ago
"There is a ritual in American war-making that predates the particular pathology of Trumpism. The targets shift and the platforms move from broadcast television to social media, but the punditry lusting for regime change fantasies feels eerily familiar."
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Mainstream media rallies for war, again
Why Donald Trump isn't bothering to make the case for war against Iran
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/02/mainstream-media-rallies-for-war-again/
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Mike Hixenbaugh
4 months ago
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Angie Coiro
4 months ago
Superb work by
@sophiatesfaye.bsky.social
at
@salon.com
: scales fall from the eyes of San Francisco detractors when they see - surprise! - the beauty of the city, while the cognitive dissonance is too much for some.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
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Super Bowl bursts popular right-wing media myth
Conservative commentators and podcast bros backtrack on what they've said about San Francisco
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/10/super-bowl-bursts-popular-right-wing-media-myth/
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Salon.com
4 months ago
“This is a movement that thrives on provocation but panics when that very provocation carries consequences. The MAGA coalition wants the thrill of trolling without the cost of being held responsible,”
@sophiatesfaye.bsky.social
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MAGA blame game shows Trump in retreat
Trump and Vance back down and blame unnamed staffers for controversial posts
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/11/maga-blame-game-shows-trump-in-retreat/
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Super Bowl bursts popular right-wing media myth
Conservative commentators and podcast bros backtrack on what they've said about San Francisco
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/10/super-bowl-bursts-popular-right-wing-media-myth/
4 months ago
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Don Lemon’s arrest backfires, exposing MAGA’s desperation
www.salon.com/2026/02/02/d...
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Don Lemon’s arrest turned into a MAGA misfire
Pam Bondi’s track record of prosecuting Trump's revenge is abysmal
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/02/don-lemons-arrest-turned-into-a-maga-misfire/
4 months ago
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Why Trump won’t leave Minneapolis alone
www.salon.com/2026/01/28/p...
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Pam Bondi's shakedown exposes "Big Lie" in Minneapolis
The attorney general’s voter-roll demand shows how Trump’s 2020 election denial fuels federal coercion and violence
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/28/pam-bondis-shakedown-exposes-big-lie-in-minneapolis/
4 months ago
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Media Matters for America
4 months ago
The most revealing aspect of the right’s current meltdown over anti-ICE protests is their confusion. MAGA world is flailing and sputtering, trapped inside a media ecosystem that no longer reaches reality.
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Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE
MAGA’s whack-a-mole defense of immigration raids is backfiring
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/24/right-wing-media-silos-leave-maga-flailing-on-ice/
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MAGA’s lies about Minneapolis shooting reveal the truth about the NRA
www.salon.com/2026/01/26/m...
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MAGA angers the NRA over Minneapolis shooting
The Trump administration’s response to killing of Alex Pretti betrays the right’s Second Amendment rhetoric
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/26/maga-angers-the-nra-over-minneapolis-shooting/
4 months ago
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MAGA’s whack-a-mole defense of immigration raids is backfiring
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Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE
MAGA’s whack-a-mole defense of immigration raids is backfiring
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/24/right-wing-media-silos-leave-maga-flailing-on-ice/
4 months ago
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Amanda Marcotte
5 months ago
I've been working on this for months, after my colleague
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told me that Fox News pays bizarre attention to Barron's sex life. Digging it, it gets weirder than I thought. But it makes sense, given MAGA's jealousy of mainstream America.
www.salon.com/2026/01/12/m...
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MAGA is weirdly thirsty for Barron Trump
The right desperately wants the youngest Trump son to be a sex symbol
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/12/maga-is-weirdly-thirsty-for-barron-trump/
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She stayed on his ass. Great job by Kristen Welker here
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Matt Ortega
5 months ago
Me, waiting for my son (3) to get home from preschool so I can play this video for him.
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America First: MAGA wants to be a colonial power
First Venezuela, now Greenland: Trump is promoting an international Manifest Destiny updated for the 21st century
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/07/america-first-maga-wants-to-be-a-colonial-power/
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Democrat-God
5 months ago
Yep, Media should Stop focusing on Maduro, and Focus on Trump's Imperialism and evil intent to conquer the world by force.
www.salon.com/2026/01/05/t...
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The mass media's blind spot on Trump's Venezuela escalation
Iraq-era mistakes of blind deference by the mainstream press are back
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/05/the-mass-medias-blind-spot-on-trumps-venezuela-escalation/
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The story the American media is missing about Venezuela right now
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The mass media's blind spot on Trump's Venezuela escalation
Iraq-era mistakes of blind deference by the mainstream press are back
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/05/the-mass-medias-blind-spot-on-trumps-venezuela-escalation/
5 months ago
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Malachy Discontent
6 months ago
MAGA HAVE TURNED ON THE BOTS: Monetization on X is largely driven by engagement, and nothing gets people engaged like riling them over culture wars. It’s been a near-perfect feedback loop in the second Trump administration — until MAGA started turning against Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/s...
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Social media's reckoning may have arrived — thanks to Elon Musk
Foreign bots have long plagued X. Musk has introduced a potential fix
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/24/social-medias-reckoning-may-have-arrived-thanks-to-elon-musk/
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