Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
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Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
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New Standing Room Only! Today's episode is about heroes, not villains — though we do take the Democratic leadership to task.
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
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As I said last night on MSNBC as the news broke that eight Senate Democrats were joining the GOP: This must be the end for Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
As I said last night on MSNBC as the news broke that eight Senate Democrats were joining the GOP: This must be the end for Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader.
Ugh, everything RFK Jr. does has some sinister motivation, but in this case, it's the right move. I'm genuinely surprised he allowed this, instead of telling women they need to white knuckle it through menopause.
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The FDA will lift warnings on hormone therapy for menopause
Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ugh, everything RFK Jr. does has some sinister motivation, but in this case, it's the right move. I'm genuinely surprised he allowed this, instead of telling women they need to white knuckle it through menopause.
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"Vance is a soulless striver who will sell off anything if he thought it would give him more power. We don’t have to ask if he would betray his wife and kids. He does so nearly every day by promoting a vision of America that has no room for them in it."
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk's hug made tongues wag
The vice president’s current wife, Usha, is a growing political liability
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Vance is a soulless striver who will sell off anything if he thought it would give him more power. We don’t have to ask if he would betray his wife and kids. He does so nearly every day by promoting a vision of America that has no room for them in it."
Reposted by Amanda Marcotte
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk's hug made tongues wag
The vice president’s current wife, Usha, is a growing political liability
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk's hug made tongues wag
The vice president’s current wife, Usha, is a growing political liability
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Reposted by Amanda Marcotte
Senate Dems give in, letting the GOP take health care so they don't miss their Thanksgiving flights, and prove that the current party is out of touch.
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
YouTube video by Salon
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Senate Dems give in, letting the GOP take health care so they don't miss their Thanksgiving flights, and prove that the current party is out of touch.
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Senate Dems give in, letting the GOP take health care so they don't miss their Thanksgiving flights, and prove that the current party is out of touch.
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
YouTube video by Salon
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Senate Dems give in, letting the GOP take health care so they don't miss their Thanksgiving flights, and prove that the current party is out of touch.
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Time for new blood. In this video, we show it's not just Mamdani. So many young guns are running and need your support.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Talarico is one of the politicians that the Dem establishment is trying to undermine, as @amandalitman.bsky.social points out in this video.
If that’s where this is coming from, that is pretty pathetic.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
If that’s where this is coming from, that is pretty pathetic.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Talarico is one of the politicians that the Dem establishment is trying to undermine, as @amandalitman.bsky.social points out in this video.
If that’s where this is coming from, that is pretty pathetic.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
If that’s where this is coming from, that is pretty pathetic.
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Reposted by Amanda Marcotte
Another notable thing about Zohran Mamdani: those billionaires surely spent millions on opposition research to find dirt on him, and all they could come up with was that dumb Columbia application story and the fact that he made some kinda silly rap videos.
Guy seems pretty clean!
Guy seems pretty clean!
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Another notable thing about Zohran Mamdani: those billionaires surely spent millions on opposition research to find dirt on him, and all they could come up with was that dumb Columbia application story and the fact that he made some kinda silly rap videos.
Guy seems pretty clean!
Guy seems pretty clean!
Every accusation is a confession with Trump, so it was always obvious that “Sleepy Joe” was about his own anxieties.
He’s a narcissist. That’s just how they work. He just got lucky that Biden’s age finally caught to a nickname Trump used forever.
He’s a narcissist. That’s just how they work. He just got lucky that Biden’s age finally caught to a nickname Trump used forever.
Our doddering octogenarian president. "A WaPo analysis of multiple videofeeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open… The White House denied that Trump was dozing during the Oval Office event and suggested the question was inappropriate.”
A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office
A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open at a recent Oval Office event.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Every accusation is a confession with Trump, so it was always obvious that “Sleepy Joe” was about his own anxieties.
He’s a narcissist. That’s just how they work. He just got lucky that Biden’s age finally caught to a nickname Trump used forever.
He’s a narcissist. That’s just how they work. He just got lucky that Biden’s age finally caught to a nickname Trump used forever.
Tell me again why it was so wrong for Hillary Clinton to call these people deplorable?
1: shoots gun at Capitol on J6
2: slueths tell fbi his name
3: he kills a man, claims self defense
4: he tells police he was the j6 gunman
5: he’s finally arrested
6: trump pardons him for j6
7: he allegedly kidnaps and sexually assaults someone
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2: slueths tell fbi his name
3: he kills a man, claims self defense
4: he tells police he was the j6 gunman
5: he’s finally arrested
6: trump pardons him for j6
7: he allegedly kidnaps and sexually assaults someone
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Arrested after a fatal stabbing, a Utah man told police he brought a gun to Capitol riot
“I was in the D.C. riots. You can look me up, OK?” John Emanuel Banuelos told police after he was arrested last July, according to newly obtained records.
www.nbcnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tell me again why it was so wrong for Hillary Clinton to call these people deplorable?
If only it was just right-wingers who are making this mistake. It's a real tragedy of the commons problem, where too many liberals are unwilling to temporarily give up their large audience, so they engage on a platform run by a fascist to serve fascism.
Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...
Ben Shapiro Responds to Tucker Carlson, Plus Sydney Sweeney and Newsom, with Knowles and Klavan
YouTube video by Megyn Kelly
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November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If only it was just right-wingers who are making this mistake. It's a real tragedy of the commons problem, where too many liberals are unwilling to temporarily give up their large audience, so they engage on a platform run by a fascist to serve fascism.
Guessing he's not providing the honest answer: because right wingers wouldn't know a good joke if it bit them on the ass and called them "mommy."
The insult-heavy, relentlessly pro-conservative Fox News show “Gutfeld!” pulls in an average of over three million viewers a night. On “The Interview,” Greg Gutfeld discussed how his show has become so dominant. Watch, read or listen to the full conversation.
Fox News Wanted Greg Gutfeld to Do This Interview. He Wasn’t So Sure.
The pugnacious conservative late-night host on his “hierarchy of smears” and the risks of being a scold.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Guessing he's not providing the honest answer: because right wingers wouldn't know a good joke if it bit them on the ass and called them "mommy."
Happy to see people love this video! We usually mock villains, so it was fun to celebrate heroes.
But also, this video has useful information. Have you ever considered running? Watch this! Maybe you should!
We're close to 1K likes. Help us out by popping one on there!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
But also, this video has useful information. Have you ever considered running? Watch this! Maybe you should!
We're close to 1K likes. Help us out by popping one on there!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
YouTube video by Salon
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy to see people love this video! We usually mock villains, so it was fun to celebrate heroes.
But also, this video has useful information. Have you ever considered running? Watch this! Maybe you should!
We're close to 1K likes. Help us out by popping one on there!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
But also, this video has useful information. Have you ever considered running? Watch this! Maybe you should!
We're close to 1K likes. Help us out by popping one on there!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Reposted by Amanda Marcotte
They just keep accidentally making people like him more.
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
They just keep accidentally making people like him more.
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
They just keep accidentally making people like him more.
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
They just keep accidentally making people like him more.
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
I cover that aspect in this video! It's a short, good time. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Reposted by Amanda Marcotte
ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
I do enjoy watching Trump systematically screw over everyone who voted for him who is not a billionaire.
Just wish the rest of us weren't also getting screwed in the process.
www.salon.com/2025/11/07/b...
Just wish the rest of us weren't also getting screwed in the process.
www.salon.com/2025/11/07/b...
Beef and America's cattle ranchers are no longer on MAGA's menu
Trump's plan to quadruple Argentinian beef imports has upset American ranchers — and the GOP
www.salon.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I do enjoy watching Trump systematically screw over everyone who voted for him who is not a billionaire.
Just wish the rest of us weren't also getting screwed in the process.
www.salon.com/2025/11/07/b...
Just wish the rest of us weren't also getting screwed in the process.
www.salon.com/2025/11/07/b...
Reposted by Amanda Marcotte
New Standing Room Only! Today's episode is about heroes, not villains — though we do take the Democratic leadership to task.
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
YouTube video by Salon
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New Standing Room Only! Today's episode is about heroes, not villains — though we do take the Democratic leadership to task.
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
As a reminder, I'm practicing heavy social media hygiene — and encourage others to do the same. Blocking swiftly for social media bullshit that makes these platforms unusable.
I just blocked someone for suggesting no Democrat under 50 is trustworthy because of Platner's tattoo, for instance.
I just blocked someone for suggesting no Democrat under 50 is trustworthy because of Platner's tattoo, for instance.
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
As a reminder, I'm practicing heavy social media hygiene — and encourage others to do the same. Blocking swiftly for social media bullshit that makes these platforms unusable.
I just blocked someone for suggesting no Democrat under 50 is trustworthy because of Platner's tattoo, for instance.
I just blocked someone for suggesting no Democrat under 50 is trustworthy because of Platner's tattoo, for instance.
New Standing Room Only! Today's episode is about heroes, not villains — though we do take the Democratic leadership to task.
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
YouTube video by Salon
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New Standing Room Only! Today's episode is about heroes, not villains — though we do take the Democratic leadership to task.
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
Mamdani's win is no unicorn. In 2026, many young candidates are stepping up and won't be told "don't run" by aging leaders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGE...
New "Standing Room Only" premiering now! It's a celebration of Zohran Mamdani defeating the haters, of course.
But it's also about how he's not alone. So many other young Democrats are running the same playbook for 2026. Learn how to help — or be one!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
But it's also about how he's not alone. So many other young Democrats are running the same playbook for 2026. Learn how to help — or be one!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Zohran Mamdani conquered. Other young Democrats can, too.
YouTube video by Salon
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
New "Standing Room Only" premiering now! It's a celebration of Zohran Mamdani defeating the haters, of course.
But it's also about how he's not alone. So many other young Democrats are running the same playbook for 2026. Learn how to help — or be one!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
But it's also about how he's not alone. So many other young Democrats are running the same playbook for 2026. Learn how to help — or be one!
youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...
Being annoyed that someone else's health event is taking attention from you is the essence of Trump.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Being annoyed that someone else's health event is taking attention from you is the essence of Trump.
I feel an acquittal coming on.
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I feel an acquittal coming on.
Guess he was having a problem forgetting where to go.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Guess he was having a problem forgetting where to go.