Amanda Marcotte

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about how a Democratic president should not wait for permission to tear Trump's ballroom down. Read and subscribe today! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/tear-the-b... Music by Sweeping Promises.

Dr. Oz started out as an excellent cardiologist. Then he got into hawking useless supplements, because it paid better for less work than saving lives. Now he encourages people to die and pretends Trump deserves a Nobel. I'll never stop being baffled at why he debased himself so thoroughly.

I see a lot of people on Bluesky saying “don’t celebrate.” And I see a lot of right wingers on Twitter who are celebrating like they finally got laid. Because they really want a martyr. It’s disgusting.

Karoline Leavitt's lie to deflect a question about a check from "DJTrump" to Epstein for a "fully depreciated" woman was stupid, even for her. Multiple women have experiences that show Epstein and Trump did think of women as objects for trading. www.salon.com/2025/09/12/e...

“Standing Room Only” back with a new season! Today’s episode: on the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s murder, his legacy is a joke and everyone — left and right — hates his widow. I explore why! This is the first part. We’re breaking episodes into 3 chunks now! youtu.be/yGnKmSbhaOE?...

As a reminder, Bezos heavily supports the GOP, which is fighting to make pregnancy mandatory.

Yeah everything about the latest “AI will kill us all” nonsense screams “marketing stunt” to boost sales of the IPO.

Oh 100% the goal of the Space Force uniforms was to invoke the SS. But in year 10 of MAGA, we know how this gets rationalized: as a mere jape to trigger the libs! Not serious fascism! Of course, it is serious fascism. A military uniform is not a joke. But also… www.salon.com/2026/09/09/s...

The RNC convention starts today and so far, no one can explain why this is happening — except to soothe Trump. Natalie Harp is his human binkie. And this convention is a very expensive pacifier. www.salon.com/2026/09/09/d...

TPUSA regularly instructs women that motherhood is required, that women should start before they’re ready, and have more kids than they can afford. They can’t accept that this is the result of those expectations. So they’d rather act like this was a cackling witch being evil for funsies.

My colleague @alexwgalbraith.bsky.social is getting grief for this piece, but he's right. I hate to say, but Mike Judge may have got right wing-curious around this time. He was buddies with Alex Jones. I think he's come back around, but the movie is reactionary. www.salon.com/2026/09/06/i...

What the fuck. She has a lot of public sympathy, especially from women. Why would you undermine it this way? Especially when Trump can't pardon her? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This week is the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's shooting. We can safely say now that his legacy is a joke. His face is mostly dumb memes. His alleged friends use his killing as cheap entertainment. Erika clearly failed. I look at why. www.salon.com/2026/09/08/w...

In lefty spaces, there are often a lot of abstract paeans to unions on Labor, but since most people don't actually belong to a union, it often feels like a platitude more than a lived reality. But I am in a union: Writer's Guild of America East. I'm also one of two union stewards at Salon.