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19 hours agoMAGA Is Eating Its Own
María Elvira Salazar represents a shift in Miami politics, but Trump's declining approval among Latino voters threatens her position and the GOP's future.
No one I know wants to go spend their one wild and magical life being a shill for some billionaire tech asshole, says Shannon, a character in Yesteryear, the buzzy new novel about a tradwife influencer by Caro Claire Burke.
"For an unmarried woman, what are you looking for in your life most of all? What is missing? It's the security of a male. And so young women and unmarried women especially are saying, looking at the Democratic Party, which is entirely based off of offering free things and social programs, and they say, that's my party. That's what I want to go towards."
The teenage birth rate in the US fell by 7% in 2025, reflecting a significant decline in fertility rates among those aged 15 to 19, which has decreased by 70% over the last two decades.
Two days after his second inauguration, one of Donald Trump's first actions of his second presidency was to pardon nearly two dozen anti-abortion extremists, who had violently and illegally barricaded reproductive rights clinics, in some cases injuring staff and patients in the process, and in others, stealing aborted embryos and fetal tissue. At the time, Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northrup told Jezebel the pardons were a "get-out-of-jail-free card inviting anti-abortion extremists to step up their attacks on reproductive health clinics with impunity."
May Almighty god continue to bless our troops in this fight. And again to the American people, please pray for them. Every day. On bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ.
the rotting carcass of the MAGA era, its shrieking insecurities, its pathetic resentments, its festering hatreds, and that distinct, metallic tang of panic rising in the back of its throat behind the soft wattle.