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Libs of TikTok
September 11, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Alex Jones and Steve Bannon Warn Charlie Kirk’s Death Means “War”
Far-right influencers are using increasingly disturbing rhetoric regarding Kirk’s shooting.
September 5, 2025
Rachel Kahn
Why Is Pete Hegseth Taking Orders from Libs of TikTok?
The defense secretary may have just fired an employee in response to a hate-filled social media post.
July 9, 2025
Kenneal Patterson
American Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good
The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession.
February 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
GOP Rickrolls People Looking for Epstein Files. You Read That Right.
Jeffrey Epstein is just one big joke to House Republicans, apparently.
November 6, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Team Trump Is Already Spewing Bonkers Harris Swing State Conspiracies
Donald Trump allies are blaming Kamala Harris for a vote-counting mishap.
August 1, 2024
Paige Oamek
Trump and MTG Freak Out Over Olympic Athlete They Insist Is Trans
Algeria’s Imane Khelif beat Italian boxer Angela Carini, sparking a transphobic uproar among Republicans.
July 18, 2024
Robert McCoy
MAGA Begins Hunting People Who Made Trump Assassination Jokes
Right-wing accounts are hunting, doxxing, and targeting anyone who made a joke about the Trump shooting.
March 14, 2024
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Alexander Nazaryan
Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors
Team Trump is doing something this time around that it didn’t think to do in 2016: It’s planning. And wait until you see what those plans include.
March 13, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
DeSantis Is in a Feud With Libs of TikTok, in Funniest Twist of Events
Pass the popcorn, folks.
January 23, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“Libs of TikTok” Creator Gets a Real Job: Advising School Libraries
Yes, be worried.
November 21, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Massacre at Club Q Should Not Have Felt Inevitable
The attack on this LGBTQ community space did not come without warning.
September 28, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Doxxed Doctors, Library Bomb Threats, and Attacks on Pride Centers: A Week in Escalating Anti-LGBTQ Violence
Amid a rising right-wing tide of threats, recent incidents have sadly not been out of the norm.
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