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• The Senate GOP’s idiotic SCOTUS obstruction: Why Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot

  23-02-2016 22:45 via salon.com
  
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• “You can’t make up the viciousness of Hollywood”: Zoe Cassavetes skewers the family industry and how it treats women over 40

  23-02-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  
  Writer/director Zoe Cassavetes’ grew up in the rarefied air of Hollywood. Her late father is the maverick independent filmmaker John Cassavetes, and her mother is the incomparable actress Gena Rowlands. Her sophomore feature, “Day Out of Days,” now available on VOD, is a caustic look at the life of Mia Roarke (Alexia Landeau), a 40 year-old actress struggling to make it in Hollywood.Mia’s ex, Liam (Alessandro Nivola), has left her for a younger woman. Her agent Annabelle
  
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• “The Danish Girl” hypocrisy: If you want a major award for playing a trans woman, better make sure you’re up for Best Actor

  23-02-2016 22:01 via salon.com
  
  Recently, Rebel Wilson accidentally proved you can be strikingly tone-deaf and oddly prescient at the same time. During this month's BAFTA Awards, the “Pitch Perfect” and “How to Be Single” actress ignited a firestorm of controversy for what many believed was a joke intended to mock transgender people. Wilson joked about the Oscars’ lack of diversity, a widespread topic of debate over the past few months.
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• Donald Trump will never fire Katrina Pierson: Five of the craziest things the controversial spokeswoman has said on the campaign trail

  23-02-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump's national campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has served as a lighting rod of controversy ever since joining the Republican's presidential campaign back in November. Despite her short time on the campaign trail, and even shorter commitment to Trump (she was a vocal Ted Cruz backer in 2012), Pierson has shown a shared liking of the outrageous bluster her boss is known to frequently employ that makes her a unique campaign standout and undoubtedly a favorite the former reality TV sta
  
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• No, Bernie Sanders isn’t doomed: Why Hillary Clinton’s Nevada win doesn’t mean its over

  23-02-2016 21:49 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton’s Nevada win was a rude buzzkill for Bernie Sanders supporters still high from his commanding win in New Hampshire earlier this month. Worse yet were the stark headlines uniformly depicting the five-point loss as evidence that the upstart democratic socialist’s delegate math might be insurmountable: Clinton retained overwhelming support from black voters while the huge youth turnout Sanders needs didn’t materialize.This is all true. But a note to Sanders support
  
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• Just call it the Daniel Holtzclaw effect now: In rape cases, sympathetic reporting about “once-promising young men” need to stop

  23-02-2016 21:39 via salon.com
  
  You know whose stories get told often enough? Men's. Especially men engaged in masculine fields of law enforcement or sports. Yet even in a world in which the man's point of view is the default point of view, this one went pretty far out there. So here's a lesson that maybe now the editors at SB Nation will consider — after a man's been found guilty of raping a bunch of women, the prime narrative can be something more than the tale of a "once-promising young man."In a swiftly yanked SB Nat
  
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• Don’t teach “sensitive topics” or anger students, University of Houston warns after “campus carry” gun law is passed

  23-02-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  "Be careful discussing sensitive topics," the University of Houston warned faculty in a forum about the new "campus carry" gun policy.The university suggested that professors may want to "drop certain topics from your curriculum," and "not 'go there' if you sense anger," the Houston Chronicle reports.A new Texas law will allow people to carry concealed handguns on university campuses.Jeffrey Villines, a Ph.D. student in the university's English department, shared a photo of what he said is a sli
  
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• Don’t teach “sensitive topics” or anger students, Houston professors are warned after “campus carry” gun law passed

  23-02-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  "Be careful discussing sensitive topics," professors at the University of Houston were warned in a faculty meeting about the new "campus carry" gun policy.An unofficial forum of professors suggested that teachers may want to "drop certain topics from your curriculum," and "not 'go there' if you sense anger," the Houston Chronicle reports.A new Texas law will allow people to carry concealed handguns on university campuses.Jeffrey Villines, a Ph.D. student in the university's English department, s
  
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• Lena Dunham: Verdict in Kesha case proves the legal system is on the side of the abusers

  23-02-2016 21:22 via salon.com
  
  Lena Dunham is a lightning rod -- hated by those who love her, loved by those who hate her, or something along those lines -- but in powerful response to the verdict in Kesha's court case on Friday, she reminded us that she is, if nothing else, a damn powerful advocate for the rights of women.Dunham assumes that it's easy not to sympathize with Kesha, given that she's perceived to be a wealthy artist and we live in a post-"Rolling Stone botched campus assault" culture. But she reminds readers th
  
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• “If you want to rule the world, little girls, you gotta know what the guys like”: 23 times the women of Fox News were disgustingly anti-feminist

  23-02-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  The women of Fox News are often just as responsible for the relentless drumbeat of anti-feminism as the men — and if they are not directly involved in the banter their indulgent laughter signals that it's not "really" sexism that's going on.
  We rounded up 23 times that women on Fox were disgustingly anti-feminist.
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• 13 monster hits that suck by artists you love: “This is a jam for Guy Fieri-catered deck parties”

  23-02-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  I love Cheap Trick the way Mike Damone loved Cheap Trick. I responded in a big way to “the magnetism of Robin Zander” and “the charisma of Rick Nielsen?” And the tunes? “Surrender,” “I Want You To Want Me,’ “Southern Girls,” “Stiff Competition,” “He’s A Whore,” “The Flame.”Wait a minute.That’s not right. “The Flame,” with due respect, is an atrocious ballad of heck. But it
  
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• So much for Hitler’s micropenis: The story everyone wants to believe remains speculation

  23-02-2016 20:41 via salon.com
  
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• Dear law-and-order politicians: Letting small-time thieves off light doesn’t increase crime

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• “Kill, beat, shoot, punch, rough up, bomb”: Trump’s encouragement of physical violence is escalating

  23-02-2016 20:28 via salon.com
  
  Yesterday, Trump told a rally that he would like to punch a protester "in the face." He's no stranger to violent rhetoric -- he regularly uses "kill," "beat" and "shoot" to describe his opponents, his policy and the way he sees the United States. Watch our video for some of those moments.Continue Reading...
  
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• Obama must fulfill his Gitmo pledge: Eight years is far too long to make campaign promise of closing prison a reality

  23-02-2016 20:27 via salon.com
  
  "We're going to close Guantánamo. And we're going to restore habeas corpus," then Senator Barack Obama told a Texas crowd in June 2007. "We're going to lead by example — by not just word, but by deed. That's our vision for the future."Obama ran for president on this promise; his pledge to close the detention camp was at the heart of his campaign.Just a week after winning the election in November 2008, President-elect Obama released his plan to close the prison. There were approximat
  
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• Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh might be human garbage, but conservatives are wrong to blame them for the disturbing rise of Trump

  23-02-2016 20:26 via salon.com
  
  Things have certainly taken a turn for the ugly in the Republican primary when one feels duty-bound to defend the likes of Rush Limbaugh, and yet here we are. Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal has issued a sniffy denunciation of Limbaugh and his fellow talk radio host Mark Levin for not doing more to shut down the Donald Trump train earlier, before Trump got a real shot at the Republican nomination. "But both men provided Mr. Trump with the margin of respectability he needed in the e
  
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• They’re trying to turn into Trump: Cruz and Rubio get tougher on immigration as they feebly chase The Donald

  23-02-2016 19:19 via salon.com
  
  In the aftermath of the South Carolina Republican primary, which saw Donald Trump win by a comfortable margin and take all of the state’s delegates, Bloomberg Politics asked a counterintuitive question: Is Marco Rubio Now the GOP Frontrunner? The obvious answer to that question is “no” – he’s won zero states, he’s well behind in the delegate count, he isn’t expected to win the Nevada caucus (even though it was once considered his strongest state), and he
  
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• The GOP really is Donald Trump’s party: Republicans bet all their money on White America and now we’re paying the price

  23-02-2016 18:30 via salon.com
  
  It must strike many average Americans as odd that the Republicans are so vehement about immigration right now, since undocumented labor is actually dramatically down from former years. Of course there have always been nativist impulses in America that wax and wane in intensity. And certainly the undercurrent of conservative unrest over Latino workers has been growing for some time as undocumented laborers migrated to areas within the U.S. to which they had not traditionally travel
  
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• Beware of right-wing scare tactics about Democratic socialism: Conservatives are using this boogeyman to manipulate their base

  23-02-2016 18:23 via salon.com
  
  A right-wing advocacy group called American Action Network has produced a poll purporting to show that a majority of Democrats self-identify as socialist. The group claims six-in-ten Democratic primary voters believe socialism has a “positive impact on society.” And if that isn't sufficiently scary, they also found that Democrats under the age of 45 prefer socialist ideology to capitalism “by a margin of 46 percent to 19 percent.”Importantly, as Politico's Gabriel Debened
  
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• Apple vs. FBI: Leave the phone locked

  23-02-2016 18:03 via salon.com
  
  You don’t have to be scanning the skies for black helicopters or ranting against Big Government to know that Washington sometimes takes too much power. There’s that series of Middle Eastern wars we seem to have been engaged in for decades now, for instance. When it comes to the FBI, there’s the reign of J. Edgar Hoover and the bureau’s long surveillance of people like John Lennon. Or the surveillance that Edward Snowden revealed.You can think the government makes the righ
  
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• Bill Maher is right about ISIS: New study confirms numbers in his controversial Hollywood Reporter piece

  23-02-2016 17:42 via salon.com
  
  "Real Time" host Bill Maher has been an outspoken opponent of ISIS, American involvement in the Middle East, and -- perhaps most controversially -- Syrian refugees. All this (and more) he laid out in a characteristically biting essay for The Hollywood Reporter.On the matter(s):How come Saudi Arabia didn't take in any Syrian refugees? ... Why don't they fight their own battles? Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ISIS isn't 10 feet tall. There are 20,000 or 30,000 of them. Th
  
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• “I don’t want to pass this on to the next president”: Obama lays out plan to finally close Gitmo

  23-02-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  
  President Obama — flanked on either side by Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Ashton  Carter — laid out his plan for "finally closing" the Guantanamo Bay detention center at a news conference Tuesday morning."For many years it's been clear that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security; it undermines it," Obama told cameras at a press conference in the White House's Roosevelt Room. "It's counterproductive to our fight against
  
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• Ben Carson’s desperate, last ditch play of the “race card”: President Obama is not authentically black because “he was raised white”

  23-02-2016 17:31 via salon.com
  
  Yet again, a Republican presidential candidate is defying conventional political norms and undermining supposedly long held conservative values in order to further personal ambitions. This time it is retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson who, desperate to keep his name in the headlines to avoid becoming the latest also-ran, is now suggesting that the nation's first black President could not possibly live the authentic black experience because he "was raised white."Carson, of course
  
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