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• Britney Covers V Magazine's 100th Issue!

  01-03-2016 22:51
  This month, Britney is on the cover of V Magazines #V100 issue! Read the full feature story here and see all the pictures from the photoshoot!The V100 issue is available on newsstands and onlineOn stands this week!! V Magazine and Mario Testino know how to make mag cover magic. From www.britneyspears.com
  
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• Sorry, Marco Rubio: Penis jokes only make the teller look small

  01-03-2016 22:44 via salon.com
  
  If we ever needed proof that men are obsessed with their dicks, we got it this week as small-penis jokes took center stage. At the Academy Awards, actor Sacha Baron Cohen, as his character Ali G, indulged in a racist joke, ostensibly about Minions but clearly also targeting Asian men, about “yellow people with tiny dongs.” On the political stage, as Marco Rubio said of GOP primary opponent Donald Trump at a rally on Sunday, “He’s always calling me ‘little Marco.&rsq
  
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• Ross Douthat’s pathetic Trump evasion: The NYT columnist attempts to pin the blame on Obama — and fails spectacularly

  01-03-2016 22:25 via salon.com
  
  After months of ignoring him and hoping he would go away, Republicans have accepted that the success of Donald Trump is a problem for them. And, as conservatives tend to do when facing a problem, they have begun to blame liberals. The most recent argument comes from Ross Douthat, who writes,“What it hasn’t inspired is much in the way of self-examination, or a recognition of the way that Obama-era trends in liberal politics have helped feed the Trump phenomenon.”The piece contai
  
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• Photo - On stands this week!! V Magazine and Mario Testino know how to make mag cover magic. 💜 #V100

  01-03-2016 22:22
  On stands this week!! V Magazine and Mario Testino know how to make mag cover magic. 💜 #V100
  
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• On stands this week!! @vmagazine and @MarioTestino know how to make mag cover magic. 💜 #V100 https://t.co/FnYeWFC9OO

  01-03-2016 22:19 via twitter.com
  
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• 10 reasons Marco Rubio is no moderate

  01-03-2016 22:12 via salon.com
  
  Marco Rubio is being positioned as a moderate alternative to Ted Cruz or Donald Trump.  Baloney.  His positions are extreme right.  Consider these 10 facts about Rubio:1. Rubio wants to repeal Obama’s executive order to expand background checks and close gun sale loopholes.2. When asked about closing down mosques, Rubio said he wants to shutdown “any place radicals are inspired.”3. He denies humans are responsible for climate change.4. His tax plan gives the top
  
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• “I don’t want to get Ghomeshi’d”: Sexual assault trial gets the Carrie Bradshaw treatment — by the paper that helped break the story

  01-03-2016 22:01 via salon.com
  
  Is the sexual assault trial of a public figure a good venue for some soul searching into one's own contemporary dating landscape? I would say no. But in what one of the more WTF reads you'll come upon this week, writer Jen Kirsch says sure. Or as the Toronto Star headline puts it, this about "How the Jian Ghomeshi trial is affecting my dating life."The photograph shows her in bed with her teddy bear, Hope. The story, a "special to The Star" feature for the Canadian newspaper, tells of the T
  
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• DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz joins hands with GOP in assault on Elizabeth Warren’s consumer protection agency

  01-03-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, has joined the Republican assault on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Sen. Elizabeth Warren helped create the bureau in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in order to protect Americans from the malicious practices of the financial industry — particularly banks, toxic mortgage lenders, debt collectors and payday loan companies.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has created pending new regulations in o
  
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• Debate’s on for Trump: The Donald will “definitely” be at Fox News debate Thursday, spokeswoman says

  01-03-2016 21:21 via salon.com
  
  Republican front-runner Donald Trump will be attending Fox News Channel's GOP debate on Thursday after considering pulling a no-show dependent on his Super Tuesday results.According to New York Magazine, a highly valued source familiar with the Trump campaign said the businessman's thinking was that by not attending, he could send a powerful message to rivals Cruz and Rubio that he no longer values them a credible threat for the nomination. The source also said
  
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• “This is the party of Lincoln”: Watch Speaker Paul Ryan call out Trump on KKK connection

  01-03-2016 21:19 via salon.com
  
  Speaker Paul Ryan called Donald Trump out on his connection to the KKK after the Republican frontrunner did not immediately reject funding from David Duke and the Klu Klux Klan.
  “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games: They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry,” Ryan, who was visibly angry, said.
  This is the second time that Speaker Paul Ryan grabbed a mic to rebuke Donald Trump for his apparent bigotry. He
  
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• “The final delegate was assigned by drawing cards”: Inside the absurd, headscratching mess of the Nevada caucus

  01-03-2016 20:59 via salon.com
  
  A young Sanders supporter I know missed the Nevada Democratic caucus because she had to work. In precincts across the state, the young, poor and politically marginalized were driven away from the caucuses, and it was by design. It’s no wonder Hillary Clinton squeaked out a win. The event, which I participated in, took almost three hours on a Saturday, and more than half the people at the caucus were bored or frustrated by the event. There were long lines to check in and the process it
  
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• Stop poll-shaming Trump voters: Mocking survey results won’t change minds—or the election

  01-03-2016 20:37 via salon.com
  
  A recent survey done by Public Policy Polling has sparked a great deal of bemused horror. In a group of 897 likely Republican Primary voters, the left-leaning organization found that Trump supporters were most likely to wish the South had won the Civil War and to think Japanese internment was a good idea. Compared to those who backed other candidates, Trump's supporters were also most likely to support bans on homosexuals entering the United States and the very practice of Islam. As reporte
  
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• Stress from discrimination might be causing a widening “black-white sleep gap”

  01-03-2016 20:12 via salon.com
  
  Though Americans on average are getting less sleep, one group in particular appears to be more affected than any other: African-Americans, according to a study.When it comes to being sleep deprived, African-Americans are doing way more poorly than whites, contributing to what experts have dubbed "the black-white sleep gap."While the true cause of the sleep gap is still unknown, some believe that there might be a correlation between sleep and discrimination along with other factors such as noisy
  
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• GOP voters are playing right into Trump’s scheme: CBS chief Les Moonves explains how the Donald’s cynical con job is working perfectly

  01-03-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  Last month Politico reported on Donald Trump's long-term plan to run for president. Contrary to what many believed, Trump's presidential bid was not whimsical. Turns out the Donald was preparing his strategy for at least two years, maybe more.Trump was approached by Republican operatives in late 2013 about the possibility of running for governor of New York. He rejected the offer because he was already eying a run for president in 2016. “I'm going to walk away with it and win outright,&rdq
  
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• .@AmericanExpress Card Members can get early access to tix for my residency now through 3/3! amex.co/24tujAj https://t.co/ARkxk1uP1w

  01-03-2016 19:19 via twitter.com
  
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• American Express Card Members can get early access to tickets for my residency now through 3/3! http://amex.co/1LqcjjO

  01-03-2016 19:00
  Britney Spears Presale TixBritney Spears added dates to her Las Vegas Residency! American Express Card Members can get presale tix now.
  
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• New 2016 “Piece Of Me” Dates Just Announced!!

  01-03-2016 17:48
  Britney just announced 24 new Piece Of Me show dates for 2016! Tickets are on sale today at 10am PT through March 2nd at 10am PT for American Express Card Members. Tickets go on sale to the general public March 4th, 2016 at 10am PT. See the full list of dates below!Friday, June 17
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• Britney Spears on Her Upcoming Album: 'It's the Best Thing I've Done in a Long Time'

  01-03-2016 16:50
  
  Britney Spears takes three different covers for her shoot with V Magazine #100!
  Here’s what the 34-year-old entertainer had to share with the mag:
  On her upcoming album: “Honestly, I’m just particular with this record. It’s my baby, and so I really want it done right. I would much rather have it be completely how I want it to be, whether that takes another year for me to do, or two months. I have no idea at this point. But I just know that the direction I’m going in
  
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• Photo - Looking forward to 24 more dates with you, Vegas 💖 #PieceOfMe tix go on sale 3/4 at 10am PT! britney.lk/pomtickets

  01-03-2016 16:05
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• Looking forward to 24 more dates with you, Vegas 💖 #PieceOfMe tix go on sale 3/4 at 10am PT! britney.lk/pomtickets https://t.co/bChMbKhG2E

  01-03-2016 16:03 via twitter.com
  
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• Donald Trump has dropped the GOP’s mask: Conservatism and racism now officially the same thing

  01-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is the preferred candidate of white supremacists. Online and in other spaces, they have anointed him their champion in the 2016 presidential race.When asked about this on CNN, Donald Trump deflected, bobbed, weaved and dissembled:"Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?" Trump said. Trump was pressed three times on whether he'd distance himself from the Ku Klux Klan -- but never mentioned the group in his answers."I don't know anything about what you're e
  
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• John Oliver demolishes Trump, finally: Here’s why his self-funded, business-savvy, tough-talking campaign is a lie

  01-03-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  For a political comedian who came up through “The Daily Show,” John Oliver has been oddly silent – for the most part -- on the presidential race. He’s done great bits on gun control, on abortion, on the difficulty of refugees coming to the United States, and dozens of other topics. Last year, he said he didn’t see the point in weighing in on 2016 while it was still 2015. But last night, he devoted most of “Last Week Tonight” to Donald Trump, and it
  
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• Hillary vs. Trump should scare Democrats: Why this isn’t the cake walk you’re probably hoping it will be

  01-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
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• Debating Glenn Greenwald was like “looking the devil in the eye,” ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden details distaste for media in new book

  01-03-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden really does not like journalists. At least, that's what his new book, "Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror," appears to suggest.In the book, Hayden disparagingly calls legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh a "chaser of real and imagined scandals." He furthermore describes renowned journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jane Mayer and Tim Weiner as "hopelessly agenda-driven." (Hersh, Greenwald and Weiner have Pul
  
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• “I’m not saying that Donald Trump is a fascist…” — but Trevor Noah comes pretty damn close

  01-03-2016 13:24 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah has good news for those of us who've found ourselves disillusioned by the democratic process in this endlessly frustrating election cycle: "There's an alternative -- fascism." And what candidate better exemplifies a fascist agenda than chest-thumping nationalist Donald Trump?"I'm not saying that Donald Trump is a fascist," Noah did clarify. "But even just in the last few days he's said and done some things that make it a pretty fascist week."First, Trump retweeted a
  
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• Samantha Bee lets smug liberals have it — and she’s right: “If you didn’t vote in 2010, you built” Trump and Tea Party

  01-03-2016 13:22 via salon.com
  
  "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee returned last night to discuss the phenomenon wherein "presidential elections are like children -- they're all the most important" according to the candidates running in them."The most important election of your lifetime wasn't 2008. It was two whole years later, and you didn't vote in it, and you got your ass kicked," Bee explained, referring to the 2010 midterm election that saw an unprecedentedly high conservative (and low youth, minority) voter turn
  
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• Stephen Colbert sickened by Trump and KKK: “This is the easiest question to answer in American politics”

  01-03-2016 13:20 via salon.com
  
  With Super Tuesday on the horizon, "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert took one final look at candidate Donald Trump before he surely becomes Republican nominee Donald Trump. However, Trump's refusal to disavow David Duke and the KKK could nullify his one-way ticket to the nomination."Trump needs to know before condemning David Duke or the KKK," Colbert said. "It's not like they're Muslim or born in Mexico.""This is the easiest question to answer in American politics," Colb
  
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• Seth Meyers on Trump, Rubio and “the whitest round of snaps”: “Make a dick joke on the campaign trail, you’re the dick”

  01-03-2016 13:16 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers last night took a "Closer Look" at Donald Trump and the unending melodrama taking place around him.Meyers first noted Rubio's recent attempts "to beat Trump at his own game -- which led to the whitest round of snaps ever played."Regarding Rubio's slight against the size of Trump's hands (and, implicitly, his manhood), Meyers said, "When you make a dick joke on the campaign trail, you're the dick."Regarding Trump's refusal to disavow an endorsement from former-K
  
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• A 12-year-old is facing criminal charges for using these three emojis

  01-03-2016 12:30 via salon.com
  
  A 12-year-old from Fairfax, Va., was charged with threatening her school after she posted a gun, bomb and knife emoji on Instagram, police said.And a New York City grand jury recently had to decide whether 👮 🔫 was a true threat to police officers.Emoji is the fastest growing language and the more common it becomes, the more challenging it becomes for the criminal justice system to decipher that true meaning behind the symbols.Watch our video for more.A 12-year-old
  
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• Today’s GOP candidates make Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush look like saints during this 1980 GOP debate about immigration

  01-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  The Republican party hasn't always been so cruel when it comes to undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush actually used the words "sensitivity," "understanding," and "open borders" when talking about immigration during a GOP debate in 1980. Their compassion is shocking when compared to the hateful rhetoric of the party today.
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  The Republican party hasn't always been so cruel when it comes to undocumented immigrants living in the United States
  
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• Thanks for nothing, Elizabeth Warren: How the Democratic Party’s rock star missed her chance, hurt the progressive agenda

  01-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren could have been the biggest political story of 2016. Well, at least, the biggest story other than Donald Trump. Right now, she could have been coasting toward a Super Tuesday landslide and locking up the Democratic nomination. It doesn't take a wild imagination to picture it.Instead, Warren is nowhere to be found, unless you're a Democratic donor on the receiving end of DNC email blasts signed by the Massachusetts senator. Raising money like this — or lendin
  
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• The GOP is the straight, white, Christian party: This is why Donald Trump is winning — and why I left a party of intolerance and hate

  01-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Last week, just before the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, the state's Indian-American governor, Nikki Haley, joined Tim Scott, the state’s African-American senator, to endorse one of the two Hispanic Republican candidates for president, Marco Rubio.Judging from that political theater, you may think that the GOP is as diverse as America is in 2016, and that today’s Republican Party was a modern party that reflects our new multicultural reality in America.That “d
  
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• No, Bernie Sanders’ moment isn’t over: Why his gargantuan impact can’t be erased by a Super Tuesday drubbing

  01-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  For most of the past year, the traditional media has waged a determined campaign to pretend the Democratic presidential primary doesn’t exist. (The DNC certainly did its best to help with that effort.) Bernie Sanders upended that studied neglect by raising more money that any presidential hopeful and battling presumptive favorite Hillary Clinton to a draw in early states.Now Clinton’s blowout in South Carolina, and the expectations of more lopsided victories throughout the South
  
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• Let’s all laugh at the GOP’s “Mitt Romney will save us” plan

  01-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  What happens if nothing stops Donald Trump? He’s ahead in the polls just about everywhere, he has three wins to his name and a commanding lead in the delegate race, and there seems to be no gaffe that is powerful enough to halt him. He went on national TV this weekend and begged off the opportunity to disavow the endorsement of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. For any other politician that would be the ballgame, but for Trump you can’t assume that those same rules apply. So what&rsqu
  
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• Rubio’s doomed attack: Laughable strategy to beat Donald Trump at his own game is DOA

  01-03-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  About a month ago, the Washington Post’s Jim Tankersley tried his hand at explaining the rise of Donald Trump. Relying on a Washington Post-ABC News poll and this nifty “interactive” from the Wall Street Journal, Tankersley made a straightforward argument, one that you’ve likely heard by now already.Trump’s supporters’ chief motivation, he claimed, is a mixture of chauvinism on the one hand, and profound economic insecurity on the other. After noting that, amo
  
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• Robert Reich: The GOP establishment has destroyed itself

  01-03-2016 11:45 via salon.com
  
  You are the captains of American industry, the titans of Wall Street, and the billionaires who for decades have been the backbone of the Republican Party.You’ve invested your millions in the GOP in order to get lower taxes, wider tax loopholes, bigger subsidies, more generous bailouts, less regulation, lengthier patents and copyrights and stronger market power allowing you to raise prices, weaker unions and bigger trade deals allowing you outsource abroad to reduce wages, easier bankruptcy
  
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• The most unbelievably simple trick to improve your memory

  01-03-2016 11:30 via salon.com
  
  If I say a random string of numbers out loud, say 1593657292759381380473, how many of these numbers do you think you will be able to immediately rememberThe magical numberSome scientists say that you should be able to remember about seven of them. More precisely, since a paper from the 1950s, called ‘The magical number seven, plus or minus two’, some have suggested that the capacity of our working memory is typically somewhere between five and nine things, although some scientists ar
  
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• Clinton’s stance against free college is one of her most absurd positions

  01-03-2016 11:15 via salon.com
  
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• The case against “saving” marriage

  01-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  Marriage rates have been declining for more than half a century and single women now outnumber married ones. There are few guides better at navigating this new landscape than Rebecca Traister. In a recent New York Magazine article, adapted from her soon-to-be-released book All the Single Ladies, she offers an insightful, nuanced analysis of the plight and power of unmarried women “taking up space in a world that was not designed for them.” Traister argues that the current democratic
  
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• Please give Samantha Bee “The Daily Show”: They squandered Jon Stewart’s legacy by giving the show to the wrong host

  01-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  A decade ago, former President George Bush (the tall awkward one) staged one of the strangest and most memorable scenes in recent political memory. Speaking before the Florida Legislature, Bush the elder began weeping, rather uncontrollably, as he recalled how his second son, Jeb, had lost an election as governor 12 years earlier.The psychological back story to this moment was painfully obvious. Bush the Elder had gotten all choked up because Jeb’s loss had foiled his grand scheme, wh
  
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• Chris Rock’s Oscars didn’t “fight the power”: A night of crude jokes and cynical deflection is a poor way to show progress

  01-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Of all the people disappointed by the Oscars ceremony last night, the most disappointed were the audience.It’s a joke you can make any year, but this year is special--this is the year that all eyes were on Chris Rock to see how he’d deal with the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that became impossible to ignore once several big names boycotted the ceremony, leaving the Oscars audience an uncomfortably white crowd.Blaming Rock as host for the Oscars&r
  
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• Sorry, David Brooks, but we can’t blame Trump’s ascendance on “anti-politics” — it’s class politics

  01-03-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
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• #JusticeForFlint’s radical love: While Oscar’s glamour beckoned, the real artists helped Flint be seen and heard

  01-03-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  It’s easy to denigrate artists as self-indulgent pansies. From Plato’s Republic to H.G. Wells' modern Utopia, literary visions of a perfect world have routinely shed the “useless” artist in favor of the practical artisan.  We don’t need painters to survive. Not exactly. But society devolves very quickly once the artists are gone. Come the Apocalypse, and musicians, dancers, writers and artists of every shape and stripe will simply have vanished from t
  
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• “Dictator of the Lincoln belt”: Meet the black political operative who orchestrated one of the great upsets in presidential election history

  01-03-2016 00:57 via salon.com
  
  This week, as the Democratic candidates approach Super Tuesday, African-American voters in the South and Midwest are seen as the difference between victory and defeat.Today, the pursuit of black voters entails symbolic gestures — grip and grin with Al Sharpton, breakfast at Sylvia’s — that may resonate with voters without tangibly representing votes. Current headlines echo a forgotten history of African-American election power and the genius of a black political operative.
  
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• White supremacists yelling “Heil Hitler,” waving Confederate flag wallet attack Latino teens at LA park: local media

  01-03-2016 00:45 via salon.com
  
  Knife-wielding white supremacists yelling "Heil Hitler" and waving a Confederate flag wallet attacked Latino teens in a Los Angeles park on Sunday, according to local media reports.The three white supremacists were arrested, and police say they are investigating the attack as a hate crime, ABC7 reports.The Los Angeles Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed to local media that the attackers were screaming "Heil Hitler" and shouting racial slurs.NBC4 noted that the attackers openly called t
  
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• “I hate seeing what it represents”: Forgetful Donald Trump disavowed David Duke in 1991

  01-03-2016 00:04 via salon.com
  
  Former-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke is just a drop in the bucket of controversial Donald Trump endorsers.And, up until this weekend, Trump was doing well for himself spewing white nationalist talking points to the slack-jawed.The Donald didn't do himself any favors with the beltway, though, when he pretended not to know who David Duke is.Even Trump's most unabashed media bedfellow, Joe Scarborough, trashed Donald's ham-handed effort to "play Switzerland" so as to not offend Southern voters."Is he
  
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