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• Forecasting the GOP war over Donald Trump: How likely is a brokered convention?

  08-03-2016 23:26 via salon.com
  
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• GOP committee tweets that Iraq vet, a double-amputee, “has a sad record of not standing up for our veterans”

  08-03-2016 22:48 via salon.com
  
  The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which works to elect and re-elect Republican senators, fell prey to seriously unfortunate phraseology when its account tweeted:https://twitter.com/frankthorpNBC/status/707308748310781952It's an innocuous jab — common among partisan Twitter — absent the knowledge that Rep. Duckworth (R-Ill.) is a double-amputee who lost both legs while serving in Iraq after her helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.The NRSC account p
  
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• Bromances are good for your health, study finds

  08-03-2016 21:19 via salon.com
  
  A recent study from the University of California, Berkeley found that male friendships are healthy. Researchers studied the social relationships of rodents and found that when male rats shared a cage and were presented with mild stressors they coped much better with than rats that were alone. Researchers would repeatedly take away and return water and rats that were alone became highly aggressive while the social rats would share evenly and were highly civil. Researchers found that&nbs
  
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• DIY abortions are on the rise in the U.S.

  08-03-2016 21:09 via salon.com
  
  Anti-abortion laws are continuing to rise in the U.S. including internet searches for DIY abortions. The New York Times released an article examining the link between limited abortion facilities and increased online searches for self-induced abortions. In 2015, there were over 119,000 searches for "how to have a miscarriage," and these types of searches are continuing to rise.
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• Peyton Manning is no hero: Would his troubling past be ignored if he weren’t white?

  08-03-2016 21:00 via salon.com
  
  After 18 years in the NFL, Peyton Manning is hanging up his helmet. As was widely expected, the 39-year-old quarterback announced his retirement on Monday, followed by the requisite tributes that follow a two-time Super Bowl champ calling it quits. The respectful send-offs focused on his many accomplishments—including Manning’s Heisman trophy and his record-breaking five NFL MVP awards. The stats speak for themselves: Peyton Manning amassed more touchdowns and overall passing yards t
  
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• “Something happened to me” — Padma Lakshmi reveals childhood sexual abuse

  08-03-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  Something happened to me," Padma Lakshmi explained, "that happens to a lot of girls." Unfortunately, she's right. And unfortunately, not just girls.On the publication day of her new memoir, "Love, Loss And What We Ate," the former model, "Top Chef" host and cookbook author sat down with People and Entertainment Weekly's editorial director Jess Cagle to discuss one aspect of her life that hasn't before shared: childhood sexual abuse.As Lakshmi reveals in her book, when she was seven, sh
  
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• This grandma joined twitter just to publicly bash Trump

  08-03-2016 20:46 via salon.com
  
  Suzanne Carpenter is the 71-year-old woman who joined Twitter just to use the hashtag #NeverTrump.
  Her first tweet even got over 47,000 retweets and likes.
  Take a look. Suzanne Carpenter is the 71-year-old woman who joined Twitter just to use the hashtag #NeverTrump.
  Her first tweet even got over 47,000 retweets and likes.
  Take a look. Suzanne Carpenter is the 71-year-old woman who joined Twitter just to use the hashtag #NeverTrump.
  Her first tweet even got over 47,000 retweets and likes.
  Take a
  
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• Black lives don’t seem to matter to John Kasich: His disgraceful position on Flint crisis proves why the movement’s so crucial

  08-03-2016 20:32 via salon.com
  
  While much of the Republican Party spent Monday fantasizing about thwarting Donald Trump at the party’s convention, John Kasich — the “moderate” governor of Ohio whom Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign has decided to blame for its own manifest failures — was amiably chatting with Yahoo’s Katie Couric instead.And, wouldn’t you know it, the whole poisoning-children-in-Flint scandal, which Republicans have so far mostly ignored, actually came up. Not on the
  
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• The latest plot to dump Trump: Top GOP officials and tech CEOs hold secret — and pointless — meeting to brainstorm new strategy

  08-03-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  
  The growing desperation of the establishment in the face of Trump’s inexorable rise is becoming humorous. Case in point: this weekend a group of billionaires, tech CEOs and top Republican officials met at a private island resort off the coast of Georgia to discuss what to do about the monster at their gates. The meeting, according to a Huffington Post report, was focused on understanding how Donald Trump happened, on the failures of our political process.Sponsored by the right-wing think t
  
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• Debunking the latest lie about Hillary Clinton: No, she didn’t say she supports a 20-week ban on abortion

  08-03-2016 20:24 via salon.com
  
  The Democratic primary is getting really heated, so I shouldn't be too surprised, though I will remain eternally disappointed, to see someone try to assert that Bernie Sanders is more pro-choice than Hillary Clinton. Monday night, Fox News had a town hall for the Democratic candidates. Both were asked about abortion, though Bret Baier used exponentially more misleading and loaded language with Clinton than he did with Sanders."Can you name a single circumstance at any point in a pregna
  
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• Trump’s new wacko backer: This Sandy Hook truther and obscure Evangelical pastor might be the Donald’s most batsh*t endorser yet

  08-03-2016 20:23 via salon.com
  
  Having already secured the neo-fascist and white supremacist vote, Donald Trump is thrilled to be dipping his undoubtedly stubby toes into the conspiracy theorist cesspool with an endorsement from Carl Gallups, a Florida pastor, radio host and best-selling author, who has openly condemned same-sex marriage, accused President Obama of being a "Saudi-sponsored Muslim" operative, and called Sandy Hook a "hoax."Gallups officially endorsed Trump on Jan. 13, one day before giving the opening conv
  
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• Grab @vmagazine's #V100 issue on stands today! https://t.co/uRpb9lQMKM

  08-03-2016 19:21 via twitter.com
  
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• Watch the venomous Jesse Watters’ face melt after he asks which candidate “the poorly educated” people he’s mocking overwhelmingly support

  08-03-2016 14:54 via salon.com
  
  "The O'Reilly Factor" sent general offense Jesse Watters to the 25th annual UFO convention in Scottsdale, Arizona to stalk and mock those in attendance -- only to learn that Donald Trump has the resounding support of the abductee community.After one attendee, "Katie," told Watters about the times she's been abducted, he replied, "I've seen aliens before -- when I watch MSNBC.""I know! I know!" she enthusiastically replied -- as one might expect her to, because like all of the other attendees Wat
  
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• Bill O’Reilly savages Fox News viewers for “creating their own world” and “losing complete touch with what is actually taking place”

  08-03-2016 14:19 via salon.com
  
  Bill O'Reilly used his "Talking Points Memo" Monday evening to address viewer criticism both of the Fox News debate last Thursday and the interview he conducted with GOP front-runner Donald Trump after it.
  One correspondent wrote in that O'Reilly "baited Trump after the debate," while another called his "fawning interview with Trump after the debate 'cringe-worthy.'" Instead of addressing those individual claims directly, O'Reilly dismissed them by claiming that they can't both be true, then sai
  
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• The GOP freakout nears its climax: If anybody is going to beat Trump, it’s going to be Cruz & it’s going to be now

  08-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Today is the day of the Michigan, Idaho, Hawaii and Mississippi GOP primaries and they may just prove to be a turning point in this race. Or not. Every time you think the trajectory is set, something happens to change it up and we're right back where we started. As of this morning, whatever polling is available suggests that Donald Trump is still in the lead in all four states, but much of it was conducted before the fallout from the "little hands" debate at the end of last week. At the end of t
  
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• How Bernie Sanders & Ted Cruz are both misrepresenting Detroit

  08-03-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  You have to feel for the people of Detroit. The rest of the country mostly only pays attention to the city for the wrong reasons – say, when the Lions are setting records for competitive futility or some photographer starts jonesing for his own “ruins porn” project. Oh, and during election cycles, when Michigan becomes one of the battleground states that could decide the next leader of the free world. All of a sudden candidates from both parties descend on Detroit to shake thei
  
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• Ted Cruz’s media conspiracy: The secret, stupid plan to coddle then destroy Donald Trump

  08-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz has a theory. It’s a bit convoluted, but keep an open mind on this one. Appearing on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Cruz explained his belief that the rise of Donald Trump as a political force can be laid at the feet of the media, which have covered him incessantly ever since he announced his presidential campaign. At the same time, however, Cruz also believes that the same media forces that created Trump are purposefully sitting on all the damaging information the
  
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• “Even if Bernie wins, it will be nothing like 1933″: Why liberals need to move beyond the New Deal

  08-03-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  So far, the 2016 election has been something of a blast from the past. Ideas once regarded as intellectually defunct and politically toxic — "big government" liberalism on the left, ethno-nationalism on the right — are back with a vengeance.Yet while it's hard (not impossible, but hard) to imagine that Trumpism will continue to thrive as its adherents fall prey to Father Time, few if any doubt that Sen. Bernie Sanders' old-fashioned, New Deal-type liberalism is going anywhe
  
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• “Did you just say all black people are poor and live in ghettos?”: Larry Wilmore slams Bernie Sanders over debate gaffe

  08-03-2016 13:49 via salon.com
  
  "Nightly Show" host Larry Wilmore led off Monday night's show with his popular segment, "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening."Wilmore dissected Sunday's Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, to gain further insight into "the effort to de-negro-fy the White House.""It was a very spirited debate focusing on the important issues of the day," Wilmore explained. "But it got just a little squirmy when it came to the issue of race.""If it's a blindspot, how would they know?" Wilmore said, regarding Don Le
  
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• “Our best shot of going black-to-black in the White House”: Trevor Noah’s ode to Ben Carson’s kaput campaign

  08-03-2016 13:41 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah on Monday night gave a final farewell to "our best shot of going black-to-black in the White House," former-GOP candidate Ben Carson."Dr. Ben Carson gave the prognosis on his own campaign, he did all he could," Noah explained. "But, in the end, it couldn't be saved.""He can't even muster any energy when he says he's dropping out of the race," Noah added. "The guy sounds like he's deciding whether or not to have fries with his order."Correspondent Roy Wood, Jr., then
  
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• Talking about the size of his “shvantz in a presidential debate”: Stephen Colbert calls out Donald Trump over his penis boast

  08-03-2016 13:37 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert didn't let the fact that he didn't have a show Friday night stop him from talking about Trump's performance during Thursday night's GOP debate, in which the frontrunner made explicit reference to the size of his penis."Why would a guy with a small penis put his name in giant letters at the top of a skyscraper?" Colbert began."This man is talking about the size of his shvantz in a presidential debate," he continued. "This is someone who could have his fi
  
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• Porn star from pulled Ted Cruz ad endorses Donald Trump: “I like what he stands for”

  08-03-2016 13:37 via salon.com
  
  The pornographic actress whose presence in Ted Cruz's "Conservative Anonymous" ad led to his campaign pulling it told CNN's Jake Tapper Monday night that she no longer supports the Texas senator.Amy Lindsay said a friend gave her a copy of Donald Trump's magnum opus, which she "read voraciously over Spring Break." She examined his website, and determined that she "like[s] what he stands for.""As I was having this adventure of the last couple weeks," Lindsay said, "people are really attacking him
  
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• “The GOP’s final death rattle came that night”: Samantha Bee’s amazing eulogy for the Trump-destroyed Republican Party

  08-03-2016 13:29 via salon.com
  
  "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee on Monday night staged a vigil for the recently deceased GOP."The death throes started Thursday morning, when the Republican establishment suddenly woke up and realized Donald Trump was doing to their brand what his asshole son does to real elephants," Bee led off.Bee said Mitt Romney's G-rated roast ("Mitt-tervention") of Donald Trump in Utah last Thursday "served as a donation, in kind, to the Trump campaign.""With all due respect, sir," she cont
  
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• Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson insists “we are getting closer to the end, everything is definitely converging”

  08-03-2016 13:04 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson appeared on Fox News Monday evening to discuss what the Trump campaign would do if the Republican convention ended up being contested. Gretchen Carlson began by quoting from Donald Trump's Twitter account about his feelings on the GOP establishment's recent offensive against him:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/706827555622547456https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/706829345143316480https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/70688467626327
  
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• Hillary’s inevitability lie: Why the media and party elites are rushing to nominate the weakest candidate

  08-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  The nation may be divided but at least its pundits speak as one. They all say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are killing the competition. Pundits love to issue death certificates. On Super Tuesday they sounded like the coroner of Munchkin Land. (He’s not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead!)  They’re wrong. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and especially Bernie Sanders are all alive and kicking. It ain’t over yet; not by a long shot.If Clinton and Tru
  
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• The Democratic Party’s working-class calamity: How a generation of workers were abandoned to corporate interests

  08-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Every four years or so, a contested presidential primary in the Rust Belt forces America’s political elite to set aside their theories of how globalization benefits everyone, and make gestures toward creating middle-skill jobs for the working class. The difference this time around, as voters hit the polls in Michigan, is that at least one Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders, actually seems to believe his own rhetoric about the pitfalls of free trade and the need to revive domestic industr
  
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• David Letterman would finish off Donald Trump: Yes, we miss Jon Stewart, but no one deflated demagogues like Dave

  08-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Each day Donald Trump is running for president is another day we miss Jon Stewart.  Within some quarters of the left, we imagine that if only Jon Stewart were at the helm of his show, Trump would be a thing of the past.It’s a bit uncanny that the comedy landscape shifted at exactly the same time that our nation entered into one of the most ridiculous—and frightening—elections in recent history.   Stewart stepped down and was replaced by a grinning and ineffective
  
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• Ted Cruz puts the Republican establishment on notice: Warns of “manifest revolt” at the convention

  08-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz can see the writing on the wall. He knows the establishment hates him, perhaps as much as it hates Donald Trump, and he’s expecting some parliamentary tricks at the Republican convention this summer.Cruz is right to be concerned.As the Republican field continues to shrink, it’s getting harder to avoid the conclusion that either Trump or Cruz will be the nominee. As I reported earlier, this has put the party in the unenviable position of choosing between two deeply disliked a
  
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• What exactly is going on in Guantánamo? An expert explains the “indefinite detention and lawlessness”

  08-03-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Almost a decade ago, in June 2007, as he campaigned for president, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Texas crowd, "We're going to close Guantánamo. And we're going to restore habeas corpus."One week after winning the November 2008 election, President-elect Obama released his plan to close the prison. Two days after entering office, on Jan. 22, 2009, he issued an executive order calling for the prison Guantánamo to be closed.More than seven years after the president signed the executive
  
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• Bernie’s idealism is his greatest virtue: America needs dreamers — and now more than ever

  08-03-2016 09:45 via salon.com
  
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• Japan just eats better than us: What America can learn from its diet’s evolution

  08-03-2016 09:30 via salon.com
  
  An article in the most recent issue of Scientific American Mind explores the emerging field of nutritional psychology and finds there is increased recognition of the relationship between diet and brain health. Although no singular food may improve mood or sharpen the mind, research suggests that diets from the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, and Japan may play a role in preserving psychological and cognitive well-being. Experiencing the benefits of such diets may require a change in eatin
  
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• Evangelicals are hurting the GOP: The movement is now synonymous with bigotry and abject stupidity

  08-03-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  Back before 9/11 indelibly linked Islam with terrorism, back before the top association to “Catholic priest” was “pedophile,” most Americans—even nonreligious Americans—thought of religion as benign. I’m not religious myself, people would say, but what’s the harm if it gives someone else a little comfort or pleasure.Back then, people associated Christianity with kindness and said things like, “That’s not very Christian of him,” w
  
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• The KKK, a brokered convention and cybersecurity — sound familiar?: 5 ways the new “House of Cards” hits close to home

  08-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  This fourth season of “House of Cards,” which debuted in its entirety on Netflix this Friday, surprised me after two lukewarm seasons by being its best yet. What sets it ahead of the others is its exploration of Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) as a power broker in her own right—first positioning her against Frank (Kevin Spacey) before pivoting, midseason, to let the Underwoods take on the world. The table that “House of Cards” set in season 1 was a pathway to r
  
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• “Parading kids onstage … to be the butt of a racist joke”? This is Chris Rock’s idea of progress?

  08-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  It wasn't until Laura Kung attended the Oscars rehearsal that she realized what her family had signed up for. Her daughter, Estie, a badass in her own right, had been selected as one of three children who would share the stage with host Chris Rock. Laura had been told that they would be introduced as accountants from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the firm that tabulates the Oscars results. She assumed the bit would be complex, perhaps an artful takedown of the crude stereotype that Asians excel at mat
  
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• “It’s just a toilet!”: Students take the lead in promoting gender-neutral bathrooms to protect transgender students

  08-03-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Students at Sandee High School in Los Angeles are the latest to campaign for gender-neutral bathrooms as a way to protect transgender and other students who don’t feel safe or comfortable with the status quo. In a student-penned Op-Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times’ High School insider, user Brobinson1 wrote, “For many years on the campus of Santee, we have seen the need for gender-neutral restrooms. Many students on campus feel unsafe and unwanted in the gender specific restro
  
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• “My first novel was about celebrity semen trafficking, so I’m not claiming to be a pundit”: 4 authors open up about their new books and careers

  08-03-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  For February, I posed a series of questions — with, as always, a few verbal restrictions — to four authors with new books: Danielle Dutton (“Margaret the First”), Kaitlyn Greenidge (“We Love You, Charlie Freeman”), Jon Methven (“Strange Boat”), Karan Mahajan (“The Association of Small Bombs”).Without summarizing it in any way, what would you say your book is about?Daniel Dutton: It’s a little like "A Portrait of the Artist as
  
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• The “kiss of death”: One behavior, above all, can doom a relationship

  08-03-2016 00:57 via salon.com
  
  Being in a relationship is bound to make you feel many things, and not all of them good. But no matter how bad things get, experts advise against employing one particular behavior.John Gottman of the University of Washington says displays of contempt—like rolling your eyes at your partner or engaging in other sarcastic behaviors—can be toxic to relationships. Gottman, a renowned researcher on marital stability and divorce who is the founder of the Gottman Institute, refers to such be
  
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