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• Florida’s war on women: State passes massive anti-choice bill to shut down access to abortion and contraception

  09-03-2016 21:29 via salon.com
  
  Even though a law almost exactly like it is still being reviewed in the Supreme Court, the state of Florida just passed a massive anti-choice bill that, under the guise of supporting women's health, is aimed at cutting off as many women as possible from abortion, contraception, and STI prevention and treatment services. Most of the bill is modeled after the one in Texas, the one the court is currently reviewing, which uses medically unnecessary red tape to regulate abortion clinics out of e
  
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• Steak-gate! Donald Trump called out for pretending Bush Brothers sirloins are his failed Trump Steaks

  09-03-2016 21:21 via salon.com
  
  Whether you like Donald Trump or not, you have to appreciate that he doesn't operate within the boundaries of established political discourse, but rather tests the limits of what he can get away with (so far, everything) and still continue to dominate GOP primaries. It's perversely hilarious.Take Tuesday night's victory presser in Pensacola, Florida. Every other candidate would have done it differently, and for good reason.Trump thrashed "little Marco" Rubio, "lyin' Ted" Cruz, and "failed c
  
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• GOP’s SCOTUS scare tactics: Senate Republicans vow to destroy any Obama nominee like a “piñata”

  09-03-2016 21:17 via salon.com
  
  Senate Republicans are already having a banner week for proud obstructionism. As voter prepared to eventually vote for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the Michigan primary earlier this week, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee boldly defended his personal crusade to block federal relief funds for the residents of Flint, citing tired Republican dogma that federal intervention can only cause more harm.“If we create a precedent that suggests any time there’s a significant problem w
  
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• The Washington Post runs 16 positive Bernie stories after being called out for slamming the senator 16 times in 16 hours

  09-03-2016 21:15 via salon.com
  
  The Washington Post came down hard on Bernie with 16 hard hitting stories in 16 hours, first reported by FAIR.org. Given that only a mere 40% of the public reads past the headlines the media burial of Sanders could be bad news for the Bern. The Post questioned its own analysis and then claimed to write 16 positive stories about the Vermont senator — they hashtagged the story #bias.
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• Stop trying to bury Bernie Sanders: Why the media’s blinkered primary coverage is bad for America

  09-03-2016 21:15 via salon.com
  
  At first, Bernie Sanders was a marginal oddity. Then, briefly after Iowa and New Hampshire, a serious challenge. (But maybe, some internet pundits insisted, one running on the fumes of voter sexism.) After blowout losses in the South, however, he became a “message candidate” headed for extinction. Gaming out the delegate math that quants have rendered the sine qua non of political reporting, reporters declared that Sanders was dead in the water. The discussion turned to whe
  
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• Is an anti-vax couple accountable for their son’s death?

  09-03-2016 21:08 via salon.com
  
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• Hillary really could lose to Trump: Her weakness with the working class is Trump’s strength

  09-03-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders’ win in Michigan on Tuesday night was truly startling. Behind by an average of 20 points in nearly every pre-election poll, the Vermont senator rallied a diverse cross-section of voters on his way to a narrow – but revealing – victory.The votes are still being counted, but it appears Sanders will gain 3 to 5 more delegates in Michigan than Clinton. Given the expectations, this is quite the achievement for Sanders. The results in Mississippi were far less surprisi
  
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• Facebook gun rights activist shot and wounded by 4-year-old son who “gets jacked up” to target shoot

  09-03-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  
  An outspoken gun activist is expected to survive after being shot through the abdomen by her 4-year-old son while driving on a Florida highway Tuesday afternoon.Jamie Gilt, 31, of Jacksonville, Florida, was spotted by police "behaving frantically" in a pulled over four-door pickup truck, according to media reports. When an officer asked her what happened, Gilt said her son had accidentally shot her through the torso from the backseat.Investigators say there was a booster seat in t
  
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• Placing blame where it belongs: Why you can’t just point to the GOP establishment for the rise of Donald Trump

  09-03-2016 20:12 via salon.com
  
  Now that Donald Trump has once again responded to doubts about his campaign by decisively winning three more states — and maybe ending “Little Marco” Rubio’s career — conservative pundits and intellectuals are just about ready to face the music.Their “deep bench” of candidates has been depleted. And unless Gov. John Kasich manages to transform himself into the greatest retail politician in living history, it’s increasingly likely that the GOP elite
  
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• Jon Voight make push for “funny, playful” Donald Trump: Assures nation that the billionaire “is an answer to our problems”

  09-03-2016 19:56 via salon.com
  
  Award-winning actor and outspoken right-winger Jon Voight has gotten behind Republican front-runner Donald Trump.In an interview, "The Midnight Cowboy" actor said “I, Jon Voight, can say, without hesitation, that Donald is funny, playful, and colorful, but most of all, he is honest. When he decided to run for president, I know he did it with a true conviction to bring this country back to prosperity. He is the only one who can do it. No frills, no fuss, only candid truths.”
  
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• The pundits were way off on Trump: Watch them falsely predict his demise again and again and again

  09-03-2016 19:45 via salon.com
  
  Pundits were wrong on Donald Trump's rise to the top. Watch our video for all of their false predictions.Music: Ruckus 3 by Dave Depper via Free Music ArchivePundits were wrong on Donald Trump's rise to the top. Watch our video for all of their false predictions.Music: Ruckus 3 by Dave Depper via Free Music ArchiveContinue Reading...
  
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• These are the despicable Missouri Republicans behind the hate-filled anti-gay bill that sparked a 40-hour filibuster by Democrats

  09-03-2016 19:42 via salon.com
  
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• Bernie Sanders forced to sue Ohio after rule change bars 17-year-olds from voting in primary

  09-03-2016 19:10 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders sued Ohio’s top elections official in federal court on Tuesday over a little-known rule change that bans 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election in November to vote in the state's primary next week.In December, Secretary of State Jon A. Husted, issued a directive without much fanfare explaining that although 17-year-old voters are allowed to nominate candidates for office — meaning they can vote in other primary races for the U.S. Senate race or O
  
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• The media’s hysterical Trump blame game: Why blaming Al Franken isn’t just wrong — it’s insulting

  09-03-2016 18:46 via salon.com
  
  The efforts of conservatives to blame anyone but themselves for Donald Trump’s success in the Republican primary long ago ceased having any connection to objective reality. Which is why it has been so much fun for liberals to watch as right-wing columnists fall all over themselves writing ever-more convoluted excuses for why everything is the fault of liberals/Democrats/President Obama/Mercury being in retrograde, or whatever else comes to mind.The latest entry in the genre is this…
  
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• Sanders’ Michigan win may have been stunning but his press conference was just sad — especially compared to the Clinton rally happening at the same time

  09-03-2016 18:36 via salon.com
  
  On March 8, 2016 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders won the Michigan primary with 49.8 percent of the vote. The win was stunning but the press conference he gave to reporters beforehand was just depressing. Sanders was standing next to a wall with campaign posters hung haphazardly behind him, the sound from his mic cracked and there wasn't a soul in sight.Hillary on the other hand was in a brightly lit rally, full of people, crystal clear sound and raucous cheers following each of her statement
  
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• Not even Fox News wants to delve too deeply “inside the mind of a Trump voter,” just blames Obama for Trump’s ascendance instead

  09-03-2016 15:16 via salon.com
  
  On Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade promised viewers they would delve "inside the mind of a Trump voter," but when he introduced our tour guide into this errant abyss -- Medical A Team correspondent Keith Ablow -- all anyone want to talk about was our current president, Barack Obama.The Trump phenomenon is Obama's fault, Ablow contended, because "there's pent-up frustration about him" and his supposed hatred of America, "so people are ready to say, 'America! [Trump]'s
  
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• Ex-Marine who shot Ted Cruz supporting Idaho pastor arrested at White House

  09-03-2016 15:12 via salon.com
  
  An ex-Marine who had two days earlier shot an Idaho pastor in his church parking lot was arrested Tuesday night at the White House fence.CNN reports that 30-year-old Kyle Andrew Odom was taken into custody by the Secret Service after attempting to throw several items onto White House property.This all began on Sunday afternoon when authorities say Odom shot Coeur d’Alene Pastor Tim Remington six times in the parking lot of The Altar Church after sitting through church services wi
  
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• All penis cracks aside, Trump would still consider Marco “Don Rickles” Rubio as a VP candidate

  09-03-2016 14:51 via salon.com
  
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• Trump taunts NBC reporter who asked about using profanity in speeches when children are present: “Aren’t you just a perfect young man?”

  09-03-2016 14:25 via salon.com
  
  Beef-witted GOP front-runner Donald Trump berated a reporter during his victory announcement Tuesday night for daring to question his use of foul language on the campaign trail.Trump was in the process of discussing an advertisement by conservative American Future Fund Political Action that attacked Trump for his frequent use of profanity at campaign events. "I'll be honest with you, I saw it. I was a little concerned with that ad until I saw it. I think it's better than any ad I've ever taken f
  
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• Al Franken did not cause Donald Trump: Yet another lousy explanation for why the GOP is self-destructing

  09-03-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  The Republican Party is falling apart, its many internal fissures being ripped wide by Donald Trump’s blend of gross nativism and authoritarian posturing. A number of conservatives and center-right columnists are busily trying to figure out why this is happening to their beloved party, and so far they’ve come up with one highly satisfying explanation: It’s all Barack Obama’s fault. The latest addition to this hot-take menagerie comes courtesy of National Journal’s J
  
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• “One of the most barbaric and inhumane aspects of our society”: Shaka Senghor on the horror of solitary confinement

  09-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Twenty-five years ago, Shaka Senghor was one of the thousands and thousands of young African-American men who were on their way to a life behind bars. He'd grown up in a middle-class environment, but a combination of forces — both personal, like his parents' divorce, and political, like the crack epidemic — and his own bad decisions had set him on a different path. Ultimately, it was a path that led to solitary.A lot has happened since 1991. Today's America i
  
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• “I was so angry that it was making me shake”: Sarah Paulson on playing Marcia Clark in a harrowing episode of “The People v. O.J. Simpson”

  09-03-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  Tuesday night's episode of "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" left me absolutely furious when I first watched it. It's a brilliantly done episode—a portrait of prosecutor Marcia Clark, called, fittingly, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia." The title's playfulness, and its reference to another television show, is characteristic of "The People v. O.J. Simpson's" tongue-in-cheek nostalgia, its joy in being both referential and knowing while trying to lay bare the truth of this epis
  
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• Ted Cruz likens Trump to a would-be “king” or “emperor”: In America, politicians take oaths to serve the people, not the other way around

  09-03-2016 13:46 via salon.com
  
  In what appears to be a doomed attempt to jump-start his flagging presidential campaign, Texas Senator Ted Cruz spent Tuesday attacking GOP front-runner and bolting-hutch of beastliness Donald Trump for behaving more like a "king" or an "emperor" than a presidential candidate.A reporter, he recalled, asked him "what I thought about Donald Trump at rallies, asking everyone to stand up and raise their hand to pledge support." Cruz replied "there's something that strikes me profoundly wrong, this i
  
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• Now Mitt Romney is attacking Bernie Sanders

  09-03-2016 13:45 via salon.com
  
  Following a whirlwind couple of weeks in Donald Trump's crosshairs, "failed candidate" Mitt Romney guested on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show" to further spread his anti-Trump message.Asked his thoughts on the tightening delegate battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, Romney called Sanders "an authentic guy, an honest guy," but "incredibly misguided.""What Bernie Sanders knows is simply wrong," Romney continued. "He's not gonna help people come out of poverty, he's
  
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• “Daily Show” finds marginalized white kids: These young people have never known a white president

  09-03-2016 13:30 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper sat down with white kids, who've been marginalized their entire lives in never knowing a sitting white president."What does it do to a young white child's dreams to have never seen themselves reflected in the nation's highest office?" Klepper asked, before instructing the kids to sketch a prototypical president with whatever color crayon they saw fit. Many of the kids, as expected, used various shades of brown (with one surrealist outlier using gree
  
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• “Trump’s teensy little doll hands”: Stephen Colbert ushers Ben Carson out with a shot at Donald Trump

  09-03-2016 13:25 via salon.com
  
  In another edition of his popular "Hungry for Power Games" segment, "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert paid tribute to the most recently fallen: Ben Carson."So few remain," Colbert said of the remaining primary field. "You can barely count them on one of Trump's teensy little doll hands.""Retired neurosurgeon and Ambien-American Ben Carson announced that he was leaving the race," he continued. "He failed to win a single state on Super Tuesday -- or on Average Wednesday."Despite a compelling o
  
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• Keith Olbermann: Trump is “worse even than the Worst Persons,” appeals to the GOP base’s “authoritarian inclinations”

  09-03-2016 13:19 via salon.com
  
  Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann fired off an editorial in the Washington Post decrying the degree to which his landlord, Donald Trump, has "degraded the public discourse and the nation itself.""I’m fully aware," he continued, "that I’m blaming a guy with the historically unique fashion combination of a cheap baseball cap and Oompa Loompa makeup for coarsening politics even though, out of the two of us, I’m the one who has promulgated a 'Worst Persons in the World' list for mo
  
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• Larry Wilmore explains why candidates suspend, rather than end, campaigns

  09-03-2016 12:54 via salon.com
  
  In memory of Ben Carson, and to help audiences better understand the various reasons why candidates suspend (not end) their campaigns, "Nightly Show" host Larry Wilmore got some help from rapper 2 Chainz in a segment called "2 Chainz Explainz.""Suspending your campaign is all about the money," 2 Chainz told Wilmore. "If you suspend your campaign instead of quit, you can still make money from suckers who don't know you dropped out of the game.'"Then the federal government will give you matching d
  
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• There will be bedlam: The global energy crisis is only just beginning

  09-03-2016 12:23 via salon.com
  
  Three and a half years ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) triggered headlines around the world by predicting that the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020 and, together with Canada, would become a net exporter of oil around 2030. Overnight, a new strain of American energy triumphalism appeared and experts began speaking of “Saudi America,” a reinvigorated U.S.A. animated by copious streams of oil and natural gas, m
  
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• The victory speech from hell: Trump’s surreal hour-long address was everything wrong about 2016

  09-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump took the stage at his golf course in Florida just after 9 p.m. on Tuesday night. He was there to give a triumphant press conference after winning primaries in Michigan and Mississippi. What he gave instead was a totally deranged, nearly hour-long coke binge of a "speech" in which he spent more time hawking his water and his wine—appropriate for someone who probably thinks of himself as a messiah by now—than talking about anything actually happening in the Republican
  
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• The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism

  09-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  The 2016 Republican presidential primary campaign is like an Adam Sandler movie.The characters include a somnolent black brain surgeon, a robot who thinks he is a man, a Christian fundamentalist, and a reality TV show host billionaire who acts like a professional wrestler.The jokes and humor in this movie are scatological (Rubio’s comments about Trump urinating on himself during one of the debates), infantile and base (Trump suggesting that Megyn Kelly was menstruating). This movie also fe
  
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• Trump vs. Cruz, pick your poison! This why the GOP’s screwed

  09-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  The smashing success of Donald Trump’s reality TV show/presidential campaign has obscured something that is in its own way every bit as astounding as Trump’s rise: it’s now obvious that the only alternative to Trump is Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.To appreciate how extraordinary and disturbing this situation really is, we must take a historical trip back to a simpler, more innocent time, aka last year. Back then, Nate Silver’s justly respected website FiveThirtyEight.com w
  
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• Help us, Jon Stewart: You’re our only hope to defeat Donald Trump

  09-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, but Jon Stewart isn’t around to crack wise, then is it still insane? While pondering that Zen koan, consider this as well: The world was squeaking along with its garden variety absurdity, but it wasn’t until Stewart’s retirement on the eve of the first Republican debate that it went full Charlie Sheen.After 17 years opining on the lunacy of the body politic and the inanities of the media, his sudden absence may have created a vacu
  
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• Donald Trump may be an actual fascist. Ted Cruz is still more dangerous

  09-03-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  As the 2016 primary season continues, the notion that Ted Cruz might be the Republican Party’s last best chance to save itself from Donald Trump’s takeover is a spectacle all by itself. Cruz, the most mistrusted and reviled Republican senator, a serial liar who led the 2013 government shutdown and called Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a fraud on the Senate floor, is now the party’s great savior?It may be that Republicans would prefer the right-wing devil they know rather than
  
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• They’re giving him free advertising: Les Moonves, Jeff Zucker and the media’s dangerous obsession with Donald Trump

  09-03-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
  Right after the Feb. 25 Republican debate, front-runner Donald Trump was interviewed at length on the debate stage by CNN's Chris Cuomo. The move seemed a bit odd, since during the debate Trump dominated the speaking time compared to the other candidates. And now he was given even more time, immediately after the showdown, to address the CNN audience. (Sen. Ted Cruz was later interviewed, but Trump's immediate interview seemed like an attachment to the actual debate.)But it didn't end there
  
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• Bosch Season 2 Available This Friday

  09-03-2016 06:01 via salon.com
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• “I was melting from the inside”: My struggle with postpartum anxiety

  09-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  When my daughter, Clara, was 4 months old, I became mentally ill. The psychiatrist I’d called—following two fully sleepless nights, escalating panic attacks, lack of appetite, and the fear that I would never recover from the birth of my child—said I was experiencing a “moderate to severe episode of postpartum anxiety.” It didn’t matter that I had work (teaching and writing) I loved, or Danny, my kind and brilliant husband, or my perfect baby girl. Even wi
  
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• Hillary’s predicament and the history of capitalism: Former Monty Python member explains it all

  09-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Here’s the only problem with “Boom Bust Boom,” a whimsical edutainment documentary from former Monty Python member Terry Jones that seeks to upend the conventional wisdom about capitalism and mainstream economics: It couldn’t see the future. Jones and his co-writer, Dutch economist and entrepreneur Theo Kocken, obviously conceived this project some years ago, because movies take time. They couldn’t possibly have seen the improbable rise of Bernie Sanders coming, let
  
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• “Donald Trump is a 70-year-old f**kboy”: How our masculinity crisis helped Trump rise to political power

  09-03-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  It’s no secret these days that men are in crisis. Hanna Rosin’s “The End of Men” got at the problem quite eloquently. A new book, Jack Myers’ “The Future of Men: Masculinity in the 21st Century,” uses analysis and interviews (many of them with women) to try to plot a path forward. Documentarian Morgan Spurlock calls it “an incredibly important and timely book. A game shifting story.”Jack Myers is the founder of MediaVillage.com and
  
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• “It’s Always Sunny” gang goes to hell: The long-running “Seinfeld” heir skewers rape culture, homophobia and religious hypocrisy in two-part finale

  09-03-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  If we live in the golden age of television, the FXX comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is one of the underappreciated gems. Often billed as “Seinfeld on crack,” the show has a distinct comic sensibility of its own, cynically reveling in the monstrosities of its five main characters, who have been described in-series as “the most horrible people alive.” Although it’s one of the longest running live-action comedies in history (its f
  
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• Ladies, don’t smoke, drink or have bad thoughts while pregnant. But for men, anything goes?

  09-03-2016 00:57 via salon.com
  
  The burdens of modern parenting fall disproportionately on the shoulders of mothers. Studies find that among couples who work full-time, household chores are evenly divided, until they have a kid, when working moms end up doing more of the childcare and housework. New mothers, in significant numbers, report feeling depressed—in some cases, to the point of suicidal ideation—under the weight of unrealistic expectations of perfection. A 2011 Slate article cites
  
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