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• A conservative love affair ends: Breitbart forced to get tough with Trump after campaign manager assaults female reporter

  10-03-2016 23:58 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is juggling two brewing controversies not directly involving him, but his campaign today. The campaign was forced to release a terse four word statement on the arrest of a North Carolina supporter caught assaulting a protestor at a Fayetteville rally last night: "We are not involved."The Trump campaign's official response to allegations that a reporter from the right-wing website Breitbart News was forcibly prevented from doing her job by a top campaign official earlier this we
  
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• I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too)

  10-03-2016 23:40 via salon.com
  
  I'm dying for an update from you on Donald Trump.  Last summer you called him "not a president" and a "carnival barker." Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they're kind of as liberal as they come, no?Why can't there be a party that is basically Republican, but minus the religion, minus the legislating of morality, and that cares about climate change/overpopulation? Could Trump be that guy?Christie Cooley RandolphSanta Rosa, CAWell,
  
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• The low art of Hillary bashing: The juvenile, pathetic memes courtesy of “top conservatives on Twitter”

  10-03-2016 23:00 via salon.com
  
  In the late-'70s, psychologist Walter Burke Barbe identified three learning modalities: visual, auditory, kinesthetic; referred to as VAK. It's a simple and oft-criticized classification system, but in some cases it's sufficient.Top conservatives on Twitter (henceforth referred here as TCOT), for instance, are a decidedly visual bunch. How do I know? I spent an amount of time I'd rather not disclose monitoring conservative Twitter's prolonged reaction to Wednesday night's Univision Dem
  
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• Here’s what you need to know about Hogan v. Gawker: From sex tapes & bogus “experts” to the future of online journalism

  10-03-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  The Florida trial happening this week pitting wrestler Hulk Hogan against the website Gawker may seem a bizarre venue for major questions of First Amendment rights and journalistic principles, but so be it. Journalism is a broad church, encompassing both the regal and the rancid, and sometimes you're going to find yourself having broad constitutional arguments over some very questionable material. Thursday's session featured one of the more laughably poor showings from a so-called "expert witnes
  
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• Ted Cruz calls out Trump’s “low information voters” : They don’t realize “he is what they are angry at”

  10-03-2016 21:05 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz, apparently unconcerned about salvaging his one-time bromance with Donald Trump, even for the sake of winning over his supporters, is pushing hard against the Republican frontrunner and the base of support that propelled him to the top of pack."He does well with a certain demographic of voter," Cruz told Christian Broadcast Network's David Brody in a new interview, explaining the Trump phenomenon. "Donald gave a press conference where he said, to quote him, ‘I love the poorly educ
  
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• The government’s iPhone-cracking crusade is getting even creepier

  10-03-2016 20:50 via salon.com
  
  Top DOJ officials continue to make questionable claims in their pursuit of forcing Apple to help them hack the phone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. This time, during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch made several dubious claims in an attempt to rebut Utah Senator Mike Lee's arguments that DOJ was overstepping the law. Even so, Lynch's truthful claims were even more worrisome than her less truthful ones.The spat came when Lee pointe
  
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  10-03-2016 20:26 via twitter.com
  
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• Trump leaves Stephen Colbert speechless: “It was like watching an infomercial”

  10-03-2016 20:15 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on Donald Trump's bizarre victory press conference in Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday. As Colbert noted, "Trump's victory speech had a little bit of product placement.""Trump gave his victory speech next to a pyramid of raw steak," Colbert said, referring to the Bush Brothers steak Trump tried to pass off as his defunct Trump Steaks. "He was either trying to prove Mitt wrong or introducing his new running mate, Trump/Pile of Meat 2016. Good
  
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• Stop slut-shaming Kim Kardashian: It’s a false sisterhood that insists success has to come at the cost of our sexual freedom

  10-03-2016 19:55 via salon.com
  
  You might think that the world has seen Kim Kardashian West naked already, on numerous occasions, so what’s one more? Well, we found out this week when on Monday, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star posted a photo of herself in the buff standing in front of a mirror, with black bars strategically covering her breasts and genitals, with the caption:https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/706754164047667200From there, Kim’s choice to share her nude selfie quickly be
  
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• Chuck Grassley wants it all: Greedy Senate GOPers are longing to block a SCOTUS nominee without paying any price for it

  10-03-2016 19:55 via salon.com
  
  The Senate Judiciary Committee met Thursday morning ostensibly to discuss various bills and nominations and other committee business, but the real purpose of the meeting was to allow committee members to bicker over the Supreme Court vacancy left by the recently departed Antonin Scalia. For the Republicans who control the committee, it was an opportunity to lay out a case justifying the GOP’s decision to adopt a posture of maximum obstruction – no votes, no hearings, and no meetings
  
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• Another Trump rally turns violent: Black protestor punched in the face while being kicked out of North Carolina rally by police

  10-03-2016 19:34 via salon.com
  
  It's happened again.Donald Trump's supporters turned violent against non-violent protestors again, this time at a North Carolina rally Wednesday evening where one Trump fan even punched a passing protestor square in the face as he attempted to leave.While the Republican presidential frontrunner and carnival barker has long drawn protestors and bellicose supporters alike to his campaign rallies with controversial rhetoric, in recent days peaceful protesters have been repeatedly met with more
  
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• Hillary takes the heat better than Bernie: Debate proves that hostile gotcha questions don’t rattle Clinton

  10-03-2016 19:30 via salon.com
  
  Perhaps it was just a matter of time that some of the ugliness, the exaggerations, and hyperbole that have characterized the social media debate over Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders would bubble up into the debates themselves. But things were not helped in Wednesday night's Washington Post/Univision debate, hosted by CNN. True, no one got into a shouting match of the sort that has characterized the GOP debates as of late — and thankfully, no one compared penis size, though that was
  
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• The Trump Rally Confrontations: A new YouTube genre that reveals the anxiety of the nation

  10-03-2016 19:24 via salon.com
  
  Cue one up on YouTube and the rest follow in quick succession. In some, you can see the man himself, addressing the camera through a CSPAN 2 feed. In others, it’s just his speechifying in the background, and the events unfold as his voice echoing through concrete halls and amplified through college-arena speakers. Some are made by the protestors; some are made by the rallying sympathizers. The videos are almost always the same, though. Young people of color linking hands or shouting into a
  
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• Juicing gets squeezed out: The latest health craze is here — and not a moment too soon

  10-03-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  Whatever happened to chewing? Whether it’s cold-pressed, blended or boiled, slurping your supper has taken the health food scene by storm in recent years.Instead of eating it whole, juicing raw fruits and vegetables into a single drink has been praised by proponents as a quick, low-calorie blast of nutrients or even a detox for the body if taken as a multi-day cleanse. Formerly the domain of trendy New York City juice bars, you’ll now find bottled greens at your grocery store or loc
  
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• Noam Chomsky: The world should be utterly terrified of a Trump presidency

  10-03-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
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• The Marco Rubio post-mortem: How a supposedly ready-made GOP nominee crashed and burned

  10-03-2016 01:57 via salon.com
  
  Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to praise Marco Rubio – dear God, never, ever that – but to bury him. And then to salt the earth in the hope that he will never come back.The Rubio campaign is on its last legs, stumbling dehydrated and desperate through the Florida Everglades like the heroine in the second act of a Carl Hiaasen novel, trying to stay one step ahead of the bloodhounds who want nothing more than to drag the Florida senator into the swamp and te
  
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• “I’m feeling my way through the dark”: Grant-Lee Phillips on writing songs as a reflection of life

  10-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Grant-Lee Phillips' songwriting has always been distinguished by two things: its immense curiosity, and an intense yearning for connection. The musician has often used a historical backdrop to try to make sense of the past, present and future, or crafted ornate travelogues where the endgame is trying to conquer—or at least illuminate—the restlessness inherent in those who are always searching for life's elusive answers. Wrestling with the romance of emotional and physical displacemen
  
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• The N-word, in terrible context: Period pieces “Hap and Leonard” and “Underground” expose the long roots of racism

  10-03-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  It is—or it should be—extremely startling to hear a white person use the N-word in 2016. Weirdly, this month on television, there are a lot of opportunities to hear just that. Last night, for example, on “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” F. Lee Bailey (Nathan Lane) asked Mark Fuhrman (Steven Pasquale) if he’s ever used the slur, and in asking says the word, dispassionately, six separate times.But, of course, that scene comes from the real-life inci
  
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• 5 things you should know about methamphetamines — the “all-American” drug

  10-03-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Methamphetamine is a much-maligned drug. Even lots of people sympathetic to drug use or drug law reform scorn it."I'm for legalizing weed, but meth? Never!" is a commonly heard refrain.There are good reasons for the disdain. Meth can create psychological dependence; people can behave bizarrely and unpredictably under its influence; and it can have deleterious health consequences ranging from dental problems to heart attacks and strokes to paranoia, anxiety and insomnia.Yet people
  
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• It should be over for Hillary: Party elites and MSNBC can’t prop her up after Bernie’s Michigan miracle

  10-03-2016 00:03 via salon.com
  
  You wouldn’t know it from watching TV last night or reading the national papers this morning but Bernie Sanders’ Michigan win ranks among the greatest upsets in presidential primary history.Should he win the nomination it will be go down as the biggest upset of any kind in American political history.If he wins the election it will change the fundamental direction of the nation and the world.Some key lessons, obvious to everyone but the media:1. The old politics is over. The fault lin
  
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