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• “The Bachelor” is still for white people: A sour fairy tale, fed to millions, that keeps prizing whiteness above all

  15-03-2016 23:59 via salon.com
  
  Buried in the manufactured drama around last night’s finale of “The Bachelor”—in which Bachelor Ben Higgins ended up proposing to Lauren Bushnell, after an agonizing period in Jamaica where he claimed to be in love with two different women—was a far more significant and broad-reaching story: that of which Americans are allowed to become America’s sweethearts. It’s both a superficial question and a profound one. After all, we are talking about ABC’s
  
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• An 8-year-old takes down the NSA in the creepily on-message thriller “Midnight Special”

  15-03-2016 23:58 via salon.com
  
  I honestly don’t know whether it’s healthy to see a movie and have the immediate reaction that it would make a terrific cable TV series. Such was my response to “Midnight Special,” the engrossing new supernatural thriller from writer-director Jeff Nichols that plunges us into the middle of a world both familiar and strange. If the relationship between movies and television has long been contested it is especially confusing right now, and the boundary has become increasing
  
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• What ever happened to the mighty Atlantic salmon?

  15-03-2016 23:57 via salon.com
  
  Atlantic salmon, the native salmon that used to inhabit the northern Atlantic Ocean, rivers and seas, is a species now represented by an impostor: farmed salmon. Also known as cultured salmon, farmed salmon comes from hatchery genetic stock and unlike its native ancestors, lacks wild genetic variation. The wild fish our ancestors ate is gone. What appears on our dinner plates is a substitute copy, a genetic dilution of a once mighty fish, the adaptive king of the sea, and a significant food for
  
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• Working for Donald Trump sounds awful: His butler hires a bugler to play “Hail to the Chief” when he’s in a bad mood

  15-03-2016 22:20 via salon.com
  
  Like a last-second eBay sniper, Trump snagged Mar-a-Lago in 1985 from the estate of cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who had initially bequeathed the 185-room Palm Beach mansion to the government. (After it couldn’t afford the maintenance bills, the government gave the place back.)Trump paid less than $10 million for the property, which cost $8 million (roughly $49.5 million in 1985 dollars) to build in 1927. (He’s spent $17.8 million on his 2016 primary campaign thus
  
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• Here lies the secret to Trump’s rise: Political science can explain the appeal of Donald Trump’s bullshit

  15-03-2016 22:10 via salon.com
  
  “Maybe I’m truthful to a fault” – Donald TrumpOne of the words you hear most often from supporters of Donald Trump is “authentic.” Authenticity implies honesty, or at the very least an absence of bullshit. The good folks at Politico have taken the time to carefully fact-check Mr. Trump, however, and the results are what you’d expect: he's not only dishonest; he’s breathtakingly full of shit.Politico analyzed nearly five hours of Trump&rsq
  
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• Britney Spears Has Story Time with Niece Lexie - Watch Now!

  15-03-2016 21:30
  
  Britney Spears rocks some loose braids as she walks through LAX Airport on her way out of town on Monday evening (March 14) in Los Angeles. The 34-year-old entertainer posted a cute video that same day of her having story time with her niece Lexie. “Once upon a time, I was reading Lexie a pretty [...]
  
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• David Copperfield should rejoice! Feeling the magic, Congress introduces bill recognizing the practice as “national treasure”

  15-03-2016 21:08 via salon.com
  
  Rep. Pete Sessions must be feeling extra whimsical this spring as he put through a resolution on Monday calling for magic to be recognized as a national treasure.The resolution is aimed at recognizing "magic as a rare and valuable art form and support efforts to make certain that magic is preserved, understood, and promulgated."The resolution also gives a shout out to several icons of the form, including Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci and David Copperfield, who "through his magic, ins
  
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• Mother Teresa’s fast track to sainthood: How and why the polarizing missionary is being canonized now

  15-03-2016 20:22 via salon.com
  
  Very few people have the honor of getting promoted long after they're dead, but if that's the kind of ambition you possess, may I recommend first being Catholic?In the least surprising announcement since Ben and Jen's divorce, the Vatican confirmed Tuesday that it will canonize Mother Teresa in September, nineteen years to the day after her death. That's SAINT Teresa to you now! Because the Calcutta missionary and nun was alive within the memory of many of us — as a public figure, as
  
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• Turkey redefines journalists as terrorists, while U.S. claims the ally fights terrorism — which it actually supports

  15-03-2016 19:45 via salon.com
  
  NATO ally Turkey has violently clamped down on its citizens' basic democratic rights of late. The right-wing government has seized newspapers critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, including the major daily Zaman, and forced them to publish pro-regime propaganda.After a March 13 bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara killed 37 people, Erdoğan has taken the repression even further, calling for a new definition of terrorism — one that could effectively criminalize dissent.The T
  
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• Donald Trump is playing them, too: Even Samantha Bee and John Oliver are complicit in giving Trump exactly what he wants — free airtime

  15-03-2016 18:14 via salon.com
  
  It looked like it would be hard to beat John Oliver’s riff on iPhone encryption for sheer comic force, but Samantha Bee may’ve topped him with Monday night’s meeting with Donald Trump supporters. It was both a sign of the genius of her show, “Full Frontal,” and a bit that brought up a disturbing, or at least confusing, issue.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWlUgI4cB4MBee’s segment was an attempt to get beyond the stereotype of the rowdy, violent Trump fan. Ins
  
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• “My company knew the truth, and they’re siding with Donald Trump”: Ex-Breitbart staffers spill the beans to Megyn Kelly

  15-03-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  
  Fox News' Megyn Kelly hosted two Breitbart staffers who recently resigned from the right-wing media outlet over its cozy relationship with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.Michelle Fields and Ben Shapiro appeared on Monday night's "Kelly File" to explain their decisions to split with the website. Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's manhandling of Fields during a recent Trump press conference and her employer's lacking response has caused a sort of implosion at the ultra-co
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner — who once called Clinton “a f**king liar” — has change of heart

  15-03-2016 17:35 via salon.com
  
  Caitlyn Jenner has apparently flip-flopped on Hillary Clinton, posting a picture with Clinton on her Instagram just days after ripping her on an episode of “I am Cait.”The transgender icon previously called Clinton “a fucking liar” who “couldn’t care less about women.”The Instagram photo, posted Monday, was captioned with two hashtags, “Learning from my girls” and “willing to listen.” Jenner was seen posing with two other tra
  
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• Democratic primary drama: Bernie Sanders looks to defy the reality of delegate math

  15-03-2016 17:25 via salon.com
  
  Today’s Democratic presidential primaries can probably best be described as a case of narrative vs. results. Democrats will be voting in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, and Missouri today, and if you’re interested in the dramatic portion of the festivities, keep your eyes trained on the Midwestern states. If delegate counts are more your thing, look southward.As it stands right now, there’s a not insignificant chance that Bernie Sanders could win more states than Hilla
  
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• Can Hillary stay in the race? If she loses Ohio and Missouri, Clinton’s case becomes very, very tenuous

  15-03-2016 17:25 via salon.com
  
  Attention all political pundits. Today affords you a shot at redemption: a chance to turn over a new leaf and even do some real reporting. For months you treated the Democratic race as a foregone conclusion.  For weeks you said nearly the same of the Republican race. You were wrong not just in your prophecies but in doing what you do. When you tell any candidate you know he can’t win because you’ve "done the math," you tell every voter her vote doesn’t count. As both parti
  
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• Watch Abbi and Ilana’s Hillary freak-out: The “Broad City” characters lose it over Clinton in this preview clip

  15-03-2016 17:13 via salon.com
  
  Comedy Central today released a preview for "Broad City" season 3, featuring a cameo from Hillary Clinton — the premise being that Ilana (Glazer) spends a day phone-banking for Clinton at her Brooklyn-based campaign headquarters. Ilana gives Abbi a "tour" of the office and they freak out when HRC herself walks in:After months of teasing, the episode will air Wednesday at 10 p.m.https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/675382057388916736?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe show's co-stars and -creators
  
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• Xena comes out, finally: The rebooted “Warrior Princess” won’t just wink at her romantic relationship

  15-03-2016 16:36 via salon.com
  
  For almost anyone who watched the iconic "Xena: Warrior Princess" during its late Nineties-era run, the idea that Xena and her young comrade Gabrielle were more than buddies registers mostly as a big fat "no kidding." But while the original series got by for years on its sly — and much-loved — subtext, a new reboot leaves no room for doubt. We had to go two decades into the future from where we started, but we've finally got a mythological ancient world with gay people.Last year 
  
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• ICYMI: Watch every wonderful moment of the “Hamilton” cast at the White House

  15-03-2016 16:21 via salon.com
  
  The cast of 'Hamilton' spent some time at the White House yesterday. Watch our video for every musical moment.Continue Reading...
  
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• The GOP’s fatal Trump blunder: Myopic Republicans thought they could contain him, but they instead created the path for his rise

  15-03-2016 15:13 via salon.com
  
  All megalomaniacs have in common a desire to be seen. A raging ego is weak in that way – it needs to be recognized, celebrated. Donald Trump is the Platonic ideal of a megalomaniac, and so it comes as no surprise that his presidential aspirations became deadly serious the moment he was humiliated in public.As it turns out, the country has President Obama to thank (kind of) for the orange-tinted spectacle that is the Donald Trump campaign. According a New York Times report, it was at t
  
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• Jay Z is anti-Trump: John Oliver tells Stephen Colbert how Hova wants to “Make Donald Drumpf Again”

  15-03-2016 14:56 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert last night welcomed fellow "Daily Show" alum John Oliver to talk about Oliver's increasing interest in Donald Trump's campaign. Oliver was on the show in October to clarify that he "couldn't give less of a shit" about Trump (to which the latter responded via subtweet)."I didn't care, I didn't think I'd have to care. And then it turned out I did," Oliver said. "None of us thought we were gonna be here. But here we are."On a recent episode of his weekly H
  
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• Watch: Donald Trump mercilessly humiliates Chris Christie to his face for a cheap applause line

  15-03-2016 14:44 via salon.com
  
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• Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson stuns CNN’s Jake Tapper by vigorously defending ignorance of American culture

  15-03-2016 14:26 via salon.com
  
  On CNN Monday, Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson defended her employer's tendency to incite his followers to violence by claiming that no one attacked Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton when they quoted a famous line from the sixth highest grossing film of 1987.According to Pierson -- whose theory of what constitutes "violent rhetoric" is both manifestly and ludicrously incorrect -- Trump talking about people leaving his campaign events on stretchers is the equivalent of Obama or Clinton quo
  
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• Charles Krauthammer ridicules Bill O’Reilly for using “weaselly words” to defend Trump’s violent rhetoric

  15-03-2016 13:32 via salon.com
  
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• “That way he could go f*ck himself”: Trevor Noah unloads on Donald Trump’s dangers in his best bit yet

  15-03-2016 13:05 via salon.com
  
  It seems this weekend was pivotal for rookie "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah, who, in response to heightening tensions between protesters and supporters at Trump rallies, finally snapped out of his pseudo-critical funk and started really aiming for the GOP front-runner's jugular."This weekend, I feel like we got a glimpse of what America might be like under a Trump presidency," Noah said, referring to last Friday's cancelled Trump rally in Chicago that broke out in violence between his suppor
  
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• “You’re kind of a trickle-down media whore”: Samantha Bee tries, fails to reason with actual Donald Trump supporters

  15-03-2016 13:03 via salon.com
  
  "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee last night devoted an entire segment to Trump supporters, or, as she collectively referred to them, "this weekend's tasting menu of 'roid rage."Bee sat down with a polished group of multiethnic, millennial Trump supporters who seemed, on paper, to defy every white male stereotype of the GOP front-runner's fanbase. ("No one was even escorting the gay black guy out.")She did, however, manage to incite some backlash when she mentioned Trump's pro
  
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• “Tyranny will fall”: Son of executed Saudi dissident al-Nimr shares his incredible story

  15-03-2016 13:02 via salon.com
  
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• The Donald Trump nightmare is here for good: Win or lose, he’s warped American democracy for years to come

  15-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  So here we are on Semi-Super Tuesday. The GOP nomination looks to be coming closer to my personal prediction of a Trump/Cruz race, but there is still plenty of room for the Romney Gambit to succeed.(For those not following it all that closely, the Romney Gambit was supposed to be Senator Marco Rubio winning the big home state of Florida, Governor John Kasich winning his big home state of Ohio and the combination hopefully denying Trump enough delegates to win on the first  ballot at th
  
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• Is Ted Cruz better than Donald Trump? Yes, but only in the most literal sense — he’d also do incredible damage to the nation

  15-03-2016 12:59 via salon.com
  
  So after months of engaging in slightly obtuse and overly policy-focused contrarianism, Vox’s Matt Yglesias has changed his mind and come to a decision.He no longer believes that Donald Trump would be the least-bad president among the Republican candidates with a realistic chance of winning. Like an increasing number of elites, Yglesias now regards the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency as “terrifying” — too much so to be glib about.The reason for this sudden epiphany?
  
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• Let’s dispense with political correctness and talk straight: Donald Trump is a racist

  15-03-2016 12:57 via salon.com
  
  Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate was a case of political correctness run amok. Asked point blank whether Donald Trump is a racist, Hillary Clinton refused to employ the term. She was happy to list his offenses – “calling Mexicans rapists,” “trafficking in prejudice and paranoia” – and even noted that he “couldn't decide whether to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke.” Yet none of this was enough to earn the label. “I'm not goin
  
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• Bill O’Reilly defends violence at Trump rally: Those far-left agitators aren’t “victims,” they were asking for it

  15-03-2016 12:45 via salon.com
  
  On "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday evening, host Bill O'Reilly defended both Donald Trump and his supporters, claiming that the potential for violence at Trump events is entirely the fault of left-wing operators like the faculty at the University of Illinois and MoveOn.org.
  "Throughout the week, far-left people ramped up a campaign to deny Donald Trump the forum" at the University of Illinois, so it was "no surprise on Friday that disruptive protesters entered the pavilion to shut Trump down, and c
  
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• “In America violence is not part of what politics is supposed to be about”: Democrats and Republicans strongly agree on one thing

  15-03-2016 12:15 via salon.com
  
  Watch all of the presidential candidates speak out about the violence at Trump rallies. Continue Reading...
  
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• Watch Bernie Sanders admit why he is running for president as a Democrat

  15-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  During Monday night's town hall hosted by MSNBC's Chuck Todd, Bernie Sanders was asked by a voter why he chose to run as a Democrat, despite being the longest serving Independent in United States history.
  Sanders' answer was quite simple. "Chuck would not have me on his program if I did that," he said.Take a look. During Monday night's town hall hosted by MSNBC's Chuck Todd, Bernie Sanders was asked by a voter why he chose to run as a Democrat, despite being the longest serving Independent in Un
  
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• This KKK Grand Dragon reportedly just endorsed Hillary Clinton because she has a “hidden agenda”

  15-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Will Quigg, grand dragon of the KKK's California chapter, just retracted his support for Donald Trump in favor of a more surprising candidate... Hillary Clinton, reports the Telegraph."We want Hillary Clinton to win," said Quigg, citing the fact that she has a "hidden agenda" and will show "her true colors" once she is president.
  But when asked how he knows of Clinton's "hidden agenda," Quigg claimed that he could not reveal his sources.
  He went on to say that Clinton supports border policies an
  
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• Sorry, Hillary, but we’re done: Keep repeating racist myths and praising Kissinger and the Reagans. I’m switching to Bernie Sanders

  15-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  I’m sorry Hillary, but I just can’t do this anymore.If the 2016 presidential campaign were a football game, the Democrats would be heading into it as two-touchdown favorites. Facing a Republican Party that seems to have collectively lost its mind, America’s purportedly liberal party only needs to put forth a minimally competent candidate to win an election in which that candidate will face either a reality TV star who combines ranting racist rhetoric with a bottomless ignorance
  
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• It’s even worse than Fox News: The sick collusion between Donald Trump and our democracy-destroying media

  15-03-2016 10:59 via salon.com
  
  This past Thursday, at a rally in North Carolina, Donald Trump reacted to the forcible ejection of a protester by issuing an odd and ominous complaint. “It’s always like one person,” he observed. “Can’t we have a little more action than this?”The next night, Trump got his wish. Thousands of protesters crashed his rally in downtown Chicago, seeking to exercise their right to peaceable assembly and free speech. Rather suddenly, Trump the Bully morphed into Trump
  
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• Introducing Donald Trump’s fire-eaters: How the Republican Party made the mob that the GOP frontrunner exploits

  15-03-2016 10:58 via salon.com
  
  Prior to the American Civil War, southern pro-slavery demagogues known as "fire-eaters" predicted the advent of harrowing slave revolts incited by Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionist movement. In truth, the feverish screeching of men like Edmund Ruffin, Robert B. Rhett and William L. Yancey amounted to nothing more than disinformation and agitprop, completely exaggerating the threat to the southern way of life. The extremism on display by the fire-eaters led directly to popular support for sece
  
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• High drama for the GOP today: The third “Super Tuesday” of March could leave party with a two-man race

  15-03-2016 10:57 via salon.com
  
  Welcome to Super Tuesday! Again! If it seems like “Super Tuesdays” are popping up every week this election cycle, that’s because they are. We already made it through the Southern state primary bonanza of the first Super Tuesday on March 1, and we barely survived the most recent Super Tuesday (cleverly dubbed Super Tuesday 2) on March 8, so now we get to enjoy the most super of the Super Tuesdays: Super Tuesday 3. When all is said and done, at least 60 percent of all Tuesdays th
  
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• Bernie Sanders & the death of TPP: Why his stunning Michigan upset could be the final nail in the free-trade coffin

  15-03-2016 10:56 via salon.com
  
  Horse-race journalists dismissed Bernie Sanders’ victory in Michigan last week by pointing to the unforgiving delegate math. Because Hillary Clinton currently leads by roughly 228 pledged delegates, Sanders would need not just to win states tonight, but win them by good-size margins to recapture the lead. Squeaker victories just tread water, given how Democrats distribute delegates on a proportional basis.But that’s a cramped way of looking at a presidential primary and its effect on
  
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• David O. Russell made Amy Adams’ life a living hell: 5 sadistic male directors who treat their actors like garbage

  15-03-2016 00:01 via salon.com
  
  If you weren’t already aware, David O. Russell is a walking pile of garbage.
  During the infamous Sony hacks, it was revealed that the famously tyrannical director made Amy Adams’ life a living hell on the set of “American Hustle,” so much so that Christian Bale (aka the guy who chewed out a PA for getting in his eye line) was forced to intervene. In an email to Sony chief Michael Lynton, journalist Jonathan Alter wrote: “He grabbed one guy by the collar, cursed
  
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• “The Carmichael Show’s” definitive take on Bill Cosby’s legacy: How Jerrod Carmichael became the most important comedian in America

  15-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  NBC’s “The Carmichael Show” is like nothing else on television, and there is no better proof of that than last night’s episode “Fallen Heroes,” which was about the ongoing Bill Cosby rape scandal. Creator and star Jerrod Carmichael—who more or less plays himself in the show—gets his girlfriend tickets to see Cosby perform live; her flat refusal to see the comedian perform sparks a discussion among the Carmichael clan about what it means to grapple
  
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• I’m the ambassador of murder weapons

  15-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  “Sorry if I am just not understanding, but is it legal to kill people in the U.S.?”An Argentine university student in his mid-20s leans forward earnestly as he asks the question. My co-presenter Nick and I immediately exchange a look—how to tackle this one?Sensing the pregnancy of our pause, the student clarifies, “I mean, I hear very much about guns in the U.S. And many people seem to die, and I hear there are protests where people are very angry about this, like in Balt
  
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