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• How to make “Indiana Jones 5″ the best of the series: Kill off the racist, sexist tropes the series is steeped in

  16-03-2016 23:59 via salon.com
  
  Like most millennials, I’m absolutely psyched that Steven Spielberg is making a fifth "Indiana Jones" movie. The 1980s trilogy was a staple of my childhood, and after the disappointment of 2008’s "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," I’m hoping with bated breath that this new (and presumably final) chapter will offer a fitting close to the Harrison Ford-helmed series.That said, there is something the existing Indiana Jones films contained that I h
  
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• The genius of “Underground”: A gripping slavery drama that dares to be entertaining

  16-03-2016 23:58 via salon.com
  
  Not long ago I sat with my husband and previewed several episodes of “Underground,” a new drama that premiered last week on WGN America. As the end credits rolled on Episode 2, which airs tonight at 10 p.m. on the cable channel, I asked him whether this is a series he’d willingly watch.He considered the question in silence for a few moments, then nodded. “It takes a while to get to the dramatic hook, but I like the cast and it’s a decent heist story. Sure!&rdqu
  
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• The new documentary “Trapped” takes viewers to the bloodiest battlefield in the American “war on women”

  16-03-2016 23:57 via salon.com
  
  The forces responsible for the rightward drift of American politics claim to champion personal liberty, limited government and deregulation of services and industry. They are brazen in their hypocritical willingness to violate all of these principles to strip women of their constitutional protections and medical rights.A powerful and essential new documentary, Trapped, from director Dawn Porter exposes how Republicans in state governments have launched a campaign to, in the words of one doc
  
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• “I had like a whole eight ball in one pocket, half an eight ball in the other”: Steve-O describes his insane 3-hour bathroom coke binge with Mike Tyson

  16-03-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  
  Steve "Steve-O" Glover, of "Jackass" franchise fame, opened up about his notoriously destructive and drug-addicted past in a new interview with GQ.The eight-years-sober Steve-O described a Hollywood Hills party at which he spent three hours locked in a bathroom smoking pure powder cocaine in a hollowed-out cigarette with Mike Tyson."I remember I was distinctly not invited, but I showed up and rang the doorbell. Mike Tyson opened up the door," Steve-O recalled. "I said, '
  
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• Hillary Clinton death-penalty shame: While more states move away from capital punishment, she refuses

  16-03-2016 21:05 via salon.com
  
  At the Democratic town hall on Sunday night, a man named Ricky Jackson, who spent ages 18 through 58 on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, rose to ask former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a question about the death penalty. Clinton, whose opinion on the death penalty has changed over the years, had a real chance to come out unequivocally against the death penalty.Instead, she floundered. After trying to explain to a formerly condemned man the distinction between the federal crime
  
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• Go ahead and call Caitlyn Jenner a delusional GOP shill — but don’t say she’s not a woman

  16-03-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  Caitlyn Jenner is having a bad month. The former Olympian and reality star has become persona non grata in the LGBT community since coming out for Ted Cruz earlier this March. In an interview with Dawn Ennis for the Advocate (disclosure: I work there as a reporter), Jenner said, “I like Ted Cruz. I think he’s very conservative and a great constitutionalist and a very articulate man.” She also offered to serve as his “trans ambassador,” should the Senator be elected
  
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• Obama’s gutsy “Godfather” move: Merrick Garland nomination is as big a GOP nightmare as Donald Trump

  16-03-2016 20:47 via salon.com
  
  In "The Godfather II," the Corleone family lawyer Tom Hagen describes to his brother Michael how they’ve been tactically outmaneuvered by the old gangster, Hyman Roth. “Roth . . . well he -- he played this one beautifully,” says Hagen, with more than a little grudging admiration.Assuming they’re not throwing themselves out some of the higher windows in the Senate office building, a lot of Republican senators must be having similar thoughts about Barack Obama.Obama&rs
  
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• Leave Beyoncé alone: Feminists criticizing her pride as a mother are missing the point

  16-03-2016 20:40 via salon.com
  
  In every interview I've had in the last seven years, when asked about my biggest accomplishment, I've responded unequivocally, "My son." Some interviewers smiled genuinely. Others gave the obligatory polite smile while their eyes told me they were annoyed I'd bring up something so personal in a professional setting. I never regretted my answer, and was always eager to expound, not just to brag about my baby, but to connect for them all the ways in which growing, nurturing, grooming and rais
  
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• My baby sister 💕 https://t.co/5Hp0Rd1r1E

  16-03-2016 20:12 via twitter.com
  
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• Right-wingers on Twitter slam Obama for tapping Merrick Garland for Supreme Court

  16-03-2016 19:54 via salon.com
  
  Following the announcement that President Obama would nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, conservatives immediately took to Twitter to criticize the decision and demand that the Republican-controlled Senate block him from getting a vote.Obama said Garland is "widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence. These qualities and his long comm
  
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• Somehow, Donald Trump reaches a new low: Trump campaign ad features Hillary barking, Putin doing karate

  16-03-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  
  Trump's third "Super" Tuesday was no less super than the others'; he successfully booted Li'l Marco in Rubio's home state, shut out Lyin' Cruz in Illinois and Missouri, and eked out a narrow victory in North Carolina. Sure, he lost Ohio, but only to John Kasich, who's delusional enough to stay in and fight for scraps with Cruz in hopes of a brokered convention that's seeming less likely with each subsequent stop on the Trump train.With outright victory well within the realm of possibility f
  
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• Donald Trump vowed to take care of veterans — just not the ones that work at KFC

  16-03-2016 19:26 via salon.com
  
  Marine Corps veteran Derrell Odom served two tours in Iraq and then went home to Atlanta, GA where he works at the local Kentucky Fried Chicken for $7.25 an hour. He calls cooking for people his "passion" and testified at the Atlanta wage board to raise his salary to $15.Odom's plea for a pay raise reveals a contradiction for politicians who oppose raising the minimum wage but also vow to take care of vets.
  Donald Trump said "our great veterans are being treated terribly" but also said a pay rai
  
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• New York Times busted for anti-Bernie bias: The iconic, Clinton-endorsing newspaper slyly edits article to smear Sanders

  16-03-2016 19:20 via salon.com
  
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• America is mad as hell: If Sanders voters switch to Trump, anger is what the country has in common now

  16-03-2016 19:20 via salon.com
  
  Last night's primary election results are making clear that it’s now very hard for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination. So where are his supporters going? Surely, the majority will go for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, who’s generated an enormous amount of fear and loathing from liberals, lefties, and moderates.But it’s also starting to look like a number of Sanders supporters will not be falling in line behind Clinton. The passion and frustration that Sand
  
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• Trump turns his back on Fox News, forces GOP debate cancellation

  16-03-2016 19:03 via salon.com
  
  The thirteenth Republican debate, originally scheduled to be hosted by Fox News on Monday in Salt Lake City, was canceled after Donald Trump appeared on the network Wednesday's morning after a hugely victorious Super, Super, Super Tuesday to personally reject the invite."What’s the point? Haven’t we had enough?” a triumphant Trump asked "Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday. Despite desperate pleading from Kilmeade's co-hosts, as well, Trump held firm , refu
  
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• Feel the Bern, indeed: Sanders takes the low road with nasty Clinton tweet, undermining the promise of his campaign

  16-03-2016 18:39 via salon.com
  
  Last night, as polls were closing during the Illinois primary, the official Senator Bernie Sanders for president Twitter account tweeted a blurry photo that constituted a direct, if fair, attack at Secretary Hillary Clinton. The tweet just reads, “Seen in Chicago.” The photo is of a fake campaign bumper sticker for a nonexistent campaign between Clinton and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was previously a close adviser to President Bill Clinton and the 23rd White House chief of staff
  
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• Merrick Garland, the “holy sh*t” nominee: Why Obama’s Supreme Court nomination is so surprising — and frustrating

  16-03-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  
  Merrick Garland? Really?That was the instant reaction from many when the news broke on Wednesday morning that President Obama was nominating Garland, the 63-year-old chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia."Interesting reactions I'm getting from Dems on the Garland news: 'holy shit[,]' 'unreal,'" the Huffington Post's Jennifer Bendery tweeted.It's easy to understand why. Gar
  
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• Stop “helping” Hillary: Sorry, guys, but Clinton doesn’t need to smile, whisper, or have John Kasich as her running mate

  16-03-2016 18:04 via salon.com
  
  Tuesday night, those who were lucky enough to be watching their primary coverage on MSNBC were treated to what may be a record-setter in scorching hot takes, courtesy of, who else, Chris Matthews. "I do think if you could ever find a way to put a ticket together that would actually end some of this mishegoss, to use a Yiddish word," Matthews spun out before coughing up, and you could feel this coming, that he'd like to see Hillary Clinton pick John Kasich as her running mate"If Hillary
  
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• Obama’s SCOTUS pick: With Trump surging, the president has put the Senate GOP in a tough spot now that’s he’s tapped Merrick Garland

  16-03-2016 17:41 via salon.com
  
  President Obama has finally made his pick for what is probably the worst, most thankless job in Washington: Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, is his new nominee for the Supreme Court. The nomination will now go to the Senate, where the Republican majority has promised it will not proceed past their impregnable wall of principled obstruction.As far as the timing goes, the president could hardly have picked a better moment to confront the Republican obstructionism
  
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• Harrison Ford doesn’t belong in a museum: Indiana Jones in his 70s is exactly the hero we need

  16-03-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  
  It’s about time we had a hero older than Silly Putty but younger than Yoda.The concept of an “Indiana Jones 5,” which was announced by Disney on Tuesday, makes us feel a little like we’re at a buffet — it looks like it could be good, but we’re very aware it might make us queasy in the end.But one truth stands out above all: the return of Harrison Ford, 73, as Indiana Jones offers a rare and welcome cinematic phenomenon: an action hero of advanced age.The
  
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• President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland chokes up during moving Rose Garden announcement: “This is the biggest honor of my life”

  16-03-2016 17:16 via salon.com
  
  President Obama announced his nomination of chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, delivering a strident speech calling on Republican senators to drop their reflexive opposition to any replacement to late Justice Antonin Scalia.Obama introduced the nation to Merrick, who at 63-years-old would be the oldest justice nominated in 40 years, by noting that Merrick has more federal judicial experience than any other S
  
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• Mitch McConnell cites non-existent clause in the “Biden Rule” as reason there will be no Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland

  16-03-2016 17:12 via salon.com
  
  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor today and declared that President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia will not receive a hearing."The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court and have a profound impact on our country, so of course the American people should have a say in the Court’s direction," McConnell said."The senate will continue to observe the 'Biden Rule' so the
  
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• Our nominee is a disaster: Time may be running out, but Democrats will come to rue Clinton over Sanders

  16-03-2016 17:09 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat not linked to an FBI investigation. If this doesn't mean anything to you, then you're too terrified of Trump's rallies to realize that Clinton could get indicted. Also, if you can't fathom the possibility of Donald Trump winning, then keep in mind that most Americans don't trust or like Hillary Clinton. A general election isn't a popularity contest among Democrats. In 10 out of 10 national polls regarding favorability, Hillary Clinton has negative fa
  
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• And then there was one: Ted Cruz will, it seems, be the only person participating in Fox News’ Utah debate next Monday

  16-03-2016 16:38 via salon.com
  
  Ohio Governor John Kasich announced that if Donald Trump is serious about skipping the Fox News debate in Utah next Monday, he won't be attending it either -- leaving America with the horrifying possibility of having to listen to Texas Senator Ted Cruz speak without interruption for two hours.Kasich's campaign manager posted the following message on Twitter after Trump sent the hosts of Fox & Friends spiraling into grief this morning:https://twitter.com/HenryJGomez/status/710116333044801537I
  
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• Trump charges toward the nomination: The billionaire breaks Rubio’s back, reducing his opposition to the deeply deluded Cruz and Kasich

  16-03-2016 16:29 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump doesn't just defeat his establishment Republican opponents; he leaves them humiliated. So it was for Marco Rubio, who lost his own state, Florida, to Donald Trump on Tuesday night in the Republican primary. As Rubio didn't even bother running again for Senate — reports say that he hates being a senator — this could be the end of his time in public office, at least for now. The defeat was absolute. Florida is a winner-takes-all-state for the Republicans, but it hardl
  
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• Obama’s Supreme Court pick: 10 things you need to know about centrist judge Merrick Garland

  16-03-2016 16:23 via salon.com
  
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• Seasonal Affective Disorder may not exist at all, according to new study

  16-03-2016 09:45 via salon.com
  Around March, some of us take a kick at the snow mounded on the curb and wonder if spring is finally going to drop by. The sun sets before we go home, and the cold coops us up except for runs to the grocery store. All of this amounts to something known informally as the winter blues, because those wintry days and dead trees can put us in a glum mood. But in the 1980s, research at the National Institutes of Mental Health led to recognition of a form of depression known as seasonal affective disor
  
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• Let’s demilitarize the military: The Pentagon may pose the single greatest threat to our democracy

  16-03-2016 09:30 via salon.com
  
  Item: Two U.S. Navy patrol boats, with 10 sailors aboard, “stray” into Iranian territorial waters, and are apprehended and held by Iranian revolutionary guards, precipitating a 24-hour international incident involving negotiations at the highest levels of government to secure their release. The Pentagon offers conflicting reports on why this happened: navigational error, mechanical breakdown, fuel depletion -- but not intelligence-gathering, intentional provocation, or hormonally ind
  
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• Robert Reich: Trade agreements are simply ravaging the middle class

  16-03-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains.The old-style trade agreements of the 1960s and 1970s increased worldwide demand for products made by American workers, and thereby helped push up American wages.The new-style agreements increase worldwide demand for products made by American corporations all over the world, enhancing corporate and financial profits but keeping Amer
  
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• Public ed’s Wal-Mart-fication: These are the ruthless economics of the education reform movement

  16-03-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
  Walmart's recent decision to close 269 stores was a blip on the national media radar, but it was big news in small towns and suburban neighborhoods across America.“Now we have to figure out how to do our shopping," a Walmart customer in Baldwin Hills, in Southern California lamented."Before Walmart’s arrival, Winnsboro had two grocery stores," a local reporter in that South Carolina town noted. Now that Walmart is gone, so is convenient access to groceries and other r
  
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• Before we surprised @jamielynnspears tonight!! So proud of our baby sister ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/Pm9O0zMYXU

  16-03-2016 06:26 via twitter.com
  
  Before we surprised @jamielynnspears tonight!! So proud of our baby sister ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/Pm9O0zMYXU
  
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• Sanders denied a rust belt comeback: Clinton sweeps Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Florida and North Carolina

  16-03-2016 06:01 via salon.com
  
  There will be no historic or surprising upset in the Democratic primaries tonight. Hillary Clinton won all five states on this Super, Super, Super Tuesday.A week after pulling off a Michigan miracle, Bernie Sanders finds himself virtually shut out of a path to the Democratic nomination after losing in Ohio to Clinton.More than twenty minutes after midnight EST, Clinton's birth state was finally called in her favor by CNN. Clinton lead Sanders 50.5 percent to 48.6 percent. Shortly befor
  
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• “Smile. You just had a big night”: Joe Scarborough responds to Hillary Clinton’s victorious election night in the most annoying way possible

  16-03-2016 04:10 via salon.com
  
  https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/709909770619248640I only described MSNBC host Joe Scarborough's subtweet of Hillary Clinton as annoying to keep the trolls out. But let's be honest, it's subversively sexist. Call it casual sexism, call it ever day sexism, call whatever you'd like, but it's flippant, cavalier and annoying at best and sexist in all likelihood.Of course, if anyone were to call out the "Morning Joe" host for his reaction to Clinton's big wins in Ohio and Florida on Tuesday (and he
  
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• Twitter reacts to Marco Rubio’s official relegation from “presidential contender” to “just another Florida Man about to snap”

  16-03-2016 02:04 via salon.com
  
  To the surprise of no one who was paying attention, Florida Senator Marco Rubio was forced to suspend his campaign tonight after Donald Trump won a resounding victory in his home state -- and Twitter reacted as it's wont to react:https://twitter.com/PatrickHowleyDC/status/709905605650202625https://twitter.com/DavidDeeble/status/709905508669362176https://twitter.com/briangaar/status/709900796402356224At least the once-and-future "Cuban-American Barack Obama" still has career alternatives:https://
  
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• Marco Rubio suspending campaign after resounding defeat in Florida

  16-03-2016 01:37 via salon.com
  
  The man who was once referred to as the Cuban-American Barack Obama announced tonight that he is suspending his campaign. He lost his home state of Florida Tuesday night to GOP front-runner and likely Republican nominee Donald Trump, and it wasn't even close."While we are on the right side this year," he told supporters, but "we are not on the winning side." Rubio is projected to come in second in Florida tonight, but a distant one, coming in almost 20 points behind Trump.Watch a video of his an
  
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• Trump quashes Marcomentum: Rubio drops out after suffering a stinging defeat in his home state of Florida

  16-03-2016 01:26 via salon.com
  
  Florida's sitting freshman senator was delivered a stunning rebuke by his own constituents Tuesday night, losing his home state's presidential primary by massive margins to frontrunner Donald Trump.Marco Rubio had to ask supporters who squeezed into a small atrium at Florida International University in Miami to stop booing as he congratulated Trump on his resounding win -- only to be interrupted by a heckler moments later."Don't worry, you won't get beat up at our event," Rubio quipped to distra
  
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• I’m stranded in Trumplandia: Life on the edge of America’s abandoned middle class

  16-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  No doubt the powerful interests that want to protect their ever-growing share of the national wealth heaved a sigh of relief when they saw the recent images of Trump rally attendees beating up on progressive protesters, taking aim at TrumpFrom the oligarchs' point of view, there is nothing better than having the victims of predator multinational capitalism all go after each other over issues like race and national origin. What you don't want is a peaceful convergence of left and right.
  
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• “I think it’s terror”: Comedian Josh Gondelman on how Donald Trump’s rise sobered up this election year

  16-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  Josh Gondelman is an unlikely kind of hybrid. By day, he writes political humor for “Last Week Tonight.” Many nights, he’s on the stand-up circuit, where his comedy tends to be personal and observational. (He’s also one of the creators of the Modern Seinfeld Twitter account.)Gondelman's stand-up is captured on a very funny new comedy album, “Physical Whisper,” with bits ranging from the difference between subway signs in London and New York to his magazin
  
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