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• The only addiction “that hasn’t tried to kill me”: Melissa Broder on confessional writing, anxiety, and how much honesty is too much

  25-03-2016 23:59 via salon.com
  
  Melissa Broder is easy to talk to. The poet and author of “So Sad Today,” a book of essays that expand on the themes she mulled over in her popular Twitter account of the same name, is “a sharer,” she says, a natural at self-confession who invites the same in others. Within seconds of getting her on the phone, we were talking about my rescue dog’s personality issues, and her dog's as well. “He’s definitely got anxiety,” Broder said of her dog, addi
  
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• The National Enquirer’s 5 most outrageous political “scoops”

  25-03-2016 23:22 via salon.com
  
  The National Enquirer unexpectedly thrust itself into national relevance Friday morning when it published a story claiming that Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has had affairs with at least five women. Cruz angrily denied the report and blamed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump for orchestrating the smear with "his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen."In a Facebook post, Trump denied any involvement with the story but suggested that if the National Enquirer reported it
  
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• Ted Cruz sex scandal story leaked to National Enquirer by Marco Rubio “ally,” not Donald Trump, report says

  25-03-2016 22:50 via salon.com
  
  Maybe Donald Trump isn't behind the Ted Cruz "sex scandal" story leak to the National Enquirer after all.According to The Daily Beast, "for months and months, anti-Cruz operatives have pitched a variety of #CruzSexScandal stories to a host of prominent national publications."One such outlet was Breitbart News, which was shown "a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays," a source inside the pu
  
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• U.S. ally Saudi Arabia sentences journalist to 5 years in prison for tweets defending women’s rights, activists

  25-03-2016 21:55 via salon.com
  
  Close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia sentenced prominent journalist Alaa Brinji to five years in prison for a series of pro-human rights tweets, according to a report by Amnesty International.The Saudi absolute monarchy found the journalist guilty on March 24 of "insulting the rulers," "inciting public opinion," "ridiculing Islamic religious figures" and "accusing security officers of killing protestors."Brinji faced numerous charges for tweeting in support of human rights advocates and prisoners of con
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s “dirty politics”: Bernie Sanders is experiencing the same nasty tricks that Clinton’s campaign dealt Obama in 2008

  25-03-2016 21:19 via salon.com
  
  With allegations of voter suppression in Arizona, as well as questions about the Clinton campaign’s tactics in Iowa, Nevada, and other states, some historical context is needed. In 2008, The Atlantic published an article explaining "dirty politics" and voting "irregularities" titled "Obama Manager Accuses Clintons of Widespread Dirty Politics":"David Plouffe, in a succinct statement appended to a released quotation from his boss, Barack Obama, said the Obama campaign was investigating
  
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• Our porn double standard: Bree Olson slut-shamed after leaving adult industry while James Deen gets more work than ever

  25-03-2016 20:52 via salon.com
  
  “When I go out I feel as if I’m wearing ‘slut’ across my forehead,” says ex-porn actress and former Charlie Sheen “goddess” Bree Olson in a new video, part of the Real Women, Real Stories YouTube video series. Her stark description of the ways she’s been slut shamed and shunned by society because of her former career in porn are chilling.Olsen, who has also dabbled in comedy after leaving porn, breaks down in tears in the video when asked how she&r
  
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• TMZ report: Garry Shandling narrowly missed “potentially lifesaving trip” to ER

  25-03-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  
  TMZ is reporting that stand-up and "The Larry Sanders Show" star, Garry Shandling— who suffered a massive heart attack during his own 911 call and passed away Thursday — "missed lifesaving help by minutes."According to the report, Shandling consulted a "doctor/friend" about his "shortness of breath and achiness," which had persisted since Wednesday.His doctor/friend instructed him to go to the emergency room immediately, so Shandling called a limo service for
  
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• Robert De Niro defends Tribeca’s anti-vaxx film screening: “This is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion”

  25-03-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  
  Looks like the Tribeca Film Festival isn't budging. Earlier this week, Andrew Wakefield — the disgraced British physician whose 1998 claims linking autism and vaccinations were later retracted and declared "an elaborate fraud" — proudly announced that he was debuting a new documentary called "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" at the upcoming Festival. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people who support science and medicine were appalled.The film purports to "understand what’s
  
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• Activists push back against attack on NY public education system — 41 arrested at protests over CUNY budget cuts

  25-03-2016 20:15 via salon.com
  
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• Pat McCrory needs to hear from Hollywood: Industry must stand up to North Carolina’s anti-trans discrimination law

  25-03-2016 20:13 via salon.com
  
  This week, North Carolina passed the most sweeping anti-LGBT bill in the country.
  House Bill 2, signed into law by the state’s governor, Pat McCrory, on Wednesday evening, effectively repeals any existing non-discrimination ordinances enacted by local municipalities. In February, Charlotte voted to extend the city’s pre-existing non-discrimination protections to its transgender population. That would have allowed trans residents to use the bathroom that most closely corresponds their
  
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• The endless sleazefest of Trump vs. Cruz: How the National Enquirer became a battleground in the GOP primary

  25-03-2016 19:41 via salon.com
  
  Let's talk about Ted Cruz having sex.Now that I’ve put that image in your head, I respectfully request you put down your pitchforks and hear me out.The National Enquirer has a story up claiming that the Republican candidate is juggling five different mistresses, and a “Washington insider” claims that “private detectives are digging into” his alleged affairs. Five mistresses! Plus a wife and two kids! Plus he’s a United States senator traveling the nation for h
  
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• “These attacks are garbage”: Ted Cruz breaks silence on Enquirer allegations, accuses Donald Trump’s “henchmen” of planting story

  25-03-2016 19:21 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz has addressed allegations made by the National Enquirer that he has had at least five extramarital affairs.During a last-minute news conference in Wisconsin, Cruz gave a prepared denouncement (later posted to his Facebook page) of the infidelity rumors, which he called, "completely false."Cruz blamed the attacks on a conspiratorial effort by Trump "to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding," which he said, "shows you that there is n
  
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• “I was screaming, ‘He’s friendly! He’s friendly!’”: NYC woman says video shows “callous” cop shooting her “gentle” dog

  25-03-2016 19:04 via salon.com
  
  The owner of a dog shot and killed by a police officer in a Bronx apartment building says she tried to tell the officer her dog was harmless just before he opened fire on her pet. "The officer just reacted badly," said Yvonne Rosado, the dog's owner, according to the New York Daily News, which broke the story.The Daily News reported that two police officers were responding to a domestic violence call at Rosado's neighbors' apartment in the early morning hours of Feb. 13. Rosado's
  
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• Rush loves catcalling: Limbaugh’s defense of street harassment shows why Donald Trump’s political rise was inevitable

  25-03-2016 19:03 via salon.com
  
  Two words that explain better than any other why Donald Trump is winning the Republican primary: Rush Limbaugh. Oh, he'd deny it. While he has occasionally been Trump-curious on his show, Limbaugh's enough of a party hack to have been trying gently to nudge his audience towards someone more like Ted Cruz.But the truth is that Limbaugh has done more to create and popularize the image of a conservative as a leering jackass, the guy who flops around acting like a victim of feminism the se
  
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• Meet the #freethenipple activists arrested at Bernie Sanders’ L.A. rally

  25-03-2016 18:51 via salon.com
  
  Tiernan Hebron, 22, and Anni Ma, 25, were arrested outside a Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles for being topless. They wore tape over their nipples with the slogan “Free the Nipple” and "Feel the Bern."
  Police said they were asked to cover up and did not comply. Watch our video for more information and footage from the women who are determined to #freethenipple.
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• “What’s out there is tabloid trash”: Amanda Carpenter explodes over “categorically false” accusation she had affair with Ted Cruz

  25-03-2016 18:37 via salon.com
  
  Of the five women the National Enquirer alleged Ted Cruz had affairs with, one was described as "'a hot babe who once worked' on one of his campaigns." Internet speculation drawn a convoluted line to Amanda Carpenter, whose picture is attached to the Enquirer article, albeit blurred and barred. Of course, no credible info connects Carpenter and Cruz romantically, but the rumor is out there.Carpenter, Cruz's one-time speechwriter, is now a frequent CNN contributor. As such, sh
  
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• Peggy Noonan solves terrorism: The elusive, terrorist-defeating secret is Ronald Reagan

  25-03-2016 18:12 via salon.com
  
  Peggy Noonan has figured out how to defeat terrorism. Believe me, I’m just as surprised as you that the solution to this longstanding and multifaceted problem that has befuddled world leaders and governments for decades emerged from the mind of a Wall Street Journal columnist, but the evidence can’t be denied. Terrorism will meet its end, and it will do so at the hands of a pundit.Noonan’s column Friday, headlined “How To Defeat Radical Jihadism,” dives into th
  
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• Mike Pence’s sadistic abortion law: Indiana passes draconian anti-choice bill geared towards humiliating and bankrupting women who have abortions

  25-03-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  The Republican war on women continues unabated. The same week that conservatives argued in the Supreme Court that employers should be able to stop their employees from getting contraception coverage outside of the company health plan, Indiana joined the ranks of states like Texas and Florida in passing a draconian law that purports to protect women while in fact endangering their health by making safe abortion much harder to get. Gov. Mike Pence signed it Thursday night.The bill is one
  
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• Wait, did Ben Carson really mean this?!? In criticizing Obama, bemoans that “we’re not willing to declare war on Islam”

  25-03-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  
  Failed presidential candidate and neurosurgeon Ben Carson targeted President Obama again Thursday night, this time for not "declaring war on Islam."While making an argument about going after "radical Islam" on Fox News' "Your World," Ben Carson went a step further, saying to host Charles Payne:"We’re not willing to declare war on Islam and look at our immigration policies and our visa policies, all of these things are things that are putting the American population in jeopardy, and there&r
  
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• Weed, stuff from Canada and adult diapers: 12 things Americans are buying now more than ever

  25-03-2016 17:36 via salon.com
  
  Americans' spending habits say a lot about what's happening in the country. Bowls are selling like hotcakes because they are more Instagram-able than plates and The Wall Street Journal called them "the new plates."
  Legal marijuana raked in $5.4 billion last year, according to Time Money and since the Canadian loonie lost 16% of its value in 2015, more Americans are crossing the border to shop in Canada.
  Watch our video for the full list of what Americans are spending their dollars on. Americans'
  
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• Internet scrambles to identify women described in National Enquirer’s “bombshell” report alleging Ted Cruz had five affairs

  25-03-2016 17:35 via salon.com
  
  In its latest issue Friday, The National Enquirer is alleging Ted Cruz has had at least five extramarital affairs. The rumors started as just that — rumors. But as more of the puzzle is pieced together, the rumors are gaining traction. (Remember, the Enquirer broke John Edwards' campaign-ending affair in 2007.)Probably less reputable than the Enquirer, Alex Jones earlier this month warned of a "looming" Cruz sex scandal during an interview with consultant and former Donald Trump
  
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• Oregon militia’s mess: See photos of the astounding filth left by militiamen who took over the wildlife refuge

  25-03-2016 17:24 via salon.com
  
  The 41-day occupation of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by right-wing militia members led by Ammon Bundy ended over a month ago, but officials are just beginning to reckon with the damage the protesters left in their wake.On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened the refuge to the press for the first time since the ranchers' occupation ended on Feb. 11, KOIN reports. The media encountered a facility in utter disarray — militia members had piled up mountai
  
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• Bridget Jones is not a millennial: The war over “millennials in the workplace” stories hits peak absurdity

  25-03-2016 17:05 via salon.com
  
  The only topic more controversial this week than the virtues of “Batman v Superman” is the continuing debate over Millennials and think pieces. The backlash against trend stories about people born between 1980 and 2000 goes back at least a few years: A lot of young people are tired of hearing all 80 million of them lumped into the same category and describes as entitled, narcissistic lemmings.And the backlash means that a New York Times trend story that some people hate has spawned a
  
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• Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson tweets unconvincing non-denial of involvement in #CruzSexScandal

  25-03-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson isn't happy about the fact that she's been implicated in the National Enquirer's story about Ted Cruz supposed sex life. Even though the Enquirer's story is likely, well, an Enquirer story, you would think that someone whose official title is "spokeswoman" would have a better response to the allegations that she was one of Cruz's mistresses than this:https://twitter.com/KatrinaPierson/status/713383676931772416That reads more like a savvy non-denial than a
  
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• We’re not taking Islamophobia seriously: This cancerous racism is on the rise — and it’s even more dangerous than you think

  25-03-2016 16:55 via salon.com
  
  The morning of the Brussels attack, I tweeted the following observation:https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/712299104055992321This glaring fact was on the world stage this week for all to see. Blasts in Ankara and Brussels garnered shockingly different responses—both in terms of sympathy for victims and anger towards extremists. Brussels victims received immense sympathy and attention, while Turkey’s Muslim victims were comparatively ignored. More Muslims have been killed at the hand
  
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• Ted Cruz falls prey to Donald Trump’s childish antics: By losing his cool, he is playing right into Trump’s game

  25-03-2016 16:21 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz is angry. The Texas senator is a patient man, a methodical man, but there are some lines you just don't cross. One of those lines is his wife, Heidi Cruz. Donald Trump crossed that line.Earlier this week Donald Trump threatened Cruz and his wife on Twitter, writing “Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. Shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!” The “beans,” in this case, appears to be a veiled refere
  
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• “I’ve seen the way that people hate her evolve over time”: A gen X woman explains why we don’t “like” Hillary Clinton

  25-03-2016 16:16 via salon.com
  
  Writer Hana Schank recently penned an article for Salon entitled "My Gen X Hillary problem: I know why we don’t 'like' Clinton" where she explained why a questioner in Iowa prompted her to move from the Bernie Sanders camp to become a Hillary Clinton supporter.
  The questioner, speaking to Clinton at a town hall, asked, "“I’ve heard from quite a few people my age that they think you’re dishonest but I’d like to hear from you on why you think the enthusiasm isn’
  
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• Ted Cruz’s sex rumors: Of all the reasons Cruz shouldn’t be president, infidelity alone shouldn’t be one of them

  25-03-2016 15:58 via salon.com
  
  I understand the allure of the possible revelation that a world class stone thrower also abides in a glass house. But of all the reasons to be outraged about Ted Cruz, of all the nyah nyah nyah reasons to pick the guy apart, Friday's explosive claims that the Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly cheated on his wife seem to be wildly missing the point. If you want to take a political candidate down, can it please, in 2016, not be over his private consensual adult sexual behavior?The N
  
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• Not just Trump: Cruz and other conservatives who take umbrage at the billionaire’s misogyny are just as sexist

  25-03-2016 15:43 via salon.com
  
  Most of us had little doubt that Donald Trump sneers at men who marry for love instead to show off to other men the "young and beautiful piece of ass" (his words) that you snagged with money and fame. This week, he thankfully destroyed any need to pretend he's not the trophy wife guy with his ridiculous attacks on Ted Cruz's wife. Heidi Cruz has committed the apparent sin of being a perfectly normal woman who married someone her own age that she met through work.&nb
  
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• David Brooks, sad and deluded, just keeps trying: Bless his heart, but he lost his mind again today

  25-03-2016 15:40 via salon.com
  
  The Republican Party was never based on science. It never accumulated data or drew conclusions from it. Like all political parties, its positions are sewn together from various pieces of found cloth, each meant to attract various possible constituencies. Though party stalwarts like Paul Ryan and David Brooks dress up those constituencies in what appear to be this thoughtfully designed clothing, the truth of the matter is that there is nothing intellectual about their tailoring. Essentially, they
  
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• Twitter just lost its God damned mind over Ted #CruzSexScandal-mongering

  25-03-2016 13:43 via salon.com
  
  The National Enquirer is reporting that Texas Senator Ted Cruz has had affairs with at least five different women -- one of whom, according to its photo spread, is Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson:https://twitter.com/Fleet_Forest/status/713159666050605056Of course, the source of these allegations would be enough to convince most political commentators to bite their tongues, but Twitter is full of political commentators for whom the description "most" simply isn't apropos, so not surprisi
  
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• Paul Krugman: What’s wrong with the GOP elite? Only its devotion to Ayn Rand and, well, everything else

  25-03-2016 13:18 via salon.com
  
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• This is Ted Cruz’s last stand: Why the Wisconsin primary could be his final chance

  25-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  It's not very generous of spirit to enjoy the conservative crack-up too much, but it's awfully hard for anyone on the left to beat back the schadenfreude these days. And frankly, considering just how malevolent the top two Republican presidential contenders are, it's doubtful too many lefties are losing sleep over it. Watching the various factions of the GOP run around in circles trying to figure out what to do about it is one of the most entertaining political spectacles in
  
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• The Justice Department’s Apple crusade gets even sketchier: Why the latest revelations raise troubling new questions

  25-03-2016 12:59 via salon.com
  
  On 19 different occasions across three briefs, the Department of Justice claimed only FBI or Apple would be able to break open the work-issued iPhone 5C of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. "The assistance sought can only be provided by Apple," the DOJ claimed on Feb. 16, when they first asked for an All Writs Act ordering Apple to comply. "Apple’s assistance is also necessary to effectuate the warrant," DOJ said when it asked Magistrate Judge Sh
  
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• Life under brutal, illegal military occupation: The much-needed context surrounding the slaying of Palestinian attackers by Israeli soldiers

  25-03-2016 12:58 via salon.com
  
  A video published by leading Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem shows an Israeli soldier extrajudicially executing an injured Palestinian man.The incident took place on Thursday in the city Hebron in the West Bank, where Palestinians have lived under illegal Israeli military occupation since 1967, and where their land has for decades gradually been colonized by illegal Israeli settlers.Two young Palestinian men allegedly stabbed an Israeli occupation soldier, injuring him. The two Palest
  
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• North Carolina just lost some of its charm: There’s no way the governor’s backward measures legalizing discrimination against LGBTQ individuals can stand

  25-03-2016 12:57 via salon.com
  
  Shortly after coming out of the closet in college, I traveled from Washington state to North Carolina as a prospective law student at Duke. It was 2005 and I had my concerns about being an out gay man in the South. But those worries were partially allayed by the warmth and charm of the people I met. I recall my first meal in North Carolina, where I was introduced to the glorious world of Southern fried food by way of the hushpuppy, all the while being referred to genteelly as “honey.&rdquo
  
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• Trevor Noah to Ted Cruz: “You’re a sanctimonious jackass”

  25-03-2016 12:05 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah last night discussed the response to Tuesday's attacks in Brussels."Unfortunately, there are always those who use these times to score political points," Noah said, referring to Ted Cruz's criticism of President Obama, who addressed the attacks while at a baseball game in Cuba with Raul Castro."Ted Cruz, first of all, you're a sanctimonious jackass," he continued. "Second of all, President Obama doesn't need to go to Belgium for them to know that he's an ally .
  
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• Seth Meyers’ heartfelt Garry Shandling tribute: “You wanted to be friends with the guy who had the VHS tapes of ‘The Larry Sanders Show’”

  25-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers last night paid moving tribute to the late Garry Shandling, who passed away Thursday at the age of 66."I never had the chance to know him," Meyers said, "but I've heard he was a great guy."Meyers recalled that within the Chicago improv community, everyone knew that fellow SNL-alum Jason Sudeikis had "The Larry Sanders Show" on VHS, "and that was a big deal back then.""You wanted to be friends with the guy who had the VHS tapes of 'The Larry Sanders Show,' because no
  
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• Please enjoy the internet’s best Donald Trump parodies

  25-03-2016 11:30 via salon.com
  
  He's your drunk neighbor, Darth Vader, the Grinch, a glowing puppet, a hip hop freestyle dancer and sounds just like Alexander Hamilton. He has his own movie starring Johnny Depp and has policies that apparently go well to the tune of Justin Bieber. Ralph Kramden even wants him gone. Watch our mashup of the best the internet has to offer of Donald Trump parodies.Continue Reading...
  
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• “Morning Joe” childishness: The show’s inane demand that President Obama treat Americans like children

  25-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  Earlier this week, a series of coordinated terror bombings in Brussels, which ISIS claims it planned, left 34 human beings (including three perpetrators) dead. The terrorists bombed the city’s airport and one of its metro stations. Taken altogether, the real target of the attack was clear. It was the European project itself; and the modern cosmopolitanism that, to many, it represents.At the risk of stating the obvious: These are serious issues. And they deserve a serious response. Pre
  
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• From “Princess Bride” to “The American President”: This creepy video showcases Ted Cruz acting out his favorite film characters

  25-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz may love politics, which is probably why he can play different roles so well - almost too well. Take a look at some of his weird impersonations over the years.Continue Reading...
  
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• North Carolina’s repugnant new anti-LGBT law is only the tip of the iceberg

  25-03-2016 10:59 via salon.com
  
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• 12-step groups of hate: A psychotherapist’s take on Donald Trump’s wild rallies

  25-03-2016 10:58 via salon.com
  
  When Trump brings his authoritarian speech to a large rally, you get what the GOP always only politely implied. Trump makes overtly racist, misogynist and xenophobic statements that for his followers, previously groomed by decades of dog-whistle racism, seem more “honest." Followers love Trump because he supposedly says what he means and rejects “political correctness." To put it another way, he says whatever comes into his mind. For a psychoanalyst, this is Trump’s primary pro
  
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• GOP’s Supreme Court blowback: The Republicans’ case for obstruction is bad and getting worse

  25-03-2016 10:57 via salon.com
  
  Orrin Hatch, one of the senior Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is on a one-man mission to save the American judiciary. As Hatch sees it, this branch of government is under terrible and imminent threat from a malign force that threatens to undermine its legitimacy and corrode the foundations of American democracy. What evil power could produce such menacing terror? What fantastical horror can possibly align itself against the institutions of American justice?People with signs.In a
  
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• God bless John Kasich: The Ohio governor has turned into quite a gift to the Democrats

  25-03-2016 10:56 via salon.com
  
  “I'm not going anywhere. Am I spoiler? Of course I'm not a spoiler... If I'm the only one who can beat Hillary in the fall, why would anybody say I should leave? I mean that's just – that's nuts!” -- John KasichIt must be fun, being John Kasich. Up is down, down is up, losses are wins, and reality, like math, only counts if it's convenient. The Republican governor has done nothing but lose primaries since they began in February, the lone exception being his home state of Ohio.
  
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• Donald Trump’s entire campaign is based on a single outrageous lie

  25-03-2016 09:30 via salon.com
  
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• Ted Cruz asked me to educate him about Muslims. Now I know he learned nothing

  25-03-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  “There is a war on faith in America today, in our lifetime,” MSNBC quotes Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz as saying. “Did we ever imagine that in the land of the free and home of the brave, we would be witnessing our government persecute its citizens for their faith?”On Tuesday I awoke to the horrible news of an attack in Brussels. My heart goes out to the victims of the attack, just as it did last week for the victims of attacks in Ankara and Istanbul. The co
  
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• The 10 most obese cities in America

  25-03-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
  The whole world is getting fatter. One 2015 study, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, found that an astounding 2 billion people around the globe are either overweight or obese, and that figure just keeps climbing. While the United States has been unseated as the world’s fattest country, we’re still home to 13 percent of the world’s fat population, despite making up less than 5 percent of the world’s total citizenry. (Tak
  
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• Hillary Clinton doesn’t speak for me: I’m a millennial woman raising a biracial son. I voted for Bernie, and I refuse to be shamed for it

  25-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  Just after Super Tuesday, a family friend and Hillary supporter sent an article to me and a dozen other millennial women, rightly assuming that most of us were Bernie supporters. She asked us what we younger women thought of the essay. Several weeks later, Hillary has won many more primary delegates than Bernie, and has cinched almost all the unelected superdelegates, but millennials are still voting 2-to-1 for her anti-establishment rival.Hana Schank, who wrote the arti
  
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