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• Jackie Robinson, A New Ken Burns Film, Only On PBS

  28-03-2016 23:54 via salon.com
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• Anthony Weiner on his failed NYC mayoral bid and second sex scandal: “I was just falling apart”

  28-03-2016 23:25 via salon.com
  
  Former congressman and New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner says he won't be running for office again anytime soon, but boasts that his ability to win elections is still second to none.“I’m probably the best campaign politician you’ll ever interview. I mean, I’m like perfectly evolved. I’m like the Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator,” Weiner told Huffington Post's Candidate Confessional podcast, as reported by the New York Daily News. “I love it
  
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• Bernie’s Blue Dog backer: Sanders gains the support of an unlikely superdelegate

  28-03-2016 22:57 via salon.com
  
  "I think the super delegates are going to have make a very difficult decision and that is, if a candidate wins in a state by 40 or 50 points, who are you going to give your vote to?" Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders asked over the weekend after winning three Western states by upwards of 40 to 70 points.While his rival Hillary Clinton still holds a substantial lead in the undedicated so-called superdelegates, lawmakers and Party loyalists who have up until voting at the Democratic
  
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• Clinton campaign to Bernie: Drop your negative tone and maybe Hillary will debate you in NY

  28-03-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's chief strategist refused to commit to a proposed presidential debate with Bernie Sanders in New York before the state's April 19 primary. As reported by The Hill, Clinton staffer Joel Benenson accused Sanders of "running a very negative campaign" and suggested that a New York debate might not take place unless the Vermont senator changes his "tone.""I think the real question is what kind of campaign is Senator Sanders going to run going forward," said B
  
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• Beyond “the eternal feminine”: Novelist Dawn Tripp reimagines the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe

  28-03-2016 21:47 via salon.com
  
  Novelist Dawn Tripp is not a historian, but to research her latest work, “Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe,” she delved deep into the history of the famed artist, studying biographies, catalogs, paintings and letters, many of which she highlights on her website, to craft a vivid work forged from the actual events of O’Keeffe’s life. It’s therefore not surprising that when I mention I have O’Keeffe’s painting “A Celebration” hanging
  
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• Harper Lee really didn’t like Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, letter reveals

  28-03-2016 21:36 via salon.com
  
  In a signed letter — among 29 set to be auctioned off in Los Angeles — "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman" author, Harper Lee, beautifully thrashed Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Lee had been dragged there by friends during a tour along the Jersey Shore, according to the New York Post. Whereas some might say the fluorescent, gold-plated casino "sucks," or perhaps that it's overcompensatory, Lee harnessed more poetic
  
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• Congress on lockdown after gunshots confirmed in Capitol Hill Visitors Center

  28-03-2016 21:24 via salon.com
  
  At least one person was shot on Monday at the U.S. Capitol on Monday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.One gunman reportedly brandished a firearm at the U.S. Capitol Hill Visitors Center and is now in custody at a local Washington, D.C. hospital. The Vistors Center is a bit removed from the U.S. Capitol building proper. NBC News reports the shooter is the only gun shot victim but there remains conflict reports at this hour.Congress is currently away on Easter recess but
  
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• There have been 2 large ISIS-linked attacks in the week since Brussels

  28-03-2016 21:15 via salon.com
  
  There have been two more Brussels since Brussels.ISIS-linked groups killed more than 110 people and injured at least 400 others in two large-scale bombings in a period of just five days after the March 22 Brussels attacks, which left 35 people dead and injured more than 300.On Easter Sunday, the Jamaat ur-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban, which has previously declared loyalty to ISIS, bombed a busy public park in the city Lahore, killing more than 70 people, including roughly 30 child
  
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• Listen to Adele, Jamie Oliver: Guilt-trips over how “easy” breastfeeding is just pile pressure on vulnerable moms

  28-03-2016 20:39 via salon.com
  
  Just because Jamie Oliver is a famous chef doesn't mean he knows everything about feeding people. And when a human being who will never personally have to grapple with lactation weighs in on "easy" breastfeeding is, be grateful we have Adele around to reportedly set the record straight in her blissfully foul mouthed way.Earlier this month, the 40 year-old Oliver — who is currently getting ready to welcome his fifth child with his wife Jools — appeared on Leading Britain's Conversatio
  
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• How to beat the right: The gay rights victory in Georgia shows the power of fighting conservatives’ bad-faith arguments

  28-03-2016 20:37 via salon.com
  
  The modern conservative movement is built on a foundation of bad faith. Whatever they're up to, the one thing you can guarantee is conservatives will rarely, if ever, admit their actual motivations. Bigotry and selfishness are wrapped in a package of phony good intentions.Attacks on reproductive rights are packaged as "protecting" women or babies. Attacks on voting rights are packaged as prevention against non-existent voting fraud. Repealing an anti-discrimination ordinance is about protec
  
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• Stop trying to make Bernie disappear: While the establishment pretends nothing has changed, Sanders continues to win big

  28-03-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  A specter appears to be haunting American liberalism — the specter of democratic socialism. As Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) continues to pick up surprising victories across the country, decisively winning Washington state, Alaska, and Hawaii over the weekend, it is becoming clear that his brand of democratic socialism (what some might simply call social democracy) is not a passing fad, but the future of Democratic party politics. While he may not win the 2016 nomi
  
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• A message to the media and GOP elites: You didn’t build that. Here’s who’s really responsible for Donald Trump

  28-03-2016 20:21 via salon.com
  
  Over the weekend, thanks to a self-lacerating column from Nick Kristof of The New York Times, a significant number of media people devoted a significant chunk of their time to doing what media people do best: thinking, talking, and writing about themselves.The ostensible motivation behind this navel-gazing was to reckon with the Donald Trump phenomenon, and to take stock of how much of it, if any, could be described as the media’s “fault.” Nearly everyone agreed that the media
  
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• Sex can be worth a longer wait: Apparently, the third date is no longer the magic number

  28-03-2016 20:19 via salon.com
  
  Ah, the spring time. Breezy dresses, outdoor activities, and the hum of new relationships. Since winter’s thaw, it’s easy (and fun) to get swept up in the buzz of budding romance. Eyes lock from across the room -- or a Tinder match is made -- and it’s not long until drinks are sipped followed by a not-so-casual touch of the arm. A kiss is stolen, and then …. What? Do you catch a cab and fall into each other’s arms and later their sheets? Do you play coy and suggest
  
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• They’ll have to leave their guns at home: Secret Service says Republican National Convention will not be open-carry utopia

  28-03-2016 20:06 via salon.com
  
  In response to a 44,500-signature petition to allow firearms at the Republican National Convention, the Secret Service announced Monday that it would be putting the kibosh on the movement.The petition to allow guns into the Quicken Loans Center in Cleveland, Ohio, an open-carry state, originally posted to Change.org, is believed to be satirical, but no less garnered widespread support and attention."Cleveland, Ohio is consistently ranked as one of the top ten most dangerous cities in America,"&n
  
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• Fight for $15 scores its biggest victory: California set to see a massive minimum wage hike

  28-03-2016 20:04 via salon.com
  
  It was bound to happen.California's two biggest cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, recently passed their own minimum wage hikes to $15 an hour and in an effort to avoid a costly and contentious battle over the airwaves this fall, Democratic lawmakers and major labor unions hashed out a deal over the weekend to gradually raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour before an initiative calling for a more sudden increase appeared on statewide ballots later this year.Governor Jerry Brown
  
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• Democrats need to be worried about Hillary’s FBI problem: The looming political fight could cause real damage in November

  28-03-2016 19:40 via salon.com
  
  A specter is haunting the Hillary Clinton campaign – the specter of an FBI investigation. The possibility of an indictment for her use of a private email system as secretary of state has been looming for months now, but the story hasn't engulfed Clinton's inevitability narrative. Thanks to Sanders' commitment to running a positive campaign, Clinton's FBI problem has scarcely been mentioned in Democratic debates.It's entirely possible that nothing will come of this. The final result may wel
  
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• Little Red Riding Hood packs heat in this NRA fairy tale designed to get kids interested in guns

  28-03-2016 19:10 via salon.com
  
  A conservative blogger has rewritten "Hansel and Gretel" and "Little Red Riding Hood" with guns. Watch our video for more.Continue Reading...
  
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• Rock-paper-scissor SCOTUS: Orrin Hatch has a new ludicrous justification for obstructionism

  28-03-2016 19:07 via salon.com
  
  Utah senator Orrin Hatch has emerged as the point person for defending the Senate GOP’s strategy of blocking President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees, and in that role he’s grown adept at inventing new and increasingly exotic justifications for blanket obstructionism. Over the past few weeks, Hatch has explained that the Republican-controlled Senate can’t move forward on any nomination to replace the late Antonin Scalia because: there’s a “well-established rul
  
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• Anti-vax film isn’t being “censored”: Andrew Wakefield is not entitled to a prestigious platform for his discredited autism claims

  28-03-2016 17:07 via salon.com
  
  If only there were a cure for chronic, extreme chutzpah. Because Andrew Wakefield is being extremely disingenuous — yet again. On Saturday, the Tribeca Film Festival reversed its decision to debut the film "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Controversy" at the festival in April, and now the filmmakers are crying censorship.Just last week, when the festival announced its lineup, the film's director Andrew Wakefield was excitedly sharing the "huge news" about its inclusion in the festival.
  
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• “Religious freedom” fight finally dealt a blow in the South: GOP Georgia governor to veto anti-LGBT law

  28-03-2016 17:04 via salon.com
  
  It was declared dead in the past, twice. Georgia's most contentious bill failed to receive final passage from the state legislature for the past two years and after finally being passed by a more conservative body of lawmakers earlier this month, the state's attempt to codify anti-LGBT discrimination now faces certain death at the hands of Georgia's Republican Governor Nathan Deal and his veto pen.“I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith-based commun
  
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• Dear members of the media, do your job already: Trump isn’t a Teflon candidate, the press must expose his lies and nonsense

  28-03-2016 16:50 via salon.com
  
  The notion that Donald Trump is bulletproof, that no story about him could ever be so terrible as to impact his popularity with the Republican base, has sadly become a self-fulfilling prophecy with the media. Nowhere is this more obvious than with the story that dominated the political headlines all last week and probably will this week, even after the terrorist attacks in Belgium and Pakistan: Trump's claim that his primary opponent, Ted Cruz, has some dark secret lurking in his marriage.T
  
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• Britney Spears Shows Off Her Bikini Body in Hawaii on Easter

  28-03-2016 16:50
  
  Britney Spears put her bikini body on display while enjoying the beautiful paradise in Hawaii.
  The 34-year-old entertainer shared the photo on her Instagram account on Sunday (March 27). She was joined on the trip by her sons Sean Preston, 10, and Jayden James, 9.
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  Britney posted a video of her boys jumping around in the waves at the beach. Watch below!
  Earlier in the weekend, Britney posted photos of her Good Friday outfit, which you can check
  
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• North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law challenged: “H.B. 2 violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatment under the U.S. Constitution”

  28-03-2016 16:40 via salon.com
  
  LGBTQ rights groups took little time in challenging North Carolina House Bill 2, which invalidated an anti-discrimination ordinance adopted in Charlotte.The lawsuit is a response to a bill passed in a special session convened by conservative members of the state legislature solely to override the city's LGBTQ-friendly ordinance."By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B. 2 violates the most basic guar
  
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• Bernie Sanders challenges Hillary Clinton to a debate on her home turf

  28-03-2016 15:56 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders saw one of the best weekends of his entire campaign this weekend and he is now hoping to seize on that momentum to carry him on the road to the Democratic National Convention this summer, including at least one pit stop in New York, where he hopes to challenge rival Hillary Clinton to a debate and eventual upset in her home state.Clinton barely eked out a win in her birth state of Illinois earlier this month, and while she handily took her first adopted home state of Ark
  
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• Donald Trump proxy Roger Stone claims to have seen women Ted Cruz allegedly had affairs with: He’s “copulating with rodents”

  28-03-2016 15:20 via salon.com
  
  Roger Stone -- a Donald Trump supporter and the only named source in the National Enquirer's article about Ted Cruz's alleged mistresses -- spoke to Frank Morano on AM 970 this past Sunday about the allegations against the Texas senator, and he insisted that he couldn't be a Trump operative because he's not being paid like one.Cruz apparently disavowed the allegations in part by saying that Stone is someone who "copulates with rodents," to which Stone replied that "knowing what a couple of these
  
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• Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer unloads on Donald Trump: “He’s obviously a good candidate, but he’s going to be terrible for the country”

  28-03-2016 14:46 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump has not hidden his disdain for conservative icon and Sunday morning staple Charles Krauthammer, calling everything from "the worst" to "a dummy," but on Sunday Krauthammer struck back, accusing Trump of not being "fluent on the issues," "out of his depth," and just "terrible."Krauthammer was responding, in part, to host Howie Kurtz's defense of Ted Cruz, in which he called out Trump for including a "passive-aggressive postscript" in his non-denial denial of having leaked information
  
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• Paul Krugman: If the GOP doesn’t abandon its “superpower delusion,” the U.S. is doomed

  28-03-2016 14:10 via salon.com
  
  In his Monday New York Times column, Paul Krugman bemoaned the Republican "superpower delusion," that "belief that America could dictate events throughout the world" willy-nilly.The delusion's most "spectacular" demonstration was, of course, "the debacle in Iraq," but it manifests itself in all aspects of GOP policy-making, even matters as seemingly innocuous as protecting American workers from international competition. Or, as Krugman put it,Serious economic analysis has never supported the Pan
  
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• The truth about Donald Trump’s angry white men: Inside the media narrative that the media doesn’t understand

  28-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  The press is doing a whole lot of navel gazing at the moment, wondering how they went so wrong about Donald Trump's appeal. Apparently, they all thought it was joke until this weekend or something. And the big takeaway is best exemplified by this observation by Nicholos Kristof in the New York Times:Media elites rightly talk about our insufficient racial, ethnic and gender diversity, but we also lack economic diversity. We inhabit a middle-class world and don't adequately cover the part of
  
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• Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Elvis enters the building, and “the king of rock and roll is singing about lettuce”

  28-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  “Focus,” says Andrea Zito (Annie Parisse) as she walks into the American Century Recordings conference room. “They’re playing Wollman next week.” There’s a bunch of grousing around the table at this pronouncement. “Yodeling fans rejoice,” Richie (Bobby Cannavale) observes sarcastically. They’re not wrong--it’s just this side of a novelty number, electric guitar, yodeling, a drum solo, lots of organ, and even some flute--but Andrea is al
  
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• 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Michele Bachmann belongs with these lunatics

  28-03-2016 13:02 via salon.com
  
  No one wants to think about Ted Cruz having sex. People also do not want to think about Donald Trump’s penis. And yet, both of these visions have been injected into our national psyche. Can a traumatized nation ever recover from these disturbing images? Probably not.In the scheme of things, the week’s manufactured sex scandal was pretty tame; sliming some far-right Christian candidate’s sex life is just good, old-fashioned, dirty American politics, after all. And though it obv
  
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• Paul Ryan is still a grifter: The GOP has become a tax-avoidance scam for the 1 percent

  28-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  The modern Republican Party has devolved into a tax avoidance scam for rich people. The scam is a masterpiece of psychological manipulation, in which the racial, cultural and economic anxieties of (mostly white) voters are exploited, in order to get those voters to support policies that transfer ever-greater percentages of wealth from themselves to the top 0.1 percent.It really isn’t any more complicated than that. Everything else – the “culture wars,” the continual hyste
  
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• What Donald Trump really represents: America’s addiction to competition

  28-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  There is one overriding story this election season, and it concerns how Donald Trump has confounded pundits who assumed he was the kind of joke people would laugh at rather than vote for. It's the story of how the media cover him endlessly, saving his campaign millions of dollars in ad buys and contributing to a self-fulfilling prophecy of popularity. It's the story of how Republican leaders profess to be appalled by someone who is really just offering a more explicit and emphatic
  
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• Will Ted Cruz dump Trump? What would it take for him to finally disavow his one-time buddy?

  28-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Even though it was just a few months ago, it’s difficult now to recall the time when Ted Cruz and Donald Trump were friends. Not just friends, actually – they were a happy pair of anti-establishment rogues who spent the late summer and early autumn palling around on the campaign trail together. They had super-secret one-on-one meetings in New York, arranged at Cruz’s request. In addition to being so disgustingly friendly in public, they made a point to refrain from attacking on
  
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• The truth about Bernie Sanders’ youth movement: The future could be a progressive one — but only if we make it

  28-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  In a recent Washington Post piece, I discussed my analysis of the American National Election Studies database suggesting that young people are indeed more progressive than older generations. But they've yet to have a large effect on our politics, and one reason is because they simply don’t vote. Thus, progressives must take seriously the importance of registering and mobilizing young people, an increasingly important demographic.Young people are more progressiveTo examine the views of
  
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  28-03-2016 04:37 via twitter.com
  
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• “Zootopia” in the Year of Trump: The parallels between a Disney cartoon and the 2016 election continue to surprise

  28-03-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  “Bad news, in this city gripped by fear…” –“Zootopia,” released March 4, 2016“Riskiest Political Act of 2016? Protesting at Rallies for Donald Trump” –New York Times, March 10, 2016As Disney’s latest animated opus, “Zootopia” has not only toppled records with a $75 million opening weekend, but might very well beat “Frozen” as the most profitable cartoon to date.Pegged 99 percent “fresh” by Rotten Tom
  
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• My body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the clean-eating industry

  28-03-2016 01:29 via salon.com
  
  The Facebook chat box bears the tiny smiling face of a woman in workout gear: a tank top cut off at the midriff and leggings in a matching black, bearing her taut, tanned belly. I can’t quite place her; she might be some casual acquaintance from high school. She greets me with a “hey there” followed by an infinite number of exclamation points, and, as I’m scouting her profile—all imports from a Fit-Bit, miles run and steps taken; “inspirational” quotes l
  
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• The “bitch” we come to love: Summer’s “O.C.” evolution taught me to appreciate this kind of TV heroine

  28-03-2016 01:28 via salon.com
  
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• We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction

  28-03-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  Believing in stuffThe American 1990s saw the rise of a second popular eschatological vision, one primarily socioeconomic but no less millenarian in temper than the vision offered by "Left Behind." In the fall of 1989, in the National Interest, Francis Fukuyama published “The End of History?” which argues that the end of the Cold War might well have proved Hegel right: history might indeed have ended—and permanently enthroned liberalism—in 1806 with the Battle of Jena. Fuk
  
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