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• Why Hollywood isn’t the hero for shutting down Georgia’s anti-LGBT bill

  30-03-2016 22:37 via salon.com
  
  On Monday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a bill that would have legalized discrimination against LGBT people in the name of religious freedom. It was a big win for gay rights in the conservative South. Some of the credit might go to Hollywood, thanks to The Walt Disney Co. and subsidiary Marvel Studios strongly suggesting they would pull production from the state if the bill became law.I’m certainly glad that he vetoed it. But Hollywood is no hero. The reason that so much television and
  
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• “He has no idea what he’s doing”: Twitter tears into Trump for suggesting “some form of punishment” for women who get illegal abortions

  30-03-2016 22:36 via salon.com
  
  In an MSNBC town hall interview with host Chris Matthews — to be aired Wednesday night at 8 p.m. — GOP frontrunner Donald Trump made a severely uninformed comment about his plan to punish women for getting illegal abortions.Asked if he'd criminalize abortion, Trump said, "There has to be some form of punishment.""For the woman?" Matthews clarified."Yeah," Trump said.When asked if he thought a man should also be held accountable for an abortion, Trump doubled down: "I w
  
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• Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal

  30-03-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  As a young child, I never much cared for Thomas the Tank Engine, who struck me as creepy and coercive (though I believe the word I used at the time was “yucky.”) The book I adored was “The Three Horses: Blackie, Brownie, and Whitey,” a “really bizarre” book that continues to inspire nostalgic devotion for its fascinating illustrations and unapologetic weirdness. It’s the story of three ponies who pass as princesses by wearing big-eyed, white-girl ma
  
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• “World’s biggest bribe scandal”: Report on oil corruption exposes how corporations help destabilize Middle East

  30-03-2016 22:21 via salon.com
  
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• Jonathan Franzen and Louis C.K. on “Jeopardy!”: Sounds like an “SNL” sketch, but it’s real and it’s going to be fascinating

  30-03-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  
  Award-winning author and noted curmudgeon Jonathan Franzen will be taping on “Jeopardy!”’s Power Players’ Week this month, for broadcast mid-May, along with several other luminaries: comedian Louis C.K., Senator Al Franken, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, “Mad Men” creator and showrunner Matthew Weiner, and former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry.Power Players Week—a tournament last held in 2012—is a smarter, wonkier version of Celebrity “Jeopardy
  
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• The family values sham: Research shows that most of these ’90s fears were nonsense

  30-03-2016 21:43 via salon.com
  
  Anyone who recalls the early 1990s will remember the “family values” fight, Dan Quayle’s pontificating, and the “Murphy Brown” wars. The 1992 presidential race provoked a lot of discussion about working women, single mothers, traditional family structures, and other social issues. Quayle, then the vice president, criticized Candace Bergen’s journalist character Murphy Brown, arguing in a speech at the Commonwealth Club of California that she was "mocking the i
  
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• Donald Trump says he wants to punish women who have abortions, making him just like every other “pro-life” politician

  30-03-2016 21:38 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump once again managed on Wednesday to send shockwaves through the media with his blunt, vicious mouth, this time admitting out loud that he wishes to "punish" women who get abortions. After asked by Chris Matthews about abortion during an MSNBC town hall set to air in full Wednesday night, Trump reiterated the bog-standard Republican opinion that he is "pro-life" and that he would like to return to an era when abortion was banned.But then the wheels fell off the whole thing when Matthe
  
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• Manspreading is sexy now? New study says we actually love it when men — and women — take up more space

  30-03-2016 21:31 via salon.com
  
  It’s rush hour on the train, and you’re busy trying to get to where you’re going just like the hundreds of other people also waiting on the platform. The weather is warming up, so the heat intensifies the scent of sweat and grime underground. Your feet hurt from the daily sacrifice you make for style, and you can’t wait for a cocktail and to kick the damn things off. Finally, the train arrives and things are starting to look up. A song you like plays through your earbuds,
  
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• Even our burgers are angry now: Burger King’s “Angriest Whopper” is “Make America Great Again” on a bun

  30-03-2016 20:48 via salon.com
  
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• Please get over the Susan Sarandon “scandal”: Why the establishment’s freakout shows just how blind they are

  30-03-2016 20:46 via salon.com
  
  During an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Monday, Susan Sarandon said that she might not vote for Hillary Clinton, in the event the Democratic frontrunner wins the nomination.“I don’t know. I’m going to see what happens,” said Sarandon, coyly responding to a question from Hayes in an interview largely about what she is hearing from Sanders voters on the campaign trail. Then, asked about the dangers posed by a President Trump, she replied, “Some people feel tha
  
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• Donald Trump is the man Rush Limbaugh always wanted to be

  30-03-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  
  Yesterday we were treated to the spectacle of Donald Trump's campaign manager being arrested for misdemeanor battery of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. The candidate stood by his man. After weeks of denials and assassinations of the victim's character, he finally blustered and blathered and then did his Trumpian thing: He said she started it by physically attacking him with what might have been "a little bomb" (it was a pen) and threatened to have her charg
  
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• The mastermind behind the petition to make the Republican National Convention open carry

  30-03-2016 20:11 via salon.com
  
  Alas, the satirical mastermind behind the Change.org petition to allow firearms at the Republican National Convention has been unmasked.According to an Observer report, "Democratic activist and blogger" James P. Ryan is behind "Allow Open Carry of Firearms at the Quicken Loans Arena during the RNC Convention in July," which has amassed over 52,000 signatures.Ryan told the Observer he's "a liberal Democrat," who's "passionate about gun control and discouraging gun violence.""It was an a
  
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• German historian claims leading U.S. news agency Associated Press collaborated with the Nazis

  30-03-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
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• Donald Trump shreds the pledge: Now, the GOP has no good options left to dodge mayhem

  30-03-2016 19:46 via salon.com
  
  Way back in August of 2015, when Scott Walker was still running for the White House and the Marco Moment was an as-yet unobserved phenomenon, all the top-tier Republican presidential candidates gathered together on stage for the first time to debate. Fox News’ Bret Baier kicked off the questioning by asking the candidates to raise their hands if they were “unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the Republican Party and pledge to not run an independent cam
  
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• This could be the first bona fide sex scandal of the 2016 election

  30-03-2016 19:30 via salon.com
  
  On her show Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow detailed the early-2000s case of Washington, D.C., madam Deborah Palfrey.The proprietor of high-end escort service Pamela Martin & Associates, Palfrey was convicted in 2008 of money laundering and racketeering.Palfrey and her lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, fought to release the company's phone records to corroborate claims that it operated legally. They ultimately released some of the info to the media.What ensued was the so-call
  
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• Democrats are in denial about the election: As long as Hillary Clinton risks FBI indictment, Bernie Sanders is the real front runner

  30-03-2016 19:16 via salon.com
  
  In order to understand why Bernie Sanders is the true Democratic front-runner, and why Hillary Clinton should concede the nomination to Sanders, take a closer look at the FBI’s email investigation. Few people know more about the FBI probe than Jason Leopold, and his latest piece in Vice explains the potential repercussions of this ongoing saga. In an article titled "FBI Reveals New Details About Its Probe Into Hillary Clinton’s Use of Private Email Serve
  
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• Trump supporters first pepper spray, then yell “n****r lover” to 15-year-old protester in Paul Ryan’s hometown

  30-03-2016 19:14 via salon.com
  
  Police in Janesville, Wisconsin, are searching for two Donald Trump rally attendees who pepper sprayed and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old anti-Trump protester outside the Republican presidential frontrunner's rally on Tuesday. Video of the incident shows other apparent Trump supporters shouting "bitch" and "nigger lover" to the teenager as she attempts to walk away with pepper spray in her eyes.“Damn, Donald, back at it again with the white supremacy," read 15-year-old Alex Drake's 
  
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• Watch a whiny Donald Trump interrupt Anderson Cooper 14 annoying times

  30-03-2016 19:08 via salon.com
  
  The GOP frontrunner's attempt at politeness came across as rudeness as he saturated the CNN Town Hall conversation with the phrase "excuse me."Continue Reading...
  
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• The U.S. has menaced Cuba for over 50 years — Fidel Castro is right to be wary of Obama’s claims

  30-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
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• “The Donald is his own biggest enemy”: Former Super PAC director exposes Donald Trump’s bulls*** artistry

  30-03-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  If you’re like me, you’ve suspected all along that Donald Trump’s campaign was a long and luxurious con job, the kind of con job only a once-in-a-generation bullshit artist could execute. Not that any confirmation was needed, but that’s what we now have in the form of an open letter from Stephanie Cegielski, who signed on last year as communications director of the pro-Trump Super PAC, Make America Great Again.Cegielski recently walked away from the Super PAC after realiz
  
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• Republicans lied in Wisconsin: Here’s how you know the state’s voter ID law is a complete sham

  30-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  No rule in politics is absolute, but, generally speaking, you’d be well served to keep this one in mind: If a politician is not willing to spend money on something they say they support, then their support is about as real as Santa Claus.Unless you view politics as nothing more than an entertaining pastime for overeducated squares who weren’t cute enough to make it in Hollywood — i.e., you actually look forward to “nerd prom,” God help you — then the point of
  
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• Here are Don Lemon’s most Don Lemon-y moments

  30-03-2016 12:30 via salon.com
  
  Don Lemon ripped Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson for being "disingenuous" yesterday. He's also not afraid of being politically incorrect. Watch our video for some of the Lemon's best unfiltered moments.Continue Reading...
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s “tone”-gate disaster: Why her campaign’s condescending Bernie dismissal should concern Democrats everywhere

  30-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  During a CNN interview on Monday, Hillary Clinton’s Chief Strategist Joel Benenson responded to a question about whether Clinton would participate in a Democratic debate in New York — as the Sanders campaign has requested — in such a condescending way, that he unintentionally managed to break the internet.“I think the real question is what kind of campaign is Senator Sanders going to run going forward,” opined Benenson. “Senator Sander
  
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• Chuck Grassley’s amazing SCOTUS cowardice: Now he’s avoiding his constituents because they want him to appoint Merrick Garland

  30-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Senator Chuck Grassley has a problem. He feels it is very important for “the people” to have a voice in selecting Antonin Scalia’s replacement on the Supreme Court. But what if some of those people, maybe even a majority, tell him their preference is that he hold hearings on President Obama’s current nominee, Merrick Garland? How can Grassley accommodate that possibility without exposing his stance as being yet one more cynical example of the partisanship and obstructioni
  
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• Yes, Susan Sarandon is guilty of blind privilege: Why her comments about Trump & “the revolution” are so wrong

  30-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  By now you've probably watched or heard about the clip of Susan Sarandon on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" in which she implies that it'd be acceptable for Bernie Sanders supporters to either stay home or vote for a third party candidate if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination. And if your reaction was anything other than disgust and bewilderment, you're doing it wrong. Susan Sarandon certainly is.Before we continue, I hasten to note that I like Sarandon a lot. She's a sharp, t
  
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• Donald Trump’s self-destructive campaign: Why Team Trump is compelled to bring pain down on itself

  30-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  It’s been a while, so let’s take a peek inside the burlap sack filled with coked-up raccoons that is the Donald J. Trump 2016 presidential campaign. Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager – as in, the person who actually runs the Trump campaign – was brought up on charges this week for manhandling a reporter who did the unthinkable and tried to ask his boss question. The incident occurred earlier this month after one of Trump’s primary-night victory press
  
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• Anal, neurotic, defensive, hysterical: We reference Freud everyday — often without even realizing it

  30-03-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  He has such an ego. That’s probably a defense mechanism. I repressed that memory.Whether you like it or not, every time you use terms like this you are giving a small nod of approval to the field of psychology known as psychoanalysis. These are terms originating right from Sigmund Freud’s couch, yet most of us only have limited appreciation of what they actually mean.I’m not the most balanced when it comes to writing about Freud, or his highly problematic assumpt
  
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• They’re radicals, pure and simple: The GOP has finally destroyed the political press’ most destructive narrative

  30-03-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
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• 10 ways the Democratic primary has been rigged from the start

  30-03-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  It’s not over. Far from it. The economic and political establishment, which includes the Democratic National Committee, its Wall Street and corporate backers and the major media—most of it now owned by a half dozen big corporations—have worked feverishly to turn the Democratic primary process into a coronation for Hillary Clinton.Bottom line: they wanted to declare it over before actual voters could vote, but their carefully crafted strategy began to #FeelTheBern.Here are 10 w
  
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• Campbell Brown, charter propagandist: How the former anchorwoman became the face of education reform

  30-03-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Perhaps guided by the old adage that you have to spend money to make money, the champions of education "reform" have poured billions into the effort to privatize and profit from America’s schools. Those funds are used on multiple fronts: launching charter schools, underwriting the political campaigns of politicians, and of course, investing in media to propagate the free-market privatization vision. Among the most visible properties in this effort is the Seventy Four, the well-funded, pow
  
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• Anderson Cooper shuts down Donald Trump: “With all due respect, ‘He started it!’ is the argument of a five-year-old”

  30-03-2016 03:34 via salon.com
  
  In tonight's CNN town-hall, Anderson Cooper asked GOP front-runner Donald Trump about a photograph he re-tweeted which appeared to anyone with eyes to cast Texas Senator Ted Cruz's wife Heidi in an unflattering light.
  Trump replied that despite it being fairly obvious that he was attempting to do just that, that wasn't his intent. "I thought it was a nice picture of Heidi," he said.Cooper replied, "Come on, you're running for president of the United States.""Look," Trump replied, "I didn't start
  
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• Donald Trump insists he was assaulted by reporter who charged his campaign manager with assault: “She had a pen or something”

  30-03-2016 03:16 via salon.com
  
  To describe the initial exchange between Donald Trump and Anderson Cooper about the assault charges filed against his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski by Michelle Fields as "testy" would be the height of -- "Let me finish, can I finish? Let me finish" -- understatement, as the likely GOP nominee will not allow the CNN host to finish a single question.In fact, as Cooper attempted to do so, Trump put his hand in the air and pulled from his pocket a printed version of Fields' statement, which he
  
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• Ted Cruz: “Of course” Donald Trump planted the story about his alleged affairs in the National Enquirer

  30-03-2016 02:32 via salon.com
  
  In tonight's CNN town-hall discussion, host Anderson Cooper asked Texas Senator Ted Cruz whether he could sure that Donald Trump's organization was responsible for rumors that surfaced over the weekend in the National Enquirer."You claim that the story was 'planted' by Donald Trump," Cooper asked, "do you have any proof of that?"Instead of being circumspect, Cruz said quite plainly that he is positive that Trump was responsible for the rumors. He noted that "the story on its face quoted one pers
  
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• Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism

  30-03-2016 01:01 via salon.com
  
  No doubt it’s an obnoxious film-critic cliché to say that there are certain actors who are always worth watching, even in bad movies or mediocre TV series. I mean, if they’re so great, why can’t they make their movies and shows better? Let me ratchet up the obnoxiousness even more by saying that I made this same observation to Don Cheadle over breakfast in New York last week. Because Cheadle is absolutely one of those actors who often seems bigger than his material. He&r
  
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• “It’s not a cult!”: Scientology looms large over “The Path,” a sexy new drama about faith and doubt

  30-03-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  The first episode of “The Path” is the hardest, which is ironic, because in all likelihood, the first step of the show’s proverbial path—the first step of the cult of Meyerism, “The Path”’s Scientology-like “religious” “movement”—is the easiest. The seductive qualities of Meyerism’s shining ladder—the members are all identified by which rung they’ve “attained,” be it 1R, 6R, or 10R—are the
  
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• Let’s face it: All our presidential candidates are hucksters

  30-03-2016 00:56 via salon.com
  
  Here is Bill Clinton, the U.S. President who served Wall Street by removing all regulations on derivatives-trading and by ending FDR’s Glass-Steagall Act separation of investment-banking from consumer-banking, now telling an audience, that his successor George W. Bush had done this, and that Bush’s successor Barack Obama has unfortunately continued it. He said this on March 21st when explaining why everyone should vote for his wife to undo the ”awful” and “tri
  
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• Let’s all picture Stephen Tobolowsky in a beekeeper suit: “Lately, my wife and I have developed a fascination over honeybees”

  30-03-2016 00:56 via salon.com
  
  Stephen Tobolowsky has been a character actor since, he claims, “the Pliocene era.” The tall, balding, Texas-born performer has played doctors, teachers, geniuses, plumbers, priests and Rabbis, among numerous other “professional” roles in nearly 250 film and television shows. He is most recognized as Ned Ryerson, the life insurance salesman in “Groundhog Day,” but has also had memorable parts in shows like “Californication.”In 2008, the actor start
  
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• Horrors of the Trump doctrine: Inside the GOP frontrunner’s terrifying interview with the NY Times

  30-03-2016 00:06 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump managed to shock the world once again. Last week, he actually sank so low that he publicly attacked Ted Cruz's wife Heidi's looks. Not that anyone thought he wasn't the type to say such rude things.  He's made a habit of it for many years. But he is running for president and, more importantly, he did this during a period when all eyes were on Europe in the wake of another devastating terrorist attack, and he was simultaneously criticizing the president for continuing on his his
  
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