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• Amy Schumer reveals Jon Snow’s fate (well, sort of) in “Game of Thrones”-style preview

  31-03-2016 22:21 via salon.com
  "Inside Amy Schumer" teased its April 21 return with a "Game of Thrones"-style promo, purporting to reveal the fate of GoT's Jon Snow, who died last season. Or did he?"No spoilers, but Jon Snow is definitely alive," Schumer says. "'Cause he said no to doing our show."She's in a foggy forest, flanked by two pelt-clad villagers, and styled like a cross between Sansa Stark and Daenerys Targaryen. She's on horseback."And fame hasn't changed me," she adds. "This is
  
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• Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros concocts insane conspiracy theory to defend Donald Trump’s extreme anti-abortion position(s)

  31-03-2016 22:16 via salon.com
  
  Not sure if I should blame this one on Sarah Palin -- for lowering the standard of intellectual curiosity required for one of the highest offices in the land so much so that asking a question is somehow an attack -- or Sean Hannity -- for so intensely training his one-track, anti-Hillary Clinton zealotry throughout Fox News consistently from the 2007 "Stop Hillary Express" days all the way through seven years of Obama Derangement Syndrome. In either case, it came as little surprise to hear
  
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• All the numbers spell disaster for Trump: Latest projections portend electoral doom for both the billionaire and Republicans in November

  31-03-2016 22:01 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump's dominance has obscured just how unpopular he is outside of the conservative bubble. Even among Republican voters, if you dig a little deeper, you find that Trump has serious problems. Nate Silver elaborates: “Trump has consistently had the plurality of Republican support in polls, but those same polls suggest that Trump faces unusually high resistance from voters who don't have him as their first choice...Many of them would be unhappy with a Trump nomination, more than
  
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• Back to “Back to the Future”: The ride is gone, but the film’s cross-generational appeal holds

  31-03-2016 22:00 via salon.com
  
  If your ‘80s childhood involved a whirl on the “Back to the Future” ride at Universal Studios, it’s a day to mourn. The silver DeLorean was removed from the Florida and California parks in 2007, and Osaka’s Universal Studio Japan has announced it will close the ride down at the end of May. (This comes, by the way, a few months after the Japanese park’s “Back to the Future” gift shop became a Minions store.) At the same time, the long-planned &ldquo
  
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• Someone thought this was a good idea: Mississippi Senate passes bill allowing churches to form militias

  31-03-2016 21:32 via salon.com
  
  The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday passed  "Mississippi Church Protection Act, opening the door to houses of worship forming militias there.The Act would, in part, "provide that killing a person while acting as a participant of a church or place of worship security team is justifiable homicide." Such church security teams would authorize "designated members ... to carry firearms for the protection of the congregation of such church or place of worship."Permissible firearm
  
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• Man offers free hugs at Sanders and Trump rallies and gets shockingly different responses

  31-03-2016 20:40 via salon.com
  
  Ken Nwadike, founder of Free Hugs Project, attended both a Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders rally and offered attendees free hugs.
  The reception he received from the two parties is shockingly different. The Trump rally attendees denied the hugs, claimed there is "no love in this world" and asked Nwadike is he was selling drugs. Later, at a Sanders rally people of all ages and races opened their arms to get hugs from Nwadike.
  Watch our video to see the striking differences and watch Nwadike's full
  
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• Piers Morgan, arbiter of feminism and cleavage, throws prissy fit at Kim Kardashian: “Pretending that topless bird-flicking selfies promote feminism is ridiculous”

  31-03-2016 20:35 via salon.com
  
  I'm so sorry to do this, but I'm going to talk about Piers Morgan now. I know, I know. And were he not so head scratchingly typical of a particular kind of facile, "The several decades of feminism just went totally over my head" way of thinking, I wouldn't mention it either. But he is, so let's unpack.Let me take you back, back in time to earlier this month, when Kim Kardashian — a woman who knows how to get attention and who absolutely knows that taking off her clothing is a surefire way
  
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• The Washington Post’s revealing blunder: Their screwup over the FBI’s Hillary probe is a great example of why Americans hate the press

  31-03-2016 20:17 via salon.com
  
  I don't think there's ever been a period in my lifetime during which a sizable plurality of Americans didn't look upon the mainstream media with a mix of disdain and distrust, but the 2016 election has taken it to another level.There's Donald Trump's campaign, obviously, which has placed hatred of elite media — not just as an institution, but very much as a group of "disgusting" individuals — front and center like no other presidential campaign (at least since Richard
  
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• The Arizona Secretary of State confirmed election fraud occurred in the state’s primary

  31-03-2016 19:58 via salon.com
  
  Thousands of Arizona residents encountered major problems while attempting to vote in the state's March 22 primary.The number of polling locations in one county decreased to 60 from 200, causing significantly longer lines. One woman wrote to the Bernie Sanders campaign claiming that she waited in line for nearly 5 hours.Thousands of other residents arrived at polling sites to find that they had been misidentified as Republicans or Independents, and were instead given provisional ballots.
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• Vladimir Putin might be dating Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife and we have lots of questions

  31-03-2016 19:51 via salon.com
  
  File this one under "things that really, really, really need to be true.""Rupert Murdoch’s Ex-Wife Wendi Deng Is Dating Vladimir Putin," blared the headline in Us Weekly on Thursday.Whaaaa?! Let's let the venerable tabloid explain:The rumor circulating around the corridors of power — from Washington, D.C., to Europe and Asia — is that Vladimir Putin and Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife, are dating.Reports of the pair have been floating around for years, ever since the
  
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• “The suffering is staggering”: 6 Yemeni children killed or wounded daily in U.S.-backed Saudi war; millions face catastrophe

  31-03-2016 19:40 via salon.com
  
  For children in Yemen, "even playing or sleeping has become dangerous," explains Julien Harneis, a representative for the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, or UNICEF, in Yemen.A new report by UNICEF reveals that an average of six Yemeni children have been killed or injured every day over the past 12 months in the ongoing U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war."Children are paying the highest price for a conflict not of their making," Harneis continued. "They have been killed or maimed across th
  
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• From Russia with love: Rupert Murdoch’s third ex-wife, Wendi Deng, is rumored to be dating Vladimir Putin

  31-03-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  
  Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch's third ex-wife, is dating Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Us Weekly.Murdoch, 85, is best known as founder and head of News Corp., which counts among its more controversial assets Fox News and News of the World, a tabloid magazine infamously tangled up in a phone-hacking scandal.In June 2012, the Wall Street Journal (a News Corp entity) said of Deng's newest hubby, "Mr. Putin has worked in the seams of Russia's political system, centralizi
  
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• Report: Trump executive charged with assaulting young mother of two

  31-03-2016 19:29 via salon.com
  
  Let's just say #TeamTrump is not having a banner week dealing with women. First, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was arrested and charged with battery for his man-handling of a female reporter earlier this month. Then the candidate managed to give three different positions on abortion in a matter of three hours, beginning with the proposition of punishment for women who seek outlawed abortions. Now, a top executive in the billionaire developer's empire has been charged with assaulting a
  
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• It was Republicans who killed the GOP: Stop trying to argue that anyone else is to blame

  31-03-2016 19:26 via salon.com
  
  The ascendance of Donald Trump has proven vexing for conservative pundits. They were once so enthused by the GOP’s 2014 midterm gains and “deep bench” of White House hopefuls, but now they’re having trouble explaining how it is that Trump and Ted Cruz (and, perfunctorily, John Kasich) are the last men standing in the 2016 race. The answers to these questions are painful, as they require recognition that the toxic Republican politics of the last eight years were cheered al
  
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• Trevor Noah fires back at John Kasich: “Daily Show” host lobs Kasich’s Trump grenade right back at him

  31-03-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  
  GOP caboose John Kasich told "Good Morning America" hosts Thursday that frontrunner Donald Trump, "ought to be happy ... that Jon Stewart’s not running ‘The Daily Show.'"Current "Daily Show" host, Trevor Noah — sort of the John Kasich of the late-night lineup, #SinceYouMentionedIt — replied on Twitter with an uncharacteristically Trumpian kill shot:https://twitter.com/Trevornoah/status/715556447715725312Noah has finally found someone his own size to pick on
  
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• This video is an amazing rundown of Donald Trump’s ever changing stance on abortion

  31-03-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  
  Watch this compilation of Trump's ever evolving stance on abortion.Continue Reading...
  
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• “Our people will not be forced back into the closet”: North Carolinians are fiercely battling hateful anti-LGBT law

  31-03-2016 18:10 via salon.com
  
  Earlier this week North Carolina lawmakers passed the most extreme anti-LGBTQ legislation in the country — House Bill 2 that prohibits localities from passing protections from discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual identity and mandates that all people use the bathroom of the gender they were assigned at birth.
  But in the wake of the passing of HB2 grassroots groups are staging mass protests and two trans youth have filed lawsuits against North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
  
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• Even a cartoon Trump is no joke: Colbert’s mock interview shows how dominant the GOP frontrunner has become

  31-03-2016 18:09 via salon.com
  
  If you work in television or the news media, you may be wondering how to deal with Donald Trump. Do you talk about him – how smart he is, how dangerous he is, whatever – or do you ignore the controversial statements he drops in what seems to be a calculated move to dominate the news cycle? It’s sort of an unsolvable problem. If the “synergy” of news and entertainment means celebrity candidates get, effectively, free exposure, how do you make sure you’re not ov
  
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• Fellow Republicans going hard after the front-runner: Physical violence is “the consequence of Trump culture”

  31-03-2016 14:10 via salon.com
  
  On Wednesday night's edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Ted Cruz's communications director called the battery charges against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski a simple "consequence of the Trump culture," one she believes is a "culture of disrespect."Alice Stewart appeared on the program along with Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson, who defended her employer in much the same way he did during Tuesday night's town hall -- by accusing the Cruz campaign of having started it.
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• The scariest thing about Donald Trump’s abortion comments

  31-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  After last night, we can add abortion politics to the long list of issues Donald Trump knows less about than a politically aware 12 year old. On an MSNBC town hall, Chris Matthews asked Trump one of the tougher questions a "pro-life" politician has ever had to face. He asked him if a woman who has an abortion should be punished. And Trump said yes, provoking an outcry from just about everyone on all sides of the debate. It's obvious why decent people would be appalled. But Trump w
  
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• Hey Democrats, Marco Rubio is your friend: Rubio’s bid to keep his delegates guarantees a ruinous GOP convention

  31-03-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  If you’re one of the many Democrats excited about the possibility of a contested Republican convention, there is good news to report. In a highly unusual move, Marco Rubio is lobbying to keep every single delegate he won before dropping out of the race earlier this month.Typically, a candidate’s delegates are free to support someone else once he or she bows out. But MSNBC is reporting that Rubio “is personally asking state parties in 21 states and territories to refrain from re
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s new ad targeting Donald Trump: Is being kind of “meh” a good thing?

  31-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Campaign ads haven't played too big of a role in 2016, at least not yet, but in so far as any candidate's TV commercials have garnered attention, they've been those of Sen. Bernie Sanders. (You could count Donald Trump's use of Instagram videos, if you'd like; but those have a much, much shorter reach.)Sanders' "Together" ad, for example, won widespread plaudits. And, coming as it did right after his big win in New Hampshire, helped perpetuate the narrative of Sanders on the rise, the next Obama
  
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• Donald Trump’s Social Security heresy: Taking on Paul Ryan and the privatization push

  31-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  One of the most fascinating things about Donald Trump as a presidential candidate is how he effortlessly and effectively rips holes in the Republican policy agenda despite a) not really having a policy agenda of his own, and b) not really knowing what he’s talking about at any given time.There are a wealth of examples of this phenomenon, with healthcare standing out as one of the most prominent. At a recent debate, Trump got cornered by Ted Cruz for not really understanding how the healthc
  
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• New York is about to become a madhouse: Why this unexpectedly fierce primary is going to get very interesting

  31-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
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• Camille Paglia’s history of music: The politics and poetry of Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye and hip-hop

  31-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Thirty years ago, during my second year of teaching humanities at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (1985-86), I created an elective two-semester course called “Lyric” that began with ancient Greek poetry and ended with modern song lyrics, from Broadway musicals to folk-rock. In the course catalog, I described it as “a study of how contemporary song lyrics developed from the tradition of lyric poetry and folk ballads.” My aim was to demonstrate how poetry had be
  
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• This amazing Supreme Court theory could probably never happen (but maybe it should)

  31-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  There is a fun legal theory floating around advocating one way the Obama administration could resolve the mess over Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court. In brief, the theory says this: A few months from now, Garland could just show up at the Supreme Court building and start working.Okay, it’s a legal theory, so it is much more complicated than that. But Garland pulling on his judicial robe and plunking himself down in Antonin Scalia’s seat without so much as
  
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• Anti-choice witch-hunts: The movement turns to McCarthyist tactics to intimidate women and doctors

  31-03-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Is there no end to the sadism of anti-choice activists and legislators? Every time you think they've hit a new low, they find another layer to dig down to when it comes to novel ways to make women and their families suffer. Now they've turned to tactics that echo those used by the communist witch hunters of the 50s, legal intimidation and threats. Except these tactics are so invasive and cruel that even Joe McCarthy might have thought they're going a little too far with it all.Out of Missis
  
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• Robert Reich: They’ve marginalized Bernie at every turn

  31-03-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  “Bernie did well last weekend but he can’t possibly win the nomination,” a friend told me for what seemed like the thousandth time, attaching an article from the Washington Postthat shows how far behind Bernie remains in delegates.Wait a minute. Last Tuesday, Sanders won 78 percent of the vote in Idaho and 79 percent in Utah. This past Saturday, he took 82 percent of the vote in Alaska, 73 percent in Washington, and 70 percent in Hawaii.In fact, since March 15, Bernie has
  
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• Bernie’s miracle path to victory: Nate Silver crunches the numbers on a Sanders win

  31-03-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  Supporting Bernie Sanders is a heady mix of emotions, like being in an on-again, off-again relationship.Things were good last weekend. Sanders won Washington, Alaska and Hawaii in what would be the best performing day of his campaign thus far, but the road ahead remains long and filled with speed bumps. And by speed bumps, I mean Sanders’ delegate deficit.Sanders currently trails Hillary Clinton by 228 pledged delegates; 2,383 delegates are required to win the Democratic nomination, which
  
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• Trial and error: Report finds prosecutors rarely pay price for misconduct

  31-03-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct that land innocent people in prison.The Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal group that represents people seeking exonerations, examined records in Arizona, California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania, and interviewed a wide assortment of defense lawyers, prosecutors and legal experts.In each state, researchers ex
  
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• The Democrats own this too: Gerrymandering and obstructionism alone can’t explain American inequality

  31-03-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  [This piece has been adapted from Thomas Frank's new book, Listen, Liberal, or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (Metropolitan Books).]When you press Democrats on their uninspiring deeds -- their lousy free trade deals, for example, or their flaccid response to Wall Street misbehavior -- when you press them on any of these things, they automatically reply that this is the best anyone could have done. After all, they had to deal with those awful Republicans, and those awful Republica
  
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• The Democrats own this mess too: Gerrymandering and obstructionism alone can’t explain American inequality

  31-03-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  [This piece has been adapted from Thomas Frank's new book, Listen, Liberal, or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (Metropolitan Books).]When you press Democrats on their uninspiring deeds -- their lousy free trade deals, for example, or their flaccid response to Wall Street misbehavior -- when you press them on any of these things, they automatically reply that this is the best anyone could have done. After all, they had to deal with those awful Republicans, and those awful Republica
  
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• Best spa day with the best little sister 💕 https://t.co/SLZIYIFTLt

  31-03-2016 01:11 via twitter.com
  
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• The dark side of “visibility”: How we slept on trans people becoming the new scapegoats of the right

  31-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  I was happy to hear about the International Trans Day of Visibility two years ago. I agreed with the sentiment that the Transgender Day of Remembrance in November being the only trans holiday was morbid and depressing and that celebrating happy, healthy trans lives was a positive goal. I was happy to be one of many allies pushing awareness of March 31 as a “day of visibility” last year.Which is why I was surprised when one of my close friends, who is trans and who hadn’t heard
  
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• America’s next sexual frontier: The “nipplegasm”

  31-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  They can be flicked, kissed and sucked; pierced or painted. You keep them close, but often covered. Though their appearance may change, they almost always show up in the same place. They’re your nipples, and apparently, they want in on your orgasm.The nipple-assisted orgasm, or nipplegasm, refers to an orgasm delivered by nipple stimulation alone. Of course, not everyone has encountered that kind of pleasure. Sexologist Carol Queen suspects those who have are likely armed with two specific
  
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• Stop killing off TV’s lesbians: This depressing trope limits storytelling about queer women

  31-03-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Television might be getting more inclusive, but when it comes to lesbian and bisexual characters, the small screen remains a graveyard. In a recent report from Autostraddle, the queer-centric website ran the numbers over the past four decades and found that queer women were the most likely characters to die on TV: Since 1976, 11 percent of television shows have featured a lesbian or bisexual character, and of those programs, 65 percent have a deceased queer female character. Of lesbian char
  
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• When is a band not itself anymore?: As bands age and line-ups shift, fans get to decide

  31-03-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  On this year's Grammy Awards, the surviving members of the Eagles joined up with Jackson Browne to perform "Take It Easy" in honor of Glenn Frey, who passed away in mid-January. In the aftermath of the tribute appearance, Eagles drummer/co-vocalist/co-founder Don Henley told BBC Radio 2 the performance was "very difficult and very emotional," and added, “That was the final farewell. I don’t think you’ll see us performing again. I think that was probably it. I think it was an ap
  
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