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• President Obama is searching for 350,000 permanently disabled Americans to forgive their student loan debt

  12-04-2016 23:20 via salon.com
  
  President Obama's Department of Education is set to take on the huge task of identifying and forgiving the federal student loan debt of 400,000 permanently disabled Americans.The Washington Post reports that beginning next week, the Obama administration plans to forgive $7.7 billion in federal student loan debt for 387,000 people who receive disability payments and have the specific designation of “Medical Improvement Not Expected,” 179,000 of whom are currently in def
  
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• U.K. gives cute nicknames to “kill list” targets it blows up with drones, based on cartoons, musicians, porn stars

  12-04-2016 22:40 via salon.com
  
  Britain has a "kill list" too, and it gives cute nicknames to those whom it extrajudicially assassinates with drones, based on cartoons, musicians, actors, porn stars and even drugs.An explosive new report by British human rights organization Reprieve details how the U.K. has worked with the U.S. in its drone program for well over a decade, creating a similar secretive Kill List."Britain conspired in a U.S.-inspired Kill List soon after 9/11," the report reveals. "Starting in 2002, working
  
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• Stop piling on La’Porsha Renae: LGBT Americans don’t need her approval, they need better legal protections

  12-04-2016 21:49 via salon.com
  
  “American Idol” finalist La’Porsha Renae caused a firestorm of controversy this week following comments she made about Mississippi’s recently passed “religious liberty” law. Renae, who finished second in this year’s contest behind Trent Harmon, condemned HB 1523, which many believe is the harshest anti-LGBT law yet. “This is how I feel about the LGBT community: They are people just like us,” she said on a conference call with reporters. &ldqu
  
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• “Let me be clear: I do not want, nor will I accept the Republican nomination”: Paul Ryan says count him out for 2016

  12-04-2016 21:48 via salon.com
  
  Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan is officially ruling out a 2016 presidential candidacy, the BBC reports.Ryan's name has floated as a contender among GOP circles for several weeks following the likelihood that neither Donald Trump, John Kasich nor Ted Cruz will win the 1,237 delegates required to get the nomination.But the House speaker has repeatedly stated he would not run for president this year, even if the GOP ends in a contested convention in July. The
  
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• North Carolina begins to back off: Republican governor signs executive order allowing private businesses to opt-out of restrictive anti-LGBT law

  12-04-2016 21:24 via salon.com
  
  Boycotts work. As much as conservatives love to exalt the free market and deride social justice activists, when the one uses the other to make a political statement, it is most often conservatives left on the losing side.Just ask Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence who was forced to roll back his regressive "religious freedom" bill, allowing businesses the right to discriminate against LGBT customers, after a viral national campaign to boycott the state left him no choice back in 2015. Or Geo
  
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• Hope you can stomach this: Here is the best footage of the presidential candidates chowing down on the campaign trail

  12-04-2016 21:02 via salon.com
  
  Eating local delicacies is a large part of the daily campaign trail grind. John Kasich and Bernie Sanders have been known to have hardy appetites, while Hillary Clinton passed on a cheesecake in Brooklyn. Watch our video for some of the best food moments so far this election cycle.Continue Reading...
  
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• Paul Ryan to Republicans: Stop dreaming of me being the nominee in 2016

  12-04-2016 20:35 via salon.com
  
  Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan is officially ruling out a 2016 presidential candidacy, the BBC reports.Ryan's name has floated as a contender among GOP circles for several weeks following the likelihood that neither Donald Trump, John Kasich nor Ted Cruz will win the 1,237 delegates required to get the nomination.But the House Speaker has repeatedly stated he would not run for president this year, even if the GOP ends in a contested convention in July. The
  
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• David Barton, the man behind the movement to Christianize the government, believes Disney’s cartoon animals turn kids to paganism

  12-04-2016 20:32 via salon.com
  
  David Barton, who is a celebrity in Christian right circles but mostly unknown outside them, is worried about cartoon animals. You or I may think cartoon animals of the sort you see in Disney pictures are a harmless bit of entertainment, but Barton believes they are something far more sinister: A gateway drug to Babylonian pagan worship.During a rant on is "Wallbuilders Live" radio show on Monday about how "we've gotten away from a Biblical culture" and that's led to the supposed
  
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• Erykah Badu is wrong: Longer skirts won’t “keep our girls safe” at school

  12-04-2016 20:21 via salon.com
  
  Yesterday, in response to a Newshub article, picked up by The Guardian, about a New Zealand school where a dress code was instituted requiring girls to lower their skirt lengths to their knees so that, according to the deputy principal, they can “keep our girls safe, stop boys from getting ideas and create a good work environment for male staff,” singer Erykah Badu issued a Tweet storm. Her main point seems to be that since it’s, in her words, “natural” for men to b
  
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• Republicans’ general malaise: David Ignatius wants military to liberate the GOP from Trump

  12-04-2016 19:52 via salon.com
  
  A significant portion of the analysis devoted to the Republican presidential race is focused on helping the GOP figure a way out of the amazing mess it’s created. The party is on the verge of nominating either an unlikeable ideologue or a racist cartoon villain, and so pundits are busily stretching the bounds of political logic to dream up the deus ex machina that tidily bring order to all the chaos and leave everyone satisfied. Maybe Mitt Romney will rise up for a third time and finally c
  
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• Israeli extremist acquitted in attack on 2 left-wing Jews after saying he thought they were Arabs

  12-04-2016 18:55 via salon.com
  
  An Israeli court cleared a right-wing extremist of assault charges for attacking fellow Israeli Jews, because the extremist said he thought they were Arabs.The extremist also threatened the Jewish men with further violence after being acquitted.Benzi Gopstein — a leader in Israel's far-right, racist movement who harasses people in interracial relationships and calls for expelling "blood-sucking" Christians — attacked a prominent Jewish left-wing activist and his friend more than seve
  
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• Morning Joe panel admits discussing Clinton’s tone is “a gender thing” — continues to do it anyway

  12-04-2016 18:37 via salon.com
  
  On Morning Joe Tuesday, the panelists decided that discussing the tonal quality of Hillary Clinton's voice while ignoring that of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is, in fact, "a gender thing" -- then spent the next five minutes discussing it anyway.Former George W. Bush communications chief Nicolle Wallace began by noting that Clinton sounded more assured now that she's campaigning in her home state of New York and "pulling back a bit.""I think when she makes an argument like that in sort of a mo
  
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• Bill O’Reilly’s relentless racism: Revolting comment to Trump about African-Americans having “forehead tattoos” is the newest chapter in his long history of bigotry

  12-04-2016 18:37 via salon.com
  
  It was a moment of such stunning racism from Bill O'Reilly that even those who are well-apprised of his racist history were stunned. Donald Trump was on "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday and made a promise to reduce unemployment for African-Americans."How are you going to get jobs for them?" O'Reilly retorted, suddenly offended because Trump — Donald Trump — is somehow failing to be racist enough. "Many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and I hate to be ge
  
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• Drudge Report has “become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign,” complains Ted Cruz

  12-04-2016 18:29 via salon.com
  
  Drudge Report has gone full Breitbart and is now completely biased towards Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to Ted Cruz.In a radio interview Monday, the Texas Tea Party Senator lashed out at the online conservative behemoth. While campaigning in California's Orange County on Monday, Cruz sat for an interview with the Mike Slater Show and described an effort by the conservative online news aggregator to feed its millions of readers anti-Cruz and pro-Trump report
  
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• Louis C.K.’s big gamble: “Horace and Pete” shows limits to unbundling, cord cutting and the solo entrepreneur approach

  12-04-2016 18:06 via salon.com
  
  As often happens with the web, there’s good news and bad news as television shifts online. The spirit of the age tells us that everyone should go it alone, that entrepreneurial individualism is more important than being part of a larger team, that we all need to unbundle.But Louis C.K. has learned the hard way that it doesn’t always work. Even with a series that’s smart, well-acted, topical, and ambitious.C.K.’s show “Horace and Pete” is about as close to the
  
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• The next frontier in Cuba: American press is seeping into the country, shaking up nation’s decades-long battle with free expression

  12-04-2016 18:04 via salon.com
  
  During Obama's historic visit to Cuba, the flags of the two countries hung together from balconies in Old Havana. It was a symbol of unification, that U.S products would soon share a space in Cuban culture.Netflix and Airbnb settled on the island last May. And as the last of the embargo thaws, it won't be long before foreign media moves in; infiltrating a country which for 80 years has existed without freedom of expression. But following decades of censorship and mi
  
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• Bernie Sanders vs. the plutocracy: Why General Electric’s CEO is lashing out at the democratic socialist

  12-04-2016 18:03 via salon.com
  
  Last week, following comments from Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) on how corporate greed is destroying the moral fabric of America — in which he singled out General Electric, a company that is known for employing the best accountants money can buy to avoid paying taxes — GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt wrote an impulsive editorial for the Washington Post defending his company’s honor and lambasting the senator, who has been on a winning streak for the past three weeks.Immel
  
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• Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon: “If anybody’s trying to ‘rig the system,’ it’s Senator Sanders”

  12-04-2016 17:14 via salon.com
  
  In a segment on CNN earlier today, Hillary Clinton's press secretary Brian Fallon accused Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders of trying to "rig" the convention by stealing superdelegates.In one respect, Fallon is replying less to complaints leveled by the Sanders campaign than those leveled on its behalf by Donald Trump and "Morning" Joe Scarborough."I think when you talk about 'rigging the system,' that’s what Senator Sanders is trying to do now," Fallon said on New Day. "Hillary Clinton won i
  
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• “They were selling hope to a lot of people in the middle of a recession”: Retirees scammed by Trump Network speak out

  12-04-2016 17:09 via salon.com
  
  New reporting from CBS News takes a deep dive into one of Donald Trump's failed business ventures and reveals the devastating real world implications of Trump's failures.The "billionaire" businessman has branched out from a simple real-estate magnate to a purveyor of fine wine, thick steaks and trash reality television over the years, but those are only some of his most successful ventures. The home urine testing kits and customized vitamin packages are a few of his failed endeavors.In 2009
  
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• Insurance companies “will happily kill people for profit”: Rob Delaney on the UK’s “empirically better” healthcare, Bernie Sanders and parenting through the filth and joy

  12-04-2016 16:54 via salon.com
  
  “Catastrophe”’s second season is, like the first, just a slim installment of six half-hour episodes. Also like the first, the comedy about an accidental family—created by and starring Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan, who are not married in real life, but play characters much like themselves on the show—is a brutally honest and loveable comedy about family life. In the second season, “Catastrophe” picks up three years after the first-season finale, which de
  
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• Study finds that “male-dominated” professions are more at risk of being taken over by robots

  12-04-2016 16:47 via salon.com
  
  Computers are getting faster, our attention span is getting shorter, and time seems to be speeding up - meet the phenomenon known as ‘the great acceleration.’ The rise of automation — basically robots taking over human jobs — is helping us to cope with this perceived acceleration, not to mention the greater demand on reducing turn around time for manufacturing.
  Researchers from Oxford University analyzed over 700 occupations and concluded that 47% of jobs a
  
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• Countdown to the GOP primary’s final showdown: Why California could decide who wins the nomination, and why that’s bad news for Republicans

  12-04-2016 16:25 via salon.com
  
  Everybody's watching New York's GOP primary right now and it's a lot of fun for political junkies. It's happening in the center of the media universe where the coverage is smart and interesting, and it's Trump's home state so he's reveling in the love his fans pour all over him. But even if he wins New York in a blow out he cannot possibly get to the required 1237 delegates until the big prize in California in June. So eyes are suddenly turning to the delegate-rich behemoth, where, for once, win
  
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• “I’m not releasing individual names…yet”: DC Madam’s client details “could effect the 2016 presidential race”

  12-04-2016 16:18 via salon.com
  
  On The Rachel Maddow Show Monday, guest host Steve Kornacki reported that it's possible phone records kept by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called "DC Madam," could "effect the 2016 presidential race."Her lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, is attempting to obtain permission from the Supreme Court to disregard a gag order, but indicated in an email to MSNBC that even if he is not granted permission, he might simply release the complete records anyway.He sent MSNBC court documents that list the comp
  
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• “I’m not releasing individual names…yet”: DC Madam’s client details “could affect the 2016 presidential race”

  12-04-2016 16:18 via salon.com
  
  On The Rachel Maddow Show Monday, guest host Steve Kornacki reported that it's possible phone records kept by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called "DC Madam," could "affect the 2016 presidential race."Her lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, is attempting to obtain permission from the Supreme Court to disregard a gag order, but indicated in an email to MSNBC that even if he is not granted permission, he might simply release the complete records anyway.He sent MSNBC court documents that list the comp
  
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• “He should have been an adult and not a madman”: Larry Wilmore panel sets Bill Clinton straight

  12-04-2016 15:55 via salon.com
  
  "Nightly Show" host Larry Wilmore Monday night welcomed Waka Flocka Flame to his panel to discuss the "backlash" over Bill Clinton's problematic Crime Bill, stemming from a run-in last week with Black Lives Matter protesters at a rally in Philadelphia."Is Bill Clinton wrong?" Wilmore asked his panel. "Or did he just handle it poorly?"Contributor Robin Thede cast her vote for the former, saying, "He's wrong because Black Lives Matter isn't about defending drug dealers; it's about not getting
  
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• “Zero chance”: Kasich rejects Trump’s vice presidential offer to get him out of the race

  12-04-2016 15:53 via salon.com
  
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• Seth Meyers wishes Jackie Chan and Vladimir Putin appeared in “Rush Hour 4: Russian Hour” rather than the Panama Papers

  12-04-2016 15:37 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Seth Meyers Monday night took a "Closer Look" at the Panama Papers."The leaked documents come from a law firm named Mossack Fonseca, based in Panama," Meyers explained, "a country best known for hats favored by business casual hipsters, old rich guys in sports cars, and Sean Connery — the world's hippest old rich guy."Among the wealthy individuals implicated in the leak are Vladimir Putin, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Jackie Chan."What a shame that Jackie Chan and
  
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• Please dump Trevor Noah now: This might be his laziest, most simplistic campaign media coverage yet

  12-04-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah Monday night detailed the media clusterfuck surrounding the 2016 candidates' campaigning in New York City over the weekend."After a week of watching the campaign circus come to town ... there's something that's been bugging me," Noah said. "It's that the news spends so much time focusing on what candidates eat, and the jokes they tell, and if they seem fun to hang out with.""I think this is the problem America finds itself in," he continued. "Voters need a brilliant
  
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• The superdelegate sh*tshow: Watch Samantha Bee perfectly unravel the baffling and ridiculous system

  12-04-2016 15:28 via salon.com
  
  "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee Monday night returned from a two-weeks-long hiatus to define superdelegates."First of all, political parties aren't the government, they're semi-private clubs," Bee explained. "If they wanted, they could use a sorting hat to pick their nominees.""Superdelegates' only job is to act in the best interest of the party," she continued. "That's why they have never tried to override the will of the voters. Not because they care about us — they don't. But beca
  
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• That’s odd — all the videos in the Jesse Watters’ “Violence in the Classroom” segment share one feature

  12-04-2016 15:24 via salon.com
  
  In the "Watters' World" segment on The O'Reilly Factor Monday evening, confirmation-bias incarnate Jesse Watters presented an "investigation" into "Violence in the Schools" -- an "investigation" that consisted entirely of videos of school violence and interviews from previous segments cobbled together for one simple reason: to demonstrate that the problem with American schools is the black students who attend them.By only showing clips of African-American students engaging in school violence, Wa
  
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• David Brooks: Political debate belongs within the American people’s “galaxy of warm places”

  12-04-2016 14:38 via salon.com
  
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• Violence returns to the Trump campaign: Black protester assaulted by Trump supporters at “New York Values” rally

  12-04-2016 14:37 via salon.com
  
  Amazingly, Donald Trump managed to return to his home state and hold a rally in Long Island, of all places, without any major incidents of violence. But that was last week. This week, Trump's moved his reckless campaign upstate to a more spacious site and unsurprisingly, violence has made its return to America's presidential campaign.The Republican presidential frontrunner held a campaign rally for about 17,000 supporters who waited for eight hours in the cold, rain, and wind to see Trump at Alb
  
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• “If you can’t handle the Colorado delegate process, how are you going to handle the Chinese?” Charles Krauthammer unloads on Trump

  12-04-2016 14:12 via salon.com
  
  On Special Report with Bret Baier Monday evening, guest Charles Krauthammer mocked GOP front-runner Donald Trump's sudden appeal to direct democracy in the wake of losing all 34 Colorado delegates to Texas Senator Ted Cruz because of procedural ignorance.
  "The assumption Trump is making," Krauthammer began, "is that the only fair way to elect someone would be something like a national primary, to have a direct correlation between the number of votes you get and the number of delegates [you recei
  
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• Bernie is wrong about super-delegates: Why his tortured Dem Primary arguments try to have it both ways

  12-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
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• “Media can be the greatest force for peace on earth”: Amy Goodman reflects on the 20th anniversary of “Democracy Now!”

  12-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Amy Goodman isn't a mainstream media figure, but she's as beloved and well-known as any journalist in the country. Twenty years ago, before 9/11 and George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Goodman hosted what she believed was a one-time national election show for Pacifica radio network. Out of that was born “Democracy Now!,” a daily progressive news hour that airs on more than 1,400 stations across the nation.Goodman is reflecting on the 20th anniversary of “Democracy Now!” in a
  
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• The Fed needs a revolution: Why America’s central bank is failing — and how we can make it work for us

  12-04-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  One reality hanging over the presidential election and our politics in general is this: No matter what terrific plan a politician has for creating jobs and boosting wages, it must contend with the Federal Reserve’s ability to unilaterally counteract it. If the Fed decides higher wages risk inflation, they can raise interest rates and deliberately strangle economic growth, reversing the wage effect. Why come up with ways to grow the economy, then, if the Fed will react by intentionally slow
  
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• Bill O’Reilly demands to know how Trump can help blacks and Latinos get jobs when they all “have tattoos on their foreheads”

  12-04-2016 13:53 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Monday evening to dispute, among other things, the claim that he is running a racist campaign. However, it was host Bill O'Reilly whose statements about his fellow Americans were shocking.
  Trump scoffed at Tavis Smiley's characterization of him as a "racial arsonist," saying that "I don't think that's the perception at all -- I think we'll do fantastic with African Americans and Hispanics, because I'm going to bring jobs back to the country. There is
  
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• The Democrats have no soul: The Clintons, neoliberalism, and how the “people’s party” lost its way

  12-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Looking beyond the daily tussle between Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party, or Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party, let’s consider the larger historical picture to see what the current election campaign tells us about the state of the two major political parties and their future.Over the last forty years both major political parties have been in a state of terminal decline for a number of reasons, primarily the ideological contradictions each has developed quite in sync with the
  
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• What the hell was NBC thinking? Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter & the legitimization of the crackpot caucus

  12-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Let us stipulate a couple of obvious points right up front.One, the name of the game in television, even for ostensibly serious news programs, is ratings, ratings, ratings. Nobody cares how sharp and informative your show is, even during the wasteland that is the networks’ schedule on Sunday mornings. If you’re not capturing the eyeballs and the advertising dollars, it does not matter how big a name you are in the journalism racket. You and/or your show will still be gone from the ai
  
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• Sam Brownback declares war on Kansas: This is how extremists gut a state — and democracy

  12-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  It’s not uncommon to see developments named after what they displace or sometimes destroy. Subdivisions with names like Wild Creek Place likely contain neither a trace of the “wild” nor the remains of a creek. I guess more descriptive names such as Flat Asphalt Junction simply lack the same level of appeal.I’ve come to see the names of Kansas legislative committees in the same manner. Under the legislature’s ultraconservative leadership, committees such as Education
  
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• “This system is so rigged”: Outrage as undemocratic superdelegate system gives Clinton unfair edge over Sanders

  12-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders has won eight of the last nine primary contests by double digits, but Clinton still came out on top with more delegates.This is primarily because of the Democratic Party's superdelegate system, which has come under harsh condemnation in this election for being thoroughly undemocratic.Hundreds of unelected party elites known as superdelegates or unpledged delegates have enormous sway in the primary election.Superdelegates comprise approximately 15 percent of total delegates, a
  
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• The absurd torture debate: CIA Director John Brennan’s remarks on interrogations shows how low the GOP has sunk

  12-04-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  CIA Director John Brennan this week told NBC News that the agency under his watch would never waterboard anyone, even if ordered to do so by the next president. The issue of torture has been bubbling up periodically throughout the 2016 presidential election as pretty much every Republican candidate has lined up in support of the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Brennan’s comments were made in the context of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump declaring that he&r
  
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• They’ll always despise her: The media has its Hillary narrative, and they’re sticking to it

  12-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  When we think of the media, we tend to think of ever-churning cycles of news and don’t usually think of how long the media stick with a narrative. Nor do we think about how the polarization of the media, particularly on the Internet, has abetted those candidates at the poles on the far left and right, while candidates of the center-right, like John Kasich, and the center-left, like Hillary Clinton, basically are left stranded without aggressive media boosters.Clinton’s campaign is an
  
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• Let’s audit the Pentagon: The U.S. military is lighting our tax dollars on fire

  12-04-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades.  Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of
  
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• Noam Chomsky agrees with Sarah Palin: “When she mocks the ‘hope-y, change-y stuff,’ she’s right”

  12-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Elections are rigged by many factors. But as Noam Chomsky explains, policy plays only a small role in electing candidates.“Right after the election, President Obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and the International Business Press executives were euphoric,” Chomsky recalls in the 2015 documentary Requiem for the American Dream. They said, We’ve been marketing candidates like toothpaste since Reagan. This is the greatest achievement
  
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• Robert Reich: Bernie does have a plan to break up the big banks. That’s why the establishment is so rattled

  12-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  The recent kerfluffle about Bernie Sanders purportedly not knowing how to bust up the big banks says far more about the threat Sanders poses to the Democratic establishment and its Wall Street wing than it does about the candidate himself.Of course Sanders knows how to bust up the big banks. He’s already introduced legislation to do just that. And even without new legislation a president has the power under the Dodd-Frank reform act to initiate such a breakup.But Sanders threatens the Demo
  
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• Gen X needs to forget about Hillary Clinton: My generation is far too cynical about Bernie Sanders’ message

  12-04-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  I’m beginning to dread weekends. Not because I hate sleeping in, going to yoga class, and hanging out with the people I love, but because idle hours tempt me to check Facebook. You see, we’ve got a little primary coming up here in New York, and all my friends are posting opinions and circulating articles. When I venture outside into my Brooklyn neighborhood, evidence of Bernie-mania is everywhere: signs, t-shirts, buttons. If Hillary Clinton is running for office this spring, Park Sl
  
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• Dear straight Springsteen fans: If you’re shocked that Bruce canceled his North Carolina show, you haven’t been paying attention

  12-04-2016 00:29 via salon.com
  
  It does not require the imagination of a fine novelist to realize that Bruce Springsteen made many of his most fervent fans uncomfortable in the 1980s.A young or middle aged man, ripped right out of the lyric notebook of songs like “Darkness On the Edge of Town” and “Darlington County,” just got off his shift at the mill or dock, washed down his fatigue with domestic beer, and settled into his seat for a three hour performance from his favorite musician. Then, right in th
  
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• Where the boys are: Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” and what women’s comedies can learn from the art of the bromance

  12-04-2016 00:28 via salon.com
  
  There’s a scene in Richard Linklater’s latest film, “Everybody Wants Some!!,” where Finnegan, a suave college baseball player, takes an earnest tone with two young women during a raucous party. Regrets are born out of what we don’t do, not what we’ve done, he explains. He cites time’s unavoidable wrinkle—aging—and urges the women to seize the moment. After exchanging coded eye contact with one another, they’ve been convinced.We cut to m
  
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• “The Virgin Mary was actually a prostitute”: Cartoonist Chester Brown wants to open a debate about sex work, Jesus and the Bible

  12-04-2016 00:27 via salon.com
  
  For ages there has been speculation, scholarly and otherwise, about the place of prostitution in the Bible. The world’s oldest profession shows up in both the Old and New Testaments, and enough ambiguity surrounds its treatment that many see the issue as more complicated than the way Christian churches describe it today.One of these questioners is Chester Brown, a veteran cartoonist who has used scholarly research to come up with “Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and re
  
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