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• Striking Verizon workers hit by company attorney driving a Porsche

  15-04-2016 23:02 via salon.com
  
  According to one of the unions organizing Verizon workers out on strike this week, two Verizon employees were struck by the passing luxury sports car of one of the corporation's attorneys on Thursday.In their newsletter to members, "Report from the Front Lines," the Communications Workers of America (CWA) reported that two striking union members of Local 2108 in Maryland "were hit by a Verizon management attorney driving his Porsche." A photo accompanying the union's report featur
  
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• No, America isn’t insolvent: Inside the idiotic right-wing lie that hijacked Time magazine

  15-04-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  On Thursday, Time magazine released the cover for its upcoming issue, which addresses the so-called debt problem with a cover story by Jim Grant, a libertarian goldbug who has long been warning — along with other right-wingers — about the imminent wave of hyperinflation that will soon overrun America (much to the amusement of Paul Krugman).“Dear Reader, You Owe $42, 998.12,” screams the headline, which will&
  
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• The equation for a Hillary defeat is adding up: Her FBI probe plus Bernie’s huge gains in national polls should wake up Sanders skeptics

  15-04-2016 22:12 via salon.com
  
  Go to HuffPost Pollster right this second. Then click on Real Clear Politics.You too, Nate Cohn of The New York Times, who wrote a piece on July 8, 2015 titled "Why Bernie Sanders’s Momentum Is Not Built to Last."While we’re at it, Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight wrote a piece on August 11, 2015 titled "The Bernie Sanders Surge Appears To Be Over."Harry and Nate need to click on HuffPost Pollster and Real Clear Politics.According to HuffPost Pollster, Bernie Sanders is less than 3 poi
  
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• Kris Jenner, mother of the year: 13-year-old Khloe’s “traumatizing” surprise-wax says so much about the Kardashian childhood

  15-04-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  We all have different styles of parenting, and raising a big brood of six kids — five of them daughters — is no doubt a job chock full of unique challenges. As fellow mothers, it's important to remember to always take a beat and respect the common ground of love and devotion we have for our children before passing judgment on each other's choices. But sometimes, we've still got to ask: Kris Jenner, WTF?Just last month, a new tell-all book on the "Kardashian Dynasty" by author Ia
  
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• John Kasich’s casual victim blaming “advice”: If you don’t want to be raped, “don’t go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol”

  15-04-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  While John Kasich's daughters were off in Arizona with their mother on a college tour, the Ohio Governor was in New York continuing what can only be described at this point as a desperate campaign to join the Republican ticket as a vice presidential nominee. But based on his most recent problematic comments about women, it remains to be seen if he is actually helping or hurting his cause amongst leery conservatives.At a town hall in Watertown Friday morning, the Ohio governor answered a col
  
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• Ann Coulter takes a parting swipe at ex-Breitbart staffer after prosecutors decline to press charges against Trump campaign manager

  15-04-2016 19:44 via salon.com
  
  Ann Coulter must have realized that her recent reluctance to staying aboard the Trump train wasn't as attention generating as her full-throated championing of their shared campaign of xenophobia, so this week she's back generating headlines on behalf of her fellow conveniently conservative bloviator -- this time, displaying her most magnanimous spirit."We’re a forgiving ppl and the minute former reporter Michelle Fields apologizes, we should warmly accept it," Coulter wrote on Thursda
  
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• Hillary and Bernie’s Wall Street clash: They both say they want regulation — but they’re not equally credible on the issue

  15-04-2016 19:09 via salon.com
  
  One of the testier exchanges in Thursday night’s Democratic debate occurred when the topic of Wall Street was raised. This wasn’t surprising: Crony capitalism has been the dominant theme on the Democratic side. And Sanders has relentlessly attacked Clinton’s ties to the financial industry. Thursday night, however, the divide on this front was as glaring – and personal – as ever.Asked about breaking up the banks and penalizing executives for malfeasance, Clinton tout
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s extreme hawkishness is based on sheer fantasy: Like a true neocon, she’s deluding herself over her foreign policy disasters

  15-04-2016 19:03 via salon.com
  
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• No, a $15 minimum wage won’t kill business: The economic reason why the Fight for $15 movement is so important

  15-04-2016 18:40 via salon.com
  
  This week’s strikes by the underpaid workers of the Fight for $15 movement come on the heels of their landmark $15 minimum wage victories in California and New York last month. All told, 17 million workers have won raises since the Fight for $15 was launched more than three years ago – and 10 million are now slated to receive raises to $15, cementing that figure as the benchmark for strong national action on wages.These new $15 minimum wages will raise pay for more than one in three
  
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• Hillary’s Social Security mess: A frustrating half-embrace of a good policy

  15-04-2016 18:28 via salon.com
  
  At Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton got caught in a rough back-and-forth over Social Security. Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer if she would support lifting the cap on payroll taxes (currently only paid on the first $118,500 of income) to help fund the social insurance program, Clinton offered an answer that tried to sound resolute but was actually non-committal. “I have said repeatedly, Wolf, I am going to make the wealthy pay into Social Security to
  
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• Bernie at the Vatican: Sanders lauds Pope Francis, highlights economic inequality and the plight of the poor in address to officials

  15-04-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  Just hours after Thursday's Democratic presidential debate in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders delivered a speech in Vatican City on Friday. In his address to an academic conference of Vatican officials, Sanders discussed issues of inequality that have been central to his campaign message.“Over a century ago, Pope Leo XIII highlighted economic issues and challenges in Rerum Novarum that continue to haunt us today, such as what he called ’the enormous wealth of a few as opposed to the po
  
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• Someone stop James Cameron: We need 4 more “Avatar” movies like we need 4 more holes in our heads

  15-04-2016 17:53 via salon.com
  
  Nobody can accuse James Cameron of not thinking big. He made “Titanic” – the highest grossing film in the years after its 1997 release. Then he made “Avatar,” the 2009 movie that broke the existing box-office records. Its budget was something like a quarter of a billion dollars. And with “Avatar,” he not only filmed in 3-D, he drove theater owners, and perhaps the executives involved in the film, crazy because he insisted the story needed 161 minutes. Th
  
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• Half-truth Hillary finally exposed: This was the debate where Bernie Sanders changed the Democratic Party for good

  15-04-2016 17:24 via salon.com
  
  What always disappointed me the most about President Obama was how he never even tried to change the language of politics that had been established in the eight years of the Bush presidency.From immigration (on which he never articulated a different rhetoric than the punitive law-and-order one put into effect by his predecessor) to civil liberties to war crimes to inequality to health care to race relations to trade, he has kept to the establishment line on all substantive policy issues.And that
  
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• Blink twice if you need help, Heidi Cruz

  15-04-2016 17:10 via salon.com
  
  Potential First Lady Heidi Cruz made an alarming confession about her husband Ted, that set the internet ablaze.
  Immediately after the couple's honeymoon, Ted went to the store and returned with an astounding 100 cans of soup, chunky no less. And the rather odd story had most of us truly beginning to worry for Heidi.
  But it wasn't the first time something made us think Ted Cruz has lost more than a few marbles... and it probably won't be the last.Take a look.Potential First Lady Heidi Cruz made
  
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• Leslie Van Houten’s second chance: Manson family killer’s parole hearings raise questions about atonement, mercy and rehabilitation

  15-04-2016 17:05 via salon.com
  
  Leslie Van Houten has achieved a great deal over the past several decades. The now 66 year-old California woman has obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees. She has run self-help groups for other women and edited a newspaper. Those who know her say the world needs to understand "all of the good she’s done." Because what most people of know of Leslie Van Houten is the person she was a very long time ago. When she was a Manson girl. And on Thursday, a California review board recommended
  
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• Donald Trump just reminded everyone how dangerous he is: His rage-ridden WSJ op-ed puts his big lie on paper

  15-04-2016 16:49 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is winning elections but losing the under-the-radar delegate battle. The Cruz campaign is better organized, better prepared, and more familiar with the byzantine process. After being outmaneuvered in Colorado, Trump has been in sustained tantrum mode, complaining at every turn about how unjust and anti-democratic the system is.In an op-ed Friday for The Wall Street Journal, titled “Let Me Ask America a Question,” Trump escalated his protest campaign against the RNC.
  
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• Bernie’s most nakedly political move yet: Sanders suspends Jewish director for outspoken criticism of Bibi Netanyahu

  15-04-2016 16:40 via salon.com
  
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• Just like a Bernie Bro, Sanders bullies Clinton: Brooklyn debate confirms Sanders campaign is sticking by sexist “ambition witch” stereotype

  15-04-2016 16:35 via salon.com
  
  The question of whether or not Bernie Sanders has been questioning if Hillary Clinton is "qualified" to be president came up again during CNN's Democratic primary debate, hosted in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday night. It's been an issue since last week when Sanders, taking bait that Clinton herself refused, railed in a speech that Clinton is "not qualified" because of her vote authorizing President Bush to go to war and the fact that she has a well-funded super PAC.The use of the term "not
  
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• Cruz snubbed at NYC event: New York Republicans give Ted Cruz and his “values” the cold shoulder

  15-04-2016 16:21 via salon.com
  
  It goes without saying that New Yorkers aren't happy with Texas Senator Ted Cruz and the way he denigrated their "values," so it shouldn't be a surprise that at a Republican event Thursday evening, instead of listening to him speak, they deliberately and defiantly ignored him.The crowd was, apparently, attentive and polite when Donald Trump and John Kasich were spouting their stump pablum, but when Cruz took the stage, the scene shifted:https://twitter.com/rouse_karen/status/720793294003945
  
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• Ted Cruz has a f**ked up soup fetish: “What, are you taking a bath in it?”

  15-04-2016 14:39 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah last night had a field day with Ted Cruz's sky-high unfavorable rating."There's a multitude of reasons," Noah said. "It could be because he paints gun-control measures as a plot to steal everyone's guns while they sleep. Or maybe they hate him because he wants special patrols for Muslim neighborhoods. Or maybe it's because he supports an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape of incest. Or maybe it's because he's the Zodiac Killer. You never know what it
  
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• Ted Cruz looks even creepier when he goes casual

  15-04-2016 14:33 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz guested on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" Thursday night.Not known to be much of a political wonk, Fallon left the door open for Cruz to explain how he'd win a second ballot at a contested convention."If that happens, I think we're gonna be in a much better position," Cruz said. "I think Donald's highest total will be on the first ballot" but on subsequent ballots his campaign would be better capable of absorbing Rubio's and Kasich's unpledged delegates.Asked if he'd support Trump a
  
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• National Review challenges Ted Cruz’s college roommate to a battle of Twitter-wits

  15-04-2016 14:33 via salon.com
  
  The National Review has made no secret of its disdain for Donald Trump and support for Texas Senator Ted Cruz, but its social media editor accidentally stepped over a line when it challenged Cruz's college roommate to a battle of wits on Twitter last night.NRO's Twitter account wondered why Mazin -- the screenwriter of the Hangover 2 and 3, who has risen to prominence on Twitter by recounting the year he spent as Cruz's roommate -- was so "obsessed" with the senator:https://twitter.com/NRO/statu
  
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• Paul Krugman: Hillary’s victory is inevitable — Sanders supporters just need to accept it already

  15-04-2016 14:02 via salon.com
  
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• Donald Trump is a petulant baby: Yes, the primary system is rigged — in his favor

  15-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is a winner because he knows how to play the game better than anyone else, right? He's so good at the "art of the deal" that he always comes out ahead and the other side doesn't even know what hit them. In fact, they are so dazzled by his fabulousness that they just give him whatever he wants and beg for the opportunity to give more. That's just how good he is -- at least to hear him tell it. So why is he whining like child about the election being "rigged" and having tantrums over
  
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• Donald Trump a petulant baby: Yes, the primary system is rigged — in his favor

  15-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is a winner because he knows how to play the game better than anyone else, right? He's so good at the "art of the deal" that he always comes out ahead and the other side doesn't even know what hit them. In fact, they are so dazzled by his fabulousness that they just give him whatever he wants and beg for the opportunity to give more. That's just how good he is -- at least to hear him tell it. So why is he whining like child about the election being "rigged" and having tantrums over
  
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• Hillary Clinton is lying about the criminal U.S.-backed coup in Honduras. It should be as scandalous as Libya

  15-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton may have foreign policy experience, but it is experience comprised of disaster after disaster.In an interview with the New York Daily News, journalist Juan González dug a skeleton out of Clinton's closet: He asked the presidential candidate about her role in the coup in Honduras.In 2009, the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya. The populist left-wing leader was woken up in the middle of the night, kidnapped and whisk
  
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• Release your speeches, Hillary: This Goldman Sachs explainer lays out why the big banks always get away with it

  15-04-2016 13:24 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers last night took a "Closer Look" at Goldman Sachs's $5 billion fine for "misleading investors in the run-up to the financial crisis," a penalty he called, "a lot less stiff than it seems."The fine print of the fine says that Goldman can deduct it from its taxes, meaning the company will end up facing a net loss of fewer than $5 billion."So Goldman Sachs can get a tax deduction on a government fine, but I can't get one on alcohol even though I drink all day at my job,
  
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• That was the most vicious debate yet: Inside Hillary & Bernie’s knock-down, drag-out battle for the New York primary

  15-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  So, here we go again. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, debating. Where have we seen that before?Thursday actually marked the ninth time that the two Democratic presidential contenders have faced each other. This time, they met before a raucous crowd in Brooklyn, where, to constant cheering and booing, Clinton and Sanders tore through perhaps their loudest, most freewheeling debate yet. The CNN moderators kept looking on helplessly as first Sanders and then Clinton would brazenly ignore the at
  
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• Trump’s amazing incompetence: With some of Rubio’s delegates up for grabs, the GOP’s extremely lucky Trump doesn’t care about organization

  15-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Ever since Florida senator and serial moment-haver Marco Rubio quit the 2016 presidential race, people have been wondering what exactly the ambitious Republican is going to do next. He’s not running for reelection to the Senate – even if he had wanted to, the thumping he took in the Florida primary would have cured him of that ambition – but he pretty clearly has designs on staying politically relevant in some capacity.To that end, Rubio has been making a determined effort to m
  
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• Paul Ryan is very bad at his job: Now that he’s bowed out of 2016, he’s back to letting extremists hold Congress hostage

  15-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Barring some unforeseen miracle, today the House of Representatives will miss a legally mandated deadline to pass a budget resolution for the fiscal year 2017. It is yet one more remarkably unproductive day in a Congress full of people who won’t successfully work a doorknob if they think there is a chance someone will primary them for doing so.Sure, the budget resolution is a procedural rule, and therefore mostly symbolic. It does not go to the president for a signature. There are no legal
  
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• The violent American epidemic you won’t hear about: Why prison abuse goes unreported and unpunished

  15-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  In April 2015, New York Administrative Law Judge Faye Lewis recommended that Rikers Island prison guard Aubrey Victor be fired: he had, she determined, hit a prisoner in the face and stomped on his head without cause. Now, the City Correction Officer's Benevolent Association is suing in the state Supreme Court to keep his records and those belonging to other guards secret.What’s more troubling is that most already are.New York has among the most restrictive laws governing the release of po
  
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• The last days of Washington, D.C.: America can no longer mask its steep decline

  15-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  The dishonesty of words illustrates the dishonesty of America’s wars.Since 9/11, can there be any doubt that the public has become numb to the euphemisms that regularly accompany U.S. troops, drones, and CIA operatives into Washington’s imperial conflicts across the Greater Middle East and Africa?  Such euphemisms are meant to take the sting out of America’s wars back home.  Many of these words and phrases are already so well known and well worn that no one
  
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• America is no model state: U.S. elections rank worst among Western democracies

  15-04-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  The world is currently transfixed by the spectacle of American elections. From New York, London and Paris to Beijing, Moscow, and Sydney there is endless heated debate in the news media and across dinner tables about the factors fueling the remarkable success of Donald Trump, speculation about a brokered convention shattering the old GOP, and the most likely outcome of a polarizing Trump-Clinton battle in the fall.This contest matters. It is the election for the most powerful leader in the
  
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• The real reason cocaine, heroin and marijuana are illegal has nothing to do with addiction

  15-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Looking out at the trail of devastation and death that the heroin epidemic has left in its wake, it’s hard to imagine that not long ago one could purchase the drug from a Sears catalogue.Heroin was created by German chemists during the late 1890s and marketed through Bayer, the company best known for selling aspirin. For decades, suburban housewives could peruse pages of flashy advertisements for Bayer Heroin, the cure for sore throats, coughs, headaches, diarrhea, stress and menopause. In
  
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• The 3 most environmentally damaging habits you might be able to change

  15-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Homo sapiens means "wise person." But considering our behaviors that are putting the Earth's ecosystems at risk, we haven't been very wise at all. Every single day, many of our personal choices and individual actions negatively impact the environment in myriad ways. From turning on a light switch to throwing away a plastic bottle to having a hamburger, even the most mundane actions have a cumulative negative effect on the Big Blue Marble—the home we share with countless other Earthlings.T
  
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• “We’ve got to have the guts to rethink the so-called ‘War on Drugs’”: Bernie renews call to legalize pot at debate

  15-04-2016 04:50 via salon.com
  
  During Thursday night's Democratic debate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for supporting the omnibus crime bill her husband passed in the 1990s, especially the parts of it that related to drug sentencing."I tell you what I think," Sanders said, "we've got to have the guts to rethink the so-called 'War on Drugs.' Too many lives have been destroyed because people have possessed marijuana.""Millions," he added, "which is why I believe we shoul
  
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• Forget the pundits and political experts: Let Patton Oswalt guide you through tonight’s Democratic debate

  15-04-2016 04:21 via salon.com
  
  Political addicts and commentators love live-tweeting political debates — hey, it's a great hobby. But no one seems to do it better than Patton Oswalt. Here's some of his best tweets from Thursday's Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Brooklyn, New York."I HATE the way Hillary and Bernie talk. Their voices annoy me." -- Trump and Cruz voters. #DemDebate— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) April 15, 2016Guys, we'd be fine with either of these candidates as
  
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• From trade agreements to minimum wage, Hillary and Bernie scuffle over what’s destroying the middle class

  15-04-2016 04:00 via salon.com
  
  During Thursday night's Democratic debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attacked Hillary Clinton for voting for trade agreements that, according to him, have destroyed the middle class.CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Sanders how he would bring jobs back to the United States "without affecting the cost of goods," to which the senator replied that "for a start, we're going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. While it is true, we may end up paying a few cents more for a hamburger -- what this economy
  
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• Fireworks over Wall Street at Democratic debate: Bernie Sanders rips Hillary Clinton for taking big-bank cash

  15-04-2016 03:50 via salon.com
  
  CNN's Democratic debate is getting increasingly testy. In response to a question in which he was asked to name "one decision in which she, as a senator, favored banks because of the money she received.""Sure," Sanders replied a bit too generally, and then he started talking about the Great Depression. "That was my view my back," he said -- before suddenly twisted a knife it wasn't even apparent he had. "I introduced legislation to [prevent banks from being predatory] when Secretary Clinton was b
  
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• Bernie and the Bolsheviks: Why the implications of Sanders’ “political revolution” go further than you think

  15-04-2016 01:25 via salon.com
  
  On Wednesday night I attended the huge Bernie Sanders rally in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, where many thousands of people crammed themselves into that historic quadrangle to hear the hoarse-voiced Vermont senator give the same speech he has given hundreds of times now. According to the Sanders campaign, 27,000 people showed up, and that doesn’t sound implausible. From where I was standing near the western edge of the park, Sanders himself was an illuminated matchstick figure, near
  
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• Rosario Dawson slams Hillary Clinton for her hypocrisy about Israel’s wall vs. Donald Trump’s Mexican wall

  15-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  The Young Turks hosted a discussion of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy credentials with a group of activists last night, including Nomiki Konst, founder of the Accountability Project, and outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter Rosario Dawson.Host Cenk Uygur pointed out that Clinton is a firm believer in a "muscular" foreign policy. “It’s just that she believes in that concept. She believes in what she calls a muscular foreign policy and she wanted to emphasize to the press after th
  
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• We failed Anita Hill: Decades after Clarence Thomas’ “Confirmation,” we still can’t handle talking about sexual harrassment

  15-04-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  The timing of HBO’s original film “Confirmation,” debuting Saturday night, is accidentally quite appropriate. Naturally, any film about a Supreme Court nomination process — released in a major election year, when the next president will be appointing as many as four justices — is a relevant one. But “Confirmation” comes out just months after Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at an exclusive hunting lodge in Texas, in the middle of one of the str
  
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• “When Csanad came in for Yom Kippur, people walked out”: The remarkable transformation of an anti-Semite extremist who didn’t know he was Jewish

  15-04-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Csanad Szegedi is a former right-wing extremist, who rose to power in Hungary and helped found the Hungarian Guard. He eventually became second-in-command of the Jobbik party—even getting a seat in European Parliament. Then, it was revealed his grandmother was Jewish, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Szegedi made an about-face; he embraced his Jewish roots. He started learning about Judaism, and was even circumcised. He started atoning for his sins, hoping to find support with the Je
  
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