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• When your damn dog eats all the cheese 😭 @hannahspears https://t.co/dxbyXO9BC3

  20-04-2016 23:16 via twitter.com
  
  When your damn dog eats all the cheese 😭 @hannahspears https://t.co/dxbyXO9BC3
  
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• F**k Sanders, says Clinton aide, bragging “We kicked his a**” after massive voter purges and irregularities in NY primary

  20-04-2016 22:45 via salon.com
  
  “We kicked his a** tonight,” bragged a senior Hillary Clinton aide.“I hope this convinces Bernie to tone it down. If not, f**k him.”A Politico reporter says this is what he was told Tuesday night, after Clinton won the New York primary, with around 58 percent of the vote to Sanders' 42 percent.Sanders won the vast majority of New York state, but Clinton won the densely populated urban areas, particularly New York City. In Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, the candidates we
  
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• Ted Cruz doppelgängers are everywhere: The latest to freak out the internet appeared on “Maury”

  20-04-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  
  I can't say I'm surprised to learn that in the Venn diagram of Maury Povich's viewership and pro-Trump Redditors, there's at least one-person in the universal set.And, on account of my night terrors, I also can't say I'm glad that that one person made the following discovery:https://twitter.com/TheMAURYShow/status/722434791195418624?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwHer name is Searcy. After five miscarriages, she gave birth to a son, Jayden, who's 6 weeks old. She went on "Maury" to settle a paternity di
  
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• Lip enhancements reach all-time high, statistics show

  20-04-2016 21:42 via salon.com
  
  New statistics show that Americans have an obsession with lip injections. It's becoming all too familiar with the many YouTube posts of people filming their experiences and celebrities transforming their faces. Watch our video for more details.Continue Reading...
  
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• Call it Curt Schilling Syndrome: Overly sensitive man mortally offended by criticism of his own offensive comments

  20-04-2016 21:36 via salon.com
  
  You know what never gets old? Middle-aged white guys telling the rest of us how we shouldn't be offended by their offensiveness. Curt Schilling, show us how it's done.The 49 year-old former MLB pitcher and current ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling has in recent years been outspoken in his political and social views — including his generous acceptance of gay people if not marriage equality. Three years ago, he tweeted a story about a human rights atrocity in Pakistan and added,
  
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• 1,240 arrested in past week as “Democracy Spring” movement against money in politics spreads throughout U.S.

  20-04-2016 20:58 via salon.com
  
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• The Flint indictments: What you need to know about the 3 people charged in the water crisis

  20-04-2016 20:40 via salon.com
  
  Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed criminal charges against two state officials and a city employee involved in the Flint water crisis on Wednesday. The statewide investigation into the Michigan city came after revelations the drinking water became contaminated with lead in April 2014, while under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager. State officials detached Flint from Detroit’s water supply and began using Flint River water in an effort to save mon
  
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• “We need Trump to stop all the PC crap”: Right-wing reaction to the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is (another) new low

  20-04-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  
  Shortly after it was announced that abolitionist icon Harriet Tubman would replace slave-holding former-President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the search term "Harriet Tubman" was a top trending topic on Twitter.Rounding up conservative (#TCOT) responses to the news proved a much more difficult task than expected for a couple of reasons. First, the #TCOT live stream is meme-driven, so there's a significant delay between the time news breaks and the time it takes an old man to build a mem
  
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• The new GOP plot against Donald Trump: The establishment is scheming to blacklist Trump’s staffers — it will likely blow up in their faces

  20-04-2016 19:46 via salon.com
  
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• Eduardo Porter and the NY Times are wrong on climate change: It’s absurd to paint liberals as misguided as conservatives on the crisis

  20-04-2016 19:23 via salon.com
  
  Both-sides-do-it-ism is one of most irritating bad habits of the modern punditry, a tic some writers get where they confuse being fair with pretending that liberals and conservatives are equally guilty of some political sin. It was always a cowardly, lazy habit, but it's become even more inexcusable in the past decade as it becomes clear that the right is exponentially worse when it comes to lying, stoking conspiracy theories, and destructive behavior.But that doesn't mean some fo
  
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• Ted Cruz’s Reagan fantasy: He’s trying very, very hard to be The Gipper

  20-04-2016 19:17 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz desperately, desperately, desperately wants to be Ronald Reagan. It’s become standard practice among Republicans and conservatives to treat Reagan as the semi-divine ideal of right-wing politics, but Cruz takes ritualized Reagan worship to heights we haven’t seen since Scott Walker slinked off the presidential stage. As the New York primary results came in, Cruz delivered a speech to supporters in Philadelphia that saw the candidate try hard – way, way too hard –
  
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• America leads the world in snooping yet again: Apple reveals how the U.S. government requested data on thousands of devices

  20-04-2016 19:07 via salon.com
  
  A recent Apple Inc. report reveals that the United States government, between July 1 and December 31, 2015, issued 1,015 account requests for information from users' devices. That figure is higher than in any other single country and almost twice as high as that of Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa combined (536). Canada, in contrast, issued 6 requests.Apple defines "account requests" as cases in which, "we are asked to provide customers’ iCloud content, which m
  
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• Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on $20 bill; Hamilton to stay on $10 after appeal from Broadway star

  20-04-2016 18:33 via salon.com
  
  President Obama's Treasury Department is expected to announce that a slave-holding early leader of the United States will be replaced on official U.S. currency by a long unsung early hero who worked to free slaves from bondage.Harriet Tubman will become the first African American woman featured on U.S. paper currency when she replaces former president Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce on Wednesday. The abolitionist icon known for her Undergr
  
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• “We’re sorry that one of these memories will include being raped”: Anti-rape ad uses college acceptance letters to highlight campus assault

  20-04-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  
  An ad campaign telling a different story about campus sexual assault is bringing much needed attention to the way we treat it.The piece, part of a campaign by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, uses prospective college students being accepted to their dream schools. But upon reading acceptance letters, the video takes a dark twist.Take a look.Continue Reading...
  
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• This election is blinding us to a Wall Street outrage: Inside the media’s negligent response to a foreclosure disaster

  20-04-2016 17:44 via salon.com
  
  One of the biggest problems with the permanent campaign mentality we’ve succumbed to is that every issue gets folded into the presidential election. Last week we saw a perfect example. An activist group that has for years been criticizing pernicious practices at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) escalated their campaign, known as Don’t Sell our Homes to Wall Street. And the only thing the media cared about was how it would affect HUD Secretary Julián Castro
  
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• Elizabeth Warren tears into Ted Cruz: “I’ve got two words for you, Ted: Boo hoo”

  20-04-2016 17:44 via salon.com
  
  It just hasn't been a good week for Ted Cruz. The Texas Tea Party senator launched an anti-Trump attack on "New York values" that may have secured his win with Iowa Republicans at the start of the Republican presidential primary, but it more than likely sealed his fate in the Empire State which voted overwhelming against him on Tuesday. And while he was being berated by his one-time conservative talk radio hype man Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Cruz was also being chewed out by one of his collea
  
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• Watching MSNBC is pure torture: Chris Matthews and Brian Williams belly-flop on primary night

  20-04-2016 17:25 via salon.com
  
  Tuesday’s New York primaries were the first important election in the Empire State in a long while, and they may’ve had the effect of settling each major party around a frontrunner. New York City is, arguably, the media and cultural capital of the United States. So Tuesday night’s television coverage of the election should have been gripping, serious, entertaining, and smart. It should have deepened the way viewers understand a bewildering race that finally seems to be coming i
  
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• Joe Scarborough is already calling the election: Trump “has hit his ceiling,” he’ll lose in November

  20-04-2016 17:10 via salon.com
  
  On Morning Joe Wednesday, co-host Joe Scarborough once again evinced his growing frustration with the length of the electoral season by declaring that current Republican front-runner Donald Trump can't and won't win in November."Mark my words -- he's hit his ceiling!" Scarborough shouted. The fact that Trump "only" won 61 percent of the votes in New York means that "39 percent of Republicans didn't vote for him last night."Co-host Mika Brzezinski tried to bring order to the chaos. "What these bo
  
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• Sean Hannity flips out on Ted Cruz for bashing Donald Trump: “You gotta stop … I’m getting sick of it”

  20-04-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Last Week, Fox News host Sean Hannity finally did away without whatever misconceived semblance of impartiality his audience may have held onto when he declared, “I’m not a journalist, I’m a talk show host."Presumably by embracing his role as a talk show host, Hannity meant to tamp down criticism that he openly campaigns for his preferred Republican presidential candidate and as ThinkProgress has reported, there is little doubt just who that candidate is:[Donald]
  
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• “America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat”: What was Ted Cruz talking about last night?

  20-04-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz gave a concession speech after losing the New York primary to Donald Trump.He painted a very strange — and probably more sexual than he intended — scene to describe America: “You may have been knocked down, but America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat, and the crowd has given the final count.”He lost by dismal numbers in New York: he only won 14.5% of the vote to Trump’s 60.5%.Cruz continues to make no sense for
  
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• Snapchat’s awful Bob Marley filter: Gimmick for stoner holiday sparks anger over “blackface” instead

  20-04-2016 16:56 via salon.com
  
  Normally, we have to wait until Halloween for a really good "Cut it out with the blackface, everybody" object lesson. But thanks to Snapchat and stoner national holiday 4/20, we can review the protocol six months early this year!In a terrifically misguided attempt at being timely and cute, Snapchat decided to celebrate the day by offering a Bob Marley filter — featuring a rasta cap and dreadlocks. Also, as Tech Radar notes, "The filter tries to turn your face into Bob's own. That means tha
  
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• Sanders’ terrible night: His nomination hopes are virtually dead, but he must keep his message alive or the amazing movement he started will be in vain

  20-04-2016 16:50 via salon.com
  
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• “Preacher” Larry Wilmore takes Bill O’Reilly to church: “When the f*ck have you ever walked in a poor black neighborhood?”

  20-04-2016 16:37 via salon.com
  
  Bill O'Reilly isn't just upset at black people for having "tattoos on their foreheads," he's angry with those of us who pointed out that all black people don't have tattoos on their foreheads -- and Larry Wilmore is fed up with it.On The Nightly Show Tuesday, Wilmore didn't just attack O'Reilly, he needed an entirely new shtick in order to demonstrate the Fox News host's depravity. He began, as he does, seated. "The worst part is that O’Reilly had the gall to be upset by the backlash from
  
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• Bernie has run his course: The Sanders campaign has stopped being about winning and is now mostly about whining

  20-04-2016 16:12 via salon.com
  
  It's time for Bernie Sanders to admit that Hillary Clinton is winning the primary fair and square, and if he can't do that, it's time for him to quit.Things have been getting sour for Team Sanders for weeks now, but, in the past week, the campaign took a decisive turn away from positive campaigning and actually trying to win towards focusing a baffling amount of energy on a futile narrative about how his losses don't really count.I wish it were otherwise, but there's simply no nice way
  
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• The simple reason why Hillary Clinton isn’t the future of the Democratic Party

  20-04-2016 15:48 via salon.com
  
  In a recent New York Times essay, Michael Lind makes some observations about the future of American politics that will no doubt leave many readers feeling depressed and uneasy. Specifically, Lind posits that Trumpism represents the future of the Republican party and Clintonism the future of the Democratic party.For establishment Republicans who have watched the rise of Donald Trump with horror and for progressives who have cheered the Bernie Sanders campaign as
  
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• New York City Board of Elections to be audited: Widespread complaints of voting “irregularities” plagued the Big Apple’s primary day

  20-04-2016 15:47 via salon.com
  
  When early bird voters in the Queens borough of New York City arrived at one polling location Tuesday morning, they found all three voting machines out of order.Nearly two hours after polls were supposed to open, some Brooklyn voters found themselves still waiting outside while officials scrambled to find poll workers.One regiestered Republican voter at a polling location in the Lower East Side in Manhattan claimed she was handed a Democratic ballot because they didn’t have any for Republi
  
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• Fox & Friends: With New York victory, Trump can now “seize control of credentials committee” and “bodily remove” Cruz supporters from GOP convention

  20-04-2016 15:04 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump scored a resounding victory in New York last night, winning over 60 percent of the vote, and on Fox & Friends Wednesday, the winking-and-gloating stage of the Republican primary was in full effect.Co-host Brian Kilmeade spoke to Doug Wead, a former special assistant to George H.W. Bush, about the upcoming convention. According to Wead, Trump has now won enough delegates to "seize control of the credentials committee.""What does that mean?" Kilmeade asked."It means," Wead said, t
  
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• Yes, Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat — and Hillary represents the very worst of the party

  20-04-2016 14:30 via salon.com
  
  A new strategy has emerged in the Hillary Clinton camp: No longer even try to match Bernie Sanders' left-wing politics — which the Wall Street-backed multimillionaire war hawk Clinton is fundamentally incapable of doing. Instead, appeal to authority and accuse the democratic socialist of disloyalty to the corrupt Democratic Party.Clinton's campaign did just that this week, condemning Sanders for "trying to convince the next generation of progressives that the Democratic Party is corrupt."T
  
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• Wait, Paul Ryan can do comedy?! Watch Stephen Colbert try to bait the speaker into admitting he wants the GOP nomination

  20-04-2016 14:08 via salon.com
  
  On the heels of a definitive press conference in which he confirmed he would not seek/accept the GOP nomination at a contested convention, House Speaker Paul Ryan joined Stephen Colbert on last night's "Late Show" to confirm again and for all, "I do not want, nor would I accept the Republican nomination.""So you're considering the nomination?" Colbert pressed."No I'm not," Ryan said."I'll give you some time to mull this over," Colbert said, allowing a second or two pass. "How 'bout now?""Still n
  
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• Bill O’Reilly: If the GOP doesn’t win the White House in November, the Supreme Court will be “compromised” forever

  20-04-2016 14:08 via salon.com
  
  On The O'Reilly Factor Tuesday evening, host Bill O'Reilly discussed the stakes in the upcoming presidential election, and it was clear what he believes to be the primary reason the GOP needs to win -- to stack the Supreme Court with conservatives.He explained that the Court is supposed to work within constraints, in that "it can only uphold or strike down what Congress and state legislatures have already passed." However, since President Barack Obama has occupied the White House, that's not bee
  
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• Ben Carson tries to convince Trevor Noah he’s not insane for backing Trump — and he fails miserably

  20-04-2016 14:03 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah last night welcomed former-Republican presidential candidate and current Donald Trump surrogate, Dr. Ben Carson.Noah led with a question about Carson's initial endorsement of Trump, during which he argued that, should it be as terrible as we think, a Trump presidency would be only a minor four-year blip in history. Not quite the ringing endorsement a candidate would want."What I actually said is that would be the worst case scenario," Carson responded. "My
  
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• The Trump hype is out of control: Why he’s still no lock to win the GOP nomination

  20-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  It's a known fact that if you watch enough political news on cable TV you will eventually lose your grip on reality.  Each day brings a different breathless narrative of events and the conventional wisdom turns 180 degrees. And yet the basic facts have changed not at all.For instance, we have all just spent the last two weeks listening to the pundits, advocates and anchors explaining in minute detail how Ted Cruz is successfully undermining Donald Trump with his wily strategy to seduce and
  
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• The misery of TurboTax capitalism: How private companies give big government a bad rep

  20-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  I hate paying taxes. And so, it turns out, does Donald Rumsfeld, who complains that despite his “possession of a college degree, retention of an experienced tax accounting firm, and earnest application,” he lacks “confidence that” his “returns and payments are properly completed.” He’s not alone, he writes in a recent letter to the IRS. “Millions of Americans find the U.S. tax code and the forms so complex that they will individually pay between se
  
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• Red-baiting Bernie: Republicans are itching to turn Sanders into Trotsky or Lenin

  20-04-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  One aspect of the 2016 presidential cycle that has genuinely surprised me is the degree to which Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders has managed to avoid being red-baited. There have been perfunctory attempts by partisans within both parties to slag Sanders as an agent of the international communist conspiracy – some pro-Hillary groups and surrogates tested out a few “Bernie is a socialist” attack lines last fall, and Rand Paul sounded the ala
  
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• Hillary and Trump’s crushing New York victories proved one thing: The system is in shreds

  20-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  After all of that — all the rancor and the rallies and the pandering — Tuesday's presidential primary in New York changed...pretty much nothing about the 2016 race.Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain the frontrunners, just as they've been for the entire year. They both cruised to crushing victories over their rivals. They will probably be the general election candidates. This has been true for a long time.Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz remain the underdogs. They both have
  
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• Paul Ryan is completely, utterly useless: The Zika virus, economic catastrophe & other stuff the House GOP is totally ignoring

  20-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  It takes a pretty shameless politician to spend his entire career agitating to slash government spending almost into oblivion, and then stand up in public and criticize an important agency for not being able to do its job with the wholly inadequate budget for which he, as a senior lawmaker, is partly responsible.To be fair, lots of politicians are shameless in one way or another. But I’m reserving a special place for Paul Ryan after this performance at a press conference with other Republi
  
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• Edward James Olmos unloads on “dangerous” Donald: “Trump is the worst-case scenario for this country”

  20-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Edward James Olmos has been featured in the recent TV series “Battlestar Galactica,” as well as popular films including “Blade Runner,” “Stand and Deliver” and “American Me”. For decades, Olmos has also been involved in human rights and social change work such as improving America’s educational system, immigration, and expanding access to the arts for people of color.I recently had the chance to speak with Edward James Olmos at Chicago’
  
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• Lying is their business: Ari Rabin-Havt on the industry that’s grown to create and disseminate right-wing propaganda

  20-04-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
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• Bigots get better coverage: Hillary can do no right in the eyes of our political press

  20-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  Sometimes this whole election season seems like a weird journalism experiment designed to determine just how out of whack Hillary Clinton’s campaign press coverage can become; how one-sided and nasty the media chronicling of her can be.As the Democratic front-runner moves closer to likely securing the nomination and potentially becoming the first female president in United States history, the press prefers to often treat her campaign as a mess that's perpetually facing&
  
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• Robert Reich: One of Bernie’s most important proposals is being ignored

  20-04-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  Why is there so little discussion about one of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals – to tax financial speculation?Buying and selling stocks and bonds in order to beat others who are buying and selling stocks and bonds is a giant zero-sum game that wastes countless resources, uses up the talents of some of the nation’s best and brightest, and subjects financial market to unnecessary risk.High-speed traders who employ advanced technologies in order to get information a mill
  
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• They just have it in for him: Washington Post smears Bernie and his army of small donors

  20-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Washington Post writer Philip Bump published an article on Monday titled, “Bernie Sanders keeps saying his average donation is $27, but his own numbers contradict that."The headline gives the impression that Sanders is wildly off-base about this oft-repeated figure. Bump presents the piece as a forensic examination of the question, “How is it that the average has stayed so consistent over time?” He offers a “few ideas” for why this might be, including tha
  
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• Noam Chomsky defends Julian Assange: “He should be given a medal”

  20-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Noam Chomsky had a complex answer when asked if he sees a difference in the role technology companies play compared to Washington lawmakers in protecting and encouraging privacy:WikiLeaks is a democratizing force. It’s giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives. In a democracy that ought to be reflexive. But on the contrary. WikiLeaks is under heavy attack by the government, and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites. But Ju
  
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• Yummmmmy 😋 https://t.co/uFcp8knjVG

  20-04-2016 06:22 via twitter.com
  
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• Listening to the best! #MichaelJackson https://t.co/JDBMEEo4Kh

  20-04-2016 05:52 via twitter.com
  
  Listening to the best! #MichaelJackson https://t.co/JDBMEEo4Kh
  
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• At it again... Having more fun than my kids lol https://t.co/3EnU15u9zc

  20-04-2016 04:57 via twitter.com
  
  At it again... Having more fun than my kids lol https://t.co/3EnU15u9zc
  
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• Victory for Hillary: New York Democrats pick Clinton in primary, dealing huge blow to Bernie Sanders

  20-04-2016 03:59 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner of the Democratic presidential primary in New York by the Associated Press.While early exit polls had Clinton only leading in her adopted home state over the Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders by a few points, with 65 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton now leads 58 percent to 42 percent. Polling going into Tuesday's surprisingly closely contested vote had the former New York senator beating the Vermont Independent senator by an average of 12 point
  
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• Donald Trump delivered a huge win in New York

  20-04-2016 03:18 via salon.com
  
  As soon as polls closed at 9pm in New York Tuesday night, the Republican presidential race was called in favor of Donald Trump.Hardly a surprise, the businessman and novice politician will handily take his home state by large margins when all votes are tallied. With 9 percent of precincts in New York state reporting, Trump currently leads with 69 percent of the Republican vote.Trump's commanding performance may give him 50 percent in every congressional district across the state he nee
  
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• It’s too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed — but wait, that’s the good news

  20-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  It was a full decade ago now that not-quite-president Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim captured the world’s attention with “An Inconvenient Truth,” a film based on the premise that we still had time to prevent or limit the most devastating effects of climate change if we acted immediately. In case you haven’t noticed, we didn’t. In the United States, the fossil-fuel industry and its Republican lackeys picked away at a handful of loose scientific threads in the
  
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• “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness

  20-04-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  The novelist Ethan Canin and I first met in the fall of 2001, in Iowa City, about a week before the World Trade Center fell and the country was plunged into a decade of war and economic turmoil. At the time, I was twenty-three, unemployed, semi-homeless and recently convinced, for reasons I couldn’t quite articulate then and still can’t articulate today, that the only calling in which I might find fulfillment was the writing of literature, specifically at the time, the writing of lit
  
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• You’re welcome, indie rock fans: Meet your next favorite album, Car Seat Headrest’s “Teens of Denial”

  20-04-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Will Toledo, the musician behind the band Car Seat Headrest, sounds like he’s tapped into an endless font of melodies and hooks: Not since Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices has an indie rocker made turning out hummable songs seem so effortless.Toledo started recording music as a Virginia teenager, sitting in the back of his family car with a laptop, the seats and headrests the only audience. He recorded hours and hours of lo-fi songs, parked in a Target lot, and dumped them onto Bandcamp.
  
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