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• Ted Cruz exploits transphobia to resuscitate his dying campaign: Cruz rushes to slam ESPN for firing Curt Schilling over anti-transgender meme

  21-04-2016 22:36 via salon.com
  
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• Here's to one of the strongest spirits the world has ever known 🌹 We will miss you forever, Prince. https://t.co/vEGAd0HLxS

  21-04-2016 22:26 via twitter.com
  
  Here's to one of the strongest spirits the world has ever known 🌹 We will miss you forever, Prince. https://t.co/vEGAd0HLxS
  
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• NBA says it will move 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte if North Carolina doesn’t change anti-LBGT law

  21-04-2016 22:12 via salon.com
  
  Next year's NBA All-Star game is scheduled to be played in North Carolina, but NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the league will move the all-star festivities to another state if North Carolina's recently passed anti-LGBT legislation remains in place. Silver did not present a timeline for when the NBA would make its decision, as the Washington Post's Tim Bontemps reports.https://twitter.com/TimBontemps/status/723207383363784709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw“We’ve b
  
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• “Wait a few days before you waste any prayers”: Prince offered a cryptic and eerie message to fans last Saturday

  21-04-2016 21:56 via salon.com
  
  Last Saturday, Prince hosted a "dance party" at Paisley Park, his Minneapolis mansion and studio, to reassure fans (who paid just $10 to attend) that he was in good health. Chatter surrounding his health had been getting louder after his plane had to make an emergency landing in Illinois on the way back to Minneapolis from Atlanta, where he played his final shows last Thursday (which were postponed by one week after he contracted the flu). Jon Bream, a blogger for the Minneapolis Star
  
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• Prince, the activist: The times he blasted Wall Street, Freddie Gray’s death, “enslavement” to Warner Bros. and the corrupt status quo

  21-04-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
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• Texas is using “Of Mice and Men” to justify executing this man. Seriously.

  21-04-2016 21:42 via salon.com
  
  Bobby James Moore has a lifelong intellectual disability, yet he sits on Texas’s death row because the courts there used John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” to decide his fate.That’s right—the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals went with a fictional novel over science and medicine to measure Bobby’s severe mental limitations. The justices heard a vast body of evidence demonstrating these limitations, which meet the widely accepted scientific standards f
  
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• 2016 has been a tragic year for music: A look back the icons we’ve lost, from Prince to Bowie

  21-04-2016 21:28 via salon.com
  
  The unhappy news of Prince's death is just the latest in a seemingly endless streak of bad news for music lovers in 2016. From David Bowie to Natalie Cole, fans have had plenty to grieve so far this year, but they've also had the opportunity to look back and celebrate some incredible lives and careers.Salon compiled classic moments from 12 stars we lost in 2016:PrinceThe pop superstar died Thursday at his Minnesota estate at age 57.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDuGjM
  
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• Prince’s majestic final concert: “A rare opportunity to witness the raw musicality that pulses through his veins”

  21-04-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  Prince, played his final show on April 14 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, before passing away Thursday at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Below is a picture of a ticket for the show, which had been cancelled and rescheduled for the next week after it was reported Prince had contracted the flu:https://twitter.com/karentvchick/status/723203316327452672Atlanta Journal-Constitution music critic, Melissa Ruggieri, said Prince "took his disciples to church with a set that resonated intense
  
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• Classic Prince: Watch the legend’s 5 most iconic live performances

  21-04-2016 20:34 via salon.com
  
  Pop legend Prince is dead at 57, TMZ first reported. The musician reportedly died at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota. Fans are mourning the star's passing, including celebrities who took to Twitter to post their feelings and experiences with the icon.
  Katie Perry expertly summed up the general emotion of everyone who loved Prince. "And just like that...the world lost a lot of magic," she tweeted.
  We rounded up some of the star's most iconic musical moments — take a look. Continue
  
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• The power of Prince: A master of opposites, he bridged divides between genre, race, gender and style

  21-04-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  The last few months have seem some very serious rock music deaths, including David Bowie and Beatles producer George Martin. But the sudden announcement that Prince has died in Minneapolis serves as a shock to the system. The Beatles were the group of the ‘60s, and Bowie was perhaps the great rock musician of the ‘70s. Prince was not only a dominant figure in the ‘80s, his music and concerns have remained powerful and important.Prince managed to combine a huge number of th
  
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• In one of his final interviews, Prince talked about the secret to success, critics and the importance of truth

  21-04-2016 20:13 via salon.com
  
  In one of his last interviews last fall, Prince — who was found dead today 57 at Paisley Park — had a rare moment of candor with the media.In November, Prince invited members of the press into his Minneapolis estate because he had a “brainstorm” two nights prior, according to The Guardian. The legendary artist was planning on announcing his European tour for his latest album “HitNRun.”Instead, what ended up happening was a private listening party with And
  
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• America’s “Prince” problem: How Black people — and art — became “devalued”

  21-04-2016 20:06 via salon.com
  
  Near the end of the 2015 Grammy Awards, musical icon Prince presented the Grammy for Best Album, with this preamble: “Albums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter.” In just over ten words, Prince reminded us that the Black Lives Matter movement that captured our attention in the last five months of 2014 is having the necessary consequence of sparking a new chapter in our national artistic imagination. A long-held tenet of our liberal American credo is that art
  
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• “I can’t f*cking breathe right now”: Questlove’s devastation at Prince’s death

  21-04-2016 19:59 via salon.com
  
  No one is taking the news of pop superstar Prince's death than Roots bandleader Questlove. The drummer took to Twitter to express his emotion as multiple outlets reported that the musical icon had died at his Minnesota estate:https://twitter.com/questlove/status/723196275089354752Questlove told a story earlier this year of how he was once fired from a nightclub DJing gig by Prince, who subsequently replaced the Roots drummer with a "Finding Nemo" DVD. The incident doesn't seem to have
  
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• New York primary aftermath: Board of Elections faces audit and thousands of voters just filed a lawsuit

  21-04-2016 19:47 via salon.com
  
  Voter complaints in New York are beginning to sound all too familiar, and the state just became another of dozens of states to experience serious voter issues during this election.New York voters reported numerous problems, including closed polling sites, and missing or misidentified party affiliation, to name a few.
  The most telling fact? A hotline for complaints specific to the election received four times as many calls as it did in 2012.A lawsuit on behalf of voters filed by the organization
  
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• Remembering Prince: Iconic videos from the music legend and his last filmed public appearance

  21-04-2016 19:34 via salon.com
  
  TMZ confirmed Thursday that the body found at Paisley Park was, in fact, singer Prince. He was 57.He was last filmed in Manhattan by TMZ:The Minneapolis, Minnesota, native won seven Grammy Awards (32 nominations), a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award (Best Original Song Score, "Prince").Prince headlined a memorable Halftime Show during the 2007 Super Bowl, performing smash hit "Purple Rain" during a literal downpour:Among the R&B visionary's greatest hits were "When Doves Cry" (which&nb
  
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• “And just like that… the world lost a lot of magic”: Celebrities react to Prince’s death on Twitter

  21-04-2016 19:26 via salon.com
  
  Pop icon Prince is dead at 57, TMZ reports. The musician reportedly died at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota.The news of Prince's death elicited an immediate outpouring of emotion from celebrities on Twitter:https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/723197982481375232https://twitter.com/KeithUrban/status/723195598032097284https://twitter.com/SHAQ/status/723195661869404161https://twitter.com/MariahCarey/status/723229875688083457https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/723238611139747841https://twitt
  
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• Publicist confirms Prince was found dead in his Minnesota home

  21-04-2016 19:25 via salon.com
  
  CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) — Pop music superstar Prince has been found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis.His publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Associated Press the music icon was found dead at his home Thursday in Chanhassen.The singer, songwriter, arranger and instrumentalist was widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive musicians of his era, drawing upon influences ranging from James Brown to the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix. His hits included "Little Red Corvette," ''Let's Go Cr
  
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• Prince dead at 57, TMZ reports

  21-04-2016 19:07 via salon.com
  
  Carver County officials say a death investigation is underway at Prince’s Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, reports ABC affliate KARE.According to TMZ, the deceased is Prince. The 57, musical icon was hospitalized after his private jet made an emergency landing in at Quad City airport in Illinois last Friday morning. CBS News has confirmed.This news is breaking and will be updated as more information is revealed.https://twitter.com/RegChapman/status/723186033542594564Carve
  
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• Prince dead at 57

  21-04-2016 19:07 via salon.com
  
  Carver County officials say a death investigation is underway at Prince’s Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, reports ABC affliate KARE.The global superstar's publicist has confirmed that the deceased is Prince, according to the Associated Press. CBS News has confirmed.The 57-year-old musical icon was hospitalized after his private jet made an emergency landing at Quad City airport in Illinois last Friday morning. According to TMZ, he said he was merely battling the flu and
  
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• The FBI’s dangerous Apple-hack rationalizations: How it’s now stealing a page from the CIA’s torture playbook

  21-04-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  
  In justifying their efforts to get into San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone, the FBI is now using the same logic that the CIA used to justify torturing people who had no information to share.From the start of the FBI's efforts to get into Farook's phone, it was fairly clear there'd be nothing on it. What kind of terrorist, planning to attack his co-workers at a holiday party, would coordinate his planning on his work-issued phone? Plus, Farook went to some lengths to&
  
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• Kelly Ripa declares war: Feud with ABC over Michael Strahan’s departure could make the best morning TV ever

  21-04-2016 18:21 via salon.com
  
  The tone of morning television is a bit like a high-school pep rally: Cheery, enthusiastic, artificially upbeat. Spontaneous dancing often breaks out, and celebrities are always happy.But ABC has just destroyed the vibe, at least for a few days. It’s a lesson in how a network should not treat its talent. The fight is over "Live! With Kelly and Michael," which hardly seems like the sort of program that would generate controversy. Kelly Ripa, a soap-opera star and former Tide spokeswoman wit
  
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• Want to get a sense of how screwed the Republican Party is for 2016? Read the Wall Street Journal editorial page

  21-04-2016 18:17 via salon.com
  
  If you’re interested in a tidy little example of the political dilemma facing the Republican Party and its 2016 presidential frontrunner, look no further than today’s Wall Street Journal opinion page. In two separate pieces, the paper serves up two different takes on what to expect as the GOP moves closer to a nominating convention in which no candidate has amassed a majority of pledged delegates, but one candidate – Trump – has put together a strong plurality. What emerg
  
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• John Kasich: Democracy is no good if it results in more Democratic voters

  21-04-2016 18:11 via salon.com
  
  John Kasich told The Washington Post editorial board on Wednesday that he is still opposed to granting statehood to the taxpaying residents of Washington, D.C., admitting that his opposition is entirely based on partisan politics.The Ohio Governor acknowledged to Post associate editorial page editor Jo-Ann Armao while campaigning in Maryland that “If you don’t have ideas, you got nothing, and frankly my Republican Party doesn’t like ideas,” before revealing that
  
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• How bad can a Tinder date get?: Apparently “doesn’t look like his picture, or just plain weird” is now grounds for an intervention

  21-04-2016 17:34 via salon.com
  
  The dating game has never been an easy one: self-consciousness and stomach butterflies beget awkward eye contact and fumbled conversation that sometimes ends in romance and other times ends in cringe-inducing stories over brunch. We’ve all been on dates we wish would never end, and also on those we thought we’d thought we’d never get out of alive.Fortunately for some, a London restaurant now vows to rescue women on bad dates. Brickyard, a pub just outside of London, features a
  
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• GOP’s Planned Parenthood investigation outed as a total sham: Republicans on the committee now openly participating in anti-Planned Parenthood protests

  21-04-2016 17:32 via salon.com
  
  When Republicans fall for a lie, boy do they fall hard.House Republicans have already admitted that their months long investigation into Planned Parenthood's use of federal funding turned up nothing. Utah Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Jason Chaffetz admitted last fall that his fruitless crusade against the women's health organization despised by conservatives turned up no wrongdoing.Still, chasing a hoax perpetuated by conservative anti-abort
  
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• Hillary’s primary success is a sham: Bernie Sanders will remain the true Democratic front-runner until the FBI finishes its Investigation

  21-04-2016 16:55 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate for president not linked to an FBI investigation. This used to mean something in American politics, but those days are gone. Today, I’m viewed as delusional, by the same people who think smart politics and qualifications entail endless scandals, poor decision-making on everything from major foreign policy decisions to Wall Street speeches, and ongoing FBI investigations. In truth, the only delusion is believing that a candidate at risk of DOJ
  
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• They only want to honor white men: The pathetic conservative meltdown over the Harriet Tubman $20 bill exposes the right’s petty identity politics

  21-04-2016 16:36 via salon.com
  
  On Wednesday, the Treasury Department unveiled a plan to redesign the $20, $10, and $5 bills to better reflect American history, moving some of the (all white, all male) former presidents around on the bills and making room to put luminaries like Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, and Eleanor Roosevelt on various bills. The biggest shift will be Tubman, who helped create and run the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves, gracing the front of the $20 bill, kicking Andrew Jackson to the ba
  
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• Meet the “new” Donald Trump: He’s reinventing his campaign — and that should terrify the Republican Party

  21-04-2016 16:36 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump's campaign has coasted on controversy, free media coverage and hysterical mega rallies. To the shock of veteran politicos everywhere, Trump has bulldozed through most of the primary process without the overwhelming aid of super PACs and paid advertising. He's even shunned what's often called retail politics – shaking hands in shopping center parking lots, attending local events, holding intimate Q&A's in small-town pizza joints.What's peeved establishment Republicans more
  
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• Donald Trump tries to come out in favor of LGBTQ rights — but still manages to get it all wrong

  21-04-2016 16:22 via salon.com
  
  During his town hall on the Today show Thursday, Donald Trump momentarily showed a surprising -- if predictably capitalistic -- progressive streak, saying that if Caitlyn Jenner wanted to use the woman's facilities at Trump Tower, he would allow that.
  Trump was responding to a question from Twitter. "Tell us your views on LGBT -- how [do] you plan to be inclusive as president? Speak about North Carolina bathroom law in particular."
  "North Carolina did something that was very strong," he said, "a
  
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• Dead animals litter California beaches

  21-04-2016 16:07 via salon.com
  
  California is in its third straight year of "unusual mortality" rates for sea lions. The dismal state was first declared in January of 2013 and death rates have increased each year since.
  The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Ca rescues an average of 600 to 800 seals and sea lions each year from the coastline — and last year that number increased to 1,799. It looks like 2016 will be worse.
  Most experts agree the the death rates are due to warming sea temperatures that push food that
  
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• “Awful.” “Dumb.” Stupid”: Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren rails against Obama for “dividing the country” by booting Andrew Jackson for Harriet Tubman on the $20

  21-04-2016 15:51 via salon.com
  
  Fox News host Greta Van Susteren isn't usually as reflexively right-wing as some of her primetime colleagues, but her reaction to the news that Harriet Tubman, a former slave, would replace Andrew Jackson, a notoriously racist slave owner, on the $20 bill was more delusional than normal, accusing the Obama administration of deliberately “dividing the country.”Despite the fact that the Treasury Department has swapped out the faces on currency before (Jackson wasn't plac
  
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• Donald Trump: Leave Andrew Jackson alone! — “Let’s come up with another denomination” for women

  21-04-2016 15:50 via salon.com
  
  During his town hall meeting with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today showing Thursday morning, GOP front-runner Donald Trump was asked how he felt about replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman."You have, so often in this campaign, railed against 'political correctness,'" Lauer began. "Do you see this as a move that is about political correctness, or simply a move that is way overdue?""Andrew Jackson had a great history," Trump replied, "and I think it's rough when you take somebody o
  
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• Donald Trump’s employing “Alinskyite tactics”: Fox News is really starting to eat its own now

  21-04-2016 15:13 via salon.com
  
  On Hannity last night, host Sean Hannity tried to explain away the temper tantrum he threw during his Tuesday interview with Texas Senator Ted Cruz."Every time I have you on the air and I ask a legitimate question, you try to throw this in my face, [and] I’m getting sick of it," he told Cruz after the senator dodged a question about his path to the GOP nomination. "If I ask you, senator, a legitimate question to explain to the audience, why don’t you answer it?""As I travel the count
  
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• Trevor Noah’s epic anti-media/anti-Trump rant: “It’s cartoonish”

  21-04-2016 14:42 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah last night discussed Donald Trump's landslide victory in Tuesday's New York primary.On pundits' assertion that Trump sounded "more presidential" in his victory speech because he called opponent Ted Cruz "Senator Cruz" and not "Lyin' Ted," Noah said. "Trump has basically lowered the media's expectations so much that not insulting someone seems presidential to them.""Now, you might wonder how Donald Trump won New York or, actually, how he wins any state, given that hi
  
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• Megyn Kelly: Can Hillary Clinton win the general election with “record” negatives among white males?

  21-04-2016 14:39 via salon.com
  
  On The Kelly File Wednesday, Florida Representative and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz defended her party's front-runner, Hillary Clinton, saying that the "record negatives" pollsters are registering don't matter because "she beats any of the Republican candidates" in a one-on-one match-up.Host Megyn Kelly opened by asking Wasserman Schultz if the "prolonged" nomination process is hurting Clinton. "I don't think so," Wasserman Schultz replied.Kelly rattled off the "
  
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• Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz take a beating: Larry Wilmore breaks down New York primary misconduct

  21-04-2016 14:21 via salon.com
  
  "Nightly Show" host Larry Wilmore last night updated audiences on the 2016 primary race, which he refers to as "the effort to de-negro-fy the White House."Responding to Donald Trump's claims prior to his commanding victory in New York of a "rigged" electoral process -- and Ted Cruz's goose-egg pick-up in the state -- Wilmore said, "The primary system may be rigged, but apparently not for (Cruz's) pleasure."Meanwhile, following an upsetting loss to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders hinted at miscon
  
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• “I like to brand people honestly”: Donald Trump justifies his “crooked Hillary” slogan to Bill O’Reilly

  21-04-2016 14:11 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Wednesday evening to discuss the state of the presidential race after his victory in New York Tuesday. According to Trump, it all comes down to him and Hillary Clinton at this point -- and he's already figured out how to "brand" her."I like to to brand people honestly," he told host Bill O'Reilly. "I branded her 'crooked Hillary' because she has a lot of problems." Trump said that he fully expects Clinton's surrogates to "be very tough with me, I've r
  
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• Good riddance, Andrew Jackson: Stephen Colbert celebrates as “renowned Indian stabber” booted off the $20

  21-04-2016 14:06 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on the much buzzed-about news of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman replacing "renowned Indian stabber" Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill."This is long overdue," Colbert said. "Harriet Tubman is an American hero who risked her life repeatedly to fight slavery. So it's gonna get a little awkward in your wallet when she runs into Washington and Jefferson.""It's truly exciting to have a woman on the twenty," he continued. "Although, unfortunately,
  
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• These guys are total f**k-ups: More proof that the most powerful Republicans in America are nothing but hype

  21-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  The media has continued its bizarre insistence that the GOP primary has been settled after the completely expected Donald Trump rout in New York on Tuesday, and are seemingly convinced this non-existent reset had something to do with the Trump makeover that is likewise non-existent. Since his victory speech didn't include any crude epithets or mentions of his manly member, they seemed to be under the impression that he's a restrained and dignified statesman worthy of the presidency. Ch
  
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• The Panama Papers reveal scandalous hypocrisy: The leak’s reminded us that governments make it all too easy for the super-rich to hide their money

  21-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  It's always educational to observe the behavior of wildlife in their natural habitat. For example, we learn that there's nothing more vicious than a wild animal that's cornered. I would add that there's nothing more devious than a top political or corporate official caught in a scandalous hypocrisy.We're now bearing witness to this latter phenomenon, for a whole menagerie of political critters have recently been screeching and scrambling after being backed into a corner by the "Panama Papers." T
  
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• Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen

  21-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  What is it with the Hillary cult?As a lifelong Democrat who will be enthusiastically voting for Bernie Sanders in next week’s Pennsylvania primary, I have trouble understanding the fuzzy rosy filter through which Hillary fans see their champion. So much must be overlooked or discounted—from Hillary’s compulsive money-lust and her brazen indifference to normal rules to her conspiratorial use of shadowy surrogates and her sociopathic shape-shifting in policy positions for momenta
  
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• Trump has a reason to feel great again: The GOP nominating contest shifts to his turf — and the delegate goal is well within reach

  21-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is feeling pretty bullish. After stomping through the New York primary, taking down 60 percent of the vote and nearly every one of the state’s 95 delegates, his campaign strategically leaked an “internal memo” to the Washington Post projecting a tidy conclusion to the Republican nominating process. The Trump campaign expects their man to head into the convention with more than 1,400 delegates – well above the 1,237 needed to clinch the nomination – and
  
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• Today in the GOP war on sex: Utah governor signs a resolution declaring porn a “public health hazard”

  21-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Republicans have fallen into the habit of using phony claims of "protecting" women to attack LGBT people and to deny women reproductive rights, so it shouldn't be any surprise that this faux chivalry was invoked by Utah governor Gary Herbert to justify a resolution he signed Tuesday denouncing porn as a "public health hazard."It's hard to convey how ridiculous this resolution is, a true masterpiece in the art of freaking out about how the sex perverts are going to destroy the world. There a
  
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• Ted Cruz is America’s most desperate fanatic: Why he’s unlikely to give up his (probably doomed) quest for the nomination

  21-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Tuesday was a very satisfying day for the legions of Ted Cruz haters in America. The Texan so oily you can safely assume he bathes in his state’s most abundant natural resource did not just get destroyed in the New York Republican primary. He was rolled over and crushed into powder by a gilded bulldozer named Donald Trump, which then backed up and rolled over him again. Consider the following:New York Rep. Peter King, himself one of the most loathsome members of Congress, kicked off t
  
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• Why Andrew Jackson never should have been on the $20 to begin with

  21-04-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  It’s official: Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew has announced that abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. And, while Jackson will still reportedly remain on the reverse side of the bill, the move is nonetheless a momentous one.Naturally there are many people who will complain about this decision, but since Tubman’s legacy leading slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad is beyond reproach, these critics will most
  
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• Elites are clueless on trade: Paul Krugman can’t connect the dots of his own analysis

  21-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  The presidential primary campaigns of both political parties have exposed widespread voter anger over U.S. global trade policies. In response, hardly a day has recently gone by without the New York Times, the Washington Post and other defenders of the status quo lecturing their readers on why unregulated foreign trade is good for them.The ultimate conclusion is always the same – that voters should leave complicated issues like this to those intellectually better qualified to deal with them
  
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• We’re never closing Guantánamo: America is still living in George W. Bush’s shadow

  21-04-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  Can you believe it?  We’re in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval Office, swore that he would close Guantánamo, and yet it and everything it represents remains part of our all-American world. So many years later, you can still read news reports on the ongoing nightmares of that grim prison, ranging from detention without charge to hunger strikes and force feeding. Its name still echoes through the halls of Congress in bitter debate over
  
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• It might not be dementia: How Big Pharma is harming our senior citizens

  21-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Forgetfulness. Falls. Adding a new prescription or over-the-counter drug to address problems that are side effects of a previous drug. These are increasingly common problems, says a new book from Hazelden, because people are taking more drugs than ever before and not always aware of their side effects and interactions. This "polypharmacy" can produce everything from falls and accidents to behavior that is quickly termed dementia in the elderly, even when it is clearly from drug effects.The prob
  
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• Robert Reich: The populist left and right are on the same side

  21-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  The old debate goes something like this:‘You don’t believe women have reproductive rights.”“You don’t value human life.”Or this:“You think everyone should own a gun.”“You think we’re safer if only criminals have them.”Or this:“You don’t care about poor people.””You think they’re better off with handouts.”Or this:“You want to cut taxes on the rich.”"You want to tax everyone to death.&
  
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• After New York, now what? Trump and Clinton win big — but this bizarre political year still holds mysteries

  21-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  In the wake of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s big wins in the New York primary, the chaos of the 2016 presidential campaign seems to be assuming more familiar dimensions. In recent weeks I’ve been focused on the big-picture questions emerging from this extraordinary year, and I still think those are unavoidable. We’re heading into a general election with no clear precedent, in which the two parties’ prospective nominees are viewed in overwhelmingly negative terms by m
  
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