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• “The Trump Effect” is freaking out our kids: “Trump is acting like a 12-year-old, and 12-year-olds are now acting like Trump”

  26-04-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  
  Every political race has attacks, bad blood, insults, and negative ads, but the 2016 contest may be the harshest, nastiest campaign ever. A new survey of almost 2,000 teachers by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows that the anger and hatred is filtering down to school children.Here’s the SPLC:The report – “The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on Our Nation’s Schools” – found that the campaign is producing an alarming level of fear and an
  
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• Sean Hannity whines about “anti-cop” Beyoncé and Michelle Obama in bizarre defense of Curt Schilling’s transphobia

  26-04-2016 21:51 via salon.com
  
  Sean Hannity has long held objections to Beyonce. He also suffers from a clear case of Obama Derangement Syndrome and he's been a vocal defender of Curt Schilling -- recently fired from his job as an ESPN commentator for posting transphobic social media posts. Perhaps in some effort to one-up his fellow right-wing talker Alex Jones, Hannity has garbled his latest anti-Beyonce rant to include an incoherent defense of Schilling along with a gratuitous swipe at the judgement of the Obamas
  
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• We’re sure Bernie will take his advice: Donald Trump says Sanders should run as an independent

  26-04-2016 21:31 via salon.com
  
  In a surprise turn of events, Donald Trump offered Bernie Sanders some campaign advice on Tuesday, saying that the Democratic candidate had been treated "terribly" by the establishment and should run as an independent instead, according to ABC News.Sanders chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination have grown slim, with Hillary Clinton projected to win Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary and already pondering on a vice presidential pick.On Tuesday, Trump tweeted,"Bernie
  
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• A progressive in name only: Charles Koch joins a long list of right-wingers who have lauded Hillary Clinton

  26-04-2016 20:35 via salon.com
  
  Billionaire industrialist and right-wing moneyman Charles Koch insisted in an interview this week that he could potentially support Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speculating she could be a better president than her Republican counterparts.This indirect endorsement is coming from one of the Koch Brothers, two the richest human beings on the planet. The Kochs have for years used their enormous wealth to bankroll countless right-wing causes, from anti-tax activism to climate sc
  
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• Teach girls to embrace their inner nerd: Making Silicon Valley look less dorky won’t solve its gender problem

  26-04-2016 20:34 via salon.com
  
  At the Tribeca Film Festival Daring Women Summit last week, Julie Ann Crommett made a strong case for broader representation in pop culture. In a talk titled “Cracking the Code – Hollywood, Diversity, and Computer Science,” the Entertainment Industry Educator in Chief of Google opened by displaying an advertisement for the HBO comedy "Silicon Valley." “When you think of somebody in tech...do they sort of resemble the images on the screen?” she asked, “Nerdy, g
  
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• North Carolina Republican rallies support for anti-transgender bathroom ban: “Keep our state straight”

  26-04-2016 20:31 via salon.com
  
  While NAACP protesters held a sit-in at Republican Governor Pat McCrory’s office in Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday, to demonstrate against the state's discriminatory anti-transgender bathroom ban, proponents of House Bill 2 rallied in front of the state capitol and called on the conservatives of North Carolina to keep the "state straight.""Go home, tell your friends and family who had to work today what this is all about and how hard we must fight to keep our state straight,&rdq
  
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• Bernie Sanders is right about poor voters: The wealthy vote more — and it’s hurting our democracy

  26-04-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  
  In 2014, the Census Bureau reported that 42 percent of voting-age citizens in the United States actually voted, the lowest in a midterm since the Census began collecting the data in 1978. However, digging deeper, this number is even more worrying than it initially appears, because voting in the U.S. is deeply divided across race, age and class.Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently drew attention to this issue, along with some criticism, by saying that “poor people don&r
  
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• This will make you cringe: Watch men read hateful online comments to cyber-harassed female sports reporters

  26-04-2016 20:21 via salon.com
  
  In a  YouTube video titled "#MoreThanMean - Women in Sports 'Face' Harassment," regular guys are asked to sit face-to-face with ESPN anchor Sarah Spain and Chicago sports radio host Julie DiCaro — two female journalists who face cyber-harassment beyond that of their male counterparts -- and read comments from their readers.The men had not seen the hateful, often obscene comments beforehand, though Spain and DiCaro had. The comments were believably evil (as far as Internet hate speech
  
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• Mystery over booted Bernie Sanders Facebook groups — which have more than 50,000 members

  26-04-2016 20:21 via salon.com
  
  Several Bernie Sanders Facebook groups and pages were deleted from Facebook on Monday night outraging the democratic socialist's supporters. The removals occurred around the same time in what appeared to be a targeted attack, with members questioning whether they came from a Hillary Clinton Super PAC, according to Heavy.com.The suspicion comes after Shaun King from The Daily News reported that a pro-Clinton PAC, called “Barrier Breakers,” was s
  
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• Mystery over booted Bernie groups on Facebook: Speculation swirls regarding Hillary Clinton Super PAC’s role in deletion

  26-04-2016 19:22 via salon.com
  
  Several Bernie Sanders Facebook groups and pages were deleted from Facebook on Monday night outraging the democratic socialist's supporters. The removals occurred around the same time in what appeared to be a targeted attack, with members questioning whether they came from a Hillary Clinton Super PAC, according to Heavy.com.The suspicion comes after Shaun King from The Daily News reported that a pro-Clinton PAC, called “Barrier Breakers,” was s
  
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• Lena Dunham will destroy Donald Trump: Millennials are now the largest generation, and their power is enormous

  26-04-2016 18:34 via salon.com
  
  By now, Millennials have absorbed so much insulting and stereotyping it’s amazing that it’s a wonder any of them still talk to their non-Millennial friends. Hoverboards, entitlement, constant texting – they all contain a grain of truth, but they’ve been worked through in so many think pieces that it’s getting a little unfair. (I still reserve an elder's right to mock Justin Bieber and other musicians beloved by those in the 18 to 34 range.) But new census
  
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• Florida cop suspended for racist Instagram posts; She claims they were “taken out of context”

  26-04-2016 18:06 via salon.com
  
  Lt. Trudy Callahan — a 20-year officer with the Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff's Office -- has been handed a 10-day suspension for her racially insensitive Instagram activity, according to the Florida Times-Union.Though an investigation into Callahan's on-the-job behavior didn't turn up any sort of racial bias, the Sheriff's Office determined her online behavior "violated code of conduct rules," according to a report obtained by the Times-Union.In one of the questi
  
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• We’re so shocked! Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s united anti-Trump front collapses in less than 24 hours, just as expected

  26-04-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz and John Kasich have spent most of the campaign bickering about who is better equipped to defeat Donald Trump. Cruz's argument has always been that he wins primaries and is the only “outsider” alternative to Trump. At some point, Kasich stopped pretending he had any chance of winning at the voting booth, and so his argument became: Trump is a disaster, Cruz is unelectable, and I'm the only guy who polls favorably against the Democratic candidates.As I wrote Monday, Cruz
  
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• Alex Jones convinced Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” is part of CIA-NFL plot to start anti-white, anti-male civil war in America

  26-04-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  
  In a video posted on Facebook earlier this week, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Alex Jones discussed how the Beyoncé-National Football League-CIA industrial complex is colluding in order to start a second American Civil War one video and performance at a time.In what he identified as an "over-the-top, important report," Jones reacted to the fact that in "Lemonade," Beyoncé is depicted as "smashing cars, smashing windows, with little girls following her." This is all part of the
  
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• Donald Trump wipes away Hillary Clinton’s troubles with millennials: New poll shows Clinton sweeping young voters by larger margins than Obama won in 2008

  26-04-2016 17:49 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump may have finally hit 50 percent support from his own party for the first time, but a new poll out this week finds the Republican frontrunner so deeply unpopular with Latino and young voters that he could swing record turnout against him -- handing the eventual Democratic nominee greater margins of support than even Barack Obama's historic 2008 win.While young voters have overwhelmingly backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, according to a poll released Monday by
  
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• Yes, a Florida Republican actually said this: Congressional candidate Mark Freeman accuses Obama of creating racial divide by giving blacks “free stuff”

  26-04-2016 17:38 via salon.com
  
  Republican House candidate Mark Freeman, a Florida physician whose self-financed bid for the 18th Congressional District gained him recognition with the national GOP, has entered a dispute with Democratic rival Randy Perkins over his remarks on race, reports The Palm Beach Post.Asked about race relations at a candidate forum in Stuart, Florida last week, Freeman said that Obama had inspired "black envy" by making a "boldfaced effort" to drive a wedge between the races:“
  
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• Michael Stipe pleads with Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto bill allowing guns on campus

  26-04-2016 17:23 via salon.com
  
  In an op-ed published in USA Today, former R.E.M. front-man Michael Stipe pleaded with Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto a law that would allow students to open carry on campus.
  Along with 78 percent of his fellow Georgians, Stipe thinks the presence of guns on campus will have a deleterious effect not only on student safety, but on the intellectual missions of the state's colleges and universities.
  "I worry about what it means when loaded guns are allowed at a tailgate where alcohol is being
  
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• Down with the “Innovation Party”: Politico’s former CEO makes a political pitch tailored for the rich — including Mark Zuckerberg running for prez

  26-04-2016 17:05 via salon.com
  
  We can’t seem to get through a presidential election cycle without some high-minded and thoroughly clueless push for an independent third-party candidate to save American politics from itself through the power of “disruption.” Back in 2008 we had the Unity08 movement, which planned to use the internet to crowdsource a party platform and nominate a bipartisan presidential ticket. It failed to raise any significant amount of money or attention, and folded up operations as its lea
  
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• Ben Carson: Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill makes her the new face of slavery

  26-04-2016 16:47 via salon.com
  
  Former Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson published an editorial in IJ Review in which he complained that adding the likeness of Harriet Tubman to the $20 bill would result in her becoming the "new face of debt slavery.""The effort to rush this through under the current Obama administration is nothing short of national disgrace," he wrote, "an empty gesture designed to mask a much more fundamental problem: the burgeoning U.S. debt, and the declining significanc
  
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• Kelly Ripa’s victory: With her masterful return to “Live,” she reminds everyone who’s boss

  26-04-2016 16:42 via salon.com
  
  Kelly Ripa returned to her show with grace and confidence on Tuesday morning, entering hand-in-hand with cohost Michael Strahan before standing solo to address the audience, wearing a red jumpsuit and matching heels that were the very definition of fierce. Ripa made headlines last week when she walked out the show that has her name on it—“Live With Kelly And Michael”—after the top brass at the company both promoted her junior partner and only informed her of that fact jus
  
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• Oklahoma finds an absurd new way to make it impossible to get an abortion

  26-04-2016 16:40 via salon.com
  
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• “If we are behind in the pledged delegates, I think it’s very hard for us to win”: Bernie Sanders admits plan to flip superdelegates an uphill battle

  26-04-2016 16:17 via salon.com
  
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• The right continues to eat itself: Ann Coulter explodes at Charles Koch for calling Trump a “terrible role model”

  26-04-2016 16:15 via salon.com
  
  Conservative iconoclast Ann Coulter took to Facebook earlier this week to berate Republican benefactor-in-chief Charles Koch for venturing that Hillary Clinton might make for a better president than Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
  In an interview with ABC News, Koch lambasted Texas Senator Ted Cruz for his comments about "carpet-bombing the Middle East," saying that for "a candidate, whether they believe it or not, [to] think that appeals to the American people -- this is frightening."He found Donald
  
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• Amanda Peet’s candid essay on plastic surgery and Hollywood: “Everyone’s looking at me like, Let go, you bullheaded old hag!”

  26-04-2016 16:10 via salon.com
  
  Lenny, the newsletter created by Lena Dunham and her "Girls" showrunner Jenni Konner, has quickly become an essential publication for women's writing, equally adroit at lifting up exciting emerging voices and providing a platform for celebrities who actually have something interesting to say, like Jennifer Lawrence's shots-fired essay on Hollywood's gender pay gap to Julianne Moore on getting the call to work for gun control after Sandy Hook. In today's Lenny Letter, actress
  
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• Bernie Sanders: Drug laws are a racial issue as much as a legal one

  26-04-2016 15:48 via salon.com
  
  During Monday evening's MSNBC town hall, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made it clear that he believes drug laws disproportionately affect the African-American community, and that if elected president, he would remove marijuana from the federal government's banned substance list.It's a remarkable position for a viable presidential candidate to take -- and a far cry from the draconian measures put into place by Hillary Clinton's husband during his first term in office, which a cynical person coul
  
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• “Grown adult men should not be in a bathroom with little girls”: Ted Cruz’s transphobia is disgusting

  26-04-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz has been quite vocal on his thoughts on transgender bathroom rights. He finds it to be "basic common sense" that no one should want "a grown man in a bathroom with little girls." A transgender man said he was thrown out of one of Cruz's rallies because he was visibly trans. Watch our video for more.Continue Reading...
  
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• Hillary Clinton pledges half of her Cabinet will be women: “I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America”

  26-04-2016 14:56 via salon.com
  
  In President Obama's administration, only 30 percent of Cabinet-ranked positions in the US government are currently occupied by women. While that figure is greater than the dismal representation women receive in the U.S. Senate (20 percent), or in House of Representatives (19.3 percent), Hillary Clinton has committed to following in the footsteps of Canada's newly elected prime minister, pledging to staff 50 percent of her potential Cabinet with women.After answering an audience question ab
  
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• Watch Jesse Watters be outwitted by the very millennials he meant to mock

  26-04-2016 14:50 via salon.com
  
  On the latest installment of "Watters' World," Bill O'Reilly sent Jesse Watters to Central Park to ask young people about government entitlement programs -- or as O'Reilly and Watters put it, "the free stuff" they believe the government should provide for them.Despite the fact that every question Watters asked was loaded to the gills, the majority of their answers fell squarely within the bounds of what any modern day New Deal liberal would reasonably be expected to say.
  "Healthcare," which is n
  
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• Watch Jesse Watters be outwitted by the very millenials he meant to mock

  26-04-2016 14:50 via salon.com
  
  On the latest installment of "Watters' World," Bill O'Reilly sent Jesse Watters to Central Park to ask young people about government entitlement programs -- or as O'Reilly and Watters put it, "the free stuff" they believe the government should provide for them.Despite the fact that every question Watters asked was loaded to the gills, the majority of their answers fell squarely within the bounds of what any modern day New Deal liberal would reasonably be expected to say.
  "Healthcare," which is n
  
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• Domestic violence is a workplace issue too

  26-04-2016 14:30 via salon.com
  
  Domestic violence at work has been an issue for years. More cases of these are reaching headlines in the news, however most of the time they go unnoticed. Watch our video for more details.Continue Reading...
  
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• Who at Fox News ordered Sean Hannity and Ted Cruz to kiss and make up?

  26-04-2016 14:15 via salon.com
  
  Not even a week ago, Sean Hannity used his program as a platform from which to tantrum about the inequities of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, but apparently he was told it was time to make nice with the congressman, as the Fox News host invited him back Monday evening for a very uncomfortable conversation.
  To those unfamiliar with the dynamic these two once shared, this conversation -- their 43rd since Cruz announced his presidential ambitions in June -- could seem merely "professional," but to those o
  
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• “He f**ked up drinking a glass of water:” Larry Wilmore on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s failed 30-day challenge

  26-04-2016 14:09 via salon.com
  
  "Nightly Show" host Larry Wilmore has been on top of the goings on regarding the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. The latest development: Gov. Rick Snyder, who pledged to drink the water for 30 days straight, recently left on a weeklong vacation to Europe, where he said he will break his streak."What? He couldn't take that filthy water through customs?" Wilmore said. "I hope the TSA made him chug it before he went through security.""So Snyder only made it five days into a 30-day challenge," he con
  
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• “A game of Republican Mad Libs”: Seth Meyers perfectly sums up Donald Trump’s incoherent campaign strategy

  26-04-2016 14:03 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers took a "Closer Look" at Donald Trump's recent rebranding strategy, led by controversial lobbyist Paul Manafort."Manafort was brought into the campaign in part to help Trump run a more traditional operation," Meyers explained, "and also to ensure GOP officials that Trump, despite his public rhetoric, isn't going to war with the party."Last week, however, a leaked audio recording of a meeting between Manafort and RNC officials revealed that Trump might be "playin
  
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• These people saw Donald Trump and lost all control of their faces

  26-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Trump transcends the usual persona of a presidential candidate and walks the line of pop stardom. Fluent with hand shaking and signing paraphernalia, Trump knows how to make his fans happy. Watch this video of people who got face to face with Trump and totally lost control.Continue Reading...
  
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• The man who made Ted Cruz possible: How Tom DeLay set the stage for this generation’s most-hated lawmaker

  26-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  2016 is a political season of epic peculiarity and weirdness, so perhaps it's not too surprising that the news of a former speaker of the House being convicted of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to a former student he molested when he was a wrestling coach years before is part of the mix. It's a testament to how far we've defined deviancy down that this has only caused a minor ripple in the press. He's an elderly man now and he has been out of office for a decade
  
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• WATCH: Stephen Colbert “white-mansplains” Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” her ode to a cheating Jay Z

  26-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert last night dissected "Lemonade," Beyoncé's hour-long manifesto to a cheating Jay Z, in a segment called "Stephen Colbert White-Mansplains.""Beyoncé refers to the woman Jay Z slept as Becky with the Good Hair," Colbert explained. "You may think that Becky is the name of the actual woman. It turns out, that is just a slang term for a kind of valley girl type.""Her carrying hot sauce in her bag is like how we white men keep Newman's Own mild pinea
  
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• One of the most popular arguments against raising the minimum wage is getting demolished

  26-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  You know that the fight to significantly increase the minimum wage in America is winning these days by the decibel level of its critics, warning that the raises will hurt the very people they mean to help. But among the many benefits of recent successes is that, instead of endless theorizing about the minimum wage’s effects, we’ll have actual data as salaries gradually rise. And the first set of data thus far refutes one of the critics’ biggest charges.Four
  
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• The case against “upward mobility”: Why it isn’t the solution to fixing American inequality

  26-04-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  America believes itself to be the land of opportunity. Yet both historically and presently, America has systematically denied opportunity to women, people of color and those of low-income. Indeed, the reforms that spark the most visceral reactions among many white Americans are those that simply offer Black children the same opportunities as white children, for example. (More on that later.) My analysis of American National Election Studies (ANES) data suggests that even seemingly universal
  
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• “Teaming up to defeat a big, hairy orange villain”: Samantha Bee dismantles the Cruz-Kasich alliance to undermine Trump

  26-04-2016 13:51 via salon.com
  
  "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee last night took to task the newly announced Kasich-Cruz alliance to stop Trump."What's your plan?" Bee asked Kasich, who needs more than 160% of remaining delegates to make it to 1,237, according to CNN. "Wait 'til the Republican party has slaughtered itself, then mosey onto the battlefield and suck the marrow from the delegates' bones for strength?"No, Kasich's plan is to team up with Ted Cruz, another candidate with a mathematically impossible chance of winning
  
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• David Brooks frets mightily about the horrors “that can afflict a successful person”

  26-04-2016 13:34 via salon.com
  
  David Brooks is still tooling around Cuba on the president's behalf, and his travels recently took him to the house of Ernest Hemingway."It is light, welcoming and beautifully situated," he wrote. "There are hundreds of his books lining the shelves, testimony to all the reading he did there." From that description, one would assume Brooks was impressed by his surroundings -- however, he merely needed something against which to juxtapose his judgments.
  "Hemingway was not a healthy man during the
  
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• Donald Trump’s no-win candidacy: Trump loses whether he acts more presidential or keeps acting like a jerk

  26-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump's riding high in the Republican primary not because of some previously undiscovered political genius so much as some seriously good luck. Last week demonstrated this truth once again when the Trump campaign completely and hilarious botched their initial attempts to pivot to the general election by portraying the candidate as more moderate and reasonable than he has been portraying himself so far.Not that there was ever really a good path that Trump could take to portray himself
  
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• The best reason for Bernie Sanders to fight on: Hawkish, neoliberal Clintons need a watchful eye from progressives

  26-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  If Bernie Sanders loses most of today’s primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island, the wise and the mighty of the Democratic Party and the press will call more loudly than they already have for him to stand down as a candidate and to focus his and his supporters' energies instead on helping Hillary Clinton to discredit Donald Trump or any Republican opponent.Their logic seems compelling, so let me mention and rebut a few of its most convincing points befor
  
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• The Cruz-Kasich pseudo-alliance: The non-Trumps reluctantly enter into a weird pact filled with obstacles

  26-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  There was a time, not that long ago, when some important people within the Republican Party were so desperate to stop Donald Trump that they floated the idea of strategic alliances among the non-Trump candidates. In early March, Mitt Romney gave a big speech lashing out at his party’s presidential frontrunner and imploring the remaining candidates to coordinate among themselves and deny Trump primary victories wherever they could. “Given the current delegate selection process,”
  
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• All is not lost for the Bernie revolution: The Sanders campaign is using its leverage to shape the Democrats’ platform

  26-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Sanders' political revolution, such as it is, does not hinge on this election. Sanders himself as conceded this over and over again. Sure, he wants to win, but his campaign is about bringing more people into the process. That means building a grassroots movement and getting people involved at the ground level for years to come.Hillary Clinton will almost certainly be the Democratic nominee. Bernie's path to the nomination was narrow before New York – now it's practically non-existent. But
  
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• What everybody missed about Charles Koch’s “endorsement” of Hillary Clinton

  26-04-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Let us start by dispensing with one of the funniest fictions that spread around social media on Sunday: No, Wichita billionaire and supervillain from a “Naked Gun” movie Charles Koch did not endorse Hillary Clinton for president.The comments that set off much finger-pointing and cries of “Aha! We told you Hillary is a tool of conservative billionaires!” came towards the end of this interview Koch gave ABC’s Jonathan Karl on the Sunday show “This Week.” T
  
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• Donald Trump is a complete and utter fraud. Why does our political press pretend otherwise?

  26-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  Have we ever seen a presidential campaign be so open about trying to unveil a candidate makeover the way we’ve seen Donald Trump’s team tip off his new look in recent days?Huddling with nervous Republican elites, Trump’s senior aide Paul Manafort recently assured them the candidate’s “image is going to change,” according to a New York Times report. "You'll start to see more depth of the person, the real person. You'll see a real different w
  
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• Robert Reich: Bernie voters might not rally around Hillary after all

  26-04-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  Will Bernie Sanders’s supporters rally behind Hillary Clinton if she gets the nomination? Likewise, if Donald Trump is denied the Republican nomination, will his supporters back whoever gets the Republican nod?If 2008 is any guide, the answer is unambiguously yes to both. About 90 percent of people who backed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries that year ended up supporting Barack Obama in the general election. About the same percent of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney backers came ar
  
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• The deeply unnerving way fast food packaging screws with your hormones

  26-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  As if it weren’t already enough of a headache to find non-toxic, safe and healthy food to eat, a recent study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspective reveals that the packaging used to contain certain food products can impact your hormones. Researchers for the study found that people who eat more fast food have significantly increased rates of phthalates—industrial chemicals used to make plastics—in their systems. The study authors attribute the tre
  
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• 12 ways the Sanders revolution has transformed American politics

  26-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  When Bernie Sanders launched his presidential campaign a year ago with a brazen call for an American revolution in politics, economics and social justice, no one, not even the candidate himself, could have imagined what the campaign would bring.“The media likes to portray this as a fair fight on even footing,” campaign manager Jeff Weaver said last week. “They seem to forget that when we started our campaign on April 30, we barely registered in the polls. We didn’t have
  
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