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• “Ponzi austerity” scheme imposed by E.U. and U.S. bleeds Greece dry on behalf of banks, says ex-finance minister

  29-04-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  The former finance minister of Greece says the European Union and international financial institutions are imposing unjust “ponzi austerity” on his country, while banks rake in billions and the Greek people suffer.
  For years, Greece has faced enormous economic hardship. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, the country plunged into a debt crisis. In return for large loans, the Troika — which consists of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International
  
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• Elizabeth Warren lashes out at Trump: “He wears the sexism out front for everyone to see”

  29-04-2016 23:10 via salon.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren has largely shied away from the spotlight so far in this election cycle. But the Massachusetts senator publicly excoriated Donald Trump on Thursday after he attacked Hillary Clinton for “playing the woman card.”
  “Donald Trump clearly feels threatened by Secretary Clinton’s qualifications to be president so he’s attacking Hillary Clinton for being a woman,” Warren told the Boston Globe. “That’s what weak men do. It is an o
  
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• This week, Donald Trump reminded us of something very important: His disdain for women oozes from his pores

  29-04-2016 21:23 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump claims that he “loves” women, “cherishes” women, and that as president he will be great for women.
  But this obligatory campaign rhetoric does not seem to match his actual beliefs.
  Trump’s genuine views about women are not difficult to discern. He reveals them in all sorts of ways as he rattles on and on. He can’t help it. His true beliefs seep out of him and become obvious.
  This was on full display in his latest victory speech after he s
  
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• Fox News host Andrea Tantaros quietly pulled from daytime show over contract “issues”

  29-04-2016 21:06 via salon.com
  
  Andrea Tantaros has been absent from her post as one-third of Fox News’ “Outnumbered” hosting panel since Monday, starting chatter about a possible departure.
  According to a Fox News statement, first issued upon request from TVNewser, “Issues have arisen regarding Andrea’s contract, and Fox News Channel has determined it best that she take some time off. She is still under contract with the network.”
  Regular readers might remember Tantaros from
  
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• Progress on Oklahoma’s awful rape law: Backlash prompts pledge to have loophole “fixed next week”

  29-04-2016 20:57 via salon.com
  
  It’d be great if we could get to the point of putting in place a procedure for victims of sexual assault to obtain justice without a huge social outcry first. But in the meantime, I guess we’ll take whatever measure of progress we can get. So thanks, Oklahoma!
  The state’s been in the spotlight lately after news reports came to light of a shocking recent ruling in a sexual assault case involving two teens. A 17 year-old boy was accused of assaulting a 16 year-old girl he’d
  
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• “She wrote lines that stung & hummed”: Patton Oswalt honors his late wife, Michelle McNamara

  29-04-2016 20:43 via salon.com
  
  Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt commented publicly on Friday morning for the first time since his wife, the writer Michelle McNamara, unexpectedly died last week.
  “She wrote lines that stung & hummed. 13 years in her presence was happily humbling. #RIPMichelleMcNamara,” Oswalt tweeted to followers.
  McNamara died suddenly in the couple’s Los Angeles home last Friday at age 46. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said the cause of her death wil
  
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• Why Bernie must keep running strong: Strength is the only language the establishment understands

  29-04-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders’ chance at the nomination has all but slipped out of reach. The Acela primary, tone-deafly named for the expensive train that political and media elites ride up and down the East Coast, was a rout everywhere but Rhode Island. And so the party establishment hopes to wind down a contest that they never wanted wound up in the first place.
  “If he tones down the rhetoric and continues to fight, he’ll go out on a very high note with a lot of people, including me, think
  
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• Watch Glenn Beck smear Cheetos all over his face in a quest to understand Donald Trump’s appeal to John Boehner

  29-04-2016 20:21 via salon.com
  
  First, I’m sorry. I’m only here to report.
  Second, it’s Friday, so why not enjoy the sight of the conservative movement imploding before your very eyes?
  Yes, of course, Glenn Beck has been on a downward spiral since a boycott ran him off Fox News years ago, but instead of crying about founding fathers in front of a chalk board, he’s managed to build up what once was a very lucrative online television network. These days instead of leading a massive “Restoration of H
  
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• Watch Glenn Beck smears Cheetos all over his face in a quest to understand Donald Trump’s appeal to John Boehner

  29-04-2016 20:20 via salon.com
  
  Firstly, I’m sorry. I’m only here to report.
  Secondly, it’s Friday, so why not enjoy the sight of the conservative movement imploding before your very eyes?
  Yes, of course, Glenn Beck has been on a downward spiral since a boycott ran him off Fox News years ago, but instead of crying about founding fathers in front of a chalk board, he’s managed to build up what once was a very lucrative online television network. These days instead of leading a massive “Restoration
  
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• “He died in the blackest way possible — with his hands up, with his mother watching”: This poet demolishes Megyn Kelly for calling Jesus a white man

  29-04-2016 20:07 via salon.com
  
  New York City-based poet Crystal Valentine performed a poem in response to Fox anchor Megyn Kelly’s claim that Jesus was a white man. Kelly made the claim in late 2013 but Valentine’s response was recently published on YouTube — and it’s stunning.“He died in the blackest way possible, with his hands in the air, with his mother watching,” she says.Watch our video for Kelly’s racist claim on national television and Valentine’s brilliant comeback
  
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• “Is Donald Trump Batman?” People are Googling the most bizarre questions about Donald Trump

  29-04-2016 19:40 via salon.com
  
  What can we learn from Google’s autocomplete feature? Mostly that people are searching for some awfully strange stuff, especially when it comes to Donald Trump.
  We trawled Google for the weirdest, most important questions the internet is asking about Trump and then did our best to answer them:Who could forget the unsettling jingle performed by the USA Freedom Kids before a Florida Trump rally? One day we may all be compelled to stand up before baseball games and sing it
  
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• GOP’s Trump delusion: Now that they’ve finally accepted the frontrunner, party elites are indulging in absurd false optimism

  29-04-2016 19:37 via salon.com
  
  After several months spent not resisting Donald Trump’s candidacy in any meaningful way, the Republican Party establishment has finally decided that it’s time to stop not fighting Trump and time to start treating their apricot-hued billionaire frontrunner as their likely 2016 nominee. That’s the gist of a big Washington Post story today quoting several (safely anonymous) top-level Republican officials describing their general sense that Trump’s “aura of inevitabilit
  
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• Trump and Cruz aides worked for Guatemalan tycoon who wanted TV broadcasts of executions, report says

  29-04-2016 19:20 via salon.com
  
  Leading aids for the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz previously worked as paid advisers for a right-wing Guatemalan presidential candidate who called for TV broadcasts of executions.
  Tim Clark is running Trump’s campaign in California. Ron Nehring is running Cruz’s campaign in the state. Now they are rivals. In 2011, however, they both spent six weeks advising Manuel Baldizón, the Guardian reports.
  Baldizón is a Guatemalan millionaire who campaigned
  
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• Bristol Palin rushes to defense of Curt Schilling, says he was “stating an obvious truth” when he shared anti-trans meme

  29-04-2016 19:03 via salon.com
  
  Bristol Palin  — herself named in part after Bristol, Connecticut, where ESPN is headquartered and where her mother at one time wanted to work — railed against the network in a blog post Friday.
  The controversial media presence — who entered and then refused to leave the public consciousness after her maverick mom, Sarah, ran for vice president in 2008 —disapproved of ESPN’s firing former pitcher Curt Schilling, who was enjoying a retirement from
  
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• Ronald Reagan and Alzheimer’s: There’s rich material in his presidency, but dementia isn’t a laughing matter

  29-04-2016 18:36 via salon.com
  
  Update: Friday afternoon, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Will Ferrell has backed out of the project.The news that Will Ferrell, who was so funny as George W. Bush on “Saturday Night Live,” was going to portray Ronald Reagan in a film comedy sounded, at first, like something to look forward to. Reagan-worship has become so blind and widespread on the political right that it seemed like a necessary counterweight. And also, you know, like a movie that could be really funny. Take th
  
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• Donald Trump can actually beat Hillary in November: Stubborn pundits still refuse to accept it

  29-04-2016 18:27 via salon.com
  
  Pundits are paid to pretend they know things. But we have no special insight, no higher claims to truth. We’re wrong as much as we’re right, if not more so. Sometimes it’s clear what will happen, often it’s not. In the case of Trump, everyone – myself included – got it wrong.
  When Trump descended preposterously from that escalator and announced he was running for president, we all giggled. Trump? President? Seriously? And yet all the polls suggested that he ha
  
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• Watch out Ted Cruz, you’ve upset Bobby Knight! The Trump backer mocks Cruz for his basketball “rings” gaffe

  29-04-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  
  “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade Friday morning aired his interview with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and his latest celebrity endorser, controversial former-Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight.
  Knight’s endorsement should pay huge dividends in next Tuesday’s primary in Indiana, where Trump is facing a thoroughly desperate Ted Cruz whose mathematically impossible campaign has gone all in in the state.
  Just as Iowa gets reduced to farms and fried f
  
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• Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired stereotype

  29-04-2016 17:55 via salon.com
  
  “Henry Joseph Church could have been anything he wanted to be, but he chose to cook.”This phrase bookends “Mr. Church,” which marks the return of Eddie Murphy to the screen after four years spent in purgatory, following the notorious failure of 2012’s “A Thousand Words.” Its director, Bruce Beresford, brought “Driving Miss Daisy” to the screen more than two decades ago, and Mr. Church is a character Beresford is more than familiar with (Indie
  
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• The 4 most disturbing revelations from the Miami Herald’s new Ann Coulter profile

  29-04-2016 17:39 via salon.com
  
  Professional troll Ann Coulter just won’t go away. The conservative provocateur spent much of the last year stumping for Donald Trump on television and talk radio, an activity which conveniently aligned with the promotion of her latest book, “Adios, America: The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hellhole,” a screed against U.S. immigration policy.
  The Miami Herald recently profiled Coulter and found out what it’s like to ride the
  
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• Donald Trump thinks he can win over disaffected Bernie Sanders supporters

  29-04-2016 17:23 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is polling underwater with nearly every demographic group in America except white Republican and conservative men. And despite the braggadocio that is the blustery billionaire’s campaign, Trump’s campaign fundamentally understands that it will need to search for some unorthodox alliances to have any chance of not being absolutely clobbered by Hillary Clinton in the general election. Enter Bernie Sanders.
  According to the Trump campaign, disaffected Bernie Sanders su
  
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• The anti-Semitic invective this journalist drew for her Melania Trump profile will make you ill

  29-04-2016 17:15 via salon.com
  
  The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino reported that after Julia Ioffe published a profile of Donald Trump’s wife in GQ, she received torrents of abuse that she’d only ever previously experienced in one place: Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
  That the current Republican front-runner is fomenting a culture of violence is, at this point, an empirical fact, no matter how much the candidate and his enablers at Fox News would like to pretend it’s entirely the work of liberal plants. But
  
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• Kesha’s turning point: “True Colors” looks and sounds like a triumphant return

  29-04-2016 16:53 via salon.com
  
  It is so good to see you back, Kesha. In the early hours of Friday morning, the 29 year-old singer and songwriter — who has spent the past few years embroiled in a bitter legal battle with Sony Music and producer Dr. Luke — released her first single since 2013.
  Kesha had been teasing the new collaboration with Zedd for days in advance, declaring, “This is more than a song. it’s a declaration of my truth #truecolors.” And she’s certainly very clear what she wan
  
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• Bernie Sanders isn’t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie’s policies really are

  29-04-2016 16:32 via salon.com
  
  Lost in the discussions about Bernie Sanders’s “socialism” is an obvious and important fact: What he’s actually proposing is not only not radical – it’s mainstream. Sanders decided not to dodge the “socialist” label and instead own it by contextualizing it in the broader American tradition. He even gave a sweeping speech in which he grounded his philosophy in the tradition of FDR:
  “Almost everything he [FDR] proposed was called ‘sociali
  
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• WATCH: Megyn Kelly rakes North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory over the coals for his factually unfounded fear of transgender people

  29-04-2016 15:27 via salon.com
  
  On The Kelly File Thursday night, host Megyn Kelly provided North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory a national platform in which to showcase just how much he’s pandering to the bigoted elements of the Republican base by signing the so-called “bathroom bill” into law.
  “What was the fear that led to the introduction of this law?” Kelly began by asking.
  McCrory didn’t answer directly, instead “correcting” the introduction to the interview by saying that t
  
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• Massive melee erupts outside Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in California

  29-04-2016 15:22 via salon.com
  
  Chaos broke out outside of a massive Donald Trump rally in Orange County, California, Thursday night.
  The unrest erupted outside the Pacific amphitheater where Trump staged his first campaign rally in America’s most populous state at the Orange County Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
  Thank you Costa Mesa, California! 31,000 people tonight with thousands turned away. I will be back! #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/4P0tzvZn0e
  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2016
  Accordi
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump is appealing to aggrieved white men by lying to them

  29-04-2016 14:52 via salon.com
  
  Paul Krugman devoted his Friday New York Times column to discussing the sorry state of the 2016 presidential election, which he determined should give rise to a new cliché: “It ain’t over until Carly Fiorina sings.”
  He argued that the primaries are essentially over, “definitively on the Democratic side, [and] with a high probability on the Republican side,” so that now is a fine time to evaluate how exactly it is America gave itself these two candidates. &ldq
  
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• David Brooks: The GOP doesn’t realize “this is a Joe McCarthy moment” — history will judge them for where they stood

  29-04-2016 14:20 via salon.com
  
  In his Friday New York Times column, economist David Brooks argued that unbeknownst to itself, the Republican Party is having “a Joe McCarthy moment” — meaning that history will judge people by “where they stood at this time,” and that those “who walked with Trump will be tainted forever after for the degradation of standards and the general election slaughter.”
  He wrote that America will, after this election, need “a new national story,” bec
  
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• John Boehner’s hilarious “Lucifer” burn reveals a bigger problem for Ted Cruz

  29-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  There are probably a lot of people out there wondering why the Republicans hoping to stall Donald Trump’s seemingly unstoppable journey to the 2016 presidential nomination haven’t done the logical thing and rallied fervently around Ted Cruz, the only man who’s given Trump an even nominal run for his money.
  On Wednesday, former House Speaker John Boehner provided all the evidence you’ll ever need as to why the Cruz train has never left the station.
  Cruz, Boehner told a cro
  
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• Paul Ryan has an idea for replacing Obamacare, and once you stop laughing I’ll tell you what it is

  29-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  If it is a day ending in “y,” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan must be pretending the Republican Party is about to unveil its alternative to Obamacare. And only six years after Congress passed the Affordable Care Act. Impeccable timing! I can’t wait for next week, when Ryan introduces his alternative to the Smoot-Hawley tariff.
  Republicans have, of course, been promising to unveil an alternative to Obamacare since the bill was being written in 2009-10. This plan is always said to
  
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• Donald Trump’s new secret weapon: How the man who ran “The Torturer’s Lobby” is securing the billionaire’s nomination

  29-04-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Perhaps one of the most unnerving political developments over these last few days has been the beginning of the reluctant acceptance of Donald Trump among the Republican establishment. Watching the likes of Senator Bob Corker on television praising his “foreign policy” and seeing influential House members like Bill Schuster endorse him is more than a little bit unsettling. It stands to reason that this would happen now that Trump is looking more and more like the winner, bu
  
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• “It’s like Disney gave the wicked stepmother her own song”: Stephen Colbert gasps as Carly Fiorina serenades Ted Cruz’s daughters

  29-04-2016 13:41 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night devoted a solid chunk of airtime to Ted Cruz’s Wednesday announcement that Carly Fiorina would be his running mate.
  “That is bold,” Colbert said of Cruz’s decision to name a vice presidential running mate nearly three months prior to the Republican National Convention, when such an announcement is traditionally made — by the party’s nominee, which even in a contested convention, likely won’t be Cruz
  
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• “If a lizard dresses up in a suit, he can run for president”: Seth Meyers has a brilliant comeback for Ted Cruz’s intolerance

  29-04-2016 13:23 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at discriminatory so-called “bathroom bills” recently passed in North Carolina and Mississippi, which require transgender people to use the restroom corresponding to their biological gender.
  “The most absurd impact of these kinds of bathroom bills is you’re actually forcing transgender women, who are women, and transgender men, who are men, to use the wrong bathroom,” Meyers said.
  
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• “Daily Show”: “Everything Trump says is straight out of a rapper’s playbook”

  29-04-2016 13:01 via salon.com
  
  “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last night weighed in on the debate over whether GOP frontrunner and likely nominee Donald Trump is capable of being “presidential,” as he so often claims but so rarely demonstrates.
  At a campaign rally in Waterbury, Connecticut, Trump mocked “presidential” mannerisms by walking to the podium, holding his chin (or lack thereof) high and beginning, “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of Waterbury.”
  “Imagine having
  
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• This artist implanted an antenna in his skull to be able to “hear colors”

  29-04-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Neil Harbisson is a cyborg artist who has an antenna implanted in his skull that enables him to perceive colors through vibrations. He spent an afternoon at a supermarket with music producer The Josh Craig on the hunt for nicely colored and sweet sounding products. Together they made a song from the sounds of turquoise Ultra Downy and orange Tide.Watch our video of the unique collaboration.
  
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• “All my life men have told me I wasn’t pretty enough”: Lil’ Kim’s bleached skin and blonde hair are the tragic result of sexism, racism, colorism

  29-04-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Rap Icon Lil’ Kim posted pictures of herself with strangely lighter skin that sparked mixed reactions on social media. Over the course of time, she has transformed her appearance – from blue contact lenses to blond her and now dramatically lighter skin. Watch our video to see how much Lil’ Kim has changed over the years — and the reasons she gives for her new look.
  
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• Right-wing media civil war: How Donald Trump pitted Drudge against Fox News

  29-04-2016 12:01 via salon.com
  
  As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump specializes in overturning conventional wisdom. Before 2016, it was generally assumed that a presidential candidate needed to be, you know, presidential. But Trump has somehow come within striking distance of the Republican nomination despite insulting large portions of the electorate, buying scant campaign ads, failing to present any coherent policy proposals and being despised by his own party’s establishment. Trump has defied the inherited
  
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• A liberal case for Donald Trump: The lesser of two evils is not at all clear in 2016

  29-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  There are perhaps no three words more jarring to liberals than “President Donald Trump.” The GOP front-runner and presumptive nominee has undoubtedly made enemies with his nativist rhetoric and bellicose persona. That said, now that the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, with the former secretary of state essentially guaranteed the nomination, many liberals and progressives are preparing, once again, to vote for the lesser of two evils. The choice may not be as cle
  
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• Larry Wilmore goes to Washington: On roasting Beltway egos, Obama’s final year, and why Donald Trump is so dangerous

  29-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  “You never know what your hold music is,” Larry Wilmore mused to me, when I spoke to him on the phone this week. I had made a comment about how jazzy the music was, because it was just a longer version of the theme to his late-night news-satire show, “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore,” which airs directly after “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. I shouldn’t have been surprised that Wilmore—the elder statesman of late-night comedy—would ap
  
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• “Donald Trump is a dangerous individual”: Larry Wilmore opens up to Salon about what’s funny in Washington this year — and what isn’t

  29-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  “You never know what your hold music is,” Larry Wilmore mused to me, when I spoke to him on the phone this week. I had made a comment about how jazzy the music was, because it was just a longer version of the theme to his late-night news-satire show, “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore,” which airs directly after “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. I shouldn’t have been surprised that Wilmore—the elder statesman of late-night comedy—would ap
  
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• Paul Ryan’s health care fraud: The speaker previews the GOP’s lousy Obamacare replacement

  29-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  One of the biggest problems Republicans have had to deal with when it comes to health care reform is that the Affordable Care Act, while unpopular as a whole, has individual components in it that people love. Perhaps foremost among these well-liked slices of Obamacare is the law’s provision barring insurance companies from discriminating against people based on pre-existing conditions. It used to be that a health insurer could jack up your premiums or deny you coverage altogether based sol
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s mysterious cough is back

  29-04-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  It’s true — Hillary Clinton has a pretty mean cough.
  Donald Trump recently gave a nod to the Clinton cough — that the Democratic frontrunner blamed on “talking non-stop for weeks” — saying she “doesn’t have the strength to be president.”
  We searched out and rounded up some of her worst fits and strung together in a video — the coughs are juicy but still it’s a cheap shot for Trump to use a ticklish throat to call in
  
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• This is a public health crisis: America’s sleep inequality matches its income inequality

  29-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  For anyone familiar with how things work in America, it shouldn’t be surprising that money and sleep go together — for the most part. If you take a quick glance at national health surveys, you might come away with a clear portrait of the poorly slept American: low-income, under-educated and non-white. Steep yourself in the data, however, and that portrait starts to blur. At this point, we know that poor sleep is linked to all sorts of negative outcomes: diabetes, less occupation
  
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• America has a sleep inequality crisis to match its income inequality crisis

  29-04-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  For anyone familiar with how things work in America, it shouldn’t be surprising that money and sleep go together — for the most part. If you take a quick glance at national health surveys, you might come away with a clear portrait of the poorly slept American: low-income, under-educated and non-white. Steep yourself in the data, however, and that portrait starts to blur. At this point, we know that poor sleep is linked to all sorts of negative outcomes: diabetes, less occupation
  
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• There will be pandemonium: The end of the old oil order has already begun

  29-04-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  Sunday, April 17th was the designated moment.  The world’s leading oil producers were expected to bring fresh discipline to the chaotic petroleum market and spark a return to high prices. Meeting in Doha, the glittering capital of petroleum-rich Qatar, the oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), along with such key non-OPEC producers as Russia and Mexico, were scheduled to ratify a draft agreement obliging them to freeze their oil output at curre
  
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• 7 women the U.S. Treasury plans to honor not named Harriet Tubman

  29-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been getting a lot of press for officially replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill. But she’s not the only one changing the face of American currency.
  The Treasury Department announced last week that seven other women, as well as Martin Luther King, Jr., will be featured in its upcoming redesigns. Five women—Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth—will be highlighted on the back of $1
  
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• Amy Goodman agrees with Noam Chomsky: “The media manufactures consent for Donald Trump”

  29-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Can you really tell the difference between mainstream media channels when they all basically cover Trump nonstop?
  Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, said in a video for AJ+, “I see the media as a huge kitchen table that stretches across the globe that we all sit around and debate the most important issues of the day. War and peace. Life and death.” Goodman believes that “Anything less than that is a disservice to a democratic society.”
  How much does this disservice
  
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• “My p*ssy should be president next”: How porn stars are voting this election

  29-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  It’s been said that the 2016 presidential election is unlike any other in history, not least because a reality TV star has led the Republican field for months now. A whole lot of people are talking about the election, including many who have not been terribly interested in national politics in the past. The election has even sparked discussion in the porn community.
  In their series “Ask A Porn Star,” comedic porn company Wood Rocket shows some porn stars in a not terribly flatt
  
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• Has American pro soccer finally arrived? In this strange saga, the answer is “almost”

  29-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  One of the many perverse and peculiar aspects of Major League Soccer, North America’s not-quite-top-flight professional league, is that for almost 20 years it had no team in New York City. There are boring practical reasons why that happened, largely having to do with money and real estate. But it’s bizarre, right? Not merely is New York the continent’s largest city and its media and financial capital, it’s a city rich with immigrants from all parts of the globe (and the
  
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• The librarian who outfoxed Al Qaeda: “In one spasm of violence, they burned just about everything they could find”

  29-04-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  It’s an unlikely story, and at times a gripping one: A new book, “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,” tells the tale of how a gutsy collector saved thousands of documents he considered an important part of cultural history. As if the Sahara desert wasn’t a worth enough opponent, the arrival of Al Qaeda made it even more daunting: It was only because of Abdel Kader Haidara and a group of brave librarians that these manuscripts about poetry, music, sex, and science did not
  
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• Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them”

  29-04-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Comedian and writer Sara Benincasa has been sharing her most personal dilemmas since her one-woman show turned memoir “Agorafabulous!,” about her struggle with agoraphobia. In her new essay collection, “Real Artists Have Day Jobs (And Other Awesome Things They Don’t Teach You in School),” a mix of revealing memoir and advice, she similarly delves deep into some of her biggest challenges, from mental health to abuse to having an ex badmouth her in public. From the ot
  
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