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• Donald Trump backer allegedly attacked Muslim woman, said she hopes GOP front-runner deports “all of you terrorist Muslims”

  03-05-2016 23:07 via salon.com
  
  A Donald Trump supporter allegedly assaulted a black woman wearing a hijab and told her she is a “terrorist,” according to local media reports.
  Surveillance video  released by Washington, D.C. police on Monday shows a white woman with blonde hair accosting a visibly Muslim woman outside of a coffee shop in northwest D.C.
  The victim said the woman attacking her shouted slurs such as “f**king Muslim trash,” and told her to “go back to where you came from,”
  
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• Has Trump lost Rush?! Even Limbaugh thinks he’s bonkers for JFK conspiracy theory about Cruz’s dad

  03-05-2016 22:40 via salon.com
  
  You know something’s outrageous when even Rush Limbaugh says so. The right-wing radio personality commented on Trump’s allegations that rival Ted Cruz’s dad had been apart of the JFK assassination plot, according to MediaMatters.
  The Rafael Cruz story, which originally appeared in the National Enquirer  back in March, was mostly ignored by mainstream media until Trump resurrected the tattle-tale early this week.
  On the show Limbaugh said:
  “Ted Cruz apparently ha
  
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• “Sounds like black privilege to me”: Rampant racism forces Fox News to close comments section on Malia Obama article

  03-05-2016 22:11 via salon.com
  
  After posting a news story about Malia Obama’s decision to take a gap year before beginning Harvard, Fox News was forced to remove the comment section from the article, after an avalanche of racism by readers, according to reverbpress.
  Although the comments are now hidden, Addicting Info managed to take several screenshots of the hatefulness posted some on the news site. Typos and grammatical errors have been included as per the original:
  I wonder if she applied as a mu
  
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• Men are the problem here: Stop harassing women in public restrooms under the guise of “protecting” us

  03-05-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  Ladies, we are so lucky. Where would we be without big strong men to keep us safe in our public restrooms? Who will protect us from guys barging in our private spaces, if not other guys, barging in our private spaces?
  Local NBC News in North Texas reports this week that a gay woman says she was followed into a hospital bathroom — and then confronted — by a man who was skeptical of her gender. Jessica Rush says that she was being treated for an arm injury at Baylor Medical Center
  
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• Bernie vs. billionaires: Sanders jokingly supports telling the 1% to “f**k off”

  03-05-2016 20:34 via salon.com
  
  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders expressed support for telling the “billionaire class” to “f**k off” at a rally in Indiana on Monday morning.
  “I think that when the top one-10th of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, we got some other choices that we can make,” Sanders declared in his speech, the Hill reported.
  “And I think that choice is to tell the billionaire class and the corporations—” Sanders continue
  
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• Conservatives are fleeing Ted Cruz in droves: Need proof? Just look at Indiana

  03-05-2016 20:28 via salon.com
  
  “One of the most important conclusions coming out of the first two states is the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump is me.” – Ted Cruz
  Ted Cruz has argued for months that he could stop Trump in a two-candidate race. The quote above is one of several statements in which Cruz has insisted that he’s the only viable anti-Trump candidate, that conservative voters are desperate to unite behind him.
  Cruz got what he asked for in Indiana, a traditionally conservative state
  
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• “Burn the witch”: With Radiohead’s eerie return, they’ve lost none of their strange magic

  03-05-2016 19:44 via salon.com
  
  Between its use of strange instruments (ondes Martenot, anyone?), songs about paranoid androids and karma police, or its selling an album on a sliding scale, Radiohead has been one of the most enigmatic bands ever to become popular.
  Over the last few days, the English band has faded its website and Twitter feed, and sent out flyers with the sentence “Sing the song of sixpence that goes ‘burn the witch’.” Today the first new song from the band’s first album in five y
  
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• This is the best reason for stricter gun control laws: Toddlers have shot 23 people in the U.S. so far in 2016

  03-05-2016 19:30 via salon.com
  
  New research shows that toddlers have shot at least 23 people in 2016 – and the numbers are growing much more that last year.In April alone a two-year-old in Indiana died after shooting himself in the chest,a three-year old shot himself in the head in Louisiana and a two-year-old killed his mother in Wisconsin. There were also three other incidents that month in Michigan, Georgia and Missouri.
  By this time last year there had been 18 shootings.Watch our video for more details on the incide
  
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• Steven Van Zandt’s Israel gaffe: Musician gets basic facts wrong in Twitter rant. It is apartheid — South African activists agree

  03-05-2016 19:30 via salon.com
  
  Musician Steven Van Zandt faced backlash and accusations of hypocrisy after a pro-Israel rant in which he got basic facts wrong about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
  Van Zandt, a veteran member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and longtime activist who previously supported the boycott movement against South Africa and now supports a boycott of North Carolina, called supporters of the similar boycott movement against Israel “politically ignorant obnoxious idiots.”
  At the same
  
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• I wish it was Lexie's birthday every day 🍉 Best day ever!!! https://t.co/LDdz6zh3iQ

  03-05-2016 19:24 via twitter.com
  
  I wish it was Lexie's birthday every day 🍉 Best day ever!!! https://t.co/LDdz6zh3iQ
  
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• Bill Kristol redefines “never”: The always-wrong pundit explains how he and his GOP pals will come around to Trump

  03-05-2016 19:24 via salon.com
  
  Thank you, Bill Kristol. The Weekly Standard editor and career strikeout leader among active pundits is generally viewed as a blight on public discourse, but he provided a valuable service this week (albeit unintentionally) when he offered a succinct catchphrase that explains how he and the rest of the Republican Party hacks that inhabit his orbit will eventually warm to likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
  Asked by Newsmax host Steve Malzberg if there was anything Trump could
  
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• These are 6-year-old presidential expert Macey Hensley’s most adorable moments with President Obama, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and more

  03-05-2016 19:21 via salon.com
  
  Macey Hensley is 6-years-old and regular on Ellen for her presidential expertise. She’s met President Obama, rocked a Hillary Clinton pantsuit and painted with George W. Bush. She can name every single president and vice president and can recite the most interesting little known facts. Here are her most adorable moments.
  
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• The old “Stephen Colbert” is gone for good: “The Late Show” crosses over firmly as host claims his new ground

  03-05-2016 18:17 via salon.com
  
  For three moments last night, the host of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” abandoned his chair. It was a punchline; in response to inane comments about strategy from the Republican candidates for president, Colbert fled his post, either by ducking under his desk or dashing away from the camera’s sightline. The remaining image was of his nondescript black office chair behind the desk bearing the show’s red-and-blue logo.
  He made it back there, but it was a fitting imag
  
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• Let’s all laugh at the sexist pig: Hillary’s negative campaign against Donald Trump will be easy — and true

  03-05-2016 17:35 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders’s continued demands for attention are keeping Hillary Clinton from turning to the general election, but some pundits are understandably impatient to get the Trump v. Clinton showdown going already. As the wait drags on, some have turned to speculation. Peter Beinart of the Atlantic predicts that Clinton is chomping at the bit to run a full-blown negative campaign against Trump.
  “Rope-a-dope isn’t Clinton’s style,” Beinart writes. “When facing po
  
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• Patton Oswalt’s lessons in mourning: Brief, simple messages of love and remembrance resonate

  03-05-2016 17:12 via salon.com
  
  Patton Oswalt is not a man at a loss for words. He’s a tireless performer whose latest Netflix special, “Clapping for Talking,” debuted just late last month. He’s the seemingly omnipresent supporting actor on every brilliant comedy you watch. He’s a staggeringly prolific tweeter, and the kind of person who can — effortlessly, so it would appear — spin a character’s attempt at filibustering into a brilliant eight minutes of improvised gold. Yet in a
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel positively murders Sarah Palin on climate change: 97 percent of scientists “aren’t f*cking with you”

  03-05-2016 16:42 via salon.com
  
  Jimmy Kimmel took the gloves off last night and launched into Sarah Palin’s infomercial for the oil industry “Climate Hustle.”He began by playing a clip from the film, in which noted non-scientist, failed vice presidential candidate, and half-term Alaska governor Palin argued that anthropogenic climate change is a myth that’s “perpetuated and repeated so often that too many people believe that, ‘Oh, well, if 97 percent of all scientists believe that man’
  
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• Republicans are facing an electoral disaster in November – and it’s not Donald Trump’s fault

  03-05-2016 16:31 via salon.com
  
  The Republican Party is facing a crisis in November. If you’re thinking that crisis has a face, an orange and bulbous face, you’re half right. Donald Trump is surely a problem for Republicans, both in the short and long-term, but the party’s issues go well beyond the Donald.
  Any analysis of a presidential election has to begin with the electoral college. Whatever you think of the electoral college, that’s how presidential contests are decided. And when you look closely at
  
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• This woman was harassed, manhandled and forced to leave a female public restroom because police insisted she was a man

  03-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  A 50-second video was recently posted to Facebook by activist Tamara McDaniel showing a woman being harassed, manhandled and forced to leave a female public restroom. The officers call her “sir” before demanding I.D. as proof of gender and eventually forcing her to leave.The woman, according to McDaniel, is a lesbian.McDaniel also wrote in the post “This makes me very sad and I want no part of this irrational fear,” adding, “I mean, can’t you think of a 1,000
  
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• 8 times Larry Wilmore made white people squirm

  03-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  Larry Wilmore had been making fun of white people on “The Nightly Show” long before he took the stage at the White House Correspondent’s dinner. Here are 8 times he made white people squirm on air.
  
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• Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer: Donald Trump is the 2016 version of Barack Obama — and just as dangerous

  03-05-2016 16:04 via salon.com
  
  On The O’Reilly Factor Monday evening, Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer informed host Bill O’Reilly that despite their ideological differences, Donald Trump and President Barack Obama have more in common than not.
  “Obama understood in 2008 that the country was looking for change,” he said. “The country was war-weary, there was a financial crisis, and they wanted a smart guy who was stable and very cool emotionally.”
  Obama knew “what gets you the
  
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• This is how Scandal’s election is just like the real one

  03-05-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  It would take watching just one episode of ABC’s hit show “Scandal” to realize the presidential candidates and events surrounding the series’ election are oddly similar to the real life 2016 election.
  But Shonda Rhimes isn’t entirely basing the show on real-life. In fact, the similarities have even pushed her to rewrite some episodes.
  “It’s stunning for us to have that and then to have to go back to the writers room and pull a story line because it alrea
  
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• WATCH: Larry Wilmore rips into Piers Morgan for criticizing his use of “n*gga” at the White House Correspondents Dinner

  03-05-2016 15:21 via salon.com
  
  On Monday night’s edition of The Nightly Show, host Larry Wilmore addressed some of the criticisms of his performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner — in particular, Piers Morgan calling him out for addressing President Obama as “my n*gga.”
  According to Morgan, Wilmore said “Yo, Barry, you did it my n*gger!” But that’s not what Wilmore said, as he explained. “He thinks I called the president a ‘n*gger’? I don’t believe I
  
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• David Brooks: Poor people don’t understand “the anatomy of decision-making” like I do

  03-05-2016 15:01 via salon.com
  
  In his Tuesday New York Times column, self-proclaimed decision-making expert David Brooks chided the poor for their lack of decision-making skills, but he didn’t blame them for it.
  “[W]e should have explicit decision-making curriculums in all schools,” he wrote.“This is probably especially important for schools that serve the less fortunate. The explosion of choice places extra burdens on the individual. Poorer Americans have fewer resources to master decision-making tech
  
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• Huffington Post reporter turns the tables on Fox News’ Jesse Watters and ambushes him — fisticuffs ensue

  03-05-2016 14:19 via salon.com
  
  At an MSNBC party after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Huffington Post’s Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim turned the tables on Fox News’ “ambush reporter” Jesse Watters and confronted him — cellphone camera in hand and rolling — about his stalking of Amanda Terkel in 2009.
  Watters was initially game, saying that he’d apologize for stalking her if she apologized for “denigrat[ing] some rape victims” and saying “some n
  
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• Donald Trump is the nominee from hell: The early numbers are in, and they spell disaster for the GOP

  03-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  From the sound of the pundits on cable news last night, the word on the street is that Trump is going to clean Cruz’s clock later today in Indiana.  But then this primary season had had its share of surprises, so who knows? Still, this is likely to be the last chance for the #NeverTrump movement to gain enough traction to stop Trump from winning on the first ballot. If so, that’s the game.
  The official party establishment is trying to come to terms with their fate. They’ll
  
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• Yet another way borrowers are getting screwed: Inside the long-lasting disaster of American loan serviving

  03-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  It shouldn’t be terribly difficult to accept a monthly loan payment from a homeowner or a student borrower, and to manage day-to-day operations on the loan. This is the job function of a servicer, a company that handles loans on behalf of the ultimate owner, funneling payments through the system and deciding how to manage defaults.
  Why this has become the most impossible business in America doesn’t make a lot of sense. But with evidence mounting up, we should acknowledge that service
  
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• Republicans are preparing to suppress minority voters in November through new voter ID laws, and they’re getting away with it

  03-05-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  Voter ID laws are being enacted all over the country for one reason and one reason alone: to curtail the minority vote. The discourse surrounding this issue is frustrating because it’s easy to mask the intent with pleasant-sounding rhetoric about preserving the “integrity” of the voting process. But the truth is obvious enough: Black and Latino voters are disproportionately impacted by these laws, and the lawmakers know it.
  In places like Texas, minority voters are twice as lik
  
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• Bill O’Reilly shocker: “The anti-illegal alien stuff is B.S.,” he charges, unloading on Donald Trump

  03-05-2016 13:30 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert welcomed Bill O’Reilly to Monday night’s show. The two found themselves reluctantly agreeing on, among other things, how misguided Donald Trump’s immigration policy is.
  “The anti-illegal alien stuff is B.S.,” O’Reilly explained to a confused Colbert. “You shouldn’t be anti-illegal aliens; that doesn’t solve any problems.”
  “You should be anti-criminal,” Colbert said, and O’Re
  
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• Seth Meyers manages to make a 69 joke about single-payer health-care. Nice

  03-05-2016 13:05 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at single-payer healthcare — something that Colorado is contemplating and that Bernie Sanders has called for.
  “The state that was one of the first to legalize weed in the U.S. could now also be the first to pass single-payer healthcare,” Meyers explained. “Colorado doesn’t care what the rest of the country thinks. Next they’re gonna change the state bird to the middle finger.
  
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• Forget about Hillary vs Bernie: Now let’s build the smart, progressive Tea Party

  03-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been wrestling with the question of how to deal with the reality that Hillary Clinton—and not Bernie Sanders—is going to be the Democratic candidate for president.
  My basic conflict boils down to one question: can I be considered a true believer in the revolution Sanders is calling for and, at the same time, vote for a candidate who so clearly represents the status quo?
  The answer to this question, for me, is a conditional yes.
  But before I se
  
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• Larry Wilmore: Too black for the White House press corps?

  03-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  At Saturday night’s 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Barack Obama began his comments with a joke about “colored people time,” ended his set with a “mic drop” and then passed the baton to comedian Larry Wilmore who closed out the night with the following heartfelt comments:
  When I was a kid, I lived in a country where people couldn’t accept a black quarterback. Now think about that. A black man was thought by his mere color not good enough to
  
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• Trump meets Ed Klein: America’s least-credible journalist has an inside line to the 2016 GOP frontrunner

  03-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump had lunch with Ed Klein yesterday in Indiana. As the Washington Post reports, Klein told reporters that he’s “following Trump around for a couple of days to gather material for a new book,” but the fact that Trump is providing access to someone like Klein is a pretty good indicator of just how fantastically ugly and dirty a Trump general election campaign will be.
  Who is Ed Klein? Well, the Post describes him as being “perhaps best known for his series of bom
  
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• Mitch McConnell’s Senate majority is just this pathetic: How he’s giving Paul Ryan a run for his money

  03-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Mitch McConnell should send Paul Ryan a thank-you gift, maybe some funds for his re-election campaign or a muffin basket. Because we have been paying so much attention to all the ways Ryan is utterly terrible at performing his duties as Speaker of the House, we may have missed how awful McConnell is at being the Senate’s Majority Leader.
  Granted, after the vast obstructionism McConnell and his caucus engaged in when they were the Senate minority for the first six years of the Obama adminis
  
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• Cruz’s spanking fetish: Ted Cruz’s authoritarian streak comes out when he urges spanking a child to silence dissent

  03-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Looks like Donald Trump is not the only Republican candidate who responds to protesters by suggesting that someone should beat them into submission. At a recent campaign rally in Indiana, Cruz responded to a protester, reported to be a child, with a pompous lecture about the glories of spanking.
  “One of the things that hopefully someone has told you is that children should actually speak with respect,” Cruz said.
  “In my household, when a child behaves that way they get a spanki
  
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• The Sanders revolution is coming: More than half of young Americans now oppose capitalism

  03-05-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  Let’s face it, young Americans are fed up with the economic status quo. If this fact is not evident enough from the groundswell of millennial support for Bernie Sanders, perhaps a Harvard University poll released Monday will do the trick.
  According to the results, 51 percent of young adults aged 18-29 oppose capitalism in its current form. By contrast, only 42 percent of people drawn from a pool of 3,183 individuals—selected by KnowledgePanel, a probability-based database designed to
  
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• This racist clown could really win: Hillary’s lead on Donald Trump is far from commanding

  03-05-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  According to a recent article by Kyle Cheney of Politico, Donald Trump is about to win more primary votes than any other Republican presidential candidate… ever.
  The section of the article delving into this deserves to be quoted in full:
  “Trump surged to more than 10 million votes, according to totals that include Tuesday’s preliminary results across the Northeast. That’s already about 250,000 more than Romney earned in the entire 2012 primary season and 153,0
  
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• Robert Reich: The rich simply can’t lose in our rigged economy

  03-05-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the biggest single force in American politics today.
  Mayer is CEO of Yahoo. Yahoo’s stock lost about a third of its value last year, as the company went from making $7.5 billion in 2014 to losing $4.4 billion in 2015. Yet Mayer raked in $36 million in compensation.
  Even if Yahoo’s board fires her, her contract stipulates she gets $54.9 million in severance. The severance pac
  
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• 5 government-sanctioned ways America still honors the Confederacy

  03-05-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  A new survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center catalogs more than 1,500 public monuments, statues, schools, cities and military bases in southern communities and across the United States that continue to honor the Confederacy.Tensions between those who support symbols of the Confederacy as heritage and those who view them as emblematic of racism and oppression is nothing new, but the battle has become more mainstream in recent years. While some protesters have successfully rallied to remove pro
  
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• The donor class that buys Chicago’s elections is overwhelmingly rich and white — unlike the city

  03-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  The windy city’s political donor class is disproportionately and overwhelmingly made up of rich white men with a penchant for austerity and budget cuts, according to the first-ever municipal-level study of race, class and gender disparities in buying elections.
  Sean McElwee of the public policy organization Demos found that, during the 2015 mayoral race, candidates received “more than 92% of their funds from donors giving $1,000 or more.” A stunning 88 percent of the
  
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• “Cool Girls” don’t like Hillary: What “Gone Girl” and “30 Rock” taught me about politics, feminism and smashing the dude-bro patriarchy

  03-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  “I am supporting the good Secretary Clinton…” I say to the self-disclosed conservative male in the passenger seat, avoiding eye-contact and flattening my voice out of its typical shrillness. At my liberal arts college in southwest Virginia, the student body tends to be either militant Bernie supporters or Facebook Republicans — those students who are too afraid of the Bernie Bros to admit to liking Ted Cruz outside of the Internet. Hillary Clinton supporters li
  
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• The “real” war on women?: Wisconsin lawmaker pushing awful anti-trans bathroom bill supposedly to “protect our women and girls”

  03-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Everything you’ve been told about the war on women is a lie—at least, according to one Republican legislator.Wisconsin House Rep. Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) claimed that the biggest danger facing women and girls today isn’t the right-wing attack on their reproductive rights; it’s being forced to use the restroom with transgender people. In a press release, Kremer argued that nondiscrimination laws which allow trans folks to use the restroom that correspond with their gende
  
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• The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!”

  03-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  One of the consistently great bands of the last few decades, The Jayhawks have brought country folk together with electrified British-style rock and various other strands since the mid-‘80s. On some of their work, the voices of Gary Louris and Mark Olson added an Everly Brothers-like quality to the strong playing and memorable songwriting. But like many great partnerships, this one got ugly.
  Five years ago, the two came together for “Mockingbird Time,” which felt like a throwba
  
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