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• Does Klingon belong to everyone? “It’s a language — the whole point is to use it!”

  04-05-2016 23:07 via salon.com
  
  Who owns a made-up language? It sounds like a joke, but the question has become dead serious in a California district court. That’s because Paramount Pictures is suing the Star Trek fan film “Axanar” for using the Klingon language, invented for “Star Trek III: The Search For Spock” by the linguist Marc Okrand.
  To Paramount, Klingon belongs to the studio. To Star Trek cultists who’ve been using the language since its 1984 creation, or to groups like the Languag
  
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• Top conservative pundits lash out in disbelief after Ted Cruz and John Kasich fail to stop Donald Trump: “We are going to get our asses kicked in the general election!”

  04-05-2016 22:35 via salon.com
  
  It’s a hard pill to swallow for most of America, but for die-hard #NeverTrump conservatives (not Bill Kristol) who failed to stop the controversial reality TV star from becoming the face of the GOP, Donald Trump as the “presumptive” presidential nominee of the Republican Party is more like an existential crisis than a hangover.
  Erick Erickson’s Red State:
  Erickson’s flagship Redstate blog turned on Trump early, disinviting the controversial candidate after he a
  
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• The Trump-ocalypse is upon us: America can’t afford to misunderstand what his nomination means

  04-05-2016 22:15 via salon.com
  
  Not to rub it in, but so many pundits were so extremely wrong about Donald Trump.
  “The notion that Mr. Trump should be considered a strong front-runner based on current polls is understandable, but inconsistent with recent history,” resident New York Times wonk Nate Cohn wrote in December.
  “The voters’ hopes for transformation will give way to a fear of chaos,” opined David Brooks, who for unclear reasons compared electing a president to shopping for rugs.
  “I
  
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• Hunger shouldn’t be a crime: This is what a humane response to food insecurity looks like

  04-05-2016 21:40 via salon.com
  
  It may ultimately not establish a legal precedent anywhere, but should be an object lesson in what justice, tempered with mercy, can look like. In Italy this week, the country’s highest court tossed out the conviction of a homeless man who’d been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine 100 euros — for taking less than five dollars worth of cheese and sausage because he was hungry.
  Thirty-six year-old Ukrainian man Roman Ostriakov was originally sentenced back in 2013,
  
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• This is how GOP candidates get Trump-like social media buzz: By ending their campaigns

  04-05-2016 21:05 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump has embodied what it means to be a Twitter candidate. No one else managed to have quite the same effect on social media. So how to do you get Donald buzz on the web? All you have to do is suspend your presidential campaign, according to Brandwatch.com, a social media analytics company. That’s right, in the wake of the Indiana primary Tuesday night, the two other GOP hopefuls finally amassed, social statistics that resembled Trump.
  Data from Brandwatch shows that sinc
  
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• Donald Trump is what happens when you screw the middle class

  04-05-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s non-endorsement of Donald Trump last week was about a lot more than resolving the 2016 GOP nomination.
  “I particularly want to commend Donald Trump,” said Pence, “who I think has given voice to the frustration of millions of working Americans with the lack of progress in Washington D.C. and I am also particularly grateful that Donald Trump has taken a strong stand for Hoosier jobs when we saw jobs in the Carrier Company abruptly ann
  
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• Where the campaigns of Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders meet: Examining the fatal flaw in their election strategies

  04-05-2016 20:20 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz, in most aspects, are two men who couldn’t be more different from each other: One is a hardline evangelical right winger and the other an irreligious democratic socialist. But with Cruz terminating his campaign Tuesday night, in the face of impossibly long odds of winning the primary race against Donald Trump, it is worth taking a look at the similarities of the Cruz campaign to the Sanders campaign, which is facing similarly impossible odds, despite a prim
  
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• “Drop out Hillary,” say left-wing Twitter users: Clinton “can’t buy this election”

  04-05-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  It is looking more and more like the U.S. presidential election could be between Donald Trump, a far-right demagogic billionaire, and Hillary Clinton, an extremely hawkish Wall Street-backed multimillionaire.
  Trump was left as the last Republican candidate standing this week, after Ted Cruz dropped out on Tuesday night and campaign officials confirmed on Wednesday that fellow candidate John Kasich would be suspending his campaign as well.
  In a surprise upset, however, Bernie Sanders won the prim
  
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• This election is going to suck: Why Hillary vs. Trump will be vicious, infuriating & bad for America

  04-05-2016 19:10 via salon.com
  
  This is really happening, people. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States.
  Just saying it still feels strange, but then again, pretty much everything about this most shocking and chaotic of election seasons has been deeply surreal. Clinton is a heavy favorite to beat Trump, but the journalistic graveyard is littered with the bones of columnists who are now being forced to literally eat their incorrect words about the 2016 campaign, so I&
  
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• The GOP’s Supreme Court wreck: Nominee Trump puts obstructionist Republicans in an impossible position

  04-05-2016 19:02 via salon.com
  
  The words “presumptive nominee Donald Trump” present a political problem for Republicans as they try to reconcile the tension between party loyalty and Trump’s uniquely toxic identity. You can already see this tension playing out in Senate races – incumbent New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte put out a statement announcing that she would “support” Trump as the nominee, but her campaign also insisted that her “support” did not constitute an &ldquo
  
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• Now Kasich’s out, too: Ohio governor to suspend his presidential campaign

  04-05-2016 19:02 via salon.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate John Kasich will be suspending his campaign late on Wednesday, after coming in third place in Indiana and following Ted Cruz’s dropout last night, sources told NBC News.
  Top aides of the Ohio governor had insisted that he would stay in the race even as Cruz, who came in second, suspended his camapign, but the team cancelled a news conference in Virginia earlier Wednesday and announced an important statement would be made at 5 p.m.
  Kasich had only
  
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• Now Kasich’s out, too: Ohio governor suspended his presidential campaign

  04-05-2016 19:02 via salon.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate John Kasich officially suspended his campaign late on Wednesday, after coming in third place in Indiana and following Ted Cruz’s dropout last night, sources told NBC News.
  Kasich had only one primary victory in his home state of Ohio, but remained in the race even though it was mathematically impossible for him to win the GOP nomination. The governor had formed a brief alliance with Cruz last week in an attempt to stop Trump from c
  
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• Bernie Sanders won big in Indiana so why did The New York Times relegate him to below its coverage of John Kasich?

  04-05-2016 18:55 via salon.com
  
  A little after noon on the East Coast and the New York Times’ Wednesday front page is already outdated. No, not the near full cover image of newly “presumptive” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his wife Meliana parading in front of adoring fans at Trump Tower after defeating his last remaining competitors in Indiana. “Trump Nears Nomination As Cruz Drops Out,” the giant headlines read, and not to worry, Cruz remains out of the race after being reject
  
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• “Donald you’re a sniveling coward”: Here is the best of Ted Cruz sh*t-talking Donald Trump

  04-05-2016 18:49 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz spent a large portion of his campaign sh*t-talking Donald Trump. He called him a sniveling coward, a narcissist, a big loud New York bully and he was positive that he would win the nomination.“Donald Trump will not be the nominee,” he promised.But after losing the Iowa primary, all of Cruz’s insults and promises were for naught. He dropped out Tuesday night.“It appears that path has been foreclosed,” he said. “We are suspending our campaign.”
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• TV’s election coverage is like an endless Ted Cruz GIF parade: Obsessed with micro-moments while the big Trump picture whizzes by

  04-05-2016 18:34 via salon.com
  
  Last night, Senator Ted Cruz elbowed his wife in the face.
  Of course, that was not the biggest news of the night, or the most surprising. But it may have been the most beautiful. Just one day after the earth swallowed Carly Fiorina up right after introducing him, just six days after Cruz feverishly announced former candidate Fiorina as his running mate, and just seconds after ending his desperate and flailing campaign for the GOP nomination, Cruz reminded Americans how deeply unsuited he is for
  
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• Prince and painkillers are just the tip of the iceberg — American medicine kills a quarter million each year

  04-05-2016 18:16 via salon.com
  
  News has just broken about the circumstances around Prince’s death, and it brings with it an unpleasant context that is nonetheless important to talk about. First, the news — this comes from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
  Prince was found dead one day before he was scheduled to meet with a California doctor in an attempt to kick an addiction to painkillers, an attorney with knowledge of the death investigation said Tuesday.
  Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a national authority on opioid addiction
  
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• We must still fear Ted Cruz: His campaign may be over, but sadly for America there’s a lot of damage he’ll continue to inflict on us

  04-05-2016 18:14 via salon.com
  
  Even though it clears the path to the Donald Trump nomination, it was hard not feeling a spike of glee watching the interminably smug Ted Cruz finally admit defeat after losing to Trump in Indiana’s primary on Tuesday night. To add another layer of schadenfreude to the situation, Cruz’s last days were as humiliating as you can get, short of TMZ releasing nude yoga photos.Cruz’s last 48 hours:Wife denied he was Zodiac killerHad to deny his dad killed JFKSmacked wi
  
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• These creepy Ted Cruz campaign moments make you want to crawl out of your skin

  04-05-2016 17:27 via salon.com
  
  He loves to quote the Princess Bride, can’t kiss his daughter, and has to force a handshake. See for yourself.
  
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• Conservative provocateur Milos Yiannopoulos tells NY Times he’d violate his “antiwhite bedroom policy” for Donald Trump

  04-05-2016 17:06 via salon.com
  
  In an interview published in Wednesday’s New York Times, Breibart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos tries to outwit Ana Marie Cox and loses, badly.
  In the interview — which is accompanied by a photograph depicting Yiannopoulos as the love-child of Poochie, the “cool dog” from the Simpsons, and Sugar Ray lead-singer Mark McGrath circa 1999 — Yiannopoulos repeatedly attempts to provoke Cox into a reaction, making a series of outlandish statements that she responds t
  
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• Obama is right to honor LGBT movement now: Stonewall’s path to national monument couldn’t come at a better time

  04-05-2016 17:05 via salon.com
  
  When you think of America’s national monuments, what comes to mind? The Grand Canyon? Muir Woods? The Statue of Liberty? Something large and majestic, right? But how about something connected to a little bar that has a weekly Lesbo A Go-Go night? Sounds like you’re going to need some new stickers for your National Parks passport. 
  As he winds down his presidency, Barack Obama continues to make it clear exactly all the places he hopes to leave his mark. And to that end, this
  
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• “Divided we’re gonna fall”: Sarah Palin calls on GOP, “smart Democrats” to unite behind Trump

  04-05-2016 16:47 via salon.com
  
  So Donald Trump is the Republican party’s presumptive nominee, and unless you want Sarah Palin to think you’re not one of the “smart Democrats,” you better unite behind him.
  In a video posted to her Facebook page early Wednesday morning, following Trump’s decisive victory in Indiana, the former-vice presidential candidate told “GOP and independents and smart Democrats” that “it is time to come together, pull together.”
  Palin lamented the &ldq
  
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• No one should feel sorry for Ted Cruz: His humiliating defeat is exactly what he deserved

  04-05-2016 16:43 via salon.com
  
  “Lyin’ Ted Cruz consistently said that he will, and must, win Indiana. He should drop out of the race – stop wasting time and money.” – Donald Trump
  Ted Cruz finally shut it down last night. After months – years, really – of pandering and shameless histrionics, his presidential ambitions were extinguished in Indiana. Cruz dumped everything he had into The Hoosier State, a state he absolutely had to have. And it was all in vain.
  Cruz didn’t merely l
  
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• Watch Fox News’ Steve Doocy squirm as he’s repeatedly owned by the liberal he invited on to play a patsy

  04-05-2016 16:16 via salon.com
  
  On Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, co-host Steve Doocy welcomed on conservative commentator Mercedes Schlapp and civil rights attorney Andell Brown to discuss what he characterized as a “plague of leftist violence at Trump rallies.” Brown, however, quickly made Doocy and his producers regret extending him the invitation.
  “Andell, let’s start with you,” Doocy began. “Are you OK with this leftist violence?”
  “Calling it ‘leftist violence&rs
  
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• Artist says she was assaulted for painting a nude Donald Trump with a micropenis: “All I could hear was ‘Trump 2016′”

  04-05-2016 16:11 via salon.com
  A young artist who depicted Donald Trump in the buff with a less than flattering depiction of the newly “presumptive” Republican presidential nominee’s genital claims to have been violently assaulted by Trump supporters in Los Angeles.
  24-year-old artist Illma Gore painted a portrait of Trump in February, called “Make America Great Again,” that immediately became a viral sensation.
  The work “was created to evoke a reaction from its audience, good or bad,
  
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• Ann Coulter’s flirting with white supremacists again: Even she should know better than to retweet certain people

  04-05-2016 15:14 via salon.com
  
  Ann Coulter reacted to the news of Texas Senator Ted Cruz pulling out of the race for the Republican nomination with all the class one would expect:
  Oh, I guess it is over — It's so over that I hear Rove is admitting it on Fox News. https://t.co/nUo0cBW4KL
  — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 4, 2016
  Trump smackdown is of course a great night for America, but please be sensitive enough to realize that it's a sad night for Canada.
  — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 4, 2016
  Jake Tapper j
  
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• Elizabeth Warren declares war on Donald Trump, bombs away in righteous late-night Twitter rant

  04-05-2016 14:28 via salon.com
  
  Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren may be staying quiet on the sidelines of the Democratic presidential nominating contest, but for some time now she has been loudly booing the opposition party’s sideshow and the carnival barker at centerstage, Donald Trump.
  In a series of tweets after Trump won Indiana on Tuesday to become the “presumptive” nominee of the Republican Party, Warren ripped Trump’s campaign built on “racism, sexism, and xenophobia,” vowi
  
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• Conservative radio host Mark Levin: Fox News is “Trump Super PAC” that will be “rubbing their faces in their own feces” come November

  04-05-2016 14:24 via salon.com
  
  Conservative radio host Mark Levin minced no words Tuesday when discussing the current state of the Republican Party and its unofficial organ, Fox News, claiming that when former secretary of state Hillary Clinton wins in November, it will be the network’s fault.
  “Donald Trump is bringing up a National Enquirer story that accuses Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, of being in cahoots — in one way or another — with Lee Harvey Oswald,” Levin began.“Several of
  
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• WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel hilariously skewers online criticism of his anti-Palin video

  04-05-2016 14:08 via salon.com
  
  On Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night, host Jimmy Kimmel read and responded to feedback he received after demolishing Sarah Palin and the film “Climate Hustle” on Monday.“I know it’s going to seem like I’m only picking comments from people whose grammar is bad,” he began, “but the truth of it is, the vast majority of the negative comments came from people whose is grammar is bad.”By means of he proof, he began by reading a Facebook post by Jim Jacob t
  
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• Ted Cruz vs. the GOP identity crisis: He’s everything the base said it wanted — but it really wanted Donald Trump

  04-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  If anyone thought that Donald Trump might go easy down the stretch, yesterday’s circus sideshow before the vote should disabuse them. On the day he was projected to win a yuuuuuge victory in Indiana, which was widely assumed to spell the end of the #NeverTrump movement and be Ted Cruz’s last stand, Trump decided to take a gratuitous swipe at Cruz by parroting a National Enquirer article that accused Cruz’s father of being in on the Kennedy assassination:
  TRUMP: A
  
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• Doctors Without Borders condemns “epidemic” of hospital attacks as “acts of terror” in chilling U.N. address

  04-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  “We are facing an epidemic of attacks on health facilities, impeding our ability to do our core work,” declared the international president of humanitarian medical organization Doctors Without Borders, in a powerful, heartwrenching address before the United Nations Security Council in New York City on Tuesday.
  “In Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, hospitals are routinely bombed, raided, looted or burned to the ground,&rdquo
  
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• “The Cruz family … offed more people in the ’60s and ’70s than Vietnam”: Larry Wilmore links “Zodiac killer” and “JFK conspirator”

  04-05-2016 13:41 via salon.com
  
  “Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore last night joined the ranks of prominent late-night hosts who tape earlier in the day and thus wasted segments on Ted Cruz.
  But instead of, say, assessing Cruz’s chances in Indiana — where he would inevitably lose and announce the end of his campaign — Wilmore instead focused on Donald Trump’s peddling of a theory from the National Enquirer that “reported” Cruz’s father, Rafael, was photographed wit
  
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• “Quitters never win, but they still beat John Kasich”: Stephen Colbert roasts Donald Trump’s last opposition

  04-05-2016 13:39 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night roasted a John Kasich Super PAC’s latest campaign ad, which Colbert called “the most optimistic ad I have ever seen.”
  After Tuesday’s primary in Indiana, Kasich is the last person standing in opposition to Donald Trump in the GOP field. In other words, Trump will be the Republicans’ nominee in July. And though Colbert taped the show before the Indiana results came in, the delegates were distributed on
  
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• Detroit schools screw teachers, students: Massive debt, phony budgeting

  04-05-2016 13:11 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at the situation in Detroit’s Public Schools after the district announced its funds would bottom out by June, leaving teachers unpaid for time already worked.
  Ninety-four Detroit Public Schools closed Monday after $30 million effectively disappeared from teachers’ pension funds. In protest, area teachers staged “sickouts.”
  “Most teachers choose to withhold money from
  
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• Watch the most iconic trips and falls by famous politicians

  04-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  While announcing Sen. Ted Cruz as the “next president of the United States” at his recent Lafayette, Indiana rally, Carly Fiorina took a tumble.
  Many, including Trump, seem adamant about making sure Fiorina’s embarrassing fall isn’t forgotten, but she’s hardly the first to have it happen.
  Take a look at a few more iconic trips and slips by famous politicians.
  
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• This is not a dream: Ted Cruz’s exit has spawned a mystifying reality — GOP nominee Donald Trump

  04-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  It’s over for Ted Cruz. Well, it’s been over for Ted Cruz ever since polls closed in New York in a couple of weeks ago, but his loss in Indiana tonight to Donald Trump was the cruncher. On paper, Indiana is a state that Cruz should have dominated. It’s a very conservative state that’s outside the southern/northeastern corridors that have been strong Trump territory. It has a demographic mix that should have made it fertile territory for Cruz, what with its high percentage
  
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• Ted Cruz’s epic downfall: How the Texas senator took Donald Trump to the brink — and then watched it all fall apart

  04-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  It seems strange to say this about the man who, until last night, was one of the last three people standing in a Republican presidential primary that has come to resemble a cross between “Rollerball” and Insult Night at the local Chuckle Hut, but Ted Cruz was always a terrible candidate for the GOP nomination.
  Over the past couple of weeks, Cruz’s ineptness has already become crystal clear. As his campaign has imploded, he has flailed harder and harder in search of so
  
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• This feminist is sticking with Bernie Sanders: Why Hillary backers need to take another long, honest look

  04-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  A week after the New York primary, I had lunch with a colleague whom I hadn’t seen for a year. We are both avowed feminists and members of a joke secret society, Women Who Get Shit Done (we have badges, that’s about it); she started talking about having voted for Hillary Clinton, in that confiding way one does when presuming the other person feels the same. I had to stop her and gently let her know that I had voted for Bernie, and even with the (contested) results in, I was still San
  
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• What the left can learn from Donald Trump: Winning the working class means fixing your sales pitch

  04-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, as economic inequality has steadily increased to historic levels and the divide between the richest and poorest Americans has become more and more apparent, class-based politics have made a not-so-surprising comeback in the United States. After decades of shifting to the right of the political spectrum, embracing neoliberal policies and shunning any politics that may be deemed “class warfare” by
  
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• It’s a con: Christian men are not “testing” Target’s trans-inclusive policy by going into the women’s room

  04-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  It was a story destined to go viral immediately: The far right and definitely creepy American Family Association (AFA), in order to prove that Target’s trans-inclusive bathrooms are a danger to women, is testing the corporate behemoth by sending men into women’s restrooms and instructing them to claim they are trans if someone confronts them.
  “Group claims to be sending men into women’s restrooms at Target,” reads a typical headline at the Chicago Tribune.
  
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• The 1 percent unleashed Trump: Savage capitalism has brought us to the brink of apocalypse

  04-05-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  The author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that the “rich are different than you and me.”Fitzgerald’s observation rings especially true today. The growing divide between the wealthy and everyone else is one of the preeminent issues of the 2016 presidential election. A tidal wave of public anger over income inequality and the decline of the middle class has made the rich a popular target on the campaign trail. The best example is the remarkable success of Bernie Sanders, who has
  
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• More popular than Reagan: The press refuses to give Obama his due

  04-05-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  For a leader regularly written off by the press as a lame duck 18 months ago, President Obama has tallied some major wins during his second term, and voters have taken notice. He’s normalized relations with Cuba, implemented a historic Iranian nuclear deal, signed a global climate pact with nearly 200 nations, overseen the continued success of Obamacare, all while the economy has recorded 73 straight months of job growth.
  No wonder that polls point toward a Democrat succeeding hi
  
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• Trump terrifies the planet: The entire world is watching us with fear and loathing

  04-05-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  LEER, South Sudan — I’m sitting in the dark, sweating. The blinding white sun has long since set, but it’s still in the high 90s, which is a relief since it was above 110 earlier. Slumped in a blue plastic chair, I’m thinking back on the day, trying to process everything I saw, the people I spoke with: the woman whose home was burned down, the woman whose teenage daughter was shot and killed, the woman with 10 mouths to feed and no money, the glassy-eyed soldier with the
  
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• The 8 dumbest moments in Andrea Tantaros’s illustrious Fox News career

  04-05-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Frequent viewers of Fox News, and those who mock it for a living, have noticed a familiar face has gone missing this past week. Rumors abound as to what pushed “Outnumbered” co-host Andrea Tantaros off-air a day after the launch of her new anti-feminism book, Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable. Numerous reports suggest some sort of “contract dispute” is at fault. Others say Tantaros may be permanently off the “Outnumbered” couch
  
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• Fighting words from Bernie Sanders: “I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong.”

  04-05-2016 04:28 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hillary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indiana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign.
  “I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong,” Sanders said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from New Albany, Indiana. “Maybe it’s over for the insiders and the party establishment but the voters today i
  
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• “Great night for America… sad night for Canada”: Ann Coulter, Reince Priebus, John Kasich react on Twitter to Cruz’s exit

  04-05-2016 03:09 via salon.com
  
  Conservative pundits and politicians took to Twitter on Tuesday night following Ted Cruz’s abrupt exit from the presidential election. Cruz announced he was suspending his campaign after losing the Indiana primary to Donald Trump. 
   
   
  Trump smackdown is of course a great night for America, but please be sensitive enough to realize that it's a sad night for Canada.
  — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 4, 2016
  .@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need t
  
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• Campaign stunner: Ted Cruz drops out of race after getting trounced by Trump in Indiana

  04-05-2016 02:44 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz abruptly ended his presidential campaign Tuesday night after falling to Donald Trump in Indiana’s primary, a devastating loss that left him with no viable path to the Republican nomination. Trump, considered a fringe candidate a year ago, now is poised to represent Republicans in the fall presidential campaign.
  “I’ve said I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory; tonight I’m sorry to say it appears tha
  
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• It’s almost locked up: Donald Trump dashes Ted Cruz’s hopes in Indiana

  04-05-2016 01:50 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana’s primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear the brash businessman will doom their party in the general election.
  Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were vying for victory in the Democratic primary, though it was too early to call the race as votes were being tallied. Clinton already is 91 percent of the
  
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• Our juvenile American fantasies: Comic-book fascism, the rise of Trump and “Captain America: Civil War”

  04-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  You can feel comic-book movies struggling to grow up, slowly and awkwardly. Problem is, they don’t really want to — and it’s not at all clear that growing up is good for business. Comic books and comic-book movies are a consummately American narrative form. Americanism, meaning a worldview or state of mind that permeates much of the human population, far beyond the borders of the United States, is built on the proposition that you never have to grow up. History is bunk; power i
  
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• Stop working for free: “Why would any self-respecting writer put up with that?”

  04-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  The pressure on writers, musicians, artists, and others in the creative class to work for free has been building for some time now. The British journalist James Bloodworth sees the crisis as breaking down in distinctive class terms. A columnist for the International Business Times UK, he is all set to release a book called “The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs,” a book that turns in part on the way unpaid labor is often required of people who w
  
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• “More than just racism in movies”: Asian American protest #WhiteWashOUT goes beyond Hollywood’s diversity fails

  04-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  In case you haven’t heard, Tilda Swinton will be playing a Tibetan man known as the Ancient One in the film version of “Dr. Strange.” Scarlett Johansson is starring as Major Motoko Kusanagi, who is Japanese, in the Hollywood version of “The Ghost in the Shell.” These are just two of the most high profile and recent examples of a white actor cast as an Asian character in a blockbuster film. Even in this day and age, as Vox demonstrated in this illumina
  
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