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• We are now fact-checking Donald Trump’s lunch: Trump tweets patronizing Cinco de Mayo image, reporters rush to confirm if Trump Tower serves taco bowls

  05-05-2016 22:18 via salon.com
  
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  As if it isn’t bad enough for Mexican-Americans that the man who denounced all recent immigrants into the U.S. from their homeland as “rapists” and “criminals” clinched the Republican Party’s presidential nomination the week they commemorate Mexican resistance to foreign intervention, Donald Trump celebrated the occasion with a wholly patronizing tweet that included the hollow claim, “I love Hispanics,” and a cheesy plug for
  
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• Naked Islamophobia in the U.K.: Inside London’s disgusting mayoral smear campaign

  05-05-2016 21:40 via salon.com
  
  Sadiq Khan (Credit: Reuters/Hannah McKay)
  Today, people across Britain are voting in a string of local and regional elections in what’s been dubbed “SuperThursday.” Normally, this sort of thing wouldn’t attract much interest beyond the borders of the UK. So it was somewhat surprising to see the Drudge Report leading its site on Thursday with a splash about one of those elections—the race to decide who will be the next mayor of London.
  “Somewhat” is the k
  
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• IDF general compares Israel to Nazi Germany, then walks back comments after right-wing backlash

  05-05-2016 21:20 via salon.com
  
  Yair Golam
  “It’s scary to see horrifying developments that took place in Europe begin to unfold here,” said Israeli Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan in a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech in Tel Yitzhak, Israel on Wednesday.
  The prominent Israeli military official made parallels between Israel today and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the Israeli media reported.
  “The Holocaust should bring us to ponder our public lives and, furthermore, it must lead anyone who is capable of taking public r
  
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• Data journalism didn’t fail: Nate Silver pushes back after The New York Times blasts him for getting Donald Trump so wrong

  05-05-2016 20:48 via salon.com
  
  Nate Silver(Credit: AP/Nam Y. Huh)
  “7 Times Nate Silver Was Hilariously Wrong About Donald Trump,” a triumphant Daily Caller headline read the morning after Trump became the “presumptive” Republican nominee.
  There was the time back in September 2015 when Silver implored people to “calm down” about the possibility of Trump winning the Republican nomination. Two months later he wrote, “stop freaking out about Donald Trump’s polls,” calling
  
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• This is why Donald Trump has been invincible — and why he might not be invincible much longer

  05-05-2016 20:39 via salon.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after giving a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Trump's highly anticipated foreign policy speech Wednesday will test whether the Republican presidential front-runner, known for his raucous rallies and eyebrow-raising statements, can present a more presidential persona as he works to unite the GOP establishment behind him. (AP Photo/) (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci)
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• Barbara Corcoran’s career advice to women: Hike up your skirts

  05-05-2016 19:52 via salon.com
  
  Barbara Corcoran (Credit: ABC/Gilles Mingasson)
  How did Barbara Corcoran — the real estate entrepreneur and founder of The Corcoran Group, author, and “Shark Tank” star — get to where she is today? How did she go so far in a field so rampant with sexism and wage inequity? Well, as she tweeted out earlier this week, it’s simple. “I find running a #business in a man’s world to be a huge advantage,” she wrote. “I wear bright colors, yank up my s
  
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• “Candidate in race most like Bush and Cheney is Hillary Clinton,” says GOP strategist

  05-05-2016 18:56 via salon.com
  
  “The candidate in the race most like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a foreign policy perspective is in fact Hillary Clinton, not the Republican nominee,” explained GOP strategist Steve Schmidt in an interview this week on MSNBC this week.
  “One thing we know as we get ready for a general election contest is that Donald Trump will be running to the left as we understand it against Hillary Clinton on national security issues,” he added.
  Schmidt is a longtime Republican
  
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• Apple can be evil, too: Don’t miss this tale of how it cleared a guy’s music files

  05-05-2016 18:40 via salon.com
  
  Eddie Izzard has a hilarious bit where he jokes about all the licensing forms and other things Apple makes you approve when you download a new piece of software or do almost anything on one of its computers. What, he asked, are we really signing away?
  Despite this, a lot of us continue to love Apple. Eddie Izzard himself does, telling The Guardian that he is an Apple addict. “I eventually went Apple for the iPod and it escalated from there. MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch …&rdquo
  
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• The Wall Street Journal warms to Trump: He may be an ignorant dope, but at least he’ll cut taxes for rich people!

  05-05-2016 18:35 via salon.com
  
  Now that all the GOP alternatives to Donald Trump have been cleared away, Republicans and conservatives are going through a very public period of hand-wringing over how to approach their presumptive presidential nominee. While a few are sticking to opposition (for the time being), it seems like many more are easing into the rationalization process and searching for avenues to transform their Trump animus into qualified support. The Wall Street Journal editorial board – the official voice o
  
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• Ann Coulter vs. the #NeverTrump crowd: “Move out of DC and meet some Americans,” says the billionaire’s No. 1 shill

  05-05-2016 18:13 via salon.com
  
  So-called “principled conservatives” are nursing Ted Cruz hangovers and entering into the deepest of existential crises as they determine whether to back Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
  Until the general election heats up, Democrats can sponge-bathe themselves in naiveté and pretend Trump won’t harp on Slick Willie rumors and overinflate the email “scandal” until we’re all indoctrinated.
  And for the first time in memory, Alex Jones-caliber right-wing c
  
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• Britney Spears Writes Heartfelt Note to Sean Preston & Jayden James

  05-05-2016 18:10
  
  Britney Spears just wrote a sweet note to her two sons, Jayden James and Sean Preston, in a letter from Time magazine.
  “You are my masterpieces. From the day I saw the most precious eyes, I believed in miracles to the core. Such a gift God has given me, exploring in your beautiful worlds every day. I pray as a mother I teach you strength and passion to carry through the struggles in the world. Most battles will always be won on your knees. I pray you find your dreams,” the 34-year-ol
  
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• Lawmakers waging “McCarthyite attack on right to boycott,” legal groups warn, as Israel BDS movement grows

  05-05-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  
  Activist groups are pushing back against lawmakers’ attempt to punish Americans who boycott Israel and other U.S. allies.
  Pending legislation in dozens of states around the country, legal groups warn, would make “blacklists” of organizations and individuals that endorse boycotts like those organized in order to combat U.S.-backed apartheid in South Africa.
  Legal experts have blasted the anti-boycott campaign as “21st-century McCarthyism,” and the National Lawyers Gu
  
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• Here are Elizabeth Warren’s best opening blows in her war against Donald Trump

  05-05-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  In her most recent Twitter rant, Elizabeth Warren officially declared war on the Donald. She’s vowed to “fight her heart out” to make sure Trump never reaches the White House. And though this is her strongest declaration of opposition against the now presumptive GOP nominee, it isn’t the first time she’s spoken out against him. Take a look at her best anti-Trump rants.
  
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• The right’s ludicrous anti-trans crusade just got even dumber: Why the plot to ransack Target’s bathrooms makes literally no sense

  05-05-2016 17:55 via salon.com
  
  Adding to the conservative movement’s list of bizarre fetishes that include firearms, Leviticus and human embryos, they seem to be unnaturally obsessed with bathrooms these days. The latest episode of ridiculousness from the ongoing death-rattle of social conservatism comes to us from bathrooms in Target stores. Much to the chagrin of conservatives who apparently still think the solution to everything is to let the free market decide, the popular retail giant recently exercised its free ma
  
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• Dear media, please call out Trump on this: He’s a tinfoil-wearing conspiracy theorist — ignoring that is irresponsible

  05-05-2016 17:32 via salon.com
  
  It’s a moment likely to be quickly forgotten in the cacophony of humiliations that Ted Cruz endured on his way out of the presidential race: Donald Trump promoting a bizarre conspiracy theory linking Cruz’s father, named Rafael Cruz, to the JFK assassination. In an interview with Fox News, Trump found a way to worm this National Enquirer headline into the conversation: 
  And….that’s it. That’s all the evidence they had, that some guy who looks like Cruz’s
  
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• Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald blast U.S. drone war and “assassination complex,” say liberals would never let a Republican get away with Obama’s crimes

  05-05-2016 17:23 via salon.com
  
  Award-winning journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald warn the Obama administration’s “deadly legacy” has paved a dangerous path for a future of egregious abuse of executive power.
  The Democratic president, they say, has gotten away with crimes and repressive policies that liberals never would have let a Republican carry out.
  “The most significant aspect of what President Obama has done, regarding drones and regarding the so-called targeted killing program around t
  
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• Pat Buchanan credits himself with paving the way for Donald Trump: “We were a little bit ahead of our time”

  05-05-2016 16:58 via salon.com
  
  It comes as no surprise that Donald Trump and Pat Buchanan would be ideological bosom buddies, both appealing to the plight of disillusioned working class voters on a platform of white nationalism. But while Trump goes even further than Buchanan could have ever dreamed of during his two failed bids for the White House, the controversial conservative talker is clinging to him tighter — even crediting himself with creating the environment for Trump’s successful rise to the top of the R
  
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• That’s the way love goes: How not to talk about sex, motherhood and Janet Jackson

  05-05-2016 16:40 via salon.com
  
  In the dysfunctional world of celebrity gossip, the fertility of any high profile female over the age of 12 and under 70 is always up for public speculation. What else is there for a woman, however successful, to do if not reproduce? Yet the “exclusive” ET report this week that “a source confirms to ET that Janet Jackson is pregnant with her first child” has been a particular bonanza for the tabloids. After all, if you can wrap your commentary about motherhood along
  
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• The new mess Republicans have created for themselves: Clinton’s brutal anti-Trump ad highlights why the GOP can’t plausibly endorse Trump

  05-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we deserve it.” – Lindsey Graham
  The Republican Party has put itself in an impossible position. For months they’ve told us, over and over and over again, how unstable Trump is, how unfit for office he is. They’ve told us he’s a “con artist,” a “clown,” a “bigot.” Now that he’s decimated their party, now that’s he toppled every hackneyed candidate he’s
  
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• Joe Scarborough: I won’t vote for Trump until he repudiates everything he said to win the GOP nomination

  05-05-2016 16:11 via salon.com
  
  On Morning Joe Thursday, host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough declared that he wouldn’t be voting for Donald Trump in November unless he quickly backs down from essentially all of his public and foreign policy positions.“I was surprised and disappointed yesterday, [that] he stuck by the Muslim ban,” Scarborough said. “That’s a loser — it’s a loser with the majority of Americans, and you’ve got Republicans like me. I just — I
  
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• Thanks to Trevor Noah, you will forever associate the GOP’s election mayhem with herpes

  05-05-2016 15:47 via salon.com
  
  “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah Wednesday night weighed in on Trump’s Indiana victory and Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s subsequent suspending of their campaigns.
  “I’m so conflicted. I mean, Ted Cruz lost because Donald Trump won,” Noah said. “It’s like finding out your herpes is gone but it’s because your dick fell off.”
  In a victory speech Tuesday night, Trump told Republicans that the now “very, very divided” country
  
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• Trump: If Hillary wants to take the low road, he “would be fine with that” — after all, he knows it well

  05-05-2016 15:33 via salon.com
  
  On The O’Reilly Factor Wednesday night, host Bill O’Reilly asked Donald Trump two very important questions — the first was whether he’d follow Taylor Swift and acquire himself a “squad” of failed former GOP candidates to fill up his cabinet, and the second was what sort of tone he thought he’d take in the general election.
  Trump answered the first by saying that it wouldn’t be a mistake to go into the Republican National Convention in Cleveland wit
  
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• Rob Reiner voices the frustration of millions, calls out media coverage of Donald Trump on “Morning Joe”

  05-05-2016 15:08 via salon.com
  
  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezenski may still be a little raw from the brutal burn they received at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner from comedian Larry Wilmore, but less than a week later they were given an epic tongue lashing from another Hollywood celebrity criticizing their sycophantic coverage of Donald Trump.
  “‘Morning Joe’ has their head so far up Trump’s ass they bump into Chris Christie,” Wilmore quipped to a silent crowd at the Washing
  
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• Donald Trump isn’t quite sure who the Mexican president is, but is positive he’ll “pay for the wall”

  05-05-2016 14:47 via salon.com
  On The O’Reilly Factor Wednesday evening, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shared words of warning with former Mexican President Vincente Fox — in part because it wasn’t entirely clear that he understands what “former” means.
  O’Reilly began by asking Trump a “tough” foreign policy question about how he would handle Vladimir Putin when he steps out of line. Trump replied by saying that he’d respond to Russian military
  
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• WATCH: Conan O’Brien airs moving tribute to the 16 GOP hopefuls Donald Trump dispatched on his way to the nomination

  05-05-2016 14:18 via salon.com
  
  With John Kasich and Ted Cruz bowing out of the race to lose to Hillary Clinton in November, Conan O’Brien thought it only fitting to mourn the passage of those Republican campaigns that never came to pass — all 16 of them — in a moving tribute that in absolutely no way mocked the failed candidates for their patent unsuitability.
  Scott Walker couldn’t lead the nation, according to the video, because he kept getting lost on the way to the debates; Bobby Jindal suffered gri
  
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• How the media got Donald Trump so wrong: It just doesn’t understand the dark side of American politics

  05-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  What a difference a year makes. Last June when Donald Trump descended from that escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy, nearly everyone in the political world laughed and laughed. How could this pompadoured clown could possibly think he could get the Republican nomination for president of the United States? What a joke.  Some of us recognized Trump’s inherent appeal to the right wing and admonished political observers to pay attention. But for the most part
  
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• Let this sink in: The Republican Party has chosen a birther as its presidential candidate

  05-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  This is happening, people. This is really happening. Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president of these United States. Let that sink in.
  The hot takes will abound in the days and weeks ahead. Pundits will conduct the autopsy on Ted Cruz’s campaign. We’ll ask why John Kasich is still running. We’ll question if there’s still any hope of a contested convention. We’ll express wonderment at how quickly and awkwardly the Republican establishment surrenders
  
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• Crime continues to pay on Wall Street — and the feds make it so easy for big banks to get away with it

  05-05-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Hey, can we all just stop complaining that our government coddles Wall Street’s big money-grubbing banks?
  Sure, they went belly-up and crashed our economy with their frauds, rigged casino games, and raw greed. And, yes, the Bush and Obama regimes rushed to bail them out with trillions of dollars in our public funds, while ignoring the plight of workaday people who lost jobs, homes, businesses, wealth, and hope. But come on, Buckos, have you not noticed that the feds are now socking the ban
  
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• The GOP’s brutal reality check: Seth Meyers just dropped some hard truths about Donald Trump

  05-05-2016 13:42 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night served the GOP the hard truth that Donald Trump is “the candidate their voters want.”
  Meyers devoted his now-daily “Closer Look” segment to the ever-surging Trump train, after he took Indiana on Tuesday and, within 24 hours, said goodbye to Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
  “This should be a serious moment of introspection for Republicans,” Meyers said. “How did they get to the point where
  
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• Stephen Colbert turns out the lights on Ted Cruz, John Kasich

  05-05-2016 13:35 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert revived his instant classic “Hungry for Power Games” bit last night to send off fallen tributes John Kasich and Ted Cruz.
  “With … Cruz’s falling, so too falls his vice-tribute, Carly Fiorina,” Colbert explained. “Start to finish, her candidacy lasted just six days — less than a full Shark Week.”
  Citing the mounds and mounds of evidence that Ted Cruz is an unbearable monster, Colbert joked, &l
  
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• In murder, prayer and the afterlife: Bodega candles are an ubiquitous and overlooked part of life in New York City

  05-05-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  If you live in New York City there is most likely a bodega within a few blocks of your home. And that bodega likely carries candles encased in glass with images of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary or even Bart Simpson stamped onto the wax.Dubbed “bodega,” “sanctuary,” “religious,” prayer,” or “saint” these candles are a common sight in the life of a New Yorker. They are used in street memorials to mark a death, they are found in storefront churc
  
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• It’s not about sexism: Camille Paglia on Trump, Hillary’s “restless bitterness” and the end of the elites

  05-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Is it 1968 all over again?
  Violent clashes between antiwar protestors and Chicago police during the 1968 Democratic Convention boomeranged against the New Left and sabotaged the presidential hopes of the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey, a genial, compassionate populist. The American electorate, repelled by street chaos, veered to the Right and made Richard M. Nixon president. The new crossover Nixon Democrats laid the groundwork for the two conservative presidencies of Ronald Reagan in the 1
  
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• This is how Trump becomes more dangerous: Treating him as a normal political candidate obscures everything that makes him so threatening

  05-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz has quit the race. John Kasich’s campaign is no more. They were the last stragglers of a field of 16 candidates – among them senators, governors, a brain surgeon, and the precise opposite of a brain surgeon – who all tried and failed to wrest the Republican presidential nomination away from Donald Trump. The Republican Party has been thoroughly usurped by an unlikely political force, and now the media and political worlds are doing their best to come to grips with how
  
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• “Stupidity, celebrity, plutocracy”: Donald Trump is the Reagan revolution on steroids — and he just might win

  05-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Ten months ago, at a time when Donald Trump’s newly announced run for the Republican nomination was almost universally considered a bad joke, I had this to say about it:
  One of the most compelling points Rick Perlstein makes in his excellent The Invisible Bridge is that Ronald Reagan was consistently and radically underestimated as a potential political force by the national media, public intellectuals, D.C. insiders, etc., until practically up to the moment he was on the edge of winning t
  
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• Donald Trump’s amazing, beautiful, super-classy veepstakes: Here are some running-mate ideas for the presumptive GOP nominee

  05-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  The networks had barely finished handing Indiana – and thus the Republican nomination – to Donald Trump on Tuesday night before speculation began over which has-been politician, reality star, or Twitter meme would consent to run as the vice-presidential candidate on the ticket with this walking, talking, racist bottle of Sunny Delight.
  What would it take to play second banana to The Donald for the next six months? If Trump was a conventional politician, I’d say someone who neut
  
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• Donald Trump thinks he can win over Sanders supporters. Here’s why he’s out of his mind.

  05-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  After winning Tuesday’s primary in Indiana, Donald Trump has officially become the presumptive Republican nominee, and thus, pundits and publications have begun mourning (or celebrating) the death of the Grand Old Party. Top Republican figures have already come out in opposition to Trump’s GOP, while others have even declared support for Hillary Clinton.
  While it may be a bit too early for liberals to begin gloating (let’s try n
  
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• Donald Trump, Twitter egg: The presumptive Republican nominee’s medium is its own moronic message

  05-05-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  By now I must be at least the millionth commentator to observe that Donald Trump is the candidate for whom social media have longed. What FDR was to radio and JFK to television, Trump is to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, et al.
  This is usually taken to mean that Trump, like some political McLuhan, is a mastermind who understands social media the way his forebears understood their media. But I suspect that with him, it may be less a matter of his brilliance or even his intuition than of
  
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• Donald Trump will not be president: History, polling data and demographics all point to a single result

  05-05-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  The GOP nomination is within Donald Trump’s grasp.
  Trump’s decisive victory in the Indiana primary on Tuesday night drove his two final challengers to withdraw from the race. Whatever hopes the GOP establishment still harbored of a brokered convention ended when Ted Cruz dropped out of the race on Tuesday night and John Kasich dropped out on Wednesday. Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
  Trump’s march to the nomination has shocked the GOP establishment a
  
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• The GOP exodus has begun: These prominent Republicans want no part of Donald Trump

  05-05-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  On Tuesday night, Donald Trump defeated Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the Indiana primary, cementing the billionaire’s status as the Republican frontrunner and presumptive GOP nominee. As Cruz announced his decision to suspend his campaign, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called on his party to unite around Trump “and focus on defeating Hillary Clinton.”.@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @Hilla
  
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• After Trump, the deluge: Does the GOP catastrophe hold the seeds of renewal?

  05-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  I was looking forward to more of Carly Fiorina’s nightmarish singing. I don’t think that adjective is metaphorical. That moment last week when Fiorina busted out the lullabies for Ted Cruz’s robot children, revealing her true identity as the White Witch from the “Chronicles of Narnia,” was a lot like one of those moments in a “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie where a character thinks she’s awake and in the real world only to realize, skreek-skreek-sk
  
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• She’s still so unusual: Cyndi Lauper on her rockabilly roots, the song that makes her sound like Ethel Merman, and her special kinship with Patsy Cline

  05-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  As the title implies, Cyndi Lauper’s new album, “Detour,” is a curveball of sorts: It’s a collection of vintage country covers recorded with a who’s-who of Nashville musicians and collaborators such as Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Vince Gill. However, within the context of her illustrious, three-decade-plus career, “Detour” makes perfect sense. Lauper’s work has spanned the entire continuum of popular music—between the Tec
  
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• The revolution is bigger than “Hamilton”: This year’s Tony nods offer much-needed contrast to #OscarsSoWhite

  05-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Lupita Nyong’o doesn’t want to be your sassy BFF. In an essay for Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter, the actress discussed her decision to decamp for Broadway following her Oscar-winning turn in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave.” Since 2014, Nyong’o has starred in just a handful of films. The Kenyan-Mexican actress had a small role in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” as Maz Kenata and most recently played a wolf mother in Jon Favreau’s suc
  
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• America’s pill popping is making our fish anxious and possibly getting into our vegetables

  05-05-2016 00:56 via salon.com
  
  In America’s never-ending pursuit to be number one in all things, it has achieved top billing in a number of troubling areas, including where overmedication is concerned. We are the most pill-popping country on earth, with an astounding 70 percent of us regularly taking one prescription drug and about half of us taking two. A quarter of us take five or more prescription medications, according to the Mayo Clinic—which for the record, is a lot.
  What goes into our bodies ulti
  
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