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• “Tomorrow we carry on his work”: Journalists, activists mourn death of human rights lawyer Michael Ratner

  11-05-2016 23:45 via salon.com
  
  Michael Ratner (Credit: Reuters/Alex Grimm)
  Legendary human rights lawyer Michael Ratner passed away of cancer on Wednesday at age 72.
  Ratner was the president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal organization that has challenged the U.S. war on terror, detention without trial at Guantánamo, corporate human rights abuses, civil rights violations, attacks on whistleblowers and more.
  He also served as the lead attorney for whisteblowing journalism organization
  
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• Nominating Clinton risks “disaster simply to protect the status quo” Sanders campaign says

  11-05-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Jim Young)
  Bernie Sanders is not giving up. He is still in this to win, and his campaign is ramping up its rhetoric.
  In an email sent out on Wednesday, Bernie 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver declared plans to push for a contested convention in Philadelphia in July.
  By nominating Hillary Clinton, Weaver insisted, the Democratic Party would be risking “disaster simply to protect the status quo” in the U.S.
  “We’re going to have a contested c
  
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• Elizabeth Warren responds to “hormonal” Donald Trump’s latest attack with another glorious Twitter takedown: “Your free ride is over”

  11-05-2016 21:47 via salon.com
  
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  While vowing to do everything in her power to stop Donald Trump from becoming the next president of the United States, Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren warned last week that no matter what the blustery businessman throws her way, “we won’t shut up. We won’t back down,” during one of her now signature Twitter rants against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
  The notoriously thin-skinned candidate predictably lashed ou
  
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• Joe Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” is a great idea — with some glaring weak spots

  11-05-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  Joe Biden (Credit: AP/Diego Corredor)
  You know that feeling, when they do a generation-later reboot of your favorite TV show or your favorite directors take over a franchise you were pretty “meh” about?  That feeling of hope and excitement and also the dread of, please, Lord, do not screw this one up? That’s how I feel about Joe Biden and the ambitious, well-intentioned — and still needs a lot of work — cancer moonshot initiative.
  I think you will find my
  
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• Woody Allen rape joke opens Cannes: French comedian burns Allen with scathing Roman Polanski reference

  11-05-2016 20:47 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this July 15, 2015 file photo, director Woody Allen attends a special screening of "Irrational Man", in New York. Amazon said Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, that it will distribute Allen’s currently untitled film in a traditional theatrical release this summer, followed by a streaming release through its subscription service, Amazon Prime. The romantic comedy, shot last summer in New York and Los Angeles, stars Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell and Parker Posey. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invi
  
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• “Make Dating Great Again”: Site vows to match Trump-hating Americans With Canadians

  11-05-2016 20:40 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Nati Harnik)
  Well, let’s face it, we were all awaiting this one. A new online dating site is parading that it will “Make Dating Great Again” by bringing together Americans frightened of living under a President Trump, with matches across the northern border.
  Maple Match, the brainchild of 25-year-old Texan, Joe Goldman, was inspired after repeated proclamations from Goldman’s circle of friends that they would move to Canada if the l
  
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• Hope for Bernie Sanders backers: Yes, he can beat Hillary in a contested convention

  11-05-2016 20:10 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/AP/Keith Srakocic/Photo montage by Salon)Bernie Sanders is ready for a contested Democratic convention, especially with the 1,430 pledged delegates that nobody at FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, or The New York Times imagined he’d have at this point. The same people who predicted Sanders would be done by March, are also the same people telling you Vermont’s Senator can’t win on July 25, 2016. While Bernie has d
  
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• Detroit girl a victim of another gun horror: 5-year-old fatally shoots herself with .38 found under her grandma’s pillow

  11-05-2016 20:05 via salon.com
  
  Mariah Davis, of Detroit, reportedly shot herself witha gun found beneath a pillow. (Credit: WXYZ)
  A 5-year-old girl in the Oakfield neighborhood of Detroit died Wednesday morning after accidentally shooting herself late Tuesday night with a loaded gun she found under her grandmother’s pillow, according to local ABC affiliate WXYZ.
  The victim, Mariah Davis, found the .38 caliber handgun, belonging to her grandmother, while playing upstairs. Her grandmother, who was babysitting, was do
  
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• College protests revive accusations against “war criminal” Madeleine Albright, who defended deaths of 500,000 Iraqi kids

  11-05-2016 20:02 via salon.com
  
  Madeleine Albright introducing Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in New Hampshire on February 6, 2016(Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif)
  Students and faculty alike have joined in protests at California’s Scripps College, where former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was booked to headline the graduation commencement ceremony.
  Critics have blasted the ex-Clinton official as a “war criminal” and “repeated genocide enabler,” and have pledged to boycott commencement i
  
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• Get excited, “Game of Thrones” fans: George R.R. Martin releases new sample from “The Winds of Winter”

  11-05-2016 19:15 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Charles Sykes)
  One of the most anticipated literary releases of recent history has been “The Winds of Winter,” the sixth installment of the hugely popular “A Song of Ice and Fire” series by fantasy author George R. R. Martin.
  On his blog Tuesday, Martin announced a cluster of new developments, including a brand new excerpt from “The Winds of Winter,” made available on his website.
  “I know how much bitching I’d get if I offered
  
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• The real costs of a “Marvel body”: How the pressure to look like Thor and Captain America is hurting men

  11-05-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  Chris Hemsworth as Thor in "The Avengers" (Credit: Marvel)
  Do you want a body like a Marvel superhero? Be prepared to eat—a lot.
  In a recent interview with BuzzFeed, Chris Hemsworth’s stunt double, Bobby Holland Hanton, told the outlet that he has to eat 35 times a day to “anywhere near [Hemsworth’s] size.” Henton, who claims that he also worked out twice a day to stay in superhero shape, previously told Muscle and Fitness that his high protein diet (which consisted
  
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• The NRA’s unhinged spokesman: Ted Nugent’s at it again, posting a video of Bernie Sanders shooting Hillary Clinton

  11-05-2016 18:48 via salon.com
  
  Ted Nugent (Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus)
  It appears, yet again, that there is nothing that Ted Nugent can do to lose his position as a board member of the National Rifle Association. On his Facebook page on Tuesday, Nugent posted a video of a Democratic primary debate, edited to make it look like Bernie Sanders is pulling out a gun and murdering Hillary Clinton.
  “I got your guncontrol right here bitch!” Nugent writes. 
  Needless to say, a right-wing nut like Nugent is
  
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• Relax, we’re not all mean girls: Here’s what that “your friends don’t like you” study really shows

  11-05-2016 18:33 via salon.com
  
  Relax, we’re not all mean girls. A new study from MIT has been making recent headlines that suggest our “friends” don’t actually like, or consider, us as friends at all. While the study did find some troubling statistics regarding how we perceive our friendships, the results are significantly less Machiavellian than you might expect.
  The authors of the study examined friendships in terms of directionality, meaning how the relationship progresses in terms of things like re
  
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• Donald Trump is a coward: Get a load of this weakling who won’t release his taxes

  11-05-2016 18:23 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Jay LaPrete)
  Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is a coward. The garishly orange living monument to pusillanimity made a promise back in January to release his tax returns – a standard act of disclosure and transparency for a candidate seeking the presidency. “We’re working on that now,” Trump said on “Meet the Press” when asked about his taxes. “I have big returns, as you know, and I have everyth
  
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• “Trump is better than David Brent” at being vile: Ricky Gervais admits the GOP’s “delusional, middle-aged” candidate has topped his fictional sociopath

  11-05-2016 18:13 via salon.com
  
  In an article in The Hollywood Reporter, Ricky Gervais confessed that even though he’s spent his entire career playing unlovable, incorrigible assholes, even he couldn’t possibly top Donald Trump at this point.“I’ve made my fortune out of playing delusional, middle-aged men who say stupid things, and people love them,” he wrote. “But he’s beaten me. Trump is better than David Brent.”
  “It’s funny, comedians tell a joke and they get in tr
  
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• “Devastating” documentary probing Clinton’s cash to premiere at Cannes next week

  11-05-2016 18:08 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton (Credit: AP/Tony Dejak)
  “Clinton Clash,” premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, is a “devastating” documentary, according to MSNBC, alleging Bill and Hillary Clinton used the Clinton Foundation to “help billionaires make shady deals around the world with corrupt dictators, all while enriching themselves to the tune of millions.”
  The film, written and produced by Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon and directed by M.A.
  
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• Fox News is just asking: Is Donald Trump the reason Budweiser decided to rename its beer America?

  11-05-2016 18:03 via salon.com
  
  On Tuesday, Anheuser-Busch announced plans to change the name of its signature beer, Budweiser, to “America” between the Memorial Day holiday and the November election.
  On Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was asked if he thought the company’s rebranding effort was an attempt to piggyback on his successful campaign.
  “Mr. Trump, do you think you had something to do with Bu
  
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• The big anti-choice lie: Crisis pregnancy centers — tools of the Christian right — are only good for making women scared and miserable

  11-05-2016 17:52 via salon.com
  
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  Monday, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” with the help of Patton Oswalt, aired a darkly hilarious expose of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). Her piece showed how these Christian right organizations lure women seeking abortion by pretending to be women’s clinics and offering free pregnancy tests, only to hit them with a bunch of anti-choice propaganda full of lies about how they are supposedly going to suffer and die if they get abortions.
  
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• 5 times Muslim Americans were kicked off planes this year for making people “uncomfortable”

  11-05-2016 17:24 via salon.com
  
  Khairuldeen Makhzoomi works in his office in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, April 18, 2016. A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the U.S. as an Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month because a fellow passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having in Arabic. Southwest Airlines said in a statement Sunday that the passenger, Makhzoomi, was taken off the April 9, 2016, flight from Los Angeles to
  
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• “Crisis pregnancy centers are just plain a–holes”: Samantha Bee and Patton Oswalt expose fake abortion clinics

  11-05-2016 17:18 via salon.com
  
  On Monday night’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” Bee and her guest Patton Oswalt  took aim at crisis pregnancy centers, dotted around the country in an effort to scare women into thinking abortions are unsafe.
  Patton Oswalt starred as Orson Welles in a parody of “F for Fake,” warning of the tricks and hoaxes fake clinics try to pass off as truth. The centers, which look very similar to real abortion clinics, have staff  in white
  
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• Gene Simmons’ Prince apology: What he gets wrong—and right—about addiction

  11-05-2016 16:53 via salon.com
  
  Prince, Gene Simmons (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Alex Gallardo)
  It would be infinitely better if public figures took a beat and thought it through before saying things they have to apologize for the next day. But give some credit to Gene Simmons this week for reconsidering his insensitive remarks about Prince — and shedding light on the frustrations often endured by those who find themselves in the path of someone else’s demons.
  In a very poorly thought out Tuesday interview in Ne
  
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• It gets worse in North Carolina: High school board member says allowing students to carry mace will protect women in bathrooms

  11-05-2016 16:46 via salon.com
  
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  A high school in Salisbury, North Carolina, voted Monday to allow students to carry mace in the 2016-2017 school year, according to a report from the Salisbury Post.
  The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education’s counterintuitive new policy comes on the heels of the state’s controversial “bathroom bill” (HB2), which requires transgender individuals to use public restrooms that correspond to their birth gender rather than that wi
  
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• “That’s the best you could come up with?”: Elizabeth Warren laughs off Trump’s new nickname for her

  11-05-2016 16:21 via salon.com
  
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  Elizabeth Warren has dutifully taken on the role of happy warrior, taking on troll and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on his preferred platform, Twitter, on behalf of all decent Americans — even as she’s drawn direct fire from the blustery, perhaps not-so-billionaire, businessman.
  “Well, she’s a senator that has done nothing. She just talks,” Trump said of Warren on Fox News Tuesday night, a week after
  
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• WATCH: Former Fox News contributor Dana Loesch attacks “flat-chested” Trump supporter who had preventative double mastectomy

  11-05-2016 15:57 via salon.com
  
  Dana Loesch(Credit: CNN)
  On her radio show, former Fox News contributor Dana Loesch attacked a Trump supporter who criticized those who oppose the Republican nominee for being, among other things, “flat-chested.”It’s an insult unworthy of a high school sophomore irrespective of the context, but in this case, the context matters — the Trump supporter in question, Kayleigh McEnany, had a preventative double mastectomy performed after learning that she was genetically predis
  
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• Ronan Farrow is right: THR’s breezy Woody Allen profile is “a sterling example of how not to talk about sexual assault”

  11-05-2016 15:38 via salon.com
  Woody Allen (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
  Ronan Farrow opened a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter, “My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked,” with an anecdote concerning another powerful male celebrity accused of sexual assault. In 2014, while preparing to interview Mark Whitaker, author of a then-new biography of Bill Cosby, Farrow says a producer tried to dissuade him from asking Whitaker why he had omitted allegations of rape and sexual assault against t
  
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• What an America made “great again” looks like: Report suggests a Trump administration would be staffed by non-political naifs

  11-05-2016 15:29 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Dennis Van Tine)
  “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” – William F. Buckley
  Republican primary voters are excited by the prospect of an “outsider” sashaying into Washington. This appears to be at least half of Donald Trump’s appeal (the other half being his flair for dog-whistle politics). Even Ted Cruz,
  
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• Donald Trump bucks decades-long tradition, refuses to release tax returns before election

  11-05-2016 15:22 via salon.com
  
  Mitt Romney, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/AP/LM Otero/Photo montage by Salon)
  “There’s nothing to learn from them,” newly-minted presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said of his tax returns one week after securing his position as the de-facto leader of the party.
  Announcing in an interview with the Associated Press that he enlisted the aid of CNBC conservative commentator Larry Kudlow and perennially incorrect Heritage Foundation economist St
  
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• “People who think Sanders supporters go to Donald Trump are smoking dope”: Geraldo Rivera clearly didn’t get the Fox News memo about wooing Sanders fans

  11-05-2016 14:59 via salon.com
  
  Geraldo Rivera (Credit: Fox News)
  The message clearly came down from on high that Fox News anchors need to create the impression that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is a viable alternative to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and for most of Tuesday’s election coverage, the party line was successfully communicated.Martha MacCallum stood in front of West Virginia exit poll results for what seemed like hours, speaking about how “the dissatisfaction of the white male voter” w
  
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• Trevor Noah: “I would literally let you sh*t on me for two billion dollars”

  11-05-2016 14:58 via salon.com
  
  “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last night discussed North Carolina’s controversial bathroom bill, which requires transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond with their birth gender and not the one with which they identify.
  The Justice Department last week brought a lawsuit against the state, saying the bill violates the the Civil Rights Act. Federal sanctions would amount to upwards of $2 billion in lost funding — all in the name of discriminating again
  
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• Joe Scarborough: There’s no chance the Hillary team will be able to control Bill Clinton in a general election against Trump

  11-05-2016 14:31 via salon.com
  
  Joe Scarborough (Credit: MSNBC)
  On Morning Joe Wednesday, co-host Joe Scarborough responded to claims by Trump strategist Paul Manafort that there are secrets about the Clintons yet to be revealed by saying that regardless of the truth-value of Manafort’s threat, such things are going to make it very difficult for the Hillary Clinton campaign to control Bill in the general election.
  Manafort appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews Tuesday and argued that, as Matthews put it, “Hillar
  
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• “This is the ultimate reality TV show”: This is what really enabled the rise of Donald Trump

  11-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Jim Young)
  In the midst of all the hoopla over the Republicans nominating someone whose slogan, “Make America Great Again,” includes bringing white nationalists back into the mainstream of the party, the political press is undergoing one of its periodic soul-searching exercises, asking whether it bears any responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump. The answer, of course, is yes. The amount of free airtime devoted by all three cable news
  
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• Entitled, racist, bigoted, thugs: It is time to call Donald Trump supporters by their real names

  11-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Nam Y. Huh)
  What is the best way to describe Donald Trump’s supporters?
  Are they the Tea Party on steroids? Right-wing populists? Fascists? Something else?
  Last week on the Big Picture news program with Thom Hartmann, guest Mike Papantonio suggested that Trump’s supporters–with their penchant for extreme nationalism, racism, and bigotry–are best described as “Trumpublicans.”
  During a presidential primary season when so many members of
  
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• The media (ironically) overlooked the most chilling, Orwellian revelation of the Ben Rhodes controversy

  11-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes (Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
  There is something deeply ironic about the controversy that exploded this week around Ben Rhodes and his remarks in a New York Times magazine feature.
  Rhodes, President Obama’s right-hand man on foreign policy, briefly discussed in a roughly 10,000-word article how the White House carefully crafted a polished PR campaign to sell the Iran deal to legislators and the public.
  The media exploded. Countless news outlets and magazines (pa
  
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• Ann Coulter urges Trump to ignore GOP leadership: You are “the heart and soul of the party” now

  11-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Ann Coulter (Credit: MSNBC)
  Ann Coulter appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews Tuesday and argued that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump didn’t need to meet with Republican leaders who disagreed with him — in particular, House Speaker Paul Ryan — because at this point “he is the heart and soul of the party.”
  While many would find that thought horrifying, Coulter was clearly enthused by Trump’s ascension. His decision to offer Speaker Ryan a chance to mend
  
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• Stephen Colbert mocks Paul Ryan’s Trump virginity: “You want the first time you endorse Donald Trump to be special”

  11-05-2016 13:36 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night had “the talk” with House Speaker Paul Ryan about abstaining from endorsing Donald Trump until he feels ready.
  “Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee, his fellow Republicans are slowly getting behind him,” Colbert said. “Though some of them might be back there to push him down a flight of stairs.”
  And while Trump has managed to garner support from key political figures, like RNC C
  
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• John Oliver has company: Seth Meyers just brilliantly explained Brexit, “anti-immigrant, right-wing” populism and Donald Trump

  11-05-2016 13:31 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Keener Glance” at Britain’s “contentious debate over whether to leave the European Union.”
  A so-called “Brexit” will be decided next month by a popular vote and, if approved, would have international ramifications. It only makes sense then that the issue has crept into the U.S. presidential race. In a Fox News interview last week, Donald Trump said Britain would be “better off w
  
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• Welcome to the nightmare election: Why Clinton vs. Trump is going to be about one thing — fear

  11-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Aaron Josefczyk/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)
  And so it begins: Hillary Clinton vaguely entreats voters to cast aside color-coded maps and “get on the American team” as her allies make “a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump.” Meanwhile, Trump publicly scarfs down a taco bowl and exclaims that he “loves Hispanics,
  
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• The third-party sham: Fantasy politics define the anti-Trump conservative movement

  11-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Bill Kristol, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Janet Van Ham/Reuters/Nati Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)
  Down in the tomb of New York’s Penn Station, sitting quietly in a dimly lit Pizza Hut booth, a somber man stares intently at a tepid and long-since congealed slice of Meaty P’Zone. Chin tucked into his chest, droopy eyes fixed unblinking at the empty promise of “multi-meat mayhem” that seemed perversely appealing 45 minutes ago, he ruminates on his life’s failures &ndash
  
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• The Bundys won’t go away: The family gears up for another battle — which means more embarrassment for conservatives

  11-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Cliven Bundy (Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake)
  Even though the occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon ended in arrests and one death, the right-wing militia movement that swirls around the Bundy family of Nevada is still hard at work, dismantling what was left of the good reputation of the more libertarian strain of conservatism in the western United States.
  Cliven Bundy, the patriarch of the family that got arrested in February for allegedly threatening federal agents rather than pay his grazing
  
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• Wake-up call for Trump supporters: If you’re not convinced his campaign is a farce, just look at his funding flip-flop

  11-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Paul Vernon)
  Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he doesn’t get enough credit for self-funding his campaign. “I’ve turned down tens of millions of dollars,” he boasted on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I’d be the greatest fundraiser in the history of politics if I was let loose, but I said that I was going to self-fund my campaign…I don’t think I get any credit…I’m the only one self-funding &ndas
  
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• The right’s absurd Facebook freakout: How the uproar over “Trending Topics” exposes its gargantuan victim complex

  11-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg, Rush Limbaugh (Credit: Reuters/Jose Gomez/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)
  If you have a Facebook account, you may have noticed the Trending Topics widget that appears in the upper-right corner of every user’s homepage. This list of news stories listed as trending is usually fairly mindless piffle. (As I write this, the top two stories on my page are about baseball star Bryce Harper cursing at an umpire and Justin Bieber’s new face tattoo.) Still,
  
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• Hedge funds win no matter what: These are the obscene salaries of the industry’s top managers

  11-05-2016 11:45 via salon.com
  
  For the world’s top hedge fund managers, 2015 was a fantastic year, with an astounding amount of money made. Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine released its annual review of how the top managers fared last year, and the tally for the group of 25 came in at nearly $13 billion, up 10 percent over 2014. In any year, that figure would likely grab headlines, but considering that it was the worst year for funds since 2011 – with Atlantic Investment Management founder Alexa
  
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• Two faces of a rotted system: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are everything wrong with majority voting

  11-05-2016 11:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Randall Hill/Mike Segar/Photo montage by Salon)
  Having outlasted all his opponents, Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Hillary Clinton is closing in on locking up the Democratic nomination.
  Clinton and Trump may have won primaries, but are they really representative of what the American people want? In fact, as we will show, it is John Kasich and Bernie Sanders who are first in the nation’s esteem. Trump and Clint
  
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• Noam Chomsky: America has made the world a more dangerous place

  11-05-2016 11:15 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Adel Hana)
  [This piece, the second of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 1 can be found by clicking here.]
  In brief, the Global War on Terror sledgehammer strategy has spread jihadi terror from a tiny corner of Afghanistan to much of the world, from Africa through the Levant and South Asia to Southeast Asia. It has also incited attacks in Europe and the United States. The invasion of Iraq made a substantial
  
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• 3 oligarchs-turned-governors who are laying ruin to their states

  11-05-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  Rick Scott(Credit: AP/Chris O'meara)If any state was justified in describing itself as a major Obamacare success story, it was Kentucky; that is, before Republican Matt Bevin was sworn in as governor. Kentucky, under Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, was the home of Kynect, a state-operated Obamacare exchange that resulted in 500,000 Kentucky residents gaining health insurance, including many poor people with preexisting conditions. But Bevin, a rabid Tea Party ideologue who defeated Democrat Jack
  
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• Bernie Sanders wins West Virginia Democratic primary

  11-05-2016 03:26 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: AP/Steve Helber)
  White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state’s steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
  Meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump also won there and in Nebraska, a week after he cleared the field of his remaining rivals. They were not victories likely to heal the party&rs
  
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• Donald Trump gets two more primary victories in Nebraska and West Virginia

  11-05-2016 03:04 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong)
  Key Senate Republicans voiced optimism Tuesday about Donald Trump’s presidential prospects in November, the clearest signal yet to the GOP rank and file to unite behind the bombastic billionaire and turn their energy against Democrat Hillary Clinton. But it was uncertain whether the doubters could be quieted.
  Trump added two more primaries to his column, taking West Virginia and Nebraska.
  “We have a nominee, it looks like he may well be very comp
  
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• The sad truth: Older women may be invisible in Hollywood, but in porn they are doing fine

  11-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Elisanth via Shutterstock)Besides gifting us with the image of a man befouling baked goods, the 1999 film American Pie managed to put something else out into the zeitgeist: MILFs. The acronym, which stands for “mother I’d like to f*ck”—in other words, a hot, no-longer-young woman—was picked up by the porn universe soon after the film’s release, and she’s been on the rise ever since.
  “Whether it’s the incredibly talented MILF per
  
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• Pity the poor Republicans: Trapped by Trump between denial, dithering and surrender

  11-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan (Credit: Reuters/Andrew Kelly/Chris Tilley/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)
  Can we spare a thought for the impossible dilemma now facing elected officials of the Republican Party? Not a whole thought, perhaps; maybe three-eighths of one. And very little in the way of compassion: The GOP’s cynical leadership class spent years building the Trumpian monstrosity that now threatens to devour it whole and spit out the bones. If Paul Ryan and Donald T
  
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• Did the New York Times just accidentally tell the truth about the Obama administration?

  11-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Ben Rhodes (Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Salon)
  Historians so inclined will have a blast when their turn comes to dissect the Obama administration and its people. I do not mean the old-line “presidential historians,” story-telling hagiographers such as Stephen Ambrose or the insufferable David McCullough. Obama will have to wait a while for somebody of this set to embalm him to take what place he might among our mythologized tenants of the White House.
  Nor do I think we will get mu
  
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