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• 5 times George Zimmerman proved he’s total human scum

  12-05-2016 22:40 via salon.com
  
  Zimmerman is trending once again for something unbelievable. He put the gun that was used in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin for sale on GunBroker.com — with a starting bid of $5,000. The post was followed by a personal statement by Zimmerman which read, in part:
  “Prospective bidders, I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American Firearm Icon. The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin on 2/26/
  
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• “Smashing” Sanders: Billy Corgan rips Bernie on Alex Jones’ radio show

  12-05-2016 22:35 via salon.com
  
  Billy Corgan had strong words for Bernie Sanders when he appeared again on the radio show of noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In an interview  last month, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman spoke about “social justice warriors,” being similar to the KKK. This time his focus was on politics, as Pitchfork reported.
  As a picture of Sanders photoshopped as KFC’s Colonel Sanders with a bucket of chicken emblazoned with the Sovi
  
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• The science of Jerry and Elaine: The unsettling reasons why some exes keep each other close

  12-05-2016 22:07 via salon.com
  
  Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine in "Seinfeld" (Credit: Hulu)
  We all have a relationship we look back on and wonder what we were blinded by. The rush of romance? The shock of a spark? A really good kisser. It’s easy to overlook potentially damaging (and dangerous) flaws when caught in the throes of love.
  I used to think being friends with an ex was a decent idea, like it established a certain level of maturity between two former partners while also confirming the l
  
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• John Boehner unchained: “I did my best to bring our party together, but I don’t know what the knuckleheads want”

  12-05-2016 21:51 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
  “Every day when I read the news I’m reminded of how happy I am that I’m not in the chaos,” retired House speaker John Boehner said at a business conference on Thursday.
  While his ambitious successor, Paul Ryan, held the first meeting aimed at party unification with Republican presumptive presidential nominee  Donald Trump, a relaxed Boehner spoke at the economics-focused SALT Conference at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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• “I felt like I was going to die”: Philly student alleges police assault over bathroom visit

  12-05-2016 21:40 via salon.com
  
  Brian Burney, an 11th-grader at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin High School, says that a school police officer punched him in the face simultaneously with both fists, and threw him to the ground in a chokehold after the two had an argument over using the restroom without a pass. Burney, who is asthmatic, says that, in the officer’s grip, he was scared for his life.
  “I felt like Eric Garner because I couldn’t breath,” says Burney, 18, referring to an incid
  
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• Trump’s bigoted ex-butler: Obama should be “hung for treason” and is “a fraudulent piece of crap”

  12-05-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/LM Otero)
  Donald Trump’s longtime butler Anthony Senecal is an ardent backer of his former boss’s presidential bid. And as David Corn of Mother Jones first reported, Senecal’s Facebook page is full of the kind of violent, bigoted rhetoric associated with the worst kind of Trump supporter.
  Senecal served as Trump’s butler for 17 years before resigning in 2009, and now holds the lofty title of in-house historian at Trump&rsq
  
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• “I founded the SWAT team that killed my son-in-law”: A former Utah sheriff speaks out against police violence

  12-05-2016 21:22 via salon.com
  
  Dub Lawrence recreates police standoff with his son-in-law Brian Wood (Credit: Brad Barber)
  William “Dub” Lawrence was a former sheriff who established and trained one of Utah’s first SWAT teams, only to watch in horror as that same unit killed his son-in-law in a controversial standoff years later. In Peace Officer, Dub, driven by an obsessive sense of mission, uses his investigative skills to uncover the truth about that incident and other officer-involved shootings in his co
  
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• Top 2 hedge fund managers bankroll Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanuel, after making $1.7 billion each in 2015

  12-05-2016 21:18 via salon.com
  
  Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Mayor Rahm Emanuel at an event in Chicago, Illinois on June 11, 2014(Credit: Reuters/Jim Young)
  James Simons and Kenneth Griffin were the world’s top two hedge fund managers in 2015. Each made $1.7 billion last year alone, and have used their massive wealth to bankroll the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanuel, the Guardian reported.
  Simons is the 50th richest person in the world, according to Forbes. The mathematician has made an
  
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• This is how the Woody Allens of the world get the last word

  12-05-2016 21:08 via salon.com
  
  Woody Allen, 2016 Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
  This isn’t about whether Woody Allen sexually abused his daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old. This is about why men like Woody Allen — and Peyton Manning, and R. Kelly, and Jameis Winston, and Mike Tyson, and Roman Polanski — are so rarely even asked about the sexual assaults they’ve been accused of.
  Did Woody Allen commit the repulsive crime his daughter so publicly and decisively said he d
  
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• News: Madonna Will Honor Prince With Tribute Performance At Billboard Music Awards

  12-05-2016 21:08
  
  Britney Spears - News: Madonna Will Honor Prince With Tribute Performance At Billboard Music Awards
  
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• “He’s so stupid, my god!”: World leaders really do not understand Donald Trump’s appeal

  12-05-2016 20:12 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron)
  The world leaders who will have to interact with Donald Trump if he becomes president are responding to the presumptive GOP nominee’s rhetoric. And it’s not going well. From France to Mexico, watch our video for all of the reactions to his divisive comments.
  
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• We’re just speechless: Transgender equality is “a creepy obsession on the left,” says New Hampshire Union Leader editorial

  12-05-2016 19:25 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 file photo, a demonstrator holds a sign against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance outside an early voting center in Houston. The contested ordinance is a broad measure that would consolidate existing bans on discrimination tied to race, sex, religion and other categories in employment, housing and public accommodations, and extend such protections to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. The anti-bias ordinance was repealed in a November 2015
  
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• Sorry, Calvin Klein, but women are not flattered by sexual harassment

  12-05-2016 19:21 via salon.com
  
  Calvin Klein has faced backlash over this "upskirt" ad
  Calvin Klein has released a new ad campaign and, to the great surprise of roughly no one, it’s sexually provocative, with ads suggesting masturbation and oral sex. But one of the ads, featuring actress Klara Kristen, stands out from the titillating crowd. It’s a riff on the “upskirt” photos that are popular in the creepier corners of the internet, where misogynistic voyeurs share pictures they took up the skirts of un
  
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• Hollywood execs aren’t scared, they’re just dumb: If research shows movies about women make money, why do they still have to fight to be made?

  12-05-2016 19:06 via salon.com
  
  Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road"(Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)
  Why doesn’t Hollywood make more movies with women in them? According to Oscar-winner Jodie Foster, it’s because executives and producers are afraid that female-driven films are a gamble during an uncertain period. “Studio executives are scared, period,” Foster said during a recent interview at the Cannes Film Festival, where the actress is premiering “Money Monster,” her fifth dir
  
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• 9/11 commission bombshell: Saudi officials supported attackers, says panel member

  12-05-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  President George W. Bush speaks to the press at the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas following his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on April 25, 2002(Credit: White House/Tina Hager)
  Saudi officials supported the Sept. 11, 2001 attackers, says a former member of the 9/11 commission.
  “There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government,” commission member John F. Lehman said in an intervi
  
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• Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is for real eating a newspaper live on Facebook right now

  12-05-2016 18:48 via salon.com
  
  Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is literally eating his own words.
  After wrongly predicting Donald Trump would lose the Republican nomination, Milbank kept to his promise and is now consuming a nine-course crowdsourced meal cooked by Victor Albisu, the renowned chef at D.C.’s Del Campo.
  Milbank is joined by Post food critic James Beard, who will “taste and judge the dishes.”
  Watch live over at the Post’s Facebook page. At the time of my writing, 1,09
  
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• Donald Trump’s supply-side hacks: His nonsensical tax plan is getting the trickle-down treatment

  12-05-2016 18:27 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP)
  It’s been nine days now since Donald Trump effectively sewed up the Republican presidential nomination, and in that time he’s managed to so thoroughly mangle his position on taxes that at this point it’s impossible to know where he stands. It’s also hazardous to venture a guess, given the high likelihood of another abrupt change in the very near future.
  If you haven’t bothered trying to keep track yourself, here’s a quick recap. Early
  
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• Twitter’s best reactions to George Zimmerman’s failed gun auction and publicity stunt

  12-05-2016 18:19 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this July 9, 2013 file photo, George Zimmerman leaves the courtroom for a lunch break his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla. A police report says a man charged with shooting at George Zimmerman on May 11, 2015, had “a fixation” on the former neighborhood watch leader. The report made public Tuesday, May 19, 2015,says 36-year-old Matthew Apperson had recently been admitted to a mental institution and had shown signs of paranoia, anxiety and bipolar disorder. (AP
  
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• “I was very encouraged by what I heard from Donald Trump today”: Paul Ryan begins his grueling march towards an eventual endorsement

  12-05-2016 18:06 via salon.com
  
  Paul Ryan, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/Photo montage by Salon)
  House Speaker Paul Ryan said it will “take some time” for the Republican Party to fully unify after a meeting with presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
  “This is a process. We just began this process,” Ryan told reporters after his closed door meeting with Trump at the Republican National Committee office Thursday morning.
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• Ann Coulter begs Donald Trump to appoint anybody but that traitor Chris Christie as vice president

  12-05-2016 17:48 via salon.com
  
  Ann Coulter (Credit: AP/Cliff Owen)
  Ann Coulter isn’t satisfied merely commenting on Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations — she’s clearly invested herself in trying to shape them, as it evidenced by her latest tweet:
  Please rule out Christie, @realDonaldTrump! He supported Rubio's amnesty & gave drivers licenses to illegals in N.J. https://t.co/LBTwQJzGF4
  — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 12, 2016
  She wants to be sure that the presumptive GOP nominee doesn&rsqu
  
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• Gun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin removed from auction

  12-05-2016 17:35 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this July 9, 2013 file photo, George Zimmerman leaves the courtroom for a lunch break his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla. A police report says a man charged with shooting at George Zimmerman on May 11, 2015, had “a fixation” on the former neighborhood watch leader. The report made public Tuesday, May 19, 2015,says 36-year-old Matthew Apperson had recently been admitted to a mental institution and had shown signs of paranoia, anxiety and bipolar disorder. (AP
  
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• Hollywood’s unforgivable Woody Allen cowardice: What the controversy at Cannes really proves

  12-05-2016 17:30 via salon.com
  
  Woody Allen(Credit: Evan Agostini/invision/ap)
  Over the past two days, Woody Allen has found his attempts to publicize his new movie somewhat hampered. Instead of his latest directorial effort, everyone is talking about the decades-old allegations that he sexually molested his daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was a little girl.
  The timeline goes something like this: The Hollywood Reporter recently ran a cover story about Allen in which it not only avoided asking him directly about his daughter&r
  
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• “Phase one of my plan to destroy the wanker party is now complete”: Check out Republican apostate Bruce Bartlett’s wondrous Trump tweets

  12-05-2016 17:29 via salon.com
  
  Bruce Bartlett (Credit: MSNBC)
  Bruce Bartlett isn’t your run-of-the-mill Donald Trump backer.
  Bartlett, a former official in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, supports Trump’s presidential bid, but not because he thinks Trump will Make America Great Again. Instead, he sees Trump as “the surest path to complete and total destruction of the Republican Party as we know it.”
  Bartlett identifies as a conservative, but is a harsh critic
  
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• Donald Trump could be “the actual last president of the United States” says Johnny Depp

  12-05-2016 17:19 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2015 file photo, actor Johnny Depp attends the premiere of the feature film "Mortdecai" in Los Angeles.Australian quarantine authorities have ordered Hollywood star Johnny Depp to fly his pet dogs Pistol and Boo out the country by Saturday or they will be put down. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce on Thursday, May 14, 2015 accused Depp of smuggling the Yorkshire terriers aboard his private jet when he returned to Australia on April 21 to resume filming of the 5th instal
  
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• Because you missed it: Watch Alanis Morissette sing a millennial version of “Ironic” with James Corden

  12-05-2016 16:38 via salon.com
  
  Isn’t it ironic when people watch a rerun of a James Corden bit from six months ago and a the clip goes viral?
  Last November, “Late Late Show” host James Corden brought on Alanis Morissette to duet a version of her famously misnamed 1996 hit single, “Ironic.” Instead of a “Carpool Karaoke”-style straight take for which Corden tends to go viral, however, the duo revamped the lyrics to appeal to millennials.
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• “Baloney!”: We’re not saying he’s a caricature, but Bill O’Reilly is literally on Fox News yelling at the Internet

  12-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  Bill O'Reilly (Credit: Fox News)
  On The O’Reilly Factor Wednesday evening, Bill O’Reilly cemented his status as Old Man Who Yells at the Internet by devoting a segment to yelling at Facebook and Yahoo for allegedly refusing to aggregate stories written from a conservative perspective.
  He and his guest, Citizens United Chairman David Bossie, refused to believe what everyone who writes online knows to be a fact — that the search engines use arcane algorithms to determine what sto
  
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• The Democratic ticket that would have been a slam dunk: Joe Biden wanted Elizabeth Warren as his VP

  12-05-2016 16:14 via salon.com
  
  Joe Biden (Credit: AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
  “I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee, and I feel confident she’ll be the next president,” said Vice President Joe Biden in a recent interview with ABC News. He’s right, of course. Hillary Clinton will almost certainly be the next president. I’ve argued Trump is a bigger threat than he ought to be, or than reasonable people think he will be, but ultimately he – and the Republican Party – have a nea
  
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• Paul Krugman goes “Game of Thrones” on the GOP nominee and his advisers: “Truly, Donald Trump, you know nothing”

  12-05-2016 15:49 via salon.com
  
  Paul Krugman (Credit: AP/Heribert Proepper)
  On his New York Times blog Wednesday, Paul Krugman mocked Donald Trump for trying to rectify his ignorance by inviting into the fold two advisers more ignorant than he is — Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore.“[Y]ou might have thought that he would try to signal his independence from the establishment by, say, turning to some business economist,” Krugman wrote. “Instead, he turned to the usual suspects from the right-wing noise machi
  
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• Mitt Romney has a wild new theory why Trump refuses to release his taxes

  12-05-2016 15:33 via salon.com
  
  Mitt Romney, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci/Reuters//Chris Keane/Photo montage by Salon)
  Mitt Romney has a message for Donald Trump, from one failed Republican presidential nominee to another (soon-to-be): Release your tax returns, buddy.
  In a Facebook post on Wednesday, reacting to the news that unlike generations of both Republican and Democratic presidential nominees before him, this year’s Republican presidential nominee would not release any tax returns before the general electio
  
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• Watch conservatives brawl on The Kelly File: Donald Trump has “more positions than a porn star!”

  12-05-2016 15:29 via salon.com
  
  Brad Thor, Megyn Kelly, David Wohl (Credit: Fox News)
  In yet another altercation between members of the right over the authenticity of Donald Trump’s conservatism, author Brad Thor and Trumpeter David Wohl brawled on The Kelly File Wednesday over whether the putative Republican nominee is an authoritarian.
  On Tuesday, Thor wrote a long post on Facebook in which he outlined why he wouldn’t be able to support Trump as the Republican candidate — namely, because Trump “has ne
  
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• The NSA’s stunning 9/11 failure: How big-money contractors made us more vulnerable to attack

  12-05-2016 15:10 via salon.com
  
  Bill Binney (Credit: blue+green communication)
  On September 12, 2001, Bill Binney snuck back into work at the NSA dressed like cleaning staff so he could try to help understand who had attacked the United States. A top NSA mathematician, Binney had rolled out a sophisticated metadata analysis system called ThinThread, only to have it canceled less than a month before 9/11. Top executives at the agency had decided a clunky program called Trailblazer, contracted out to the
  
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• This is how Donald Trump destroys Bernie Sanders: It’s as simple as a nickname

  12-05-2016 14:14 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert weighed in on the goings-on in Trumplandia following the West Virginia primaries that saw Bernie Sanders cruise to victory despite the long road ahead of him.
  “Bernie just got a powerful reminder that he’s a serious contender in this race,” Colbert said, “because Donald Trump gave him a nickname.”
  During a “Fox and Friends” call-in interview, Trump debuted the nickname, “Crazy Bernie,” explaining,
  
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• Paul Ryan is just this screwed: Why his “summit” with Donald Trump will probably backfire no matter what

  12-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Scott Morgan/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)
  Yesterday, cable news held a collective crystal ball reading the entire day to let us know what was going to happen at today’s big meeting between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump. Experts from across the capital gathered together to speak in hushed tones about “what needs to happen” to bring “unity” to the Republican Party, the assumption being that if Trump can be anointed by Paul Ryan as an ac
  
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• Trevor Noah unloads on #Bernieorbust: “I knew some of Bernie Sanders voters are young, but I didn’t realize they’re children”

  12-05-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last night detailed Bernie Sanders’ decisive victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday night. But he had some harsh words for the state’s Sanders supporters.
  “I knew some of Bernie Sanders voters are young, but I didn’t realize they’re children,” Noah said, responding to a CBS News exit poll of West Virginians that found 43% of Sanders voters would defect to Donald Trump in November if Hillary Clinton wins the Democ
  
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• Racists and white nationalists love Donald Trump: Seth Meyers calls out what the media is afraid to say

  12-05-2016 13:38 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s peculiar resonance among white nationalists.
  “Demographics are Trump’s biggest obstacle in the fall,” Meyers said. “And the theory of his campaign is that he can drive white turnout high enough to overcome changing demographics.”
  And as part of his systemically white-centric campaign, Trump & co. included Los Angeles lawyer and ou
  
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• The Trump-Ryan “unity” pageant: Two GOP faction leaders will meet face to face today — but they’ll never see eye to eye

  12-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Paul Ryan, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Yuri GripasAP/Charlie Neibergall/Photo montage by Salon)
  Today’s the big day: presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan are going to meet to discuss… stuff. Ryan pointedly refused to endorse Trump on CNN last week, explaining that Trump still has to “unify” the party and reassure the party establishment that he actually cares about cutting taxes for rich people and slashing entitle
  
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• This election won’t make anything better: Why our options in November are bad and worse

  12-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri/AP/Carlos Osorio/Photo montage by Salon)
  After watching Donald Trump mock and bully his way through the Republican primaries over the past year, leaving the GOP in complete disarray, the general election of 2016 is setting up to be one of the most polarizing and downright nauseating presidential elections in American history.
  According to a recent poll from Reuters, about 47 percent of Trump supporters say that their mai
  
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• Donald Trump is a legitimate threat: Democrats must stop being in denial about the billionaire’s popularity

  12-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Gene J. Puskar)
  Serious people agree that Donald Trump isn’t fit for the presidency. The reasons are so obvious that they scarcely need elaborating. But it’s a mistake to think he can’t win in November. However disturbing, Trump is more popular than we’d like to believe.
  A recent NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll, for instance, had Trump reaching 50 percent approval for the first time since the poll began tracking last December. And the exit polls from T
  
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• Need proof that the “gig economy” is painful? Just ask people who work for Uber or Lyft

  12-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (Credit: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)
  Pouty, whiney, and spoiled-bratism is not nice coming from a 4-year-old — but it’s grotesque when it comes from billion-dollar corporate elites like Uber and Lyft.
  The two internet-based ride-hiring (they call themselves “ridesharing,” but they don’t share anything, and their business model relies on folks needing a ride to hire a driver through their app) brats have swaggered into cities all across our coun
  
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• America’s enduring Hiroshima shame: Why Barack Obama should apologize for the atomic bomb — but won’t

  12-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Barack Obama (Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
  As President Obama prepares to visit Hiroshima, it is worth remembering what the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on that city in 1945 actually did.
  The bomb killed up to 80,000 people—the vast majority of them civilians—instantaneously. Estimates about the total number of casualties range from around 90,000 to 200,000. Many were simply turned to ash. Most of the city was flattened. This is before you even get to the long-term e
  
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• “There is just no such thing as God”: A physicist searches for meaning in the natural world

  12-05-2016 11:45 via salon.com
  
  It is time to face reality, California Institute of Technology theoretical physicist Sean Carroll says: There is just no such thing as God, or ghosts, or human souls that reside outside of the body. Everything in existence belongs to the natural world and is accessible to science, he argues. In his new book “The Big Picture: On the Origin of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself,” out this week from Dutton, Carroll describes a guiding philosophy along these lines that he calls poet
  
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• Monsanto’s cancer-linked pesticide could be coming to a city park near you

  12-05-2016 11:30 via salon.com
  
  New Yorkers who visit their local parks have likely been exposed to glyphosate, the controversial, cancer-linked main ingredient in Monsanto’s popular herbicide Roundup. But the data about herbicide and pesticide spraying projects across the city isn’t adding up.
  In May 2015, in response to the concerns of community activists and public health advocates, the city government released a report, “Pesticide Use by New York City Agencies in 2014,” detailing the use of pestici
  
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• Where Bernie goes from here: All is not lost for the Sanders revolution

  12-05-2016 11:15 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Brendan McDermid/Photo montage by Salon)What should Bernie do? That seems to be the question of the month. Permit me to weigh in.
  Here’s what we know at this point in the campaign. For Sanders to have any chance of winning the support of superdelegates, he must arrive at the convention with more elected delegates than Hillary. To do that, he needs to win about 65 percent of all elected delegates in the remaining electoral conte
  
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• The Clinton scandal machine is making clanking noises and leaking oil

  12-05-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  HIllary Clinton (Credit: AP/Seth Wenig)
  NBC News got caught on the wrong side of the faux scandal news cycle when it recently sent Cynthia McFadden all the way to Romania for a jailhouse interview with convicted hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, also known as “Guccifer.”
  Claiming to have hacked his way into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, Lazar told NBC that Clinton’s account was “completely unsecured.” “It was like an open orchid on the Internet.&rdquo
  
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• George Zimmerman auctioning gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin to fund “fight” against Black Lives Matter

  12-05-2016 07:00 via salon.com
  
  George Zimmerman(Credit: Reuters/Joe Burbank)
  George Zimmerman says he is auctioning the gun he used to kill unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, and using the money to “fight” the Black Lives Matter movement.
  He announced the auction on Wednesday night in a newscast on Orlando’s local Fox affiliate, local media reported.
  The online auction starts Thursday, with the opening bid set at $5,000.
  Zimmerman said he got the gun back after being acquitted of second-degree murder and man
  
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• Appetite for destruction: White America’s death wish is the source of Trump’s hidden support

  12-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Charles Krupa)
  Is an “October surprise” that could put Donald Trump in the White House already baked into the American electorate? That’s the frightening question one could derive from this week’s column by Thomas B. Edsall, one of the most useful (and least ideologically hypnotized) contributors to the New York Times. We can’t be sure how many people really support Trump, Edsall reports, since there’s considerable evidence that they a
  
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• We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it

  12-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  A huge expanse of ruins left by the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima. (Credit: AP)
  When President Obama visits Hiroshima later this month, he might do well to reflect on the views of another President who was also the five-star general who oversaw America’s military victory in World War II. In a 1963 interview on the use of the atomic bomb against Hiroshima, President Dwight D. Eisenhower bluntly declared that “…it wasn’t necessary to hit them wi
  
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• Beyoncé, Radiohead and FOMO: How sustainable is the era of the “insta-release?”

  12-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Beyoncé, Thom Yorke (Credit: Reuters/Marko Djurica)
  If 2016’s blockbuster releases have taught us anything, it’s that a protracted promotional period is unnecessary. This trend kicked off in early March with Kendrick Lamar, who unveiled “untitled unmastered” several weeks after debuting a new song at the Grammys. Beyoncé entered the fray in a massive way with the April-released “Lemonade,” a video album announced with both a one-hour HBO special
  
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• Celebrity baby worship is insane: Good for Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling for saying “no, thanks”

  12-05-2016 00:57 via salon.com
  
  Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling (Credit: AP/Evan Agostini/Jordan Strauss)
  Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have pulled the biggest coup in Hollywood: According to reports, the couple gave birth to their second child in April—with no one the wiser. Tabloid media titan TMZ reports that Mendes gave birth to Amada Lee Gosling at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on April 29. TMZ, who managed to obtain a copy of the child’s birth certificate, claims that the pair named the new
  
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• This morning ☕️ Is it that time again yet? Lol https://t.co/IDZJh5RnkS

  12-05-2016 00:12 via twitter.com
  
  This morning ☕️ Is it that time again yet? Lol https://t.co/IDZJh5RnkS
  
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