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• Stop asking how old she is: Let’s not make it easier to penalize actresses for aging

  13-05-2016 23:03 via salon.com
  
  Margot Robbie (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
  Margot Robbie transcends age, at least according to Vogue. The Australian actress graces the cover of the publication’s June issue, where the fashion magazine writes that the “girl of the moment”—soon to appear in “Suicide Squad” and “The Legend of Tarzan”—is a sprightly 25 years old. Her IMDb page states the same, listing her birth date as July 2, 1990. But as Jezebel’s Bobby Finger points
  
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• Bill Clinton continues to defend 1994 crime bill that fueled racist mass incarceration

  13-05-2016 22:31 via salon.com
  
  Bill Clinton signs the $30 billion crime bill, Sept. 13, 1994. (Credit: AP/Dennis Cook)
  Former President Bill Clinton has repeatedly defended the crime bill he signed into law in 1994, which scholars say fueled the rise of racist mass incarceration.
  At a May 13 event in Paterson, New Jersey in support of his wife, the Democratic Party’s presidential front-runner, an audience member asked Clinton, “Why did you put more people in prison?”
  Clinton insisted the questioner was ignor
  
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• “Take it off! This is America!”: North Carolina man pleads guilty to federal crime after yanking Muslim woman’s headscarf off during flight

  13-05-2016 22:12 via salon.com
  
  People walk the terminal at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Flights remained delayed or canceled in the aftermath of a massive weekend blizzard that slammed into the eastern U.S., wreaking havoc on travel in the nation’s busiest cities, with airports in the New York City and Washington D.C. metro areas were the hardest hit.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Credit: AP)
  A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday to forcibly removing a Muslim woman’s head scarf
  
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• Elizabeth Warren is actually the most punk rock anti-Wall Street crusader the left has got left

  13-05-2016 21:37 via salon.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren told the Boston Globe she “laughed out loud” when she first read Donald Trump’s new nickname for her: “Goofy Elizabeth Warren.” (Is it really a nickname when it’s just an adjective added to someone’s legal name?) Presumably after she stopped laughing, Warren “left (my three grandchildren) and went to the other room and wrote the tweets.”
  The Twitter beef was big news. And when Trump brought on a secondary attack, it stil
  
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• CWA union says it faced “SWAT team armed with automatic weapons” after uncovering “massive Verizon offshoring operation in Philippines”

  13-05-2016 21:11 via salon.com
  
  A Communications Workers of America (CWA) strike against Verizon in Brooklyn, New York on April 13, 2016(Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder)
  The union that is on strike against corporate telecommunications giant Verizon alleges that its representatives were confronted by a heavily armed “SWAT team” in the Philippines, where it says it discovered undeclared offshore operations. Verizon strongly denies the accusations.
  Chris Shelton, president of Communications Workers of America, or CWA, sa
  
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• High heels are a feminist issue: Let Julia Roberts’ bare footsteps guide the flat-sole revolution

  13-05-2016 20:56 via salon.com
  
  Julia Roberts (Credit: Reuters/Regis Duvignau)
  Ladies, it’s turned out to be a very empowering week for our fight to assert our right to bodily autonomy. And in case you hadn’t noticed — feet are a feminist issue.
  Earlier in the week, 27 year-old Londoner Nicola Thorp shared her tale of arriving for a temp assignment at finance company PwC in what she believed was professional attire — including “smart flat shoes.” But as she told BBC Radio, she was quick
  
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• “The end of public education”: Republicans predictably flip out after Obama issues national guidelines to accommodate transgender students

  13-05-2016 20:49 via salon.com
  
  This May 11, 2014 photo shows an "All Gender Restroom" sign outside a bathroom in a bar in Washington. Confrontations have flared across the country over whether to protect or curtail the right of transgender people to use public restrooms in accordance with their gender identity. (AP Photo) (Credit: AP)
  Hours after it was first reported that the Obama administration planned to release a directive notifying public school officials that transgender students must be allowed to use the re
  
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• Mark Cuban dunks Donald Trump: “You’re a goddamn airhead”

  13-05-2016 20:28 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, Dallas Mavericks basketball team owner Mark Cuban answers questions from the audience before President Barack Obama spoke in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The NBA has fined Mark Cuban for commenting about the team's agreements with DeAndre Jordan and Wes Matthews during the league's free agent moratorium. NBA spokesman Tim Frank confirmed the penalty, which ESPN.com reporte
  
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• Watch Amy Schumer proclaim her undying love for Hillary Clinton in 120 hilarious seconds

  13-05-2016 20:02 via salon.com
  
  Amy Schumer’s voting for Hillary Clinton and she wants everyone to know it. She starred as President Amy Schinton on her show Inside Amy, joked about Clinton’s drinking habits on SNL and danced with the former first lady on Ellen. Watch our video for every Hil-filled moment.
  
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• The anti-choice blacklist: Dems call out Republicans for abusing congressional powers to intimidate women’s health providers

  13-05-2016 19:40 via salon.com
  
  Jan Schakowsky (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
  Last summer, a group of anti-choice activists managed to successfully hijack the news cycle with claims that Planned Parenthood was running an underground operation selling fetal tissue for profit. Claims that lurid pretty much always turn out to be right wing urban legends, and this time was no different: Two dozen states investigated Planned Parenthood and found no evidence for these claims. Meanwhile, the activist behind the videos, David D
  
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• Louis CK performs “pretty vulgar” set at Bill de Blasio fundraiser

  13-05-2016 19:31 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Louis C.K.)
  “Louie” namesake Louis C.K. emceed a fundraiser for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday night. Some attendees were surprised that CK’s remarks ended up being “pretty vulgar,” according to the New York Daily News.
  To the more than 600 people attending the event at the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, an off-color set from the curmudgeonly stand-up vet shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Even less surprising, he made no mention of the
  
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• It’s about damn time: Obama’s finally trying to fix an American disgrace by backing a national holiday for election day

  13-05-2016 19:24 via salon.com
  
  President Barack Obama (Credit: Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com)
  Greater political participation is the answer to almost every problem we face in this country. It can’t solve everything, but if a majority of Americans voted consistently, our process would be decidedly different. Leaders would be more responsive, policy with actually scale with public opinion, and we’d have something akin to democracy.
  Part of the problem is that many citizens are apathetic. There’s a subset of th
  
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• “It’s probably the most bizarre political cycle I’ve ever experienced”: These are Rob Reiner’s most inspired rants about the 2016 election

  13-05-2016 18:46 via salon.com
  
  Rob Reiner (Credit: MSNBC)
  Rob Reiner, the Director of “The Princess Bride,” “Stand by Me,” and “When Harry Met Sally,” has also made a name for himself as somewhat of a political pundit.His most memorable moment during this election season came on “Morning Joe” when he called out media coverage of Donald Trump as being soft.“He’s not pinned down,” Reiner argued. “We have to hold these people accountable.”
  But it&rsquo
  
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• 12 great male nude film scenes, beyond the cheap laughs

  13-05-2016 18:17 via salon.com
  
  Sacha Baron Cohen in "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"
  In the opening moments of the new film, “A Bigger Splash” Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) and her lover, Paul De Smedt (Matthias Schoenaerts), are lounging naked by the pool at their Italian villa. Their comfort is desirable, infectious. Their sensuality is palpable. Watching them, you just want to strip off your clothes and dive through the
  
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• Watch Fox Business News’ Neil Cavuto try not to drool over “one of the biggest stars ever” — Trump supporter John Ratzenberger

  13-05-2016 17:53 via salon.com
  
  Neil Cavuto and John Ratzenberger
  Fox Business News’ Neil Cavuto welcomed former Cheers star John Ratzenberger onto his program earlier this week and, frankly, oversold his celebrity just a bit.
  “John Ratzenberger’s quickly become one of the biggest stars ever,” Cavuto said. “He’s been in like every Pixar movie — his voice is recognized the world over. But when it comes to his political choices, who he wants to be for president, that distinct voice has b
  
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• Making America threat again: Aspiring authoritarian Donald Trump has a growing list of enemies

  13-05-2016 17:50 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Richard Drew)
  Sometimes it’s difficult to fully grasp the notion that the Republican Party has nominated a real live authoritarian as its 2016 presidential candidate. The American political system is held together by shared adherence to a set of political norms, and Donald Trump has found unanticipated electoral success by promising to trample over many of them. He’s going to ban members of entire religion from entering the United States, he’s going to
  
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• 10 things you need to know about Trump’s racist ex-butler who threatened Obama on Facebook

  13-05-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  
  Anthony Senecal (Credit: CBS News)
  Anthony Senecal, Donald Trump’s longtime butler, burst into the national spotlight Thursday after David Corn of Mother Jones broke a story highlighting a series of incendiary posts on Senecal’s Facebook page that included calls for the death of President Barack Obama.
  Here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s butler:
  1. Senecal worked for Trump for more than two decades
  Senecal says he started working
  
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• Why the Wall Street Journal’s latest “explosive” Clinton Foundation bombshell looks more like a dud

  13-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
  Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is out with a new front page report alleging improper financial dealings at the Clinton Foundation, but despite the rush by some major media outlets to describe the report as “explosive,” the slightest read beyond the headlines reveals yet another dud.
  The story boils down to this: At the behest of Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative arranged for millions in private and federal dollars to benefit a
  
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• Azealia Banks’ Twitter ban is everything that’s wrong with Twitter: “Where’s @realDonaldTrump suspension?”

  13-05-2016 17:07 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Azealia Banks (Credit: Reuters/Chris Keane/AP/Robert Altman/Photo montage by Salon)
  After years of Twitter users complaining strenuously about the harassment and abuse so many individuals are subjected to every single day, social media took a firm stand this week issued a very newsworthy suspension after a high profile user went on a tweet storm of racist, homophobic comments. And it’s not that Azealia Banks doesn’t deserve a time out. It’s just, you know that bla
  
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• Press must share the blame: The shallow, ratings-obsessed media is as responsible for Trump as the GOP

  13-05-2016 16:40 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
  “I’m going to walk away with it and win outright. I’m going to get in and all the polls are going to go crazy. I’m going to suck all the oxygen out of the room. I know how to work the media in a way that they will never take the lights off of me.” – Donald Trump
  Donald Trump’s blend of bombast, amorality and media savvy has carried him to the Republican nomination. He’s proven that an ability to dominate
  
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• WATCH: Chachi unleashed! Scott Baio can’t wait for Trump “to knock the hell out of Hillary Clinton”

  13-05-2016 15:56 via salon.com
  
  Scott Baio on Fox News
  On Fox & Friends Friday, the co-hosts welcomed actor Scott Baio to comment on the current state of the Republican party, because why not consult “Chachi” on the future of American democracy?
  Baio — an ardent Trump supporter — was extremely unhappy with the the lukewarm words House Speaker Paul Ryan issued after meeting with the presumptive Republican nominee Thursday.
  “Politicians speak and I don’t understand what they say,” Ba
  
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• “Sham marriage”: Charles Krauthammer on how Paul Ryan and Donald Trump are just going through the motions

  13-05-2016 15:04 via salon.com
  
  Charles Krauthammer on Fox News
  Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer appeared on Special Report with Bret Baier Thursday and declared that the apparent detente between House Speaker Paul Ryan and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump amounted to nothing more than a “sham marriage.”
  He said he was “not among the many who thought that [the meeting] smoothed over the divide” between establishment conservatives and Trumpeters, in part because Ryan said it was but th
  
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• WATCH: Fox News’ vile Jesse Watters gets humiliated by the very people he’s trying to humiliate

  13-05-2016 14:48 via salon.com
  
  Jesse Watters on "Watters World"
  On The O’Reilly Factor Thursday night, roving “reporter” Jesse Watters approached a number of people who looked young and asked them about how they felt about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and not surprisingly, they all provided him with answers he saw fit to mock.
  However, as is always the case, most of the millennials he interviewed actually bested him argumentatively.
  “This country has become a joke,&rdqu
  
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• Obama bucks anti-trans bullies: Shunning backlash fears, the president is bravely and aggressively defending trans rights

  13-05-2016 14:45 via salon.com
  
  Barack Obama (Credit: AP/Desmond Boylan/ChameleonsEye via Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)
  The White House stepped into battle over trans rights this week, announcing plans to send out a letter on Friday to schools across the country that instructs them, to put it in plain terms, to leave transgender students alone.
  The letter reminds schools that federal anti-discrimination laws require “schools to provide transgender students equal access to educational programs and activities e
  
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• Paul Krugman: Donald Trump can’t help himself — he just keeps finding new ways to lie

  13-05-2016 14:27 via salon.com
  
  Paul Krugman (Credit: Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)
  In his Friday New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman broke down why he believes that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump isn’t releasing his tax returns — and the results are not pretty.
  “Mr. Trump’s excuse, that he can’t release his returns while they’re being audited, is an obvious lie,” Krugman wrote. “On the contrary, the fact that he’s being audited (or at lea
  
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• Rachel Maddow explains how to beat Donald Trump: “Go at who he is”

  13-05-2016 14:17 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers welcomed MSNBC heavy-hitter Rachel Maddow onto last night’s episode. Among other topics, Maddow laid out a rhetorical strategy whereby Hillary Clinton could feasibly defeat the enigmatic Donald Trump in a general election.
  Donald Trump’s “policy is just like whatever’s floating in the air around him. It’s not been what he’s running on,” Maddow said. “He’s sort of running on who he is … He&rsquo
  
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• This is the dumbest Donald Trump theory yet: It’s all about John Roberts

  13-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Nati Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)
  What explains the rise of Donald Trump? The right-wing blogosphere has a theory: Trump’s success in taking over the Republican party was caused by Chief Justice John Roberts’ contempt for the rule of law.
  The argument, put forth in slightly different forms in recent days by Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett and Cato Institute scholar Ilya Shapiro, goes like this:
  Roberts knew that the A
  
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• The GOP’s terrifying Trump ignorance: They think they can control him, but that just isn’t going to happen

  13-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria)
  Everyone knows Donald Trump is obsessed with polls. It is his favorite topic on the stump and he recites them as if they’re political poetry. But media reports suggest on Thursday that he only looks at his own poll numbers or he would have known that he was backtracking on his most popular proposal when he said that his much ballyhooed ban on Muslims was “just a suggestion.” The scuttlebutt is that he heard from some of his new best
  
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• George Zimmerman is a poor man’s Donald Trump, a striving self-promoter to American bigots

  13-05-2016 14:00 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. Police officers in Florida say Zimmerman has been involved in a shooting, Monday, May 11, 2015. Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in a case that sparked protests and national debate about race relations. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool, File) (Credit: AP)
  George Zimmerman is n
  
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• Donald Trump and Paul Ryan troll us all: Behind the “pure theater” of the meeting that stopped Washington

  13-05-2016 13:43 via salon.com
  
  For lack of any other news, “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night detailed House Speaker Paul Ryan’s “encouraging” meeting with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
  “Ryan had to meet with Trump … to make it look like the Republican party’s not in chaos,” Colbert explained. “But nothing happened … It was pure theater.”
  Instead of any substantive developments (i.e. endorsements, fistfights), the two released a joint s
  
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• “Who woke up this rotting piece of human excrement?”: Larry Wilmore on George Zimmerman’s latest gun stunt

  13-05-2016 13:42 via salon.com
  
  “Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore last night devoted his main segment to “societal malignant tumor” George Zimmerman’s gun auction relevancy stunt. The show was apparently shot before the news ran that the item was pulled from auction.
  “Who woke up this rotting piece of human excrement?” Wilmore said. “And, better yet, why is he doing this?”
  Asked the same, Zimmerman said he doesn’t feel comfortable just locking it up.
  “I wou
  
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• A message to the press — you must not let Trump’s tax returns slide: It’s a critical question of transparency that can’t be ignored

  13-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert)
  Journalism professor Todd Gitlin wrote a sharp piece for The Washington Post on Thursday breaking down exactly how Donald Trump has successfully gamed the media – cable news especially – and turned it into a de facto arm of his presidential campaign. Trump has several decades’ worth of experience dealing with the press, as Gitlin notes, and he’s figured out how to bully and outlast interviewers until they give up pressing him
  
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• Why Donald Trump’s racist butler actually matters

  13-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Steve Helber)
  Anthony Senecal, onetime butler at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seemed like such a nice if slightly reserved old man in this New York Times puff piece two months ago, where he shared charming observations from his years working for the mogul. It was a sweet little story that offered some insights into Trump. Senecal himself came off as almost a stereotype of the loyal household servant, something of a cross between Mr. Belvedere and th
  
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• Let it go, Democrats: Bernie Sanders will campaign until the convention — and that’s exactly what the party needs

  13-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: AP/John Minchillo)
  Bernie Sanders won’t be the Democratic nominee for president. Anyone not blinkered by fandom will readily admit that. Clinton has locked up over 90 percent of the delegates she needs to clinch the nomination, and she’ll easily acquire the rest. I’ve supported Sanders candidacy from the beginning, and still believe he’d make a better president than Clinton or Trump or any other candidate in the now-empty field. But the race i
  
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• Verizon strikers vs. the American oligarchy: Why the telecom giant’s anti-worker practices represent everything wrong with our economy

  13-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  This June 4, 2014 photo shows signage at a Verizon Wireless retail store at Downtown Crossing in Boston. (Credit: AP/Charles Krupa)
  Verizon workers have been without a contract since last August, which has led nearly 40,000 workers to go on strike in states from Virginia to Massachusetts for the past month. Verizon has about 40 percent fewer unionized U.S. workers now than a decade ago, and the telecommunications giant wants to send thousands more jobs offshore and outso
  
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• Donald Trump is wrong about trade agreements: Scrapping them won’t protect U.S. jobs

  13-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking)
  Let’s face it, we have an enormous economic problem on our hands: Globalization.
  This problem is so big that it transcends our entire economic system. Our free-market economy has been outmatched. It is utterly unable to offer any solutions toward solving this predicament.
  The problem is simple. Undeveloped nations around the world are increasingly becoming available as low-cost locations for manufacturing. As a result, global corporations in deve
  
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• This should be a huge scandal: Donald Trump has zero excuse not to release his taxes

  13-05-2016 11:45 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: NBC)
  Talk about burying the lede.
  In an interview with the Associated Press, Donald Trump made big news by suggesting he wasn’t going to release his tax returns this year. But instead of trumpeting the news, the AP focused its headline on Trump’s VP search. The outlet initially inserted just a handful of sentences about Trump’s declaration and didn’t question the inaccuracies embedded in his claims. (AP later updated its article with some more detail
  
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• 10 revealing facts about the porn habits of women

  13-05-2016 11:30 via salon.com
  
  India Summer and Ryan Driller in "Marriage 2.0"(Credit: Adam & Eve Pictures)Nothing perplexes people quite like the combined topics of women and pornography. Do ladies love porn or hate it? Do they hate it but still watch it? What kind of woman gets into porn? What kind of woman gets off to it? CanFifty Shades of Grey be blamed? Or Sasha Grey? Porn has been a hot-button issue for years now, but what do we actually know about the roles, consumption and viewing habits of women? Once you get pa
  
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• Rumors in the Kingdom: What elites are whispering about the increasingly shaky Saudi regime

  13-05-2016 11:15 via salon.com
  
  Turmoil inside the Saudi regime seems unstoppable. Veteran oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, was relieved of his duties last weekend. A fixture at the various oil meetings, al-Naimi was considered the voice of Saudi oil. But over the course of the past two years, it was not what al-Naimi did that rattled world oil markets; it is what he did not do. When oil prices began to slip in June of 2014, al-Naimi sat back and continued to allow Saudi oil production at high levels. If al-Naimi slowed down Saudi
  
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• Bernie voters are not with her: These exit polls should rattle the Clinton campaign

  13-05-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Credit: AP/Julie Jacobson/Reuters/Mike Segar/Photo montage by Salon)One of the most striking—and disturbing—takeaways from Tuesday’s West Virginia Democratic primary were exit polls that found large numbers of Bernie Sanders supporters saying if not Bernie, they would actually vote for Donald Trump next fall.
  CBS News reported 44 percent said they’d vote for Trump, 23 percent for Hillary Clinton, and 32 percent for neither. These findings&
  
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• Love boutiques... Just saying 😊 https://t.co/Dm8hjxqy4R

  13-05-2016 02:27 via twitter.com
  
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• Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen”

  13-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Daryl Hall performs in Atlanta on September 19, 2015 (Credit: Robb D. Cohen/Invision/AP)
  Daryl Hall is possibly the most interesting man in music. He and John Oates form the most successful musical duo of all time, and even though, their setlists during sold out shows around the world are full of instantly recognizable hits from the 1970s and ‘80s, they are not a nostalgia act. More than other performers in their age bracket, including The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen, Daryl Hall a
  
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• 10 athletes’ outrageous excuses for failing drug tests

  13-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Melky Cabrera (Credit: Jeff Haynes/Reuters)Drug testing, whether for performance-enhancing drugs or just plain recreational ones, is part of top-level athletic competition, both in professional leagues and international amateur competition. But too many athletes seem oblivious to that fact, as the constant stream of positive drug tests in sports attests.
  Houston Texans offensive tackle Duane Brown got caught up in the drug testing trap last fall, when he was suspended for 10 games by the NFL for
  
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• Hollywood liberalism at its lamest: “Money Monster,” George Clooney and Jodie Foster’s financial-crisis drama, misfires spectacularly

  13-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  George Clooney in "Money Monster" (Credit: TriStar Pictures)
  We could definitely use an old-fashioned, character-driven drama about the aftermath of the financial crisis right about now, something larger than life but close to the bone, a big-time movie with movie stars and a satirical edge and its heart on its sleeve in the spirit of “Network” or “The King of Comedy.” Instead we get “Money Monster,” with George Clooney as a loudmouth financial talk-show host
  
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• 12 more female superheroes who could have fixed “Captain America: Civil War”’s woman problem

  13-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Krysten Ritter in "Jessica Jones" (Credit: Netflix)
  “Captain America: Civil War” is a great superhero movie—hell, a great movie full stop—by just about any standard. Heroes are in conflict for legitimate philosophical and personal reasons. The action is creative and at times sublime. Spider-Man and Black Panther are introduced effortlessly as fully formed, charismatic characters. Even the need to set up umpteen sequels is done gracefully.
  But Marvel is still missing one p
  
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