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• The yelling and fighting at Saturday’s Democratic convention was reminiscent of a Trump rally

  16-05-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  Thousands of people gather at the Paris casino in Las Vegas for the Nevada State Democratic Convention on Saturday, May 14, 2016. They are picking delegates to send to the national convention in July. (AP Photo/Michelle Rindels) (Credit: AP)
  Nevada’s Democratic convention included a fight, pleads for recounts and a lot of boos — and this was not a Donald Trump rally. The atmosphere got tense as Sanders supporters were outraged that Bernie did not win the most delegates.
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• Whoops? CIA’s internal watchdog “accidentally” deleted its copy of the Senate torture report

  16-05-2016 23:23 via salon.com
  
  In this Dec. 11, 2014, file photo, CIA Director John Brennan pauses during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. The Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program and the spy agency’s official response clash on almost every aspect of the long-secret operation, from the brutality and effectiveness of its methods to the agency’s secret dealings with the Bush White House, Congress and the media. But both reports largely agree on one major CIA failure, the agency
  
  
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• Clinton’s progressive balancing act: Hillary outlines Bill’s potential role in the White House while her campaign looks to make a strong appeal to Sanders voters

  16-05-2016 22:27 via salon.com
  
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  Hillary Clinton finds herself campaigning in Kentucky after Donald Trump has already clinched the Republican presidential nomination, and as she fights to end Bernie Sanders’ 19 state winning streak in a state that last voted for a Democratic president when her husband narrowly won the state during his reelection bid, her campaign is attempting a delicate balancing act to win over skeptical progressives whil
  
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• “The Bachelorette” men are the worst: 7 reasons why this season is going to be a glorious disaster

  16-05-2016 22:26 via salon.com
  
  "The Bachelorette" contestants Daniel, Brandon and Will (Credit: ABC)
  In anticipation of the May 23 premiere of “The Bachelorette,” ABC has released photos and biographies of the 26 men vying for Jojo’s heart — or a lucrative career as an Instagram influencer, at the very least. But don’t let the puppy dog eyes and Crest White Strip smiles fool you. Based on the bios alone, we speculate that underneath some of these V-neck tees beat hearts of darkness.
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• New Snowden bombshells: Docs released by The Intercept show how NSA worked in Iraq and Guantánamo

  16-05-2016 22:04 via salon.com
  
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  Investigative news outlet the Intercept has released a trove of U.S. government documents that provide insight into how the National Security Agency played a direct role in the war in Iraq, Guantánamo prison and more.
  This is the first batch of published documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Intercept says it plans on disclosing a large number of the documents in the Snowden archive.
  Included in the release will be nine years’ worth of SIDtoday,
  
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• Women at work can’t win: Meteorologist’s bare-shoulder brouhaha reveals frustrating realities

  16-05-2016 21:44 via salon.com
  
  Liberté Chan (Credit: KTLA)
  I’d just like to remind everybody that in Los Angeles, United States of America, in the warm weather month of May, we could have a national uproar over a woman wearing a sleeveless dress on local television. And then I’m going to go back to bed and you can wake me up when Hillary’s in the White House.
  On Saturday, KTLA’s Morning News longtime meteorologist was giving a weather report in what admittedly looked like an evening dress &
  
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• Update: Sinead O’Connor found alive and well after going missing in Chicago, police say

  16-05-2016 21:37 via salon.com
  
  FILE - This is a Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014file photo of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs during the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan, Italy.O’Connor, long a critic of church and state in Ireland, says she’s joining the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party _ and wants its leaders to step aside for younger voices free of IRA connections. The 48-year-old singer, who recently released her 10th album ``I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss,’’ says Sinn Fein i
  
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• “I didn’t want to sit for some hand-to-hand combat”: 5 takeaways from WaPo’s interview with Megyn Kelly about her sitdown with Donald Trump

  16-05-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP) (Credit: Victoria Will/invision/ap)
  Ahead of her highly anticipated Fox News sit-down with Donald Trump airing Tuesday night on Fox News, “Kelly File” host Megyn Kelly granted an interview of her own to the Washington Post.
  Here are 5 takeaways:
  1. Amends were not necessarily made:
  Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kelly told the Post that neither she nor Trump apologized to one another for what transpired between them after the former asked about the
  
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• Bernie’s only way forward: Sanders must campaign harder than ever and believe he can win

  16-05-2016 21:21 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)Superdelegates exist to elect a candidate like Bernie Sanders, not Hillary Clinton. As stated by
  As stated by NPR, “Though they aren’t bound by the results of primaries or caucuses, superdelegates will often throw their support to whomever they think will make the stronger presidential nominee in the general election.” In 2016, only one Democratic candidate rivals Donald Trump in negative favorability ratings and face
  
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• The Sokovia Accords wouldn’t work: “Captain America: Civil War,” the United Nations and war in the 21st century

  16-05-2016 20:37 via salon.com
  
  "Captain America: Civil War" (Credit: Marvel)
  What a time to be alive in the age of superheroes… at least on the silver screen. This past weekend marked another strong showing of the latest installment of Marvel’s Captain America franchise. Joe and Anthony Russo’s “Captain America: Civil War” picks up right where “Avengers: Age of Ultron” left off, and we find the team on a mission in Lagos, Nigeria. When their efforts to exact justice result in uninten
  
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• “Clumps of humanity”: This New York Times article treated homelessness in just about the worst way possible

  16-05-2016 20:26 via salon.com
  
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  Media outlets across San Francisco are planning a major collaborative reporting effort on homelessness in the city. Let’s just hope it doesn’t look like the New York Times article announcing the effort on Monday.
  The story opens by explaining how homelessness “became personal” for San Francisco Chronicle Editor in Chief Audrey Cooper three years ago. What followed was not a story of how Cooper or someone that she knew slipped into ho
  
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• A conservative legal group’s chief mission is banning homosexuality, report says

  16-05-2016 20:26 via salon.com
  
  Anti-gay marriage protestors demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court, April 27, 2015.(Credit: AP/Cliff Owen)
  The Alliance Defending Freedom, one of the most powerful right-wing legal groups in the country, is persistently misrepresented as merely a “Christian legal organization.” Networks fail to mention the group’s outstanding record of defending anti-civil rights laws, reports Media Matters.
  In fact, the group is a right-wing legal powerhouse, says
  
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• There’s a new battle raging in California over history textbooks. Here’s what you need to know

  16-05-2016 19:45 via salon.com
  
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  Determining the content of school curricula is amongst the most contentious education issues in the United States. A few years ago, when the U.S. Advanced Placement history requirements were reconfigured, conservatives we in a tizzy over supposedly un-American content, with fallen presidential contender Ben Carson going so far as to suggest that “most people” who complete the course would then be “ready to sign up for ISIS.” After this
  
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• “Possibly suicidal” Sinead O’Connor missing in Chicago, reports say

  16-05-2016 19:37 via salon.com
  
  FILE - This is a Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014file photo of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs during the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan, Italy.O’Connor, long a critic of church and state in Ireland, says she’s joining the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party _ and wants its leaders to step aside for younger voices free of IRA connections. The 48-year-old singer, who recently released her 10th album ``I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss,’’ says Sinn Fein i
  
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• Donald Trump’s tax toady: Stephen Moore spit-polishes Trump’s insanely regressive tax plan

  16-05-2016 19:33 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Carlos Osorio)
  Last week we learned that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s thoroughly insane tax plan was getting a facelift from two of the most prominent figures in supply-side economics: Stephen Moore and Larry Kudlow. It wasn’t immediately clear how Moore and Kudlow would alter the plan, nor was it evident that Trump would accept whatever changes they proposed. Regardless, Moore has apparently signed up to do some pinch-hit PR wor
  
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• Anthony Kennedy the coward: Why won’t the Supreme Court just put this contraception coverage fight to bed already?

  16-05-2016 19:03 via salon.com
  
  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference held Wednesday, July 15, 2015 in San Diego. Kennedy's appearance at the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference comes shortly after the nation's highest court put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintained them and provided an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation's social norms in recent years.(AP Photo/Denis Poroy) (Credit: AP)
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• Jennifer Lawrence’s message to Donald Trump: “F*** You!”

  16-05-2016 18:40 via salon.com
  
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  Jennifer Lawrence has a simple message she’d like to deliver to Donald Trump.
  During a Friday appearance on The Graham Norton Show, the actress was asked if she’d ever met the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and recounted a time she’d tried—and failed—to make Trump’s acquaintance.
  “I was at a concert where I heard he was attending, so I had my full security team, like I was like, ‘Find Donald Trump,'” Lawre
  
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• The wonder of childbirth, AutoPlayed: Woman gives birth live on Facebook

  16-05-2016 18:33 via salon.com
  
  Happy Monday. A woman gave birth live on Facebook today — and about 2,000 people watched it happen. And you can too:The guy broadcasting the live birth, Fakamalo Kihe Eiki, is apparently the father. His wife, seen giving birth, is Tina Teaki Kanongataa Sapoi.
  From what’s gatherable from their respective profiles, Tina and Fakamalo live in Carmichael, California, where he works as a board member at Organic Relief Collective, a faith- and cannabis-based nonprofit in Sacramento.
  
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• Facebook wants to reconcile with conservative media: Mark Zuckerberg invites Glenn Beck, Fox News and Trump campaign to meeting at Facebook HQ

  16-05-2016 18:17 via salon.com
  
  Facebook CEOMark Zuckerbergspeaksduring avisit to aFacebook Innovation Hub in Berlin, Thursday. Feb. 25, 2016. Zuckerberg presented studies on Artificial Intelligence. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP) (Credit: AP)
  Facebook is the sun that the media world revolves around and if there was any doubt left about the social media platform’s power, last week’s kerfufffel over how the company aggregates their “trending” news topics should have made clear just how omnipotent the cat vide
  
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• “He will stop at nothing”: The Onion co-founder Scott Dikkers doesn’t see an end to the Trump train

  16-05-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Scott Dikkers (Credit: Reuters/Chris Tilley/Salon)
  In a new interview, The Onion co-founder and editor Scott Dikkers explained to Gothamist how last summer, before any votes had been cast, he accurately predicted Donald Trump would win the Republican nomination.
  In August, Dikkers began working on his satirical novel, “Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide.” The survival guide is geared toward the increasing minority of voters who don&rs
  
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• Why Trump’s fake publicist act matters: It proves he’s exactly the weirdo and liar we all suspected he was

  16-05-2016 17:38 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke)
  On Friday, the already off-the-charts bizarre Donald Trump campaign took a turn for the even weirder after two Washington Post journalists, Marc Fisher and Will Hobson, published a report about Trump’s long history of posing as his own publicist, often for no other purpose but to brag about his sex life. Or, in many cases, his imaginary sex life, as Trump, posing as “John Miller,”  would try to convince reporters that Madonna wanted to
  
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• Even Donald Trump’s climate-change skeptic energy adviser believes there should be a carbon tax

  16-05-2016 17:31 via salon.com
  
  Kevin Cramer (Credit: AP/Andrew Harnik)
  Remember when Donald Trump said that global warming was created by the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive? Well, now that the likely Republican nominee is grounding his beliefs by turning to one of America’s most ardent drilling advocates to be his energy adviser.
  Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota — the second biggest oil drilling state in the country — was approached by the billionaire
  
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• What the hell just happened in Nevada? Sanders supporters are fed up — and rightfully so

  16-05-2016 17:18 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)
  Chaos erupted at the Nevada Democratic convention on Saturday as supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over the awarding of the state’s 35 pledged delegates. Clinton edged Sanders in the Nevada caucus on Feb. 20th (52.6 percent to 47.3 percent). On April 2, however, the state party held its Clark County convention and Sanders mobilized more delegates than the Clinton campaign (1,613 to
  
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• Kesha “will not just f**king be quiet and hide,” sexist body-shaming trolls be damned

  16-05-2016 16:57 via salon.com
  
  Kesha (Credit: Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)
  Here’s a handy lifehack — don’t be a jackass. If you feel like making negative comments about someone’s appearance, what if instead you just didn’t? Or do what you want, but just remember, in the words of Kesha, being a dickhead makes you look like a dickhead.
  The 29 year-old singer and songwriter got off to a rough start this year. This winter, a court decided to “do the commercially reasonable thing”
  
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• “To be continued”: Ted Cruz’s teary-eyed goodbye video threatens a zombie campaign

  16-05-2016 16:47 via salon.com
  
  “To be continued.”
  Those are the threatening last three words in a more than five minute long final campaign video from failed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, and frighteningly, there was no indication if the Texas senator’s ominous warning was of another bid for the White House in 2020 or 2016.
  “Ted Cruz didn’t lose. Our campaign for president lost,” Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe explains over a melodramatic soundtrack to open the video, titled &
  
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• “Stunning Trump girl” the GOP nominee forced into a bikini at a party insists to Fox News she wasn’t sexually harassed

  16-05-2016 16:42 via salon.com
  
  Rowanne Brewer (Credit: Fox News)
  On Fox & Friends Monday morning, co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked one of Donald Trump’s former girlfriends about how accurate the portrayal of comments she made to The New York Times were, and Rowanne Brewer insisted that her words had been “spun” out of context.
  Here is what she told The Times’ Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, as block-quoted in their Sunday feature:
  Donald was having a pool party at Mar-a-Lago. There were about 50 mo
  
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• John Oliver hilariously unmasks “John Miller”: “That is so perfectly Donald Trump”

  16-05-2016 16:38 via salon.com
  
  “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver opened Sunday night’s episode with a mini-feature on “Rome burning in man form,” Donald Trump’s Thursday meeting with Paul Ryan and other GOP top brass.
  Paul Ryan, who had declined to endorse Trump even after he became the GOP’s presumptive nominee, said after their meeting that he was “very encouraged by what I heard from Donald Trump.”
  Ryan doubled up on the surprises, adding that Trump has “a
  
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• Megyn Kelly finally caved to her corporate masters: Donald Trump’s lifetime of being patently offensive to women “is in the mind of the beholder”

  16-05-2016 16:05 via salon.com
  
  Megyn Kelly (Credit: Fox News)
  Megyn Kelly has been hitting the talk show circuit teasing her Roger Ailes-mandated conciliatory interview with Donald Trump for a week now, but Monday on Fox & Friends, she crossed the very line she chastised him for crossing in that early GOP debate.If you recall, Kelly rightly called him out for referring to ” women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.'” She noted tha
  
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• “The Wire” actor Wendell Pierce charged with battery after late-night political debate with Bernie Sanders supporters turns violent

  16-05-2016 15:31 via salon.com
  
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  Intra-party primary fights are often ugly battles, but they don’t usually devolve into actual fights (outside of Donald Trump rallies). However, early Sunday morning, the protracted Democratic presidential primary was the topic of conversation when things took a violent turn after a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter allegedly assaulted two Bernie Sanders supporters.
  Actor Wendell Pierce, who portrayed Detective William “Bunk” Mo
  
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• Joe Scarborough: Just because there’s abundent evidence Trump sexually harasses women doesn’t mean he’s a sexual harasser

  16-05-2016 15:08 via salon.com
  
  Joe Scarborough (Credit: NBC News)
  On Morning Joe Monday morning, the panelists and co-hosts discussed The New York Times “hit piece” on Donald Trump published over the weekend, in which his interactions with female employees and contestants in his beauty pageants were discussed at length.
  The portrait of the presumptive Republican nominee was not flattering, and yet co-host Joe Scarborough insisted that because the woman whose story bookends the article insisted that “she was
  
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• Hypocrisy, thy name is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

  16-05-2016 14:30 via salon.com
  
  Clarence Thomas (Credit: Hillsdale College)
  Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court Justice seemingly incapable of speaking when his job requires it, gave a commencement speech at Hillsdale College over the weekend in which he provided ironic insight into his infamous silence, urging the graduates “not [to] hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket…in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.”
  As a sitting judge on the highest court in the land
  
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• Paul Krugman: The state of childcare in America is cruel and shameful — don’t let the GOP make it worse

  16-05-2016 14:19 via salon.com
  
  Paul Krugman (Credit: Reuters/Zainal Abd Halim)
  In his Monday NewYork Times column, economist Paul Krugman attacked the Republican Party and its nominal nominee for its unwillingness to address the problem of childcare in America.
  “[W]hen someone starts talking about choice,” he wrote, “bear in mind that we’re talking about children, who are not in a position to choose whether they’re born into affluent households with plenty of resources or less wealthy families de
  
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• “Even the Domino’s app can tell where you are”: John Oliver unpacks deadly deficiencies at 911 dispatch centers

  16-05-2016 14:10 via salon.com
  
  “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver this week devoted his primary segment to 911, or “the thing you call right after WebMD tells you you’re not going to be able to get it out on your own.”
  “We have a lot of faith in 911,” Oliver explained. “But the system can break down more that you think and when it does, people can die as a result.”
  Oliver rolled a “Today Show” clip detailing the tragic death of Shanell Anderson, who accidenta
  
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• The “Madman Theory” of Donald Trump: What’s the GOP supposed to do about a lying, authoritarian demagogue?

  16-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria)
  Back in the day, liberals used to always wonder why Warren Beatty didn’t run for president. Nowadays, you’ll hear the same thing about George Clooney. After all, these are people with 100 percent name recognition, fabulous good looks, brains, charisma, money and political contacts. They have an obvious knowledge and interest in government and achieved the very highest pinnacle of success as actors, directors and producers.
  The reason
  
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• “Game Of Thrones” recap: Nobody puts Dany in a corner

  16-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Unfortunately, I laughed at the final shot of last night’s “Game Of Thrones,” titled “Book Of The Stranger.” Up until then, the episode had been one of the season’s strongest—a cavalcade of scene-setting that raised the stakes with each successive scene, demonstrating the pot-boiling intensity that “Game Of Thrones” has crafted so well in earlier seasons. Now that we have a sense of where each of the major players are, both physically and emo
  
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• Forgotten scandal: How the U.S. prevented U.N. action on Rwandan genocide, under Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright

  16-05-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Bill Clinton announces that he has asked Congress to approve emergency funds of $320 million to supply water and food to refugees who have fled Rwanda, July 29, 1994. (Credit: AP/Wilfredo Lee)
  The 2016 election has brought many of the Clinton administration’s reprehensible policies back into the limelight.
  Bill, with the steadfast support of Hillary, gutted welfare, implemented “tough-on-crime” policies that fueled racist mass incarceration, pushed through the destructive neoli
  
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• Donald Trump is apparently considering Sarah Palin for VP — and it’s even scarier than you think

  16-05-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Sarah Palin, Donald Trump (Credit: Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)
  Back in 2008, when she was John McCain’s game-changing nominee for vice president, Sarah Palin sat for an interview with Fox News Channel’s Carl Cameron who gently pressed the Alaska governor for clarification on an answer she had given during her first and only debate against Joe Biden the night before. See, Palin had almost entirely flummoxed a simple question about the constitutional role of the vice president. Here wa
  
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• 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Katrina Pierson is not playing with a full deck

  16-05-2016 13:25 via salon.com
  
  We now know how Trump handles thorny and potentially embarrassing questions. He oh-so-presidentially hangs up on people who ask them and pretends not to be there when the inquirer calls back to restart the conversation.
  Faced with pretty damning proof that in the past the bizarrely egomaniacal and yet strangely insecure psychopath who is the presumptive Republican nominee has posed as his own publicist and phoned reporters to urge them to write flattering stories about him, Trump did what he pe
  
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• “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump

  16-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Trevor Noah (Credit: AP/Evan Agostini)
  Ever since Trevor Noah was announced as Jon Stewart’s successor as host of “The Daily Show” he has heard the same echoing line from Stewart supporters: “I served with Jon Stewart. I knew Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart was a friend of mine. Trevor Noah, you’re no Jon Stewart.”  Channeling our own inner Lloyd Bentsen facing off to Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice presidential race, we have all imagined telling Noah that he has no
  
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• The Benghazi farce deepens: The GOP’s conspiracy hunt is undermined from within

  16-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Trey Gowdy (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
  The allegedly impending release of the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s final report – two-plus years in the making – is generating some renewed attention for some of the well-worn and many-times-debunked conspiratorial allegations surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack. If for some reason you’ve forgotten, the primary thrust of much of the conservative Benghazi freak-out deals with the idea that the Obama administration made
  
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• Anatomy of a Donald Trump supporter: What really motivates this terrifying political movement

  16-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking)
  It’s essentially settled that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for 2016, and pundits are now fumbling to explain his unprecedented path to the nomination. In doing so, many focus on the uniqueness of Trump’s appeal to certain voters. We ourselves have contributed several pieces to the genre, demonstrating the strong connection between racially resentful attitudes and support for Trump among white people. Of course, any human phen
  
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• Here are some of the insane things our do-nothing Congress is wasting taxpayer money on

  16-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite//Photo montage by Salon)
  Perhaps it is ungenerous to keep noting — over and over and over again — that our current Republican-led Congress is too dysfunctional and lazy to work on solutions to pressing problems like the potential public health threat from the Zika virus or the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Turns out, when you take a look, you find congressional committees are hard at work on all sort
  
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• “We don’t need a savior”: What Bernie Sanders understands about change in America that everyone needs to remember

  16-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Max Whittaker)
  Throughout his presidential campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders has frequently pointed out to his legion of young supporters that his political platform, which many in the commentariat have dismissed as pie-in-the-sky idealism, can only be achieved when people come together in mass to fight special interests in Washington and pressure the political elite. This kind of thinking is somewhat foreign to the pundit class, who tend to view politics through
  
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• Donald Trump is not an LGBT-friendly candidate: His presidency would be a disaster for human rights

  16-05-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Carlos Osorio)
  Donald Trump has an answer to the right-wing debate over where transgender people should be able to go pee: Leave it up to the states to decide.The billionaire CEO, who is currently the last man standing in the GOP presidential race, told ABC that trans equality is a “states’ rights issue.” In a Friday interview, Trump was asked about a pending statement from the Obama administration that will urge schools and universities to allow trans
  
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• Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France

  16-05-2016 01:29 via salon.com
  
  Mick Taylor, Mick Jagger, and Charlie Watts pose during a press conference in Paris, France in 1970. (Credit: AP)
  When did Keith Richards take his first hit of heroin?
  Even he doesn’t know.
  He says it was probably an accident, that he mistook a line of smack for a line of blow at a party at the rag end of the decade. It was everywhere. Cheap, nearly impossible to avoid, an unintended consequence of the Vietnam War. When we opened a channel to South- east Asia, soldiers flowed out and china
  
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• Ayn Rand goes to “Silicon Valley”: The farcical libertarian world of Mike Judge, where corporations are the new soul-crushing villains

  16-05-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  "Silicon Valley," Ayn Rand (Credit: HBO/AP)
  Two weeks ago, “Silicon Valley” aired a scene that I haven’t been able to get out of my head since. Though it rather unforgettably features two horses engaged in the very loud, wet, and physical act of mating, that’s not exactly what ended up staying with me about it. Instead, it’s the conversation happening between the owner of the mare, a tech company CEO, and his irritating employee, who just happens to be that same com
  
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