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• “I don’t drink Starbucks”: 5 revelations from DuJour’s cushy profile of Melania Trump

  17-05-2016 23:14 via salon.com
  
  Donald and Melania Trump in Milwaukee (Credit: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
  Julia Ioffe, who received a gross amount of anti-Semitic hate mail after publishing a profile of Melania Trump in GQ, knows better than anyone the occupational hazards of writing about her.
  Maybe that’s why Mickey Rapkin, writing for DuJour, took a less demonizing approach. Though DuJour’s profile is far less probing, it did produce some nifty insights.
  1. Melania Trump, possibly the next First La
  
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• Become the next #AmericanDream ⭐ @TheBritneyGame is now on the App Store & Google Play! britney.lk/game https://t.co/ATbdgMXi32

  17-05-2016 23:01 via twitter.com
  
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• Curtis Sittenfeld’s updated Jane Austen influences: “CrossFit, reality television, Skyline chili, Gloria Steinem”

  17-05-2016 23:00 via salon.com
  
  For May, I posed a series of questions — with, as always, a few verbal restrictions — to five authors with new books: Allison Amend (“Enchanted Islands”), Anton DiSclafani (“The After Party”), Geoff Dyer (“White Sands”), Curtis Sittenfeld (“Eligible”) and Paula Whyman (“You May See a Stranger”).
  Without summarizing it in any way, what would you say your book is about? 
  SITTENFELD: It’s about finding love in the mo
  
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• Jeb Bush proves he can be just as racist as Trump: Says taco bowl tweet was ‘like eating a watermelon and saying I love African-Americans’

  17-05-2016 22:45 via salon.com
  
  Jeb Bus (Credit: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
  Jeb Bush proved he can be just as racist as Trump when he attempted to discredit his former rival’s infamous Cinco de Mayo tweet. The real estate tycoon was pictured eating a taco bowl with his thumbs up and the caption “I love Hispanics,” to which Jeb compared “It’s like eating a watermelon and saying, ‘I love African-Americans,” The Daily News reports.
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• They agree with Bernie: Majority of Americans support single-payer, “Medicare-for-all” health care system

  17-05-2016 22:23 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Jim Urquhart)
  A majority of Americans support the single-payer, “Medicare-for-all” style health care system proposed by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
  A new Gallup poll found that almost six in 10 U.S. adults would prefer a federally funded health care system that provides insurance for all Americans.
  Gallup presented the three leading presidential candidates’ proposed health care policies, without naming the candidates, and asked partici
  
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• “Move. Or you will be moved”: How “Captain America: Civil War” raised the bar for all superhero movies

  17-05-2016 22:22 via salon.com
  
  Don Cheadle as War Machine, Anthony Mackie as Falcon (Credit: Marvel)
  Marvel’s cinematic universe has been taking baby steps toward courting a more diverse audience for years, reaching all the way back to “Iron Man,” when Samuel L. Jackson appeared as Nick Fury, a character who is white in the main Marvel comic continuity. His appearance also announced the birth of The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). But the newest MCU film, “Captain America: Civil War,”
  
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• The wonks keep getting it wrong: Keep an eye out for lazy arguments and bad analysis in tonight’s primaries

  17-05-2016 22:02 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/AP/Keith Srakocic/Photo montage by Salon)
  This election has been a disaster for those peddling proprietary models for predicting our political future and has nurtured what I hope will be a healthy distrust of wonktocracy down the road. But we have not yet excised wonk language from our vocabulary. Among the most misused terms in circulation is “demographics,” which analysts have turned on its explanatory head so as to sugg
  
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• A penis transplant isn’t a punchline: Mocking this procedure could keep many suffering in silence

  17-05-2016 21:42 via salon.com
  
  Thomas Manning (Credit: AP/Sam Riley/Mass General Hospital)
  If ever there were a “don’t read the comments” kind of news story to show up in your feed, it’s this. Because two words: penis transplant.
  Thomas Manning is a 64 year-old Halifax man who had his penis amputated in 2012, after what he describes as a “debilitating work accident followed by a devastating cancer diagnosis.” But now, after a 15-hour procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital earlier this
  
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• “Texas will not give in to President Obama’s attacks on our values”: Lt. Governor Dan Patrick posts anti-trans bathroom meme to social media

  17-05-2016 21:34 via salon.com
  
  Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during a news conference at the Texas Republican Convention Friday, May 13, 2016, in Dallas. Texas is signaling the state will challenge an Obama administrative directive over bathroom access for transgender students in public schools. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (Credit: AP Photo/LM Otero)
  Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick posted the following on his Facebook and Twitter pages in protest of what he called “President Obama’s attacks on our
  
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• “None of you will ever see me again because of what you’ve done”: Sinead O’Connor’s disturbing open letter to her family

  17-05-2016 21:21 via salon.com
  
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  Just hours after Wilmette, Illinois, police located Sinead O’Connor Monday afternoon, the Irish musician shared an open letter to her ex-husband, producer John Reynolds, on her Facebook page.
  “You tell that evil son of ours that a person who suffers from two fucking medical conditions of which the symptoms include suicidal compulsion isn’t being manipulative,” O’Connor told Reynolds, referring to their 28-year-old eldest s
  
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• Bernie Bros out of control: Explosion of misogynist rage at Nevada’s Dem chairwoman reflects terribly on Sanders’ dwindling campaign

  17-05-2016 21:18 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: AP/Elaine Thompson)
  There continues to be ugly fallout from the bizarre happenings at the Nevada state Democratic convention, where convention-goers, mostly Bernie Sanders supporters, screamed and freaked out and verged on rioting in anger over convention rules perceived to disfavor their candidate. The battle was as ugly as it was inconsequential — the number of delegates being fought over is far too small to make a difference at the national co
  
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• “We’ve thrown in the towel”: New report reveals the real reason Rupert Murdoch backed down from his battle with Donald Trump

  17-05-2016 20:38 via salon.com
  
  Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Noah Berger/Reuters/Steve Marcus)
  A new report from veteran Fox News observer Gabriel Sherman details how Rupert Murdoch’s months-long feud with now presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was ultimately undermined by the cable giant’s own viewers and the former reality TV star’s penchant to attract massive viewership.
  “The channel’s ratings dip whenever an anti-Trump segment airs,” an unnamed Fox News
  
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• Vincent Gallo reaches new level of weirdness: Actor to sue Facebook after ex-girlfriend accidentally sends nudes to fake account

  17-05-2016 20:23 via salon.com
  
  Vincent Gallo (Credit: AP/Amy Sussman)
  Indie director Vincent Gallo is suing Facebook for allowing a user to create a fake account under his name and friend his IRL friends, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
  The “Buffalo ’66” writer-director filed a complaint against the social media company and “John Doe” (referred to in statements as “Doe 1″). Among Doe 1’s targets was Gallo’s ex-girlfriend, who unknowingly exchanged nude photos with the
  
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• How the CIA helped apartheid South Africa imprison Nelson Mandela for 27 years — and is now facing lawsuits

  17-05-2016 19:27 via salon.com
  
  Nelson Mandela is accompanied by his former wife Winnie, moments after his release from 27 years in prison, on February 11, 1990(Credit: Reuters)
  It has long been suspected that the CIA played a role in the apartheid South Africa regime’s arrest and 27-year imprisonment of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. It has now been confirmed.
  Donald Rickard, a former U.S. vice-consul in Durban, South Africa who worked as a CIA agent, admitted that he tipped off the apartheid regime with Mandela&
  
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• Reporter “booted” from Trump interview for “speaking Spanish” didn’t actually have a sitdown scheduled with the billionaire

  17-05-2016 19:18 via salon.com
  
  Marcos Stupenengo (Credit: infobae TV)
  On Monday, BuzzFeed reported Marcos Stupenengo, an Argentine freelance correspondent for prominent Mexican media outlet TV Azteca, was booted from Trump Tower ahead of an interview with Donald Trump because he was spotted speaking Spanish on his phone.
  BuzzFeed cited an unnamed “source with knowledge of the incident,” who also said Stupenengo went on to land an interview with Hillary Clinton.
  Stupenengo told BuzzFeed, “I can say that after
  
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• “Kristen Stewart booed” isn’t as bad as it sounds: At Cannes, heckling often means you’re doing something right

  17-05-2016 18:55 via salon.com
  
  Kristen Stewart (Credit: Reuters/Yves Herman)
  It’s perhaps fitting that the first movie booed at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is a ghost story.Oliver Assayas’ “Personal Shopper,” the supernatural psychological thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a fashion designer’s assistant (who can also communicate with the dead), drew jeers after screening at the prestigious French fest. It was the director and actress’ second trip to Cannes together, following
  
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• Television vs. Twitter: Pro-Clinton super PAC launches blistering general election ads — Donald Trump lashes out on social media

  17-05-2016 18:38 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri/AP/Carlos Osorio/Photo montage by Salon)
  The opening salvo for the general election was just launched by a major Democratic super PAC and Donald Trump is already taking to his massive social media following to undermine the multi-million dollar attack campaign in 140 characters or less.
  Priorities USA, the Democratic super PAC created in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling to aid President Obama’s reele
  
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• “Family comes first”: Joe and Hunter Biden’s Popular Mechanics interview will make you wish you were a Biden

  17-05-2016 18:25 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Pari Dukovic/Popular Mechanics)
  For its Father’s Day-themed June issue, Popular Mechanics talked to Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Warning: The cover story, titled “Things My Father Taught Me,” will make you want to be a Biden.
  “We’re there for each other,” the elder Biden said of his family. “I have a rule for every single staff member who’s ever worked for me in forty-two years: If you ever come to work when your kid
  
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• Bit of a shocker — Bernie Sanders is the early favorite to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate

  17-05-2016 18:22 via salon.com
  
  In this March 9, 2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,stand together before the start of the Univision, Washington Post Democratic presidential debate at Miami-Dade College in Miami. Clinton and her allies had hoped to switch much of their focus to the general election after Tuesday's primary contests, a plan thrown into doubt after her loss in Michigan last week. Wins on Tuesday would give Sanders fresh momentum in the contest, granting
  
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• Megyn Kelly, vulnerable and terrifying: Why Donald Trump should be scared of tonight’s big interview

  17-05-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  
  Megyn Kelly on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (Credit: CBS)
  There is a sense, of course, in which watching a Fox News anchor and a former liberal satirist discuss journalistic integrity is a bit of a gas. Restraint? Responsibility? The role of the journalist, or critic, as mediator between those in power and those without? Fox News traffics in lies and outrage, so much so that Stephen Colbert, when he was on Comedy Central, made comedy out of parodying their flag-waving, hand-wringing, Oba
  
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• “Why do Donald Trump’s ties always go to his knees?”: Comedian Michael Ian Black is the undisputed king of Trump-trashing

  17-05-2016 17:56 via salon.com
  
  Michael Ian Black (Credit: AP/John Minchillo)
  Accomplished actor and improv comedian Michael Ian Black — or, as I’ll forever know him, Chris the terminally ill kid from “Reno 911″ — recently announced his children’s book, “A Child’s First Book of Trump,” that he wrote about the presumptive GOP nominee.
  According to the Amazon listing, the book — on shelves July 5, with illustrations by Marc Rosenthal -— gently introduces
  
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• “Intellectual loner” Jonathan Franzen shows fallibility as “Power Player” on “Jeopardy!”

  17-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)
  Author Jonathan Franzen competed in Monday night’s episode of “Jeopardy!,” kicking off its “Power Players Week.”
  In first after two rounds and into Final Jeopardy, Franzen eventually fell to conservative pundit S.E. Cupp, who wagered less on the question that all three contestants got wrong. (“Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd took home the bronze.)
  The hugely successful novelist and essayist is often characterized as a
  
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• GOP nihilism in the Senate: The Republicans’ judicial insanity goes well beyond Merrick Garland

  17-05-2016 17:34 via salon.com
  
  Mitch McConnell (Credit: AP/Susan Walsh)
  One of the least helpful myths in Washington is that the two parties are more or less the same. The people who advance this trope acknowledge obvious ideological differences, but they insist that Republicans and Democrats are equally petty, equally self-interested, and equally prudent. Or, if there are disparities between the parties, they’re negligible.
  This is false, and hardly debatable.
  Since Obama was elected, the Republican Party has made grid
  
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• Another blow to small biz in U.S.? Amazon wades into the food and baby market with its own brand of products

  17-05-2016 17:20 via salon.com
  
  Opening day for Amazon Books, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. (Credit: AP/Elaine Thompson)
  Ever wonder how regular stores manage competition with Amazon? Well, now the bar is about to be set higher, with the giant goods and delivery retailer set to enter the food and baby market according to The Wall Street Journal.
  Amazon already sells its own clothing and electronic goods, but soon, its concessions will include perishable items such as coffee, tea, spices, and baby food, as well
  
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• “THANKS FOR THE TAB CHECK, RANGER BUDDIES!”: Conservative Virginia congressional candidate forgets to close porn tabs before posting screenshot of his desktop

  17-05-2016 17:18 via salon.com
  
  Mike Webb (Credit: Official Campaign Facebook page)
  A conservative congressional candidate in Virginia who is running as an independent after losing in the Republican primary is having his credentials questioned after he posted a screenshot of his desktop that showed he had pornographic websites open, the New York Daily News’ Alfred Ng reported.
  Mike Webb was attempting to criticize his Republican opponent in the race for Virginia’s 8th District by posting information about Curzon St
  
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• Humiliation, control and abuse: Women aren’t people to Donald Trump — they’re merely objects he uses to love himself more

  17-05-2016 17:10 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this April 30, 2011, file photo Donald Trump, left, and Melania Trump arrive for the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington. He won’t be on November’s ballot, but President Barack Obama is slowly embracing his role as the anti-Trump, taking on the Republican front-runner in ways that no other Democrat can. Obama’s public scolding of Trump, who for years peddled inaccurate claims about Obama’s birth certificate, dates back to 2011, when Obama roasted him at
  
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• We need female supervillains, too: “Iron Man 3” almost had one — but “that toy won’t sell”

  17-05-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man (Credit: Marvel)
  I dream the feminist dream of living in a world where girls and women have all the same opportunities as their male counterparts… to be supervillains. Ladies, we can do it!
  In a conversation this week with Uproxx, director Shane Black — whose new film, “The Nice Guys,” comes out on Friday — talked about his new movie and what happens when you try to put women in Marvel movies. It isn’t pretty. “We replaced
  
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• “I’m not a monster”: A pedophile on attraction, love and a life of loneliness

  17-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  Todd Nickerson began to suspect he was attracted to young girls when he was 13-years-old. At 18 he regularly babysat a five-year-old girl and eventually “fell in love” with her. Because he was molested at age seven, he knew the damage abuse caused and did not want to hurt the little girl. He packed up and left town so that he did not offend.
  He later came out to his family as a pedophile.
  Nickerson, now 43, says he has never abused a child and never will. He is involved in a website
  
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• Watch a sitting United States senator completely melt down on Twitter

  17-05-2016 16:20 via salon.com
  
  Sen. Marco Rubio(Credit: Bruce Ackerman/Star-Banner via AP)
  Late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, former GOP presidential hopeful and current Florida senator Marco Rubio went off, at great length, on Twitter about an article in The Washington Post that touched on his political future.
  The article’s focus was on the former opponents Donald Trump would be reluctant to choose as a running mate, and in it, Chris Cillizza wrote that “Rubio, according to conversations I’ve had
  
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• “I hope for Cthulhu or the sweet meteor of death”: Chris Hayes examines the fear driving the #NeverTrump search for a third party candidate

  17-05-2016 16:14 via salon.com
  
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  The #NeverTrump faction of the Republican Party has been determined, albeit rather lazy, in their concerted effort to prevent Donald Trump from becoming their presidential nominee, but now that the controversial political novice has all but clinched the nomination, their last-ditch effort to derail his shot at the White House has kicked into overdrive with a frantic and desperate search for any viable third party alternative — even Mark Cuban.
  Prominent #NeverTrump third pa
  
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• “He’s basically a Telenovela character come to life.”: “The Daily Show” explains how Trump’s tasteless taco bowl photo will stay with him forever

  17-05-2016 15:55 via salon.com
  
  In light of all this talk about GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump being a sleazebag to women, it was refreshing to watch “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah dredge up The Donald’s Cinco de Mayo taco bowl blunder from a simpler time before John Miller-gate.
  Noah brought out Senior Latina Contributor Eliza Cossio to determine why Trump, the now-figurehead of a party that gravely needs to court Hispanics if they want to take over the White House.
  Asked how she felt about Trump’
  
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• Stephen Colbert on Trump creeping out women: This is news?! We’ve known this for 40 years

  17-05-2016 15:43 via salon.com
  
  “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert broke some very surprising news on Monday night’s show: Donald Trump creeps women out.
  When the much-dissected New York Times’ cover story about Trump’s misconduct with women dropped Sunday, an email alert accompanying it read, “Donald Trump has repeatedly unnerved women in private encounters over 40 years.”
  “Unnerving women for 40 years, that’s hard to believe,” Colbert said. “That implies there w
  
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• “Trump, a man frighteningly close to the presidency, is a crazy person”: Seth Meyers on Trump’s alter ego, John Miller

  17-05-2016 15:39 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at the importance of John Miller-gate, a new development in the media’s long and fruitful expedition to dig up Donald Trump dirt.
  “John Miller” is, of course, the carefully chosen pseudonym Trump used in the ’90s to portray his own publicist in phone interviews. The Washington Post unearthed several recordings of Trump-as-Miller last week for our enjoyment.
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• Charles Krauthammer: Being a serial sexual harasser won’t keep Donald Trump out of the White House because “there’s nothing scandalous about it”

  17-05-2016 15:28 via salon.com
  
  Charles Krauthammer (Credit: Fox News)
  On Special Report with Bret Baier Monday evening, conservative stalwart Charles Krauthammer claimed that The New York Times’ story documenting Donald Trump’s decades of sexual harassment wasn’t significant because “there’s nothing scandalous about it.”
  Baier played a clip from the Fox & Friends interview with Rowanne Brewer in which she claimed not to have been offended by Trump’s treatment of her, and according
  
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• “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling defends Donald Trump’s right to “be offensive and bigoted”

  17-05-2016 14:54 via salon.com
  
  J.K. Rowling(Credit: AP/Dan Hallman)
  J.K. Rowling is clearly no fan of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, having responded to a BBC article last year that characterized him as Harry Potter’s nemesis Voldemort by tweeting:
  How horrible.Voldemort was nowhere near as bad. https://t.co/hFO0XmOpPH
  — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 8, 2015
  However, in a speech at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Gala on Monday, she defended Trump’s rights to be speak as horri
  
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• Questions and Answers on the Olympic doping retests

  17-05-2016 14:49 via salon.com
  LONDON (AP) — The IOC announced Tuesday that 31 athletes in six sports and from 12 countries could be banned from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after their doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Games came back positive in retests.
  Some questions and answers about the latest doping scandal in sports:
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  Q: How can athletes be caught for doping so many years later?
  A: The International Olympic Committee keeps all Olympic doping samples for possible retesting. Samples are frozen and stored a
  
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• Megyn Kelly’s capitulation to corporate pressure continues: She speaks to female executives who call Trump “tough, but fair”

  17-05-2016 14:27 via salon.com
  
  On The Kelly File Monday evening, host Megyn Kelly continued her sad spiral into corporate shilldom by discussing Trump’s professionalism with two executives who worked with and under him.
  However, she was in for an initial surprise, as one of the guests, Barbara Res — a woman who Trump hired to run his construction business in 1980 — informed her that while Trump didn’t say anything sexist when they first began working together, “slowly but surely, he started sayin
  
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• David Brooks: Only corporate America can save us from social isolation

  17-05-2016 14:05 via salon.com
  
  David Brooks (Credit: PBS)
  In his Tuesday New York Times column, David Brooks argued that America’s last hope of being the community-based country Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about 181 years ago could very well the new people Mitt Romney and the Supreme Court declared also live here — corporations.
  After lamenting about the way in which “the rise of TV and the Internet” has created an epidemic of “social isolation,” Brooksargued that “we’re beginni
  
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• The powerless brokers: Trump’s got the Koch Brothers running away from the general election and leaving their billions at home

  17-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  David and Charles Koch (Credit: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack/MSNBC/Photo montage by Salon)
  Over the past few years, the wealthiest and most famous political activists in the world have been a couple of multi-billionaires by the name of Charles and David Koch, who most people just refer to as a single entity — “the Koch brothers.”  Their names became a household word as they poured hundreds of millions into initiatives all over the country and helped finance the Tea Party takeover
  
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• Feminist warrior: Lindy West talks about fighting the haters and the power of women just being themselves

  17-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Lindy West (Credit: Jenny Jimenez)
  Lindy West did not set out to be a feminist warrior against the forces that wish to silence and hurt women for doing things that men take for granted, like expressing opinions or having ordinary interests like stand-up comedy. As she details in her new memoir, “Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman”, she actually started out life as a shy kid and an aspiring writer, and came into her adult life as an outspoken public figure with an F-you at
  
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• Samantha Bee just schooled the religious right with a righteous history lesson

  17-05-2016 13:06 via salon.com
  
  “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee began last night’s episode by detailing the origin story of religious conservatives entering into the political arena.
  “For a generation, they’ve been like a wasp in an airplane,” Bee said of the new religious right. “They’re small and outnumbered, but everyone still has to avoid pissing them off.”
  Though the religious right is such a fixture in modern American politics (even fielding a silver medal-
  
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• “There is hope for those who have suffered genital injuries”: The first successful penis transplant in the U.S. just happened

  17-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  64-year-old Thomas Manning received the first U.S. penis transplant. The 15-hour operation took place at Massachusetts General Hospital and cost $75,000. In 2012, Manning was left with a one-inch stump after most of his penis was removed due to a rare cancerous tumor. It took three years for the surgical team to prepare for the operation and they performed trial-run surgery on half a dozen dead donors. The deceased donor matched Manning’s blood group and skin tone. Surgeons say that he&rsq
  
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• How Koch Industries is scamming America: Investigation highlights a global web of tax avoidance

  17-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Charles and David Koch (Credit: MSNBC/AP/Evan Agostini/RobGreene via iStock/Photo montage by Salon)
  The Koch Brothers want to pull back on national politics, according to the National Review, because their business and public relations wings have grown weary of the spotlight. “Concerned about the damage being done to their corporate brand [and] increasingly bothered by their public vilification,” the Kochs have decided to rethink their approach to politics. They operated at their bes
  
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• Donald Trump, president of the Confederacy: The Southern strategy created the GOP civil war

  17-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Nati Harnik/Tami Chappell/Photo montage by Salon)
  There are two consistent themes about the American right-wing in the Age of Obama. First, racism and conservatism is now one and the same thing. Second, the Republican Party is the United States’ largest white identity organization. I am not the only person to have made such observations.
  Of course, Republicans and conservatives find these twin facts offensive and unbelievable. They hold onto their foundin
  
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• Bubba’s toxic economic legacy: When Hillary brags about the first Clinton presidency legacy, she doesn’t want you to remember this

  17-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Hillary and Bill Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder)
  Over the past several months, Hillary Clinton has been somewhat hesitant to bring up her husband’s legacy as president, which, for many progressives, is a vexing reminder of how the Democratic Party embraced neoliberal policies towards the end of the 20th century, under the leadership of the the triangulating Bill Clinton. Faced with the insurgent campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton has tried to hype
  
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• More ammo for Trump: Disputed New York Times story gives more credence to Donald Trump’s media persecution narrative

  17-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Sue Ogrocki)
  Donald Trump lies as boldly and as regularly as any candidate I’ve encountered. He embodies the politics of truthiness. What distinguishes him from other lying politicians is that he truly doesn’t give a shit. He assumes that voters don’t give a shit either, and he’s half-right.
  It’s not so much that voters don’t care as they don’t trust the press. Much of that distrust is misplaced, but it’s real nevertheless,
  
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• Obamacare gets an OK? A bastion of Republican ACA opposition might be crumbling

  17-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria)
  If one were to forced to choose which state has demonstrated the most political hostility towards the Affordable Care Act, you could definitely build a strong case for Oklahoma. The state is about a red as it gets – Obama lost Oklahoma to Mitt Romney by 34 points in 2012. Its attorney general sued the government over Obamacare’s individual mandate, and he won praise from conservative leaders for pursuing some exotic (and unsuccessful) legal actions aga
  
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• 5 lessons America has failed to learn from the Iraq War

  17-05-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  One of the most popular apps these days is Snapchat. It allows the sender to set a timer for any photo dispatched via the app, so that a few seconds after the recipient opens the message, the photo is automatically deleted. The evidence of what you did at that party last night is seen and then disappears. POOF!
  I hope you’ll forgive me if I suggest that the Iraq-Syria War against the Islamic State (ISIS) is being conveyed to us via Snapchat. Important things happen, they appear in front of
  
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• The 10 best and worst cities in America to start a career

  17-05-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  As the newest crop of college graduates leave the warm embrace of higher education for the cold, harsh reality of the post-grad life, it’s natural to get bogged down by fear of unemployment, monthly bills, and of course, student loan debt. But while remnants of the the “boomerang generation” (thanks for that label, btw) remain, this year’s graduating class may have a reason to celebrate.
  Despite all the sometimes daunting statistics, college-educated young people mi
  
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• The Kochs are brainwashing us: Inside the billionaire industrialists’ chilling economics curriculum

  17-05-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Charles and David Koch (Credit: MSNBC/AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack/Photo montage by Salon)Charles Koch is known for being CEO of industrial giant Koch Industries and a chief financier of the massive conservative political operation he runs with his brother David. In recent years, student activists and investigative journalists have exposed another of Koch’s hats: mega-donor to hundreds of colleges and universities, often funding free-market-focused academic centers housed at public and private sc
  
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