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• Donald Trump’s own top Supreme Court pick is also his biggest Twitter troll

  18-05-2016 22:33 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Twitter via Don Willett, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court who was included in Trump's Wednesday list of potential nominees)
  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump got a little presumptuous on Wednesday and released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court picks likely to come out of a Trump administration should the political novice take the White House in November.
  An apparent stunt meant to placate skeptical conservatives without having to be bothered with expounding
  
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• Germany sides with Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian President Erdogan over its own citizen’s free speech

  18-05-2016 22:15 via salon.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul, Turkey on October 18, 2015(Credit: Reuters/Tolga Bozoglu)
  Germany appears to have sided with the Turkish president over its own citizen’s free speech, as Europe makes concessions to Turkey’s increasingly repressive government in return for its collaboration in the E.U.’s illegal refugee deportation deal.
  A regional court in the major German city Hamburg banned recitation and re-p
  
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• Chloë Sevigny’s creeper tales: “If you’re young and impressionable and really want the part, it might be tempting”

  18-05-2016 21:31 via salon.com
  
  Chloë Sevigny (Credit: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)
  The amount of BS that gets cloaked in the guise of work culture is staggering. And if the field involves creativity and entertainment, what’s the difference between harassment and just… Hollywood?
  Speaking at Variety’s Cannes Film Festival panel this week, 41 year-old actress Chloë Sevigny recounted her own experiences as an industry veteran, and the “weirdness” that has followed her. “I’ve had the
  
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• Ludacris, Hilson, Michael join effort to teach kids to swim

  18-05-2016 21:00 via salon.com
  
  In this photo taken Saturday, April 30, 2016,rapper Ludacris, gesturing at left, plays with kids during a "Make A Splash" swim lesson at the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home in Atlanta. USA Swimming hopes celebrities will help spread the message that all kids need to learn how to swim. (AP Photo/Paul Newberry) (Credit: AP)
  ATLANTA (AP) — When Chris Bridges — better known to his fans as the rapper Ludacris — was growing up, his mother made sure he knew how to swim.
  Just like those who c
  
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• Nate Silver doesn’t need to apologize, since Donald Trump’s nomination was a long shot

  18-05-2016 19:55 via salon.com
  
  Nate Silver, Donald Trump (Credit: MSNBC/Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)
  American sports fans who don’t pay much attention to soccer might not know it, but 2016 was the year of what was likely the greatest sports upset of all time: Leicester City overcoming 5000-to-1 odds to win the English Premier League title. It’s the equivalent of a middling college basketball team winning the NBA championship. It was an event that caused Leicester City fans
  
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• John McCain’s Trumpian nightmare: New poll shows veteran Arizona senator in the political fight of his life

  18-05-2016 19:41 via salon.com
  
  Republican Arizona Senator John McCain has already admitted he is in the political fight of his life. The former Republican presidential nominee announced early this year that he would actually skip out on this year’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland to focus on campaigning for re-election in Arizona, where he faces a tough primary challenge.
  “If Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, here in Arizona, with over 30 percent of the vote being the Hispanic vote, no doubt th
  
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• Questlove has the perfect response to Robin Wright’s “House of Cards” wage-gap victory

  18-05-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  
  Questlove, Robin Wright (Credit: AP/Carlo Allegri/AP/Mario Anzuoni)Few things are as thrilling to a TV fan as seeing your favorite performers inhabit in real life the traits of the characters they play. “House of Cards” fans got their fix today as news spread of star Robin Wright’s boss move in renegotiating her salary as her character, First Lady Claire Underwood, rose in prominence on Netflix’s political drama to equal that of her co-star and on-screen hu
  
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• Sorry, Bernie: I love you, but this is over — and getting embarrassing

  18-05-2016 19:11 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake)
  I’ve been an unapologetic shill for Bernie Sanders, writing articles, sending small donations and attending rallies, but after the recent debacle in my home state of Nevada, coupled with undeniable delegate math, it has became clear to me that Bernie cannot win the nomination. It’s sad for his supporters, like me. But what is more troubling is the heated, false and sometimes vile rage coming out of some Bernie supporters, as they grow ever
  
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• Donald Trump’s imagined meeting with Kim Jong-un is a reminder that businessmen make terrible presidents

  18-05-2016 18:50 via salon.com
  
  Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Ap/Charles Rex Arbogast)
  Donald Trump’s history in the business world is inconsistent at best, but he’s masterfully cultivated his brand over the years. The perception, true or not, is that he’s a first-rate businessman, the consummate deal-maker. This perception has helped fuel his presidential campaign.
  Although he never explains how he’ll accomplish anything, he’s convinced voters he’ll “make America great ag
  
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• Angry Video Game Nerds, calm down about “Ghostbusters”: It’s still a comedy about ghosts and those who bust them

  18-05-2016 18:14 via salon.com
  
  Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon in "Ghostbusters" (Credit: Columbia Pictures)
  How’s this for a strange blend of irony, defiance, and cognitive dissonance? The new trailer for a much-awaited film by a very smart director drops just after an odd announcement by a reviewer that he would not review the film. And while the reviewed – James Rolfe, known as Angry Video Game Nerd – seems to be trying to deflect the attention away from a movie he doesn’t approve of, the storm i
  
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• Trump’s Korean incoherence: The Trump plan for North Korea includes everything from diplomacy to assassination

  18-05-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Carlos Osorio)
  Just a few weeks ago, Donald Trump gave a big speech laying out his uniquely Trumpian vision for America’s foreign policy. The speech itself was a largely incoherent grab bag of contradictions, but a few themes managed to tumble out. Chief among them was the need to be more erratic and cagey on the world stage, especially when it comes to America’s adversaries. “We must as, a nation, be more unpredictable,” Trump said in discussing
  
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• Bolt: Positive Beijing retests ‘bad news’ for sport

  18-05-2016 17:29 via salon.com
  PRAGUE (AP) — Usain Bolt called it “really bad news” for sport after the announcement that 31 athletes were caught doping in retests from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  “It’s rough. It’s rough in the sport,” the Jamaican great said Wednesday. “Something that’s been tarnishing the sport for years.”
  Bolt was speaking a day after the International Olympic Committee announced that the 31 athletes could be banned from competing at the Rio de Jan
  
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• “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson accepts defeat, offers to be Trump’s “spiritual adviser”: “We have to be loyal to the party”

  18-05-2016 17:25 via salon.com
  
  Phil Robertson (Credit: AP/A&E/Zach Dilgard)
  “Duck Dynasty” patriarch and child-bride proponent Phil Robertson appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning and offered Republican front-runner Donald Trump the benefit of his spiritual assistance.He said he was “on the Trump train,” and that he would do everything in his power — which largely consists of stealing millions of dollars from Louisiana taxpayers to produce a show with dwindling ratings — to ge
  
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• Right-wing media is just this gross: Donald Trump has unleashed forces more destructive than Fox News

  18-05-2016 17:23 via salon.com
  
  Bill Kristol, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Janet Van Ham/Reuters/Nati Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)
  It’s hardly surprising, that Breitbart recently referred to William Kristol as a “renegade Jew” in one of its headlines. The conservative website has been shilling pretty hard for Donald Trump over the past year, so it makes sense that the less savory aspects of Trump’s political style would eventually rub off on them.
  What is that style, though? Outlets from The Washington Po
  
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• The pregnant woman’s catch-22: Blac Chyna shamed for gaining weight — and she’d be shamed if she didn’t

  18-05-2016 17:11 via salon.com
  
  Blac Chyna (Credit: AP/Star Max)
  If there’s any comfort to be had in the consistently awful and destructive comments that mouth breathing idiots like to make toward women online — especially women who commit the crime of being famous and possibly happy — it’s that they will literally never be satisfied. The woman who conforms perfectly to every ideal of what a female body should look like, the one who is entirely troll-proof, does not exist. So you might as well make like
  
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• Christian right voters get in line behind Trump, because conservatism has always been their true religion

  18-05-2016 17:03 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Vibe Images via Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)
  While many evangelical voters supported Donald Trump during the primary, most prominent evangelical leaders (with a few exceptions) balked, preferring candidates like Ted Cruz that offered a more convincing performance of piety. Or at least knew what the communion plate was for.
  But, as the New York Times reported over the weekend, the Christian right is coming around at breakneck speed, to back a thrice-marri
  
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• Sanders’ fiery rhetoric will probably hurt the Democrats: It hasn’t yet, but words words words

  18-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt,shake hands before the start of the Univision, Washington Post Democratic presidential debate at Miami-Dade College, Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) (Credit: AP)
  The Democratic race inched a little closer to its conclusion yesterday. Hillary Clinton appears to have won Kentucky by the narrowest of margins (46.8 percent to 46.3 percent), while Bernie Sanders won Oregon by close to te
  
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• Sanders’ fiery rhetoric will hurt the Democrats: It hasn’t yet, but just wait until November

  18-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
  The Democratic race inched a little closer to its conclusion yesterday. Hillary Clinton appears to have won Kentucky by the narrowest of margins (46.8 percent to 46.3 percent), while Bernie Sanders won Oregon by close to ten points (54 percent to 45 percent). Like many of the recent primaries, Kentucky and Oregon are mere formalities at this point. Clinton and Sanders will essentially split the delegates. Given Clinton’s near-insurmountable le
  
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• “How am I still alive?”: These real-life daredevils will leave you breathless

  18-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  From riding a hoverboard on the edge of a skyscraper in Dubai to climbing a 1,150-foot bridge without safety equipment these adrenaline junkies stay one step away from their last. Watch this vertigo-inducing video to see these real life daredevils in action.
  
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• Frustrated Sanders delegate attempts to set the record straight on rowdy Nevada Dem convention: “Hillary did not win, Trump did”

  18-05-2016 16:51 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: MSNBC)
  While awaiting the close election results out of the Democratic Kentucky primary on Tuesday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took a moment to further investigate what exactly occurred at another recent, albeit much more rowdy, closely contested Democratic competition over the weekend.
  A Bernie Sanders delegate who was an organizer on the floor at Saturday’s Nevada Democratic convention, Angie Morelli, insisted that reports of violence from Sanders supporters were “gr
  
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• Watch Fox & Friends freak out over the possibility of Hillary appointing Bill “co-president”

  18-05-2016 16:24 via salon.com
  
  Peter Johnson Jr. (Credit: Fox News)On Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, legal “expert” Peter Johnson Jr. joined Ainsley Earhardt to discuss an offhand remark Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton made at a campaign event about charging her husband, former President Bill Clinton, “to revitalize the economy, because he knows how to do that.”
  That innocuous remark sent Johnson spinning, first to the conclusion that it’s possible Hillary would select Bill as her
  
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• The secret truth about Donald Trump: The obvious story the media still won’t touch

  18-05-2016 15:34 via salon.com
  
  Since launching his presidential campaign last year, there have been numerous occasions where Donald Trump’s campaign should have collapsed.
  But in this surreal year, Trump’s many “gaffes” — from arguing that Sen. John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured in Vietnam (the silver-spooned billionaire received multiple draft deferments himself) and labeling Mexican immigrants “rapists and criminals,” to advocat
  
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• “She looks like a f**king third-rate hooker”: Audio of Trump slamming a model as too unattractive to date resurfaces

  18-05-2016 15:28 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke)
  The Daily Beast has republished a 12-year-old recording of Donald Trump describing a woman who claimed to have briefly dated him as a “third-rate hooker” who was not physically attractive enough to date.
  In 2004, a former Playboy Playmate and Penthouse Pet named Victoria Zdrok gave an interview to the now-defunct Stepping Out magazine, during which she mentioned her brief encounter with Trump, now the presumptiv
  
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• Bill O’Reilly demands the media stop assigning feminists to cover Trump: “His resume goes against that ideology!”

  18-05-2016 14:55 via salon.com
  
  Bill O'Reilly (Credit: Fox News)
  In the “Talking Points Memo” segment of The O’Reilly Factor Tuesday evening, host Bill O’Reilly criticized The New York Times for allowing a feminist to write a story about Donald Trump, claiming that because “Donald Trump’s resume goes against that ideology,” there’s an inherent conflict of interest.
  O’Reilly claimed that the article “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private&rdq
  
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• “Let’s talk about us”: Megyn Kelly’s on-air therapy session with Donald Trump got a little weird for awhile there

  18-05-2016 14:26 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly (Credit: Fox News)
  Megyn Kelly’s much ballyhooed tête-à-tête with Donald Trump was exactly as awkward and fawning as most predicted it would be — but never was it more awkward than when she asked the presumptive Republican nominee to discuss what he felt was the origin of the bad blood between them.
  “I thought [I had asked] a fair question” about his long history of sexist comments. “Why didn’t you?”
  Trump res
  
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• Brazil bans Australian swim coach charged with sexual abuse

  18-05-2016 14:08 via salon.com
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian Olympic Committee says an Australian swim coach, who faced sexual abuse charges in the 1980s, will not be a member of the host country’s staff for the games.
  Brazilian Olympic Committee spokesman Claudio Motta tells The Associated Press that Scott Volkers “will not get accreditation to be part of the Brazilian Olympics team.”
  Motta says Volkers works with a club in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and has a relationship with the nati
  
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• Trump’s bigoted base: Keeping minorities down is the No. 1 issue for the billionaire’s backers — it’s not a theory, it’s a fact

  18-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)
  he unexpected successes of the two political outsiders, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, in this presidential primary season has everyone grasping for some kind of explanation that would easily explain it. The most commonly held assumption is that people are angry and cynical about the two political parties which is undoubtedly correct.  If the two campaigns share any characteristics, it’s that they absolutely loathe the political establishments
  
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• Megyn Kelly surrenders: Her fawning Donald Trump interview proves she’s toeing the party line now

  18-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly (Credit: Fox News)
  “Megyn Kelly Presents” was a colossal disappointment. I had high hopes for the primetime special, in which Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly sat down with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in a kind of truce after a nine-month long “feud.” To be exact, the “problem” was that Kelly asked Trump a question about misogyny during the first debate, and Trump responded by pouting that she’d been mean. Over the following months,
  
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• Paul Krugman: Delusional Sanders supporters don’t understand reality any better than their candidate

  18-05-2016 13:55 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Paul Krugman (Credit: Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/Tim Shaffer/Photo montage by Salon)
  In two separate blog posts published at The New York Times Tuesday, economist Paul Krugman slammed Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders for being unable to “accept defeat gracefully or even rationally.”
  For Krugman, Sanders is quickly becoming the Democratic equivalent of Donald Trump, a man who “has a problem both in facing reality and in admitting mi
  
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• Trevor Noah’s lame Ruth Bader Ginsburg joke: “The Daily Show’s” long, sad slide into Jay Leno-ville drags on

  18-05-2016 13:36 via salon.com
  
  “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last night discussed the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision (or lack thereof) on a case involving whether the Affordable Care Act can require religious groups to offer female employees coverage for contraceptives.
  Fearing another 4-4 tie, the Supreme Court Monday announced its non-decision, sending the case back to the lower courts.
  “The Supreme Court has decided to do its best Congress impression by taking an imp
  
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• Bach: Russia faces range of sanctions if state doping proven

  18-05-2016 13:35 via salon.com
  LONDON (AP) — The latest allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russia could lead to suspension of entire national federations, heavy fines and lifetime Olympic bans, IOC President Thomas Bach said Wednesday.
  Bach declined to say whether the IOC would consider banning Russia entirely from this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, maintaining such a move hinges on a choice between “collective responsibility” and “individual justice.”
  “We are waiting for t
  
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• Seth Meyers does it again: This is the North Carolina explainer you need to watch now

  18-05-2016 13:09 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at so-called “bathroom bills.”
  North Carolina’s bathroom bill, HB2, requiring transgender people use public restrooms corresponding to their birth gender, sparked partisan debate over whether the law is preventative or discriminatory.
  “Fighting over bathrooms is the oldest move in the prejudice playbook,” Meyers said. “America has a long history of using bathrooms to scare pe
  
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• The Republicans want to be conned: Paul Ryan and the GOP are letting themselves be duped by Trump

  18-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Paul Ryan (Credit: Reuters/Chris Tilley/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)
  Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan had a nice little meeting last week in Washington, DC, and afterwards they issued a joint statement declaring how perfectly pleasant it was. “This was our first meeting,” their statement read, “but it was a very positive step toward unification.” Following their little get together, Ryan held a press conference and was sanguine about his bu
  
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• “It hasn’t turned out as well as some folks thought for black people”: Experts weigh in on the state of black America under Barack Obama’s presidency

  18-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Barack Obama (Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
  Black Americans were filled with hope and high expectations when Barack Obama was elected to the highest office in the country, according to Columbia University professor of political science, Fredrick C. Harris who said, “He was going to be somehow the savior who would come in to save the black community.”Now, eight years later, we asked experts to weigh in on the state of black America.How has the Obama presidency affected the economy, unemp
  
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• The GOP’s new attack dog and resident “manly man”: Sen. Tom Cotton is trying to impress his base by hollering about that weenie Obama

  18-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Barack Obama, Tom Cotton (Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster/Danny Johnston/Photo montage by Salon)
  It seems strange that the name of Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arizona) does not come up more on the list of conservative third-party candidates the #NeverTrump wing of the Republican Party wants to recruit for a White House run this fall. I suspect there are two reasons for this:
  Cotton has made it clear he does not want the job, either because he doesn’t feel he’s ready or he doesn’t want to risk
  
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• Trump’s big tent myth: Data suggests he isn’t growing the GOP after all, he’s just energizing the base — and that’s great news for Dems

  18-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert)
  If Republicans have any hope at all in November, it’s that Donald Trump can grow the party. In particular, working class whites will have to respond to Trump’s vaguely populist message. There are indeed many voters who feel displaced in this economy, and it’s not unreasonable to think they’ll find the Donald’s anti-trade rhetoric appealing.
  Discerning economic voters, however, understand that Trump’s empty platitudes ar
  
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• No limits to Alex Jones’ hatred and insanity: The right-wing conspiracy psycho thinks Michelle Obama killed Joan Rivers

  18-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  Michelle Obama, Alex Jones, Joan Rivers (Credit: AP/John Raoux/Tony Gutierrez/Lionel Cironneau)
  Normally, when we think of conspiracy marketeer and exploiter of paranoiacs, Alex Jones, we think of ludicrous theories about chemtrails and shapeshifting lizard people from outer space. It’s mostly gibberish delivered with a sense of urgency and drama, allowing those of us who are somewhat well-adjusted to rest assured knowing that Jones is almost always wrong, lying or both. Mostly, it’s
  
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• The 1 percent’s most dangerous weapon: Donald Trump and the global acceleration of income inequality

  18-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Ted S. Warren)
  No shocker, Donald Trump is once again defying conventional political wisdom and refusing to release his income taxes publicly. So far, his gut instincts have served him well in the first successful hostile takeover of one of America’s two major political parties by an individual. Trump knows better than most, great wealth, like mushrooms, flourishes best in darkness and with a steady stream of excrement to nourish  it, which thanks to the corpo
  
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• This could be the big one: San Andreas primed for devastating earthquake

  18-05-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan, made an announcement recently that would have sent a chill down the spine of every Californian: that the San Andreas fault appears to be in a critical state and as such, could generate a large earthquake imminently. Of course, the reiteration of the seismic hazard to Californians will be nothing surprising, but what is new is the warning that the southern portion of the fault “looks like it’s locked, loaded and
  
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• Donald Trump doesn’t want this out: The billionaire braggart may not be a billionaire at all

  18-05-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Michael Conroy)“I’m really rich,” Donald Trump said when he was announcing his run for president and many times since. The image of Trump as a billionaire businessman, impervious to donor influence and thus fully able to do and say as he pleases, has been a key part of his appeal to followers. But nailing down Trump’s actual worth in order to get a full accounting of his supposed billions has been difficult, and his refusal to turn over
  
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• It will always be about race: The GOP has finally collapsed beneath its own bigotry

  18-05-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Barack Obama, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Kamil Krzaczynski/Photo montage by Salon)
  President Barack Obama spared almost no one in his last performance at this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner. He laughed along with the crowd as he skewered a host of celebrities and politicians.
  But long after that lighthearted evening is forgotten, I believe the president and other progressives will continue to share bemused laughter at the expense of the Republican Party.
  Let
  
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• Donald Trump is a phony and a liar: The press doesn’t get to call him “authentic” ever again

  18-05-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)
  For a candidate who’s often touted in the press as an authentic straight shooter, Donald Trump did a lot last week to puncture that reputation. From insisting that his promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” was really “only a suggestion,” to flip-flopping on whether voters had a right to see his tax returns, Trump seemed to cast aside promises on a daily basis.
  But the strangest turn c
  
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• Bernie loses his Bluegrass State battle: Hillary Clinton narrowly takes tight Kentucky Democratic primary

  18-05-2016 03:31 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Susan Walsh/Jason DeCrow/Photo montage by Salon)
  Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton was able to stop Bernie Sanders from winning his 20th state with a narrow victory in Kentucky Tuesday.
  The Kentucky primary was closed, meaning only registered Democrats could vote. Clinton had previously won 10-out-of-10 closed Democratic primaries, and despite a serious challenge from Sanders, the former first lady whose husband was the last Democrat to win the state in a gener
  
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• Another hot day at rehearsals! Whoop whoop!🔥 #BBMAs https://t.co/SOnjuccGLX

  18-05-2016 03:19 via twitter.com
  
  Another hot day at rehearsals! Whoop whoop!🔥 #BBMAs https://t.co/SOnjuccGLX
  
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• Maybe this will inspire you to get your hands dirty: 6 steps to growing your own backyard pot plant

  18-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Yarygin via Shutterstock)
  It’s not that hard. They call it weed for a reason. And if you threw a bunch of pot seeds out in a field and did nothing else, you’d probably get a pot plant—scraggly, runty, thirsty, starved of nutrients, but a living plant. You might even get a few buds off it, if it happened to be a female plant.
  But you can do much better than that with just a little bit of care, effort and common sense.
  You know you want to, at least if you’re one o
  
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• bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation

  18-05-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Beyoncé in "Lemonade"
  Often, when I’m vocal about the degradation and oppression of women – specifically black women – I am labeled a feminist by supporters and opponents alike. Women most often refer to me as feminist to confer honor. Men most often weaponize the term, using it to connate unwarranted bitterness and dismiss arguments. When either does so, I respond plainly, “I am not a feminist.”
  It is not that I take offense at the term. I grant it neit
  
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• No, Daryl Hall did not “destroy” me: The right-wing social media mob’s “social justice warrior” narrative couldn’t be more ridiculous

  18-05-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Daryl Hall (Credit: AP/Charles Sykes)
  A popular quote often misattributed to Aristotle has the ancient philosopher identifying the defining characteristic of intelligence as the “ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
  If the wisdom of that idea is accurate – regardless of its actual source – American cultural discourse has reached a state of stupidity so perfect it would appear the result of discipline and commitment, rather than ignorance.
  On Thursday, Sal
  
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• Abbott & Costello go to “Chinatown”: Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling’s “The Nice Guys” is an irresistible, idiotic ‘70s bromance

  18-05-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in "The Nice Guys" (Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment)
  For reasons that are both glaringly obvious and also run deep below the surface of our culture, Los Angeles has played itself on screen more than any other city in the world. Other places have sunlight and other places have depravity; other places have insane cult leaders and serial killers and people who believe that wealth has brought them enlightenment. But at least when it comes to the collective cinematic
  
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• “I lost my virginity to a total psychopath”: Lena Dunham publishes her college diary, and it’s pretty much exactly what you expect

  18-05-2016 00:14 via salon.com
  
  Lena Dunham (Credit: Reuters/Danny Moloshok)
  A refrain I hear often from my fellow old-lady peers goes like this: Thank Christ there was no social media when we were young. The thought being, of course, that given the opportunity, most people would prefer no living record of their most callow, inebriated, impulsive, insufferable moments of youth. We would prefer to pretend we materialized whole, from a cloud of organic cleaning products and CSA-approved vegetarian compos
  
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