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May 2016[edit]

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20The growing influence of anti-immigrant politics in Europe.
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9Lock up the men, evict the women and children.
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15What Kurdish soldiers in Iraq want you to know about their fight against ISIS.
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-17Gawker smeared me, and yet I stand with it.
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12We must restore Congressional authority on declaring war. - Rand Paul
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13The conviction of Purvi Patel and the criminalization of abortion.
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15The Fall of Salon. “These Salon headlines are like the bastard child of World Net Daily and the LaRouche Times … In retrospect it's scary to think that Salon was maybe always just one @joanwalsh or @KerryLauerman away from derp oblivion.”
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3The travails of Dannel Malloy.
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9Still selling neoliberal unicorns.
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7The Catholic cure for poverty.
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3How did the Japanese react to Obama's vist to Hiroshima.
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-1The imperfect surveillance state.
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-52Were the superdelegates to switch to Bernie like he's demanding them to, it would be a huge nullification of Democratic party’s voters of color and the woman they back in favor of a white male candidate predominantly supported by white men, aka "White Privilege"
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2The problem isn't populism, it is the elites.
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22Why the war on cops is BS.
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15How cracking down on America's painkiller capital led to a heroin crisis.
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4The System Isn't Rigged Against Sanders.
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5How the FBI's crusade against Apple radicalized the Silicon Valley.
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10Why the "Do Not Call" list has become ineffective.
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9How the Defense Department resists audits.
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15The high price of security theater.
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8The shameful way the Feds protected convicted pedophile billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein.
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10John Oliver explains how FUBAR the US's primary and caucus elections are.
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18TheRabidPuppies.Com is bought and developed by bizarro butt-pounding erotica phenom Chuck Tingle.
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15A Trotskyist goes to North Korea.
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19Oppose naturopathy: let's stop legitimizing pseuodoscience as medicine.
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11Authoritarianism: The political science that explains Trump (youtube)
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9James O'Keefe stings himself.
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2The Rehabilitation Paradox.
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7Shaun King: Why I am leaving the Democratic party.
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16Matt Taibbi, How Trump is killing the Republican party. Yes, another; this is pretty good.
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7The President should ask Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to step down as DNC chair.
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4Submitted for your consideration: another op-ed on Donald Trump.
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-1Nice Grandpa Bernie Sanders Gonna BURN YOUR SH*T DOWWWWWN
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10What I’ve learned as a jail doctor.
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1Kyle Kulinsky explains why Republican voters may be more liberal than you think.
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4Let's Recreate 9/11 fundraiser! "So far Salo has raised £72 from five backers."
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9How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending.
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14Hank Green talks epistemology, conspiracy theory, and religion on Crash Course Philosophy.
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5The secret history of superdelegates and why they will decide the Democratic primary. (Autoplay video)
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8Living in the shadow of the Mexico-US border wall.
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7Palestinians on Nakba Day 2016
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13How Herbalife's Gospel of health and wealth fuels a billion-dollar deception.
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7Burying the white working class.
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17American workers don't miss manufacturing jobs, they miss labor unions.
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8Why we need more Edward Snowdens.
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-410 laws you may be breaking right now.
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22"Hot, paranoid singles in your area are looking for you on Awake Dating"
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28Donald Trump's former butler, now volunteer historian, has questioned on Facebook why Obama wasn't executed by the military for being an "enemy agent". He goes on to wonder why Clinton and Sanders were even allowed to run and also casually threatens harm against "other agents" in the current administration. A little investigation by Mother Jones shows a fairly extensive history of these comments and replies in support of his ideas that, well, make Stormfront look nice and fuzzy.
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17Harvard Public Health Review: Brazil’s Zika problem is inconveniently not ending, leading to a bitter truth: the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games must be postponed, moved, or both.
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8Here’s the Real Reason Everybody Thought Trump Would Lose. (Hint: "Here’s the factor I think everybody missed: The Republican Party turns out to be filled with idiots. Far more of them than anybody expected.")
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6The secret NSA diary of an Abu Ghraib interrogator.
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8Jon Stewart grills Trump, Clinton, and the media on David Axelrod's show.
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22Homeopathic doctors threaten five-second strike
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14Peace Officer: PBS's documentary on the militarization of the US's law enforcers. (Video not accessible outside of the US) (Downloadable copy of the video for anyone outside of the US)
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34John Oliver explains the problem with misreporting and oversimplifying scientific studies in the media
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13When Iraq was Clinton's war.
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16Bernie Sanders misses a chance to explain the government's role in the life expectancy gap.
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9Solitary confinement is "no touch" torture, and it must be abolished
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9Violence in Syria increases as the ceasefire fails and Aleppo lies in ruins.
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16How to end the criminalization of America’s mothers.
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-1They made him an idiot.
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10Labels like "felon" are an unfair life sentence.
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9For Gazans, Israeli shelling harkens back to 2014 war.
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19Why prostitution shouldn't be a crime.
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9Former US diplomats decry the US-backed Saudi violence in Yemen.
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2Free Speech and Islam — The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable
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19Apple says: I'll take your music and if you don't like it... too bad. The reaction is what you'd expect.
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21VOXMAN POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY LITERALLY WHO: Chuck Tingle and Zoe Quinn pwn Vox Day. (Ursula Vernon commemorates the occasion in poetry.)
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1510 Strange Stories From Ron Miscavige’s Scientology Tell-all Ruthless
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-8Is America’s war on ISIS illegal? See also Betteridge's law of headlines
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23What we have now, is no longer a problem with the uninformed, but increasingly with the misinformed
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20Whistleblowing is an act of political resistance.
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18Why Craig Wright is not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto but a huge conman with a long track record of shonky dealing. More technical overviews by Dan Kaminsky and ErrataSec, and The Register just takes the piss.